The Witcher: Son of the Planes.

It has been a week since Colin and Helen returned from their last mission. They have tested what they have learned and also realized their own shortcomings.

In particular, Colin thought that his current attack strength was not enough, and his defense was basically nonexistent, so he still relied on the physical defense power of the knight's squire.

Helen, on the other hand, was more inclined towards a supporting profession, and she had learned skills such as alchemy, pharmacy, and healing. Her offensive spells were not even as good as Colin's.

The two chose a tutor, but not all courses were taught. Wizards believed in equal exchange. Although the academy had mandatory tasks for formal wizards and had to accept some students on a regular basis, the courses taught were very limited.

If you want to make further progress in your abilities, you can either become a true apprentice to your mentor and successfully become his apprentice; or you can spend a lot of merit points and learn whatever you want.

Helen and Colin have not yet shown the qualities that would impress the mentors. They are just ordinary students among the mentors' students. Fortunately, they received a small amount of wizard coins last year, so they finally have the possibility of selection.

After discussing with Helen, Colin decided to let Helen learn some variant water spells. One is the defensive spell Ice Shield. Only by doing a good job of defense can you be invincible; the other is Ice Cone, which has much stronger attack power than Water Arrow.

The spell Colin chose was also strengthened. For attack, he chose the advanced spell of Fireball, Explosive Fireball. For defense, he chose not a fire spell, but an earth spell, Petrify Skin. This is the same skill that Marcus mastered. The defensive power of this skill is relatively reliable, and intermediate wizard apprentices can learn it.

Moreover, learning spells is conducive to the continuation of future skills. When Colin reaches a high level, he can also learn its advanced version - stone skin for protection. If he has the opportunity to be promoted to a first-level wizard in the future, he can also learn a more advanced version - divine shield for protection.

Learning the four skills cost Colin and his companion 200 merit points, which was basically equivalent to the cost of studying with a mentor.

To learn spells, one must first master the incantations and gestures to release the spells, and second, construct a complete spell circuit.

All of these require continuous practice, and it takes a lot of time from being able to release successfully to being proficient in release.

Time passed by in learning day by day. After half a year of hard work, Colin and Helen mastered the new spells proficiently.

During this period, Colin and Nora met at least twice a month, and occasionally when Helen was happy, Colin could also enjoy the happiness of being with both of them.

After gaining relatively abundant resources, Nora and Rose successfully transferred to low-level wizard apprentices. However, because they had to look after the shop, they did not enter the academy to study.

Nora majored in wood magic. In addition to taking care of the shop, she mainly learned healing magic, vine entanglement and vine shield. The effects of the latter two spells depend on the abilities of plant seeds.

Rose majored in dark magic, but her progress was slow. She only learned the Mist of Shadow, a method that could hide herself in the dark, which could barely be considered a defensive spell.

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The connection between Victoria Islands and Grimaldi Island has become closer. Originally a member of the Grimaldi Islands Alliance, after exchanging a large amount of knowledge, the academy on the main island of Victoria Islands also added wizarding courses.

After fully considering the inheritance of the magician system and the mainstream development of wizards, the three giants of the Victorian Magician Council, Fred and Urs, did not change their careers, but continued to devote themselves to the research of magical powers, hoping to break through to the second-level magician in the future.

The younger Oscar, after personally visiting Grimman Island and witnessing the power of the wizard system, successfully transferred to a first-level wizard.

A letter came from the Emerald Isle, briefly describing the changes on the island. Count Johnson had resigned from his position in the principality and moved to the Emerald Isle with Terry.

The couple Joseph and Sheryl live permanently in Wuxu City. Joseph has changed a lot since marrying Sheryl and has become more mature and stable. This is why his father and uncle feel at ease to hand over the family affairs to him.

Thanks to the rich world resources of the wizarding world and the output of the August family in recent years, the strength of the chief knight Alex has been further increased, and he has become a quasi-knight squire; the butler Gandalf has also been promoted to a senior magician apprentice, and some low-level knight squires and several low-level magician apprentices have been added to the family. The overall strength of the family is no longer an unknown small family in the Victoria Islands.

From the letter from the Emerald Isle, they learned about the changes in the Victoria Islands. Although the letter also mentioned that the Victoria Islands also opened wizarding courses, Colin and Helen, who had already gotten used to the environment of Grimman College, did not go back and decided to stay here.

Not only is the wizard system here more complete, but more importantly, the most powerful person here is the demigod wizard Griman.

Studying in the academy was boring but also fulfilling. Although Colin learned about some of the major forces in the wizarding world from the academy's books, his understanding was only superficial, and he was not very clear about the disputes between the various forces.

Although the entire wizarding world is consistent to the outside world, there are also conflicts within the world due to interests, but currently it is limited to the first level and below.

One day while Colin and Helen were studying, they suddenly heard that the academy had announced that there would be a competition in three years.

First, competitions will be held within the academy. Those with outstanding results will be led by the academy's mentors to compete with other forces on the wizarding world continent. The wizard apprentices who finally obtain a ranking will have the opportunity to gain the favor of the mentors, become real disciples, and will also obtain various resources needed to be promoted to the first-level wizard.

The students were excited when they heard the news. Many wizard apprentices were stuck at the level of senior wizard apprentices for their entire lives and could not make a breakthrough.

Some chose to join the academy and contribute their last bit of strength to it, barely trying to gain an opportunity for their family's descendants.

Some choose to leave the academy and return to their families to reproduce.

After all, those who can be promoted to the first-level wizard can be said to be one in hundreds.

Now that they have this opportunity, the wizard apprentices have started to get active. The quest hall is full every day. Some do quests to hone their strength, while others do quests for rare resources and rewards.

The library inside the academy was also filled with apprentices who came to buy books in order to stand out in the competition three years later.

Colin, Connie and a few others also had a small gathering in a pub outside the city, all of them wanting to give it a try.

It just so happened that several of them had learned some new spells, and only through actual combat could they test what they had learned. Moreover, competition is also a kind of actual combat. It is better to just learn without practicing. So they all agreed to find some tasks to hone their abilities.