Arthur was completely stunned that he had left for a year.
There was no sunrise or sunset. Arthur didn't know how long he had been in that strange world, but it was definitely not a year.
Arthur himself estimated that it would only take a few months at most, which could be roughly estimated based on the food consumed. But a year has passed in the Ireland 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 classified as a forbidden area of magic. No magician on the mainland has publicly claimed that he has mastered time magic.
Arthur could only guess that maybe the time flow rate in the two worlds was different, or maybe he spent a lot of time in the space channel.
Whatever the problem, Arthur was absent from this world for a year.
A lot of things happened this year.
In one year, the freshmen of that year have already begun to make breakthroughs. Huey and Gold are now fourth-level war captains, Qing and Nine are also third-level magicians, and even Moral, a lazy guy, has reached the peak of the second-level magician 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 long way to go before he could reach the next level of breakthrough.
Arthur was not exempted from the assessment because of the year he left. A few days later, on the competition field, he personally witnessed the growth of his peers. Both the use of magic and the way of fighting became more mature.
Arthur met the girl magician from last year's first round again in the first game. Compared with last year, when Arthur put the sword on her neck without even releasing a single defensive spell, this year the female magician released two defensive spells in a row before Arthur rushed to her. The moment Arthur got close. He also pulled open a magic scroll of "Thunder Control Technique" and gave Arthur a severe lightning strike before calmly admitting defeat.
Although the girl lost again, she stepped down with a smile on her face, obviously because she was getting revenge for making a fool of herself last year.
After several battles in succession, although Arthur won them all, it was obviously much more difficult than last year. Especially in the battle with Nine, Arthur even used the fighting spirit skill in the Crazy Thunder Sword Technique to finally win. Purely relying on the magician's fighting style, Arthur can't defeat Nine now.
If there is one person whose strength has not changed, it can only be the fool Qing. He is still using the Fire Dragon Technique on the competition field, with the same lack of innovation as last year.
Even so, Qing still stood in the final showdown. In front of the powerful seventh-level fire spell, no one was Qing's opponent.
It was Joan who proposed another duel with Arthur, "At the same price as last year, should I win this one?"
"Okay!" Arthur agreed without any hesitation.
"I have an additional condition: tell me exactly where you have been this year."
"Deal!" Arthur didn't even show any signs this time, he turned around and walked off the stage.
"You two little bastards!" Dealing in front of him again, Austin's great magician finally couldn't hold back his anger, and two lightning bolts as thick as his arms fell from the sky.
Arthur and Joan didn't even have a chance to dodge. They were both struck by lightning and fell down, their bodies scorched. Their bodies were still twitching as they fell to the ground.
The students watching the battle below were so frightened that they dared not speak out. Only now did they realize that the title of "Thunderbolt" Austin did not refer to spells, but to his temper.
Many people don't know that there is another competition between Arthur and Huey after the year-end assessment.
This time it was Arthur who approached Huey on his own initiative. Neither of them made any announcement to the public. The competition was held in front of a secluded hillside at the back of the administrative area of the college.
Arthur's original intention was to test how much of a gap a year had opened between himself and Huey? But the result of the competition surprised Arthur himself. Huey, who was already a fourth-level captain, was stronger and faster. However, except for being better than Arthur in the battle of strength, he was restrained in every aspect of the competition.
The Star Meteor Sword in Arthur's hand is like having eyes. It always appears in Huey's attack route. With a slight tap, a cut, or a touch, it can completely neutralize his charged attack containing fighting spirit.
Huey's attacks were like a violent storm and continuous, but Arthur's sword was like a spring breeze. Huey's fierce offensive was worn down by Arthur, and he had no temper at all.
At this moment, Arthur's depressed mood finally calmed down. He had not made any progress in the lost year. He practiced sword skills under triple gravity in that strange world. After returning to normal gravity, Arthur was able to control the power on the sword. Down to the smallest detail, his sword skills have become mature at a young age.
There is another small thing. During the year when Arthur was away, the Grand Duke Palmer came to visit three times. Even in his absence, he left valuable gifts. Also left with the gift was a middle-aged scribe named Shine Howells, the grand duke's son-in-law.
The story about Dino was such a big deal that it shocked the entire royal city. Even Moral could tell Arthur a story vividly.
The general idea is that Dino abducted Archduke Palmer's beloved daughter Gloria and eloped, and overcame several groups of high-level warriors sent by the archduke to intercept her, and finally forced Archduke Palmer to take action himself to save her. Down. But Gloria finally forced her to die, and Dino destroyed his own meridians and lost his eighth-level warrior cultivation. Only then did the Grand Duke show mercy and let the two of them go.
The ending of the story is that more than ten years later, the Grand Duke suddenly woke up and invited the two of them and a pair of children back to the Grand Duke's mansion. In the past two years, he has paid more and more attention to this son-in-law.
After hearing this, Arthur couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly. It seemed that he couldn't get rid of his fate with the Grand Duke, Palmer's Palace.
This is what Arthur knows, and there are several other things that happened that Arthur doesn't know about.
In an underground, dark room in the royal city.
A tall, thin man dressed all in black stood facing the wall and said in a cold voice: "For such a small matter, two groups of killers under your command have been keeping an eye on it for a whole year, but there is no news at all. How did you do it?"
Lei Jim, who was wearing a gorgeous gown, had a bitter look on his face, "After the last miss, you told your subordinates to be patient and not allowed to move in Guano Academy, so we have been keeping a close eye on them, but for more than a year, we have not made a step toward our goal. After leaving the academy, my subordinates never had the chance to take action again."
"You mean it's my responsibility for not succeeding?"
"My subordinates dare not, please punish me, Lord." Lei Jim was so frightened that he immediately half-knelt on the ground.
"There are still no clues about the last time the business was robbed, right?"
The cold sweat on Lei Jim's face has already fallen down.
"Both things have not been done well. Put the other things in your hands aside and finish this thing first before doing other things." The black-clothed governor dismissed Lei Jim from his other duties with a single word. .
"Thank you, Lord Governor."
The black-clothed governor waved his hand and said, "Keep staring, there's no way he can't make a move."
What the miserable Lei Jim didn't expect was that in the next year, Arthur still didn't take a step out of the academy.
With no hidden dangers in fighting spirit training for the time being, Arthur plunged into the arduous practice of fighting spirit and magic for a whole year.
Time flies, and when another year-end is approaching, Arthur's fighting spirit finally reaches the peak of level three.