Hilia quickly learned the schedule of the opening ceremony from Abros.
First, everyone prays to the gods, tells the gods about their growth, and then Abros gives a speech on the stage to encourage everyone. He also explains the curriculum changes and cultivation directions for second- and first-year students, as well as various arrangents.
He revealed to all the students the situation of the Mage League in July, and said that second-year students are already qualified to participate. However, he also said it’s best to wait until the third or fourth year to consider entering, since the Mage League restricts participants to below Tier Four. As long as you haven’t reached Tier Four, you can enter regardless of whether you’re a magic school student or not.
But the Magic School has extra entry slots.
You don’t have to go through the preliminary rounds and such.
After revealing information about the Mage League, the ceremony in the auditorium ca to an end.
Each horoom teacher led their class through a tour of the classrooms, showing everyone where second-year classes would be held.
Finally, each class’s teacher led their students to the cafeteria. The school treated them to a grand feast to mark the end of registration and the start of the new term.
Except for students who missed the ceremony, everyone was full of hope for their new life.
During the al, Hilia overheard many people discussing the Mage League in July.
"It’s said that this Mage League covers the entire continent. Any mage who isn’t above Tier Four can take part."
"Yeah, but in regular magic schools, or for non-student mages, you have to go through all kinds of selection. I heard you need to pass the city qualifiers, fight for a handful of national selection slots, and only after that can you go compete in the national selections. If you win those, you finally get to enter the Mage League."
"Anyone who stands out through the national selections must be seriously impressive."
"For sure, but the advanced magic schools of each empire don’t have it that rough. Our school seems to have three team slots and ten individual slots."
"So few? Will there be an internal school selection then?"
"That’s already a lot. So schools only get one team slot and one individual slot."
"There’s gotta be a selection process. There are hundreds of students, and only that many slots."
"We’re just second-years. We don’t stand a chance."
"Even those first-year prodigy mages who are already Tier Two probably don’t have a shot, right?"
"Yeah, we should just forget about it for now. Let’s wait until we’re Tier Three next year to think about it."
"..."
On the way back, Hilia kept thinking about the Mage League.
After listening to the discussions, Hilia beca curious too.
"What kind of tournant is the Mage League, really?"
Hilia chose to search on her magic ring.
The information was actually easy to find.
This is a continent-wide tournant held once every four years. A century ago, after the Four Great Empires beca independent, the Holy Court and the four empires went to war year after year, causing countless people to yearn for peace. After peace talks, the five major empires were ford and jointly created this league, with the aim of opposing war and turning it into a contest of peace.
Since mages above Tier Four cause too much destruction, the competition is limited to below Tier Four, not distinguishing by tier, only by team and individual categories.
Both Tier Two and Tier Three compete in the sa arena.
Later, elves and beastn also joined the league and received entry slots, as did various independent small duchies, making the Mage League a truly continent-wide event.
Before the July tournant begins, each empire and magic school holds selection tournants. Setting aside the empire selections for now, the magic school selections usually take place in May, lasting until the end of the month. After a month’s break, they travel to the designated competition venue for the final tournant.
"Quite a few schools, after the previous league ends, search for super-talented mages from all over, spend four years training them, and tell them not to rush to Tier Four. They let them stockpile power at the peak of Tier Three and only ascend after winning the tournant... Wow, isn’t that cheating?"
Hilia had experienced the peak of Tier Three before.
Like the Bluewing Seahorse.
"A five-person team of Tier Three peak mages... Why bother with the tournant? They could be raiding ancient ruins!"
Rose’s voice chid in, "Even a full team of Tier Three peak mages might not be able to beat an enraged Bluewing Seahorse, and how do you know they haven’t raided ruins before?"
"Good point..."
Maybe those completely cleared out ruins were conquered by these school-trained Tier Three peak mages.
"Let check our school’s situation..."
Hilia checked the school’s Star Spirit Curtain Wall, then went to ask Ms. Alina, and finally reached a conclusion.
"The school doesn’t have a dedicated tournant team. For the team event, students have to form their own groups... No wonder we haven’t won the cup for several years."
Hilia stared at the rules about scroll and potion usage: "But this doesn’t have anything to do with a Tier Two mage like anyway. Without scrolls, facing a Tier Three monster like the Bluewing Seahorse, there’s just no way I stand a chance as a puny Tier Two."
Rose laughed, "Aren’t you going to check the rewards?"
"Nah, no matter how good the prizes are, if I can’t win them, it’s aningless."
Even so, Hilia couldn’t resist looking up past tournant rewards.
"Let’s see, aside from tons and tons of gold coin rewards, the individual top ten, and everyone in the top three teams, can all get custom Tier Four magic puppet materials supplied by all the empires."
"For the top three individuals, and all mbers of the champion team, there’s also a really amazing... passive magic skill: [Demonic Puppet ditation Skill]?"
Hilia’s eyes lit up. "Magic puppets can ditate?"
She imdiately looked at Rose and asked with curiosity, "Master Rose, do you know this passive magic?"
Rose shook his head, "This is a new magic, less than a thousand years old. Back then, magic puppets only assisted in battle. There were no natural puppet hearts installed, so they couldn’t unleash even a tenth of the current combat power. Nobody was researching ditation for puppets either."
Hilia quickly searched the effect of [Demonic Puppet ditation Skill]. Since it’s one of the Mage League tournant rewards, its effect isn’t a secret on the Star Spirit Network, so Hilia found it quickly.
"Once you learn the Demonic Puppet ditation Skill, you use it together with the Puppet Storage Skill. When you recall your puppet into storage space, it triggers, letting the puppet ’ditate’, gradually increasing the mage’s magic power concentration. The effect varies between users, but it can be up to 50% as efficient as the Basic ditation Skill... That’s like 50% ditation efficiency. That’s amazing."
Hilia was rather tempted.
Suddenly, she thought of sothing and asked, "Master Rose, do you have any similar passive magic?"
Rose smiled slightly, "I do. It’s a Tier Three passive: Deep ditation. I’ll teach you once you reach Tier Three."
Hilia asked, "Is there sothing I can learn at Tier Two?"
"If there was, I’d have already taught you. The ditation skill you’re using now is already optimal. It’s just that ever since you entered the depths of the Divine Realm, your magic power cap has broadened to the Tier Two limit, which makes your progress seem slow."
"Rember what I said at the end of last sester? Master every second-year course in one month—starting tomorrow."
Hilia tensed up. "I’ll do my best..."
"Not your best. You must succeed."
"Okay! I’ll make sure of it!"
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