The two giggled and whispered in the doorway before Sophia blushed and kissed Thomas gently on the forehead.
The corners of Freya's mouth twitched slightly, deciding not to watch the couple's lovemaking anymore.
Intending to simply bypass the two.
Just as she swept past the two, Thomas, who had been talking to Sofia, moved his expression and looked at Freya's departing back with a slight frown.
‘You brat, what are you looking at!’ Sophia looked at Thomas's gaze, and her face immediately growled in displeasure.
‘Er...nothing, what can I look at, you're the only one in my eyes.’ Hearing his girlfriend's roar, Thomas immediately returned to his senses and compensated with a smile.
"Hmph! That's more like it!"
Seeing Sophia extinguish the fire, Thomas thought for a moment and said somewhat solemnly.
‘Right, aren't you friends with Freya, then tell her to be careful lately the next time you see her...’
"Hmm? Be careful of who?" Sophia saw Thomas' solemn look and said with slight curiosity “What's wrong with Freya lately?”
‘You don't have to care much about that, just tell her, just don't say it was me who said it...’ immediately Thomas waved his hand as if he didn't want to say more either.
‘...... Well, I'll tell her in class tomorrow.’
Although she didn't know the meaning of Thomas' words, she still didn't pursue the questioning of her boyfriend's trust.
Leaving the fencing room Freya didn't go back to her dormitory, but went straight to the canteen, ate lunch and then went straight to the library.
The aftereffects on her qi sense had reached the final stage of removal, and in two days at the most, she would be able to get rid of that manic feeling from time to time, which had made her mood better and better lately.
Moreover, based on her performance in these half a year, the teachers in the academy had more or less hinted at her slightly in recent times, suggesting that she had the qualifications to compete for a place at the Rudin Imperial Capital Academy.
Things seemed to be going in the direction she had expected.
‘’If I can successfully obtain the qualification, perhaps it will be of great help to father's place as well, just... I wonder how father is developing now?‘’ Sighing while walking in the direction of the library.
Although her heart actually yearned for the legendary sorcerers, the only person she knew who understood these things was Hegel, but that old man had not mentioned anything about sorcerers in the past six months except for treating her, and he seemed to be obsessed with the concept of ‘equal exchange’ in life.
This forced her to pin her hopes on the Imperial Capital Academy.
After all, with the historical information she had checked, the upper echelons of Rudin seemed to have slight traces of sorcerers as well.
The black-toned Elgrim Library stood silently erect, its doors half-open at all times.
The brown wooden door at the very back of the library.
The familiarity of half a year's time made her walk right in without knocking.
In the room, Hegel was sitting on the sofa was holding a white feather quill and writing something on the round table, while next to him was a book with a red cover, the front of the book was facing down, so the name could not be seen.
On the opposite side of him, a black liquid held in a white cup was emitting a faint heat, which seemed to have been poured not long ago.
Perhaps sensing that someone had come in, Hegel looked up slightly before revealing a hint of a smile, and instead of speaking, he pointed to the empty couch next to him with his empty hand, and then once again lowered his head to write.
Freya gently pulled the sofa over and sat down quietly, knowing that the old man had the habit of writing every day, so she did not disturb.
She skilfully picked up the cup in front of her and gently took a sip, the slightly bitter touch made her tongue a little numb, and the qi sensation in her chest seemed to have become a little sluggish after she drank in this liquid for a long time before it slowly returned to an active state.
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Although this feeling had been going on for half a year, she still wasn't used to it.
Slightly frowning as she drank the rest of the drink in one go, she sat on the sofa while looking at Hegel's writing while quietly waiting for this feeling to dissipate on its own.
I don't know how long it took, but the feeling of qi in her chest, which seemed to be frozen, slowly began to return to normal, and Hegel, who had been writing all along, also put away his feather quill, gently blew on the ink stains on it that hadn't yet dried up, and then placed it on the bookshelf below.
‘The aftereffects on your body will almost be healed tomorrow, and this is where our “exchange” comes to an end.’ Having done his thing, Hegel looked at the young girl across from him with an appreciative gaze.
Although he had long anticipated her natural talent, he still didn't expect that she would have finished all the books in the entire library in just five months, and it wasn't by rote, this kind of super-high IQ made him have to be impressed as well.
‘It's still thanks to your help.’ She nodded gently, casting a respectful look at Hegel.
Half a year of socialising had let her know that the old man in front of her, apart from his status as a librarian, was also an uncompromising erudite, and compared to the books in the entire library, the knowledge in the old man's head had reached an unimaginable level, and had indirectly opened up a lot of insights for her.
And although the two were unspoken, the way the two were getting along now already had a hidden teacher-disciple relationship.
Without chiming in, Hegel's yellowish eyes looked straight at this young girl who made himself feel for her, as if he was thinking about something.
After a long time, he gently nodded the table and suddenly said.
‘Freya, do you want to understand the truth of this world?’
‘Want!’
These words, which seemed to have no beginning and no end, caused Freya to freeze, and the words even more so seemed to spit out directly as if they had not been thought through.
Frya who noticed her own oddity, gently touched her own mouth, just now as if in the old man's questioning moment in the heart of the words actually involuntarily directly said, which made her slightly frowned.
Not caring about Freya's doubts, Hegel smiled, slightly narrowed his eyes and continued.
‘People who come to the Dragon Academy are divided into three kinds, one is using gold coins to gild themselves, one is really having efforts in learning knowledge for their future, and the last is to obtain a place in the Rudin Imperial Academy, and you are the third kind, right?’
This time, the old man's questioning did not cause her to show the perverse behaviour she had just seen, but she still subconsciously nodded.
Today's Hegel, Freya could vaguely see something different from usual in his eyes, which seemed to relate to the path she would take in the future.
‘So, if...I mean, if I were to grant you a better place at the academy, one that would allow you to slowly learn about the truths of the world, which would you choose?’
‘An academy...of world truth?’
She looked at the old man in front of her with a slight frown, as if she wanted to see a hint of a joke in that old face, however, when she saw the solemn look in the old man's eyes, her heart stirred as if she thought of something, revealing an incredulous gaze.
‘You mean... sorcerer...?’
‘That's right!’ Hegel nodded in satisfaction at Freya's reaction.
"But, in the information I know, the legendary sorcerers all seem to be related to the great nobles... And the Academy...?"
Although her heart was very shocked, she still asked her question sensibly.
"Great nobles... that was only a long, long time ago, as far as I know, in the entire continent here, the number of wizards in existence, no more than ten, and each one of them is in seclusion, unless it is they directly light up their identity, otherwise you will never know, those information you read, perhaps they are all the old news from a few hundred years ago. "