Episode 2: Growing Up Chapter 13: A Place for Geniuses

Ernst College, the number one magic college in the entire Yulan Continent.

Ernst College is located in the mountainous forest area more than twenty miles south of the holy capital ‘Finlay City’, Ernst College is funded by the Holy See, naturally, it is rich and generous, and it covers an extremely wide area, almost ten miles in circumference. Such a large academy was almost comparable to a city.

Outside of Ernst College, there were no people, it was an empty mountainous area.

Restaurants, clothing stores, bars, and other service establishments were all opened inside the academy, so it could be said that the students of the Ernst Academy lived entirely within the academy.

“That’s really grand.”

Linley couldn’t help but sigh as he stood at the entrance to the courtyard of Ernst College.

The main entrance of Ernst College was fifty meters wide, and there was a giant half-moon shaped building above the gate, and there were all sorts of arcane magical runes on that half-moon shaped building, and just by looking at its complexity, one could tell that the magic array on the gate of Ernst College was a large-scale magic.

At the moment, the entrance to the academy courtyard was still relatively busy, there was a row of office workers, and there was also a teenager who took the acceptance letter as well as the identification certificate and began to process the enrollment, Linley also immediately took the acceptance letter and the identification certificate and went to process it.

“The official start of the school year will begin on February 9th, and today is February 8th, according to the notice, one must arrive before February 9th, this teenager in front of me also came to apply for enrollment today, and the place where he lives should be closer to the Ernst Academy.”

Linley secretly said in his heart.

The teenager in front of Linley could only accurately be considered a child, shorter than Linley by half a head, and this child was accompanied by an old man.

“Hello, I’m Reno from the O’Brien Empire.”

The boy who had been processing his enrollment in front of Linley suddenly turned back to warmly greet Linley.

Upon hearing that the Reynolds in front of him was from the O’Brien Empire, Linley’s heart was startled: “O’Brien Empire?”

The O’Brien Empire, one of the four great empires, one must realize that the four great empires were located to the east of the Magical Beast Mountain Range, whereas the Ernst Academy was to the west of the Magical Beast Mountain Range. In order to reach the Ernst Academy, one would have to make a detour from the northernmost or southernmost part of the Magical Beast Mountain Range. After all, except for ninth level powerhouses or holy realm powerhouses, no one dared to cross the Wraith Mountain Range.

The Wraith Mountain Range was over ten thousand miles long.

The journey from the O’Brien Empire alone was estimated to be nearly 20,000 miles, and if they were in the eastern part of the O’Brien Empire, the journey would be even further.

With a distance of 20,000 miles, it was estimated that it would take a full year to travel.

“I’m Linley, of the Finlay Kingdom.”

Linley said politely to the boy called ‘Reno’.

Reno blinked with wide eyes and sighed: “The Finlay Kingdom? Then you’re comfortable, it took me a year to travel from my home to the Kingdom of Finlay. You must have spent a very short time.”

“Yes, it took me half a day to get here from home.”

Linley replied honestly.

“Uh,” Reno’s expression was wonderful.

One had rushed for a year just to catch up on the road, but one had only spent half a day.

“Cadet, hurry up.”

The tester over there urged.

Among the enrollment procedures, one was to test the cadet’s strength again. After all, the Ernst Academy was also worried that someone had snatched the admission letter to impersonate.

“Coming.”

Reno immediately went to conduct the test.

But when he saw the results of the test, Linley was surprised in his heart.

The elemental affinity of this boy called ‘Reno’, was superior, and as for the spiritual strength, it was “Reno, eight years old, thirty-two times the spiritual strength of his peers, superlative.”

Linley couldn’t help but stare when he heard the numbers reported out by that test person, but the expressions of the testers on the field were all very plain, without the slightest bit of surprise.

“Linley, what’s wrong? Surprised by this?”

Reno didn’t care and said, “This is the Ernst Academy, the entire Yulan Continent only admits a hundred cadets every year, which one of them isn’t a genius? At my level, I can only be considered the middle of the pack.”

“But the Ernst Academy, the recruitment is biased towards the Holy Alliance. The Ernst Academy enrolls fifty in the Holy Alliance alone, while the four great empires and the Dark Alliance combined only have fifty. It’s really unfair.”

