Chapter 139: The Limits of a Third-Class Apprentice (3,000-Word Chapter)

Two months passed in a flash.

On one side of the teaching area, there is a wide shooting range for testing spells.

An apprentice in a gray robe and with half brown and half green hair came to the information desk outside the shooting range and stood still. The two people in the information desk could sense an invisible sense of oppression from him.

This made the two dare not neglect and stood up quickly.

"What is the scale of the strongest spell target?"

"The upper limit is 16 scales. As long as you don't use special spell materials and don't deliberately damage the crystal scale, the spell test target will not be damaged. The ground can be used at will. We will clean it up ourselves afterwards."

"Arrange a strongest spell test target for me."

"Sincerely 15 magic stones, you need to register your name."

After registering, one of them glanced at it - Ivan Marichatton, an unknown name. He walked out of the information desk and led Ivan to the test range inside.

The spell test range was extremely empty. It was a place similar to a stadium, divided into several rooms, and there was no ceiling on the room.

The staff introduced that there was a protective film on it, and harmful energy particles or smoke could not float to other rooms.

After a while, Ivan came to one of the test rooms.

After the staff left, he began to test his attack.

"Try the power of fighting spirit first."

Ivan pulled out the long sword from his waist, held it in his hand and weighed it, which was twice as heavy as the previous long sword.

This is a long sword with exquisite patterns. It is not the sword he used before, nor the Quillen sword given by his brother Paul, but a low-level magic item he refined not long ago. There are lines hidden in the patterns on it.

The name of the sword is "Iron Shell Sword". It has the sharpness property. After activating the rune beam on it, it can become sharper, and it can also be gigantic and extended. The sword body can be extended to six meters.

When the blueprint was purchased, there were also flame swords, ice swords, and wind swords in the sword-type magic items.

He didn't need those fancy abilities, and finally chose the sharpness of the iron shell sword.

"Bang!"

The next second he approached quickly, and the iron sword in his hand, entangled by the fighting spirit, accurately chopped on the spell test target, accompanied by a dull sound.

The spell test target is two meters high and made of metal. The rod below is hard metal, and the round target with a diameter of one meter above is soft metal. They should be mixed metals and belong to alchemical works.

A small crystal is inlaid on the metal rod, and the crystal is connected to the round target above.

There are scales on the surface of the crystal, which clearly show the test results.

"9 scales."

Ivan nodded with satisfaction. This is the strongest attack he can make with fighting spirit alone.

He activated the rune beam of the iron sword, and another sword fell on the spell test target.

11 scales.

The effect is good.

There is a disadvantage of low-level magic items. It consumes a lot of energy when activated. Therefore, it is best to charge it before use and keep it there for later use.

‘Hand of the Black Magician’

He crushed three inferior magic stones and slapped the spell test target with one palm. A transparent hand with a faint black glow formed in the air. The palm was more than one meter long, and a string of runes was faintly revealed in the palm. It hit the test target heavily.

12 scales.

“Not bad, it only consumes 3 scales of mental power and 1 scale of mana.”

Ivan was also very satisfied with the power of such a casual attack. The highlight of the Hand of the Black Magician is its special effect, which can form a strong mental deterrence on creatures, and even shock the mind and cause the body to stiffen.

The Hand of the Black Magician can also be used with the rune witch array, just like he did in the Kanda Mine.

For this reason, he developed another array based on the original stone array, which is hanging on his bracelet.

Now, there are a few more pendants on the bracelet on his wrist, including three small square shields, which are the green tree stars, and three small round plates, which are the circular array disks he researched, which can be enlarged when used.

He estimated that if he used the array disk and sent out the strongest attack of the Black Magic Hand, the spell test target might not be able to withstand it, but the consumption would be great, so he would not use it easily.

‘Thorn Jungle’

He then stomped his feet and cast another spell.

At this moment, he was 15 meters away from the spell target. A large number of thorn vines drilled out of the ground and surrounded the spell target. The dense thorn vines avoided the crystal scale and launched a joint stranglehold on the test target, a real thorn vine stranglehold.

The harsh friction sound was endless.

He frowned and waved his hand, the thorn vines dissipated, and the crystal scale was revealed - 12 scales.

Consumption: 3 scales of spirit, 3 scales of mana.

He took out a dead branch and cast the "Thorn Forest" again. This time the vines were completely different. Many of them showed clear rune patterns, and the jungle was filled with frost.

The strangulation ended, and the scale was revealed - 14 scales.

The energy consumption of the spell remained unchanged. He called it "Thorn Forest", which was further improved by combining the thorn forest with specific runes.

He didn't know how other people's improved spells were, but his powerful spells were all combined with runes. He found that runes and spells were unexpectedly in tune.

"When surrounded by people, using this spell will also have a good effect."

