"This is too hard! It's practically impossible. I can't learn it at all!"
"What even is this stuff? I can't understand any of it!"
"Someone save me!"
Compared with Diego's smooth progress, everyone else stumbled through their studies, struggling terribly.
They all saw and studied the same material, but because it involved some Seris runes and the application of semantic analysis, those with weak foundations immediately encountered enormous obstacles.
Few of them had reached Level Four proficiency in Seris, and they truly experienced just how difficult this spell was.
Still, the academy had never intended for them to master it immediately.
After handing out the teaching materials and explaining the key points, the instructors sent them off to identify gaps in their knowledge and strengthen their foundations.
"It seems the gap between people really is considerable.
Diego has already mastered the Indexing Spell and started filling it with content, while the others still don't even understand its basic principles."
After learning how the class had gone, Roland sighed with genuine feeling.
This also demonstrated why separating elite apprentices from ordinary apprentices was necessary.
For a genius like Diego, continuing to study the basics in language class was no longer particularly useful.
Roland could already foresee Diego winning out in the Monthly Exam a month later and becoming one of that term's elite apprentices.
He next turned his attention to someone else: Princess Rosa's younger brother, Prince Silaire, known as Leiner's young eagle.
"Silaire's foundations are fairly solid. He should qualify as an elite apprentice in a month at the earliest, or two or three months at the latest."
Roland had incorporated numerous in-class assessments into his teaching plan to track the apprentices' progress.
Although a mage's calling was lifelong learning, which required tremendous self-motivation, teachers still needed information like this