Wizard: Starting from Escaping Another World to Pioneering

"The Wizard Advancement Trial?" Upon hearing this, Matthew fell silent, his thoughts rapidly swirling through his memories.

Seeing his expression, Geralt immediately began to explain, "..."

The Gold Coast region has four major schools of thought: the Tidal School, the Corona School, the Dark Moon School, and the White Mist School.

The Wizard Advancement Trials are jointly held by the four major schools of thought, once every six years, and participants must be advanced apprentices.

The content of each trial is different, so the conditions for completion are also different.

The only constant rule is that there are no restrictions during the trial, and apprentices can use any means necessary to fight each other. As a result, there are many casualties in each trial.

The rewards for the winners of the trials are also quite generous. The top three apprentices can go to the Spirit Whisper Tower to hold a formal wizard promotion ceremony.

Therefore, although the trials are quite brutal, they are also an opportunity that every apprentice who wants to become a formal wizard must fight for.

Matthew had only heard of the trial before, but didn't know the specifics.

Although there are other ways to become a full-fledged wizard, the Wizard Advancement Trial is undoubtedly a shortcut!

However, only advanced apprentices can participate in the trial, and the promotion requirement for advanced apprentices is 60 points of mental strength.

Matthew is still some distance away, and before that, he must first resolve the issue of soul erosion.

Otherwise, let alone being promoted to a senior apprentice, even meditation would be a problem!

After a moment's thought, Matthew couldn't help but ask, "So, how long until the next wizard advancement trial?"

"It's been almost a year."

Although he was taken aback by the news of Matthew's promotion, Geralt did not believe that he could be promoted to senior apprentice within a year.

I'm only bringing this up as a formality.

"One more year..."

Matthew silently noted the message down and then walked out of the apprentice hall.

……

A moment later...

Matthew entered the mission hall, registered with the apprentice at the mission acceptance desk, and gained the right to freely choose missions.

"Phew... I'm finally free from the school's death mission."

Matthew felt relieved and walked through the long corridor to the depths of the hall.

Before them were several massive high walls, densely covered with records of the tasks available to intermediate apprentices of the Tide School.

When he looked at the contents of the wall in front of him, he found that they were all missions to the Winter Realm.

Without turning his head, he turned to face another wall.

[Quest Name: Collect Flame Breath Crystals]

[Note: Venture deep into the Obsidian Volcano to find one thousand Flame Breath Crystals. There dwell powerful and temperamental magma rhinoceroses, which have high resistance to fire magic.]

[Recommendation: Apprentices who are confident in their abilities are recommended to go in groups of four.]

[Danger Level: 4.5 stars]

[Reward: 10 credits per person, and one free chance to choose an apprentice-level item.]

……

[Quest Name: Calm the Flesh Swamp]

[Note: A swamp of flesh and blood has recently appeared within the Emerald Duchy. The exact cause is unknown. Apprentices must find the source of the anomaly and deal with the rotting corpses crawling out of it.]

[Recommendation: This is recommended for apprentices skilled in bloodline studies or necromancy.]

[Danger Level: Three Stars]

[Reward: 12 credits.]

……

[Task Name: Repair the Broken Astrology Instrument]

[Note: Travel to the Raman Empire to repair a broken astrological instrument. The mission is relatively safe, but requires a high level of expertise from the apprentice.]

[Recommendation: This course is recommended for apprentices who are proficient in both mysticism and alchemy.]

[Danger Level: One Star]

[Reward: 12 credits.]

Matthew's eyes swept across the lines of information, finding the right task from such a complex array of data was no easy task.

"The mission here is quite far from the Seven Empire."

He shook his head and moved to another wall.

At that moment, information about a task immediately caught his attention.

[Task Name: Repair Rune Nodes]

[Note: A large number of Crystal Beasts have appeared in a mine somewhere in the Seven Empire, damaging rune nodes. Apprentices need to go and repair the nodes and deal with the Crystal Beasts. This task requires a high level of expertise from the apprentices.]

[Recommendation: This is recommended for apprentices skilled in rune arts.]

[Danger Level: Three Stars]

[Reward: 12 credits.]

After reading the task description above, Matthew's eyes lit up.

"I never expected a mission from the Seven Empire! It's like a godsend!"

"The requirement is proficiency in rune arts... and I happen to meet that requirement!"

"This way, I can openly and legitimately travel to the Seven Empire under the name of my school!"

Crystal Beasts are not particularly strong individually, but they have an extremely high reproductive rate and often travel in groups, making them somewhat troublesome to deal with.

However, with Matthew's current strength, dealing with them shouldn't be difficult.

He stopped thinking about it, noted down the mission number, and returned to the front desk in the lobby.

After a series of rune tests, Matthew was able to accept the task of repairing the rune nodes.

Just as he was about to leave the mission hall, he suddenly overheard a conversation between two apprentices next to him.

"No, why are you running so fast?"

"I need to prepare for the next task!"

"What preparations do you need to make in such a hurry?"

"Didn't you know? Smith's Grocery Store launched a new batch of witchcraft scrolls today!"

The apprentice didn't take it seriously and curled his lip.

"They're just some witchcraft scrolls, what's the big deal?"

"This time it's different; I heard it's a batch of [Lightfall Technique Scrolls]!"

"So what? The [Lightfall Scroll] may not be common, but you don't need to get this excited."

"No, no, no, listen to me, that's the work of a newly emerging scroll-making master in the recent school!"

The spell scrolls he creates are of extremely high quality, and their power far surpasses that of scrolls of the same rank!

"Huh? I've never heard of that. Who's this 'master manufacturer'?"

"We don't know his specific identity, we only know that his brand is a pale flame..."

Matthew smiled and brushed past the two of them.

His things had been prepared in advance.

So he did not hesitate and planned to set off for the Seven Empire immediately.

Although the area falls under the sphere of influence of the Tidal School, the Gold Coast is an extremely large region.

The sphere of influence of the school alone far exceeds the area of ​​the Earth in the previous life.

This round trip would take at least a month, so to save time he went to the school's rental office.

You can rent a decent mode of transportation anywhere by spending just a few magic stone fragments.

……

The rental office was next to the teleportation hall, and Matthew skillfully made his way to his destination.

Just as he was about to step into the rental office, he suddenly felt a malicious force coming from behind him.

Matthew turned around abruptly and found a young man behind him wearing round-framed glasses and with a long ponytail.

"Dolan..."