The wizard starts by trimming the donkey's hooves

Chapter 411 Secret Contest
With the brief opening speech, the preliminary examination for the selection of dragon knight reserves officially began.

As a strong wave of witchcraft flashed by, a white curtain of light suddenly appeared above the dragon knight reserve camp, which was shaped like an ancient Roman Colosseum.

Looking down from above, it looks like a rice bowl with an extra lid.

It's like a closed can.

"Now, let's draw lots in order!" announced a person in charge.

A waiter walked up to the candidate with a transparent glass box.

Everyone can see that inside the transparent glass box is a stack of folded papers, which emit some faint witchcraft fluctuations, as if to prevent some people from using mental power or some kind of perception to detect the numbers written on the papers in advance.

The rules of the preliminary test are very simple. First, draw lots to sort the teams, and then fight.

The battle time limit is three minutes. Once the three minutes are up, the preliminary test ends regardless of whether the enemy is defeated or not.

Next, five examiners will score on the spot and calculate the total score. At the end of the preliminary test, the total scores will be ranked and the top thirty will be selected.

In addition, the selection of opponents is also random.

However, it is in the form of a turntable.

Choose one of seven, namely Hurricane Elemental, Thunderstorm Elemental, Fire Peng Swarm, Stinging Giant Bee Swarm, Shadow Vulture, Frostwing Wind Serpent and Bloodthirsty Dragon Eagle.

The first two are legendary elemental creatures with considerable strength and a high degree of immunity to physical attacks.

The two creatures in the middle are both violent species that live in groups. Overall, if their numbers are large, they will definitely be legendary-level combat forces.

If the examinee has group combat skills, it will be a little easier to deal with. If not, it will be quite annoying. Even if you can win, you may exceed the time limit or be in a rather embarrassing situation.

Although it is not required to defeat the enemy within three minutes, being attacked or failing to defeat the enemy within three minutes will obviously result in loss of points.

The last three are all powerful flying and ferocious species, also at the legendary level, and each has their own characteristics in combat.

Of course, these seven powerful creatures are all ferocious species that can fly.

In other words, this battle tests the candidate's ability to control flying mounts in air combat.

Of course, if the examinee can confine the opponent or turn it into a ground fight, it is not a violation.

But it is obviously extremely difficult to do this.

"Number 13." As the waiter walked up to Ryan with the glass box, Ryan took out a card, opened it, and whispered.

"Fuck! I'm number one!" Luther couldn't help but exclaimed!
You should know that generally speaking, examiners also need to 'warm up' before marking.

Basically, the first and second ones are hard to give high marks.

In other words, the scoring will be more conservative and the scores will naturally be lower.

Generally speaking, after the top ten, the on-site examiners will have a better idea of ​​what score is appropriate.

Naturally, Luther, who was taking part in the Dragon Knight Reserve Assessment for the second time, was unhappy about this!

"Number 72!" The number in Hallowen's hand was obviously much later than Ryan and Luther, which made him feel a little relieved.

After all, there are many strong people on the scene, so it would be good to observe more.

The one Luther drew on the turntable was a swarm of stinging giant bees.

The giant stinging bee is about the size of a five or six-year-old child, and its tail has a sharp poisonous stinger that emits a black and purple light.

Its characteristics are extremely fast speed, disturbed airflow protection all over the body, and good defense against physical and witchcraft attacks.

The other is the signature tail needle, which is like a nail when shot out and has extremely strong penetrating power.

If it were a single Stinging Giant Bee's strength, it would be totally insignificant, and a Liquefaction Wizard could easily kill it.

But what Luther had to face at this moment were a full hundred giant stinging bees.

"Buzz!"

The giant stinging bee, which was dozens of times larger than the wasp, rushed towards Luther and the two-headed Chimera under his crotch like a dark cloud.

Luther squeezed his legs together and controlled Chimera to launch an attack.

Although Chimera Knight Luther clearly had the upper hand, as time passed, the stinging giant bees were quickly killed by Luther, and at the same time, the corpses of these giant bees fell to the ground like raindrops.

But when Luther cleared the field, the time limit reached three minutes.

This made Luther look unhappy.

This was his second time participating, and he knew that the length of his fight just now would be a clear deduction.

In addition, since this is the first test, examiners tend to be more conservative in their scoring.

"Six points!"

"Seven points!"

"Total score: thirty-two," the waiter shouted.

really!

This score is quite risky.

It’s hard to say whether I can make it to the re-examination.

When Luther returned to the crowd, Ryan and Harlowin on the side comforted him with a few words.

Next comes the rest of the group.

Ryan looked at a few people and found that
Although the initial test has a battle duration limit of three minutes, in reality, there are relatively few candidates who can actually fight for three minutes.

Those who are capable can often resolve the battle within a minute. At the same time, they have a high probability of obtaining higher scores and are considered to be in the first echelon.

