Apprentice War
Saine spent a month in the underground mines of the Blazing Stone Mountain Range.
During this month, no outsiders disturbed Saine.
It seems that for the time being, no other advanced or higher-level apprentices from other academies have crossed the Apprentice Zone to cause trouble for Saine.
According to the normal procedure of Regional Academy War, if senior apprentices from other academies want to cause trouble for Saine, they must bring along a considerable number of middle and lower-level apprentice legions.
The situation of someone like Saine, who single-handedly swept through several districts, is rare in all previous Regional Academy War.
Although Martinez was arrogant and powerful in the previous season, he was not like Saine, who toured all five regions in his first year.
Indeed, every one or two hundred years, some exceptionally brilliant geniuses and Heaven's Chosen are born.
However, the vast majority of these geniuses refer to apprentices like Gade from the Great Earth Academy Holy Tower.
These apprentices Old Master acquire points through the conventional and normal methods of Regional War.
Apprentices like Saine and Martinez can only be called "outliers".
Furthermore, Saine is an even rarer and more unique anomaly than Martinez.
A month has not been enough for Saine to resolve the issue of the golden light emanating from his Holy Tower Badge.
In addition to recharging the Sun's Eye Mask, repairing equipment such as the Earth Elemental Shield Ring, and restoring his Magic Power and Mental Strength to their peak state.
In the latter half of the month, seeing that no other academy students were bothering him, Saine had a sudden inspiration. Using Blazing Stone and other magical materials, he created a batch of disposable magical items.
The "Blazing Light Grenade" is a one-time use magical item created by Saine, inspired by and modeled after Simplified Magic Conductor Cannon's projectile.
The explosive power of the Blazing Light Grenade is roughly comparable to that of low- to mid-level magic.
After all, it was just a simplified, one-time-use magic item that Saine had hastily researched in half a month, so its power couldn't be exaggerated.
The reason why he researched and produced this batch of magical items was because of the predicament he encountered when Saine was being hunted down, which inspired Saine to do so.
The limited Mental Strength and Magic Power power of an apprentice meant that Saine's magic could not be infinite.
Seventy-two Sun's Eye Magic can indeed kill everything instantly, but if there are too many of them, they can be piled up and eventually kill Saine.
With these Blazing Light Grenade, at least when Saine successfully retreats next time, he will face an enemy far outnumbered by himself.
Even with dozens or hundreds of times more apprentices chasing him, he could have other means to block or interfere with their attacks.
Saine is not afraid of fighting one-on-one.
But war is not a stage for Saine alone; he knows his strengths and weaknesses.
A month later, after leaving the Blazing Stone Mine, Saine soon learned that the apprentices of the Shadow of Darkness Holy Tower had begun an attack on the Azure Source Holy Tower area.
Fighting has broken out at the Large Resource Point Wind Howling Cliff to the east, as well as more than a dozen medium and Small Resource Point in the surrounding area.
The attack on the Shadow of Darkness Holy Tower came later than expected.
Faced with the aggressive attack from the Shadow of Darkness Holy Tower, both the Quasi-Magician Daniel and the Advanced Apprentice Mark are ready to support Wind Howling Cliff.
Even the junior and intermediate apprentices were excited. They had not yet realized the cruelty of the Regional Academy War and only wanted to do their part for their own academy.
"I'll go too," Saine replied calmly.
"As a Large Resource Point, the Blazing Stone Mountain Range also need to be guarded."
"Since you, Apprentice Saine, are so powerful and currently hold the top spot on the leaderboard, why don't you take charge of the Saine Blazing Stone Mountain Range?" the Quasi-Magician Daniel said, frowning.
"Heh, since someone needs to guard this place, then you can stay."
"I heard that before the Regional Academy War began, during the pre-war training session, the deans and Grade Director mentioned that apprentices with lower strength in the Trial Space should listen to the commands of senior students and stronger apprentices, is that right?" Saine chuckled and said.
Saine's words made Daniel look somewhat embarrassed and annoyed.
However, he didn't argue back; instead, he snorted and left.
Ultimately, nearly five hundred apprentices, including Saine and Daniel, went to Wind Howling Cliff to provide support.
Besides them, through the connection of the Crystal Ball, nearly two-thirds of the intermediate and above apprentices in the entire Azure Source Holy Tower Apprentice Zone also began to move closer to the battle zone.
The reason for leaving one-third of it is to guard against potential dangers from the direction of the Secret Language Holy Tower to the west.
It is worth mentioning that the leading apprentices who ultimately stayed behind in the Blazing Stone Mountain Range were the Advanced Apprentice Mark and another Quasi-Magician whose name Saine had never heard of.
Since Advanced Apprentice Mark was able to break into the top 20 of the academy's Combat Power Ranking a few years ago, and his personal strength even surpassed that of some Quasi-Magician, he is clearly qualified to stay and guard the Blazing Stone Mountain Range.
Finally, with a complex and indescribable look in his eyes, Mark, standing at the highest point of the Blazing Stone Mountain Range, watched Saine and the others head eastward.
Saine chose to go to Wind Howling Cliff to support the apprentices there, not only because he, as an apprentice of the Azure Source Holy Tower, had to shoulder some of the responsibilities and obligations.
More importantly, he did not become complacent about earning points because of his current score.
After traversing the five regions, Saine knew that he wasn't the only strong one in this Regional Academy War.
Aside from those top-tier Quasi-Magician who should not be underestimated, the Heart of the Earth Gade of the Great Earth Academy Holy Tower is actually a peak existence whose personal strength and ability are no less than that of Saine.
Gade is currently on the front lines of the war between the Great Earth Academy Holy Tower and the Thunder Radiance Holy Tower. The Regional Academy War has only been going on for less than a year. Given the speed at which the other side is gaining points, it's possible that their points will surpass Saine's in the remaining two years.
Therefore, Saine was unwilling to stop his hunt.
Now that he's already in first place, it wouldn't be Saine's style not to keep fighting for it and hold onto his spot.
Wind Howling Cliff is located in the northeast of the Apprentice Zone of Azure Source Holy Tower. It is indeed the closest of the three Large Resource Point in this area to Shadow of Darkness Holy Tower.
The Apprentice Zone area of Azure Source Holy Tower is smaller than that of the Secret Language Holy Tower.
With Saine using the Metal Discs to travel at full speed, he arrived outside Wind Howling Cliff in just ten days.
The Quasi-Magician Daniel seemed somewhat unconvinced by Saine. This apprentice, who possessed considerable wind magic, steadily followed behind Saine without falling behind.
It is estimated that it will take another ten days to half a month for the other apprentices to arrive.
However, with the outbreak of the apprentice war at Wind Howling Cliff, many other apprentices from nearby areas have come to provide support.
Saine and his group were not among the first to arrive.
Beyond the Wind Howling Cliff, thousands of all sorts of undead and Dark Being slowly charged toward the steep cliff.
Behind these Undead Creature, a dense swarm of apprentices were casting spells.
At a glance, there seemed to be nearly three thousand apprentices of the Shadow of Darkness Holy Tower surrounding Wind Howling Cliff.