The Garden of Hope focuses on hands-on experience for students, rather than having them sit indoors writing and drawing on parchment with a quill in their hands or wielding a weapon at a sandbag that won't return fire. As a result, every once in a while, the instructors of each class would drag their students to a special area for practical classes, which is nicknamed the shooting range, to test their knowledge and skills.

Alicia likes to take practical classes the most, because Chrissy doesn't give homework on this day. This way the little queen has more time to do other things, such as the daily and the daily and the daily ...... I mean, revise the accumulated state documents, decide on the development policy of the empire, and tease the handsome guys around you by the way - don't doubt it, even when she is working, this girl will still show off her temperament.

As for Chrissy, she also likes to take practical classes, because then bad teachers can pin the whole class with prick sticks. The showy Joey and his good friend Tom have been carefully cared for by Chrissy for more than three years, so much so that they have a headache when they see the practical class.

With all sorts of moods, the students of Class A of the fourth year of the Department of Magic, led by Chrissy again, came to the legendary shooting range again this morning.

"Everyone is here. Alicia Harris, are you here?" Chrissy said loudly as she looked around at the boys and girls around her, pressing her hands to signal them to be quiet.

"Don't talk to people as if they skip class every day. Alicia jumped up in the crowd and raised her hand in the air, and replied with a little dissatisfaction, "Am I not here?"

"Ahh I'm sorry. Because you're so short, I can't see it, old lady. ”

“...... Mentor, aren't you really trying to find fault with you?"

Coughing vigorously and ignoring the beautiful girl who squeezed into the front exhaust and puffed out her bun face, Chrissy patted her hands lightly and said, "Then let's start class." I've said it before. The fourth grade is the most critical semester, in the future, you will become rich and handsome and Bai Fumei by virtue of your strong strength or rich knowledge, and from then on, you can still find a companion to pop if you have nothing to do, or because of your lack of strength or lack of knowledge, you will be reduced to a hanging silk everywhere, struggling to make a living, and you can only rely on gloves and cucumbers to make a living alone at night, it all depends on what you can learn in this year. I won't say much other nonsense, let's start with the most basic attack spells!"

Offense is the best defense, and you can't expect to defeat the enemy with the turtle shell no matter how invulnerable it is, unless the opponent is a second person who attacks the turtle shell indiscriminately and runs out of magic or vindictiveness. While the mage's standard battle order is to stand in the back row, shield themselves, and cast spells, positioning and defense seem to be equally important, but the rest of the teammates sacrifice their lives to block the enemy in the front row, allowing the mage to adjust the position of the defense in the back. It's not to wait to see him throw a small fireball to sell cuteness.

Only those who can blast the most vicious enemies to slag in an instant can truly be called a powerful mage.

"Show off your best attack spells, don't hide them for the old lady!" After the first few students destroyed the target with a spell that was not easy to itch. Chrissy, who was slightly unhappy, clasped her hands and shouted, "Or what, do you want to learn from the protagonists of various time-traveling novels who usually deliberately leave one hand to pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger at a critical moment?" The next one is...... Joey: Yes, let me take a closer look at the old lady and see if you can reach the level 4 standard after using your strength to breastfeed. ”

The activists of the class had now become old men who had lost their vitality. With his head down, he slowly moved his steps to Chrissy's side: "That." Mentor. Please be merciful. ”

The expression on the bad teacher's face was about to burst into laughter, and he hurriedly took a deep breath and retracted it, clenched his fist and coughed on the side of his mouth: "Don't worry, as an excellent and responsible tutor, I will do my best to help my student test his extreme strength!

Chrissy waved her hand, and a whole ten natives appeared in a row in the open space not far away, and then pointed at them and said with a smile to Joey, who was stammering next to her: "Those are your targets, let me destroy them all at once." ”

"What about the, is this!?" Joey finally couldn't help but jump and scream. "The ones in front are all single spells, and you didn't say anything, because Mao came to me and it became a group spell!? And judging from the magic fluctuations emanating from the surface of those natives. They all have level 3 defense, right, how can I destroy them all at once!?"

"Ah, you have to try everything first. People who say it's impossible before they try will never succeed. Chrissy decisively turned her eyes to the side and said with a grin.

"Normally, when you say such a high-sounding line to someone, you should keep your eyes on the other person, and your eyes have wandered away, mentor, hey!" Joey clenched his fists in a frenzy and shouted, "You didn't plan to help me do the test from the beginning, you just wanted to pin on me, right!? Hurry up and change back to the normal test, how can you ——!fix it?"

Hearing this, Chrissy suddenly puffed up a green tendon on the door of her head, and struck Joey's head hard: "Stinky boy, you are against the sky, don't you, you dare to yell at the old lady? Hurry up and destroy those targets, otherwise I'll go to the playground next door for twenty laps!"

