Full-Time Magister: The Ruler of Wind and Rain

Huayao's high school students are actually quite good. Even though it is the best private high school in Shanghai, Huayao is certainly full of good-for-nothing rich kids. However, in their top classes, there are more rich kids than bad students. After all, everyone is a child of a powerful family. Apart from grades, who can convince whom?

So, when they saw the hunter badges displayed by the preparatory class at Pearl Academy, Hua Yao's complaints immediately stopped. They began to line up in an orderly fashion into four teams, which made Wang Yu admire Hua Yao's teachers a little; heaven knows how well they managed to keep these young masters under their control.

Without further ado, the four five-person teams from Mingzhu each selected one of Huayao's teams to join them. Wang Yu naturally chose Zhao Manyan's team, and then came the much-anticipated selection of team leaders. The students in Huayao's top-performing second-year high school class were quite capable; at least the students in Wang Yu's team could all successfully cast spells in the training ground, and most of them had mastered basic level two spells. This progress was, in theory, fast compared to their peers, but compared to Wang Yu and his group of young geniuses, they were slightly inferior.

After easily unleashing Wind Track - Shadow, Wang Yu, who had mastered the basic level three magic, took on the responsibility of becoming the captain. The situation was similar for the other three teams, with the older basic level three mages becoming captains, while Hua Yao's captain candidate could only be relegated to vice-captain.

Thinking of this, Wang Yu suddenly realized, "Hey, haven't those preparatory class students who are a year older than me already participated in mage training in high school?" He turned to ask Wu Shulan and received an affirmative answer. "Then the captains of the other three teams will have mage training experience. No wonder Feng Yang set such high goals verbally; he knew exactly what he was doing."

Although Wang Yu had never participated in mage training, he had often performed wilderness survival demonstrations as a novice mage during his half-year stay at the Azure Sky Hunting Grounds. Moreover, he had already reached the intermediate level, so he showed no signs of being timid.

Wang Yu was in Team One, and the vice-captain of Hua Yao's team was not Zhao Manyan, but a wind-type girl named Guan Yao. She had only mastered the first-level second-tier magic, but her proficiency in casting it was said to be very high. In addition, she had a lot of good magic tools, and her main strength was her individual strength.

However, seeing this woman so openly showing off her magical tools, Wang Yu thought of Zhao Manyan in the team. In the original work, he was the representative of magical tool strength. He wondered if it was because he had awakened the light element that he had not received strong support from the Zhao family and had only been equipped with a simple set of magical tools.

After the team leader was determined, the military mages began distributing wilderness survival supplies to each trainee. Each person received a cheap spatial ring, containing about half a cubic meter of space, crammed with dry rations, a tent, and an emergency signal gun; nothing else. Wang Yu glanced through it and secretly shook his head, thinking that it was a good thing he had brought his own small items like demon-repelling powder commonly used by hunters in the wild, otherwise it would have been a huge hassle.

After distributing maps to the four captains, Feng Yang instructed them to accompany him into the Hunter's Hall to accept the bounties. Looking at the low-difficulty bounties at the bottom of the bounty list, Wang Yu was hoping Lingling would be beside him, or at least remotely connected. Now that his external brain had suddenly gone offline, returning to a state of relying solely on himself felt quite strange.

After reviewing the bounties, Wang Yu noticed something amiss: all the low-difficulty bounties had destinations near a valley about 20 to 30 kilometers west of Tianping Mountain Station. He turned to Feng Yang and smiled. It was obvious. Our mage training was supposed to be about choosing bounties, but in reality, it was a trap set by these organizers. These optional bounties were definitely training challenges they had prepared.

Since we're all leading dungeons, let's choose the one that puts the least pressure on the team members, Wang Yu told himself. There was a bounty for gathering materials that seemed easy, but the route was long, with many terrain obstacles, posing a significant challenge to the team members' stamina and endurance, as well as the leader's organizational skills. Although Wang Yu was individually strong, he wasn't very confident in his organizational abilities; after all, these teammates were students, and he couldn't just beat them up for disobeying them.

The bounty commission that Wang Yu had his eye on, although it required traversing many areas supposedly infested with demons and reaching the lowest point of the valley to collect environmental data, actually had a much shorter route. And if his teammates couldn't handle those demons, Wang Yu could easily deal with them all by himself.

After discussing the bounties he wanted to choose with Guan Yao, Wang Yu was surprised to find that this girl also had her eye on the bounty that seemed to be the most difficult. Her exact words were: "During the mage's training, there will definitely be examiners lying in ambush near the route to observe and score. In this case, the bounty that best demonstrates strength is the most worthwhile to choose."

Since both of them had this attitude, Wang Yu, to the astonishment of the others, calmly chose the most "dangerous" bounty commission. Then, together with Guan Yao, he led a team of 30 people and set off!

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Of course, before stepping out of Anjie, Wang Yu, as the team leader, still had to explain some rules to the team members. So he found an open space, had everyone sit down, take out their dry food for a picnic, and hold a preliminary meeting.

"Dear students, let me introduce myself again. My name is Wang Yu, and I come from the preparatory class of Mingzhu Academy. During the next two weeks of training, we will be a team, and we will advance and retreat together based on the success or failure of the whole. Therefore, I hope that we can agree on some rules today. Unless there are special circumstances, everyone should abide by these rules. Is that alright?"

"Great!" Wu Shulan, Xie Ze, Cheng Hui, and Zhao Manyan, who were familiar with Wang Yu, cheered, and the others were also encouraged.

"The first rule is that, for safety reasons, after leaving the safe zone, no one in the team can act alone, whether it's to relieve themselves, fetch water, forage for food, or scout ahead. At least three people must go together, with the most experienced or capable person serving as the team leader. The others must follow orders. Anyone who disagrees, please raise your hand." No one raised their hand. Very good. It seems that the methods used to manage elementary school students on a field trip can also be used to manage mages.

"Secondly, I plan to appoint two more vice-captains to take turns managing the team with Guan Yao and me. Later, if someone performs exceptionally well and gains the respect of the team, they can become a vice-captain or even captain. I nominate one person, Wu Shulan from the Mingzhu Academy preparatory class. She has mastered the level three earth magic, Earth Wave - Collapse, and has also participated in mage training at a magic high school, so she has some experience. Does anyone have any objections to my nomination?" The students sitting around, hearing that Wu Shulan had mastered level three magic, naturally had no objections. Soon after, Guan Yao also nominated another candidate from Huayao, Li Taiyou, a boy at the initial level two of fire magic. It's said that his magic proficiency is among the best in Huayao, only lacking Guan Yao in magical tools. After asking the team members again and finding no further objections, Guan Yao, Wu Shulan, and Li Taiyou were tentatively appointed as the team's three vice-captains.

"The third rule is that when traveling on the road, one group should scout ahead and another group should bring up the rear. No one else should leave the group at will. Even if you need to go to the toilet, you must follow the first rule and call two teammates to go with you."

Article 4: During the journey, unless in an emergency, the daily travel time shall not exceed six hours, with a ten-minute rest every hour of travel…

Article 5: The direction of the team's advance shall be decided by the team leader and vice-leader. Everyone else must follow, and no one may leave the team without permission or lead others away from the team under any circumstances...

"Article Six: Water sources in the wild must be boiled..."

Article 7: It is forbidden to eat wild food indiscriminately...

"Article 8: Team members should help and support each other..."