Chapter 1 Aurelian College and the Corfu Continent
Aurelian College.
Red brick floors, cloister-style corridors, graceful and elegant fountains, white and noble marble sculptures, and four three-story milky white painted houses.
This is the most prestigious academy among the Seven Kingdoms on [Corfu Continent]. Countless nobles from the Seven Kingdoms, whether they are wealthy earls, noble dukes, or supreme kings, will send their second sons to this academy.
It can be said that being able to enter this academy is in itself a sign of being a high-ranking aristocratic child.
Children of small and medium-sized nobles need to meet strict requirements if they want to enter this academy. Whether it is riding, swordsmanship, linguistics, history, or philosophy, they must have good results.
The children in this college are either very rich or very outstanding.
In Aurelian College, today is the day of the entrance examination for the new season of students.
Many people have left the college with regret and great disappointment.
Either he failed the assessment, or he failed the identity verification and was directly rejected by Aurelian College.
The veteran students stood in the corridor of the college, looking at the frustrated expressions on the faces of this group of losers who had failed the college assessment with a mixture of contempt and a theater mood.
One of the children of an old student said to the students beside him: "These low-level nobles and mud-legged people actually want to enter this academy."
"It's really crazy. Can they afford the annual tuition of thousands of gold coins?"
"I really thought that Aurelian College accepted all kinds of garbage."
This person deliberately said it in front of the losers. The faces of those students who failed the examination all showed expressions of inferiority and fear.
They all know the name of Aurelian College, so no one dares to refute it.
As for Locke Augustine, who was also a third-year student of Aurelian College, he frowned.
Keen Julian saw Locke frowning, immediately turned around, and looked over unhappily. "However, there are also some dead rats among us."
"Locke Augustine, you are still in our college. I heard that the Frankish Empire of our country has conquered the capital of your Kingdom of Anjou, and the territory of your Augustine family has also fallen."
"Can you still afford the tuition for this year's college?"
Coen Julian and his two fat followers showed gloating expressions on their faces.
"Your king has died in the battle, and the country is gone."
Locke did not expect that the idiot suddenly pointed the muzzle at him and raised his eyebrows.
Cohen Julian and his followers are all nobles of the Frankish Empire. The Julian family is a family of counts in the Frankish Empire.
And I...or the original owner, is the youngest son of the count of the Kingdom of Anjou.
Hence, Julian was usually very at odds with his original owner, and he often had tit-for-tat confrontations in the past.
At this moment, when he heard that the Augustine family was in trouble, he would of course make fun of himself.
According to the past, I should have had a quarrel with him, and then because the country was in trouble, I would have been at a disadvantage and been ridiculed by Julian.
But at this moment, Locke is already a time traveler. He has no feelings at all for the Kingdom of Anjou and the Territory of Augustine, so naturally he will not be angered.
So, Locke shrugged his shoulders and looked at Julian and his followers. "So, what does this mean?"
Julian and his followers were stunned for a moment as they did not see Locke's expected rage and loss of temper.
They suffered a small defeat.
This made Julian feel gloomy for a while, but soon he looked at Locke with malice and pointed at the small and medium-sized nobles and civilians who were taking the college assessment. "You will soon be like them."
"The tuition fees at Aurelian College alone cost thousands of gold coins, and even a few classes cost hundreds of gold coins. If you do not take enough classes or pay off the tuition, you will be dropped out of school."
< br/> "Locke, I'm looking forward to the day when you, the lost dog, will be kicked out of the academy."
"When the time comes, I hope you won't beg me to take you in. I've specially left you a job as a guard."
"Hahahaha..."
Julian left with his followers.
Locke, on the other hand, looked at him with a puzzled look on his face. He didn't have any emotion at all, but he felt that the three Franks were a bit crazy.
This is inexplicable, as if there is any benefit in embarrassing yourself. It can only be said that the students in this college are mentally ill to some extent.
That's right, Locke, who has just traveled to this world for two weeks, has already understood the essence of Aurelian College.
To put it nicely, this college is a college that gathers the entire continent, seven countries, the second sons of high-ranking nobles and outstanding young men, but its essence is a gilded college for high-ranking nobles.
Those nobles spend high tuition fees every year and throw some of them who are not promising and non-heirs into this college, just to plate them with gold and find a place to place them to prevent these people from doing nothing all day long.
Therefore, the curriculum of this college is actually quite strange. On the one hand, it is a hundred gold coins and one semester of language courses. On the other hand, it has very loose course requirements.
Recruiting outstanding personnel from small nobles and common people is just to add a layer of glory to the resume of this college.
In fact, most of the students in this college are second-generation nobles with mediocre qualifications, so there are no teachers who can teach seriously.
But contrary to the mediocre teaching quality, the tuition and course fees here are really expensive.
It’s ridiculously expensive!
And Locke himself, the original owner, was originally one of the many mediocre second-generation nobles in this college.
But Locke took a deep breath, he was really unlucky.
I originally thought that I had traveled through time and became the youngest son of an earl, and that I would have no worries about food and clothing in the future, and that I would be able to enjoy life just by hanging around. Who knew that my country would be destroyed?
The family is bankrupt.
"The family hasn't sent anyone to contact me yet." Locke mused: "But come to think of it, no one will pay the tuition for this semester. Without tuition, I will definitely be kicked out of the college."
Once the academy opens, it will be very dangerous outside. "
"The Franks are catching Angevin people everywhere."
"It doesn't matter that I am safe in the academy, but as long as I leave, it will probably lead to a lot of danger."
"Such an expensive tuition fee cannot be obtained through work-study."
Locke rubbed his head in distress, and at the same time looked at the synthetic panel that emerged in the void in front of him and that only he could see.
This Horadric synthetic Rubik's Cube is the golden finger that he has traveled through time.
In my previous life, when I was playing [Gods and Magic], I was struck by lightning because I won too much, and ended up traveling through time with the super artifact from that game.
This Rubik's Cube can synthesize different materials according to your character level, so that low-level materials can be upgraded to high-level materials.
In the game, it was originally a super artifact for alchemy, herbalism and potion, but who would have thought that he would actually bring it here.
At this time, the virtual Rubik's Cube is exuding a luxurious flow of light, and there is a virtual hourglass next to it. According to the speed of the sand falling in the hourglass, there is still one hour left, and the three sapphire gravels you put into the Rubik's Cube will be synthesized successfully!
Locke looked at the synthetic Rubik's Cube and said: "Now let's see what will become when three pieces of sapphire rubble are combined, so that we can know what my next step will be."
"And, according to the memory of the original owner, there is another weird thing about this college."
Let these students do whatever they like, but this college has one standard that is very high and no teacher will mess with it, and that is - the quota for outstanding graduates!
This quota for outstanding graduates seems to involve some very important interests. Even the children of the great aristocrats in the college cannot get this quota no matter how much money or force is used.
Furthermore, the number of places the college can offer to outstanding graduates each year is basically only in single digits.
It is said that this quota can only be obtained after being reviewed and recognized by specific teachers and deans of the college.
But no one can tell clearly the specific conditions and standards for obtaining this quota.
But Locke, as a Blue Star traveler who traveled to the second generation of ancestors, used an overlooking perspective to discover that Aurelian College may not only be a college that gilts the second generation, but the college itself may exist because of the quota of these outstanding graduates.
He tried hard to search his memory and found that for some reason, no information leaked out about the outstanding graduates of Aurelian College every year, so no one knew who specifically received this quota.