Chapter 12

"Are you Loren Turin, the new apprentice referred to by mentor Dalton?"

The young man standing in front of Lauren asked in a very determined tone, and with his natural expression, he stretched out his right hand: "Isaac Grantham, as instructed by mentor Dalton, I'll take you where you should go."

"Thank you, Isaac Grantham." Lauren smiled and reached for it, but the other party took it back.

"Don't be so quick. According to the usual social etiquette, we should shake hands after we finish talking." the young man turned his head sideways and said, "and it's the first time we've met. You should call me Grantham, or Mr. Grantham."

"Uh... Well, Glaser..."

"But considering that we will be a mentor's apprentice in the future and will live together for several years, you can call me Isaac now - but I come before you, so you can also add the title of 'senior' if you like."

"Well, Isaac learned..." before Lorraine finished, the young man grabbed his right hand and shook it hard.

"Very good, social networking is over." the young man walked directly up the stairs without looking back: "wasting time is a waste of life. Life is short, so we'd better hurry to do what we should do. Hurry up and don't fall behind, brother Loren!"

Even Lauren, who thought he was patient, couldn't help rolling his eyes, shrugged his shoulders and hurried up the stairs of the tower.

"You may already know something about this college, but let me introduce it to you - vimpal college consists of four towers, a main castle and two courtyards. Our North Tower belongs to mentor Dalton kand. The second and third floors are his bedroom and study, our dormitory is on the fourth floor, and the fifth floor is the laboratory and library."

"The front courtyard of the college is an activity and rest area, and the rear courtyard is a plantation for cultivating a small amount of rare plants. The library, kitchen and auditorium of the college are in the main castle, but they don't have to go there most of the time.

"In addition, if you are a devout believer, the prayer room is also there. And I can guarantee that it is very quiet, because most wizards are not very devout."

"Most of the time, we only need to stay in this tower to complete most of our cultivation - herbalism, alchemy, ancient Rune literature, mysticism, Incantation, astrology, history..."

For a few short flights of stairs, the young wizard named Isaac kept talking like a walking dictionary, and he kept the same tone from beginning to end, so that Loren, who was walking behind, kept the embarrassing smile when he went up the stairs from beginning to end.

"Good, this is your dormitory." Isaac pushed open the door of the room while talking endlessly. "There is an apprentice robe on the bed that can be changed and washed. The sheets are a little old but can be used again. What's the problem?"

"... well, there's only one." when he saw that the other party finally stopped, Loren drew from the corner of his mouth: "how many apprentices does mentor Dalton have?"

"Three, including you, mentor Dalton's standard for selecting apprentices is extremely strict, and those ordinary people, at most, can't be a pharmacist or a fortune teller." Isaac proudly picked his chin: "now that we've talked about this, can we ask you which subject you're going to take?"

"As a person from the past, I recommend you to study mysticism. This is a profound subject, which involves the formation of the relationship between the void and the material world. It requires quite excellent talent and the understanding ability to abandon common sense. Some people with insufficient talent can only learn alchemy and accept the tragic fate of becoming an alchemist."

"Isaac Grantham, what are you talking about?!"

Loren's mouth tilted and his eyes turned to the place where the angry roar came - although he hadn't seen anyone yet, he had guessed who it was.

"Ignore this guy, Lauren." the angry Ayn flushed his cheeks, gasped and hugged his shoulders. "He's a madman!"

"Ain Rand, mentor Dalton specially warned that there should be no noise in the tower." looking at the little wizard coming up the stairs, Isaac said, "and... Why did you scold me?"

"Oh, really?" ayin smiled without anger. "Who just said what was the tragic fate of becoming an alchemist?"

"But it is only because of your lack of qualification and intelligence that you have to choose to become an alchemist." the young wizard said innocently, "I didn't say you were stupid!"

The little wizard pointed his right hand to the stairs and said, "get out!"

"If you say 'goodbye', it will make you look more polite!" before he finished, Isaac had rushed to the lower floor and avoided the "suspicious object" flying from the top of his head.

"It's beautiful!" looking at the parabola flying in front of him, Loren joked and said with a smile: "I don't know you have such a skill."

Ain's face suddenly dyed blush and hesitated, as if he regretted his appearance: "I, I don't usually do this because Isaac is an asshole... It's so annoying!"

"Is he always like this?"

"Yes, this guy is crazy, arrogant, like to show off, and narcissistic to the point of no more!" the little wizard nodded vigorously with approval: "but he is really a genius, although he is particularly annoying!"

It doesn't seem to be an easy person to get along with, Lauren said from the bottom of her heart. In his last life, he also came into contact with creatures like Xueba. Most of them were immersed in their own world and took talent and understanding as a matter of course, but it was really the first one to reach this point.

Just as Loren was about to make a joke, he found that the embarrassed expression on ayin's face still didn't fade, like he wanted to say something but wanted to stop talking: "what's the matter, is there anything inconvenient to speak?"

"Mentor Dalton, he..." the little wizard just spoke, but immediately stopped, hesitated and tangled for a moment: "I didn't expect him to do such a thing!"

The purpose of inviting Loren to vimpal college is to let the wandering Knight no longer live a precarious life and worry about life being threatened. But now that mentor Dalton actually traded this condition, what's the difference between Loren and the past?!

No... it might be more dangerous. Wandering Knights have to deal with bandits and bandits in the mountains and forests. Now Loren may have to face monsters, curses and even dangerous places like the pagan temple he has never heard of!

"It has nothing to do with Dalton kand." Lauren shook his head. "I chose it myself, and I think it's very fair. There's no problem."

"But... It's too dangerous!" the little wizard was still worried: "you've only experienced it once, and you don't know what terrible things you have to face!"

With a long sigh, Loren went into his room and looked out at the wilderness through the window: "do you know what is the most terrible? The answer is very simple. Knowing nothing is the most terrible!"

I am too strange to the world. Even if I have lived for nearly three years, when I face Asriel for the first time in that cellar, the sense of terror is really like falling into an ice cave!

This world looks no different from the ancient Middle Ages in the previous life. There are too many terrible things that can easily kill themselves.

Never easily expose his ideas, think and analyze rationally, and choose the worst plan... This is Lauren's consistent style of doing things, but on that day, he realized for the first time that he had no choice in front of those forces, and he couldn't even overcome his fear at the bottom of his heart.

"Therefore, this is my own decision. I will never live without knowing anything in this world. Even if I have to pay the price, even if I die, I will find out why."

Loren went to his bed, picked up a book "step into meditation" on his wizard's robe and handed it to the little wizard.

"Can you teach me?"