Volume II: Hero Academia Chapter 102
Is the mercenary profession very popular and envied?
Not.
In the current Lanman Continent, mercenaries have become the profession with the highest mortality rate, and even surpass the city defense armies in various places. Mercenaries supplied more than half of the continent with hides, crystals, and rare materials, at the cost of more than 2,000 mercenaries being removed each year - dead or missing, and twice as many mercenaries were seriously injured and disabled.
Every year, countless people join the mercenary team, whether they are for fame, wealth or simply want to pursue a so-called adventurous career, but sixty percent of them will leave the industry within a year, and about half of the remaining people will become tabula rasa rasa mercenaries who only name up and no longer participate in any tasks, and then actively or passively cancel their mercenary status within a few years because they don't want to pay dues.
The mercenaries who really persevered were not because of their ethereal fame and wealth, but simply wanted to exchange their strength for a bite to eat. Mercenaries are more comfortable than petty laborers and peasants, their average income is still in the middle of society, and the occasional windfall can give them a luxury, at the cost of their own health and life.
However, when people outside the industry look at them, they tend to ignore the dust and wounds on their bodies, and instead focus on their seemingly lucrative income and generous squandering at the end of the mission, which is seen as the daily life of a mercenary. Most of the saga features mercenaries, as poets and writers believe that only mercenaries who have traveled across the continent can legitimately encounter so many bizarre and bizarre stories – and even more bizarrely, a considerable number of them are actually verifiable – which adds a layer of mystery to the mercenary's identity.
And for these students who are not deeply involved in the world, but have a reputation for being geniuses, fantasizing about having their names printed in an epic or simply creating an epic with themselves as the protagonists, the adventures of those legendary mercenaries are extremely appealing to them. They live in an environment that leaves them out of reach of low-level mercenaries, and adventure novels don't tell them how boring and dangerous a mercenary's life can be, focusing only on the bright pearls and gems in the crown, but ignoring the heaviness of the crown, consciously or unconsciously.
Now they are not much different from the original Del Kora.
"Get in the ranks, Del Kora. ”
Levi stretched out his hand to signal Delcora to return to the group, looked at the students who were still bright-eyed, and sighed slightly.
Of course he knew what this group of students were thinking, many years ago, he had the same eyes in the same position, and he even tried to register as a mercenary after graduation - but the reality was always skinny, he couldn't stand the boredom of mercenary life, and the constant long-distance travel made it difficult for him to have time to steadily improve his mage cultivation, and he finally reluctantly chose to retire, and until then he was just a black iron mercenary.
"What I just showed you is how to deal with a magician encountering a demonic beast alone in the wild. However, this approach is not set in stone, and different elemental spells should be used depending on the situation, such as ......"
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During the two-hour lesson, Levi explained in detail the different properties and ways of using different elemental magics, and demonstrated many special combinations based on basic elemental magic. These special combinations are not only teaching them practical skills, but also improving their elemental control and stability, and indirectly improving their level cultivation - Levi himself spoke for an hour. But seeing that the students were still ignorant, he simply waved his hand, exuded his spiritual power, and directly activated the more than fifty training beasts behind.
"I think you're all very unmotivated. He looked at the students with a sad look, "Do you want me to help you sober up?"
He waved his hand violently, took two steps back, and more than fifty training beasts rushed frantically towards the group of students!
“......”
But it seems that Levi's hour-long lecture didn't make a difference. As soon as the training beast pounced, the first reaction of most of the students was still to turn around and run, and because they ran too quickly, a few students even tripped themselves, and the already chaotic team was even more panicked.
Inside and outside the team, two magicians, one big and one young, sighed together.
"So that's what normal magicians look like...... Delcora pouted as she avoided the magicians who were running back, reached out and raised her staff, shouting, "Don't panic!
He didn't bother to disguise, so he casually threw out a few walls of fire, which happened to be blocked in front of the fastest training beasts, slightly delaying the progress of the training beasts. Although these magicians were flustered, they were not so unbearable after all, and as soon as Delkora spoke, some of the magicians subconsciously followed his movements and threw the wall of fire behind them. Although the wall of fire was chaotic from far and near, it still played a role in blocking some of the training beasts.
