The World of Demons (7): Farewell

Under the gaze of many students, the blue-robed teacher struggled to relax the stiff expression on his face and said stutteringly:

“Xia, Xia, you should have used up all your magic power. Now you can take the potion you received as a reward yesterday, and then draw magic elements into your body to accumulate magic power. After you successfully perform the fireball spell a few more times, you will become more and more proficient in controlling the fireball.”

After explaining everything to Xia Ruize, the blue-robed teacher finally had time to pay attention to the other students, urging them to sit down quickly and attract the elements into their bodies.

The students who sat down on the spot and tried the elements entering their bodies soon discovered that although their sitting positions were not much different from the day before, the number of magic elemental light spots in the air today was far less than what they saw when they sat in the magic circle the day before, and the scattered magic elemental light spots were particularly difficult to attract.

In contrast, the five students who were rewarded with the potion felt almost the same as the day before after taking the potion, and they were even able to attract magical elements into their bodies more easily. This was the effect and value of the potion.

Using potions or not had a great impact on a magician’s training, which was why the gray-robed instructor privately advised several people to perform well and strive to win potion rewards.

Ordinary students could not persist in drawing elements into their bodies for too long, but today’s blue-robed teachers did not let the students rest as easily as they did the day before. Those students who completed a round of elemental entry were strictly required to rest for only half an hour. After half an hour, they had to continue chanting spells, consume the magic power in their bodies, and then continue to draw elements into their bodies.

The so-called half-hour rest was not just a rest, but for memorizing magic spells.

After three rounds of this, some students’ eyes became stiff, which was a sign of excessive mental energy consumption.

But even so, the teachers had no intention of letting the students go. At most, they allowed the students who looked to be in worse condition to rest a little longer.

The students once again felt the heavy pressure of study and training like in the past few days, but they had no choice but to grit their teeth and persevere, because the academy would continue to eliminate and expel students, and they could not relax until they truly reached the level of magic apprentices.

“Don’t slack off! Work hard! You must perform a magic attack within three days, or go home!”

The teachers’ supervision was very strict, so strict that the teaching time was even longer than before. Even when it was completely dark, the students were still detained on the playground and kept repeating the cycle of elemental entry, chanting magic, and resting.

To what extent would one be considered to have worked hard enough in the teacher’s eyes?

Maybe when they fainted completely.

Or you have to be like Xia Ruize and others, and persevere until the end without fainting.

When the blue-robed teacher finally announced the end of class, there were less than twenty students who had not yet fallen asleep. Most of them were completely numb in both expression and movement. When they heard the teacher announce the names of the five students who would receive potions today, not even their eyes flickered.

Some trainees even had to be carried and supported by their instructors to get back to the dormitory. Of course, dinner could not be delayed. Even if they felt dizzy, they had to force themselves to finish dinner before falling asleep on the bed.

Xia Ruize and the other two were the outliers among the students. They looked relaxed and natural, as if they had not been pushing themselves all day long.

The gray-robed teacher who sent them back to the dormitory had a complicated expression. Looking at the three students under him, he could increasingly feel the differences between people. There was a world of difference between them.

It took him two years to finally pass the magic apprentice trial and graduate from the academy to officially become a magic apprentice. But now, his students were already de facto magic apprentices before they even graduated. What they lacked now was the official certification process.

“Teacher, what do you want to share with us today?”

Cheng Huaiqian looked at the gray-robed teacher’s complicated expression and asked with a smile.

The gray-robed teacher shook his head quickly and left their dormitory in a hurry.

In his heart, the man in gray robe actually wanted to get closer to the three students, but he had seen and heard too many examples of brilliant young people being sent to the battlefield and perishing soon after. After much hesitation, he finally said nothing.

Cheng Huaiqian looked at the back of the teacher in a gray robe, curled his lips, and joked: “The way he looked at us made me feel like we were terminally ill patients who would soon die.”

Realizing this, Cheng Huaiqian became even more excited.

The practical classes truly made the students who stayed behind feel a feeling of being worse off than dead. Under the strict supervision of the teachers, the students had to cycle between elemental entry and chanting magic every day until they had used up every last bit of their energy.

This was not the end. Some students would put pressure on themselves and continue training after returning to the dormitory at night. Even those students who fainted during the day will struggle to sit up and practice to draw elements into their bodies after accidentally waking up late at night.

Under the strong supervision of the teachers and the self-discipline of the students, at the end of the fourth day of the practical class, 39 out of 56 students were able to successfully perform their first magic.

Regardless of whether the magic cast by the students dissipates into the air immediately, as long as it was successfully performed, they had passed the test and officially become magic apprentices.

