Chapter 10

The Magic University of Peter the Great was the largest and most prestigious magic higher educational institution in St. Petersburg, since in this world in Russia magic universities graduate a very small percentage of those who entered, magic higher educational institutions are also very few - even in Moscow there are only 5. Most of St. Petersburg universities, which remembered Ivan from his home world in this world remained non-magical.

The Magic University of Peter the Great was divided into four institutes: the Institute of Elemental Magic (ISM), the Institute of Dark Magic (ITM), the Institute of White Magic (IBM), the Institute of Changes Magic (IMI). The institutes were divided into departments: one department corresponded to each element. Ivan's usual division into courses by years of study was not: there was an average course for magicians of an intermediate level, a high course for magicians of a high level, as well as an initial course for those who have a secondary element at the initial level.

The university accepted middle-level magicians. Upon admission, the student chose the department for the main element, as well as the department for the secondary elements. The student's course was determined for each department in which he studies, separately, but usually the course at the department of the main element was taken into account. Resources between students were distributed according to the following ratings: the rating of the department of the main element, the rating of the departments of secondary elements, the rating of students with the same set of elements (including which element must coincide, which is the main element and which are secondary), as well as the general and university ratings. Places in the ranking were distributed according to points that could be earned in the following ways: contribute to magical research, win a magical duel, team or duel, participate in university hunting expeditions and other university activities. The ratings were separate for each course (in the case of the institution-wide and university-wide ratings, only the course at the department of the main element was taken into account). Points were reset to zero every year.

Friends advised Ivan to tell about all his elements and the fifth spiritual boundaries upon admission, because people with great talent studied at the Magic University of Peter the Great, and the presence of five elements will allow him to participate in five ratings of departments.

Ivan, Olga, Pavel and Marina went to the entrance exams on the same day. In fact, any average magician under 20 years old could have enrolled. In the entrance exams, you just had to demonstrate the release of magic and be an intermediate magician. Only those who released entry-level third stage magic too slowly, or if this magic was too weak, were not accepted. It was easier to enter the university, it was only to fly out of it: students with the lowest university and general university ratings and with the lowest rating of the department of the main element at the end of each half-year of study were expelled, as well as those who did not reach a high level of up to 22 years old and higher up to 30.

Ivan came with the documents to the admissions office of the Institute of Magic of Changes and was delighted with the small queue. Entering the training area set aside for the exam, Ivan went up to the man sitting at the table and handed him the documents, as well as a form on which Ivan's elements were listed. A man of about 40 sitting at the table in a suit, after reading, was surprised and said:

- Five elements, not bad, besides, it looks like you have awakened the space at the initial level and brought it to the intermediate level. Are you sure you want to enter the Department of Space as your primary? Few make the space the main one, and even then, almost everyone, for whom the main element of the space was transferred from other lecterns, awakening this element at a high level. I advise you to enter the pulpit of summoning and transfer to the pulpit of space as soon as you reach a high level, otherwise all your rivals will be high-level magicians, albeit of other elements.

Ivan, on reflection, agreed and demonstrated his elements of space, invocation and necromancy. The recipient also looked into the inner world of the magician and confirmed the presence of the elements of earth and chaos.When Ivan left the exam, he went to meet with Pavel, Olga and Marina. Friends told each other how they had passed the exam. Paul was greatly praised by the examiner and promised him a great future, due to elements with innate spiritual seeds. Olga, despite the lack of innate talent, showed herself very well in the exam. And Marina showed a result below the average among applicants.

At the end of August, the results of the exams were announced. All four friends entered, according to the results of the exam, the initial places of university students in the rankings were distributed: all old students kept their places from last year, new students got places at the end of the ranking. Each student's starting score was equal to the number of students below him in the ranking multiplied by 10.

Ivan took 4th place in the ranking of the secondary course of the main department of the element of conscription among newcomers (out of 12) and 28th place among all, second place in the ranking of the secondary course of the secondary department of the element of space among newcomers (out of 2) and 14th among all, first place in the ranking the initial course of the secondary department of necromancy among the newcomers (out of 1) and 16th place among all and was at the bottom of the list in the ranking of the initial course of the earth, and was the only one who entered with an element of chaos.

