The Witcher: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Aurelian College.

Red brick floors, cloister-style corridors, beautiful 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 in [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 a sign of being a high-ranking noble 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 academy 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 academy, looking at the frustrated expressions on the faces of this group of losers who had failed the academy's assessment with a mixture of contempt and a theater mood.

A disciple of an old student said to the students beside him: "These low-level nobles and idiots actually want to enter this academy."

"It's really crazy. Can they afford the tuition of thousands of gold coins every year?"

"I really thought Aurelian College accepted all garbage."

This person deliberately said it in front of the losers. Those students who failed the examination all had expressions of inferiority and fear on their faces.

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.

When Cohen Julian saw Locke frowning, he 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 captured 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?"

Cohen Julian and his two fat followers had expressions of gloating on their faces.

"Your king died in the battle, and the country is gone."

Locke did not expect that this idiot suddenly pointed the muzzle at him and raised his eyebrows.

Coen Julian and his followers are all nobles of the Frank Empire. The Julian family is the count family of the Frank Empire.

And he... or the original owner, is the youngest son of the earl of the Kingdom of Anjou.

Therefore, Julian was usually very at odds with the original owner, and they 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 ate a little bit.

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 basic tuition of Aurelian College costs thousands of gold coins, and a single class costs hundreds of gold coins. If you do not take enough classes, or do not pay off the tuition, you will be expelled."

"Locke, I am looking forward to the day when you, the lost dog, will be kicked out of the college."

"When the time comes, I hope you won't beg me to take you in. I have specially reserved a guard job for you."

"Hahahaha..."

Julian left with his followers.

Locke, on the other hand, looked at him inexplicably. He didn't have any emotional fluctuations, but 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 have some kind of brain disease.

Yes, Locke, who has just traveled to this world for two weeks, has already understood the essence of Aurelian College.

To put it bluntly, this academy is a academy that gathers the entire continent, seven countries, the second sons of high-ranking nobles and outstanding young men, but its essence is that it is a gilded college for high-ranking nobles.

Those nobles spend high tuition fees every year and throw some unpromising and non-heirs into this college, just to make them gilded and find a place to place them to prevent these people from doing nothing all day long.

For this reason, 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 second-generation mediocre 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 the Earl's family. From now on, I would have no worries about food and clothing, and 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 has paid the tuition for this semester. Without tuition, I will definitely be kicked out of the college."

"Leave the college, and 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 dangers."

"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 emerging in the void in front of him 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. As a result, I traveled through time with the super artifact in 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 potions, but who would have thought that he would actually bring it here.

At this time, the virtual Rubik's Cube is showing 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, in one hour, the three sapphire rubbles 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 it 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 original owner's notes, I remember, there is another weird thing about this college."

Because Aurelian College is essentially a second-generation gold-plated place, the standards for graduation and course completion are very simple, and the teachers basically don't care about them.

Let students like them 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 nobles in the college cannot get this quota no matter how much money they spend or how they use power to force them.

Moreover, the number of places the college can offer to outstanding graduates every year is basically only 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 a bird's eye view 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.