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Debra curled her lips and did not agree with Johnny's statement. If a halfling can learn magic, then everyone can become a wizard, right?

But before she could speak again, Orlando came over and called on the students who had passed the assessment to go to the Howling Tower for the promotion ceremony.

After constructing the aerial transport route, the entire promotion process became extremely fast. After confirming the results of each student yesterday, Lin En directly asked someone to take an airship to report to the parliament and bring back the source of magic power. It only took half a day in total, and there was no need to wait for a week or two as before.

Debra and the others looked on with envy as the apprentices whose names were called walked into the tall tower, while they could only wait outside.

Pierce was the first one to be chosen. He walked into the Howling Tower nervously. When he saw Lin En, he bowed and saluted with great respect.

"Master Dean!"

"Piers, your results this time are pretty good. Although your written test scores were a little poor, you have a good grasp of elements, shaping, and herbology..." Lynn smiled and handed over a container of blue potion.

Pierce took the potion excitedly, and his hands almost trembled and he almost spilled the precious potion.

Lynn found this very funny and immediately reminded Pierce that he would not be able to fully advance in such a bad state.

Pierce took a deep breath for a while before calming down, then he solemnly drank the source of magic power.

A piercing coldness rose from the abdomen, and the power of the magic potion quickly surged throughout the body, finally pouring into the brain. Then there was a strange tingling sensation that seemed to come from the bones. Every cell in the body seemed to be torn apart and reorganized. It was a pain that penetrated deep into the soul...

Beads of sweat flowed down Pierce's forehead.

His face gradually turned blue and purple, as if all the blood had been drained out, and he looked extremely horrible.

The whole process lasted about ten minutes, and a strong magical wave soon emanated from Pierce's body.

Then, a ball of scorching fire emerged in the void, and Pierce opened his eyes immediately with a delighted expression. Casting spells without any materials and using magic to mimic elements, these were all symbols of a formal wizard!

"It looks like it was successful!" Lynn nodded with a smile.

"Thank you very much, Dean. If it weren't for you, I would probably have been a wizard apprentice all my life." Pierce bowed deeply to express his gratitude.

He has been a wizard apprentice for sixteen years since he entered Yieta Academy at the age of twelve, and he is nearly thirty years old this year.

Due to lack of talent, he was unable to accumulate magic power until Lynn became a professor at Yieta and brought in the extremely novel Mathematical Olympiad course that could train his calculation ability. Only then did he have the opportunity to make a breakthrough.

Therefore, Pierce was naturally extremely grateful to the dean...

Chapter 308: A world where everyone can become a spellcaster!

"I just gave you a chance to choose. Your promotion depends on your own efforts." Lin En took out a wizard medal and put it on Pierce's chest. "From today on, you are an official wizard!"

"Thank you, Dean..." Pierce's voice trembled slightly.

Lynn waved his hand, indicating that Pierce could go back and call the next apprentice over.

Peirce bowed again before leaving the Screaming Tower...

About three minutes later, Johnny pushed the door open and walked in. The two smiled at each other, and Lin pointed to the seat in front of him. "Stay here for a few minutes before leaving, lest they notice something's wrong..."

The girl nodded. In fact, during this period of time, Alok and the others had already suspected her many times. After all, they always had to use magic, but every time she used the alchemical creation [Magic Hand] to evade them.

Now I don’t have to hide secretly anymore.

And these ten minutes were not wasted. Johnny took the test paper and asked Lin En for help on the last few wrong questions...

In the next few hours, Lin En distributed wizard medals to every student who successfully advanced in the Howling Tower, or comforted those who failed, telling them to keep working hard and there might be another chance next year.

Perhaps because of the torture of solving a large number of questions and the improvement of computing power, this year's promotion rate is higher than in the past, reaching about 60%.

This means that there will be forty or fifty new official wizards this year.

