As the freshmen chattered away, Nicholas stood to one side and waited patiently.
Just as Zheng Qing had guessed, he was not an upperclassman at First University.
But there was no denying that he was an old student of Jiuyou Academy.
Nicholas Green Oswald, a first-year student of First University Jiuyou Academy. This was his third year since enrolling—he had failed the final examinations for advancement beyond first year twice already.
At the end of July, Dean Yao of Jiuyou Academy had an honest conversation with him.
"If, by the end of your third academic year, you still cannot advance further, I'm afraid the academy will have to reassess your eligibility for enrollment. This will affect not only your future career as a wizard, but also Liz's future application for admission."
The scene of that conversation remained vivid even now. Nicholas could even easily recall exactly how many times Professor Yao had tapped out his pipe that day.
And because of that, he was filled with fear for the coming school year.
He was not worried that he would fail to become a proper wizard. He was worried about his younger sister, Liz.
Nicholas had been born in Beta Town North District, where tricksters gathered.
In the Wizard Codex, tricksters were classified as wizards with "limited capacity." In other words, wizards acknowledged their status as wizards, but remained skeptical of their spellcasting abilities.
Because tricksters were simply too weak.
Most tricksters could only pull a white rabbit from an empty hat, build a castle out of playing cards, or, at their very best, turn a bouquet of roses into a flock of white doves.
To wizards, such abilities were at the level of preschool children.
Their feeble abilities even made them unfit for work as wizard apprentices: tricksters' minds were