With only ten days left before the three-month deadline, James looked infinitely older, from the appearance of a young man at first sight to gray hair, which was the result of excessive mental exertion, and James had relied on magic to maintain his youthful appearance before, and he was no longer in such a mood at this moment.

He sat paralyzed on the ground waiting for Adam to finish the last unproven meditation method construction, his heart was full of despair, so many years of research, so many years of hard work, it was coming to an end, it was all over, he was just a person with no talent after all, and it was really just a luxury to be promoted to a mage with simple spiritual power, and what was even more tragic was that he didn't even have much improvement in the total amount of spiritual power.

"I'm going to die, I'm going to die silently. The report in his hand was clutched tightly by him, and then shattered by the magic that had inadvertently escaped, James thought in despair.

Adam's mental power collapsed again, blowing the debris on the ground scattered, he shook his head at James, and said, "Still no, it can't be self-consistent, and the mage armor constructed by this meditation method can't carry magic power." ”

James looked at him blankly and said, "Forget it, you don't have to come from tomorrow, the mental power solidification rune structure stability and complete rune group construction experiment has failed, and the laboratory will be disbanded in ten days." ”

James's voice was softer than the previous word, and the decadence in his words made Adam frown, and he opened his mouth to speak, but before he could speak, James said again: "Ten days later, if you wish, you can come and receive your month's payment, if you don't, I will directly pay your balance." Also, I'm probably leaving. ”

Adam put what he wanted to say back to himself for a moment and asked, "Where are you going?"

James smiled miserably: "Leave the Mage Continent, find an island, and leave your offspring." And then...... That's it," James turned off all the optical projectors in the lab, destroyed all the experimental reports, and whispered in the dark: "Adam, don't study meditation in the future, you are different from me, there is no need to waste your talent here." I'm really jealous of you, what does it feel like to be a full-fledged mage?"

Adam opened his mouth again, the darkness could not resist the sight of the apprentices, and James interrupted him directly: "Don't comfort me, at least compared to ordinary people who do nothing, I have appreciated the charm of magic, it is enough." You go first, I want to be alone. ”

Adam reluctantly walked out of the laboratory, in fact, he wanted to tell James that after two months of countless empirical tests, he had been sure to summarize a set of self-consistent meditation methods, but it would take a few days to sort it out, but James did not give him a chance to speak. But it's nothing, ten days is enough, just sort it out earlier and lend it to James.

......

After three months or so, the atmosphere between the new apprentices was not the same as it had been at the beginning, and there were fights where there were people, and even more so among this group of apprentices who claimed to be the pride of the sky, and in just three months, many apprentices had already joined forces and formed organizations with various eyebrows.

Most of the energy stones on their bodies have run out, and everyone has set their sights on the task hall in the study, and then the problem arises - the tasks suitable for these rookies are very limited, and most of them are cleaning, recording, service, etc., there are not many such tasks, at least there is no way to meet the needs of nearly a hundred people.

By now, everyone had mastered more than one kind of magic, and with the acquiescence of the Academy, conflicts were commonplace, and the official mages treated them as if they were air, and this acquiescence and permissiveness had made the more powerful and talented apprentices among them empty.

The five desert islands are still united, and there is no way they can not unite because no other team wants to accept them. Although the strength of several of them is not bad, William has successfully mastered the three types of fire magic, and Ophelia has developed fairly smoothly on the path of refining mages, but because the number is too small, he is still on the side of being oppressed.

At this moment, a conflict broke out in the mission hall, the cause was a short-term job of sorting out metals for a senior apprentice of alchemy, this work was paid with two units of power stones, which was already very lucrative, Randy wanted to take this task, but it was also discovered by a native apprentice at the same time, and unfortunately, this person was the one who initially expressed disdain for the apprentice on the desert island, and later everyone knew his name, Sean, the descendant of two mage apprentices.

"What? The countrymen also want to earn power stones? Haha, do you recognize the metal clearly?" Sean said arrogantly as he stepped out of the way in front of Randy, as if he thought he was saying something funny, and the companions behind Sean burst into laughter for a while.

