Chapter Twenty-Three: The Contest Between True Magicians

Time goes back to three days ago, that is, when Jiang Zhe and the others were just about to imitate the map......

In the dormitory, Jiang Zhe and Alan were staring around the desk, which made Scott, who was writing a map, a little quiet.

"I said," after looking at it for a moment, Alan interjected, "Your painting is different from the original......

"I know!" Scott explained, frowning, "You think it's that easy to copy?, I haven't seen the texture of this map yet, I said, it's made in a similar way to a scroll, the map will show the owner's position first, it's not a normal map, I ......" As he spoke, his distracted hand shook and the lines he drew were a little off.

"You don't interject!"

"......" Alan pouted in frustration, but he didn't remember his surname for a long time, and he was only quiet for a while, and then couldn't help but speak.

"I said Scott, this ink and parchment, there should be no problem......"

The quill in Scott's hand paused, pushed his glasses and said in a cold tone, "Soth, don't you want to test the power of the fireball?"

"Don't," looking at Jiang Zhe's 'ill-intentioned' smile, Alan waved his hand again and again, and said, "Don't, man, can't I shut up?"

Shaking his head with a wry smile, Jiang Zhe said in a low voice, "Is there anything we can do?"

"Hmm," Scott hesitated, put down the quill in his hand, "Well, Soth, you can sketch the basic framework of this map, it doesn't matter if you slow down, it doesn't matter if there are a little differences, just sketch slowly, and then I'll write the spells and magic circles on the map - I've only learned the basics, I don't know if I can succeed, anyway, I'll do my best." It's easy to get Ellen to color, but be careful, and if you waste our hard work, I'll let you eat all this parchment!"

"Settle, settle!" Alan said with a yawn.

"Sketch?" Sitting down at the desk, Jiang Zhe took a quill pen and looked at it, and somehow suddenly thought of the girl with light blue hair......

She...... It should be in the library now, right?

I guess I'm looking through the literature on water magic......

Speaking of which, her hair is really beautiful, like the color of the sea......

"Ahem!" An incongruous cough interrupted Jiang Zhe's reverie, and when he looked up, he saw Alan and Scott looking at him with strange expressions, as if they were smiling, so he said unnaturally, "...... Why?"

"Hehe, nothing!" Alan said in a strange way, but Scott was more pertinent, pushing his glasses and smiling, "It's just strange to see you staring at a quill - you've always been in a daze at your own fireballs...... Alright, let's get started, time is running out!"

"Yes!"

"Okay......" Jiang Zhe and Allen responded.

It has to be said that making magic scrolls is a very boring and boring course, and like enchanters, every magician who is proficient in the manufacture of scroll draws is an extremely valuable talent.

Among the magicians, the proportion of the two is very small, but the two are indispensable, and they are one of the core forces of the Assemble Emperor [***] team.

As far as a magician is concerned, to become a powerful magician, or even a great magician, it requires outstanding talent and sweat to achieve something, but the production of scrolls is different, that does not require the magician to have strong magical power, but it has extremely high requirements for the magician's memory.

First of all, the scroll production requires a certain amount of magical knowledge, to remember a large number of spells and magic arrays, low-level scrolls are written in the modern universal language of human beings, but if it is a high-level scroll, then the requirements are even more necessary, in order to enhance the power of the scroll, the magic array written on the scroll is first several times more, dense lines, sometimes the slightest mistake will be wasted, moreover, the language of writing is no longer a single universal language of human beings, but a more ancient elf, even dragon language.

Sometimes, it is impossible to make a high-level magic scroll for a whole day, because the process is too tedious and complicated, and requires a lot of patience and attention from the maker.

In addition to these, there are also certain requirements for making magic scrolls, first of all, the ink used is not the usual ink, it is generally mixed with the juice of alchemy plants, such as the common madder, and sometimes the blood of animals is added, such as the magic scroll of [Wild Bull Power], the blood of the cow will be used, and if it is a high-level scroll, the maker will even use the precious dragon's blood.

Of course, it doesn't always have to be the blood of animals, such as the [Witchcraft: Frog] scroll, the maker usually grinds the frog skin into powder, then mixes the plant, boils it into a liquid form, and then uses the liquid to create spells and magic circles on the scroll.

Generally speaking, magic scrolls and enchantments belong to the alchemy system, which is a very profound alchemy science, and the things that will be used in it are even more strange, papyrus, dragon skin, gems, blood, etc., etc., far from what Jiang Zhe and they can make with ordinary ink and ordinary parchment, because the scrolls made in that way are really not powerful at all.