Lin En pondered over the paper in his hand, which recorded the information of each student, and was ready to assign their positions one by one according to their grades.

Those who have poor theoretical performance but are proficient in practical combat will serve as combat wizards and participate in the subsequent war with the empire. On the contrary, they will be scientific researchers and participate in the development of new weapons and new magic.

While he was thinking, the door was pushed open again, and this time it was Lydia who came in.

As soon as the halfling girl entered the room, she pried on the long table and asked impatiently, "Dean Lin, can I become a wizard too?"

Lin En came back to his senses and asked, "That depends on what kind of wizard you want to be."

"Of course it's a wizard who can cast magic!" Lydia said without hesitation, and then looked at the dean expectantly, her eyes shining.

“If it’s just casting magic, it’s not that difficult.” Lynn said with a smile.

"Really? I can also use magic?" Lydia shouted in surprise. Although Johnny had mentioned it to her before, it was just a guess after all. Now it was confirmed by the dean himself.

"Take this on first!" Lin En handed over a specially made bracelet. Like the [Ring of Mystic Magic], it was used to communicate in the field of magic, but the style was modified for the sake of distinction.

Lydia couldn't wait to put it on her hand and said anxiously, "So now I can cast magic?"

"Of course not!" Lin En shook his head in amusement. "Just close your eyes and relax!"

Lydia immediately did as she was told and closed her eyes tightly, but she couldn't relax at all.

Lin En secretly called for the intelligent computer to connect to the brain of the half-orc girl. With the example of Redel and Lydia's high trust in him, this time it went very smoothly. The half-orc girl did not suffer too much pain and completed the connection with the magic realm.

Lydia soon found herself in an extremely magical place. Countless gray runes were floating in the void. Five of them floated towards her, circling around her body like naughty children, and suddenly flew into her head.

[Elementary Material Deconstruction], [Water Condensation], [Mage's Hand], [Fireball], [Ice Blade]...

A total of five spell slots appeared in Lydia's mind, and at the same time, Lynn's voice rang in her ears.

"Now you can try your hand at magic!"

Lydia opened her eyes, stretched out her hand nervously, and activated the spell in her mind. Under the surge of elements, a crystal clear ice blade appeared, emitting a biting cold breath, which instantly dropped the temperature around her body.

"It's really magic!" Lydia shouted happily, and then tried the fireball technique. The power of ice and fire kept flowing in her palms, and she had a lot of fun.

Although these are only basic spells, for the halfling girl who has never been able to master magic, she is already very satisfied.

"Dean, you are so great!" Lydia excitedly rushed to Lin En and kissed him hard on the face several times, venting her excitement.

Lin En wiped the saliva off his face in disgust and reminded him, "Remember, your mental power is limited, so you can only cast zero-ring magic five times and one-ring magic three times a day."

Lydia nodded quickly. She didn't care about the restrictions. At least she was a real wizard now!

She wanted to see who dared to say that he was not a wizard...

Lydia couldn't wait to go out and show off, but was stopped by Lin En before leaving.

"Don't you want your wizard medal anymore?" Lin En asked helplessly.

"Yes, yes, yes!" Lydia ran back in a hurry, waited patiently for the dean to put the medal on her, and then ran out happily.

Seeing Lydia's irritable look, Lin En couldn't help but smile, and then he began to investigate the problem of magic power loss in the intelligent computer.

Allowing a person who originally doesn't know magic to successfully cast a spell is naturally not without cost, and magic power does not emerge out of thin air, it can only be drawn from his magic field.

This is Lin En's second attempt to break the theory of magical talent. Now it seems to be successful, but there are still many problems that need to be solved.

For example, the supply of magic power. The lost magic power must not be borne entirely by the intelligent brain. It would be better to build a magic reactor like building an electric grid, so as to use a huge magic network to supply the spellcasting requirements of these new-school wizards.