Reno sighed from the side.

Linley smiled as he listened.

The Ernst Academy was established by the Illuminati, so of course it favored the Holy Alliance.

“My turn.”

Linley also ran to test.

Reno’s small nose wrinkled: “This one called Linley is from the Holy Alliance, and when the Ernst Academy recruited, it was much more favorable than me. Talent is probably not as good as mine.”

Reno was extremely confident.

When the tester reported out Linley’s data, Reno was shocked.

“Superior spiritual strength, superlative elemental affinity? And also Earth and Wind dual-system?”

Reno was completely speechless.

Having a superlative elemental affinity for one lineage alone was extremely rare, but Linley was actually dual lineage, and both lineages had superlative elemental affinities. This was genius, and it was even stronger than him, Reno. After all, dual system magicians were very powerful.

“Reno, stop gawking, let’s go.”

Linley said with a smile.

“Oh.”

Although Reno was only a year younger than Linley, he seemed to be two or three years younger by the looks of it.

Linley and Reno received the ‘student card’ of the Ernst Academy, and also received the dormitory key. No matter how poor or lowly they were within the Ernst Academy, they had to live in a unified dormitory. Whether it was tuition or accommodation fees, it was completely free.

But “Huh, you’re paying tuition?”

Linley was surprised to see an old man next to Reno helping to pay the fees.

Hillman, who was beside Linley, laughed: “Linley, the full exemption of tuition and accommodation fees at Ernst College is for people from the Holy Alliance, anyone from elsewhere will always have to pay expensive fees.”

Reno nodded his head as well.

The old man next to Reno smiled kindly at Linley: “Yes, not only is the Ernst Academy like this, but the continent’s number one warrior academy, the O’Brien Academy, is also like this, for its own country’s trainees it’s free of all fees, but for those from other regions, they need to pay expensive fees. ”

Linley wasn’t stupid, he understood when he thought about it.

“Linley, my young master has the same dormitory key as you, you two should be in the same dormitory, and I also hope that in the future you will be able to help each other in the future.”

The old man said in a friendly manner.

Reno was disgruntled: “Alright, Grandpa Lum, you go back now, I’ve already arrived at Ernst Academy anyway.”

“Uncle Hillman, you go back too, I’ll take care of myself.”

Linley smiled at Hillman and said, Hillman nodded reassuringly : “Linley, I’ll go back then, work hard.”

Hillman said with a pep talk.

Linley nodded playfully.

“Linley, let’s go.”

Reynolds fell back to affectionately grabbing Linley’s hand and rushed towards the academy.

“Uncle Hillman, goodbye.”

Hillman and the old man watched the two children enter the interior of the academy for a long time before leaving.

After saying goodbye to Uncle Hillman, Linley and Reno stepped into the Ernst Academy, which was filled with green trees, lakes, stone bridges, and ancient academy buildings with an ancient aura, and a tree large enough to be hugged by seven or eight people, which made it possible to imagine the age of the tree.

“Really different, unlike some new colleges that show off, this is called the heritage ah.”

Reynolds’ big eyes curiously looked everywhere, and his mouth sighed.

In the Ernst Academy, there are still various signboards today, writing the paths that lead to various places. Obviously it was for the newly arrived trainees.

“Linley, come on, let’s go to the dormitory.”

Linley pulled Reynolds, and rushed towards the dormitory.

Dormitory number – 1987.

Linley and Reno were the ones who went through the enrollment procedures right after each other, usually four cadets lived inside a dormitory, and when Linley and Reno arrived at the accommodation area, they couldn’t help but marvel. At a glance, there were thousands of single-door dormitories.

In addition to these thousands of single-door dormitories, there were also very rare small two-story apartments.

“1987, 1987…… “Linley and Reno looked at the numbers and kept running towards the south.

The numbering of the lodging area was very regular, starting from 0001, each row was 100 single-family houses, when Lin Lei ran to the 20th row, only to see 1901.Then he ran towards the east again, and only after running, with Reynolds gasping for breath, did the two of them arrive in front of the single-family house with the number 1987.