It wasn't long before the remaining three Advanced Apprentices had completed their testing.
Unfortunately, one young Male Wizard failed to pass... and could only leave the scene disheartened.
"Let's go, come with me to register your details, and we'll assign you your placements as well."
After the assessment had concluded, Allyn put away the recording crystal and spoke.
Colin nodded and, under the astonished and admiring gazes of the nearby School Wizards, followed Allyn out of the indoor training ground with the other Apprentices who had passed the assessment.
Walking along the spacious corridor, it wasn't long before Allyn led them to an office.
"Colin, come and register," Allyn said with a smile as he sat behind the desk, then turned to the rest of the Wizards, "All of you come and register as well."
It's no wonder he favored Colin, after all, this was a world where naked power reigned supreme.
In terms of Magic Power alone, Colin's Magic Power was almost on par with his.
But he was nearly 60 years old now, no longer young... He could only say that he was relying on his credentials and accumulation of experience to surpass Colin.
Thinking of this, Allyn couldn't help but sigh softly.
Although to a Wizard Apprentice, 60 years old was merely middle-aged, and if one didn't seek to advance and merely did some modifications, with effort, they could live up to around 160.
But nevertheless, he couldn't compare to Colin and the other Advanced Wizard Apprentices who were only in their teens.
Colin and his group approached.
"Allyn," Allyn composed himself and smiled at them as he introduced himself.
Meanwhile, he distributed stacks of registration forms to them.
Colin took the forms and glanced over them.
The information required for this registration was much more extensive than what had been needed for the examination registration.
It included not only the Meditation Method studied and the witchcraft skills mastered but also their main areas of knowledge.
"Colin—" While they were filling out the forms, Allyn initiated a conversation with him, "The witchcraft you used earlier, what was it?"
He paused and added with some confusion:
"It seemed similar to the Fireball Technique, but the power probably reached the quality of the good tier of Zeroth Rank Upper witchcraft."
"...It's a new witchcraft developed by the Sect Leader of my former School based on the Fireball Technique, named Fireball Skill·Revised," Colin paused before replying.
"I see," Allyn nodded, understanding it was a unique creation, no wonder it seemed unfamiliar.
"May I ask... why did you leave your former School?" Something seemed to occur to Allyn as he asked.
Colin paused at the question.
"My former School was destroyed due to a Divine intervention."
"Destroyed…" Allyn nodded, then, seemingly catching onto something, he asked in surprise, "Destroyed because of a Divine coming?!"
The Apprentices around, who were filling out the registration forms, were also momentarily taken aback.
"Could you possibly be from the Mos Kingdom?"
"No, that's not right... there are no Wizard Schools there," Allyn inquired repeatedly, somewhat puzzled.
"But aside from the Mos Kingdom, there have been no other Divine interventions on the Siya Continent in recent years..."
Colin shook his head, replying, "I am from the far southern seas."
"From the sea?" Allyn's heart sank subtly as he asked without showing outward concern, "On which island? A large island like Bananka Island?"
"No, just a remote small island," Colin shook his head.
Allyn's warm demeanor suddenly cooled a bit, but he still pressed on,
"Did you also advance to an Advanced Wizard Apprentice while on that small island?"
"Yes," Colin nodded, somewhat puzzled by his query.
"Alright, you go first; I'll rest for a moment." Allyn nodded his head, said nothing more, and leaned back in his chair to close his eyes and rejuvenate.
Colin furrowed his brows slightly in his mind, sensing a shift in Allyn's attitude toward him... as if he had suddenly lost interest in making conversation.
He subconsciously turned his head to look at the other apprentices around him.
Most of them had normal expressions and did not seem to find their conversation odd... probably because they, like him, understood very little.
However... the apprentice with an exam result of gold and a noble demeanor inexplicably glanced at him.
In his eyes... there seemed to be a flash of disdain and arrogance, but it was fleeting, and the noble apprentice quickly composed himself and lowered his head to continue filling out his form.
Colin grew suspicious and stopped his pen.
"The choice of location when advancing to an Advanced Wizard Apprentice affects the purity and quality of one's personal character and knowledge's 'Spiritual Light,' which in turn influences various aspects."
Just then, a soft voice reached his ears.
Colin turned to look... it was another apprentice with a gold result on the exam, a woman with dark skin.
She was now standing beside Colin.
"Generally speaking, the more tainted babbling the chosen location has, the higher the pollution level of the person's character and 'Spiritual Light'... And the sea naturally has more tainted babbling than the continent,
If it's a populous and bustling large island, it might still be roughly on par with the tainted babbling levels of the coastal areas of the continent, but remote islands..."
The female apprentice shook her head.
"Thank you," Colin nodded subtly, unfazed. Regardless of the female apprentice's intentions in explaining this, it at least cleared up his confusion.
He paused, then continued to quietly ask the female apprentice:
"What mainly affects the quality of 'Spiritual Light' and character...?"
While filling out her registration form, the female apprentice replied:
"It affects various aspects, such as making it easier to become corrupt, etc... The greatest impact is on the probability of advancing to an Official Wizard.
But since not all Wizard Apprentices can choose their advancement location, and the overall impact is not very significant,
Such knowledge is usually not mentioned in small schools... It's only in large schools, or among pupils with particularly good talents, that special attention is paid."
Here, she paused, then hesitatingly added:
"If you advance in a remote island, the probability of becoming an Official Wizard might drop by at least ten percent... based on the original odds.
This means if you originally had a 10% chance of becoming an Official Wizard, now it would be just 9%."
Hearing the female apprentice's words, Colin was startled... this was knowledge he had never learned at the Lap School.
'But a ten percent drop in probability, based on the original, doesn't sound like much.'
As if hearing his thoughts, the dark-skinned female apprentice continued:
"A ten percent drop in advancing probability might not seem like much... But for us Wizards who have rejoined the School, it's not the same.
Rejoining the School, already having switched the Meditation Method, causes magic power not to fully convert, lowering the probability of becoming an Official Wizard even more."
"Moreover, for some reason, when either or both are negatively affected to a certain extent, their negative impacts start stacking up... By then, it wouldn't be just a twenty or thirty percent drop, but at least ninety percent."
Ninety percent... Doesn't this mean that if originally you had a 10% chance, now it could be at most 1%?!
Colin's expression grew solemn; the female apprentice did not specify, but his situation, advancing as an Advanced Wizard Apprentice on a remote island, clearly met the conditions for stacking.
If he had stayed at his original school, a mere ten percent drop in advancement probability wouldn't have been much, but now a drop of over ninety percent...
He now also understood why Allyn's attitude had suddenly cooled and why the male wizard's eyeshadow was filled with mockery.
Unexpectedly, one was a negative spiritual influence, and the other a negative magical influence.
Together, they somehow miraculously produced an effect greater than the sum of their parts...