Chapter 1: The Awakening of the Young Man! Thaumaturge...

  "It's really a monster!"

  In the early morning, in a thicket surrounded by a towering stone wall, Kate looked at Elin's excited face and couldn't help but whisper to herself.

  That ordinary magician would need at least ten days or so to recover from the injury, but in just two days, Ailin had already fully recovered.

  Even without considering Ailin's other qualities, this astonishing self-healing ability alone was enough to make Kate feel chilled.

  This enclosed forest east of the Academy Goddess Park is a secret training ground for Saint Dawn College's mages, only allowing Saint Dawn College's battle mages and teachers who have passed the assessment to enter training.

  After becoming a true combat mage of the kingdom, especially after joining various task-executing mage teams, many mages' powers and techniques are secrets that require secret training grounds where they won't be seen.

  Because very few people enter, and they all need to register before entering in batches, the forest surrounded by tens of square kilometers appears particularly primitive.

  Ailin looked excitedly at the primeval forest, looking at Kate teacher standing in front of her and asked loudly: "Kate teacher, is Bero also training here?"

  "Bailu is not here to train, he has special training elsewhere." Kate shook her head and her expression became slightly serious: "Ailing, answer me a question now. You've been saying you want to join the college team all along, do you really want to be with the Sheng Li Ming College team and win victory after victory for our Sheng Li Ming College?"

  "Of course!" Elin pumped her fist with a strange gaze at Kate, wondering why she would ask such a question. "I want to defeat all the tough opponents and help Chris win the national championship!"

  Kate looked into his fiery eyes and nodded: "For this goal, do you have the courage to risk your life?"

  Ailin's eyes blazed even hotter: "Of course, Rogrite-senpai and the others have the courage to risk their lives, I will be just like them!"

  "I can guarantee that I will do my best to help you win victory after victory, but I need you to promise me one condition." Kate said seriously: "I need you to promise me that in training and competition, you must absolutely listen to my command, can you do it?"

  "Really? You mean I can actually play in the game?" Ailin's eyes widened and he exclaimed excitedly.

  "Of course." Kate looked at him and said solemnly, "You will be the key to whether our Sheng Li Ming College team can defeat Shen Dun College, a secret weapon!"

  "A secret weapon?" Ailin was taken aback.

  "Yes, because you're not strong enough yet, but you have some abilities that others don't understand. Only by fully utilizing these unknown abilities can you play a crucial role." Kate patted his shoulder, "That's why I brought you to this place for secret training. First and foremost, you must promise me that before the official match against God Shield Academy begins, you absolutely cannot engage in combat with anyone else! You absolutely cannot reveal any of your strength!"

  "Don't engage with others and hide one's true strength?"

  "Ailin, you will soon understand that not only in this kind of competition, but especially when you become a true combat mage, you must pay attention to hiding your true strength. This way, your opponents will not be able to fully understand you, and it will be even more difficult for them to deal with you. You need to understand that the battles between mages are not just pure technique versus power, but also involve fighting skills and wisdom. Excellent mages are skilled at using various means to make their opponents make mistakes in understanding, and may even set up deadly traps for them before the battle begins."

  Kate looked at Ailin, who was thinking seriously, and continued: "Your superhuman strength, resistance to damage, and super speed will definitely spread out, but your opponents do not know that you have such a strong self-healing ability, nor do they know that you can absorb others' magic particles and release techniques!"

  "So these two abilities will be your secret weapons! It's the key to whether you can defeat the God Shield Academy team this time!"

  "I get it..." Ailin's eyes lit up, "Each of them thinks I definitely won't be able to use my skills, but when the time comes, I'll suddenly strike and they'll find it hard to resist."

  Kate nodded: "And in this one and a half months, the more you progress, the less your opponent understands you, and their judgment of you will also be mistaken."

  "I'll do my best!" Eryndor shouted excitedly, but then he suddenly thought of something and asked Kate: "Kate teacher, what if in the match against God Shield Academy, all my secrets are exposed? Wouldn't that mean there's no secret for the next match?"

  "It's hard to find out the reason why secrets are not easily understood." Kate smiled, "And you have to understand that as each technician advances, there will be more and more secrets on his body. As long as you believe me, I'll bring you more secrets in the competition."

  "Teacher Kate, are you going to teach me a new skill?"

  Ailin saw that between words, Kate's body had already flashed with the brilliant light of the spell particles.

  "I'll impart a secret art to you." Kate nodded: "And I'll seal away part of my power and fight with you, so not only can you progress quickly, but also accumulate enough magical particles in your body to practice magic techniques!"

  "Good!" Elin's excited cry once again echoed through the primeval forest.

