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Field training was crucial for every mage still in school.

Even if their schools did not make it mandatory, mages who truly wanted to rise above the rest would choose a path of field training themselves.

How could anyone hope to become powerful without surviving countless battles?

The students from Pearl Academy and Imperial Capital Academy would be heading to the same place for their field training, so they attended the briefing together.

Dean Song He of Imperial Capital Academy explained the details to everyone.

Simply put, the students were to gather information on a city called Jinlin City.

Fifteen years earlier, Jinlin City had been attacked by a demon beast tribe and reduced to a completely abandoned city.

But over the past year or two, reports brought back by various scouts suggested that most of the demon beasts in Jinlin City had disappeared, almost as though they had migrated elsewhere...

Preliminary investigations had confirmed that the number of demon beasts there had fallen dramatically. It was no longer as terrifying as it had once been.

Thus, Jinlin City had been chosen as their destination, and their Field Training Mission was to compile information on the demon beasts living in the city.

Before entering the book's world, Zhou Sining had wondered why students had to undergo field training in the perilous wilderness. After all, they were the elites of two top academies. Losing even one would be an enormous loss.

But after living here for a few years, Zhou Sining discovered that the people of this world were remarkably accepting of dangerous activities like wilderness training.

To them, it was only natural for mages to train in the wilderness.

Field training was, to them, much like driving.

Every trip carried the possibility of death, perhaps even from something as simple