As for those 17 students who ultimately failed to complete a spell but had already accumulated magic power in their bodies, they disappeared from the academy overnight, and the other students did not know where they were assigned.

But all students were very clear that once they had entered the academy and enjoyed the favorable living conditions and free education provided by the academy, they must pay a corresponding price and obey the arrangements of the academy.

Another morning, the gray-robed teacher knocked on the door to wake up the students. He brought a brand new gray robe and motioned Xia Ruize and the other two to put on the gray robes and follow him.

The last 39 students who remained gathered in the college’s auditorium wearing brand new gray robes, and stood in the center of the auditorium, waiting for the academy’s graduation ceremony.

The young men’s faces were filled with excitement that they could not conceal. After all, from today on, they officially became recognized magic apprentices.

After each sacred screening, the academy only arranged courses for about ten days. Students who were eliminated early would wait for the sacred screening in the second year, and students who graduate successfully would be assigned by the academy.

The students even knew that after the graduation ceremony, they would be sent off and the teachers would set off to the academy in the next city to teach a new batch of students.

By then, there might be only one or two blue-robed teachers left in this empty academy, waiting for the next divine selection.

As the students waited excitedly, the black-robed man who had appeared during the divine selection appeared again on the podium in the auditorium. He looked around at the 39 students who stood tall and excited, and encouraged them:

“Congratulations, children who are favored by God. You have successfully passed the magic apprenticeship test through your own efforts. From today on, you will become a magic apprentice recognized throughout the continent of Buddenbass. God will bless you!

My children, you all know that in the continent of Buddenbass, besides the hardworking and kind-hearted humans, there are also sinister and ferocious monsters.

Humans live on the east side of the continent, and monsters live on the west side. The greedy monsters have always wanted to occupy the eastern continent that belongs to humans. For hundreds of years, it was thanks to the countless magicians among humans that the monsters’ eastward invasion was stopped and the human homeland was protected.

You were born, grew up, and received education safely in the Eastern Continent under the protection of the magicians. The safety you enjoy now was earned by the magicians fighting on the front lines with their hard work and blood. Now, it is time for you to give back to the Eastern Continent.

Next, you will be sent to the front lines, where you will be able to put what you have learned into practice to protect your homes and families behind you.

Of course, while you work hard, you will also receive generous rewards and personal strength improvement. For example, now, in order to show the support of the academy, the academy will give each student a bottle of magic potion, and also congratulate you on officially becoming a magic apprentice!

Well, my children, today you are proud of the Academy, and one day the Academy will be proud of you!”

After finishing his speech, the man in black robe motioned the young students to go up to the platform one by one to receive the potions he personally presented to them. Each bottle of potion was packed in an exquisite wooden box, which showed that it was well kept.

Except for a few students who had always received reward potions in recent days, the other students were very surprised to receive the potion reward. Not to mention that this was a potion personally awarded by the Master Magician, some students were so excited that they even walked with their hands and feet trembling.

After the rewards were distributed, the time came for specific arrangements. Six students out of the 39 were called out individually. They were the students who had barely passed the assessment the day before. The academy would not send them to the main battlefield and had other arrangements.

The remaining 33 students who could ensure that they could perform magic successfully will be arranged to go to the main battlefield. In order to appease them, in addition to rewarding them with personal potions, the academy also promised to reward their respective families with a large amount of food.

For students with orphan backgrounds like Xia Ruize and the other two, each of them was rewarded with two gold coins, which could be said to have taken all aspects into consideration.

The students, who were already full of ambition and felt that they had great expectations, were immediately moved and vowed that they would do their best to kill monsters and protect the Eastern Continent after arriving at the front line!

The black-robed magician looked at the excited students and nodded appreciatively.

After the graduation ceremony, a blue-robed teacher led 33 students to the small city lord’s mansion called Bei’an City, where there was the only magic teleportation array in Bei’an City, which could directly send students who had just graduated from the academy to the front battlefield.

It was nine o’clock in the morning. Although the sky was overcast, it was still daytime.

The wide streets of the small town were lined with citizens of Bei’an City. They came to see off the young magic apprentices who were about to go to the front battlefield. Among the crowd were the students’ family members.

Although there were many people, the atmosphere was very quiet. Many of the citizens, whose faces were pale from living underground for a long time, had worried eyes.

After the two divine selections every year, young people were sent away. Many were sent away, but not many came back.

The family members stared at their children, whose faces still showed the excitement and pride of having just become magic apprentices and received rewards. However, the adults knew more clearly what it meant to go to the battlefield.

Maybe the whole family would benefit from it, but the greater possibility was that relatives would never see each other again and would be separated by heaven.