Karliu is a third-rate city located in the Pope's country, belonging to the domain of the Duke Orsini family, far less prosperous than the capital city of Filippo, but at least it has churches, bazaars, factories, and any public buildings that people would need.Seeing the industrial products of the Great Age - the heavy rail trains whizzing through the city, bringing with them rare commodities from afar - and the magical atmosphere of St. Karlstadt's Noble Academy, which combines magic with new industries in its constant innovations, no one can completely deny the value of what the city of Karlstadt creates on a daily basis, and the expanding. Trends.While the taxes in Karliu are also far higher than in other cities in order to safeguard the current situation, at least here you won't see poor people who can't afford to pay their taxes and vagabonds begging on the streets, as they will all be driven by the guards to the forests beyond the boundaries of the land, as the law states in black and white.The sun rises quietly on a new day, and the bells ringing inside St. Carl's Stream Academy signal the start of the first class of the day. The entrance to the academy was a huge metal-clad wooden door inlaid with carved ivory that glowed with a shiny sheen.When you try to step into the St. Karl's Stream Noble Academy, you will clearly realize that you are in a magical world at the crossroads of the ages, where mechanical gears creak and magical steps float one by one, and where only the students of the nobility are eligible to be exposed to the wonders of magic, and where only these children can afford the exorbitant tuition fees of St. Karl's Stream, despite the fact that most of them are only third-rate nobles living in this third-rate city, Coming here is just a way for their parents to trade their scavenged wealth for a diploma to graduate from an aristocratic academy for their children.Of course, St. Karl's has a large number of excellent teachers, who are highly paid as experts in various fields, and are the school's most prominent pride, some of these teachers are of noble birth, others are more proficient in the arts, industry, or astronomy, and are familiar with the fusion of magic and all kinds of wonderful scientific phenomena, which is why the academy has a large number of subjects and has set up an observatory, alchemy workshop, and so on. The reason for the building.And the main teaching building of the Noble Academy of Magic, a chapel built of red brick and marble as well as iron, unlike the conventional rigid style, the building is decorated with gothic carvings, and two stone statues of knights stand in the huge arched doorway, and in the building you can often hear pleasant music from the art classroom, and occasionally from the biology classroom you can smell the strange stench of the heart and lungs, and there are also bursts of dense fog coming out of the magic classroom.”On entering the stepped classroom, you will immediately notice that the classroom presents a semi-circular design, starting from the blackboard, with rows and rows of students' seats arranged in a sloping shape. Each seat is higher than the height of the seat in front of it so that everyone can see what is on the board.The classrooms are also designed to be filled with sunlight and air circulation, allowing everyone to focus their attention on the teacher and the blackboard at the very front of the room. Comfortable seats and spacious classrooms, even in an era of prosperity only the noble students could have such treatment, as for how the poor people's children are educated, at least no one sitting in this classroom will care.When the old teacher hunched his back and used his withered fingers to stroke on the blackboard, a text made up of magical elements appeared in front of the students, he gently cleared his throat and continued to add to the knowledge he had just said, “Therefore, the rapid development of industry can not be separated from the heyday of magic, and people use magic to melt metals, and then use magic to shape metals, including us The familiar source of steam power also relies on the underlying principle in the form of magic arrays.”The teacher's dry, thin body and the wisp of a beard on his jaw gave him the appearance of an old goat walking upright, always occasionally lifting the extremely high prescription lens on the bridge of his nose. “Everyone should know that there are many types of magic, most of which have been innovated through continuous inheritance, but magic also has its taboos.”In the front seat of the classroom, the dark-haired teenager Cesare Hunyati was sitting there, his face expressionless as he listened to the lesson carefully recording his notes, and interestingly enough, while the seats in one row of the classroom could accommodate almost twelve students, the row where Cesare was sitting was extraordinarily empty, even the seats in front of and behind him were intentionally left empty, and if he wasn't a schoolyard bully, then he must have been an extremely un Popular students, the truth is clearly the latter.Certain students discussed everything about Cesare in hushed tones, Cesare's life, his sister, and why he was a grungy freak was always a topic of conversation among the students due to those vicious rumors of the Hunyati family. Despite the fact that they have tried to keep their voices as low as possible, it is inevitable that some of the gossip will still reach Cesare's ears, but Cesare does not care, as if he has long been accustomed to this kind of strange look.And not all of the students were deliberately isolating Cesare Hunyati, a teenager with brown hair and a slightly freckled face sat next to Cesare. The boy's name was Sandino, the son in law of the baron of the field, and Cesare's only friend in the city.Though Sandino looked dopey a lot of the time, but that's what made him so lovable, at the moment he raised his eyes to look at the teacher who was engrossed in his lecture, then stood his book on the desktop with both hands to block his face, and whispered to Cesare beside him, Hey, hey! Cesare? Can you hear me?”