Wizard: This mushroom is too fierce.

Grey family residence

"Father, I have entered into a marriage alliance with the heir of a local wizarding family." In a luxurious lady's room, Irina, dressed in magnificent wizarding robes, sat at her desk and continued writing in the letter: "It can be considered a successful first step."

"Coreman Gray is my foolish fiancé. He looks down on foreign wizard apprentices. Originally, my affair with him was going to drag on for quite some time, but then I suddenly met Roland half a month ago."

"That's Roland from the Colt family, the boy who once wanted to be my squire."

"You should still remember him, right?" Irina wrote with a faint smile, and continued, "It's incredible, you know, Roland is now a celebrity in our generation."

"His wizarding aptitude was only first-class, but he became a third-class wizarding apprentice a month before the academy's assessment, and won first place in a competition exam half a month ago."

"Oh...right, he also has a really powerful friend. Coleman told me that the girl is a direct descendant of a first-circle potion master."

"I completely controlled Coleman by using Roland's connections."

Her pen paused, and Irina's expression gradually shifted from joy to worry. She wrote, "Father... my relationship with Roland is not looking good right now."

"Our contact is very weak. Before that, I had only contacted him once."

"And then there's the incompetence of that idiot Coleman..."

"You need to help me; this could be my chance to take things to the next level." Irina's face showed worry. "Right now, I don't have any chance to improve or reverse this relationship."

"But I think you could start with Roland's family and let him feel the sincerity of our Bauhinia."

......

"Cough cough..." A coughing sound came from Ashius's magic hut. Roland opened his eyes, ending his meditation. He stood up and walked to the door: "Teacher, I'm here."

"Oh...it's Roland!" Ashius's voice rang out again. "Come in."

Roland gently pushed open the wooden door, and Professor Ashius and a lady whose face still had a flush of red appeared before him.

"Ahem..." Ashus's expression was a little stiff. He pointed to the witch beside him and said, "Roland, let me introduce you."

"This is Lilith, a botanical wizard from the first ring of our Deep Caverns."

The witch Lilith was a woman with smiling eyes. She smiled at Roland, then said to Ashius, "Your body tempering is quite good. This time, you win."

"Come to my magic hut in three days...we'll finish the rest." After Lilith finished speaking, her gaze suddenly shifted to Roland, who stood respectfully to the side: "The Botanical School's foundational spell 'Fighting Comrades'?"

"Isn't Ashus pursuing the Summoning School's path of cultivating extraordinary magical children?"

"Ashius, your student is a bit unconventional!" Lilith's eyes crinkled, and her lips curled up, indicating she was in a very good mood. She then added, "Here, take this... consider it a small gift for our first meeting."

The next moment, a round, purple mushroom, about the size of a football, appeared in front of Roland.

Roland's pupils contracted slightly as he stared at the mushroom before him, an expression of disbelief on his face: "A Floating Jet Mushroom?"

This is quite a gift. Roland is well-versed in books on magical plants, especially fungi. This is a magical plant that has disappeared from the surface of the Dark Cavern area.

Lilith raised an eyebrow, a look of curiosity on her face: "You know that?"

"Ashius taught well, didn't he?"

The Floating Spray Mushroom, a 0.5-ring level fungal magical plant, is the highest-level magical plant that a third-rank wizard apprentice of the Botany school can link to the spell "Fighting Comrades".

The plant encyclopedia in the deep cave clearly states that, in the apprentice-level field of fungal magical plants, this magical plant ranks among the top three on the evolutionary potential list.

It has multiple characteristics that can simplify complex matters. Simply put, Roland can continuously increase the number of floating spray mushrooms based on the increase of magic power and mental power.

This is something that most single magical plants cannot provide. Take the Mandragora vine series of magical plants as an example. Its characteristic is that it is all-rounded, and it can both attack and defend. This is its advantage, but its disadvantage is also obvious. Because it is a vine-type magical plant, its body is very long, and some can even be tens of meters long. Therefore, the difficulty of control increases dramatically, and the caster needs to devote himself to it.

After Lilith left, Roland looked at his teacher with a puzzled expression: "This..."

"Take it, consider it part of my spoils. It was originally meant for you." Ashius coughed, then said in a deep voice, "Roland, I called you here today to give you two tasks."

"One is a mandatory task issued by the academy, and the other is a task I personally assigned to you."

Roland nodded slightly after hearing his teacher's words. He had already learned some about the academy's mission from the student forum.

According to the rules of the Deep Cavern, each third-class wizard apprentice must complete an assessment task every three months, which is related to the student's year-end ranking.

The better the assessment tasks are completed, the higher the evaluation, and the higher the ranking at the end of the year. The better the resources that can be obtained, which can be considered a small perk for students in the Deep Cavern.

Of course, the premise is that you are good enough. In the wizarding world, only excellent wizards can sit at the table and eat.

"What is the teacher's mission?" Roland asked softly.

Ashius moved his right hand slightly, and a scroll appeared in the air before slowly falling into Roland's hand.

"Your first task is to go out and explore to collect resources."

"And the entire process needs to be recorded using a magic crystal ball."

"I had already completed your task," Ashius said in a low voice, his expression grim. "But your winning post in the competition at the Magic Plant House was leaked to the Education Committee by some indignant students."

"Although your paper and video deserve first place after evaluation, some members of the committee believe that your performance and qualifications during your time as a prospective apprentice are completely unworthy of the title of genius."

"Therefore, we have decided to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of you to ensure that you are indeed a true genius, and not someone with ulterior motives from the outside world, or even someone specially cultivated by a dark wizard."

Upon hearing this, Roland immediately understood. He guessed that these wizards had discovered a huge difference between the original owner's progress rate and his own progress rate after transmigrating when they were conducting a background check on him, and that was the reason for their decision.

Roland nodded, then continued, "Teacher, what task have you assigned me?"

Ashius blinked, then stretched out his palm. The next moment, a three-dimensional architectural drawing made entirely of water elemental magic particles appeared in front of Roland: "Bloodflame Arena, this is a building I'm preparing to build in Northwind City specifically for combat competitions at the wizard apprentice level."

"I need you to find a way to promote this building among the student population and get all the wizarding apprentices from various schools of thought to join this battle feast."

"I'm giving you three thousand magic stones as a budget. You can decide how much to use as you like. The rest of the magic stones will be your reward."

"This task isn't just on my end; people within the academy are also paying attention. If you do well, there will be additional rewards."