When Nick Iron Fort woke up from his long dream, what he saw was not the ceiling he was familiar with, but the silver starry sky that had entered the late night.

The night sky after the day changes has always been like this. The stars are brighter than the two moons. Because of these bright spots and the light of the night is even as cloudy as before in the daytime. Perhaps because it has just woken up, it is still a little confused. The young dwarf subconsciously muttered: "Who turned on the light?"

"Who knows, it's probably the Seven Gods."

Then, Nick heard a familiar female voice, and a soft tone with a slight slight laziness rang across from him: "You woke up so late."

"Karin?" He turned over and sat up. When he heard the voice of his friend, the dwarf woke up a lot in an instant. He looked up and saw the red-haired girl poking boredly in a bonfire. On the left and right faces of the bonfire, his other two teammates, Makarov, were eating dry food in a big mouthful. Judging from his momentum, he was simply two bears.

Seeing this scene, Nick's stomach immediately became hungry, and he couldn't help but moan. After that, the dwarf who was completely awake and recalled all the memories before immediately asked, "Karin, when is it now? Is the trial over?"

“It’s late night the next day.”

The red-haired girl threw a piece of firewood into the bonfire, as if because of fatigue. Karin, who had always been full of energy, said in a gentle voice: "The trial lasted for two days and one night and it was over."

Speaking of this, she raised her head with some depression, frowned and looked at the dwarf, and complained: "Although I don't remember it very clearly, I think I should have failed... Nick, you are almost the latest batch of trials to end. Have you passed?"

"Even Karin, have you failed?!"

Without caring about what happened later, the young dwarf opened his eyes wide in surprise when he heard his friend's complaint.

Winter Castle Academy, the first team of the mage department, and the four members are excellent students in the academy. They each have their own characteristics and expertise that surpass other students. The chief of the academy, Ivan Makarov, is the captain, while his sister Amira Makrov, Karin and his dwarf Nick are the team members.

In this team, Captain Ivan has excellent practical magic skills and good swordsmanship. His enchanting spells and magic that can create high-temperature flames, and his special staff can instantly shoot hundreds of dozens of explosive missiles. In terms of firepower alone, he can be said to be the best in the entire Winter Fort.

As a genius favored by many professors and even Principal Nostradamus, Amira's magical ability even surpassed her brother, and she ranks first in the academy. Unlike most mages who can only use one or two kinds of magic power, this girl is born to control all attribute elements and can smoothly switch and perform various basic magic tricks in battle. The powerful enchantment combination can be regarded as a stable crossbow technique, and a person can hunt dozens of low-level monsters in the forest.

Nick himself is proficient in self-reinforcement magic, rock skin, giant force, dexterous leap, sharp eyes, and giant magic... This kind of self-reinforcement magic that has actually involved some silver field has been able to cast it in one second, and the strong body that is completely unrelated to the mage and various buff spells allow him to easily nail the front of the team, help his teammates to relieve the pressure and cast spells smoothly.

It was not strange that they were teaming up, even hunting silver-level monsters, but Nick, who was familiar with everyone in his team, knew that each of them had too extreme strength and personality.

Captain Ivan Makarov usually looks approachable and young man from the north. He is easy-going and calm. He seems to have thought about everything after careful consideration. But in fact, Nick knew that his captain was a madman who could not be restrained at all once he started fighting. Gao, but he still had no magic power and directly drew his sword into the group of monsters to release the sword blade storm. This was the first time that such a dwarf had seen him in the legendary story.

Amira Makarov, a beautiful girl with a virtuous temperament and a sweet and cute appearance, Nick admitted that he agreed to join the team at first because of Amira's appearance, but after getting along for a long time, his close and admiration had been completely wiped out. He was different from his brother who was a reckless man. His favorite thing was to lurk in a hidden corner and shoot cold arrows, and suddenly throw one or two spells for sneak attacks. The dwarf more than once suspected that Amira was actually a spy lurking in the mage system in the Story. Is that sinister and cunning style of doing things that have been squatting in the grass really a wizard famous for his nobleness? Isn't the talent of the Northlanders wrestling with a bear?

