9: News of elimination in Chapter 9

Time passed as swiftly as if it were taking flight, regardless of whether it was squandered or not.

After the second natural month of Ross entering the academy had passed,

at a certain regular meeting where apprentices gathered, Wizard Ian summoned the apprentices in the auditorium to announce the news regarding the academy's elimination process.

News of this elimination nature was rather harsh to anyone's ears.

Especially for those students who had just stepped into the wizard academy.

Not many people, upon discovering they possessed Wizard Aptitude, would expect the academy's assessments to come so quickly.

To them, the word "elimination" always meant absolute bad news.

Therefore, the expressions of quite a few students were somewhat nervous and astonished.

Although many Wizard Apprentices had been practicing hard after entering the academy and some were making rapid progress, quite a few people's aptitudes were right near the threshold.

For these people, even with desperate cultivation, the increase in spiritual power was like a turtle's pace, and they had originally thought of slowly grinding it out with time.

Now, within a limited time, if they didn't have some ways to boost their spiritual power and successfully promote to Level 3 Wizard Apprentice,

or use some taboo methods that harmed themselves, I'm afraid there would be little hope left.

Therefore, as soon as the news was announced, it instantly caused a lot of uproar.

Fortunately, no one dared to question the majesty of the wizard academy, and the people under the auditorium merely digested and accepted the news silently in their hearts.

Among them, some students who had yet to step into the Level 3 wizard had even stiffer expressions on their faces, inevitably feeling anxious deep down.

Fortunately, Ross had already learned about this news in the Wizard History General Knowledge class.

Furthermore, even if it were his first time hearing this news, Ross would not feel particularly surprised.

Nor would it affect Ross's mood at the moment.

After all, Ross at this time had already successfully broken through and been promoted to a Level 3 Wizard Apprentice within a week of enrollment.

He was simply a genius!

After everyone in the auditorium completely digested the news, Wizard Ian announced the end of the meeting and left alone before everyone stood up.

Seeing this, Ross also immediately stood up and left.

...

Over the past month or so, through the once-daily card pool draw, Ross had accumulated quite a few supply cards.

Among them, the ones he mainly drew were magic stones and magic plant supply cards.

[Supply Card * 20] Elius "Water Magic Stone" * 5.

[Supply Card * 10] Apprentice-grade "Water Lily" Magic Plants * 6.

Currently, Ross already had 138 magic stones and 66 apprentice-grade Water Lily Magic Plants on him.

Regarding the information on the Water Lily Magic Plants, Ross had also learned about its origin and source by understanding it inside the Magic Plant Garden.

The apprentice-grade Water Lily Magic Plants were an aquatic plant-type magic plant belonging to the lotus class, lotus family, and Nymphaeales order.

It was a magic plant with vigorous vitality.

Its seeds were said to be able to be preserved for over a thousand years under enclosed conditions and could still sprout.

Therefore, for a Wizard Apprentice, it was a relatively easy magic plant to cultivate.

It was a magic plant that could produce edible lotus seeds.

In the regions through which the Elius River flowed, it was quite common, generally growing near places where magic gathered.

By absorbing the rich water elements in the Elius basin, wild water lilies could condense 8 to 12 lotus seeds per flower.

These lotus seeds had many uses and could be eaten boiled after removing the lotus heart or eaten raw.

Lotus seeds could improve a Wizard Apprentice's perception and mastery of water elements.

At the same time, they could also slightly increase a wizard's degree of adaptation to magic.

Generally speaking, the total amount of a Wizard Apprentice's magic was related to spiritual power.

The ratio was between one-to-one.

Spiritual power was the foundation of a wizard.

Without spiritual power, it was impossible to construct a Spell Model.

Magic was the basic condition for a Spell Model to be cast.

If a wizard's spiritual power was insufficient, causing their own magic to be uncontrollable, it would lead to magic disorder or out-of-control magic.

More seriously, it would lead to spiritual power damage.

During the process of enhancing one's spiritual power, if one could control the stability of magic to the greatest extent with the minimum spiritual power,

it could achieve the standard of controlling a thousand magic with nine hundred spiritual power.

In this way, it was equivalent to indirectly liberating a part of one's own spiritual power.

With more abundant spiritual power, Wizard Apprentices could go on to construct more complex Spell Models.

Or try to build more Spell Models to raise the upper limit of their own spiritual power.

However, for apprentice-grade Water Lily Magic Plants to achieve the above effects,

they needed to eat a certain amount of lotus seeds three meals a day at least.

Otherwise, it was hard to produce visible effects to the naked eye.

But among apprentice-grade magic plants, this kind of Water Lily Magic Plant was already considered a rather outstanding magic plant.

Therefore, quite a few wizards also cultivated and planted this type of magic plant.

Products of this type of magic plant could also be bought on the market.

Including finished lotus seeds, or lotus seed powder ground from lotus seeds.

Some magic shops or flower shops run by wizards would even specially cultivate lotus flowers for decoration.

Whether cultivating them for personal use or going to specialized wizard shops for sales, there were ways to carry it out.

And a certain amount of profit could be generated.

The growth cycle of each Water Lily Magic Plant was about 3 weeks, and they could be harvested within about a month.

The market selling price of each lotus seed was around one magic stone, but considering the shop's acquisition price, it was about 0.5 magic stones.

About one hundred water lilies could be planted per mu of magic field.

That is to say, if one mu of magic field of water lilies was planted, until the rent expired, if everything was normal, around 500 magic stones could be harvested.

After deducting the rent, that would be 400 magic stones.

Of course, provided that everything went smoothly.

During the cultivation process, if there were some losses, it was completely normal, but the profit would still be around 300 magic stones.

Compared to doing odd jobs for city wizards, the average daily planting harvest was more than working for a week.

Of course, compared to working odd jobs, planting by oneself meant bearing more risks and early-stage capital investment.

Helping Official Wizards tend to the magic plants in the magic fields generally only required going regularly to water, weed, and remove insects.

When it came to more planting and cultivation, magic plant urging, screening, elimination, and so on, there was no need to consider that much.

However, precisely because of various difficulties, quite a few Wizard Apprentices chose to wait until promotion to Level 2 Wizard Apprentice.

They would only attempt to plant and cultivate magic plants themselves after they had gained a certain amount of experience and capital accumulation.

For now, Ross hadn't even gathered 100 apprentice-grade Water Lily Magic Plants yet.

But these days Ross already felt that his knowledge regarding magic plant maintenance had reached a bottleneck.

Just taking on small tasks of helping Official Wizards tend to magic plants could no longer bring about improvement.

All wizards, even Wizard Apprentices, had to learn to independently develop their own research fields.

This was not only to prepare for future promotion, but also to earn enough magic stones.

Those who toil diligently will surely reap rewards.

Those who hesitate and do not advance will achieve nothing despite a hundred worries.

Compared to Wizard Apprentices like him who had no background, Ross at least had a source of resources from a daily draw.

Which could scatteredly provide him with quite a few resources.

Of course, Ross could also choose to lay low and develop steadily.

Relying solely on the spiritual power enhancement provided daily by the Meditation Method,

I'm afraid in three to five years, he could also reach the peak of a Level 1 Wizard Apprentice and see the threshold of an Official Wizard.

But this was not his style.

Even Elius Wizard Academy had young Official Wizards like Wizard Ian.

In the entire Wizard World, geniuses were even countless.

Why should Ross hesitate and not advance?

Thus, he decided to take the magic stones on hand and go buy some water lily-class seeds.