As he finished speaking, he elegantly flipped his pure white, slender fingers and produced a bright red rose, offering it to her. Nelly looked into his gem-like red eyes and read a thousand words. She said nothing, but she knew he completely understood her thoughts at this moment.
They sat in the noisy snack shop, facing each other across a not-quite-clean small square table, their gazes meeting.
In the end, they both just smiled.
【End】
☆、85 Sage Tower (Part One)
Gerard first met the Great Sage before entering the Sage Tower.
With a different imagination from the outside world, most Kalinsians, while revering wizards, do not wish for their children to become wizards. The price associated with this glamorous title is too high: sending a seven-year-old child into the high-walled Naissier, and then being unable to see the child for over a decade or even longer. Even if the child one day becomes a high-ranking wizard, it is uncertain how much affection remains with the family. Moreover, the path from apprentice to wizard is full of thorns, with only one or two out of ten completing it, which shows the extraordinary requirements for an apprentice’s talent. Therefore, if conditions allow, clan members would never send their talented children to the Sage’s Tower.
But this is the thinking of most people.
It has become a convention for Kalinsian noble families to produce a few wizards.
Gerard was a child almost destined to become a wizard from birth.
At four years old, Gerard first revealed his talent for spatial deconstruction and was chosen by the clan leader as the unquestionable candidate for this generation to enter the Sage’s Tower. This was the version others told, but Gerard’s impression of this life-changing event was vague: he only remembered an uncomfortable old man talking to him, asking many questions he couldn’t recall; the clan leader’s tone was kind, but even as a young child, he could discern the coldness and authority in the trembling of the snow-white beard and that voice.
