"Oh? Someone successfully advanced to become an elementary mage?"
Nalant's face immediately lit up with delight.
These past few days, he had also been keeping an eye on the progress of the boys and girls in the mage corps.
His hope was for every one of them to break through and become an elementary mage before the expedition set out.
Now, it seemed that this was very likely to happen.
"Vivian, take my lord over to have a look!"
Nalant then followed Vivian directly toward the mage corps' training grounds.
Since having more than a hundred people practicing magic at the same time was far too shocking, Nalant had arranged for all these boys and girls to train inside the castle.
Their training site was an open space beside the castle.
"Greetings, my lord!"
When Nalant arrived, the boys and girls immediately greeted him respectfully.
"Mm, I heard that several of you have already broken through to become elementary mages. Which ones are they?"
At Nalant's words, five people immediately stepped forward.
Three girls and two boys.
"Mm, so it's the five of you? I heard you can all cast Fireball?"
"Yes, my lord!" the five replied in unison.
"Very good. The five of you, cast Fireball at those targets over there and let my lord see!" Nalant nodded and immediately pointed toward several waist-high stone blocks not far away.
These were targets Nalant had prepared long ago.
With the power of Fireball, ordinary wooden targets and straw targets simply would not do.
At Nalant's command, the five lined up facing the stone targets dozens of meters away and began chanting.
Since they had only just broken through, their chanting speed was not particularly fast.
After waiting a full seven or eight seconds, the first fireball finally appeared in the