After the end of the month, Ivan was called by Dean Will, thinking that it was an examination of his grades.

"How's it going, how do you feel about the academy's team competition?" Dean Will asked kindly.

"It's not good, it feels like a child playing at home, the means are too simple, not at all what I imagined a magician should be?" Ivan did not hide his feelings, and said truthfully.

"It's true, the beginner level is just the stage of contact learning, in fact, it is not yet the power of a magician. Why do you think there is such a single means?"

"It should be because the cultivation is too low, but only one magic is still a bit stretched. I don't think there should be only one way to do it, even if you don't have enough magic and mental power, so you can't be called a magician at all. ”

"You're right, it's just that there are still some ways to do this, and lack of cultivation is the biggest reason, but the magic you learn is the best use of low-level magic over the years. It is true that there are not only so few low-level magics, the academy teaches the most efficient magic according to cultivation and attributes, and other departments can't have attack magic at the first order? ”

"The earth system has a stone cone technique, the wind system has a wind blade, and the water system has a water bomb, but do you know how powerful they are?" Dean Will asked rhetorically.

"Maybe it's worse than fire and thunder!"

"No, it's a lot worse. Let me ask you again, as a third-order magic, how do you think the Academy's Wind Blade is more powerful than a fireball?"

"Stronger than a fireball?"

"No, it's pretty much the same!"

Ivan was a little confused at this time, the third-order magic and the first-order magic were equally powerful, what was going on? Is that still third-order magic?

Will saw Ivan's doubts and no longer hung his appetite, "You have a misunderstanding about the hierarchy of spells, magic is not simply based on power to classify, but also depends on the difficulty of the composition of magic. The wind system is characterized by agility, and it cannot be compared with the fire system in terms of explosion, so the spell fire system with the same power is the first order, while the wind system is the third order. The fire method also has magic for acceleration, which is similar to the wind light technique, guess what level it is? Fourth order! This is the restriction of elemental magic in the system, only the magic that conforms to the characteristics of the elements is the magic that can exert the most power. ”

Thinking about it, it did make sense, Ivan pondered Dean Will's words for a moment and found the end of it, "The magic of the academy professors. "It seems that the academy selectively teaches each level of magic, rather than teaching it in large quantities.

"Although the truth is so, if there is too little magic, it will still make the beginner magician not have too strong combat power, so what's the point of the team match?"

"What kind of combat power do beginner-level magicians want? Only at the intermediate level, can magicians be considered real combat power. If you can't become an intermediate magician, even if you have a variety of means, it's pointless, so put your mind into cultivation. The team competition is just to exercise the students' combat awareness, but also to polish the students' magic and mental power, and finally to plan a way to allocate resources. In fact, if you make rapid progress, the resources brought to you by the Cultivation Test will exceed your imagination!"

It seems that Dean Will called himself over to solve his doubts, and at the same time reminded himself that cultivation is fundamental, and he can't put the cart before the horse just because of the team competition. It's no wonder that those nobles are not interested in first-order clan competitions at all, it seems that the academy only values those who are expected to reach the intermediate level of mages before graduation. The third-order mage is the center of gravity of the resource tilt.

"There is also a question, the magic of those nobles seems to be unusual, and there is an ice method. ”

"This involves the reason for the division of the level of magicians, from low level to intermediate level, not only the gap between magical spiritual power, but also the gap in magical form. Beginner is only the most basic form of magic, and according to your own characteristics, cultivation circuits, and your understanding of magic, your magic will evolve when you are promoted to intermediate. This evolution will not only increase the power of magic, but also bring some characteristics. The nobility is of the blood of a magician, and the magic power is born with family characteristics. The water method can cast ice spells at the intermediate level, and it can be transformed into ice magic at the high level, and which ice method is born with ice magic. ”

"It turns out that there is still an evolution of magic power, so spiritual power is also there, this is the obstacle between the primary and intermediate levels! Ivan quickly thought of many things.

"Clever! This level will make many magicians stuck in the beginner level for life, and it will also make many magicians stay for a long time, resulting in old age and decay, and they can only stay at the fourth order. Only a small number of people were able to break through early and go to the Intermediate Magic Academy to further their studies. I want you to be one of those few. ”

A conversation with Dean Will made Ivan understand the current situation, junior magicians can only appear powerful in front of ordinary people, and in the world of magicians, they are nothing more than cannon fodder. It seems that Dean Will really values himself.

Another morning, "Hey, Ivan, where are you going, aren't you going with us to the Great Hall?" Danny greeted from afar, Ivan used to go to the Great Hall with Danny and his friends to practice magic.

