Chapter 105: Ascension
Just like Rex, the Sky Arena is really a good place for Fang Zheng to hone his skills. According to Rex, the entire Sky Arena is divided into three areas, beginner, intermediate, and advanced. There are 10 divisions for beginner, 5 for intermediate, and only 1 for senior. In Founder's view, this is very similar to the server in online games.
Now Fang Zheng is in the last "novice server" of the primary level, and the basic ones in this section are mage apprentices who have just entered the White Tower for a short time, while the intermediate level is the regular mage who has left the apprenticeship, and the advanced level is the special session of those powerful mages.
Although Fang Zheng often hears the saying "there are no useless spells, only useless mages", but this is not the case, some spells, you can only find their advantages and disadvantages when you use them in actual combat, so as to match your own combat style to make trade-offs.
Although Fang Zheng chose to specialize in spells, he cunningly chose the prophecy system as the initial combat method, because the spells of the prophecy system can just match Fang Zheng's time ability and work together. Among the prophecy spells, Fang Zheng's three favorite spells are the first-level clear defense, the second-level insight and invisibility, and the fourth-level suppression of good luck.
"Knowing Defense" is a spell that allows the caster to understand the special defense function of the target, which is simply too useful for the Templar and mage of Fangzheng, it is like in-game detection, when you encounter an enemy with unknown attributes, you throw a detection over, first figure out the opponent's attributes, and then attack their weak points. This is also the general routine of the game, and now, Fang Zheng has obviously used this routine in his own battles.
Needless to say, although Fang Zheng can use the Zerg senses to perceive things keenly, but the mage's invisibility technique is not so simple, plus many mages like to attack after being invincible, so a insight through the invisibility is very useful for Fang Zheng.
As for suppressing good luck——— it can be said to be a bad taste of the square.
The effect of suppressing good luck is very simple, that is, within a certain period of time, suppressing the luck effect of the target to the lowest point, and each of his actions will get the most unfortunate result. Since this is not an "offensive behavior", but more regarded as an existence like a "curse" or "blessing", few mages will give themselves targeted protection at the very beginning, and the result is that many mage challengers inexplicably stumbled in front of Fang Zheng, fell to the ground, or simply recited the wrong spell and caused the magic to recoil.........
So the basic process of Fang Zheng's battle with other mages now is to first use the "Future Vision" to see if the opponent's starting move is attacking or defending, and then start casting spells. Then either defend against the magic spell, or directly break the opponent's defense, and then raise your hand to storm a secondary magic missile. Basically, after this set, the other party has almost already raised his hand to surrender, if there is really a person who "would rather die than give in", Fang Zheng will directly pull out and kick the other party away——— is he still a Templar, and the melee combat is not better than that of a mage?
As Fang Zheng's ranking in the Sky Arena continued to rise, many mages gradually became aware of the existence of such a number one person, and Fang Zheng also became the focus of discussion among many mage contestants. The reason is simple, because in the eyes of other mages, this challenger is just too weird.
Due to the double bonuses of "Time Stop" and "Future Vision", every time Fang Zheng starts his magic spell, it is basically instantaneous, and no one has ever seen Fang Zheng sing, so in the eyes of many mages, Fang Zheng has mastered the two super skills of "Spell Instantaneous" and "Spell Silent Spell". But these are all skills that only high-level mages can be qualified to master, and Fang Zheng has never cast more than level four spells in the arena.
Not only that, but what makes other mages feel incredible is that every time the battle starts, this young mage can perfectly counter the opponent's spells, whether it is attack or defense, although the prophecy system does have spells such as "clear defense" and "defeat the enemy first", but according to the rules of the Sky Arena, everyone must release the spell after the battle begins.
In other words, if Fang Zheng and the opponent start casting spells at the same time, then Fang Zheng must cast the spell that cracks the opponent's first spell.
That's where it gets interesting.
What's more, until now, Fang Zheng's record in the Sky Arena has always been undefeated!
Wow, how can this be endured?
A little mage who appeared out of nowhere has a complete victory record until now? Many of the people who participated in the Sky Arena were senior apprentices of the White Tower, and of course they knew that this young man was not a member of the White Tower, but ......... This can't make him hang the members of the White Tower and beat them!
You know, almost every battle of Fang Zheng is an instant kill, how can these mages accept it? Could it be that they are all weak chickens, and the other party can solve them casually?
And in fact, it has to do with the way Fang Zheng fights.
After studying magic, Fang Zheng discovered that if a mage is compared to a gun, then a spell is a bullet. Among them, ordinary bullets with damage, armor-piercing bullets that can penetrate, and incendiary bullets with a wide range of AOE. Theoretically, the mage can shoot an infinite number of bullets until it jams or overheats and stops firing. But in fact, the "weight" of each mage is limited. It's like special forces, you can't fight with countless bullets on your back. Before each battle, you will only be able to choose a few magazines, which is also the "preparation" that the mage needs to do every day, he needs to consider what kind of battle he is facing today, so as to decide whether to prepare ordinary bullets, armor-piercing bullets or incendiary bullets.
After all, there is an upper limit to the human body.
Through the battles in the Sky Arena, Fang Zheng found that almost all mages had a problem, that is, they especially liked to make themselves invincible first, and then attack each other slowly and steadily, and then lay the victory.
It's like in the movie, the protagonist and the boss shoot each other, but the bullets are all gone, and neither side of the hair is injured, and then the two sides scuffle together, and finally the protagonist grabs a pistol and gives the boss a fatal blow......... Who plays like this in reality!
If most mages are compared to machine gunners, then Fang Zheng is a sniper, and it is his creed to quietly withdraw with a fatal blow, and it is not his style at all to throw bullets and jump chickens, flies, dogs, and jumps. Because of this, each Fang Zheng's battle ended so quickly that the mages watching the battle couldn't react.
"No. 652 was defeated, and No. 684 rose to No. 652."
"Looks like that little brother has won again."
Looking at Fang Zheng who turned away in the arena, a mage sitting in the audience said with a smile, he had fiery red hair, meticulously combed backwards, obviously a young man, but it gave people a very old feeling. Immediately after, the red-haired mage turned his head and looked at his companion beside him.
"I heard that he came out of the Tower of Thunder, and it seems that there is a successor to that mentor."
"But he's not an apprentice to the White Tower."
Hearing the red-haired mage's words, a black-haired mage wearing glasses sat next to him snorted softly and looked at Fang Zheng's distant back.
"It's good for a wild mage to be able to get this far......... But that can only go so far, this is the hunting ground of the apprentices of the White Tower, and we are not here to be hunted. ”
"Oh?"
The red-haired mage glanced curiously at his companion.
"Are you going to do it yourself?"
"Of course."
As he spoke, the glasses mage stood up.
"I will use my power to tell him who is the hunter and who is the prey."
The glasses mage turned to leave, and the red-haired mage pouted.
"Hey, this kid is still so arrogant, but ........."
At this, the red-haired mage smiled smugly.
"Now that I've met a rookie killer, let me see what that little mage is capable of."