“Uh-huh.” Cesare nodded, responding perfunctorily.“You do remember that the school dance is this weekend, right?” Sandino continued to lower his voice.“Uh-huh.” And Cesare gave another faint hmmm, his cold expression seemingly uninterested in any topic other than teaching, or perhaps a perfunctory response had been his most enthusiastic result.“Don't just umm ah, here's the big news, I may have found a dance partner, you remember that rich man's daughter named Yvette, I think she seems to have a thing for me, she's agreed to dance with me.” Said Sandino, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise in pride and excitement.“By the way, have you figured out who you want as a dance partner? Don't tell me you're going to dance with your own sister, it's too cheesy! Eh, have you tried asking Valeria, I've always gotten the feeling that she has feelings for you, and that she might just like guys like you who are mysterious and still handsome.”When Sandino finished a long string of words in one breath, Cesare was still writing something in his notes to himself, with no intention of paying him any attention at all. And when Sandino tried to raise the volume slightly to continue speaking, Cesare suddenly stopped the quill in his hand, raised his head to look ahead for a moment, then twisted his head to meet Sandino's eyes, and spoke somewhat breathlessly, “I think ......”“Feel what? Viratia can't see you?” Sandino urged anxiously.“No, I just thought the teacher was looking at you.” Cesare's gaze flicked forward, taking Sandino's trembling vision along with it to the face of the teacher in front of him, the goatee face that was not exactly a good-looking face in itself screwed up even more angrily at this point in time, as the teacher pushed up his glasses and gently tapped on the blackboard again. “Mr. Sandino, please stand up for a moment.”“Yes...teacher, sorry teacher ...... “The moment Sandino stood up, there was a snicker in the classroom, the baron's son was already considered a low status for this group of heirs of dignitaries.“Could you please answer what is taboo in magic, or what should we not try to do with magic? Name one of them and you can sit down sir.” The teacher restrained her anger and asked the question rather politely.“I...uh...if I may think for a moment, I seem to remember that it was...it was...,” Sandino's face held red, and after recalling countless wrong answers in his head he eventually lowered his head in an extremely small voice said, “I do not know the teacher ......” said, the classroom is another jeering, embarrassed Sandino hate up pry open the classroom floor cracks to sneak in.Just when the teacher decided to continue questioning Sandino to embarrass him even more, he noticed that Cesare next to him raised his hand, the teacher didn't want to have anything to do with the student who was inextricably linked to the Hunyati family, but ghosted him anyway, “Cesare-san, it seems that you would like to answer this question?”“Yes teacher.” Cesare naturally rose and replied, “The taboo of magic lies in not questioning or challenging the authority of Scripture, for example it is the Lord's prerogative to create life, we are not to use magic to make any attempts to do so, and we should also go on to respect all living beings that exist in the world.”Despite the fact that his classmates discriminate against Cesare's eccentric family and his indifference and aloofness from all events, there is no denying Cesare's seriousness and knowledge in his studies. Listening to Cesare's answer, the teacher nodded in satisfaction.As the answer says, not only does magic and industry coexist on this continent, but the power of faith is also extremely important, not to mention the fact that this is within the borders of the Papal States, where the Lord is above all things, and to a lesser extent, the Pope is above all things.“Well, while Cesare-san answered well, Sandino-san, you need to listen carefully as well.” The teacher waved his hand helplessly and told Sandino to sit down. Just as Sandino was about to sit down, suddenly Sandino's chair was jerked out of the way by an invisible force, and in the back of the classroom, the one who did it could be seen to be Boris the Repeater, a troublemaker but with a hard backstage. Everyone in the school knew that he was Lord Gallant's most loyal “lapdog.”Just as Sandino was about to fall, a stronger force yanked the chair back, and Sandino just happened to be sitting on the chair that was yanked back. At this point, Sandino didn't know exactly what was going on in this moment, but Boris in the back saw it clearly.It was magic, he moved the chair with a levitation spell, and another man pulled it back with a traction spell, and with much more power than he had, and yes, he saw it clearly, it was that “freak” Cesare. Boris gritted his teeth and broke the quill in his hand, thinking to himself, it's okay, we'll settle the score together later.Sandino sat down before realizing that his chair had shifted position, and he flinched until Cesare patted him on the back to bring him back to his senses. “Pay attention to the lecture, or the teacher should point your name again” ‘But just now exactly ......’ ”What do you think, the next is a mechanical engineering class, you Have you finished your homework?”“Huh?” What! There's homework for that class???”

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