He nodded slightly. In fact, according to his tactics, the greatest effect of the thorn forest is to use it with the swift wood silkworms, allowing the swift wood silkworms to shuttle between them. Obviously, the effect cannot be tested here.

In addition to these two spells, he also deduced the "Strong Immobilization" and "Shadow Eyes·Insect Modification", both of which are auxiliary spells.

Then, Ivan changed the spellcasting mode and tried several times. It took a while before he left the spell testing room, leaving a mess.

Not long after he left, two people pushed the door and entered the testing room. Feeling the residual energy particles, and then comparing the scale in the crystal watch, the two looked at each other and smacked their lips.

"Look, this is definitely a wizard seed, and it is the kind of extreme apprentice who is just waiting to be promoted to a wizard. I don't know which group it came from."

"Recently, there are so many talented people. I don't know when we will have a chance to stand out."

The two obviously guessed that the person just now was at the limit of the third-class apprentice. This kind of apprentice is the most not to be provoked. Not to mention the status, the strength alone is not easy to provoke, not to mention that the other party may become a formal wizard one day.

On the other side, Ivan has left the teaching area.

If he knew the two people's guesses, he would definitely say that you are all right.

Strength: 4.6, Agility: 6.3, Constitution: 5.5, Spirit: 15

He used three medium magic stone waters to increase his mental power from 11 to 15. The second one increased by 2.1, the third by 1.5, and the fourth by 0.4. Then his mental power seemed to encounter a solid wall and could not move forward any further.

At the stage of wizard apprentice, fifteen scales is the limit of mental power.

One step up is a formal wizard.

When standing with other apprentices, the sense of oppression coming from his body is just that he has not completely adapted to the current extreme state. His mental power is too full and dissipates unintentionally, which gives people a feeling of oppression.

"Evan Marichatton, wizard Bernardson wants to see you."

"Please lead the way."

In front of the dormitory door of the living area, there is a shadow ant servant waiting there.

In another wizard tower, Evan saw Bernardson, whom he had not seen for a long time. Wizard Bernardson belongs to the picket team. He roughly guessed what the other party was going to say.

"Wan'an, Wizard Bernardson."

When he saw him for the first time, Bernardson paused for a moment, then nodded.

Bernardson remembered clearly that the other party's talent was only third-class, which was neither good nor bad. He had come to this point so quickly, which was really impressive.

He also knew that whether he could become a wizard was another matter. The probability of an apprentice with third-class talent being promoted to a formal wizard was not very high. If he could not be promoted to a wizard, everything would be in vain.

"You followed me from Tidal Island to the Mona Ant Land Hut. I will say some things directly."

"Please go ahead."

"I want to tell you three things."

Ivan was awed in his heart, and listened carefully to every word that followed.

"First, your teacher, Wizard Toins, is indeed alive. He should have some mental problems. He is likely to abandon the way of wizards, betray the academy, and become our enemy."

"Second, we didn't find him in person. He is now missing."

"Third, if he comes to find you, remember to notify the patrol team in time."

Bernardson said his words in a flat tone. They went to hunt down Toins but returned in vain. They lost the trace of the other party again. They suspected that Toins had surrendered to other forces and obtained the help of other wizards.

The academy will not leave the affairs of every wizard under its jurisdiction, whether good or bad, unattended. There must be a result.

Ivan replied solemnly: "I understand."

He had a strong premonition that Toins would most likely come to find him.

Returning to his dormitory from the wizard tower, Ivan continued to summarize the gains and losses of the recent period.

[Pharmacy: lv6 (57/2000)]

[Runes: Lv5 (123/1500)]

[Energy Particles: Lv4 (35/1000)]

[Meditation: Lv3 (102/300)]

These are the subjects that were upgraded on the Xueba panel not long ago, which allowed him to successively gain the Light of Small Wisdom, the Light of Wisdom, and the Light of Great Wisdom.

There was also a lot of consumption. He consumed a total of five Level 3 Lights of Wisdom in optimizing and developing spells.

Fortunately, there was both gain and loss. In the end, the remaining Light of Wisdom on the panel was: one Level 3, two Level 5, one Level 6, and three Level 4 Lights of Great Wisdom, which actually increased compared to before.

He knew in his heart that some subjects were destined not to be able to reach a very high level, such as linguistics and biology. The difficulty of upgrading increased significantly after Level 3, and the final achievement was estimated to be not very high.

"At present, the most important thing is promotion. We have to find a way to increase the success rate of promotion. As long as we become a first-level wizard, Toins can't make any waves."

"The third-level talent has only a 40% promotion success rate, which is really a worrying number."

"I don't know how Pernie is doing. She probably became a third-level apprentice."

The first condition for promotion to a formal wizard is that one's own mental power is 15 scales. Now that Ivan has achieved it, the next step is to prepare for promotion. The potion must be obtained, the contract can be considered for signing, and other things that should be done must be done well.

In short, he will go all out to promote to a formal wizard, and he is also ready to go all out.