"No, Danny, I'm going to go to the Magic Tower to practice, and I got some rewards last month. ”

"I also have this, but my brother listens to me, there are not many opportunities to enter the magic tower, go when you are in a good state, or go after the new circuit is built, otherwise it will be a waste. ”

"Maybe I'll have more chances, so I'll give it a try!" Ivan didn't say that he had gained a lot, so as not to hit others.

"Looks like you've had a good team race, congratulations. Danny didn't ask questions, this is his usual style, and he doesn't get to the bottom of it.

Ivan got nine chances to enter the magic tower in the team race, and in the knowledge test, Ivan won the first place in the fire system without accident, and the perfect score made many people desperate.

Entering the magic tower, students are not allowed to enter above the third floor, and Ivan can only enter it with the brand he obtains from the reward, but not the fourth floor. Ivan didn't expect that there would be something like an elevator here, which looked like it should be driven by magic. There is an entrance on the third floor, and after entering, there is an upward vertical passage, and at the foot is a stone slab engraved with a magic array, sensing the brand in Ivan's hand and automatically sending Ivan to the top floor.

The top of the magic tower is a cone, and there are three floors inside, the first of which is the area used by first-order students. After entering, you can feel the strong magic breath, Ivan's fire magic circuit has been constructed, and the new circuit is taught to be the "fire circuit". If the previous circuit was a spark, now it is a flame.

"Cool!" Ivan involuntarily shouted, this is the first day of this month, and Ivan is the only one on the first floor, so he has no scruples. The current speed is really incomparable to before, the new circuit is about five times faster than before, and the magic tower has more than twice the effect. Taken together, there has been a speed increase of more than ten times compared to before, what a cool word.

One chance is only two hours in the morning, but the progress is really unimaginable before, Ivan took out a red spar and gently rubbed it, which is the first additional reward, containing pure fire magic power, a magic spar that can be directly absorbed.

"Hold back!" Ivan admonished himself. The magic spar is still saved for later use, as the mana grows, the cultivation effect of the circuit will become slower and slower, and it will be difficult to replace the new circuit. Therefore, in addition to a lot of time to boil for the accumulation of mana from beginner to intermediate, the mana spar is definitely the best choice.

If you were someone else, you would definitely use it immediately to make progress and further fight for resources, but Ivan was confident that he would not rely on hedrons. The effect of the magic tower was enough for Ivan to maintain an advantage, and Ivan knew that long-term planning was more important.

The second-order fire magic is called burning, which is a kind of continuous magic with a range, and to put it bluntly, it is arson, but it is a technical fire. The teacher is explaining the composition of the magic circle of the burning technique one by one. This thing is like a complex model, and it stands to reason that you should first lay a good foundation and learn the principles and composition of the formula. However, the teacher only teaches how to use it, and the students are naturally rigid.

Ivan felt that this method was not very reasonable, at most it was reasonable, and ordinary people did not have the conditions to learn magic systematically. However, those excellent noble children must have an extraordinary magical foundation, and it is a ridiculous and pitiful thing to wait until the magic is successful to supplement the foundation.

Ivan doesn't know what kind of genius this world has, but he is in the age of information explosion, and he should be no weaker than anyone else in his ability to learn and accept new things. The reason why Ivan is progressing faster than ordinary students is that in addition to working harder, the speed of learning is the key.

For example, the new magic circuit, which Ivan had already started to use while others were still learning, was not as efficient as the old one. Another example is the model of this second-order magic, when most of the students were still as big as a fight, Ivan had already explored it, and he learned it early, used it early, and benefited early.

In the afternoon practical training session, Mr. Jayne was very satisfied with the performance of several people. "You've done a good job and you've got good results with your own efforts. I'm sure you've also discovered that the first-order magic spell is the basic level, and you haven't reached the time when you need complex cooperation. The other three teams won five games at best, and there were three games at worst, but their results will gradually improve in the future, which is the characteristic of my teaching, and it will not affect the follow-up for the present. ”

"You owe your achievements to your own strength, and the teacher will teach you some skills and knowledge without affecting the training process, after all, the resources of the academy are also to be fought for. I watched the one you lost, spell bursts are not a high-end skill, as long as your strength is reached, the teacher will teach you. The teacher also hopes that you can win ten times in a row. ”

Mr. Jayne is not so rigid, but he insists on thinking about the long-term interests of the students and does not carry out the behavior of pulling out seedlings to help them grow. At night, Ivan went to the spiritual cultivation room, which was equipped with a magic array to assist in cultivation, which could get twice the result with half the effort, and it could be said that the whole room was a magic tool that assisted meditation.