Chapter 82: Chapter 82: The Assessnt Begins
Duke listened to Simon and summarized that there were quite a few second-generation wizards participating in this assessnt.
To be precise, they should be considered Nth-generation wizards. While their backgrounds might not an much on the West Coast, to ordinary wizard apprentices like them, they were still challenging to deal with.
Duke had no intention of having any disputes with these people, but if a confrontation were inevitable, he would not hold back.
...
Early the next morning, Duke and Simon, along with a few others, arrived at the port of Academy Island, where a large ship was docked.
After showing their Black Sail Badges, Duke and the others boarded the ship one by one.
This assessnt was divided into many batches, with their ship being just one batch of the third-class wizard apprentice assessnt.
There were too many wizard apprentices in the Black Sail organization, even for just third-class wizard apprentices; there were forty to fifty thousand, making it impossible to gather them all for an assessnt.
Duke and Simon stood in a corner of the deck, chatting casually, and Duke estimated that there were over three hundred third-class wizard apprentices on this ship, likely the total number for this batch of assessnts.
After waiting on the ship for half a day, the vessel finally left the port, heading toward the distant horizon.
The ship sailed at an extrely fast speed, surpassing many of the cruise ships Duke had commonly seen in his previous life.
Duke stood on the deck without hearing any chanical roaring; the bottom of the ship was very calm, and he wondered how it was designed.
The place they were heading to seed to be very far away, as the ship only stopped outside an island by the ti of the evening dusk.
The host of this assessnt was Mr. Jode, whose Magic Basic Theory course Duke had attended.
Obviously, Jode couldn’t possibly rember Duke; he had taught countless wizard apprentices.
Jode held a piece of parchnt, standing at the bow, and said sternly:
"Next, you will be given a task list docunting the nas of five types of magic potion materials."
"Your task is to gather these required magic potion materials on this island within the next three days, collecting at least three to complete the task."
"For each additional magic potion material submitted, you can earn five Black Sail Contribution Points."
The wizard apprentices on the ship each received a sheet of parchnt, detailing their task content.
Duke glanced at his parchnt, which listed the five magic potion materials: Night Shadow Grass, Blood Moon Root, Starlight Vine, Sharp-toothed Bat’s tooth, Colorless Lizard’s eyeball.
"Duke, what’s your task content?" Simon asked.
Duke showed him the parchnt, and Simon murmured, "Indeed, everyone’s is different; only so materials overlap."
The seven-mber group looked at each other’s task content, finding significant differences, with only one or two overlapping materials.
Simon and the others breathed a slight sigh of relief, as this ant competition wouldn’t be too fierce.
For most wizard apprentices, simply submitting three kinds of magic potion materials ant completing the assessnt.
As for submitting all five kinds to gain contribution points, that would depend on luck.
Every person’s list of five magic potion materials included one or two that were relatively hard to obtain.
Black Sail Contribution Points were not easy to earn, as contribution points affected a wizard’s status and privileges within Black Sail and were hard to obtain.
In practice, this assessnt was an opportunity for capable wizard apprentices; completing the five tasks to get contribution points was considered relatively easy.
Besides the magic potion materials required for the task, any other materials collected on the island by the wizard apprentices could be kept for themselves.
Black Sail’s assessnts have always been this way, exercising and selecting wizard apprentices while offering them growth opportunities, indirectly providing cultivation resources.
These resources just needed to be acquired through one’s ability; they were there, and it depended on how much you could take.
"Mr. Jode, can we leave once we collect all the task-required magic potion materials?" asked a skinny wizard apprentice with round glasses.
Jode replied solemnly, "No, no matter when you collect all materials, you must wait until three days later when the assessnt ends."
The wizard apprentices on the ship fell silent upon hearing this because they understood what it implied.
This, perhaps, was the real content of the assessnt: to survive safely on the island for three days while erging with at least three of the task-required magic potion materials.
It wasn’t easy to et these requirents; the island was not only ho to many magic beasts but also threats from other wizard apprentices.
In Black Sail assessnts, there was no prohibition against apprentices fighting each other; for many capable wizard apprentices, others were like walking resources.
Before the assessnt, Duke had purchased magic potions and demonized items to prepare.
The other wizard apprentices had done the sa, carrying considerable resources just to better survive the assessnt.
In this context, so viewed others as easy targets.
Defeating others allowed one to take their resources.
Duke realized that this was the reason behind the three-day assessnt period: it was essentially to encourage apprentices to fight and rob resources from each other.
"Breeding venom," Duke thought of this phrase.
A long ti ago, Black Sail’s nurturing chanism was like this, only now it wasn’t as blatant.
It had rely taken a different form, but nothing substantial had changed.
The notion of collecting magic potion materials was only the facade; rely collecting materials had little assessnt value.
Duke and Simon exchanged glances, and everyone being smart, quickly understood the true intent of this assessnt.
"Once we disembark, let’s move together; make sure no one gets separated," Simon said gravely.
As long as the seven of them acted as a group, the dangers were likely minimal, and few would choose to target such a large group.
But Jode, as if hearing Simon, announced, "When you line up for the teleportation array, you will be randomly transported to any location on the island; begin lining up now. Additionally, the Wizard’s Mark on the island is forbidden for use, so you will not be able to communicate through it."
As Jode spoke, a pale purple magic array appeared in front of him, emitting an eerie purple glow.
While others hesitated, so quick-thinking wizard apprentices hurried to the array.
Duke did the sa, rushing to get in line upon hearing the news.
Being the first to land on the island had its advantages because with so many people, if you were the last to go.
By the ti you reached the island, who knows where you might appear, and at that mont, the island would already be full of others.
Perhaps, as soon as you appeared on the island, you’d already be caught in a trap set by others.
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