After all, the purpose of the famous magic school "KoMo University" is to cultivate future magic masters, not just popularize magic knowledge.

Therefore, the most basic condition for entering this mysterious school is that you must at least be literate and have a preliminary understanding of the concept of "magic".

However, in this world, the vast majority of ordinary people struggling at the bottom of society do not have a high literacy rate. For them, being able to read and write their own names and simply read and write letters is already considered knowledgeable. But such a level of knowledge is obviously far from enough for a student who is determined to enter a magic school.

In the entrance examination of "KoMo University", the "magic theory knowledge test" is only the first step. And the following "element talent test" will ruthlessly eliminate more than 90％ of the remaining people.

Although these eliminated people are not directly rejected by the academy, they are obviously no longer eligible for the main department, so they can only choose to join the auxiliary department to study.

In this context, Jia Lan and Alan, a pair of good friends, are standing at the entrance of the theoretical examination. The girl Alan clenched her fist nervously, as if to encourage Jialan, or to cheer herself up. After making a "Come on!" gesture, she tightly grasped her "admission ticket", temporarily separated from Jialan, and stepped into different open-air examination rooms.

Jialan smiled and waved to Alan, who kept looking back, and walked to the examination room assigned to him. At the entrance, he handed over five silver jims to the faculty and received a thick stack of sheepskin test papers, a small bottle of ink and a quill pen. Under the guidance of the invigilator, he quietly entered the open-air examination room, found an empty table at random, sat down, and began to read the questions carefully.

Unlike the nervous Alan, Jialan did not feel nervous at all. After all, he himself is a "professional theory master".

Although the "arcane" he is familiar with is somewhat different from the so-called "magic" of this era in concept, the fundamental principles of spells and elemental properties are the same. Therefore, he is full of confidence in this exam.

In addition, Jia Lan judged from various factors that this so-called "magic theory knowledge test" was just a test to find out the basics, just a formality. No matter what the results were, it would not affect whether one could be admitted.

Because no matter how well one did in the theoretical test, it would be meaningless if one failed the talent test. Similarly, even if one was illiterate, as long as his magic talent was excellent enough, "Magic University" would not mind spending some time to train him.

The admission standards of "Magic University" were very strict, and only students between the ages of sixteen and thirty were accepted. People below or above this age group would not be easily admitted by the academy unless they were rare magic geniuses.

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This also meant that students who passed the entrance exam had fifteen years to learn magic knowledge in the academy. If a student stayed in the same school year for three years and failed to be promoted, or failed to become an "apprentice magician" at the age of thirty, he would be persuaded to leave the academy or be issued a certificate of incomplete studies. Their magic road would probably only stay at this level.

So looking around, although most of the freshmen were around sixteen years old, Jia Lan, who looked "twenty years old" on the outside, was not conspicuous among the freshmen. He even saw an "uncle" who looked at least thirty years old at an examination table not far away. This uncle obviously embarked on this road full of challenges and opportunities with his love and dream for magic.

In front of Jia Lan was a thick stack of test papers, the contents of which were numerous and complex, like a maze of knowledge. However, this exam did not require candidates to answer every question, but only to fill in as much as they knew.

However, Jia Lan soon fell into confusion. It was not because the questions on the test paper were too difficult, on the contrary, these questions were easy for Jia Lan, a master of theory. For example, one of the questions was: "What is magic? Please explain it briefly."

This question may be a difficult problem for beginners, but for Jia Lan, it is simply an entry-level question. However, when Jia Lan was about to write an answer, he found a tricky problem. The question asked about "magic", but what he was familiar with was "arcane". Although there is only one letter difference between the two words, the knowledge systems covered are very different.

Since Jia Lan woke up, he has learned through various channels that the "magic" of this era is actually derived from the arcane he is familiar with. However, although the two are inextricably linked, their systems do not seem to be exactly the same. The difference of this word cannot be explained clearly in a simple sentence.

In this era, "magic" seems to refer specifically to everything with so-called "magic power", and its representativeness refers specifically to the ability to control elements. However, for Jia Lan, "elements" are only a small part of the content of the elemental sub-school in the field of arcane knowledge he knows. The evocation school includes the elemental sub-school, but it is not limited to elements. It also includes other more complex and profound school branches.

Next, another question on the test paper made Jia Lan fall into deep confusion: "What is an element? Please briefly explain your understanding of an element." This question made Jia Lan feel more and more at a loss. From his conversation with Alan, he learned that the so-called "elements" of this era specifically refer to the five "main elements" of "wind, wood, water, fire, and earth". However, for Jia Lan, the concept of "element" is much broader and more complex than this. The "elements" he understands include basic elements such as fire, water, earth, and air, as well as more complex and special elements such as strong acid, lightning, cold, force field, light, darkness, sound waves, and mind. These elements constitute the "inner elements" in the arcane knowledge system he is familiar with, and in addition to these, there are more mysterious and profound "outer elements", "alien elements", "sub-elements", and "mixed elements". What makes Jia Lan most depressed is that among the five "main elements" of this era, there is actually a "wood element"! However, for Jia Lan, the "wood element" is only slightly related to the botanical sub-department of the natural science department, and is not an independent element at all.

These seemingly simple questions have caused Jia Lan, a master of academic theory with multiple titles such as polymath, researcher, and scholar, to fall into deep confusion and struggle. He frowned, and a layer of fine beads of sweat oozed out of his forehead, obviously distressed by these seemingly simple but actually difficult questions.