When they reached the city gate, they retrieved their carriage from the same storage shop as usual.
Eve and the others had their own carriage as well... though it had not been provided by the academy. Instead, the students had pooled their money to buy it together.
Although the academy took good care of its students and offered many benefits, it was not a nanny. There were still plenty of matters they had to handle themselves.
Fortunately, these students were all among the best of their year and were fairly well-off, so the carriage they had bought was of quite good quality. At the very least, it was not slow.
The two carriages traveled side by side, leaving the Royal Capital and heading straight toward the Serene Forest.
The Royal Capital was relatively far from the Serene Forest, nowhere near as close as Fagard City. Simply reaching the forest would take nearly a full day.
Naturally, they could not waste that time. Whenever they traveled for practical training, the students reviewed what their instructors had taught during the previous stage, repeatedly memorizing and comprehending it, digesting that theoretical knowledge before putting it into practice during later training.
For students in the academy's second stage, this was all basic routine.
And the outstanding students among those second-stage students naturally did it even more earnestly and thoroughly.
As a Mage, Milan had one additional option compared to her companions: Meditation. This was one of the advantages of magic-based professions.
For physical professions, improving skill proficiency or honing techniques could basically only be done through practice and combat, which meant they could not do such things while traveling.
Magic-based professions were different. The control of magic power and the construction of magic circuits could still be practiced while sitting in a carriage. They