more than a month later.
"Athir, you are here too?"
In front of Athir, a gray-robed apprentice saw Athir and greeted him with a smile.
"Gray, has the lecture started yet?"
In the back, Athir looked at the apprentices who were gradually gathering around him and responded with a smile.
"It's almost time." Gray said, looking at Athir in front of him.
As soon as he finished speaking, a figure began to appear in front, looking hurried.
He was also an apprentice wearing a grey robe, but unlike the other apprentices present, his robe was embroidered with three unusually obvious patterns, which filled the hearts of the surrounding apprentices with awe.
This means that the other party has reached the status of a third-class apprentice, and is only one step away from becoming a formal wizard.
"Okay, since I still have some experiments to do, I won't say any more nonsense."
In front, a third-class apprentice in a gray robe spoke up: "This class is about the basic properties of energy particles..."
He didn't say any more nonsense and started explaining directly.
As the lecture officially began, the apprentices present were shocked, their faces became solemn and serious, and they began to listen to the lecture attentively.
A few hours passed quickly.
When the lecture was over, the third-class apprentice who was lecturing in front left in a hurry, leaving no time for the apprentices around him to ask questions.
"well."
The moment the other party left, Atier clearly heard a sigh of disappointment from many apprentices present.
Normally, after the lecture is over, if the teacher has a good temper and patience, he or she will occasionally stay for a while to answer questions and inquiries from the apprentices.
But if the other party leaves directly, then this kind of benefit will naturally be out of the question, which will make the apprentices below very disappointed.
"The energy properties course is so difficult. Even the basics are so complicated."
Beside Athir, Gray sighed with a headache, and then looked at Athir beside him: "Athir, how are you? How much did you understand?"
"It's okay. I spoke too fast and I couldn't hear a lot of it."
Athir also showed a trace of helplessness on his face. He looked at the other party and responded: "Go back and get the book to review more. The lectures for advanced apprentices like this involve too much knowledge and are very difficult. If you don't prepare in advance, you won't understand much."
"That's all we can do." Gray sighed and said nothing more.
After a class ended, the many apprentices gathered around quickly dispersed and left the place in a hurry. It seemed that they all had things to do.
"Chip, did you write down the content of the lecture just now?"
After the people around him left, Athir asked the chip in his mind.
"Beep! Successfully recorded."
After hearing this, Atier finally felt relieved.
Unlike other apprentices who can only listen to the lectures attentively, Atier has a memory chip that can directly record the content of the lecture. Even if he does not understand it during the lecture, he can go back and recall it later.
"Today's free class this morning has ended. As for this afternoon's class, I remember there is another free class on basic botany. You can go and attend it."
Athir recalled his recent class schedule and thought about it as he walked.
As an apprentice who pays tuition to study, not all classes in the academy are free.
Most of the basic and foundational knowledge is explained by third-level apprentices, and most of it is free. Even if there is some that require a fee, the cost is ordinary gold coins or other things, which most apprentices can accept.
The advanced knowledge is explained by formal wizards. This part of knowledge is the key. Not only is it charged, but it is only charged in magic stones, which is a huge burden for apprentices like them.
As an apprentice of Mentor Edith, one of the benefits that Atier can enjoy is that when Mentor Edith starts giving a lecture, he can attend the lecture for free without paying any extra magic stones. Compared with other ordinary apprentices, this saves a lot of money at once.
There was still some time before the afternoon class, so after standing there and thinking for a while, Athir went to a library in the college first.
The huge library is built entirely of stone. The atmosphere inside is a little dark and the air is a little humid.
From time to time, some gray-robed apprentices walked in and out, and they all seemed to be the same people as Athir.
Walking into the library, there are layers of stone walls. In the stone walls, there are depressions half a meter long and wide, and books are placed inside, with words written in ancient Sis language, introducing the titles and some specific contents of the books.
Without much hesitation, Athir walked directly to a corner of the library and found an old man sitting there.
"You again."
Sensing someone coming, the old man in black robe who was sitting quietly in front turned around and seemed a little surprised when he saw Athir: "What book do you want to borrow this time?"