Those with slightly weaker strength can basically finish the battle in about two minutes. It is hard to say how high the score of this type is, as it fluctuates greatly. This type of people is the largest and can be considered the second echelon.

The third echelon consists of those who have fought to the three-minute limit but have not yet defeated their opponents, and their number is relatively small.

So, even though there were a lot of people on the scene, the pace of the actual preliminary test was still very fast.

On average, it takes less than two minutes for the next person to take the turn.

"Please invite examiner number nine, Barnes, to come on stage." The waiter shouted.

"Hey, it's him." Ryan suddenly saw a familiar figure coming on the court.

The other party rode an ugly bone-eating vulture and came to the center of the venue. He was one of the three people who had been observing him from the side and rear.

It turns out that the opponent drawn this time was the bloodthirsty dragon eagle.

This made Ryan narrow his eyes slightly, and he looked at the other party with a little interest, wondering how the other party would respond then.

The bloodthirsty dragon eagle, as a typical melee flying ferocious species, is very similar to the blood-feathered horned beast.

But it is obvious that as a legendary beast, its strength is far superior to that of the Bloodfeather Hippogryph.

The dragon eagle, as the name suggests, looks like a cross between a dragon and an eagle. Its head is shaped like an eagle, with a red and sharp beak. Its wings are particularly large, comparable to the huge wings of a butterfly, with blood-red feathers on the surface of its wings.

Its body is like that of a dragon, covered with red scales, its hind limbs are thick, and it has a pair of sharp claws.

As the bloodthirsty dragon eagle was released from the iron fence on one side of the camp, it saw the bone-eating vultures on the field at first sight. It immediately let out a cry and rushed towards the other side with great momentum.

Every time the dragon eagle flaps its broad wings, its speed will increase synchronously.

"Chirp!"

Just when everyone thought that the dragon eagle would choose hand-to-hand combat directly, suddenly, the bloodthirsty dragon eagle inhaled suddenly and spewed out a flame when it was more than ten meters away from Barnes.

At this time, many people remembered that the bloodthirsty dragon eagle also possessed the breathing ability common to dragon creatures, called dragon eagle breath, which came with powerful fire damage.

Faced with the dragon eagle's breath attack, most people thought that Barnes would choose a safe way to deal with it, either dodging it or using defense to resist the witchcraft.

But to everyone's surprise, Barnes chose to attack!
Facing the attacking conical dragon eagle's breath, Barnes's whole body suddenly swelled, red scales appeared on his body, and the bone-eating vulture under his crotch seemed to be affected by something as well, and suddenly sank from mid-air.

"Roar!"

After transforming into a dragon man, Barnes suddenly opened his mouth and spewed out a breath of fire towards the bloodthirsty dragon eagle.

Suddenly, the two streams of fire collided violently in mid-air!
Suddenly the flames became very strong!

It was as if two flamethrowers were firing at each other, with heat waves rolling in the surroundings.

Ryan, who was observing from the side, was quite surprised when he saw Barnes in dragon form!
Because the opponent's appearance was extremely similar to his first stage dragon warrior transformation, with a short tail and a similar height, about four or five meters tall.

At the same time, the opponent should be of red dragon bloodline, but somehow, the red dragon scales are faintly tinged with black.

This corresponds to the information Claire said. It is likely related to the potion that the other party took in the Dragon Scale Brotherhood.

Just as Ryan's mind was changing slightly, the situation of the battle in the field suddenly changed.

Suddenly, the dragon eagle's breathing stopped abruptly.

I saw its beak was tightly grasped by a thick dragon claw.

After transforming, Barnes took advantage of the line of sight blocked by the collision of two balls of fire breath and rushed over in a flash.

Unable to open its beak, it naturally could not breathe. Faced with this situation, the bloodthirsty dragon eagle seemed extremely angry. Many blood vessels suddenly emerged from its body surface, wriggling like earthworms and rapidly expanding.

"This is the innate ability of bloodthirstiness!" said another candidate next to Ryan.

But no matter how the dragon eagle became bloodthirsty, increased its strength, and struggled violently, the dragon claw still held the dragon eagle's head tightly, without moving at all.

"Crack!"

The sound of bones cracking was heard, and the dragon eagle struggled even more desperately.

"Snapped!"

As the dragon claws closed, the dragon eagle's head was crushed like a watermelon.

This is a dragon eagle with legendary strength, and it has the hardest skull, but it was crushed directly by Barnes in dragonman form.

"Hiss~ Such strength!"

"Is this the bloodline of the red dragon?"

"It only took five seconds?!"

The others gasped.

At this point, Barnes' body began to shrink rapidly and turned back into human form again.

The bone-eating vulture under his crotch roared a few times excitedly, then carried Barnes and quickly landed next to the dead bloodthirsty dragon eagle, and began to devour the dragon eagle's remains.

Barnes did not stop his mount's behavior, but looked around, and his eyes lingered for a moment on Ryan's side. Ryan could see a hint of hidden provocation in the other's eyes.

