Episode 2: Growing Up Chapter 17: A Life of Study (above)

As spring turned to autumn, in the blink of an eye, Linley had already spent half a year in the Ernst Academy.

During his time at Ernst College, Linley was like a hungry desert traveler, hungrily learning the basic knowledge of a magician, and in terms of wind magic, Linley’s knowledge as well as his strength continued to improve. And Derinkelwalt would still offer some of his own advice at the right time.

On this day, the sun shone brightly.

The four brothers in Dormitory 1987 who had eaten lunch were all wearing a set of sky-blue robes, which were the standardized clothing issued by the academy. Because of the long period of time he had spent exercising, the slender Linley had a special charm when he wore the sky-blue robes, and it was no wonder that the several little girls from the Wind Department often liked to climb into conversation with Linley after class.

At the moment, the four brothers were walking and talking at sea.

“Right, Linley, we’re going to the Freshman Fellowship this afternoon, are you going?”

George said smilingly.

George was a person who was very enthusiastic about public activities, and was also good at poking around and at making friends with various cadets. Although he had only been enrolled for half a year, George was also considered a popular figure amongst the first years of Ernst College.

“Not going.”

Linley said dryly.

“Haha, I knew Linley definitely wouldn’t participate.”

Reno said with a big smile from the side.

Yale put his arm around Linley’s shoulders and sighed, “I say Linley, don’t practice too hard, with your qualifications, as long as you work a little harder, you’ll definitely have no problem reaching rank six magician within thirty years. Then what are you still working so hard for? You should know how to enjoy life. There are quite a few cute little beauties in the sorority.”

“Yeah, very cute.”

Reno said with wide eyes from the side as well.

Linley smiled helplessly.

Reno, this innocent teenager, had already ‘gone astray’ under Yale’s leadership.

“Yale, you horny bastard don’t pull me, well, I should go cultivate. Tomorrow will be the end of the month, it’s not too late to accompany you guys tomorrow.”

Linley said with a smile. The two days at the end of the month every month were also the two days that Linley he took off for himself.

Yale, Reno, and George all knew Linley’s temperament and nodded their heads.

Linley immediately took off his footsteps, running briskly and quickly towards the back of the academy’s mountain, there were thousands of students alone in the entire Ernst Academy, as well as many magicians who conducted research experiments in the Ernst Academy. There were also quite a few service personnel, there were quite a lot of people in the Ernst Academy.

Along the way, there were also many trainees wearing sky blue robes.

“Roar,” a low roar sounded.

Linley followed the sound and couldn’t help but see his eyes light up, “A magical beast!”

The flowing mane, the smooth green fur, and the thick, powerful limbs, the pair of wild, cold eyes containing the wolf’s unique ruthlessness, and the cold, glittering metallic claws were chilling.

Magic beast ‘wind wolf’.

A terrifying magical beast with wind-like speed.

The most terrifying thing in the magical beast forest was to encounter a group of wind wolves, once you encountered a group of wind wolves, with the speed of the wind wolves, it would be hard for you to escape.

At the moment, this majestic wind wolf was sitting on a handsome black-haired youth, who was looking around and seemed to be very proud of owning such a magical beast.

“This one is probably a fifth or sixth year student.”

Linley judged in his heart.

There were indeed quite a few people who owned magical beasts amongst the Ernst Academy, and aside from the magicians specially hired by the Ernst Academy, there were also some fifth and sixth year cadets. These cadets purchased soul contract scrolls and took in some magical beasts as mounts.

“Isn’t it just a magical beast, is it worth being so proud of?”

Linley cared very little about that black-haired youth being so smug.

After leaving the back door of the academy, he stepped into the middle of the back mountain.

The back of the mountain of Ernst College was extremely vast, and a long, long time ago, there were still magical beasts in the back of the mountain, but then the magical beasts in the back of the mountain were all killed by the college’s magicians. Nowadays, there are only a few ordinary beasts in the back of the mountains.

As soon as he entered the mountains, Linley’s speed suddenly increased.

The wind auxiliary magic ‘Extreme Speed’ naturally unfolded, Linley’s entire person was as light as a falling leaf, deftly weaving through the mountains and forests, after roughly a few miles, Linley arrived at his destination, a clearing near a stream.

“Zee,” Bebe shouted at Linley again.

Linley smiled and instructed, “Going out to play again? Good, but don’t run too far when you play outside.”

Linley was still very relieved about Beibei, a year had passed since he first saw Beibei, and nowadays, although the little shadow mouse hadn’t gotten any bigger in size, and was still about twenty centimeters long, its speed had increased by a large margin.

“A magician? If it’s an eighth or ninth level warrior, it might be able to catch the little shadow mouse, if it’s a magician, unless it’s a holy domain magician now.”

Linley could be very clear about that physique of a magician.

The little Shadowmouse ‘Bebe’ entered the mountain forest with a scurry.

“Grandpa Delin, come out and guide know me.”

Linley immediately shouted in his mind.