"Get out of the way, Sean, do you want to taste some bitterness?" Randy's face darkened, wondering why this Sean kept biting him like a mad dog, and there had been many similar insults.

Sean turned around and exclaimed, "Oh my God, listen to what he's saying, he wants to teach me a lesson," and then turned to Randy and said, "It's up to you, redneck, oh, yes, yes, I forgot that you're still a genius with soul tendencies, what is it? Curse Affinity? Hahaha! Will you curse me try? I doubt you can't hurt Uncle Sean!"

Randy clenched his fists, his muscles bulging, three months was enough time for the apprentices to gather information, and all the apprentices who showed soul tendencies during the qualification test were remembered by everyone, except for Randy, because Curse Affinity was too unpopular and useless. This made him a laughing stock and a counter-scale in his heart.

"Damn, you bastard!" Randy lost his mind and rushed towards Sean with red eyes, while Quentin, who was almost inseparable from him, hurriedly grabbed him, it is not okay to fight here, and the senior apprentices will not allow it.

Sean stood in place and looked at them mockingly, and directly pushed them away from the crowd of his companions behind him, and took the task.

The senior apprentices lazily watched this scene, so common, so ordinary that they couldn't arouse their interest at all, they also came from this stage, after the first cruelty, the rookies will know how naïve and stupid the current conflict is.

Randy stood in place like a beast, panting, and said in a voice that was so low that it bordered on roaring, "Bastard, dare you duel me?"

The mission hall was silent, and although there were conflicts, they had remained verbal so far, and no one had ever fought a real duel, and after seeing the power of magic, they learned that apprentice duels could not be fought in the form of punches and kicks, and that the slightest accident meant death.

Sean, who walked to the door, turned around, looked at Randy in disbelief and said, "What did you say?"

Randy broke free of Quentin and walked up to Sean step by step, looking at him almost like a cockfighter, "I say, duel, mongrel." ”

Sean couldn't help but take a step back, panicking in his heart, but in the next second, he was annoyed by the reaction just now, and said fiercely: "Okay, then let's duel, you waste, since you want to die, Uncle Sean will fulfill you!"

......

The first duel between the new apprentices became the most popular topic among rookies for a few days, and Adam knew nothing about it, and he resumed his previous life in the dormitory and library, which he learned of during a casual conversation with Eliot, and when he met Adam again a few months later, he regretted what happened to James and the time Adam wasted.

"Speaking of which, you're from a desert island too, aren't you?" asked Elliot casually.

"Hmm. The book Adam was reading was called "A Discussion on the Stability of Runes", and the explanations of runes in the book were helpful in constructing meditation methods.

After receiving Adam's admission, Elliot came over very gossip and said, "I heard that just today, that desert island apprentice with cursed affinity is going to duel with someone, don't you want to go and see it?"

"Oh. Adam replied perfunctorily and continued to flip through the book.

Elliot pursed his lips and moved closer, "Isn't he from the same place as you?

Adam flipped the book to the last page, closed it, put it back on the shelf and said, "No." ”

"Why? The first duel of the rookies, haven't you never seen it? Tsk, I really miss it when I think about it, and that's how we came here in the first place. "Elliot went into memory mode very disconnectedly.

"Boredom, just exposed to the most shallow power, put your mind on being brave and ruthless, stupid. Besides, what's so good about their duel, the two of them standing opposite each other desperately building a rune group?" Adam said as he turned to leave.

"Uh......" Elliot imagined that kind of picture, and immediately felt that it was not interesting, but he was too bored, and it was rare to have someone like Adam who was willing to chat with him when the number of apprentices was scarce, "Let's go, go and see, aren't you going back to the dormitory? ”

Adam was helplessly stopped by Elliotra, but fortunately, the rest of the threads continued to calculate day and night, and the daily threads did not delay the progress of the task, so there was no need to arouse Elliot's interest, so the two walked out of the library and walked towards the duel site.

Along the way, Elliot bragged about his achievements as a rookie, and kept repeating the glorious history of poisoning his opponent with poison, and so he made it to the duel.

Along the way, Elliot was greeted by people who looked at Adam beside him in amazement, wondering how the 'abandoned apprentice' got together with the pharmacy instructor.