In the outlying areas of the Grey Marsh, the heavy rain hit the few dwarf shrubs on the ground, and the continuous heavy rain made the already muddy Grey Marsh even more slippery and dirty, the purple-black humus soil was not only muddy but also very sticky, and the sparse places would give out black mud bubbles, and the smell of the bubbles after bursting was very annoying.

In such a harsh environment, a group of about 300 people trudged through the mud with great difficulty, and the sound of heavy tired breathing was completely muffled by the volume of the heavy rain, so the whole team seemed to be very quiet and silent.

Except for one of the men who led the team in a green robe, all the others were just wearing gray rough robes, and their boots were exactly the same standard leather boots, only under the gray robes did the clothes have various styles, and the hoods with wide brims covered the small faces of the frozen white, and these people in gray robes were all young men and girls.

Obviously, these young men and girls who are struggling to make the trek are a group of mage apprentices who think of truth.

The oldest of them was only about eighteen years old, the youngest was just ten years old, and now the half-grown children were wading through the mud without a single complaint.

But neither the gray robes nor the mud-stained leather boots could withstand the heavy rain, and all the children were already soaked, and the loose robes were wrapped around them, and the barrage formed by the heavy rain poured down as if every drop of rain was going to pour into the cracks of their gray robes.

But no one complained, or rather............ No one dared to complain!

In the middle of the line, a girl with long inky hair gritted her teeth and pulled out her boots that were trapped in the black mud, but the boots were obviously too big, and instead of pulling them out, she broke free of her little feet.

"Anya, are you alright?"

A short girl next to her noticed her friend's embarrassment, and she quickly stopped, and greeted with a crying and concerned greeting.

"It's okay, Jasmine, it's just that the boots are off".

The girl named Anya stiffly put on a smiling face at the girl named Jasmine, she carefully stood on one foot, and then possessed herself and "pulled" one of her boots out of the muddy water.

The white jade feet trembled slightly in the rain, and Anya hurriedly put on her boots a little shyly, and then looked back at her friend.

"Jasmine, hurry up and keep up, or the mage will be angry again."

Anya whispered a reminder to Jasmine, who was stopping to rest, and then tried to pull her other foot out of the sludge.

The fat boots didn't fit well, and the boots were filled with water, and now Anya only felt that her feet were as heavy as being tied with lead, and every time she lifted them, she had to use all her strength.

"Enough, really, I don't want to go, we've been walking for three days in a row, I'm so tired, it's good to take a little rest, as long as I don't fall behind............".

Jasmine clearly didn't have the same perseverance as Anya, and she sat on the dirty ground, a line of tears streaming down her white face.

However, the other apprentices around her all looked expressionless away from the fallen Jasmine, and no one except Anya even looked at the crying girl.

Three days ago, many of these apprentices had been sitting on the ground crying and even complaining like Jasmine, after all, these apprentices had not yet stepped into the threshold of professionals, and they were still just a group of ordinary children.

However, after the often morbidly laughing leading mage killed the last five or six apprentices by cruel means, no one dared to complain, even the children clearly realized that the mage who decided his fate now was a demon who killed people without blinking, and it was the best choice to speed up as much as possible and not fall behind.

But Anya certainly can't afford to ignore her friend's collapse, she knows that Jasmine is in a very bad state of mind right now, and this time the journey has been going on for two weeks, everyone is on the way, with only a very short break, simple food, and most importantly - no one knows when they will reach their destination.

In this arduous journey, children like Xiang Anya, who have often suffered hardships since they were young, are better, while many of those children who live in wealthy families or even aristocratic families cannot bear such an endless "journey" and are unwilling to move on.

But those who give up halfway are miserable............ The mage who led everyone was obviously a somewhat perverted psychopath, and the only fate for all those who dared to complain in the entire team was to be plucked out of their flesh and flesh alive by that perverted mage.

Anya doesn't want her friends to end up like that, although Jasmine is a girl from a merchant family, she doesn't have any stinky problems with the eldest lady, and she is even more enthusiastic about Anya, so Anya has to help this little girl named Jasmine.

Trying to move her boots filled with water, Anya half-forcibly picked up Jasmine who was sitting on the ground under the heavy rain, she carefully took out half an apple and handed it to the girl in front of her, and then said seriously:

"Hurry up, don't give up, don't forget that we are people who want to become professionals, remember those powerful professionals, they will never be bullied by anyone, because they can destroy a city alone, we are here for the strong people in the city"!

Anya said to Jasmine in a firm tone, this is her encouragement to Jasmine, and it is also her own determination.

But Jasmine didn't take the apple handed by Anya, she staggered to her feet, and wiped the rain and tears from her face vigorously:

"But...... But, Anya, I don't want to be a professional, I want to go home............"

At the mention of the word "home", Jasmine looks even sadder.

Now Anya doesn't know how to comfort her friends, she herself is just a sixteen-year-old girl after all, although she is very willing to do everything to become a strong person, but there are also many people in this apprenticeship team who are forced to leave the family and embark on a journey after being tested for talent, for these teenagers and girls, the opportunity that many people dream of like "becoming an apprentice" is a hopeless disaster.

Anya had no way to comfort Jasmine, so she could only tie Jasmine's robe tighter to prevent the cold wind from pouring into her robe as much as possible.

But the rain showed no signs of stopping, and the howling cold wind made the rain slap everyone's face.

Luckily, just as the rain was getting heavier, the sound from the rain gave new hope to everyone in the group—a short word from the front of the line, amplified by magical spells to the point where everyone could hear it.

Anya clearly remembered that it was the voice of the mage who led the team.

"All the apprentices hurry up and keep up, immediately line up, and immediately prepare to start the identity check, the thought of truth, has arrived"!