Chapter Five: Encounter with a Formidable Foe

  It's finally come down to the last "decisive battle". I wonder who my final opponent is. Hopefully it's someone mid-tier, that way if I lose, it'll show off how weak I really am.

  "Ladies and gentlemen, the draw has ended. Now, let's announce the match-ups for the exam. The first place in the initial exam is Longbow Wei vs 12th place Mark Sedate, second place Richard Lun vs 79th place Lacey Blue..."

  What a coincidence, it's actually Mark. This kid, I'm going all out too, isn't being first everything? I'd rather get first place today and avenge yesterday's defeat. I secretly made up my mind, not avenging a grudge is not being a gentleman, heh heh, you wait Mark, how about I...

  The competition is in reverse order of ranking, with those ranked lower competing first, and I am the last one to compete.

  "Where did that stinky kid Mark go? I looked around the crowd, wondering why he wasn't there. He wouldn't be afraid of me today and not show up, would he? No way, his teacher wouldn't let him off the hook that easily. Hmph, I won't look for him anymore. We'll see each other during the competition."

  The competition has started, and it is divided into 10 arenas for the trial.

  Actually, Mark was in a corner when he heard that his opponent was me and almost fainted. Yesterday, after saying that sentence, he regretted it - I'm done for, Brother Chang will definitely not let me off tomorrow, why am I so stupid? It's all my fault, God of Creation please bless me to leave with a whole body tomorrow.

  Wow, they're really going all out! The contestants competing to get into the Royal Intermediate Magic Academy are fighting like their lives depend on it. I don't know which group this is now, but the two contestants on stage are a water-elemental mage and a wind-elemental mage. They're not using any defensive magic at all, just pouring all their energy into their strongest attacks. The stage is literally a stormy weather, with one of them casting an ice hail spell and the other a dragon tornado spell - it's terrifying! I couldn't help but think about what strategy I would use if I were competing against them... after thinking for a while, I only came up with one plan: to defend and retreat, letting my opponent exhaust their magic power before striking back. Luckily, my own magic power should be slightly higher than theirs. In the end, this match was decided when the water-elemental mage let his guard down for a moment and got taken down by the wind-elemental mage's combo of wind blades.

  For this match, the academy sent out 10 water-elemental grand magicians and 2 mages to prevent anything unexpected from happening. Due to their presence, although the competition was fierce, nothing unexpected happened.

  Three hours later, it was finally my turn, I stretched my muscles and slowly walked up onto the stage.

  "This is the first place in the first round of exams, Chang Gong. Awesome!"

  "It doesn't seem like a big deal, a student of the Light Department who can't even cast attack magic somehow got first place, they must have bribed the proctor."

  "Why hasn't his opponent come up yet?"

  I stepped onto the stage, looked around in all directions, but still couldn't see Mark's figure. Hmm, could it be that he really chickened out at the last minute? I had long planned this out, and was determined to make Mark suffer miserably, as a warning to the examinees below, telling them that I'm not someone to be trifled with, and from now on, troubles should decrease by a lot.

  "Mark is ranked 12th in the first round of exams. Has Mark arrived? If Mark has not arrived within 30 seconds, he will be considered to have forfeited."

  "Here, here." Mark finally appeared, helplessly. He flew onto the stage with a swift movement, first bowing to the proctor teacher, then lowering his head and whispering to me: "Boss, I didn't do it on purpose yesterday, don't be angry, spare my life."

  It seems he also knows I won't let him off, and he's quite self-aware about it.

  "Hmph, you've done a lot already. Can't take back what's been eaten, can it? Let me beat you up and I'll forgive you."

  "No, boss, I'm really afraid of pain, spare me."

  "Go ahead and give it your all, let me see what you're capable of. Don't expect any mercy from me."

  "Alright, boss be careful." He said as he first gave himself a fire shield.

  I quickly used the incantation to summon the Light Shield, I didn't dare to be careless, this kid's strength was quite strong after all, or how could he have gotten first place in Magic Control.

  "Boss, I'm here." Mark also knew that letting me go easy was impossible, so he went all out. We both didn't know each other's real strength, but judging from our rankings, we both knew the other was a formidable opponent. If we didn't give it our all, there would only be one outcome - getting beaten up badly.

  A novice magic fireball flew towards me, I raised my left hand and used the light prism shield to meet the fireball. Just as the fireball was about to hit, it suddenly drew an arc and bypassed my light prism shield, attacking from behind. Indeed worthy of being the number one in magical control, truly formidable! I immediately used instant movement to flash to the side and retaliated with a beam of light arrow. The light arrow had no effect on his fire shield. At this time, his fireball had already caught up again.

  "Isn't your fireball supposed to explode?"

  "Heh heh, boss, this isn't just an ordinary fireball, it's a concentrated fire element. I can control four of them at the same time, don't get hit! " As he spoke, he released three more fireballs, and the four fireballs came at me from different directions. I dodged, this way is okay too, I ran.

  A burst of whispers from below the stage, "This is the first one, and it's actually being chased by a few fireballs. What the...!"

  I thought to myself, even if it were a fireball, I wouldn't be afraid. It's easy to talk big when you're standing, come and try it yourself if you have the guts.

  I used Instant Transmission to run for a while and suddenly came to my senses, this won't do, our magical powers are about the same, now my consumption is definitely greater than his, can't hide anymore, or I'll lose, it seems that I have no choice but to be a bit despicable.

  As I thought of this, I immediately moved to Mark's side in an instant, using the light shield in my left hand to directly hit his body. Mark's fire shield was no match for my light shield, and seeing me being chased by the fireball, he was gloating, but then I suddenly appeared beside him and was hit by my light shield, and the fireball he released lost its momentum and exploded in the corner of the arena.

  "Wow, boss, this works too."

  I didn't respond and shifted to his side with a left hook. Mark dodged to the left, and a mid-level fire magic Flame Burst came over, I dodged back.

  "Older brother, this is all your fault. Fire spirit, listen to my call and form infinite shooting stars to annihilate the enemy before us."

  Wow, this kid is really ruthless, full-range fire system high-level magic Fire Flow Star. But I have to admit that his strength is indeed very strong. The arena is too small after all, if it were in an open space, he would not be able to hit me with this magic that can only cover 200 square meters, but this arena is 15*15.

  I know that the prism shield won't be able to withstand it, so I'll just go all out. "Great light elements, my friends, I implore you to gather and form countless blades to annihilate everything before us!"

  Guang Jian Sword VS Huo Liu Xing, the result will be revealed tomorrow. (Want to know the result? Please come back early tomorrow, I'll probably update it at night, got some things to do during the day. Today, I drank half a kilogram of liquor, if you guys think it's not good, please give me feedback, I'll try my best to improve, thanks!)

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