According to his idea, in the magic kingdom of the future, no matter whether one has the talent to become a wizard or not, as long as one has learned and mastered the principles of magic and has enough computing power, one will be able to use the magic network to perform corresponding magic!

Instead of being like it is now, where birth determines whether a commoner can become a wizard.

A world where everyone can become a spellcaster might be able to surpass the Federation of the previous life and push the science of magic to a whole new level.

Chapter 309: Could it be that you are so crazy about using magic that you are having hallucinations?

Outside the Howling Tower, a group of students were gathered in front of the gate, waiting for the result of the promotion ceremony.

From time to time, someone would walk out of the tower in joy, receiving envious and jealous gazes from the crowd. However, there were also many people who failed, and they could only retreat aside dejectedly.

Darren and the others watched Lydia walk into the tower, waiting anxiously, and within two minutes they saw the door of the tower open again.

So fast?

Darren's heart was beating fast. Those students who had successfully advanced to the next level had said clearly that it took time for the potion to transform the body. Some were faster, some were slower, but generally it took about ten minutes...

Could it be that he failed in promotion?

Just as he was thinking about it, Darren rejected this guess the next moment, because Lydia, who walked out of the tower, had a shining wizard medal hanging on her chest, which looked extremely dazzling under the sunlight.

Everyone's eyes were drawn to it, as this meant that Yieta, no, it should be said that the entire wizarding land would have its first halfling wizard!

"Congratulations, Lydia, you are really setting a precedent for halflings!" Johnny congratulated happily.

Alok and others who were familiar with the girl also came forward to congratulate her and were sincerely happy for her.

Lydia puffed out her chest proudly under the gaze of everyone. From today on, she was an official wizard.

"I didn't expect that the dean would actually allow someone who doesn't know magic to become a wizard!" Debra said jealously.

Those apprentices who took the potion but failed to complete the promotion looked at the halfling girl with a bit more dissatisfaction.

Like Lydia, they all passed both the competition and practical assessments, but the dean did not give them the status of wizards. Instead, he gave this honor to a halfling who couldn't even use magic. This made them resent Dean Lin's favoritism.

"Who said I can't use magic?" Lydia proudly stretched out her hand, concentrating and preparing to cast the fireball spell to open everyone's eyes.

The apprentices and wizards present all looked over with curiosity, for they knew that Lydia had spent two full years at Iyeta Academy without being able to learn magic.

Lydia concentrated on communicating with the magic field and tried to activate the spell slots in her mind, but after a long time, there was no movement.

"Hey, why can't I use it?" Lydia opened her eyes and said blankly.

"Could it be that you've gone crazy trying to use magic, so you're having hallucinations?" Debra sneered.

Lydia curled her lips, and suddenly remembered that the dean said that with her computing power, she could only use one-ring magic three times a day. She was too excited in the Screaming Tower just now, and it seemed that she had used up all the magic!

Then she could only switch to zero-ring magic... She remembered that she hadn't used it up yet.

Lydia's mind moved, and she immediately activated the [Hand of the Mage]. The test papers in everyone's hands trembled violently, then flew up, circled around her, and then piled up in her hands.

"This, this is the [Mage's Hand]..."

Debra's eyes widened, her face full of surprise, and it took her a while to make sure that no one was teasing her.

The person who cast the spell was Lydia!

"You really learned magic, Lydia!" Darren excitedly put his hands on Lydia's shoulders and shook them back and forth.

Although this is only the most basic zero-ring spell, it also means that the other party has mastered the miracle called magic!

"Of course! I also know [Fireball] and [Ice Blade], but I've just used them several times. Now I have to wait until tomorrow to use them again..." Lydia said proudly, but at the same time she felt a little annoyed. If she had known earlier, she would have saved a first-level spell slot and used it for everyone to see.

However, given that Lydia successfully performed magic, no one questioned her words. After all, everyone's magic power and mental power are limited. Even a formal wizard may face the dilemma of running out of magic power after performing a few powerful spells.