  ……

  Three hundred ninety-nine... Four hundred... Four hundred one...

  Thinker Shi Lin, drenched in sweat, heavily panting, Gijibai is constantly sprinting.

  His body flashed repeatedly like a ghost, with his fists constantly bringing up intense silver fist lights like lightning.

  "Whoosh!"

  When the last bit of ki burst out from his fist, he had thoroughly surpassed the limits of his body and could no longer control it, falling heavily to the ground like a withered scallion, bouncing up, and then falling back down again.

  "Ah..."

  Ji Baiwei struggled to turn over, lying on the ground with his four limbs splayed out, unable to move even a finger, his chest making a sound like a bellows.

  "Four times the training volume.... damn it, even if I go all out, at most I can only manage three times the training volume."

  "No way, we have to keep going!"

  "You've already fallen behind me, you freak! With your monstrous momentum, I'll have to maintain four times the training volume just to keep up with you!"

  "What are you doing now... I won't give up! I'll definitely master 'Mercury Kill'!"

  "Next time, I must also win the selection match and enter the college team!"

  After a long and heavy gasp, Gilgamesh continued to mutter in a low voice, struggling to get up again, his whole body trembling as he started throwing punches!

  Day after day.

  This sophomore at Shengming College is also constantly challenging his limits, and every day seems to have new meaning, incredibly fulfilling.

  ……

  Time passed day by day, and as the Starry Sky Brave Cup Academy Competition approached its final match, the atmosphere of each academy became different from before. Even in the air, there seemed to be a hint of scorching breath.

  This is after all a match that the entire kingdom, all families and powerful mage teams are paying attention to, it's tantamount to a pre-bout for the future elite mages of the kingdom.

  Many who stand out from among them will even directly undertake important missions.

  Tieling Academy

  In front of a wall of steel, a robust young man with a fierce look on his face waved his arms, and in front of him gathered countless passionate students from Iron Lin College.

  "We must win for Tieling Academy!"

  "We may not be able to join the academy team and fight alongside Captain Akane, but we must also show our fighting spirit and strength to people from other academies!"

  "We will leave 10,000 fist prints on this iron wall before the competition day arrives!"

  "Ding!" "Ding!" "Ding!"....

  Under the incitement of that male student, all the students from Tielin Academy who had gathered there charged at Tie Fist like madmen, striking this iron wall with their own fists!

  "Halt!" Still in the Sevenfold Gravity Pavilion, all members of the Iron Lin Academy team gathered around Akane's side. Akane pointed at Wang Erde and said calmly, "Just now, your attack made another mistake. I've told you countless times to have rhythm changes and absolutely not to use three consecutive Instant Flash movements with the same frequency and speed. This makes it easy for the opponent to grasp the pattern, and your Instant Strike will instead put you in a desperate situation! Even if you can't get any faster, you must pay attention to retracting after the first Instant Strike, making the opponent form an illusion!"

  Wang Erde smoothed out his hair that was covering half of his face, wiped away the sweat and said seriously: "I know, this is my last time making such a mistake."

  "There are still fifteen days, and it's our showdown with Golden Lion Academy. Sideng Han's bloodline determines his rapid progress!" Akane Kagerou said calmly: "But as long as none of us make mistakes, we'll definitely advance to the national tournament again!"

  "Have you heard the voices of those people outside?" He paused for a moment, and then his finger pointed towards the outside of the training hall: "Can you bear to disappoint those men who idolize us and are cheering for us?"

  "We will win!"

  Every member of the Iron Forest Academy team, at this moment, used all their strength and let out a beast-like roar!

  ……

  Divine Shield Academy

  A lone, one-eyed teacher wearing an eyepatch stood quietly, with all members of the God Shield Academy teams, including Ivan and Charlotte, standing stiffly in front of him like a military unit at attention.

  "I don't have that much patience, and I won't humiliate you like your captain Ivan does, provoking you. On a real battlefield, success or failure is determined only by life and death and the final outcome."

  "So if you can't even defeat a small team like Saint Dawn Academy, then Ivan and Charlotte, you will have to wait another year before entering the military. As for the rest of you, perhaps you won't even have the qualifications to enter the Lannister family's line of sight!"

  "What?!"

  Even Charlotte's face turned somewhat pale.

  "There is pressure to move forward. I might as well tell you, the reason why I'm so strict is because I and this time's Saint Bright Academy team leader Kate are actually old rivals. This time facing off against him has brought back many memories." The one-eyed dragon teacher suddenly laughed maniacally: "And you absolutely must not underestimate him, he had the nickname 'Wisdom Commander' back in our time, when some elite teams from Saint Bright Academy went out on missions, they were all led by him."