Volume 1 Chapter 96 (1/2)
Old classmate
Xu Yi turned around in a surprised manner and found three people who were around twenty years old standing beside him. The one who called out was a young man with a head of light red hair.
After being surprised for a bit, Xu Yi also revealed a look of pleasant surprise. He punched the young man with light red hair on the shoulder, “Erwin, it’s actually you! Why are you here?”
The youth called Erwin gave a laugh before strongly hugging Xu Yi. His lips curled as he said, “Aren’t you speaking nonsense? Participating in the Magicians Guild’s certification exam, which magician would miss this? Look, didn’t you come in the end?”
After saying this, Erwin looked over Xu Yi and had a surprised look, “Yi? Xu Yi, looking at your current appearance, you seem like you have some money? No wonder you came to the certification exam, you always said that you didn’t have money before.”
Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, “It’s alright.”
This Erwin was a classmate from the Senkaiser School and they lived in the same dorm. Although Xu Yi was older than the others in his dorm, they were all still young people and it was easy for him to get along with them. Adding in the fact that Xu Yi was more mature than them, had more knowledge, and had high talent in magic, he became the big brother for these people.
Thinking about his other roommates, Xu Yi looked at the two youths behind Erwin before asking, “After graduating, have you been in contact with Roy and the others?”
Erwin shrugged his shoulders, “We all drifted apart after graduation, we can’t contact each other even if we wanted to. If it wasn’t because I bumped into you today, I wouldn’t even know what you were doing. That’s right, what are you doing right now? Did you find a good job? It’s been just a few months and you already have enough to participate in the certification exam.”
Xu Yi smiled without responding before looking at the other two youths, “You’re not going to introduce me to your new friends?”
“Oh, I almost forgot.” Erwin patted his head before pointing at the tall and buff youth with a righteous face and saying, “These two are my adventurer comrades. He is Rooney.” Then he pointed at the thin and somewhat short youth to the right, “This is Bob. Hey, Rooney, Bob, this is my classmate from the Senkaiser School, his name is a bit strange, he’s Xu Yi. But he’s a good person and was a good friend when we were back in school.”
Rooney and Bob shook hands with Xu Yi while Xu Yi looked at their chest. He found that Rooney’s magician badge was the same as Cesar and Bob’s magician badge only had a single ripple, showing that he was the lowest Primary Grade Magician.
Erwin was the same as Xu Yi, he didn’t have a badge on his chest to represent his rank at all.
Seeing Xu Yi’s eyes fall onto their chests, Rooney and Bob also looked at Xu Yi’s chest. Seeing no badge at all, they couldn’t help revealing surprised looks.
Erwin keenly noticed this point and quickly explained, “Hey, you two, don’t look down on Xu Yi. Don’t think that he’s bad because he doesn’t have a badge, his talent is actually really good, he was already almost a Grade Three Magician when we were back in school. Whenever we called him to participate in the exam, he always said he had no money and rejected us.”
“No money?” Rooney and Bob’s eyes looking at Xu Yi filled with even more surprise. Rooney couldn’t help asking, “Erwin, the students of your Senkaiser School wouldn’t all be the same right? All unwilling to participate in the Magicians Guild’s exam?”
“Hey, don’t compare me to Xu Yi. He had no money and I couldn’t pass, it’s completely different, alright?” Erwin corrected him.
Xu Yi patted his shoulder, “Alright, no matter what the past was, since you came this time, you just need to pass. Erwin, I think that with how you are now, you should have confidence in passing the Second Grade Magician exam, right?”
“Pretty much, there should be no problem.” Erwin confidently replied. After saying this, he looked at Xu Yi, “Don’t just talk about me, you were called a rare magic genius back in school by the teachers. After not seeing each other for half a year, your strength should have increased quite a bit, right? Tell me, are you planning on passing the Fourth Grade Magician exam this time?”
Hearing Erwin’s attention, although it caught Rooney and Bob’s attention, they weren’t that surprised.
Xu Yi looked to be several years older than them, so it was normal that his magic power was stronger than theirs.
“Un, pretty much.” Xu Yi very casually nodded, “This is not important. Erwin, why did you become an adventurer? Don’t you think that it is very dangerous?”
Erwin gave a sigh, “So what if it’s dangerous? I’m not a fellow with incredibly good talent like you, being able to quickly become a high level magician and not having to worry about food or board. If I become an adventurer, what do you think I can? With my bit of magic, I’m not even qualified to be an assistant to a Great Magician.”
Rooney and Bob on the side revealed depressed looks, it was obvious they faced the same problems as Erwin.
Xu Yi looked over the three of them and thought that the problem he thought about earlier wasn’t baseless, it really did exist.
“Erwin, what if I told you that there is a work where you don’t have to face any danger and you have spare time to research magic, where the work itself is related to magic and can increase your magic power? Would you be willing to take it?” Xu Yi asked.
Erwin laughed, “Hei, Xu Yi, after not seeing each other for half a year, when did you learn to boast? How could there possibly be such a good job, you don’t need to tell such lies even if you’re trying to comfort me, right?”
The eyes of Rooney on the side twinkled ashe said, “The job you’re talking about, how much money can it give?”