Chapter 31-32 (2/2)

Affiliation: Tester for qualifications of those applying for eastern valley ic academy

Vincent had just noticed Al Wright and Link He swept an eye over theic?”

“Yes” Link and Al Wright replied respectful

Vincent lifted his ht He nodded, “Qualified As long as you hand over the school fees, you can enter the academy to study”

He then ponted his wand towards Link “As for you, your ic talent does not ic is sufficient, then you have to go back to where you came from”

-Chapter 31, end-

-Chapter 32, DGM-

The gatekeeper of the academy did not mince his words

Fortunately, Link had already made preparations in advance His mana capacity was 241, which was the standard of an ordinary ic apprentice It would be more unusual than miraculous if he was allowed in

Of course, he had 105 free points to blow If he wished it, he could pu into mana capacity In that case, even with the effect of ‘ away 90 of his attributes, he would have 1291 mana capacity due to the scale of 1 free point to 10 ician’s standard, which would allow hiet admitted into the academy

But squandering away his free points like this was foolish, as even if he had the power of a level 2 e on par with it He would be known as an anomaly

After entering the acaderaicians However, he would not understand one whit of it and would simply look retarded

Link’s atteathen his basics and self-study He would not suffer any loss through this He returned Al Wright’s coaze with a faint smile to show that it was fine

However, there was also rooaic acade stones

In the ga as the player met the bar and handed over a sum ofelse would be taken into consideration

Al Wright asked in place of Link “Then hoould ic?”

Vincent chuckled, sizing up Al Wright He glanced at the huest you worry about yourself first The studying fees for eastern valley ic academy are not low”

Vincent had inspected a countless nuaze was very sharp He estimated both the prices of their attires and coster beside him looked dull, it was ray rat The price it could fetch was probably 10 tister’s attire

If he was not wrong, the ordinary looking child was probably the son of so one was a commoner

As for the studying fees, Al Wright had long prepared the necessary suic, he had racked his brains for ideas to earn ether 200 gold coins which he had heard was the acade fee

“200 gold coins, was it? I’ve already prepared that aht nodded

To his astonishers “Lad, you’ve heard wrongly 200 gold coins is the privilege that only those with the background of nobles enjoy The norold coins However, the school has areadystudents this year If you enter now, you will be considered an additional student, which will require additional arrangeic resources These all require es The final aold coins”

Al Wright stared blankly, his broisted “Even so, how could the additional feed swell to 10 tiinal?”

How old coins in this world? Only thebusinesses in the southern freedo fees like that

Wasn’t this blatant preferential treatment of nobles?

However, Link knew that theoff cash froicians, ures To ordinary people, they were astronoicians squandered theht they needed

For exaic wand in Link’s hand orth its weight in 1,000 gold coins As for the fire crystal ic staff, it was even worse An estiold coins

This was also reflected in the previous gaaer! Just learning the necessary skills would be several folds more expensive than other occupations, let alone the various ic equipment

Froure he had simply cast out, but instead a nuic academies were not biased in their treatment towards commoners

Evidently, Al Wright did not understand the ician world Hot fury erupted in his heart

On the other hand, Vincent was expressionless Vincent spread his hands, reclining on the bench His tone was lackadaisical, “I don’t know, I didn’t set the price The dean did I’ you this”

However, Al Wright was did not back down He dug out a letter “I have a recommendation from Earl Lady Alice”

Vincent shot it a glance The letter was sealed with a waxed seal The crest of a rose flower blossonised this seal It was the crest of the only fenia

Vincent looked at Al Wright’s handsohter “Oh, it looks like being handsoed to obtain an earl’s recommendation The dean stated that applicants with a noble’s recoold coins The acadeold coins now”

Link’s eyebrows shot up when he saw the letter It looked like this chap kne to adapt to situations Many coold coins even if they slaved away for a lifeti man of 17 years had achieved it Furthermore, he had obtained an earl’s recoht did not sacrifice even one thing to stand where he was now, Link would not believe it

However, the price of 1,500 gold coins was a price that Al Wright still could not bear

He finally erupted, unable to keep his fury down His handsorated his teeth “This is daylight robbery!”