Wise beings have a herd mentality, whether it is a beast, a monster or a human elf, this psychology is always unavoidable. While some of the students followed Del Cola to calm down, the rest of the students who had already run far away finally calmed down. After all, they were still geniuses, they were already embarrassed to hit the wall after being attacked twice like this, and as soon as Delkora took the lead, they immediately turned back, and after a short period of confusion, all kinds of strange output magic began to be thrown at the group of training beasts.
"Fireball!"
"Water bomb!"
"Wind Blade!"
They finally listened to a lesson or two, and instead of preparing for the big magic, they began to wash the floor with a lot of simple basic magic, and the light of the elements enveloped the area for a while. Del Cora sighed, ignored them, and stepped forward to pick up a few of the fallen magicians, motioned for them to return to the group, and then stood in front of the group, raising her staff aloft.
He knew that the level that Levi had prepared for them could never be so simple.
Sure enough, with a beast roar, the training beasts did not hesitate to bow their heads and charge, and rushed out of the wall of fire in one step, this scene made some magicians fall into a panic, and several walls of fire were hurriedly erected, but the demonic beasts with the leader easily overcame the weakness of fear of fire, and the integrated array directly broke through those fragile walls of fire.
But Delkora had already seen the scene of wolves predating on the grassland, and this scene did not bring him any special feelings, he just raised his staff and shouted: "Earth, convergence, sharpness, thrust, stone spear!"
In front of the group of demonic beasts, a series of stone spears quickly condensed and formed along a straight line, and the magicians who were already in a hurry immediately followed Delkora and began to cast magic, and the rows of stone spears were messily condensed, but because of the panicked methods of the magicians, many stone spears were not very fine, and some were even just fragile stone pillars, which collapsed at the touch of a button-
But that's enough.
Levi wasn't here to attack them after all, he deliberately slowed down the speed of the training beasts when the magicians fled in panic, leaving some space for the students to deal with them, and the students—especially Delkora—didn't disappoint him, they quickly blocked the way of the monsters' charge with a wall of fire, leaving a gap of nearly a hundred meters between the two sides.
This interval is the point - if they don't react in time, Levi will really want to let the training beasts bite them and give them a boost in memory.
The monsters' charge was majestic, and the stone spears that had not yet formed were easily trampled and crushed by them, but they left room for the stone spears behind them to prepare, and the rubble everywhere also slowed down their progress. When the stone spear forest finally took shape, and the sharp pointed ends pointed at them, the leader of the training beast finally stopped the charge and confronted them across the stone forest.
The original distance of 100 meters was less than 20 meters.
There were sharp spear tips all over the twenty meters, and among these training beasts of the common black iron rank, even the jumping wolf with the strongest jumping ability could not leap twenty meters in one step. The group of demonic beasts hesitated outside the stone spear forest, pacing back and forth, roaring from time to time, as if there was nothing they could do.
Many magicians quietly breathed a sigh of relief, secretly rejoicing, but couldn't help but look in the direction of Del Kora - human psychology is sometimes so simple, when a person has the leadership of a group, after that everyone will rely on his instructions. Perhaps it was a kind of mental inertia that was now driving them to follow Del Kora.
But to their surprise, Delkora did not prepare any offensive magic, but calmly condensed the elemental shield in front of him, as if waiting for something.
Many people subconsciously raised their elemental shields, but there were also some who thought that Del Kora was just trying to be safe and did not dare to attack. They gave up using shields in favor of condensing attack magic - the experience had finally come to an end, and they had done simple basic magic, but the mixing of several different elemental spells had some interesting effects.
This was supposed to be a living application of the content of the class, but these few poor washing magic fell into the horde of Warcraft, but it didn't make a splash.
No, it splashed.
But it was a huge wave!
It was like a spark that ignited a stack of firewood, and suddenly countless magic spells flew straight towards them in the horde of demonic beasts! Wind blades, fireballs, water bombs, stones, ice picks, and all kinds of chaotic basic elemental magic were overwhelming, almost obscuring their vision!
"I forgot to tell them, this thing simulates a Warcraft. ”
Delcora shrugged and thought silently.