Luo Wei had packed her luggage last night. Taking advantage of the noon break, she, Gladys, Laura, and Hessel exchanged information about their training situations in the dorm.
Learning the interdiate departnt's destination differed from the junior departnt's, Luo Wei was quite surprised: "You're going to Abyssal Canyon?"
"Yes," Laura nodded. "The professor said Abyssal Canyon is a good place—definitely can help us improve our strength."
Wasn't it a "good" place? Abyssal Canyon was full of surging lava everywhere. Terrible demons lived in the caves.
Gladys asked: "You, going to Exile City?"
Laura: "We'll pass through there. We also have to do tasks there for a few days. Don't know what our tasks are, but the swordsmanship class tasks are already out. They have to participate in arena fights—each person must win thirty matches before they can leave."
Luo Wei asked curiously: "Can they use magic power when fighting?"
Laura shook her head: "No, unless the opponent also knows magic."
Sympathy rose in Luo Wei's heart. Making a group of inexperienced youths fight Exile City's gladiators and beasts, not allowing magic use—sure they wouldn't die in the arena?
Oh, interdiate departnt sword apprentices weren't exactly inexperienced. They'd participated in training last year, fought magical beasts in Magic Beast Mountains. Their strength outside should be decent.
Luo Wei rembered Winnie and Balke were both sword apprentices. She hoped they'd return safely.
Hessel saw her worry: "Potion apprentices will enter the arena with sword apprentices. With healing potions, they won't die."
Luo Wei sighed: "Professors really know how to maximize benefits."
Make sword apprentices get beaten, then have potion apprentices heal their injuries. Kill two birds with one stone, even saved assigning one task.
Gladys's expression was gloomy: "I also want to go, arena fighting."
"What's fun about the arena—bloody and violent," Luo Wei consoled. "Isn't finding water monkeys in Plague Forest interesting?"
"Water monkeys, interesting?" Hessel and Laura both shuddered.
Hessel showed strong rejection toward water monkeys: "I'd rather dig lava in Abyssal Canyon to extract tal than go to Plague Forest to see water monkeys."
Laura agreed: "Water monkeys are interdiate swamp creatures. Though their level is lower than El's, they're way more troubleso than El."
"I heard water monkey tails look like human hands. They stick their tails above water, pretending to be drowning people calling for help. If soone goes to rescue them, they'll burst out from the water and bite off their head."
Luo Wei was speechless. She'd thought water monkeys were like water ghosts from Chinese folklore that dragged people as substitutes. Turned out water monkeys here were half-human, half-monkey man-eating water monsters from Central Arican mythology.
The junior departnt didn't teach magical creature content. Professors would explain during training.
Luo Wei's understanding of magical creatures was limited to the supplentary materials Professor Moses gave them before the magic competition. The materials only excerpted so common low-level creatures.
Water monkeys were interdiate swamp creatures—beyond her scope.
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The interdiate departnt training team's assembly ti was 1 PM, one hour earlier than the junior departnt. Hessel and Laura said goodbye to the two and left first.
Gladys enviously watched their backs: "They're so lucky, going to Exile City."
Luo Wei turned her head: "Miss ho?"
"No," Gladys wrinkled her nose. "Plague Forest is so hot. Riding horses isn't good either. I want to ride Frosty."
"Ah, well..."
Luo Wei didn't know how to comfort her.
Gladys was born on the ice plains. Wolves naturally tolerated cold but feared heat. The Western Continent's southern climate was indeed hard for her to adapt to.
Moreover, Gladys still couldn't control the beast aura on her body. Ordinary horses would panic and go mad seeing her. Only Frosty wouldn't be scared away.
But Frosty was a polar bear!
Polar bears adapted even worse to southern climate. Besides, if she rode a polar bear for training, probably no village would dare let her stay overnight.
"Why don't you ask Coach Cumberland to think of a solution?" Luo Wei suggested.