After Athir reported the books he wanted to borrow, the old man nodded, then stood up and left, taking back all the books he needed: "A total of five hundred gold coins."
Hearing this, although he was used to it, the corners of Athir's mouth still twitched.
In the academy, although magic stones are the hard currency, gold coins can also be used. After all, magic stones are too precious, and some basic things cannot be paid with magic stones.
However, because the entire academy is made up of wizards, the prices here are quite high. The lowest starting price is gold coins, and there is no room for lower currencies to survive.
A gold coin can support a person's life for several months outside, but if it is thrown on the ground here, no one may pick it up.
With a wooden face, Athir calmly paid the money, took the books he wanted and left without staying here for long.
After leaving the library, he came to a garden outside a tall tower after a while.
This is Teacher Edith's private garden. Not only are there a large number of flowers, but there are also many precious materials planted in it. It is extremely troublesome to take care of.
To manage this garden perfectly, you need not only carefulness and caution, but also a lot of knowledge and understanding of the characteristics of plants.
This is not a problem for Athir, who has a memory chip. The chip in his mind can directly monitor the growth of plants, saving him a lot of time.
The reason why I come to take care of this garden is because it is my duty as an apprentice under Teacher Edith.
As an apprentice under a formal wizard, in addition to certain benefits, he also has the obligation to serve his mentor.
The task of taking care of the garden was not bad. Although it was tedious and took a lot of time, at least the safety of life could be guaranteed. Many formal wizards directly asked their apprentices to cooperate in some dangerous experiments. Compared with that, the task in front of them was very mild.
After silently inspecting the vast garden in front of him for a while, while there was still some time, Athir sat on a chair beside him and began to meditate.
As his eyes closed, he quickly entered a meditative state, much faster than at the beginning.
Compared to more than a month ago, after such a long period of training, Athir can now meditate out five spiritual runes.
This progress was terrifying compared to others. Among the apprentices who entered the academy at the same time as him, few could even enter the meditative state, let alone meditate on spiritual runes.
In the mind, in a meditative state, spiritual runes began to condense, emitting subtle light in the dark and deep space.
After the fifth spiritual rune was condensed, Athir began to meditate on the sixth spiritual rune.
This process was very strenuous for Athir. The difficulty of meditating on the spiritual runes became greater and greater. By the sixth rune, the difficulty had increased exponentially, causing Athir to fail dozens of times.
However, this time the meditation process seemed to be particularly smooth. As the meditation passed, the sixth spiritual rune was meditated out.
"This is my sixth one. At this rate, maybe in another month, I can advance to a first-class apprentice."
After finishing his meditation and standing in place, Athir roughly calculated and was surprised at his own speed.
Under normal circumstances, for an ordinary apprentice who starts from scratch, it will take at least three or four years from the beginning of apprenticeship to becoming a first-class apprentice.
Even for those apprentices who have their own mentors and can directly conduct spiritual conduction, it will take at least more than a year to enter a meditative state and be promoted to a first-class apprentice through meditation spiritual runes.
It has only been more than a month since Atier went from being an ordinary person to entering the academy. If he can really be promoted to a first-class apprentice in a month, this speed would be extremely terrifying.
Being promoted to a first-class apprentice in less than three months, this cannot be described as genius anymore. It would be terrifying if people told about it to others.
The main reason for this speed is that Athir's mental strength is too strong.
The purpose of basic meditation is to train the spirit and reach the spiritual power standard required for promotion to the first level. At the beginning, Athir's spirit may be able to reach the standard of a first-level apprentice. When meditating, he only needs to remember those complex spiritual runes, and naturally the speed is much faster than others.
"It seems that we have to slow down the progress and not act too out of line."
Thinking of this, Athir frowned.
Under normal circumstances, it is a good thing to perform well, which will bring others' attention and certain support. But if it exceeds a certain range, the result may not be good.
Although Athir's qualifications as tested were excellent, they were only fourth-class qualifications. It was impossible for him to be promoted to a first-class apprentice in less than three months. If he really did it, it would definitely cause a sensation.
Although the final result may not be bad, Atier now just needs to proceed cautiously and there is no need to take the risk.
(End of this chapter)