Chapter Twenty-Three: The Mage's Hand
"I'm glad that the Tower has welcomed another group of new blood, and today, five teenagers have become our Tower's magic apprentices! Here, I would like to extend my sincere greetings to you and welcome you to the Tower family!" In the rotunda on the fifth floor of the Tower, Gatlin was giving a welcome speech, and all the apprentices were looking at the new apprentices enthusiastically.
Three men and two women stood in a row on the stage, and the other four all bowed their heads shyly, except for Freya, who held her head high like a proud swan, and stared at the group of tower apprentices in front of her.
When he saw Freya's eyes sweep over, Sivi bowed slightly, and raised his right hand to give him a thumbs-up. Seeing Sivi's small movements, Freya smiled gratefully, and it seemed that the pressure on her body was much less.
"Tsk, it's a little beauty again! she's really beautiful!" Faawi looked at Freya with a scrutinizing gaze for a long time, and finally nodded with satisfaction.
"Hehe, no matter how beautiful it is, it's useless! you're about to leave the Tower!" Eddard elbowed Faawi with his elbow, a lewd smile on his face.
"Hmph, I'm hopeless, but you don't have much hope, you must know that Sivi has become her enlightenment mentor, and besides, Sivi is much more handsome than you! Women are creatures who look at faces!" Faavi twitched and retorted without hesitation.
Ed was speechless and gave Sivi a dumbfounded look.
"In order to promote the exchange of spells between apprentices and speed up the growth of apprentices, for this reason, the Tower has prepared the first Apprentice Spell Contest Contest! The winners will be richly rewarded! Due to the limitations of apprentice spells, there are only eight high-level magic apprentices participating in this apprenticeship contest! Now I announce that the first Tower Apprentice Spell Contest has begun! The first game, Yang vs. Meryl!"
As Gatling's voice fell, all of the Tower's apprentices retreated to the edge of the rotunda, leaving the space in between for the two contestants. They all had excited and excited expressions on their faces, after all, this was the first public apprentice spell confrontation in the Tower's history, not only could they see the wonderful spells of the high-level magic apprentices, but also promoted and inspired their own strength.
When Sivi exchanged a magic session with Meryl the day before, she gave some tips on her preparation and response to the Apprentice Spell Confrontation Tournament, which was also a good training opportunity for Meryl. It's just that in the first round, she met Yang, the favorite for the championship, and Meryl is afraid that she will have to play in one round.
Yang was still a personable gentleman, and he nodded lightly at Meryl: "Miss Meryl, it's an honor to fight with you!"
Meryl pursed her lips tightly, and she nodded her head as well, not saying a word.
"Go!" With Gatling's order, Meryl quickly blessed herself with the first spell - a weak resistance increase, corresponding to the water elemental damage.
Since the Tower's damaging Zero Ring spells are only Acid Shot and Cryo Ray, the increase in Water Resistance is crucial.
However, Yang didn't cast a protective spell, green light shone on his fingertips, and wind elemental energy was gathering on him!
"Windrush?!" Charlotte exclaimed, she didn't realize at all why Yang was doing this?
The Wind Blast, which is obviously just an acceleration spell, can it play a role in the small space of the Rotunda?
In just five breaths, Yang had already completed the performance of the Wind Blast, the green aura rose under his feet, he quickly galloped, his right hand clenched into a fist, and a faint white light appeared on his fist!
"Mage's Hand!" Sivi noticed this detail for the first time.
It's really creative! Xiwei couldn't help but give Yang a thumbs up.
Using the combination of the wind spell and the mage's hand, it can form a huge kinetic energy in an instant, and for a magic apprentice who is completely unable to defend by physical means, this move is almost impossible to resist.
And Yang's choice is very targeted, if he casts this trick on the fat Faawi, it won't have much effect, but for the emaciated Meryl, this move is enough to decide the victory!
Originally, the distance between the two was about five meters away, and at the moment when Yang's "Wind Technique" was about to be completed, Meryl seemed to have discovered the omen of danger, her hands were propped up in front of her chest, the water elemental energy quickly condensed, and in just two breaths, a blue water mirror was erected in mid-air!
This was the first spell that Sivi had taught Meryl, and she had mastered it perfectly, and in some ways even stepped in front of Sivi as a mentor.
Sivi noticed that a large amount of ice was condensed in the water mirror, and ice was the enhancement of water, Meryl incorporated the idea of the spell Frozen Ray on the basis of the water mirror, creating a new spell that could be called "Ice Mirror"!
In another short breath, the azure water mirror condensed violently, becoming pale as snow, and condensed into a real ice crystal!
At this moment, Yang's accelerated white mage's hand with a pale cyan glow slammed into this ice crystal!
The next moment, the ice crystals couldn't withstand this huge impact, and they burst apart, Yang's mage's hand dimmed, but it brightened in a very short time, and it was obvious that Yang was in a fast-moving state, injecting a lot of magic into the mage's hand.
This time, Yang's rapid onslaught was no longer resistant, and some of his huge mage hands pushed Meryl's petite body down and then clasped her by the throat.
"The first battle, Yang won!" Gatlin loudly announced the result of this battle, he looked at Yang with satisfaction, what a flawless young man! Such young, so intelligent, he can learn to this extent on his own without any guidance, even in the Tower of a Thousand Laws he was born in, I am afraid that he is the kind of magical genius with the brightest future, right?
"Are you alright?" Sivi had already rushed out the moment Meryl was knocked to the ground, and he quickly picked up Meryl's thin body and asked with concern.
"It's okay! Senior Yang finally regained his strength, I was on my back to the ground, and it didn't hurt too much!" Meryl's consciousness was still very clear.
"I'm so sorry! I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to win if I don't do this, but I didn't expect Meryl to create such a powerful spell yourself! I just took advantage of the stronger magic power!" Yang also stepped forward.
"Meryl, that's good, you've shown your best self!Plus, congratulations, Young!" Sivi patted the ash on Meryl's magic robe and led her back to the crowd.
At this moment, the entire round hall was already boiling like a vegetable market, and all the apprentices were surprised to recall the scene they had just seen, the magic performed by the two high-level magic apprentices was not at all what they had learned, and they were both so powerful!
Although it was only a duel of less than ten breaths, all the apprentices were as excited as if they had been beaten, and they were so eager to see the next duel between high-level magic apprentices!
At this moment, Gatlin's voice sounded again: "Second game, Faawi vs. Ed!"
The fat and thin brothers, who were already in a somewhat unharmonious atmosphere, immediately looked at each other like bullfights, but Faawi's eyes were full of smugness, but Ed was a little discouraged.