Pavel was at the beginning of the ratings of his departments among the newcomers, Olga - in the middle, and Marina - at the end. "With the element of appeal it is clear, in front of me are most likely those who already have a contract beast, but I fucking wonder what kind of girl named Lyudmila, whose element of space is of secondary importance, is at an intermediate level and she showed a better result on the exam. , with my 5 spiritual boundaries that ordinary magicians reach at a high level? !!! She must be my age !!! What is she ????? " - mentally Ivan yelled to himself. Olga could not help but notice Ivan's second of two places among newcomers in the secondary department of the middle course space:

- Ha ha, there was a cheater better than you, but do not be discouraged, the second place is not the last. Oh, I forgot, the last one. Ahahah. - Ivan could only remain silent.

In the last days of August, there were meetings of newcomers at the departments - a curator was assigned to students, who could ask questions about the development of the element. At a meeting of the middle course of the main department of conscription, Ivan met the students who entered with him. As Ivan thought, they already had contract animals, including Nikita, who took first place among the newcomers, had a contract cub of the Twilight Owl, who was still at the level of the Pack Leader, and at the stage of maturity will be at the level of a true General.Equally interesting were the "meetings" of the departments of necromancy and chaos: the only newcomer, Ivan, chatted privately with the curators about these elements.

But the funniest thing for Ivan was the meeting of the newcomers of the secondary course of the secondary department of space. Ivan knew that there would be a maximum of three people at the meeting: he, Lyudmila and the curator. Ivan came five minutes before the appointed time to the office, where a 35-year-old man in a strict suit was already sitting at the teacher's table. He greeted Ivan:

- Hello, have a seat, you, probably, Ivan? I am Nikolai Vasilyevich Mirsonov, your curator. Although, I must confess, I am a curator for all magicians of the middle and entry-level space, there are even fewer teachers of this element than students. For a couple of years no one has dealt with the element of space, usually students who have awakened this element at a high level study at this department. And now there are as many as two students, and both of them have fifth spiritual boundaries! - "Fuf, I was scared that Lyudmila's boundaries exceed mine." - Yes, we have only 3 students on a high course with 5 spiritual boundaries and one with 6! - at that moment a pretty girl of average height with long dark hair, braided into a braid, entered the classroom, reaching to the waist.

Nikolai Vasilyevich greeted the newcomer and she, casting a scrutinizing glance at Ivan, sat down at a separate desk. After the curator told about the department, the university, the element of space and awards for places in the rating, the meeting ended and before Ivan could get up, Lyudmila approached him and said:

- Hey, aren't you Ivan? Do you want to fight? I want to get to know you better. Duel on all elements, I know you have a lot of them.

- Duel? You got me interested, come on. - Ivan quickly agreed.

Nikolai Vasilyevich out of interest agreed to judge the fight and all three went to one of the small playgrounds for fights.

Ivan and Lyudmila stood at a distance of ten meters from each other. When the curator signaled the start of the battle, Ivan took turns summoning Kosolapy and three skeletons. At this moment, Lyudmila's eyes lit up with a silver light and all of Ivan's inviting creatures, including Kosolapy, who was the senior Leader of the Pack, flew to the edges of the platform. Ivan sent Control to the opponent, but she blocked it with her own, not inferior in strength. After confronting the Controls, Lyudmila launched Ivan Kosolapy in the back with the help of Control, and while the magician was stopping the giant carcass with Control, the opponent launched a Fiery Fist of the first stage, reinforced with a large spiritual seed, at the student. Ivan did not have time to react and right in front of the student's nose, the Fiery Fist was dispelled by the magic of Nikolai Vasilyevich's Space. The curator said:

- Good fight, Lyudmila, congratulations on your victory, I see you have a lot of experience in duels. Ivan, you have shown yourself well, but you still need to practice in battles with people.

Ivan thanked Nikolai Vasilyevich for refereeing and went up to Lyudmila:

- Congratulations on the victory, can you help me with training somehow?

- You are not as bad as I thought, maybe I will help - said Lyudmila and left the site.

After his rival left, Ivan noticed that Pavel and Olga were sitting in the stands, who, seeing that Ivan was looking at them, went downstairs.

- Hello, how long have you been sitting here? - Ivan asked

"Enough to see how you got beat up," Olga said, chuckling a little.

- Yes, the woman is what you need - added Pavel, after which he received an elbow from Olga.

- But seriously, I have no idea where she is from. Most likely she is the strongest of all those who have just entered. - said Olga, having stopped laughing.

"Could she be the daughter of someone from the Changing Mages Association? - suggested Ivan.

- No, I found out, this year only a guy with a Summoning element named Nikita came from the Union.

- Then I also have no idea - Ivan said in bewilderment and friends went to the bar to celebrate Ivan's first duel at the university.