Chapter 82: Chapter 82: The Assessment Begins

Duke listened to Simon and summarized that there were quite a few second-generation wizards participating in this assessment. To be precise, they should be considered Nth-generation wizards. While their backgrounds might not mean much on the West Coast, to ordinary wizard apprentices like them, they were still challenging to deal with. Duke had no intention of having any disputes with these people, but if a confrontation were inevitable, he would not hold back. Early the next morning, Duke and Simon, along with a few others, arrived at the port of Academy Island, where a large ship was docked. After showing their Black Sail Badges, Duke and the others boarded the ship one by one. This assessment was divided into many batches, with their ship being just one batch of the third-class wizard apprentice assessment. There were too many wizard apprentices in the Black Sail organization, even for just third-class wizard apprentices; there were forty to fifty thousand, making it impossible to gather them all for an assessment. Duke and Simon stood in a corner of the deck, chatting casually, and Duke estimated that there were over three hundred third-class wizard apprentices on this ship, likely the total number for this batch of assessments. After waiting on the ship for half a day, the vessel finally left the port, heading toward the distant horizon. The ship sailed at an extremely fast speed, surpassing many of the cruise ships Duke had commonly seen in his previous life. Duke stood on the deck without hearing any mechanical roaring; the bottom of the ship was very calm, and he wondered how it was designed. The place they were heading to seemed to be very far away, as the ship only stopped outside an island by the time of the evening dusk. The host of this assessment was Mr. Jode, whose Magic Basic Theory course Duke had attended. Obviously, Jode couldn't possibly remember Duke; he had taught countless wizard apprentices. Jode held a piece of parchment, standing at the bow, and said sternly: "Next, you will be given a task list documenting the names of five types of magic potion materials."