A mist flew out and transformed into Derin Corvette, who looked at Linley snidely, “Linley, what’s going on today? Don’t you usually meditate and exercise first without regard for an old man like me? Why are you looking for me now? I was sleeping soundly just now, alas, you stirred up my beauty sleep.”

Linley skimmed his lips.

Grandpa Delin, don’t look at him as a Saint Realm Magus yet, but once you’ve been in contact for a long time, you’ll know that he’s kind and benevolent on the outside, but on the inside, he’s just like an urchin.

“Grandpa Delin, I feel like I’ve reached the realm of a second level magus now, and I’d like you to come and help me test it.”

It was then that Linley stated his purpose.

“Second grade magician?”

Delinquent Corvette calculated with amusement, “Oh, it’s only been a year and a half since you started learning magic from me, eh, just use the primary magic ‘Stone of Shattering’ to show me, and reach your limit, got it?”

The Stone of Shattering, this was considered a growth magic.

Among the first level magic of the earth system, there was ‘Shattering Stone’, but there was also ‘Shattering Stone’ among the forbidden magic, only that time the name was …… ‘Meteorite Skyfall’. As the strength of the earth system magician increased, the power of this ‘Stone of Shattering’ naturally increased along with it.

“Yes, Grandpa Delin.”

Linley immediately recited the magic incantation silently, that tongue-twisting incantation had already been recited so skillfully by Linley that he could recite it without thinking about it in his head, and with the silent recitation of the magic incantation, Linley felt that his entire soul had entered a special state.

The earth system magic power in his chest immediately surged, and the elements of heaven and earth were attracted.

Suddenly the land next to him cracked open.

Only five skull-sized stones flew up and then hovered above Linley’s head. The surface of these five stones were surrounded by an earth-yellow light, and as Linley’s eyes suddenly lit up, with a low gulp from his mouth, these five stones were smashed into the distance, surprisingly bringing up a strong wind sound.

“Peng!”

The five stones surrounded by the earth-yellow light smashed on a bowl-thick tree trunk at the same time, the tree trunk shook violently but still didn’t break, and the five stones finally fell down.

“En, very good.”

Derinkelwalt’s eyes lit up, “Surprisingly, you can control five shattered stones at the same time, and that flying speed is also very good, you do have the strength of a second grade magician.”

Derinkelwalt was very satisfied with Linley’s performance.

Linley couldn’t help but have a smile appear on his face as well.

He himself was a little closer to his goal.

When he was leaving, Linley could never forget the words his father had said, “If you can’t recapture it, I won’t forgive you even if I die!”

These words were like a sharp knife hanging above Linley’s heart, whipping Linley all the time.

And at this moment, Derinkelwalt said smilingly again, “But Linley, you must know that a level two magician is nothing. According to magician grading, level one and two are all primary, level three and four are intermediate, and level five and six are advanced. And level seven magicians are also known as ‘great magicians’, level eight magicians are also known as ‘magical guides’, and level nine magicians are also known as ‘great magical guides’, and it’s these levels seven through nine that are the most powerful. You have a long way to go.”

“I know.”

Linley nodded.

“En, cultivate yourself.”

Derinkelwalt once again entered the middle of the Ring of the Coiled Dragon once more.

Linley, on the other hand, collected the excitement of having reached the rank of second level magician, and had once again calmly sat down on his knees to begin meditating. Strong people were created from a young age, step by step, through the accumulation of every effort.

In a place roughly two or three miles away from Linley.

Linley’s wind magic teacher, sixth level magician Tetra, frowned at this time: ”Huh, earth magic ‘Shattering Stone’? Looking at the power it should be at the second level magic level. A primary magician running to the back of the mountain to practice? Who is it?”

When Tetra cast the wind-based magic ‘Wind of Scrying’ just now, he happened to sense the fluctuations of Linley’s magic cast two or three miles away.

From the magic fluctuations, Trey was able to determine this magic.

Tetra curiously walked over in that direction, and with Tetra’s strength as a rank six magician, the auxiliary magic ‘Extreme Speed’ that he had cast was not something that Linley could compare to. Just like a puff of fog, Tetra floated lightly and extremely fast through the mountains and forests.

In just a moment, Tetra appeared a hundred meters away from Linley.

Standing beside a large tree, Tetra observed Linley in the distance.

“It’s actually him?”

Of course Tere knew his student, “This kid called Linley, he hasn’t been speaking much in class, it’s when he’s making magic attempts, when everyone else tries to cast magic, he stands at a distance never showing his strength. It turns out …… that this kid called Lin Lei is a second level magician, I remember, he’s still a new student. I didn’t realize it was still a genius.”

Of course Linley could cast magic, so when the teacher in the classroom let the trainees try it, Linley was all just watching from the sidelines.

Not participating in group activities, Linley’s mysteriousness, that was recognized by the trainees who knew him.

“Tsk, I have such a genius amongst my students, oh, I should get some prize money for this first year’s annual competition.”

Trey’s face was smiling broadly. And at the moment, Linley, who had entered a meditative state, couldn’t even feel Tetra’s presence a hundred meters away.