"Can't I do it, can't I do it?" the tearful boy silently raised his hand, then concentrated on summoning his magic and chanted a spell softly—he was actually trying to cast the wall of fire technique that Casey had just taught him the other day!

[The magic feels a little unstable, as if it's about to be messed up.] 】

Not long after Alicia thought about it, the flames that were supposed to be burning at the feet of the natives suddenly exploded violently, and countless fragments suddenly rose into the sky and fell on the heads of the embarrassed people.

A large pit appeared in the ground, and the eight natives in the center were long gone, and the remaining two also swayed gently and fell down, shattering on the spot.

"Ugh. In a sense, you did. Chrissy, who was covered in black lines, looked at the scene in the distance and said with a painful face, "That's good." You're barely getting through. But next time, you'd better be able to master the technique, and stop using the Fire Wall Technique as a Flame Blasting Technique. ”

The test continued, and the crowd performed differently. Chasi had unknowingly mastered the Icepick technique, knowing that the plural form of this thing was the famous Ice Storm, her little lover Sun Xiang was also very qualified, and easily destroyed Chrissy's natives with a flame bomb, and Fabiano even made everyone's jaws drop and directly cast the Fire Wall Technique, although his spell casting action looked very jerky.

In comparison, Sophia's performance can only be considered mediocre at best; After obtaining the consent of a bad teacher who has no score, the genius alchemy girl uses a test tube to destroy the natives who are the target, and by the way, everyone is covered in cold sweat.

You still don't know exactly what's in the test tube......

"Oh hehe. It's finally your turn. Chrissy casually leveled the scarred ground in the distance, smiled at the hairy Alicia and said, "Come on, let the old lady see how strong you are now who have saved the world repeatedly?"

Alicia, who was shaking for no reason under Chrissy's gaze, smoothed the goosebumps on her arms with all her might, swallowed her saliva, carefully walked to the side of the bad teacher, raised her head, and said weakly, "Uh. Please don't embarrass Ellie. Mentor Chrissy?"

Chrissy gave the blonde a reassuring smile and said gently, "Don't worry, I'm all-all-right-I will use all my strength to make it difficult for you!"

"Wait a minute, your expression doesn't match your lines at all, huh!?"

However, the little queen did not have any chance to plead, and Chrissy, who had made up her mind to find fault, magnificently made up more than twenty stone sculptures in the shape of Sagron insects in the distance, and then said to the embarrassed Alicia with a smug face: "See, those are your targets." Without using contract creatures, let me simply use attack magic to destroy them all. ”

“...... Please, may I ask how many magic crystal cannons can I mobilize from China?"

"Don't talk to the old lady and be poor, hurry up. ”

Alicia, who was knocked on the head by the unreasonable Chrissy, touched the top of her head. With a deep sigh, he looked into the distance. The others around also held their breath and watched nervously, for fear of missing some wonderful shots.

Chrissy wasn't really messing with Elysia either. Although the defense of these stone sculptures is not much different from that of real Zerg. But for this little girl who has fought against demons, evil gods, lichs and other out-of-specification before, the stone carving or something is simply weak. Moreover, it is rumored on the continent that Alicia has some kind of powerful light spell that can strike at the entire army, and the power is no less than the dark energy used by Imrith to kill the Protoss Sword Saint in the Reze Cup competition, and destroying these stone sculptures is simply playing with the family.

However, Alicia didn't plan to use the law-level skills of the Holy Judgment's Light, and she didn't have the idea of pulling out the Oath Sword to fire a map cannon.

I saw that the girl slowly closed her eyes, unhurriedly condensed the magic power around her, the magical elements in the atmosphere quickly responded to the girl, forming a faint air flow around her, gently pulling her dress and hair, from the girl's mouth faintly spit out a sweet and pleasant chanting sound, giving people an ethereal feeling; after the preparation, the beautiful girl elegantly raised her right hand, and suddenly opened her eyes and shouted loudly while waving it hard: "The dark clouds in the sky, The spirits of the atmosphere, obey my call, and here you will show your fury and destroy all evil—thunder from the sky!"

In addition to the law and map cannon, the strongest lightning group spell that Alicia has mastered has been gorgeously displayed in front of everyone's eyes.

More than a dozen light blue thunderbolts with a white-purple luster fell from the sky, hammering the land that was usually ravaged by all kinds of magic. The small force of the stone carvings of the earthwalkers was wiped out in an instant, but that wasn't the end of it: a huge thunderbolt as wide as an ordinary room fell from the sky, exploded on the ground and dispersed into countless small bolts of lightning, plowing the poor ground like a silver serpent, turning the area into hot char.

After a long silence for everyone, including Chrissy, Chasi was the first to come back to his senses. There was a huge exclamation from all of them.

