[Victor's Forest Secret Realm] - is the name of this assessment.

According to the rules, each candidate will have four encounters in the secret realm of the forest.

The monsters encountered in each battle are different, and their strength is also different and the number is different.

In four battles, one, three, five, and ten monsters will appear respectively.

If you can succeed in the third encounter, then you will be qualified.

Hernie waved her magic on the scroll, and the rules of the exam appeared in the center.

The students present looked at the rules on the scroll and hesitated.

They couldn't believe it.

Professor Victor's assessment, he actually asked them to challenge the monsters in person!?

This is actually a real combat test!?

Isn't this TM a fatal game?

"As I said before, there is no limit to the number of times this exam can be examined, and candidates who fail can be re-examined."

"You don't have to worry, if your life is in danger, the secret realm will automatically teleport you out and heal you."

Hearing this, the students looked at each other.

Although such protective measures do make people feel a lot of peace of mind, they still have some ...... when they hear about the actual combat

Get cold feet.

The students of the Royal Academy of Magic have little practical experience.

At most, it's just an attempt to unleash magic in the Arcane Pavilion and beat the wooden people.

Even though Associate Professor Hernie said that his life would not be in danger, his instinct still made the students resist.

The hearts of the students retreated, and some of the students who were further behind even took a few steps towards the exit.

But perhaps being able to qualify twice at once is too tempting for students.

After hesitating for a long time, they returned to the crowd.

At least wait and see.

Of course, their retreat was all seen by Hernie.

"Then, the assessment begins, and the candidates who are ready are asked to line up in turn to enter the examination room."

Those dozens of green teleportation circles are the so-called 'examination rooms'.

With a wave of one hand, Hernie's green circle was activated, bursting out with bursts of green aura.

Many candidates know that once they step into it, then the follow-up will usher in an unprecedented actual combat assessment.

Erica was the first to make the move.

Unconcerned about the timidity and shock of the students around her, she walked towards the portal in front of her.

The teleportation array under her feet gradually emitted light, and soon, Erica's body dissipated like a magical aura and merged into the scroll.

"She's in!?"

"This ...... Nothing will happen. ”

"Do you want to wait for Erica to come out and ask what's going on inside?"

The students who stayed there discussed with each other.

However, at the moment when Erica fully entered the scroll, a dozen more students squeezed out of the crowd and walked towards the portal in front of them.

And these people were gradually recognized by the candidates.

"These people...."

"They are all top-ranked students......"

Erica is not the only one looking forward to Victor's assessment.

They followed Erica closely behind, and one by one they entered the secret realm.

Although they didn't take Victor's quiz that day at the Arcane Pavilion, it was just a flashy education.

True geniuses look forward to any challenge.

Let alone.

It's just an assessment, and it's an unlimited number of assessments.

If you don't even have the courage to get into it, it's better to give up the exam from the beginning.

When they all entered the circle, most of the students fell silent.

They looked at the glowing circle and felt like there was a fire in their hearts giving an impulse, but the flame was quickly extinguished by a basin of water called calm.

Finally.

A small group of candidates voluntarily gave up on the exam, and with a distressed look on their faces, they shook their heads and turned and walked towards the portal of the mage tower.

The moment they left, their faces seemed to be very complicated.

I don't know if it's because of my timidity or because of the pity of lack of strength.

Hernie looked at them and did not stop them, nor did she urge the students to come forward immediately for assessment.

After all, that's exactly what these students think.

Professor Victor's exam.

It is estimated that it is the most difficult exam in the college in recent years.

……

A few wisps of green light slowly fell in the dense forest, and the glowing body made Erica feel a little light.

But the thick leaves around her told her that this was not an illusion, but a real dense forest.

Here, the terrain made of Kokot's space magic and Wood Calamity is repeatedly constructed into one challenge space after another.

Each space is independent and candidates do not interfere with each other.

Now Erica, she can't see the magic of this space.

She looked ahead, and there seemed to be a faint darkness behind a jumble of leaves.

Walking forward, Erica saw a winding path.

The path was covered in weeds and was hard to identify.

Erica walked cautiously down the path, not daring to take a big step.

In this dense forest, even if no monsters suddenly appear, the insects and floaters among the dense trees can be a lot of annoyance.

She continued to move forward step by step, stepping through the weeds and leaving jagged footsteps on the dirt.

With no one around, Erica tries to find some other roads around.

She walked to the side of the road, but it was as if she had hit a wall.

"It hurts, it hurts."

Erica rubbed her shoulder, which had just hit the 'wall of air', and looked at the other side of the air with some surprise.

It's all dense jungle, but it's completely isolated.

"There is no other way, but this one."

This unique exam made her feel a burst of novelty.

It's as if you're in a mysterious space.

As she walked on, a ray of sunset light fell into Erica's eyes through the trees.

It's an export.

She took two quick steps and rushed out of the forest.

"This is ....."

She looked at the endless plains around her, the yellow dogtail swaying like waves in the breeze.

