The wizard's physique is not weak, especially as their realm increases, the wizard's physique becomes stronger and stronger.

Initially, the physique of a wizard apprentice may not be able to match a Great Knight, but as their strength increases, their physique alone can surpass many physically powerful magical beasts.

Moreover, many wizards conduct some magic research to enhance their physique, resulting in their bodies being quite strong.

During Duke's promotion process just now, every cell in his body was infused with a large amount of free energy particles, continuously strengthening his physique.

This process is far more direct than the practice of a breathing technique, rapidly enhancing the strength of all aspects of the body.

Duke's basic attributes were already quite high, and on this basis, his physique, strength, and agility all increased by more than three points each, which is enough to illustrate the significant enhancement a wizard apprentice receives from the promotion process.

The basic attributes of others are generally not as high as Duke's, so the increase in numerical value would be even higher.

Duke's spiritual power seems to have increased very little, only 1.3.

But this is because his spiritual power had already reached twenty points, while a typical third-class wizard apprentice only has about fifteen spiritual power points at promotion.

According to the data Duke found, a typical third-class wizard apprentice can increase their spiritual power from fifteen to around seventeen to nineteen after promotion.

It's extremely rare for ordinary third-class wizard apprentices to reach twenty points of spiritual power after promotion; nineteen points are already considered excellent.

After Duke successfully promoted, both his body and spirit felt somewhat exhausted.

Although his physical attributes and spiritual power improved, that sense of fatigue lingered.

His body expended too much during the promotion process, and simply increasing a bit won't suffice to recover; he needs to rest for some time.

Duke's entire promotion process lasted for three hours; after paying the magic stone, he returned to the dormitory area.

When he returned, Hanna was standing at the door hanging out clothes to dry.

The moment she saw Duke, she sensed something different about him; after a brief perception check, she asked in surprise, "Did you get promoted to a second-class wizard apprentice?"

Duke had just been promoted, and the magical aura around him was still unstable and unrestrained, easily perceived by Hanna.

"Yes," Duke nodded without saying much; he just wanted to take a shower and have a good sleep now.

For a long time, he hasn't slept; now that both his body and spirit are exhausted, he needs a deep sleep to recover.

Duke filled the bathtub with hot water, and after lying in it, the comfort almost made him fall asleep.

After soaking for a while, he got out of the bathtub, lay on the bed, and fell into a deep sleep.

…

Duke was woken up by the sound of a few crows; when he woke up, he was still in the dormitory, but the surroundings had changed somewhat.

As soon as he sat up, a cloud of dust was stirred up, causing him to cough.

It was then that Duke noticed a thick layer of dust covering his bed, as if it had been there for hundreds of years.

He was puzzled and didn't know what was going on.

Duke then got off the bed, noticing the thick dust covering the floor and other parts of the room as well.

The entire house seemed to have been abandoned for hundreds of years, with no one visiting during that time.

Duke furrowed his brows, but did not panic; he knew something must have happened to him.

He looked at his hands; the space ring, brass ring, and Evil Spirit Crown were all present.

"Evil Spirit Crown, could it be that I encountered an evil spirit attack?" Duke thought about the effects of the Evil Spirit Crown, which can resist evil thoughts, curses, and spirit-related attacks.

Thinking further, he doubted it, as if he really had encountered an evil spirit attack, the Evil Spirit Crown would react.

The Evil Spirit Crown itself has the ability to perceive evil spirits and evil thoughts, and if there were any evil spirits nearby, it would automatically heat up.

But now, the Evil Spirit Crown felt normal, without any reaction.

The device wasn't broken; when Duke communicated with it using spiritual power, it still functioned normally.

The same was true for the space ring; he could retrieve items from it.

Duke also noted that the food and clean water inside were normal, unspoiled.

This made him feel strange; the room's scenery suggested hundreds of years had passed, yet the food inside the space ring was still fine, indicating not much time had actually passed.

The space ring cannot preserve food for a long time; if too much time passes, the food will spoil.

Duke mobilized the Shadow Water on him; it could be mobilized normally.

He looked toward the tightly closed door and heard occasional crow noises from outside.

Duke didn't rush to open the door but went to the window, gently drawing the curtain to open a narrow slit.

He peeked through the gap and saw the surroundings still resembled the dormitory area.

However, further away, it was different, with no sight of the sea in the distance.

The dormitory area is not far from the seashore; usually, one could see the rolling sea outside the island from this window, but now they only saw some barren hills.

Just as Duke intended to pull the curtains further, a pale woman's face appeared at the window, with vacant eyes staring fixedly at him.

Duke felt a tingling in his scalp, and simultaneously, the Evil Spirit Crown suddenly heated, becoming scorching hot.

A phantom crown appeared above Duke's head, exuding a golden glow that shined on the woman's face, burning with fiery flames.

"Ah!" The woman let out an extremely piercing scream and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

By then, Duke had already stepped back several paces, distancing himself from the window, with several Water Shields floating around him.

As the woman outside the window left, the temperature of the Evil Spirit Crown gradually cooled down, returning to calm.

"What was that? An evil spirit?" Duke only then realized his back was drenched in cold sweat, breathing heavily.

He had just been shrouded in an intense sense of death threat; without the Evil Spirit Crown, the consequences would've been unimaginable.

Duke remembered Simon once told him about several wizard apprentices who died in their sleep, their bodies unmarked, with no cause of death found.

He realized that he might have encountered the same situation as those deceased.

Just by having the Evil Spirit Crown for protection, he narrowly escaped; otherwise, Tomorrow Academy Island might have had one more dead body.

Now, Duke felt somewhat tired, and the fatigue became increasingly heavy.

The surrounding scene disappeared in an instant, replaced by boundless darkness; the ground beneath him vanished, and he began to fall unceasingly downwards, the sensation of falling left him feeling helpless, desperately trying to grasp something, yet unable to grasp anything.

Time gradually passed, as if an eternity had gone by, yet it also seemed just an instant.

Duke awoke.

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