As for Nick Iron Lu himself, he actually knows that he is a strange man. Although there are combat mages like magic and martial arts in this world, he is probably a shame among all mages who never can even use the hand of a mage!

But Karin is different.

Unlike Ivan, who seems approachable but is about to explode by hatred in his heart, who is different from Amira, who seems cute and dignified, but who is in fact using any means to achieve his goals, and is also different from his own unprincipled faction, who is actually not interested in becoming stronger, Karin, as the daughter of the knight, is the only person in this team who really wants to learn magic and truly learn magic.

When Ivan was driven by impulse and rushed into the pile of monsters, someone would always clear a way for the back of his palace to return the young people in the north. When Amira was found in a hidden place, someone would always be by his side to deal with the approaching threat. When he was besieged by powerful monsters and was about to be unable to hold on, someone would always be able to use one or two magical magics that were not profound but extremely exquisite.

If three of the four-person teams have their own strengths, then Karin condensed these three into the core of the team. Although Ivan is the captain, he is only nominal. The command of the team has always been in the hands of this ordinary red-haired girl. She may not be a genius in power, but she definitely has outstanding wisdom. Even if Nick often bickers with Karin, she still believes in the other party from the deepest part of her heart.

But such Karin actually said that she had failed? As the most comprehensive of them, Karin failed the trial, so what about the others?

At this moment, I seemed to sense Nick's surprise. Ivan, who was hungry and eating very much, raised his head while chewing the dry food in his mouth, and said clearly: "We have not failed, but it is hard to say whether we have passed the trial."

As he said this, he nodded slightly in another direction and signaled the dwarf to turn his head and look, and found that in a clearing area not far away, there were a group of neatly arranged college students and knights in coma. Among their team, several priests in white robes were using provincial executives from time to time to observe the complexion of these comas.

"Those guys who were all failed, according to the Lord's words, did not pass the trial, and part of their mental power was sacrificed as sacrifices, and the seals of the gods were given to the gods."

After swallowing the last bit of dry food in one mouthful, Amira took the words of her brother. The Northland girl who didn't have to keep her beautiful girl in front of her friends patted her belly in an extremely indecent manner and sighed: "It feels so comfortable... By the way, Nick, you haven't said whether you have passed the trial or not. Everyone's tasks seem to be different, but the higher the degree of awakening, the more you are, you are almost the last to wake up."

And the dwarf fell into deep thought, and he recalled the tasks he had experienced in that environment.

It was a difficult trial, first of all, a variety of puzzles and spell tests used to test urgent intelligence, qualifications and magic basic skills. As a strange dwarf, Nick's intelligence and qualifications are considered first-class for a mage, otherwise he would not be able to enter the mage academy. Just testing basic magic skills does not require other spells. He happened to use his body strengthening spell to get a high score.

What followed was a fragmented trial, most of which were about human nature, checking their mind and determination. Just as the dwarfs usually had a positive view of their own, and they were ill-working. They were all punched to break up their teeth with so-called injustice and wicked wicked people. Nick didn't even remember whether he had thought through it. This level passed quickly.

And in the end, there was a trial about his greatest weakness... Thinking of that time, the dwarf's face changed slightly and his heart tightened suddenly.

In the illusion, boiling lava spread under his feet, and scenes that made him unforgettable reappear in front of his eyes, making his breathing suddenly become rapid.

"Well, if you don't want to think about it, don't think about it. The final step of the trial is indeed a bit uncomfortable."

Seeing this, Karin immediately stood up to comfort her. She walked to Nick, who looked bad, and handed him dry food and water in the other party's gratitude eyes. The red-haired girl sat next to the dwarf and said to herself with some emotion: "Everyone has a past that she doesn't want to talk about, but for me, it is a great thing to be able to see her weaknesses clearly."

"yes."

The young dwarf who had always been accustomed to shouting was a rare low voice this time. He saw the Makarov siblings clenched and even burst out the fists of blue veins. Nick, who knew that the other party was the last survivor in the mountain village that was killed by the mad dragon, had guessed what the other party's trial was. The next moment, he recalled the result of his trial, and the complex emotions in his heart churned, and finally turned into silent emotion.