Even so, Jiang Zhe and the others were still half tired to death, Scott and Jiang Zhe, who were in charge of most of the process, were even more eye-catching, and even Allen, who had always been energetic, yawned again and again.

Regardless, they still created a number of magical maps.

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When Jiang Zhe's imitation of the magic map was flooding in the Reoks Academy, Lavia also heard about it.

Lavia herself was not very interested in what magic items she had, as she came from a family of dukes and had a grandfather who loved her.

She just happened to see Alan as she passed by the Fountain Garden......

She had met Alan before, and she knew that it was 'that guy's roommate, and out of this mentality, she grabbed her female companion next to her, and the two stepped forward.

But apparently, Alan didn't know Lavia, and he was surrounded by a large crowd of people busy 'selling' the magic maps.

“...... Event map, one gold coin, limited quantity, first come, first served...... Don't regret it if you don't buy it, look at the markings on the map, those are prepared by the professors of the academy for the event, if you are lucky, you can follow this map to find the prizes hidden by the professors...... What's the prize?wand, wand, aqua-blue, rurose, obsidian......"

In fact, Alan himself didn't know that there were those magic props hidden in the woods, but he still impressed a large number of junior students, and even the senior students who heard the news also bought some of them, because the magic map written by Scott is indeed relatively fine, and it is difficult to see how much difference it is from the real thing.

"Do you know that person, Ivey?" Lavia's roommate, Larella, saw that her female companion had been looking at the boy in the crowd, her expression was a little narrow, but she looked at the female companion in a daze, and was a little curious, and said softly, "Ive, Ive, Lavia!"

"Hmm?" Lavia came to her senses, shook her head, and said, "No, I don't know him......"

"Really?" said the female companion Lyrela.

"Of course," Lavia sneered, "I know, don't you know everything?"

"That's true," Lerella nodded approvingly, glanced in Allen's direction, and said with a smile, "It seems interesting to hear what he said, Ive, let's join in, call Lisa......"

"This ......" Lavia hesitated, lowered her head and bit her lip, nodded and said, "Okay!"

"Hee!" Lyrela said with a grin, "I hope I can find an obsidian, that will greatly improve the illusion I cast, Ive?"

"Me?" Lavia was stunned for a moment, then said with a smile, "Then ...... Flaming red stone!"

In fact, for her, whether it was fiery red stone or other magic items, she didn't care very much.

There's only one thing she cares about......

She wanted to see how far she and that guy were in the same class and under the same professor's tutoring!

The guy called South!

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"Ahh

What the hell is going on these days?

Don't you think I have a cold?

Or is someone thinking about me?

Hey!

Scratching his head, Jiang Zhe felt a little inexplicable, snorted and glanced at the person in front of him, yawned and said, "Professor, I'm really sleepy, I've stayed up for several nights......"

In front of Jiang Zhe, it was naturally his professor of the Fire Department Blue Magic Course, Professor Huo De.

"I heard," Professor Huo De patted Jiang Zhe's head with a smile, and said with a smile, "You are too bold to dare to copy the magic map sent by the academy, do you know that this is going to be punished?! If the academy deducts ten points from your year-end assessment, where will you lazy boy make up for this ten points? If you don't have enough scores, you can't be promoted!"

"Isn't it undeductible," Jiang Zhe scratched his head depressedly and said, "Professor, you won't just call me out for this, will you?"

"Hey!" Professor Hodd said with a smile, pointing to the empty practice area around him, "Aren't you usually quite clever?

Jiang Zhe was stunned, looked around, as if he had woken up to something, and said suspiciously, "Could it be that the professor wants to teach me new magic? Didn't you say that you won't continue to teach me new magic if you don't satisfy you?"

"yes!"

"Then this ......" Jiang Zhe was a little puzzled.

"Hey," Professor Huo De smiled, rubbed Jiang Zhe's head and said, "Don't you want to participate in this event? You are also too confident, are you sure that you can find the magic props hidden in the woods in the hands of the senior seniors?"

Slapping Professor Huode's hand away, Jiang Zhe shrugged and said, "It's not for that, we just feel that this activity is very interesting, and we just want to see the magic of the senior seniors......

