CH 40.2

Mage Association (2)

Generally speaking, a family with the financial conditions to support a mage would send their children with elemental affinity to learn spells at the age of seven. After five years of study, they would become a one-star mage at about twelve. Someone like Anna who was already seventeen or eighteen, could already be a two-star mage by now if their talent was not too bad.

Therefore, Anna, who was seventeen or eighteen years old and still a mage disciple, was, in the clerk’s eyes, someone that had the worst qualifications. In the future, she might only be able to drift at the level of a two-star mage. Moreover, she obviously knew how to cast spells and was a mage disciple, which indicated that her financial conditions could be considered not bad. Then why was she wearing the kind of linen cloth that only poor civilians would wear?

The clerk had these thoughts in her heart, but still allowed Anna into the shop and let her choose freely.

Anna looked around and found that most of the skirts here, though beautiful, were complicated and cumbersome.

She finally fell in love with a simple and elegant skirt and a bright red riding outfit. After trying it, she was very satisfied and paid for it.

Anna’s heart was bleeding when she paid the money. The skirt was five silver coins, and the riding outfit required eight silver coins. She could only pay in gold coins and let the clerk look for change.

The clerk, who had originally suspected that she might not be able to pay, showed her a sweet smile and sent Anna away, saying, “Visit again next time.”

Anna thought to herself that she would never come back again unless she became rich.

After returning home to change her skirt, Anna walked out to the Black Cloud City Mage Association.

Once again standing at the door looking at the magnificent building of the Mage Association, Anna took a deep breath from pure excitement. But just as she was about to enter, Anna saw a man standing in front of the building, looking at her nonchalantly.

——That demon was in the man’s body.

Anna almost staggered on her feet. She ignored him and stepped into the threshold, brushing shoulders with the man. The demon did not stop her.

Rothgarr casually possessed someone who was entering the city. Because he knew that Anna would definitely go to the Mage association, he was in no hurry. He went to the Mage Association and chose a person to possess at random, then waited for Anna. When he saw her, he didn’t approach her to strike up a conversation. He chose this body at random. It was just an ordinary staff member of the Mage Association, not a mage at all. He didn’t want to use this body to approach Anna.

He possessed this body just to make it easier for him to choose the next suitable body.

The office building of the Mage Association was a bit like a company lobby. There was a service desk at the end, and a sweet-looking girl sat behind it.

Anna walked up to the girl, glanced at the name tag on her chest, and smiled: “Hello, Teresa, I want to know how to test for elemental affinity and join the Mage Association.”

Teresa only thought that Anna was asking for her relatives. She showed a standard smile, replying: “Hello, the process is like this, you need to fill out an application form first, then take the application form to the second floor to find the test room, and test after the payment is completed. If there is element affinity, you will automatically obtain membership of the Black Cloud City Mage Association, and the subsequent rights and obligations will be explained by the instructor.”

Teresa said all this as she took out an application form and put it in front of Anna.

Anna picked it up and looked at it, and said politely, “Can you lend me a pen?”

Teresa had been a receptionist for Mage Association for three years and has encountered various situations. It was not uncommon to fill out the application form on the spot here. She took out the ink and quill from the service desk and set them in front of Anna. She smiled and said, “You can take your time filling it out.”

The height of the service desk was reasonable, so Anna held the pen and slowly started filling out the application form question by question. She was very grateful to Dubian for teaching her literacy. Otherwise, how embarrassing would it be if she couldn’t even fill out the application form.

The illiteracy rate in this world was very high, and the families that had the financial conditions and ambition to send their children to become mages invited teachers to teach literacy when their children were very young. They more or less had some foundation when sent to the Mage Association. If a mage disciple as old as Anna was illiterate, this would also be a situation that the Mage Association encountered for the first time.

Name, age, home address…

Anna filled out each box, and then handed it to Teresa to ask if there were any mistakes or omissions.

Out of courtesy, Teresa did not watch Anna fill out the application form. When she received the application form, she saw 17 years old written in the age column. Surprised, she looked at Anna: “Are you taking the test yourself?”

Anna nodded: “Yes.”

Teresa looked at Anna again in surprise, but did not say anything. She returned the application form to Anna with both hands and smiled and said, “There is no problem in filling out this application form. You can go up to the second floor. The second room is the testing room.”

Anna thanked her, and took the application form and followed the place where Teresa pointed out and went upstairs.

The main structure of the Mage Association building seemed to be constructed with a material similar to cement. When Anna walked up the stairs, she could feel the faint natural elements in the wall. She inferred that mages had participated in the construction process of the building.

Standing at the door of the testing room, Anna knocked. She didn’t feel very nervous because she knew that she had an elemental affinity; she just didn’t know which elements she had an affinity for.