Komo University, a city-level institution with a long history of 200 years and hundreds of thousands of students, stands on this vast land like a treasure house of knowledge. Its vast area is breathtaking. Even walking on the campus often makes people feel like they are in a maze.
And the Komo University Library, an academic palace that contains endless wisdom and mysteries, is located in a quiet corner behind the college, far away from the hustle and bustle, quiet and solemn.
In order to get back to the gate of the college, Jia Lan had to speed up his pace, cross the winding path, cross the historic stone bridge, and finally reach his destination after spending nearly half an hour.
From a distance, Jia Lan saw the girl sitting quietly on a bench near the statue of the founder of the college. She hugged her knees blankly, her eyes were empty and confused, as if she was thinking about some profound questions, and seemed to be recalling the good times of the past. In the afterglow of the setting sun, her figure seemed particularly lonely and weak, which made people feel pity.
"Hey! Alan!" Jia Lan greeted from a distance, with a hint of warmth and kindness in her voice.
This call was like a clear spring, instantly breaking the girl's meditation. Alan showed a surprised smile, and that smile was as bright and beautiful as the flowers blooming in spring.
She jumped down from the bench lightly like a deer, and like a cheerful lark, she nimbly passed through the bustling crowd and trotted all the way to Jia Lan's side.
"Jia Lan, what took you so long? I've been waiting for a long time!" The girl's words were filled with a hint of blame and coquettishness.
She took out a piece of dry bread from her leather shoulder bag and handed it to Jia Lan. The bread exuded a faint aroma of wheat and milk, which made people salivate. "We missed lunch time, you must be hungry, right? Fortunately, Aunt Brown prepared some bread and bacon for us when we went out this morning, and a small bottle of milk! I've eaten it, these are for you..."
Jia Lan smiled and took the dry bread and milk handed by the girl, and found a quiet place to sit down. While tasting this simple but warm food, he listened to the girl's excited chattering. The girl's voice was crisp and pleasant, like a mountain stream, making people feel relaxed and happy.
"I passed the entrance exam!" The girl's tone was full of pride and joy. However, she then showed a little lost look.
"Unfortunately, my elemental talent is too poor and too messy. The wind, wood, water, fire, and earth have 1 point each, so I can only study in the junior college of the auxiliary department..." There was a hint of helplessness and regret in her tone.
"But when filling in the subject intention, I filled in pharmacy. Thank you for teaching me the preparation skills a few days ago..." The girl's words were full of gratitude and admiration.
However, when she mentioned the tuition issue, her face showed a sad look again. "It's just that the tuition is too expensive. It costs 200 gold talans for one school year, and it doesn't include food, accommodation, books, management fees, experiment fees, material fees... Some lectures also charge extra fees. If all the money is added up in a year, I'm afraid 500 gold talans won't be enough..."
"And I heard that if the junior college students in our auxiliary department don't accumulate enough credits every year, they have to pay 50％ of the tuition fee as "education resource occupation fee" to continue studying. It's too abominable!" The girl's tone was filled with anger and injustice.
She was kind and simple by nature, but a little confused. Faced with these cumbersome fees and regulations, she felt helpless and confused.
Suddenly, she asked curiously: "What about you, Jia Lan? Your magic skills are so powerful, and you also know pharmacy. You must have been selected as an undergraduate, right?" Her eyes were full of expectation and envy.
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Hearing Alan's question, Jia Lan couldn't help but smile bitterly. It seemed that neither he nor Alan had good luck.
He had a rare "demon-repelling physique", while Alan had a rare "multi-element physique".
From the perspective of talent, these two physiques are exactly the two extremes that are least suitable for becoming a magician.
Due to the unique "exclusivity" of elements, a series of elements with high content will gradually exclude elements with low content from the body, forming an environment suitable for the aggregation of a single element.
Therefore, there are usually no more than two elemental characteristics in an organism. In this era, this characteristic is called "element affinity".
Of course, from the perspective of natural probability, there is also a certain probability that two elements in the human body will reach a certain balance and cannot repel each other.
However, the probability of this happening is very small, about no more than one in ten thousand.
However, no matter how small the probability is, it is not impossible to happen.
Therefore, assuming that the probability of "two-system balance" is one in ten thousand, the probability of each additional system will increase tenfold.
That is to say, the probability of "three-element balance" is as high as one in 100,000, "four-element balance" will reach one in a million, and theoretically, the probability of "five-element balance" will be as high as one in ten million!
And Alan seems to have encountered this "one in ten million" probability unfortunately, which is no less rare than his "demon-repelling physique".
Jia Lan estimated that Alan had no idea what his "five-element balance" physique meant.
Even the third-year senior who did the elemental talent test for her may not be very clear about the meaning of this physique, and let Alan pass the test carelessly.
Otherwise, Jia Lan might not be the only one who got the status of "little white mouse special enrollment".
Although he didn't know much about the magic system of this era, Jia Lan had a deep study of "elements".
As far as he knew, unless there was the ability to fuse two elements into a "composite element", any two elements would conflict and repel each other, but the degree of conflict and repulsion was different.
Therefore, let alone a "five-element balance" physique like Alan, even a person with "two-element balance" is not suitable to be a magician who relies on "element energy" to cast magic.
Because the rejection reaction caused by the imbalance of any element may cause the elements in the caster's body to be disordered. At the least, he will be seriously injured by the backlash, and at the worst, he will explode and die!
Of course, it is not ruled out that there are geniuses who can always maintain the balance between elements, such as the legendary "double-element magician".
However, even if a person who forcibly learns magic under the condition of "two-element balance" can achieve something, it is like tying a noose around his neck and walking on a high-altitude rope. He may die at any time due to an accident.
After all, there are too many factors that can cause elemental disorder: it may be because of the release of a single-element magic; it may be because of the loss of control of the "magic power" in the body under the influence of the outside world; it may be bombarded by a "repulsive" elemental magic from the enemy in battle; it may even be just because of a sneeze...
Therefore, people with "multi-element physique" are really not suitable to be magicians.
On the contrary, those who have poor elemental talents or have no "elemental talents" like Jia Lan are not that dangerous.