"I passed the trial." In front of several of his friends, the dwarf Nick Iron Lu said lightly: "I defeated my fear."

And in his heart, the originally faint voice of will began to swell and roar until finally, it turned into an indestructible pillar of faith, supporting the spiritual world of the dwarf.

Live.

He thought of this. Overcome the world, become stronger, and then live forever.

Just as the four-person group was surprised by the young dwarf's answer, the man walking in the sky with his weapons stood above the clouds and looked down at the earth in the sky.

The black-haired man's flight is not to use a recoil of some kind of force to obtain the power to rise. Compared with the original method, he uses a more subtle and basic force, such as using magnetic levitation, and for example, isolating his own gravity.

Joshua walked in the clouds, and countless tiny silver light spots flashed around him that were almost impossible to see with his naked eyes. At every moment, the silver light spots were absorbing a large amount of free energy and matter in the surrounding atmosphere and transforming them into part of themselves. At the same time, they combined in a natural form to weave a brand new rune, and then used the power of this brand new rune to transform the man's body.

All the details of the earth came into his eyes, and Joshua looked at the squads resting around the bonfire as the center, and read the "information" about these trials in his mind.

The river god Shinur almost overloaded himself because he tried to find out his weakness through calculations, but the clone of the powerful god came to repair his seal, so for all the trialists, nothing was affected. The only difference was that the warrior directly connected with Shinur's most core divine illusion, allowing him to see the trial process of all those participating in the trialists.

Now, what is scrolled in the warrior's mind is the information of the person who passed the trial or, in other words, met the request of Shinur.

Unlike most people who think that Joshua is just a joke or a rumor, the warrior is really planning to accept one or several disciples now, not just because he is bored, but because he does have this necessity.

At this moment, the Count of the Northland of the Radcliffe family is already a legendary powerhouse. One of the top combat powers in this world, his existence can increase the overall strength of the entire Mycrov continent by several percentage points. If he is willing to accept a few disciples and leave behind his inheritance of the legend, it is normal to continue to increase the overall strength by a few percentage points, and the entire Moldavian leader will undoubtedly have a huge increase in strength.

Of course, Joshua was not narrow-minded and unwilling to spread the existence of his own inheritance. He always felt that it was people who decided that a method of cultivation was good or bad, and that they could understand the wisdom of those knowledge, rather than other messy things. If this were not the case, there would not be more than 30 quasi-inheritors in the world of Granthia.

However, Joshua's requirements were also very strict, and he did not allow his students to have a substitute. Thinking of this, the soldier recalled the only apprentice in his previous life. He did not ask these students on the mainland of Mycrov to compare with that one (1), but at least they must be better or better.

It just so happened that a god's mist of evil came to the north. As gods, they would never favor anyone, and it was the fairest thing. Even if they were not genius, they would definitely have unique features.

"So, I'm not competing for students with Nostradamus."

In the puzzled gaze of the siblings of the Shenji who were flying with his master beside him, Joshua walked with his hands behind his back, his lips slightly raised, and he murmured to himself: "I am the one who competes with those gods for inheritance."

After all, the divine mist in the previous life is a copy, but the divine mist in this world is a true inheritance. There are essential differences between the two. Looking through the information of the trial, Joshua used the layers of pictures in his mind, and he saw several people he was very familiar with.

Let’s not talk about the inheritors from the world of Grandia. They all came from the desperate world of the apocalypse. It’s not surprising that they were able to pass the trial. What the warriors care about were several of the Winter Castle Academy.

Ivan Makarov, Amira Makarov, Karin Shindra, and Nick Iron Lu, all of these four people have roughly completed the trial. They are the lowest-age and most promising people who meet the requirements of Shinur. What is surprising is that the rune dwarf Nik has the highest completion rate and is currently the first candidate successor in Shinur's heart.

These four people were familiar with Joshua because they were the first group of people in Winter Castle Academy. They occupied the first place in the credit list from beginning to end, and completed many difficult tasks that they should not be able to complete at this level. They have received many awards from Master Nostradamus and his. The warrior remembers that he even gave them the healthiest white dragon egg.

