My health recovery is incredibly fast.

Mars pointed to the alchemical clock in the library, "This is a product of magical alchemy, belonging to the discipline of magical objects."

"Do you remember the elemental bottle that Lord Thales gave you to hold during the second round of testing? It was a work of the discipline of elemental representation."

Mars looked around, then walked to the window and glanced out a few more times, finally shaking his head and saying:

"The third discipline is called Mega-creation. There are no products of it in Rosac City. In fact, they are rare even in Starry Night City."

Xia Zuo buried his head in thought for a moment, then opened the book "Basic Poison Alchemy: The Separation of Toxins" and began to read.

Poison alchemy suits me better.

The art of magical alchemy sounds very complex and requires a strong sense of space.

Unlike poison alchemy, where the hardest part is simply drinking the self-made poison, this is as easy as eating and drinking with its high health regeneration.

Seeing that the other person was about to become engrossed in the book, Mars quickly clapped his hands and laughed:

"Don't just keep reading, come with me to lunch first."

Noon one month later.

The gates of Rosac were wide open, and guards lined both sides of the street, keeping the onlookers on the side of the road and clearing a road several meters wide in the middle.

Six lithe black horses entered the city.

Its long neck was covered with a well-groomed, jet-black mane that swayed up and down with the clatter of its footsteps.

They are larger than ordinary horses, with clearly defined black muscles.

What's most commendable is their high level of training.

There was no panic in his two black eyes; he was completely oblivious to the bustling crowd around him.

The six horses, pulling three oversized carriages, arrived at the fountain square without looking to the side, guided by the driver. They then circled the arc-shaped road and turned the carriages around.

"Sigh"

The driver, sitting in the semi-enclosed driver's seat, gripped the bridle tightly, and the horse, upon receiving the order, immediately stopped in front of the inspection station.

The staff at the testing station stuffed the newborn's luggage into the compartment below the carriage.

Mars stood at the front of the group and nodded his thanks to Thales Messo beside him:

“Your Excellency the resident monk, we would be grateful if you could escort us out of Rosac Province.”

Thales, completely wrapped in a black hooded robe, pulled his hat brim down as low as possible, hiding his entire face inside the hood.

He used alchemical tools to distort his voice, impersonating a weathered old man:

"Yes. Starril and the garrison mages of Night South will meet you within their respective protected areas. Don't worry about your journey."

"Then let's set off."

Mars turned to look at the new students behind him.

In previous years, only one person in Rosac Province met the natural affinity test requirements for school admission every three to five years.

In the first postnatal affinity test this year, four people became newborns in Rosac alone, and the total number across the country is at least a hundred.

In the first year after the university's restructuring, the number of students enrolled was greater than the total number of students enrolled in the previous decades combined.

Mars stood there for a moment, quite moved, then raised his arm and pointed to the carriage:

"Keli and Anru will take the second carriage. Little Moben and Xia Zuo, come with me to the third carriage."

Clémüller's parents, dressed in white, stood by the street waving handkerchiefs.

Little Moben Riley's parents embraced each other and sobbed softly.

They hesitated while waiting for the bus.

Mars took out his pocket watch and glanced at it:

"Go ahead, it'll take five minutes at most. We need to get to the northern border to meet up with the other carriages."

Xia Zuo watched as Xiao Moben and Ke Li embraced their respective families, and was surprised to find that Anruer, like himself, had no one to see her off.

"I'll get in the car first."

Anru smiled playfully, seemingly already used to living alone, and boarded the train with her thick suitcase.

It turns out that we were both orphans.

Xia Zuo smiled bitterly and walked up the steps with a box full of books on his back.

The interior of the carriage is simply decorated and spacious.

Four bed boards are fixed to the wall, and there is a half-length ladder next to the bed.

Below the bed are two rows of soft seats and a long table, all nailed firmly to the floor and cannot be moved around at will.

There is a wooden door at the end of the carriage.

Xia Zuo opened it and saw that it was a washroom, where one could both use the toilet and take a shower.