Coach Cumberland was the swordsmanship teacher. Gladys chose swordsmanship and entered his class.
"I asked," Gladys was very unhappy. "He said if I can't learn to ride horses well, he'll make run behind the horses."
Luo Wei: ...
Not impossible, actually. Gladys's running speed was faster than horses anyway. Her endurance was also quite lasting.
2 PM in the afternoon.
Junior departnt students all entered the stables, leading their horses to gather before the stands.
Each class was counting attendance. Professors held papyrus and quills, walking from front to back row, then back to front, checking off nas one by one.
Astrology had few people—calling roll was wasting breath. Professor Tobias knew at a glance whether everyone had arrived, lowering her head to check off eight marks in succession.
Luo Wei watched teams from other classes.
Magic rune class and astrology class were brothers in misfortune—only fifteen students, even fewer than she'd seen this morning.
Hearing surrounding classmates discuss, three students had originally entered magic rune class, but because they really didn't want to study runes, they ultimately decided to repeat the year. So they weren't participating in this training.
Potions class also had few people—only twenty-so.
Luo Wei stood on tiptoes, searching for Hol in the potion apprentice crowd. Didn't see Hol, but saw Princess Lilith standing at the front of the potions class.
Why was Princess Lilith here? Wasn't she the interdiate departnt's potions professor?
As Luo Wei wondered, Hol saw her looking toward his side. He shoved his reins into a nearby classmate's hands and quietly slipped over.
"Miss Luo Wei."
"Hol, why did you co over?"
"I saw you looking over there and guessed you were looking for ." Hol stood behind Luo Wei, bending down to use her form to hide himself.
Luo Wei's eyes stared ahead, slightly turning her head to ask: "You just ran over like this—won't your professor say sothing?"
"No," Hol answered quietly. "Our professor changed. Professor Rossetti isn't as fussy as Professor Phil."
Luo Wei also lowered her voice: "Why the sudden change? Where's Professor Phil?"
"Professor Phil is an interdiate potion maker—not high enough level to lead training teams. Potion apprentices advancing to interdiate departnt are all taught by Professor Rossetti. He'll still teach junior magic apprentices next sester."
Luo Wei couldn't help asking: "What level is Professor Rossetti?"
"Junior potion master," Hol answered. "Heard she's the youngest potion master in the entire Western Continent—a potion genius with hope of becoming a grand potion master."
Luo Wei was shocked. Princess Lilith had only told her she was a newly hired academy potions teacher responsible for teaching interdiate potion making. She never said she was a potion master!
A twenty-five-year-old potion master was equivalent to a twenty-five-year-old archmage. So many geniuses around her?
Looking at it this way, Troy—a twenty-three-year-old magic swordsman—wasn't so outrageous after all.
Dazed for a few seconds, Luo Wei asked Hol again: "Then the interdiate departnt—oh no, next sester should be advanced departnt—who teaches their potions class?"
Hol: "Still Professor Finch from the advanced departnt. Professor Phil swapped positions with him. While we're training, Professor Phil will recruit new students with other advanced departnt professors."
Luo Wei: "I see. Go back now. We're about to depart. See you in Lierken City."
Lierken City was the first convergence point on their route.
"Okay, see you in Lierken City."
Hol bent over and quietly slipped back.
At 2:30, the stable gates opened. Training teams from each class lined up and left the academy one after another, galloping out of Siria City.
After leaving the city, Luo Wei took out the map Professor Tobias gave them.
The map was very simple—only directions and place nas en route were clear. The route basically couldn't be followed. After setting out, they'd have to ask directions themselves.
Over sixteen hundred kiloters distance, passing through four kingdoms, seven cities, and twenty-so towns and villages. Supplies along the way were no problem, but this distance...
They also had to do tasks along the way. Just relying on horses, they definitely couldn't arrive within twenty days.
"Knew the professor wasn't so kind!" Luo Wei ground her teeth.
"What what happened?" Vina pulled her reins and ran to her side. "What about the professor?"
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