Full-Time Magister: The Ruler of Wind and Rain

Pearl Academy truly lives up to its reputation as a top-two university in the country; the resources it provides to its students are indeed abundant! After class, Wang Yu, following the instructions of his homeroom teacher Yu Xiujia, swiped his student card to receive a Stardust Magic Artifact. Of course, the faculty member in charge of distributing the Stardust Magic Artifacts tirelessly reminded Wang Yu to be extremely careful not to damage it, otherwise the compensation would be a hefty sum, blah blah blah.

The Stardust Artifact resembled a small crystal, but it was housed in a very sturdy box, indicating its considerable value. The Stardust Artifacts distributed to the students were all made into pendants, making them convenient to wear around the neck. Wang Yu immediately put the artifact around his neck the moment he received it.

Back in his dormitory, Wang Yu couldn't wait to enter a meditative state. He quickly experienced the wonders of the Stardust Artifact: during cultivation, the Stardust Artifact seemed to provide a clear spring in Wang Yu's mental space. Whenever he felt that the repetitive process of meditation was becoming somewhat irritating, the refreshing spring water would wash away his thoughts, dispel fatigue, anxiety, and restlessness, leaving only a calm, peaceful, and leisurely pure mind.

A common saying in martial arts novels is, "Time flies in the mountains." The same applies to a mage's cultivation. An ordinary mage cultivates for about five hours a day, but Wang Yu, this dual-elemental powerhouse, has been cultivating for twelve hours a day from the very beginning. After obtaining the Stardust Magic Artifact, Wang Yu intentionally tested his limits, meditating until his mind could no longer sustain it before emerging from his mental world. He checked the time on his phone—Holy crap? Fourteen hours?

In other words, as long as you are willing to put in the effort and dedicate all your cultivation time to a magic system, Wang Yu can achieve a cultivation speed that is almost three times faster than that of a novice mage with just one Stardust Magic Artifact!

Such an encouraging conclusion brought a smile to Wang Yu's face even as he drifted off to sleep.

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October in Shanghai is quite comfortable; the sweltering heat of summer has subsided. Every evening, I come to the rooftop terrace of Qingtian Hunting Grounds, brew a pot of Bao Laotou's fine tea, and enjoy the night view of the Huangpu River. This is a very leisurely life.

Of course, Wang Yu wasn't slacking off; rather, he had recently hit a slight bottleneck in his cultivation, so following Old Man Bao's advice, he was taking a short break. His wind element had already reached the initial stage of full mastery and was clearly approaching the threshold of the intermediate stage. Logically speaking, the threshold between the initial and intermediate stages isn't that high, and most intermediate mages wouldn't rely on external forces when breaking through.

However, it's normal for most people to stagnate for a year or two between the initial and intermediate stages. But Wang Yu felt he had reached the intermediate stage threshold in just over a month after completing his cultivation. This made him a little uneasy, so he recently reduced the time he spent cultivating in seclusion and used more of the time allocated to wind element cultivation to stabilize his stardust, striving for a successful breakthrough in one go.

This is why Wang Yu discovered for the first time that the Stardust Magic Artifact also had the function of nurturing a mage's spiritual world when not cultivating. This made him determined to save up money to get a better Stardust Magic Artifact himself. After all, no matter how good the one he received from school was, he would have to return it next March. Having something from his parents was ultimately not as good as having it himself.

He had also contacted Mo Fan and Zhang Xiaohou, who were still in Bocheng. Both of them said that Tianlan Magic High School had also distributed Stardust Magic Artifacts. Zhang Xiaohou received 20 days' worth because of his good grades, while Mo Fan was supposed to have 30 days' worth, but because he "insulted school leaders," he only had 10 days left. However, there was nothing he could do; the resources of the top university in Shanghai were definitely incomparable to those of an ordinary public magic high school.

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In a wind magic theory class, Department Head Ling Yufeng was explaining his understanding of intermediate-level wind magic: "The intermediate-level level one magic skill, Wind Disc - Tornado, is actually very similar in attack power to the intermediate-level level two skill, Wind Disc - Heavenly Net. So why is Wind Disc - Heavenly Net a level two magic skill?"

Before the students below could answer, he continued, "That's because the tornado formed by Wind Disc - Tornado is generated near the wind mage and chases after the target. First of all, the tornado's chasing speed is limited, only slightly faster than Wind Track - Shadow. If the opponent is relatively agile, the hit rate of this spell is relatively limited. Furthermore, unless the mage has particularly high elemental control, it is difficult to control the tornado to catch up with an enemy that is not running in a straight line."

"While Wind Disc - Heavenly Net also forms a tornado to attack, this spell allows the mage to directly manipulate the power of the wind to form a tornado under the opponent's feet, greatly increasing the spell's hit rate. However, due to the similar attack method, its power is not much different from Wind Disc - Tornado."

"Next, let's talk about the third-level Wind Disc - Tear. This magic is far more powerful than the first and second-level magic because Wind Disc - Tear essentially manipulates the power of wind to form two tornadoes of different sizes, which are coaxial and reversed, and nest them together. The powerful force between the tornadoes will tear and crush anything caught in them!"

"In fact, I think this spell deserves the name 'Bone Crusher' more than a mid-level ice spell. After all, those ice mages just manipulate heavy ice chains to smash people. How can that compare to the super spiral crushing mixer of our mid-level wind spell?"

"Alright, that concludes today's theory lesson. I've finished my boasting. Students, go back and practice diligently. get out of class dismissed!"

Wang Yu, who was listening in the back row, rushed out of the classroom. If he had been any slower, the department head would have already ridden away on the wind tunnel.

"Director Ling! Wait a minute! I have a question I'd like to ask you!"

Hearing Wang Yu's shout, Ling Yufeng dispersed the wind trail, turned around and smiled at Wang Yu: "Oh, what wind blew this preparatory class prodigy here? Looks like a spiritual seed fell from the sky today!"

This "little genius" from the preparatory class isn't just Wang Yu's boast, but rather the result of last week's competition. Last week, the wind magic departments of the Mingzhu main campus and Qing campus organized a wind obstacle course race, which preparatory class students could also participate in. The competition required participants to use only wind magic for the race, with rules similar to a rally race, where each runner was released and timed individually, and the final result was the time taken to finish.

The two-kilometer loop, consisting of five laps, was a distance so long that the other two or three wind mages in the preparatory class hesitated to attempt it. As novice mages, their magical energy simply couldn't withstand such a challenge. But Wang Yu was different. First, he had mastered all the basics of the novice level, his magical energy reaching the pinnacle of Stardust. Second, he possessed a Domain. Although it didn't directly increase magical power like a Spirit Seed, the richer wind element allowed his wind trail to extend for a longer time and distance, providing greater speed. In short, Wang Yu was the only novice mage to finish the race, and his ranking wasn't low either, placing him in the top ten out of three or four hundred participants. So when the host mentioned that Wang Yu was from the preparatory class during the awards ceremony, the audience erupted in cheers, calling him the preparatory class's little genius. That title was thus bestowed upon Wang Yu.