Episode 2: Growing Up Chapter 4: Ernst College

With the passage of time, the little shadow mouse that hadn’t felt much love and care for Lin Lei wasn’t too wary, and even on the eighth day, when Lin Lei put the hare down just before taking two steps, the little shadow mouse rushed out to eat it all at once, and also ”squeaked” straight at Lin Lei.

Day ten!

“En, today it’s time to give the little Shadowmouse a taste of roasted meat.”

Linley wrapped a roasted pheasant in a small cloth bag, then walked pleasantly towards the cluster of ancient houses behind the mansion.

Delinquent Corvette was also walking alongside Linley, only there was no one but Linley to see him, Delinquent Corvette’s white beard curled up in a smile, “Linley, it’s been nine days now, now that shadowrat isn’t the least bit wary of you, and today you’re making even better roasted meats, so it’ll definitely be excited to no end, and it’ll have an even more affectionate relationship with you. ”

Linley couldn’t help but smile even as he listened.

When Linley had just walked up to the threshold of the original one – “Squeak, squeak the little Shadowmouse scurried up to Linley’s side in an instant, and stood upright bouncing around and barking at Linley continuously.

“It ran over before I even took it out, it’s not even afraid of me at all.”

Linley’s heart burst with surprise.

Next to him, Delinquent was also smiling as he looked at the little Shadowmouse, that little Shadowmouse couldn’t feel Delinquent’s presence at all, Delinquent smiled and said, “Now it seems that this little Shadowmouse is already relatively close to you.”

“Squeak the little Shadowmouse’s ebony eyes stared at Linley, grunting discontentedly as if urging Linley to hurry up and bring out the food.

“Don’t be in a hurry.”

Linley took the roasted pheasant out of the cloth bag.

As soon as he smelled the roasted pheasant, the little shadow mouse’s dark little eyes immediately glowed, and then immediately looked at Linley pitifully. Linley couldn’t help but have his stomach hurt from laughing at this scene, when he himself had taken delicious food in front of little Warden, little Warden had cried out, “Brother, want.”

While feigning pity and looking at himself.

Now this little shadow mouse also comes to this set.

“Heh, here.”

Linley tossed the roasted pheasant to the little shadow mouse.

The little shadow mouse cheerfully barked, and in a flash scurried up to bite the roasted pheasant, and after eating the first bite, the little shadow mouse tore and bit at an immediately accelerated speed, and in just a moment, the roasted pheasant that had been about the same size as the little shadow mouse was eaten cleanly.

“I really can’t figure out how you can swallow and eat when your stomach is just this big.”

Linley exclaimed with a smile from the side.

The little shadow mouse seemed extremely happy to eat this time, happily bouncing upright, also ‘squeaking’ at Linley, and wanting its two front limbs to hug Linley’s calves. Linley couldn’t help but feel happy in his heart, this was the first time the little Shadow Mouse had been so affectionate towards himself after eating.

“Linley, try using your hand to smooth up its fur and comb it, generally magical beasts prefer someone close to them to comb their fur.”

Drinkwater suggested.

Linley tried slowly placing his hand on the head of the magical beast Shadowmouse, the little Shadowmouse didn’t dodge at all, but instead closed its little eyes in enjoyment, Linley immediately felt relieved to comb up its fur, and the little Shadowmouse actually snored comfortably.

“This little guy is so cute.”

Linley’s heart also grew more and more fond of this little Shadowmouse.

“Grandpa Delin, magical beasts are really strange enough, you said that the raptor was so large and had such hard scales that it was a level 7 magical beast. And the little Shadow Mouse may also become a Level 7 Magical Beast when it grows up in the future. The same level seven magical beast, how can the difference be so great?”

Linley stroked the little Shadowmouse, and felt shocked in his heart even as he thought about it.

“You can’t judge based on appearance alone, maybe if you see an ordinary old man on the road, maybe he’ll be able to step on a flying dragon and wave his hand to make flatten a mountain peak.”

Derinkelwalt said with a smirk.

Linley understood this.

But unconsciously, he would still judge from appearance.

Take a look at the Velociraptor, just by looking at that gigantic size and the scale armor that emitted an icy metallic luster, one could tell how powerful it was.

“I don’t know when this little Shadowmouse was willing to enter into an ‘equal contract’ with me.”

Linley muttered, there was nothing he could do about it, this concluding an ‘equality contract’ was cast by the magical beast itself, so he could only passively wait.

Drinkwater smiled, “The situation is good now, remember, be patient.”

“En, I know.”

Linley smiled back. ……

In the blink of an eye, twenty days had passed since Linley had given the little shadowmouse food, and the little shadowmouse was now extremely close to Linley, but he didn’t know what was going on, but even though he was a close mess with the little shadowmouse, the little shadowmouse still didn’t show any signs of casting the ‘Equality Contract’.