"Hehe, this mentality is not bad," Huo De nodded approvingly, then his expression changed, and he said in a deep voice, "However, since you plan to participate, I don't care about others, if you are easily beaten down, hum! Don't think that I will give you a high score during the year-end evaluation!"

"Huh?" Jiang Zhe was dumbfounded.

"Ahhhh......h

"No, Professor Huo De," Jiang Zhe's face was bitter, his heart moved, and he recited a mantra in his mouth, and suddenly a fireball appeared above his right hand, and this was not over, under his control, the fireball was sometimes large and sometimes small, and the orange flame slowly turned purple......

This kid!

All this looked at Huo De's eyebrows, and he was secretly surprised in his heart.

This kid is probably the most gifted kid I've ever seen...... Exceptionally gifted, unusually intelligent, he was a natural magician!

He will definitely become a magician with great strength!

Looking at the fireball that emitted purple light, Professor Huo De's evaluation of Jiang Zhe was raised to a higher level, but by the way, the requirements for him were obviously even higher, so to speak, Jiang Zhe was 'self-defeating'......

"That's it?" Suppressing the words of approval that were about to blurt out, Huo De glanced at it disapprovingly, and said lightly, "It's been more than two months to this extent?

"......" The smile on Jiang Zhe's face suddenly froze, and he looked at Professor Huo De and then at the fireball he cast, feeling a little incredible.

Isn't that satisfying the professor? Isn't that a ......

Jiang Zhe tilted his head, and a 'fantasy' appeared in his mind for no reason.

......

"Hello, respected magician, I heard that you graduated from the Heliriox School of Magic?"

"Well, yes, my name is South......"

"It's an honor to know you, esteemed magician, and take the liberty of asking, what kind of magic are you proficient in?"

"Hmm, fire blue magic!"

"Oh, very powerful magic, may I ask what kind of powerful magic you are best at?"

“...... Fireball. ”

"Fire, fireballs...... Looks like you're very basic, haha, haha......"

......

I don't want that! Jiang Zhe has a black line.

"Professor, tell me how you can be satisfied?"

You've made me happy, kid......

You're the most gifted and fastest-improving kid I've ever met, but that's why I've raised the bar for you time and time again......

"Ahem!" Professor Hod, who was a little embarrassed, coughed and said with a straight face, "How do you satisfy me? Shouldn't you let you think about it?" Don't worry, I will be satisfied when I should be satisfied...... "Having said that, I'm afraid he will never be 'satisfied' in his heart......

Jiang Zhe was speechless, and said, "That's okay, Professor, since you're not teaching me new magic, why did you bring me here?"

"Still can't figure it out?" Professor Hodd smiled slightly, only to see his lips move slightly, and a basin-sized crimson fireball suddenly appeared on his left side.

"You still have to participate in this event, then it is inevitable to meet the seniors, instead of letting you come back in disgrace at that time, I will first let you understand what is called 'competition between magicians'! Thank me!"

I thank you for your size!

Just looking at Professor Huo De's posture, where would Jiang Zhe not understand?

As a professor, bully the small, and let yourself thank him?

"What do you think! It's the stupidest thing to be distracted during a duel!" Unusually, Professor Huo De shouted in a deep voice while controlling the fireball in front of Jiang Zhe's eyes, "Put away your expression, will you be appointed without even resisting when you encounter a powerful opponent in the future?"

"How so, Professor!" Jiang Zhe, who was lowering his head, suddenly raised his head, only to see his lips chanting incantations continuously, and several fireballs gradually appeared beside him.

Hey! Professor Huo De smiled secretly, and slammed the fireball at Jiang Zhe, and shouted, "It's too slow! Where will your opponent let you simply use magic during a battle? Where will there be such a stupid opponent! Didn't I tell you to try to shorten the length of the spell according to your own habits? Have you forgotten?"

"Hey, hey!" Looking at the crimson fireball hitting him again and again, Jiang Zhe could only dodge sideways, and in this way, the spell was naturally broken, not to mention the unsummoned fireballs, even the three fireballs that had already formed were also shaky - obviously, he was distracted.

"Think about it, Soth, what are you going to do in such a situation? Soth, I've summoned a second fireball!"

"......" glanced at Professor Huo De as he dodged, and Jiang Zhe naturally noticed that a second suspended fireball appeared on his right, and he secretly complained in his heart.

"Can you just dodge to crush your opponent? while you dodge, I'll summon a third, fourth, fifth fireball!"

