In this way, a month passed in a hurry, and their vacation was coming to an end, according to the time stipulated in the academy's knowledge, it was time for them to return to the academy, but Black Iron City was not far away, and they could use the teleportation array to return to the academy at any time.

The task they carried out this time was just the first stage of this trial, and the second stage was to be carried out after they returned to the academy, and this second stage was also very simple, which was a school-wide strength test.

This strength test has a very important role in the rating of the students, especially for some students who have no special skills, this is also the only way to improve their rating, but the importance of this assessment for Dongfang Xiao and Barr is reduced a lot, even if they do not participate in the strength test, with casting and alchemy, their rating will not be too low, but few people will give up this strength test, because this test is not just a test of the strength of spiritual power, but to test their actual combat ability.

The strength of spiritual power and the ability of actual combat are not completely corresponding, there are some students who have a strong spiritual power, but they cannot use it flexibly, in addition to spiritual power, combat experience, the level of martial arts and magic, and other aspects may determine the outcome of the battle, so for those students whose spiritual power cultivation is not strong, this time he is not completely without a chance.

For example, the swordsmanship course that Dongfang Xiao learned at the beginning, there are many students who are not very talented who want to practice swordsmanship because of this, if they practice normally, they are absolutely no match for students who are more talented than them, and they can only use other aspects to improve their combat effectiveness, but unfortunately swordsmanship is not something that can be practiced overnight, in addition to the need to insist on practice, the more advanced swordsmanship has its own inheritance, these advanced swordsmanship learning methods, It's not much easier than acquiring those advanced martial arts.

But even so, those tutors who offer various courses also hope that their students can get a good score in this test, for example, if Dongfang Xiao and others can use swordsmanship to defeat their opponents in the test, then the instructor who is responsible for teaching them swordsmanship can also get a lot of benefits, many students see that the effect of swordsmanship is so great, I am afraid that they will also join the team of learning swordsmanship, and the rating of this course may also rise because of this. The same is true for other courses.

Because this test allows students to compete with each other, and the aspects of each student's practice are not the same, for example, a summoner, its combat power comes from his summons, and for a puppeteer, his combat power comes from his puppet, the academy does not make any restrictions on this aspect, and the pets of the students can also fight with them, after all, taming high-level pets is also a part of the reflection of their strength for students, and the only restriction of the academy is the use of alchemy potions.

After all, the influence of alchemy potions on the battle is really huge, and these potions are not the strength of the students themselves, the potions can be obtained as long as they can pay some gold coins, imagine that during the test, you finally beat the opponent to exhaustion, and there is no ability to continue fighting, but at this time, he took out a potion and drank it, and became lively again......

Moreover, the price of some high-level potions is also quite expensive, some students may not have those gold coins to buy those expensive potions, and some potions have a certain amount of harm to the students themselves, and even some potions that are forced to overdraft their own vitality or pay other costs to temporarily improve their combat effectiveness may be used by the students, which also affects the original intention of the academy, and also has some impact on the fairness of the test.

However, there are some people who are not affected by this rule, this part of the people is the alchemist, if you want to obtain this permission, you must have the alchemy level badge issued by the alchemy guild yourself, after all, for alchemists, the potion itself is part of their strength, if they are forbidden to use the potion, their combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced. However, although alchemists are allowed to use potions, the potions they use are also quite limited, and the test stipulates that the potions they can use can only be the potions they refine with their own hands, and the refining of these potions needs to be under the supervision of the Alchemy Guild, which avoids some students who are not at a high level of alchemy from using some powerful potions, which affects the final accuracy of the test.

This test is very important for the students of the whole academy, and it is of extraordinary significance to Dongfang Xiao and the Mo family and others, they want to make a name for themselves in the academy, this test is a good opportunity, whether it is the alchemy potion or those puppets, they can only reflect their true value in battle, if those students can see the powerful combat effectiveness of Dongfang Xiao's medicine and puppets in the test, then their purpose is achieved.

In this period of time near the beginning of school, in addition to Dongfang Xiao, other students also coincidentally chose to cultivate, in this month, Shi Jian successfully broke through to the high level of spirit warriors, Dongfang Xue's strength, there are also junior magicians who have broken through to the junior magician level, although Uriel said that he has not broken through, but his spiritual power and magic have been greatly improved, and they are all close to the edge of breakthrough, presumably after cultivating for a period of time, he is also very likely to break through again, The two of them seem to have a lot of improvement in their combat effectiveness. Dongfang Xiao's improvement in strength has slowed down because of the change in his cultivation techniques, but even so, his spiritual power has approached the top of the middle level of the spirit warrior, and the strength of the power of fluctuations is also that you have vaguely reached the edge of a breakthrough, as long as his strength can be improved, the power of fluctuations and the power of ghosts and gods will also increase accordingly, if he can successfully break through before the test starts, he must be able to grasp a lot more.

Although Dongfang Xiao and the others have not returned to the academy for the time being, but Barr is one step ahead, because the test is about to begin, many students have begun to buy some high-end weapons and equipment suitable for themselves, in addition to spiritual power, divine weapons can also improve their combat effectiveness a lot, Barr naturally will not let go of this opportunity, and has begun to sell the weapons and equipment made by himself in the academy, according to the news he sent back, it seems that his business is quite good, and even the jars that Dongfang Xiao left there have sold a lot.