Full-Time Magister: All-Element Mutant Star Child

But he cultivated for several months before his first year of high school, and his first year of high school, including the holidays, lasted a whole year. He also cultivated for several months in the first semester of his second year, which is this semester, so it has been almost two years in total.

He cultivated for nearly two years before reaching the third level of the initial stage, which is even less than Dongfang Lie's level.

Even if the family plans to support someone to participate in the next World University Competition, that person will not be me.

The family also lacks the power to support multiple individuals in the World University Competition at the same time.

Dongfang Lie didn't resort to the low-EQ approach of saying his family would definitely support him. Instead, he spoke:

"Nominations for this year's World University Competition have only just begun. The nomination and preliminary selection process will last for a year, followed by a year of training for the National University team. The World University Competition will not truly begin until two years later."

"The next World University Competition is still a long way off, why think so much now? What we need to do is cultivate diligently and strive to become stronger."

"If we are good enough, it is very likely that the country will invite us to join the National Team, rather than our families using their influence to send us to the National Team."

Despite saying that, Dongfang Lie was also aware that the World University Competition was mixed with too many interests.

Having great strength alone is not enough to join the National Team.

Although the strength of the National University team members determines the results of the World University Competition, the results are not that important; as long as there are results, that's enough.

As long as there are good results, the forces behind the National Government team members can benefit.

If there are no people of their own in the Nationalist government's team, then naturally there will be no benefit.

No interest? That won't do. Those powerful families and influential groups won't stand for it.

With these powerful families and forces around, it's impossible to join the National Team based on one's own strength without relying on their support.

Dongfang Yang said, "Don't overthink it. Even without the World University Tournament, we still need to cultivate. Everything else is secondary; only our own cultivation and strength truly belong to us."

Dongfang Ming nodded, and then stopped thinking about whether he could participate in the next World University Competition.

"Let's drink beer, let's drink beer."

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The Eastern Family's Colosseum

This is a circular building. Apart from the entrance, the building is divided into trapezoidal cages, with three sides of the cage being walls and one side being a gate resembling an iron fence.

Each cage contains a frenzied, servant-level demon; there are more than twenty in total.

At the center of the circular building is a battle arena with a diameter of 100 meters, which is surrounded by cages.

At this moment, on the battlefield, a group of young mages are fighting against a python.

The python was as thick as a bucket and over ten meters long, covered in alternating yellowish-brown and brownish-yellow scales. It was a servant-level demon—a rock snake.

At this moment, some of the rock snake's scales were charred black, some scales had popped up, and some parts of its body had no scales at all, with its flesh and blood burned to a crisp.

There were also some ice fragments in the area.

Pythons are very fast; their bodies can move at speeds of over twenty meters per second as they surge across the ground.

The mage fighting the python constantly dodged its attacks, simultaneously moving and conjuring star trails.

"Earth waves—slow!"

An earth-elemental mage was the first to complete the star trail, and the ground beneath him suddenly began to emit an earthy-yellow light.

The ground surface rippled instantly, like a flat elevator or treadmill.

The other mages were pushed away from the rock serpent by the earth's ripples.

The soil beneath the rock serpent moved backward like a treadmill, slowing its speed as it charged toward the mage and even causing it to retreat!

"Ice Vines - Cover!"

At this moment, an ice mage also completed the spell.

The ice mage exuded a chilling aura, causing frost to form on the ground. With a cold shout, he unleashed his icy energy towards the rock serpent, which was quickly encased in ice.

Although the Eastern Clan primarily uses fire magic, awakening a magic type isn't guaranteed to be successful; the materials used to craft awakening stones and the guiding stones are factors.

The mage's personal attributes also play a role; some people's constitutions are more inclined towards other attributes, making it naturally difficult for them to awaken the fire element.

Also, not everyone likes fire magic; there is one person in the Eastern Family who likes other types of magic.

The family does not mandate that its members must possess the Awakened Fire element.

The counter-relationship between magic types is very obvious. It wouldn't work if all the mages in the family had fire magic, as it would make it easy for the enemy to target them.

"Sizzle - Explode!" *1

"Fire—Bone Burning!" *2

At this moment, the three fire mages in the team delivered the final blow to the rock serpent.

The three fire mages each threw a ball of fire, and all three balls of fire hit the rock serpent's head. The fire then exploded instantly, and the intense heat melted the ice layer and shattered the rock serpent's head.

Fire magic and ice magic are not easy to combine, since fire can melt ice, or ice can suppress fire.

But at this point, whether or not the attack is coordinated is irrelevant in order to kill the demon with the final blow.

After the Rock Serpent died, a Servant-level spirit floated out from its corpse and flew towards the entrance passage of the Colosseum.

At this moment, Dongfang Yang and a middle-aged man were standing here.

The spirit of the rock serpent flew toward the middle-aged man in Dongfang Yang's gaze. Watching the spirit disappear into the pendant on his chest, Dongfang Yang could tell that the pendant was a demonic artifact of the dead.

This middle-aged man is the manager of the arena. His usual duties include feeding the demons imprisoned in the arena, watching over his family disciples as they fight the demons, disposing of the demon corpses, and collecting the essence and remnants that the demons drop after they die.

The arena is a place where demons often die, and when they die, they drop their essence and remnants. Naturally, the family will set up a necromancer here to collect the essence and remnants dropped by the demons after they die.

Although the drop rate of spirit essence is low, if the base number is large, it is still possible to collect spirit essence.

The Soul Artifacts are considered very rare in the original work, and while they are indeed rare, they are not unique in any particular way.

The family also equipped their hunter and mage guilds, who frequently hunted demons, as well as the arena with Soul Reaper artifacts.

The cheapest undead artifact that can collect slave-level essences costs only six or seven million, so getting just one slave-level essence is enough to break even.

Although the drop rate of slave-level essences is low, the hunter-mage guild can hunt down a lot of demons every second.

The same goes for this arena. Every year, no fewer than a hundred slave-level demons are killed by the tribesmen in the arena. By collecting their essence and fragments here, one can recoup the investment in a year, and after that, it's a profit.

The middle-aged man looked at Dongfang Yang and said, "You're lucky, you actually got a spirit essence."

He had just noticed that Dongfang Yang could see the spirit, which is why he said that.