It's really rare, did the whole group succeed?

This abnormal situation undoubtedly aroused Joshua's interest, and he looked at the scene during their final trial seriously.

After a while, the warrior who had browsed roughly narrowed his eyes slightly.

The wind was shrill, the night was silent, and the crackling sound of flames spread in the air with the collapse of the house. In the forest village ignited by the dragon fire, the brother and sister who fought against the fire dragon who destroyed their hometown. With the trap, courage, wisdom and a little luck, they finally successfully died with a male and female fire dragon couple.

Courage, tenacity and persistence to reach a madness made these two people successful.

The horn was melodious, the north wind was howling, and in the black forest at the foot of the Great Eas Mountains, endless monsters rushed to the fortress like sea tides. When the fortress was completely surrounded, it was no longer just crying. The girl who prayed that her father could return alive stood beside her father in a new posture. The descendants of the knight showed extraordinary command art and magic skills at this time. With her wisdom, she wiped out waves of monsters and monsters that came raiding.

Her wisdom, keen observation and scheduling ability made her shine.

Finally, there was a bright underground cave with lava boiling and high temperature spreading. With a slight earthquake, the sudden magma reservoir rushing down a remote underground dwarf village was swallowed by the overwhelming golden-red lava. However, there was no surviving village except a dwarf child who survived because of his parents' desperate efforts to burn blood power to protect him. Now a real mage has ushered in. The dwarfs were different from parents who only knew how to use blood-type spells. They studied hard for many years and have been able to quickly use more than a dozen different blessing spells. He was able to use these spells, and he was able to use magic power to exhaust and successfully rescued everyone in the village.

The persistence over the years and the determination to never give up have enabled an ordinary child to grow into a man who knows how to take responsibility.

"For victory, you can do your best to become stronger, courage and madness hidden in your heart."

"In order to succeed, you can use any means to fight for it, and you will never give up."

"I want to inherit my father's ambitions and become an existence that everyone is looking at and respected, wisdom, wrist and communication skills coexist."

"I want..." Summarize the thoughts deep in the testers and see the essence deep in their hearts. Joshua, who selected his disciples, suddenly frowned. This was not death, but felt a hint of weirdness: "Want to be immortal? I just want to become stronger, immortal, no reason?"

Where did the immortal come from? When you look closely, you are still a dwarf, so why is your enlightenment so high?

Joshua didn't think it was strange. In fact, the pursuit of immortality and pure strength as an ambition is not only not surprising, but also an ideal that can be said to be very lofty. No wonder this kind of person who has a vast world and has his own pursuits is listed as a choice for the successor by the Lord of the Rivers, but... how did he become a mage?

And dwarves who can't even have any spells besides their own reinforcement spells, what's the difference between this and a warrior? No, this is just an alternative warrior! (3)

Thinking of this, Joshua was a little thoughtful. He raised his hand, and the silver-gray light spots gathered from his body, and then formed a hazy mist like stars in the palm of the warrior's palm.

Although this fog looks light and thin, it seems to not exist, it is the power of steel that the warrior has learned through many worlds. The fog is just the expression it expresses in the mortal world, and it is just a little bit that belongs to him. The power of steel that condenses incomparably has a weight that is better than a hill. If it comes into contact with the earth, it will even sink directly into the center of the earth.

The power of steel itself is an existence that derives magic and vitality. In his inheritance, the two do not coexist. Any energy must have a place to connect and utilize each other.

"That's the case..."

Murmuring to himself, Joshua stared at the four-person group talking to each other in surprise by the bonfire. The prototype of such a method of practice appeared in his mind: "There is something that can be handed over to them to prove it."

"Feng, Rin."

He suddenly ordered that the warrior said to the Shenji siblings in a relaxed tone that had not been seen in a long time, "In a few days, they will be almost resting."

Speaking of this, he pointed to the people under him: "Just call those people to the lord's mansion to see me."

Thank you, Xinur, the inheritors you selected are very good.

But now, it's all mine!
Chapter completed!