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Chapter 174: Boarding

Translator: Kris_LiuEditor: Vermillion

The candle light shining through the magic silver lampshade brightly lit the whole room, and the three apprentices were still working on their exercises regarding the apprentice spell, Acid Splash.

By enhancing the understanding of this apprentice spell, the three apprentices would gain a better knowledge of the symbols of some elements and practice the basic application of geometry.

The three teenagers, although looking a bit tired, were still working dedicatedly.

At this time, there was a knock on the door.

Annick suddenly stood up straight and started to look around confusedly.

”Is that Mr. Evans?” asked Layria, a bit worried. Both Layria and Heidi dropped their quills.

Within those seven days, Lucien had been pushing them to do exercises and to practice casting every single day. All of the three teenagers felt so exhausted that simply hearing Lucien’s footstep made them feel nervous.

However, at the same time, they also saw the great progress they had made. The joy of seeing themselves successively casting a challenging spell was definitely exciting and encouraging.

”No, Mr. Evans would just directly come in.” Annick shook his head, ”Let me see.”

When he stood up, Annick felt a bit dizzy, and he saw that it was already dark outside.

When he opened the door, he surprisedly found that it was Sprint who was knocking the door, and beside him stood Katrina.

”Hi…” Annick was not sure why both of them were there, so he greeted with a bit hesitance, ”Anything that I can help you with?”

Despite the fact that Annick did not want to admit, when he saw Sprint and Katrina fluently casting spells, he admired them. Also, Annick also had to acknowledge that Sprint and Katrina were indeed smarter than him, since their fluency and mastery did not require much of their effort.

”Ha? What are you talking about, Annick?” Sprint was very surprised but also amused, ”Did these exercises mess your brain up? We’re leaving for the congress tonight!”

”What… Wait… Is it today that we’re leaving?” Annick looked completely shocked.

”The first exercise… the second…” Heidi hurriedly counted the worksheets piling in front of her, and then she suddenly raised her head and said out loud, ”Oh my… Yes, we’re leaving today! I can’t believe that I just totally forgot it!”

”Neither can I…” agreed Layria, who looked a bit pale from being buried by the great amount of exercises.

”Annick, Heidi, Layria… Look at yourselves right now,” said Katrina out of both pride and sympathy, ”Arcana is a brand new thing for Mr. Evans. If he’s not on the correct path, you have to tell him. Don’t let him torture you like this.”

”Are you guys making any progress? Sorry, I really cannot see,” said Sprint arrogantly.

”I don’t agree with you, Sprint.” Layria shook her head, ”If I would say, seven days ago, that I had absolutely no idea what arcana was, now I feel like I’m actually taking the right path.”

”That’s right. Mr. Evans is a real sorcerer, and he knows what he’s doing. We’ve progressed a lot.” Annick nodded.

”Oh really?” Sprint quickly gave them a snort of contempt.

”Really? Don’t tell me that you cannot see, Sprint,” said Heidi seriously. ”The other day, in the practice room, you saw how we cast the spells. Our progress is all because of Mr. Evans!”

Inside of the three teenagers’ mind, they all agreed that, despite their great respect toward Mr. Evans, it would be perfect if their workload could be a bit less.

”Stubborn…” Sprint turned around, ”Keep suffering then, guys.”

”Ten o’clock sharp, in the study, we’ll be meeting there and leaving together.” Katrina still remembered why Sprint and she came here, ”It’s okay that you three are falling behind a bit. When we arrive at the congress, we’ll be sent to schools for systematic arcana and magic study.”

Then both Katrina and Sprint left the room.

”They just won’t believe us!” complained Heidi.

”It’s okay… One day they’ll see.” Annick encouraged his friends, ”Now, no time for feeling angry or frustrated. We have to finish the rest of the exercises before we go.”

Both Layria and Heidi quickly sat up straight and said at the same time, ”Let’s do it!”

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