Alicia didn't have time to nod to the crowd in a humble manner, and she didn't have time to put her hands on her hips and proudly put her hand on her face—because Chrissy had already rushed over and strangled the little queen's neck with her arms, and her face was full of madness and she yelled desperately, "You did it on purpose." Definitely on purpose, right!?"

"me, where did I provoke you? Hurry up and let go, I'm going to be out of breath. Caught in mid-air and out of reach of the ground with her feet, Alysia kicked her legs desperately and struggled, "What kind of nerves are you settling?"

Hearing this, Chrissy couldn't help but strangle harder: "I'm nervous? It's you who are really nervous! A student who has just been promoted to the fourth grade is so proficient in casting a level 5 spell. You let the old lady who is a teacher only have level 4 strength, where can I put my cheeks, how can I cultivate——!? aren't you obviously looking for fault?"

"Who cares about you, you yourself said that you wanted me to use spells to attack those stone sculptures. Unable to break free no matter what, Alicia decisively chose to release the electric shock. Only then was he able to escape, "Now that I'm done, can I go to the side and rest?"

Shook off his hands that were numb by electricity. Chrissy pursed her lips and snorted angrily, "Get out, get out, don't continue to dangle in front of the old lady, look upset!" ”

The timid, shy and weak soft girl hurriedly agreed, and quickly came to Chrissy, who was not very good-tempered. Fortunately, the latter did not deliberately make things difficult. Just glanced at her lightly and said, "I remember that you are not good at any offensive spells at all, do you want to change the test?"

[Why are you so considerate of her, just because she is a soft girl!? It turns out that there is such a big difference in the treatment of black-bellied and soft girls!]

Alicia's inner complaint was not conveyed to Chrissy, and the bad teacher, who was very gentle with the soft girl, agreed to Vacis's request to use summoning, and then, there was no more.

The fierce three-headed dog crushed the natives who were the target, and if Vaqis summoned the teenage little Lori named Aitai, the number of natives would not be enough to show her true body with two feet - do you know what a titan is? It's the kind of existence that is as tall as a skyscraper and has nothing to do to fight little monsters......

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Chrissy then tests the students on other things, but this guy's patience is clearly lacking. Defensive spells, interrupting and countering enemy attacks, etc., are just casually perfunctory. Fortunately, all the students in Class A worked hard, and despite the virtue of the instructor, the exercises that should be done did not fall behind, so they all passed successfully.

"Well, it's all pretty good overall. Before the end of class, Chrissy looked at the crowd and concluded as if she were serious, "But don't be complacent, you must know that during the previous counteroffensive in the Land of Despair, fourth-year students like you were already the target of the military to strengthen the front-line combat power. If you go into battle in your current state, I guarantee that most of you, with the exception of a few who don't have a score, will die honorably in the first battle in no time. So keep exercising, rookies, thanks to a certain little queen, it won't be long before the alliance will directly face the demons, and you who have just graduated will definitely be the best recruits. If you don't want to get a bento, let the old lady hone her strength and combat skills to the death!"

"Please wait, what's the matter with this statement that I seem to have attracted the demons?" Alicia raised her hand in protest with a embarrassed face, "Isn't it human rights for me to raise the power of the whole continent to launch a self-defense counterattack that is related to the survival of the race?"

Glaring at the blonde girl in annoyance, Chrissy continued, "Don't interrupt! Most of the people present here are ordinary people, who don't have a strong aura like you, and they want to live their lives in peace even if they can't get ahead. If it weren't for the demon invasion that caused the situation to be critical, who would want to go to the battlefield? It's okay to go out and find all kinds of excitement and then save the world or something, or leave it to you and your friends to do it. ”

[Now it's a magical girl again-it's better not to say it and talk back to her.] 】

Seeing that the little queen didn't say anything, Chrissy couldn't help but nod with satisfaction: "Then let's get down to business." In this way, most of you will be promoted smoothly at the end of the year, which is very good, continue to maintain! It should be noted that in addition to the traditional written test, the fourth and fifth grade exams will also add the mode of field trials. Together with the people in the martial arts department, every group of four people will work together to complete the released tasks under the full observation of the invigilator, and finally the invigilator will give a score. I can't say more about the specifics, but those who are prepared can use the summer vacation to form a team to experience it. ”

Sure enough, the closer you get to graduation, the more you pay attention to the actual ability of students. Alicia sighed in her heart and didn't speak, but the classmates around her were chattering.

"Quiet!" Chrissy gestured with her hand, "It's okay, it's not such a difficult task, it's mostly the kind of thing that was placed in the designated place and brought back." The academy isn't concerned with whether or not you can slay dragons as a team, it's about how well you perform as an individual in the team, so you just have to play your best. That's all I have to say, class. ”

Almost at the same time, a bell rang in the distance. (To be continued......)