Darkness covered the land, and the entire town of Wushan was quiet.

In the middle of the living room of the Baruch family mansion, candlelight burned and illuminated the living room, and Linley’s family of three as well as the butler, Shiri, were all sitting at the long table having dinner together.

“Linley, I’ve heard that you’ve been getting roasted hares a lot lately to bring to those ancient houses in the backyard?”

Halfway through the meal, Hogg put down his knife and fork and looked towards Linley and spoke out.

Linley’s heart shook.

“Looks like it’s time to come clean.”

Linley said in his heart, so he looked at Huo Ge and nodded, “Father, recently I found a cute animal in the backyard, very cute, so I’ve often gotten some food for it.”

“Cute animal?”

Little Walden’s eyes immediately lit up.

“Oh.”

Hogg nodded, “Few people go there in the backyard, it’s possible that there are animals, right, it’s estimated that a week later in the king’s capital ‘Finlay City’ about the magic test enrollment will start, aren’t you going to participate in it?”

“Ah, magic test enrollment?”

Only then did Linley violently recall this matter.

A stream of air that was only visible to Linley flew out of the Coiled Dragon Ring and transformed into the white-haired old man ‘Delinquent’, Delinquent smiled at Linley and said, “Linley, magic test enrollment? You can go or not, with my teaching, it will still be worse than what those academy magicians teach?”

Linley agreed.

Delinquent Corvette was a holy realm magician, would a normal magic academy let a holy realm magician teach?

“What, don’t want to go?”

Hogg, who had originally smiled, couldn’t help but let his face go cold, and his brows furrowed.

Hogg remembered clearly how much Linley had wanted to become a magician ever since he had seen that level 8 dual system magician fight with the mercenary squad. Now it was so gulping? In Huo Ge’s heart, he also wanted his son to become a magician.

“Father, I ……”

“No, Linley, promise your father.”

Derinkelwalt frowned and suddenly changed his words.

Linley’s words came to a halt, while inquiring in his puzzled mind, “Grandpa Delin, isn’t there you teaching me? With you teaching me, is there still a need to go to a magic academy. Isn’t it a waste of the family’s money?”

“No.”

Delinquent Corvette solemnly said, “I haven’t had any real contact with the Yulan Continent for over 5,000 years, over 5,000 years, Linley, you have to realize that there are a large number of magicians on the Yulan Continent constantly researching new types of magic, I wonder how many new types of magic have been born in the past 5,000 years.”

Linley was also dazed in his mind.

“And Linley you need to know that this Usan Town is not your stage in the future, you need to step into a broader stage.”

Drinkwater said solemnly.

“A more expansive stage ……”

Linley couldn’t help but thump his heart.

Linley couldn’t help but recall the massive magical beast ‘Velociraptor’, the horrifying scene of the ‘Dance of the Fire Serpent’ descending, and that Holy Realm Magical Instructor ‘Rudy’ easily controlling out the the catastrophic scene of the dense and endless giant boulders smashing down.

“In the future.”

Linley’s heartbeat couldn’t help but accelerate, if he were to soar through the heavens with a giant dragon on his feet, controlling the ability to destroy the heavens and destroy the earth, the feeling of standing at the pinnacle would definitely be very wonderful. Even thinking about this, Linley felt his blood boiling within his body.

“Linley, what are you thinking?”

Huo Ge was a little disgruntled, he was asking Linley a question and he was actually wandering off.

“Ah, no.”

Linley immediately looked at Huoge and hurriedly nodded his head and solemnly said, “Father, I really want to become a magician in my heart, a week from now you’ll arrange for me to go to the king’s capital, ‘Finlay City’, to take part in the magic enrollment test.”

Hogg smiled when he heard this.

“Wizard, oh, oh, isn’t it that fire-breathing wizard?”

Little Woden cheerfully clapped his little meaty hands on the side.

“Walden, that’s juggling! Don’t confuse juggling with magic.”

Hogg said seriously.

“Oh.”

Little Walden’s mouth puffed out, and he stopped speaking.

Linley laughed and looked at Huoge, “Father, there should be quite a few magic academies, right, which ones are better? By the way, is the magic academy mixed with the warrior academy?”

Huo Ge also smiled, “Speaking of which, the four great empires and two great alliances on the continent all have their own top-notch academies. You should know that the ‘O’Brien Empire’ of the four great empires is the one with the greatest military power.”

Linley nodded, he knew this bit of common sense.

“And the O’Brien Empire’s topmost academy, the ‘O’Brien Academy’, is the number one warrior academy in the entire Yulan Continent. But when it comes to the Wizard Academy well ……”

Hogg smiled, “The first magic academy in the entire Yulan Continent is amongst our Holy Alliance, the ‘Ernst Academy’ named after the legendary Pope of the Illuminati, ‘Ernst’. “