Chapter 9 (1/2)

After five days of day and night, Loren arrived at his destination.

This is an ancient castle standing between hills. The stone wall built against the mountain surrounds the towering tower. Under the blue boundless dome, it seems that it can go straight into the clouds from the tower.

Around the castle, there are some scattered farms dotted with the earth., A small village is the only way to the castle, which gives some vitality to the desolate hills around.

About thirty years ago, a mage named Peter came here from the north. After paying some price, he got the ruined castle and the surrounding land equivalent to Baron's land from the Duke.

”Just ahead, we're almost there!” the little wizard looked very excited and pointed to the lonely castle stained with gold under the sunset: ”that's vimpar college, and it's also the only wizard college led by the Duke!”

Looking at ayin's proud and excited appearance, Lauren had to smile and let the other party enjoy this rare relaxation - the little wizard spent the whole five days in tension and anxiety. He could only relax a little when talking about the college.

As a sociable person, Loren certainly knows the virtue of listening - but he is better at extracting the information he needs from each other's words.

And the little wizard had great trust in the wandering knight who saved his life, which saved Loren a lot of energy. There was no need to let the other party relax their vigilance.

First of all, he found out that his experience in the pagan temple was almost impossible in the eyes of wizards, or at least wizard apprentices. Ordinary people in this world, even a little contact, will have strong discomfort, or even directly convulse to the ground, but they can be safe and sound.

In the words of my previous life, it is similar to ”super ability”, but the more crucial thing is that many wizards can't do this - I'm afraid this ability will become the key to whether I can become a wizard or not.

On the other hand, if it is a good thing to understand his ”super power”, many complaints on the other side's road confirm Loren's guess.

The more anxious the little wizard was along the way, the more he couldn't help talking about the Holy Cross Church, and all were complaints and disgust that he couldn't hide.

Spreading rumors about wizards, crowding out colleges, preventing and hindering the recruitment of apprentices... There are numerous things, large and small. Today, the Duke leads the only wizard college, but there are only eight mentors and dozens of apprentices. It was difficult to recruit new apprentices because of the church.

On the surface, it seems that the church is just crowding out wizards, but in fact, Loren has heard a lot of rumors about wizards from the old knight before, treating them as freaks and jugglers... And rumors often determine the views of people in a certain area on a matter.

So if your judgment is good, I'm afraid wizards are not very popular here. It's interesting to have special knowledge but be excluded.

But everything in the world is not one-way. There must be a reason why wizards will be excluded, which will make people willing to believe in the church and rumors

Although it seemed not far away, it was already evening when the two men came to the village under the castle. The cold streets are accompanied by the bell ringing from time to time. The castle not far away immersed in the dusk and night is also a little more strange and gloomy.

”There was such a legend at vimpal college.” probably because the college was close at hand, the little wizard couldn't help talking: ”Dean Peter was able to get the castle from the Duke because there was a vampire living here.”

”Vampire?” Loren asked deliberately with curiosity.

”It's a monster with an incomparable longevity. There are even rumors that they can walk in the void.” ayin continued: ”they eat blood, lie down day and night, their claws are better than steel, and their figure is like black smoke.”

”But the monster was defeated by Dean Peter and completely destroyed.” at this point, ayin couldn't help laughing. ”Up to now, many people think that the vampire's body is still in this castle.”

”So... Is it just a story or is it true?”