"......" Listening to Huo De's words, Jiang Zhe was shocked, gritted his teeth, waved his right hand, and controlled three fireballs to attack Professor Huo De.

Clever!

Huo De secretly praised, and with a wave of his hand, he scattered one of the fireballs that attacked him, only to hear a boom, and Professor Huo De taunted in the smoke, "This level of fireball can only raise dust at best!"

"Really, Professor?" Jiang Zhe chuckled from the other side.

Professor Huo De was stunned, and after the smoke cleared, his eyes lit slightly, and he clearly saw seven fireballs suspended around Jiang Zhe, no, eight!

This is Jiang Zhe's limit at this stage!

Without shortening the spell, it would have been impossible to summon eight fireballs in the blink of an eye......

Huo De nodded with satisfaction, and with a wave of his hand, the two crimson fireballs were extinguished, looked at Jiang Zhe and said with a smile, "Sos, do you think you can hurt me with this level of fireball?"

"Of course not," Jiang Zhe controlled eight fireballs scattered around Professor Huode, and said with a smile, "But it can make Professor you disgraced......"

"Oh?" Professor Huo De smiled and hooked his fingers and said, "Then let's try it!" The confidence in his words made Jiang Zhe a little distracted.

It can't be, it seems defenseless, it's impossible to block eight fireballs at the same time, right?

Even if the 'quality' is not enough, but this 'quantity' is ...... Even if it's a professor......

"Why? hesitate, if you're dead during the fight, Soth!"

Jiang Zhe frowned, gritted his teeth, and squeezed the fist in his right hand, and suddenly, eight fireballs attacked Professor Huo De at different angles extremely quickly.

"Boom!"

Before those eight fireballs hit Professor Hodd, a circle of red qi exploded from his body, exploding Jiang Zhe's eight fireballs to blow the ground camera......

"Wouldn't it?!" Jiang Zhe was dumbfounded, and looked at Professor Huo De in disbelief, only to see Professor Huo De dusting off the dust that had fallen on his body, shaking his head and saying in a regretful tone, "It's a pity, Soth, you could have done what you said and made me disgraced, but you hesitated just now - as a magician, self-confidence is very important, even if the opponent is very strong, you can't give up hope! You have to look for an opportunity to defeat him...... Prudence is a good thing, but prudence does not make you hesitate! Even the slightest hesitation gives your opponent a chance to turn defeat into victory, or even kill you!

"......" Jiang Zhe opened his mouth, and finally summoned eight fireballs again, because without Professor Huode's interference, this time the speed was much faster.

"Not fast enough!" Professor Hodd frowned and said, "As a magician, the longer it takes to cast magic, the more likely it is that you will be interrupted by your opponent! No stupid guy will watch you perform your magic, the competition is not a classroom! The opponent is not the professor! You have to be faster, you have to prepare your magic before the opponent reacts, otherwise, it will be the same as before! Okay, don't hesitate this time, control your fireball! Don't waste your innate talent, Soth!"

"Yes, Professor Hod," Jiang Zhe replied weakly, as he had just done, letting eight fireballs hover around the professor, looking for an opportunity, but no matter how he looked at it, he didn't find any signs of Professor Hod reciting the incantation.

As if he had seen through Jiang Zhe's thoughts, Professor Huo De said with a smile, "Soth, have you forgotten? Spells are just a means to help magicians gather magic power, and they are not necessary, I can recite them silently or not! In the contest between magicians, if you only pay attention to the shape of the opponent's mouth and ignore the others, then I tell you, it is not a real magician, and a real magician does not need to look at the opponent's mouth shape when observing the opponent! So you tell me, in this way can you detect the opponent's movements?"

Don't need to look at the lip sync?

Jiang Zhe was stunned, if he didn't need to look at the lip shape, then how could he know the other party's movements?

This is not to be ...... Wait a minute!

Could it be......

This kid has outstanding talent and extraordinary intelligence, but he is still too young, can he understand?

While saying those words, Professor Hodd was secretly worried in his heart.

Suddenly, he smiled, very relieved, because he saw Jiang Zhe slowly close his eyes......

Clever!

What a smart kid!

That's right! When a real magician detects the direction of the opponent's hand, he does not need to look at the opponent's mouth shape, but detects the opponent's magic fluctuations.

If you want to cast magic, there will be fluctuations in mana!

Carefully probe the proportions and density of the elements around the opponent, and probe the arrangement of the elements to estimate the magic that the opponent will use......

This is the real battle between magicians!

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