Wizards begin with Occlumency.

Chapter 68 Holiday Arrangements and Grades

The exam is over.

Once the grades are announced tonight, there will be no more classes tomorrow, and the fall semester will officially end.

A month and a half-long holiday has arrived.

After dinner, as usual, Link and Jasmine headed to the library.

On the way, Jasmine asked, "Link, what are your plans for the holiday?"

"Leaving aside me, I have other plans."

Link understood the unspoken meaning behind Jasmine's words, but instead of saying what Jasmine expected, he earnestly suggested, "I think you can use this month and a half and the convenient conditions of the laboratory to practice your witchcraft properly."

Jasmine has a high affinity for wood elements and a medium affinity for water and earth elements. When choosing magic, you can refer to Link's choices, but you cannot copy them exactly.

拿到128块魔石以后，她花了82块魔石购买巫器和符文物品，之后又花了30块魔石购买了6门0环巫术：

Water-based spells include Water Ball, Water Shield, and Water Purification; Wood-based spells include Thorn Entanglement; and Earth-based spells include Earth Shield and Earth Wall.

In recent weeks, Jasmine has been focusing her extracurricular time and energy on research and experiments, so her progress in learning witchcraft has naturally been less than satisfactory.

Much of the knowledge related to rule runes cannot be learned simply by studying textbooks.

We need to observe, analyze, and experiment.

Jasmine doesn't have Link's opportunities, nor does she have the "charmology talent of Philius Flitwick," so her learning speed is not fast.

If you're not fast enough, you can only make up for it with hard work.

If Jasmine doesn't want to fall too far behind, she needs to work even harder during the holidays.

She sniffed, lowered her head, and softly replied, "I will try my best."

She paused, composed herself, and asked, "And you? What are your plans for the holiday?"

Link had no intention of hiding this: "I plan to go to Rivosos City and explore all the places I can find, to get a feel for it beforehand. If..."

Link hesitated for a moment before continuing, "If all the conditions are right, I plan to find a part-time job in the city. You can't really understand many things just by standing around and watching. You have to experience it for yourself."

The meaning is quite clear: it's inconvenient to bring you along.

"oh."

Jasmine responded, her emotions becoming even more inexplicably complicated, and she refused to speak again.

We were almost at the library.

Jasmine lowered her head, quickened her pace, rushed into the reading room, and then huddled in a corner by the window.

More than half of her body was hidden in shadow, especially her small face.

It was difficult to see her eyes and expression clearly.

Lin Ke knew that this was a typical behavior of girls in puberty, with unstable emotions and a tendency to feel melancholy.

Let it air out, and it will pass.

Right.

Link didn't dwell on it. After sitting down, he began to seriously review the pharmacology knowledge he had painstakingly learned over the previous four weeks.

Having "Severus Snape's Potions talent" makes all the difference.

It's like upgrading a processor from dual-core to quad-core, making learning and understanding knowledge incredibly fast.

Seeing that Link was focused on his studies, with no distractions and no room for anything else but the data and documents, Jasmine felt angry, annoyed, and ashamed.

Who is this person?

You could clearly tell the other person was unhappy, but you didn't even try to comfort them.

Dead block of wood!

While Link wasn't looking, Jasmine wrinkled her nose, stuck out her tongue, and made a funny face.

He silently despised Link in his heart.

Before Link could look up, Jasmine quickly pretended to be reading and studying.

Actually, Link can sense Jasmine's every move.

He simply didn't catch her in the act so as not to embarrass her.

Girls who can regulate their emotions and don't throw tantrums are quite hard to find.

Please be considerate of other people's feelings.

Time ticks by.

Night fell, and the night deepened.

It's time to leave the library.

Before leaving, Jasmine took out her personal smart device to check the results that had been published for a while.

A casual glance at the sign of the champion caused her expression to change instantly, and she exclaimed in surprise, "Link, you're not in first place!"

"Um?"

Link suddenly became interested and wanted to know which genius or geniuses had surpassed him in the rankings.

Without even taking out his personal smart device, Link leaned closer to Jasmine and began to examine the rankings and scores from highest to lowest.

The first place winner was none other than Lani Taylor, the only fifth-grade genius girl in the first year.

The name written on the second place list is Link Grand.

The two had the same score, but Lani Taylor ranked one place higher.

"Perhaps, their wizarding aptitude was taken into consideration?"

Link speculated in this way.

Jasmine Kidman's name appeared in fifth place.

They improved by two places compared to the midterm exam.

congratulations.

Link immediately congratulated Jasmine: "Congratulations, congratulations, another step forward."

"Don't you even know who I am!"

Jasmine tossed her head back and smugly huffed, "Unlike someone else, I didn't even drop a place!"

Sure enough, girls aren't very forgiving; their retaliation came right away.

Link was speechless.

Because that's the truth.

To Link's surprise, five of his fellow men firmly occupied the 6th to 10th positions.

Harold Andrews, who also had a good score, was ranked 11th.

After this little incident, Link and Jasmine left the library and returned to their respective dormitories.

study.

Link first completed his deep meditation for the day, then sat at his desk and quietly pondered.

Link made the decision after much deliberation to travel to Rivosos during his vacation and explore the outside world.

It wasn't a spur-of-the-moment decision.

The academy is like an ivory tower, protecting the young local apprentices and the new blood of the Storm Sea, allowing them to grow strong without getting tainted by the mud.

As long as you don't do anything reckless, you basically don't need to worry about your personal safety in the academy.

The storms and disturbances of the outside world cannot reach the academy.

However, the world is very, very big, and the academy is just a tiny corner of it.

Link will eventually have to leave the ivory tower, enter society, go out into the vast world, and head towards the stars and the sea.

Rather than going out into the world clueless and ignorant like a blank sheet of paper, Link chose to enter that melting pot ahead of time.

Whether it gets stained or comes away unscathed, a test will tell.

Those outside the city want to get in, and those inside want to get out.

Link took out all the magical artifacts and runic items and placed them one by one on the desk. He also wrote down the eight zero-ring spells he had mastered on a piece of paper and displayed them as well.

He looked at the magical artifacts, runic items, and encyclopedia of magic before him, assessed his own strength, and devised contingency plans for various possible scenarios.

Going out doesn't mean going out unprepared; that would be no different from being a mindless brute.

While we don't expect to be absolutely certain of success, we should at least make the best preparations within our capabilities.

A moment later, Link carefully collected all the magical artifacts and runic items, and then destroyed the list of magical arts.

Sleep soundly, get ready, and wait for tomorrow to arrive.

Time waits for no one, we must hurry!

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