The next day, when Gaia went to see Mitchell teacher, after having Mitchell treat his wounds, Gaia also took the opportunity to ask about the doubts he had from his conversation with Tris the previous day.

Mitchell didn’t ask about the reason for Gaia’s injury, but instead patiently explained the basics of magic to him:

First are the ranks of magicians: magic apprentice, probationary magician, junior magician, intermediate magician, senior magician, grand magician, magister, grand magister, and holy magister.

Each rank of magician can learn the corresponding elemental magic, starting from the lowest: wind, earth, water, fire, light, and lightning. Therefore, to determine a magician’s rank, you just need to see which elemental magic they can cast. For example, someone who can cast water magic is at least a senior magician, and someone who can cast fire magic is at least a grand magician.

As for what even more powerful elemental magic grand magisters and holy magisters can cast, Gaia also asked, but Mitchell didn’t say. After all, he himself had only reached the level of magister, and for Gaia, that was a very long journey ahead, so knowing in advance was meaningless.

Mitchell also briefly explained why magicians of different ranks can practice different elements:

Elements are all around us. For example, wind—we can often feel the wind blowing, which is the wind element, so wind is the easiest magical element to sense. When a magician’s spiritual power reaches a higher level, they can then sense earth, water, fire elements, and so on... The further you go, the harder it is to absorb those elements for your own use.

In fact, the ranks of magicians are divided based on their ability to sense and control these elements. For example, a magician who can sense and control the fire element is called a fire element magician. However, magicians at this level don’t just cast fire magic—they can also use wind, earth, and water magic. So, there are additional ranks for magicians: junior magician, intermediate magician, and so on...

Mitchell only explained the basic classification of magicians to Gaia and Tris and didn’t go deeper. Instead, he taught them the most fundamental training method for magicians—meditation—and then let the two of them leave.

Meditation is a compulsory course for every magician. While meditating, a magician can not only quickly replenish their magical power, but also expand their magical capacity. If you use meditation to look inside your body, you’ll find a magical vortex within the magician, which stores magical power, and the size of this vortex determines the capacity for magic.

Of course, for Gaia, who was only a magic apprentice, this magical vortex didn’t exist yet. His current task was to cultivate a magical vortex through meditation, so that he could become a probationary magician instead of just an apprentice. For students at Nick Academy, this process generally takes about a year.

Therefore, it usually takes at least a year for a magician to be able to cast magic, because after cultivating the vortex, they must sign a contract with the gods, and after the contract, they must sense the most active wind element in the world. Only after countless practices can they truly cast a spell.

“Practicing magic is an extremely difficult and long road. Only through unremitting effort can one become a great magician.” This is what Mitchell said to Gaia when he saw that Gaia was feeling a bit down.

Chapter 010: Magic Genius

The news that Abby was defeated by Gaia spread like wildfire. Abby was itching to tear that country boy apart, but since Gaia had been accepted as a disciple by Mitchell teacher, Abby didn’t dare to use any special means against Gaia for the time being, so the matter gradually faded away...

First-year student Gaia also began his life at the magic academy peacefully. The first-year students’ schedule was as follows: in the morning, they went to the classroom to listen to the magic teacher explain the most basic magical knowledge; in the afternoon, it was free time, which was generally for students to meditate. Of course, Gaia and Tris were special cases—they were the top students in the first year, because only they had reached level six in magical talent and had been accepted as disciples by Magister Mitchell.

In the afternoons, besides meditation, Gaia and Tris would sometimes receive special instruction from Magister Mitchell, which accelerated their training.

For children around ten years old, being able to calmly spend a whole day on the tedious practice of magic was already quite rare, especially for those pampered noble children. So at night, most students didn’t practice. Nick Magic Academy had quite a few entertainment venues, and at night, the children would spend their time there.

Gaia was also very playful, even more so than anyone else, but entertainment venues cost money, so at night, he usually went to the library to read about magical knowledge or the adventures of some magician. Although he was born in the countryside, his village chief father had taught him to read the language of the Zachariah Empire.

Books were also a novelty for Gaia. Since he couldn’t afford to spend money at entertainment venues, he could only immerse himself in the library every night.

“Gaia, don’t you sleep?” One night, Tris got up to use the bathroom and suddenly discovered that Gaia wasn’t sleeping, but was sitting cross-legged on his bed, wrapped in his quilt, meditating.