A water pipe runs from the water tank in the roof of the carriage into the washroom, branching off into two outlets that connect to the faucet in the sink and the showerhead in the shower room.

Wastewater flows directly to the ground through a drain in the center of the floor.

Compared to the carriages in the circus, the carriages at Starry Night Academy are luxuriously furnished.

Xia Zuo nodded in satisfaction, put the book box on the table, and stood in front of the car window looking out at the end of the street.

That was where I stayed for the past month.

He carried the deed to the small house with him, and gave Audrey a copy of the key.

It was the link between Chazov and the circus people; letters from the capital would be delivered to the house.

"It's time to go," Mars urged from outside the car.

"Mom and Dad, if we can't keep up with the work at the mill, we'll hire more people. I'll write back."

Keli's voice trembled slightly as she said goodbye to her parents and closed the door to the second carriage.

"Dad, drink less. Mom, I'm leaving."

Xiao Moben left behind two sentences, turned around and boarded the train, leaning against the door frame and weeping silently.

Mars closed the car door and rang the brass bell on the wall.

The wheels turned. The carriage smoothly drove out of the city gate. With the secret assistance of resident monks from various places, the journey was unimpeded.

The daily meal boxes were passed through the window at the front of the carriage. Except for stopping to change drivers and horses and replenish supplies, the carriage traveled at a steady pace the rest of the time.

The morning of the third day.

The carriage traveled north and arrived at the border between the provinces of Rosac and Sbreir.

Xia Zuo was sitting at the table, flipping through a book on poison alchemy.

The exotic sound of a flute drifted into the carriage.

Snake's custom-made flute!

He rushed to the window, tears welling up in his eyes.

Snake played the flute, and the green snake danced before him.

The clown siblings made funny faces.

Popeye stroked his creamy hair. "Hey, I told you Shazo would cry."

Audrey wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, just smiled and didn't say anything, but her eyes were full of reluctance.

The carriage drove past the four circus performers.

Xia Zuo leaned on the railing, gazing at the figure that was gradually disappearing into the distance.

Suddenly, they noticed a beautiful, unfamiliar figure standing behind them, with long, pale golden hair that they could vaguely see.

It seems the boss has found a new fire-breathing person.

Xia Zuo grinned through his tears, wiped his face with his sleeve, and turned to see Mars standing behind him with a smile on his face.

“That’s my sister, Miffy Morton. With her around, the circus will be safe. Business will be good too.”

Xia Zuo frowned slightly. "Is your sister a student at Starry Night Academy? Or a fire-breathing warrior from Starry Night City?"

“She’s a level above me. She’s already a mage apprentice. Although her spellcasting isn’t very smooth, becoming a full-fledged mage is only a matter of time. Her joining Audrey’s circus was a special arrangement by the academy.”

A sorcerer's apprentice travels around the province of Rosac with a circus.

Xia Zuo recalled the contents of the introduction to meditation, a book that was one of the essential texts for university students to memorize.

According to the book, all the students at Starry Night Academy are servants of mages.

Once you've mastered alchemy and passed the tests for the four branches of alchemy, you can begin practicing introductory meditation techniques.

Meditation can help meditators enter a unique perspective and seek out the untamed elements that roam freely between heaven and earth.

Meditists communicate with untamed elements through intention, and if successful, can absorb the other party into their body and tame them into a docile element.

Once a mage servant completes this process, he becomes a mage apprentice and can cast simple spells using the power of the obedient elements within him.

There is only one way to advance from a Dharma apprentice to a fully-fledged Dharma master:

Absorb more elements until you can use them to practice intermediate meditation techniques.

This requires the monks and their apprentices to travel far and wide, meditate in various places, and search for traces of untamed elements.

Mars' sister joining the circus is a win-win situation.

Chapter 3 Arrival at the University

The newborn carriages of Rosac met with other carriages outside the border crossing between the two provinces.

Six fully loaded black carriages formed a long, surging dragon, continuing northward along the wide, smooth road.

Xia Zuo was silently memorizing the basic textbook of poison alchemy.

A deep sigh came from across the table.

"Mars... Senior."