At that moment, a dirt bag at Erica's feet squirmed.

A yellowish monster burst out of the ground and jumped at Erica's face.

The monster's body resembled that of a groundhog, but its tail had a parasitic flower.

On the long neck, several hairy rat heads grew, and from the neck came a strange sound mixed with chirping and quacking.

But what surprised Erica the most was that.

Its topmost skull has a duck's beak.

"This ..... Is it a mouse or a duck....."

As if hearing Erica's suspicion that she was a duck, the monster got angry and swung its body towards Erica.

Erica twisted and took a few steps back, and the monster pounced and devoured a lot of dog's tail grass.

Not to be outdone, it waved the flowers behind it and struck at Erica again.

【Second Order Magic: Fireworks】

The red formation in her hand was rapidly constructed, and two pillars of flame suddenly appeared in Erica's hands and rushed forward.

In an instant, the monster that pounced on it was burned to the ground.

"Hmph, weak."

Erica clapped her hands, and the charred monster was swallowed up by the ground again.

"That's the end of it?"

Unlike other students, Erica has real-world experience.

She had killed many local fire monsters in Mount Vesuvius before.

And these monsters are much weaker than the monsters above the volcano.

Erica knew that this was to take care of all the candidates to deliberately control the strength of the monster, but it also made her a lot easier.

I don't know what kind of means Professor Victor used to drive the monster, but this kind of assessment is interesting.

Erica continued to walk forward, and a second wave of monsters appeared in front of Erica again.

Two rat-like ducks burst out of the ground and struck Erica again.

But this time there is another type of monster.

From that distance, a tiny black dot flew towards Erica.

The bat-like creature vibrated its four shattered screen-like wings, and it harnessed the breeze and spat out three clouds of black liquid in quick succession in the air towards Erica.

Erica rolled over and flipped the two rat monsters over them.

At the moment of taking off, he turned around, avoided the black liquid, stepped on the back of the bat, and jumped backwards.

Build two spells between your hands at the same time.

【Second Order Magic: Water Waterfall Swirl】

[Second Order Magic: Fire and Smoke Flying in the Sky]

One red and one blue, two kinds of magic appeared in her hands at the same time.

As soon as she finished speaking, Erica stretched out her arms towards the body that had fallen to the ground, and the two magic bolts intertwined with each other and flew towards the three monsters.

Rumble!

The intense heat and the bursting water droplets burst the surrounding grass waves.

A burnt smell slowly rises.

Erica landed smoothly on the ground and exhaled.

Fortunately, she had trained for a period of time in her father's 'Magus Legion', and was able to perform a series of more flexible movements.

If she hadn't controlled the flying bat in advance, I'm afraid she would have to plant a heel here.

The combination of two monsters, alternating between near and far, is still more dangerous.

Erica rested for a moment and continued to walk forward.

Her instincts told her that the third wave was coming.

Sure enough, three platypus suddenly burst out on the ground, which was the name she had just chosen for this monster.

This time, unlike the previous two waves, their actions became extremely fast.

A bat flying in the distance kept Erica focused.

"That's not right! There are five monsters! ”

Erica's sixth sense told herself that something was wrong, and the hairs behind her suddenly stood on end.

When she looked back, there was a huge floater swooping towards her.

The floaters were wrapped around the wooden vines, and their whole body seemed to be hidden in the greenery.

If you don't look closely, you won't spot this ingenious trapper.

"Sure enough!"

Erica took a big step to the side this time, and after dodging the attack of the platypus, she pinched out a flame in her hand and hit the flying mosquito in front of her.

The moment the flames touched the monster in front of them, they burst into flames.

She rolled to avoid the crisis behind her.

But the flaming flying mosquito flapped its wings suddenly, and the flames on its body were suddenly extinguished.

"Tsk."

This time, the monster is even more powerful than before.

Erica realized this, so she stopped keeping,

A bright green glow lit up on her chest, enveloping the surrounding monsters in an instant.

The power of legacy.

Erica, who had gained this power, was no longer what she used to be, and the powerful natural energy had made her strength no longer limited to those simple second-order magic.

The light gradually extinguished, and the bodies of the monsters seemed to be planted with a seed, and they sprouted and bloomed, and sharp branches pierced out of the monsters' bodies.

The monsters were lying in silence in the mutilated sunset.

The corpse slowly dissipated as the wooden rattan slowly dissipated, and a green portal gradually lit up behind Erica.

A cloud of handwriting burst out of the air and lit up in front of Erica.

[If you pass the results, do you want to continue the challenge?] 】

This means that Erica has completed her exams and that she can leave now to take the exams of other professors.

But......

She didn't want to be satisfied.

"Keep up the challenge."

When Erica settles down, the portal disappears.

She turned around, and at some point a turquoise path appeared in front of her, which looked very peaceful and harmonious in the sunlight.

The flowers around the trail swayed in the breeze, and seemed to rejoice in Erica's courage.

She took a deep breath and stepped through the grass waves to continue her walk deeper into the trail.