Vincent shook his head, unconcerned with the scene Al Wright was ue, young ood temper and I won’t find trouble with you If you repeat these words to a ht your candles”1

Al Wright was still furious, and he wanted to step forward and argue Link frantically pulled him back

They were just soic acadeicians and their dean was a level 7a scene here would leave a vile impression and had no use

Al Wright was a coh the system of the academy was somewhat unbalanced, these were indisputable facts and not so a scene could solve

When Linka solution to it

It was because of this nature of his that he had becaaht sent him to this alternate world Not only had he escaped from Glaston city alive, he had also wrestled it from the claws of defeat

Now, it was the same

Link was extremely clear on how the academy worked If one wanted to alter the practices of eastern valleywould be vain What one really needed was strength, shocking strength that would raise eyebrows

With Link’s pull, Al Wright was brought back to his senses However, his eyes were red

He had experienced the injustice of society before If it were the past, he would definitely be able to restrain his temper But he had poured all his efforts, blood and dreams into this day

For this surievances that ordinary people could not iine

He had taken on various kinds of missions Because he lacked ative le mission by the skin of his teeth with the rewards from the missions, he had went into businesses, only to suffer the extortion of local ruffians and hoodlums He had hoarded copper coin by copper coin ever since he was 10 Other than the invitation of his friends, he had only eaten 3 dry barley bread a day, forgoing o to the river in the o in the ht because he was too busy in the day His clothes had been the sao The old horse he had ridden on the king’s road was also not his It was soive him as a departure present

Now, he had heard that thetowards coht of every possible method to obtain a recommendation

For this, he had slept with that fat and ugly harlot for atorture every night He had abandoned his reputation, his pride

He had invested everything, his entire life to achieve that dreaift into excel2

But when he had handed out the recohwith hope – reality had hit him harder than a baseball bat in the stomach

The doorstep of the academy had been raised to a plateau he was unable to reach And his efforts had gone down the gutter, along with all his investments

hoard ain?

Pooling together 1,500 gold coins would only be achieved after he was 20 If his luck was terrible, he could die in themissions Furtheric How could they be squandered so easily?

Anger Sadness Desperation The young Al Wright could see his life’s objective right before his eyes, but it was blocked by aUnconsciously, his vision had begun to blur

‘Is a coht clenched his fist tightly, looking towards the sky as he restrained his tears

He would not allow this guard dog to mock him

Vincent saw everything He s man, I’ll point you an obvious road you can take You can return and find Earl Alice again, and serve her well Maybe she’ll dish out the cash for you then Hehe”

Al Wright trerace in his history Vincent’s words had cut like a knife, cruelly opening the old scars in his heart

His face flushed, his heart palpitating His fist clenched as a thought formed in his mind That was to rush forward and beat up this old man3

Just as his liled o of me!”

Link’s voice caht, don’t destroy yourself!”

The voice was freezing cold, like a bucket of icy water had been poured over Al Wright’s head His struggle immediately died down

He turned to look towards the youth of si his head His black pupils were as dark as aze seemed to carry a power that could quieten people down i in this world had ever emotionally moved him

As cal waters, yet as chilly as a cold blade

This ht’s heart

Many years later, every time he was irate, indecisive or in despair, this ician faced the cruel, merciless world

-Chapter 32, end-

Al Wright prostituting hia about the interactions of an inmate on death row and a suicidal pianist The ina was really, well, sad Might wanna check it out: Watashi+tachi no shi+awase na Jikan

It’s only 8 chapters but its heartrending Right, enough of that I was down in the dumps for the entire day because i just read a sad webtoon

Next chapter is really short, and yes, although it’s a spoiler as soive a hint of the next chap: soravity and newton

edit: i had honestly hoped to give ya’ll a personal edit on this chapter because i wanted this chapter to somewhat emotionally impact readers even a bit but looks like i couldn’t make it soz, maybe another time or smth Chapters 27-32 are still unedited :/