The Road of No Return

The transparent crystal ball was suspended in the air.

The faint light emanating from the ball illuminated the faces in the room.

The old face full of wrinkles showed disbelief and astonishment, with inexplicable emotions flashing in the eyes.

The calm teenager with an indifferent expression had his hands stretched over the crystal ball. The radiant power emanating faintly from his palms was connected to the crystal ball.

A huge bear head glanced at the light emitted from the crystal ball and uttered a low growl, then resumed licking the food residues between its paws.

"Unbelievable! You are only a matter of time away from a third-level apprentice. Your teacher will be proud of you!" The old man excitedly praised while clapping his hands, but the faint hissing in his speech showed that his old wounds had not yet healed.

Slowly withdrawing his hands, Raymon was very humble about the old man's praise. "Dean Barmer, you flatter me too much. My teacher always said that my growth was too slow and that I needed to gain more experience."

Sighing with emotion, Barmer shook his head. He stretched out his hand to put away the floating crystal ball. With a snap of the old man's fingers, the whole room regained its brightness.

"Reaching the threshold of a third-level apprentice at the age of fifteen, your teacher's strength is unfathomable, the gap is too great..." Sighing, Barmer's expression turned ugly when his eyes caught sight of the black mane bear in the corner.

As if sensing the old man's gaze, the black mane bear, which was licking its paws, suddenly raised its head and roared at Barmer.

The sudden roar echoing in the room made Barmer's expression ugly. He staggered for a moment before standing firm again, then he forced a smile.

Frowning, Raymon uttered a roar like a bear roar from his throat. The black mane bear with its head raised then crawled on the ground again.

Raymon had anticipated that the black mane bear would react to seeing Barmer, but he did not expect the black mane bear's hatred for Barmer to be so deep that it almost rushed up to kill Barmer when it came to Heihe Valley Academy.

Fortunately, under Raymon's forced command, the black mane bear, which had eaten delicious food for more than half a year, still knew the consequences of provoking Raymon. But its occasional low roars still frightened the people in Heihe Valley Academy.

Heihe Valley Academy was a group of buildings hidden in the mountains, similar to a monastery in Raymon's previous life memories.

The towering walls and arrow towers at the four corners were more than ten meters higher than the walls. Inside the vast space enclosed by the walls, there was a small castle in the center and low cabins along the walls.

Originally, in Raymon's understanding, Heihe Valley Wizard Academy should be a large group of magnificent and magnificent buildings. But after coming here and seeing everything in front of him, Raymon was still very disappointed.

Despite being called an academy, in fact, apart from Barmer and his first-level apprentice assistant Olins and three second-level apprentice teachers, no one else made up the faculty.

And all the students added up to only over fifty. The teenagers who reached the peak of first-level apprentices were considered successful and hardworking students worthy of praise.

Now, after Barmer's personal test, Raymon's strength was close to the intermediate level of a second-level wizard apprentice. In general, as long as he was not too lazy, Raymon could try to break through the bottleneck of a third-level apprentice in a year.

Barmer walked unsteadily, sighing at Raymon's unexpected strength. He carefully avoided the place occupied by the black mane bear and led Raymon out of the test room on the third floor of the castle, explaining in a voice full of emotion:

"Raymon, because my assistant Olins has been in the academy for over thirty years, he has never seen such a young second-level apprentice as you, so please forgive his previous offenses."

With a smile on his face, Raymon did not comment as he greeted the black mane bear to follow him.

If it were not to board the sea ships to other wizard continents, which required Barmer's advance notice, Raymon, with his current strength, had enough confidence to board the ship directly.

Because the humanoid shadow Heilim in the ancient castle had told him that these ships specially transporting potential wizard apprentices must be notified in advance by local academies to be allowed on board.

In order to protect these potential apprentices from the plunder or harm of dark wizards, the west coast also kept the information of the ships confidential before they officially boarded.

Therefore, when it was time to board the ship, all potential wizard apprentices had to register and gather at nearby wizard academies and eventually be escorted onto the ship together by the academy teachers.

The Heilim of the Tori family did not want to leave her hometown to go to other continents with many wizards, so she stayed in her family's territory.

But for Heilim, her choice at that time was probably a serious mistake.

Thinking of what the humanoid shadow Heilim said, after following Barmer to his office, Raymon raised his doubts.

According to Barmer's explanation, the west coast continent also had a prosperous era of wizards in the past. However, with the outbreak of wars between wizards and the gradual scarcity of resources needed by wizards, the number of humans with wizard bloodlines here became fewer and fewer.

Therefore, after many wizard organizations withdrew from this continent, it became an area where dark wizards could infiltrate. It was said that thousands of years ago, an evil dark wizard almost turned all humans on this continent into evil puppets.

Therefore, the powerful wizards born on this continent set down rules that all those with wizard bloodlines who wanted to embark on the path of wizards could go to other continents to continue their studies only after passing the test of wizard academies and reaching the basic strength of a first-level apprentice.

Standing at the window of the central castle in the academy, Raymon stroked the black mane bear's ears while listening to Barmer's introduction. Raymon's qualification to board the ship in three months was undoubtedly obtained.

However, Barmer, who explained in more detail than the humanoid shadow Heilim, finally solemnly warned Raymon that according to reports, the number of wizard apprentices boarding the ship every three years who truly grew into formal wizards was quite small.

In addition, few of these teenagers with wizard blood who boarded the ship ever returned.

Due to the scarcity of wizard resources, the west coast had thin wizard bloodlines. Still, the benefit was that it was very safe here.

A second-level wizard apprentice could have great power on the west coast and enjoy a luxurious life that ordinary people envied.

But boarding the ship to other continents was likely embarking on a road of no return!