Medivh Family

The next day.

Outside the Life Academy's west gate stood an airship tower a hundred meters tall. It was cast entirely from white metal, with special inscriptions engraved on its surface.

The tower had four docking points, staggered in pairs at different heights. Eight standard three-deck airships could dock there at once and fly to destinations throughout the Wizard World. They were the most convenient and cheapest means of transportation in the Wizard World.

Almost all airship towers were jointly controlled by the Goblin Chamber of Commerce and local powers.

Goblins were one of the strongest races in the Wizard World, backed by an eighth-rank professional known as the Gold Master, who controlled endless wealth. It was said that the Gold Master provided the funds and resources needed for many large-scale planar wars.

Goblins mostly kept to their own City of Wealth, doing business without expanding their territory. As a result, virtually no race would turn down a natural ally that was powerful and astonishingly wealthy, yet had no ambition to expand.

There were twenty people in the group: two first-rank Formal Wizards, First-Class Wizard Apprentices, and twelve Second-Class Wizard Apprentices, including Chen Chuan. Only nineteen had come to the meeting point. The remaining Formal Wizard happened to be on the Osteka Plain and had taken the assignment directly, so he would wait for them there.

The combat levels and numbers of apprentices had been agreed upon by the academies beforehand.

That distribution of fighting strength would keep the intensity of the competition within controllable limits.

The airship was bound for the Duchy of Wus, the nearest airship stop to the Osteka Plain. The journey was expected to take half a day.

Early that morning, Chen Chuan had arrived at the meeting point beneath the airship tower outside the west gate.

The place was bustling with people. Merchants, professionals, mercenaries, and adventurers from several neighboring countries passed through on their way to destinations across the Wizard World.

The Life Academy was situated at the junction of several major duchies in the area, so the airship tower there had the most traffic. The prestigious status of wizards in the Wizard World made the other travelers and professionals nearby curious, and they frequently glanced at Chen Chuan and his group.

As a result, the group did not talk much. Only after they boarded the airship and the Formal Wizard had explained the precautions and meeting time did everyone disperse to attend to their own affairs.

Chen Chuan found a corner in the observation hall on the airship's third deck and sat down, then looked at his attribute panel.

Crimson System · Host [Chen Chuan]

Class: Life Wizard

Physique: 13.7+

Agility: 13.8+

Spirit: 41.8+

Level: Second-Class Wizard Apprentice

Skills:

Intermediate Tree of Life Meditation Method Lv.1 (48/100)+

Elementary Potionology Lv.4 (211/400) expandable+

Intermediate Magic Lv.1 (18/100) expanded+

(Summon Enhancement, Agile Thinking, Shield of Earth, Plant Supercontrol, Mental Protection... 12 other intermediate spells omitted) Elementary Magic Lv.1 (12/100) expanded+

(Summon Plant, Ring of Repulsion, Wind of Swiftness, Mental Detection... 45 other elementary spells omitted)

Talent/active: Light of Wisdom, Seed of Life.

Source of Magic Power: 0

After yesterday's All-Things Analysis, Chen Chuan had essentially made up for his shortcomings in magic.

His combat strength had also undergone a qualitative leap.

With Summon Vitality Magic Mushroom and the effect of Abundant Energy, he could summon six advanced Vitality Magic Mushrooms in one go. A single advanced Vitality Magic Mushroom had combat strength equivalent to a First-Class Professional Apprentice.

Abundant Energy: Your magic power recovery speed is tripled. The Seed of Life can store additional surplus magic power (twice as much), and magic power is fully restored upon activation. But Chen Chuan could not do that. The consequence would be a brief period in which all his magic power was exhausted, leaving him too little margin for error afterward.

In ordinary battles, he mainly relied on three Vitality Magic Mushrooms: one defensive type, one recovery type, and one offensive type.

If he encountered a powerful enemy, he could summon two more and freely combine them according to the type of enemy.

"Are you Chen Chuan, the genius potion maker Lord Alex took an interest in?"

A woman's voice came from a nearby group of male and female Second-Class Apprentice wizards. Her tone was calm, yet carried a trace of arrogance.

Chen Chuan looked toward the voice and saw that the speaker was a red-haired woman. She wore the blue robes of a Second-Class Wizard Apprentice, had a shapely figure and a pretty face, and was looking at him as though he were prey, an inscrutable smile on her lips.

Chen Chuan looked at the woman calmly. "And you are?"

"My name is Vera Madison, of the Madison Family."

As she spoke, the woman raised her chin slightly, apparently waiting for Chen Chuan to flatter her.

Chen Chuan's expression did not change.

"Never heard of it."

He really did not know what sort of family the Madison Family was.

Ever since entering the academy, he had spent most of his time improving his wizard class level and studying potionology.

He could hardly find enough time as it was, and had even less energy to look into these so-called powers and families.

Vera was visibly taken aback by his answer, then looked surprised.

"You've never heard of my family?"

Chen Chuan looked puzzled.

"Am I supposed to know it?" Vera's smile stiffened, and a flash of displeasure crossed her eyes.

"To put it bluntly, this guy is just a lucky kid. The head of the Madison Family is the current vice dean of the Life Academy, and he doesn't even know that."

"I heard this Chen Chuan is a country bumpkin from some remote plane. He's really lucky Lord Alex recruited him into the group."

"Vera's funny too. This bumpkin doesn't even know her family, yet she still looks so superior."

Several Second-Class Wizard Apprentices behind her also began whispering, looking at her and Chen Chuan with disdain.

Chen Chuan watched the scene expressionlessly, ignoring their gazes. To him, the arrogance of these noble scions was no more than passing clouds.

The planar ruins were what he really needed to focus on.

Vera also heard the comments behind her. Looking embarrassed, she stepped forward.

Her voice grew louder. "Lord Alex must have been blind to choose an ill-mannered guy like you as his herbal adviser."

Chen Chuan frowned slightly and was about to respond when a sharp female shout, carrying a trace of authority, suddenly came from behind them. "Vera, what are you doing here?" Vera's body visibly stiffened, and her expression instantly became respectful.

"Sister."

She turned and respectfully saluted the newcomer.

Chen Chuan turned as well and saw the newcomer.

She was a woman dressed in exquisite red robes, standing straight as a pine. Her features bore some resemblance to Vera's, but her bearing was far more composed.

Her long, fiery red hair looked like burning flames in the sunlight, and her eyes held a trace of steadiness that Vera's lacked. "Vera, don't cause trouble for me before we set out." The woman did not speak loudly, but everyone heard her clearly.

"And Lord Alex's choice is not yours to criticize."

Vera lowered her head and answered quietly, "Yes, Sister."

The blue-robed apprentices who had just looked down on Chen Chuan also visibly stiffened.