Arthur was completely stunned, he had been gone for a year.

There was no sunrise or sunset, and Arthur didn't know how long he had been in that strange world, but definitely not a year.

Arthur's own estimation is only a few months at most, and this can be roughly estimated by the amount of food consumed. But a year has passed on the Beland continent, and Arthur can't find the reason at all.

The issue involving time is the most complicated, although time magic is within the twelve series of magic, it is listed as a forbidden area for magic, and no magician on the continent has so far publicly claimed to have mastered time magic.

Arthur could only guess that maybe the time flow of the two worlds was different, or maybe he had consumed a lot of time in the space channel.

Whatever the problem, Arthur was absent from this world for a year.

A lot has happened in this year.

In a year's time, the freshmen of that year have begun to break through. Huey and Golly are now fourth-level captains, Joan and Nini are also third-level magicians, and even Moral, a lazy guy, has reached the pinnacle of second-level magicians and is on the verge of breakthrough.

Looking at himself, Arthur couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly, whether it was fighting spirit or magic power, there was still a distance from the next level of breakthrough.

Arthur was not exempted from the examination because of the year he had been away, and a few days later in the tournament, he saw first-hand the growth of his peers, both in the use of magic and in the way they fought.

Arthur met the girl magician in the first round of last year again in the first game. Compared with last year, Arthur put the sword on his neck without even releasing a defensive magic, this year, the female magician released two defensive magic in a row before Arthur rushed to the front, and at the moment Arthur got close, she also ripped open a magic scroll of "thunder control", and gave Arthur a lightning strike before calmly admitting defeat.

Although the girl lost again, she stepped down with a smile, obviously because she avenged her ugly revenge last year.

After several battles in succession, although Arthur won all of them, they were obviously much more difficult than last year. Especially in the battle with Nini, Arthur even used the fighting skills in the Thunder Sword Technique to finally win, purely based on the magician's fighting style competition, Arthur can't defeat Nini now.

If there is one whose strength has not changed, it can only be Joan, a fool, who is still using fire dragon magic on the martial arts arena without any new ideas like last year.

Even so, Joan still stood in the final showdown, and no one was Joan's opponent in front of the powerful seventh-level fire spell.

The showdown with Arthur again, but Joan took the initiative, "Or the price last year, let me win this one?"

"Good!" Arthur agreed without any hesitation.

"I have one more condition, tell me where you have been this year. ”

"Deal!" Arthur didn't even look like this time, and turned around and stepped down.

"You two little bastards!" Dealing in front of him again, the Austin Grand Magician finally couldn't hold back his anger, and two arm-thick bolts of lightning fell from the sky.

Arthur and Joan didn't even have a chance to dodge, they were both struck by lightning and fell to the ground in a scorched state, their bodies still twitching.

The students watching the battle below were so frightened that they didn't dare to come out, and now they knew that the title of "Thunder" Austin originally did not refer to spells, but to tempers.

Many people don't know that Arthur and Huey have a competition after the year-end assessment.

This time, Arthur took the initiative to find Huey, and neither of the two made a public announcement, but chose to compete in front of a secluded hillside in the mountains behind the administrative area of the college.

Arthur's original intention was to test how much of a gap between himself and Huey had been opened up in a year, but the result of the contest surprised Arthur himself, Huey, who was already a fourth-class captain, was stronger and faster, but in addition to outfighting Arthur in the battle of strength, he was restrained everywhere in the contest.

The Starfall Sword in Arthur's hand was like having eyes, and it could always appear on Huey's attack path, and with a slight click, a slash, and a swipe, his fighting momentum was completely dissolved.

Huey's attacks were like a raging storm and continuous, but Arthur's sword was like a spring breeze, and Huey's fierce offensive was sharpened by Arthur's temper at all.

At this moment, Arthur's frustrated mood finally calmed down, the year of loss was not without progress, after practicing sword skills under three times the gravity of that strange world, and returning to normal gravity, Arthur's control of the power on the sword has been able to be meticulous, and his sword skills have matured at a young age.

One more trivial thing is that during the year of Arthur's absence, the Grand Duke's House of Palmer came to visit three times, and even when he was not there, he left a gift of great value. Along with the gift was the middle-aged scribe Theno Howells, son-in-law of the Grand Duke.

The story about this Shino was so loud that it caused a stir in the entire royal city, and even Morar could tell Arthur a paragraph vividly.

To the effect that Shino abducted Gloria, the beloved daughter of the Grand Duke of Palmer, and escaped the interception of several groups of high-ranking warriors sent by the Grand Duke, and finally forced the Grand Duke of Palmer to take action himself to leave the person behind. But Gloria was finally forced to die, and Kino destroyed the meridians and abolished the cultivation of the eighth-level martial artist, so that the Grand Duke moved his compassion and let the two leave.

The end of the story is that more than ten years later, the Grand Duke suddenly woke up, and invited the two of them back to the Grand Duke's Mansion with a pair of children, and in the past two years, he has paid more and more attention to this son-in-law.

Arthur couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly after hearing this, it seemed that he couldn't shake off his fate with the Grand Duke of Palmer's mansion.

This was something Arthur knew, and there were several other things that Arthur didn't know.

......

An underground chamber in the royal city.

A tall and thin man dressed in black stood facing the wall, and said in a cold voice: "Such a trivial matter, your two groups of killers have been staring at it for a whole year, but there is no news at all, how did you do it?"

Lei Jiu, who was dressed in a gorgeous robe, had a bitter face, "After the last miss, you told your subordinates to be patient and not to act in the Blood Yao Academy, so we have been keeping an eye on it, but the goal has not left the academy for more than a year, and the subordinates have not had a chance to make another move." ”

"You mean it's my responsibility to never succeed?"

"The subordinates don't dare, please punish the superintendent. Lei Jiu was so frightened that he immediately knelt on the ground.

"There's no clue about the robbery of the trading house last time, right?"

The cold sweat on Lei Jiu's face had already come down.

"Neither of these things has been done well, you put aside the other things in your hand, and finish this matter first and then do other things. With a fluttering word, the black-clothed overseer dismissed Lei Jiu's other duties.

"Thank you, Lord Governor. ”

The Black-Cloaked Overseer waved his hand, "Keep staring, there's no way he'll not take a step." ”

What the sad Lei Jiu didn't expect was that in the next year, Arthur still hadn't taken a step towards the academy.

For the time being, there were no hidden dangers in the cultivation of Dou Qi, and for a whole year, Arthur plunged headlong into the arduous cultivation of Dou Qi and magic.

Time flies, and when another year-end is approaching, Arthur's fighting spirit has finally accumulated to the peak of the third level.