As if to say, 'Look, I solved it, now it's your turn.'

interesting.
"very!"

"very!"

Including the second prince Everton, everyone gave it a full score of 10.

The total score is 50 points, and the first candidate with full marks appears.

The next few candidates were also quite strong, and two of them ended the battle within a minute.

But with Barnes, the "five-second man", as an example, the highest score of the remaining players was only 45 points.

"Please invite examiner No. 13, Ryan, to come on stage." The waiter shouted.

This made Luther and Halloween focus their attention on Ryan. They also wanted to know how long it would take Ryan and whether it was possible to surpass Barnes' five seconds.

As Ryan came on the court, many people present began to whisper.

Although Ryan had a strong record in battle, there were still many people who did not know him. When they saw that Ryan looked so young, they began to ask him about him, and all of a sudden, they started to talk.

After all, there were still quite a few candidates who knew Ryan, and they immediately began to introduce Ryan's previous achievements.

"So he is the Ryan who killed Harold."

“That’s a bit interesting.”

"I heard he's a metal wizard?"

"Sir Ryan, please turn the dial," the waiter said respectfully.

"it is good!"

As Ryan stepped forward and turned the pointer on the dial, the pointer began to move rapidly.

In order to avoid interference from the players, the players need to leave after the rotation.

Ryan naturally left the platform where the turntable was.

Finally, the pointer slowly stopped, and what it pointed to was the thunderstorm element!
"Hiss~ Such bad luck?" Luther and Harlowen looked at each other and said.

They both knew very well that Ryan was a metal wizard, and now that he was faced with the thunderstorm element, he was too restrained.

why?
Metals conduct electricity!
No matter what kind of metal-based witchcraft attack you use, or even if you use metal weapons to fight against thunderstorm elements, you will be very passive.

Under the paralyzing effect of the powerful electric current, the entire battle will become extremely difficult.

Obviously, this score will not be too high.

Of course, the two felt that it would be no problem for Ryan to defeat the thunderstorm element, but it might be more difficult, and he would even look a little embarrassed if he was attacked by lightning.

"Sir Ryan, if you are ready, we will start the summoning." The waiter bowed slightly and said.

"Let's start." Ryan nodded.

At the same time, he controlled the Blood-Feathered Hippogryph under his crotch and flew towards the center of the venue.

Seeing Ryan nod in agreement, the three crystallized wizards on the south side of the venue immediately began to summon. A thunderstorm crystal core that had been prepared long ago was placed in the summoning wizard formation.

As a low spell sounded, soon, a huge black cloud surrounded by strong winds was summoned. It was the legendary elemental creature, the thunderstorm element.

The biggest differences between the thunderstorm element and the hurricane element are two points.

First of all, in terms of color, unlike the white-gray color of the hurricane element, the thunderstorm element is black-gray all over.

Secondly, and also the biggest difference, is that inside the funnel-shaped dark cloud body of the thunderstorm element, lightning will continuously flash across the sky, and thunder-like sounds will be heard in waves.

Once the lightning in the body is released outside, it becomes a lightning attack.

Lightning is something that is not easy to deal with!

The speed of light, you can’t dodge, you can only take it.

The only way is to counter or interrupt the thunderstorm element before it launches an attack.

As soon as the thunderstorm element was summoned, it rushed towards Ryan.

As they got closer, the thunder inside the funnel-shaped dark cloud became more and more frequent.

Apparently, the thunderstorm element could send out a lightning strike at any time!

At this time, Ryan was silently chanting a spell and pointing a finger at the thunderstorm element.

"Metal cage!"

In an instant, a square metal cage appeared and trapped the thunderstorm element inside.

Although it did not cause any damage, Ryan's witchcraft still slowed down the actions of the thunderstorm element, and the lightning strike that was originally planned to be released naturally stopped.

the reason is simple.

Metal is conductive, so even if the thunderstorm element launches a lightning attack, it will not hurt Ryan, but will be absorbed by the metal fence surrounding it.

Although lightning will not cause any damage to the thunderstorm element itself, its attack will obviously be ineffective.

Therefore, the thunderstorm element chose to pass through the metal cage first and then launch a lightning strike.

The hourglass-shaped body of the thunderstorm element flashed slightly, and then the entire dark cloud body came out of the metal cage.

The blocking time is less than one second.

Seeing this scene, many of the candidates watching immediately wondered if Ryan had made a wrong tactical choice.

After all, whether it is the hurricane element or the thunderstorm element, this kind of high-level elemental creature has no physical form except for the crystal core.

Using this kind of metal witchcraft cannot trap the opponent at all, and it is just a waste of mental energy.

However, when the thunderstorm element just walked out of the metal cage, a metal mesh the size of a fingernail, densely packed with silver witchcraft light, appeared in front of it.

"Hey!"

"Snapped!"

The sharp metal net directly pierced through the dark cloud body of the thunderstorm element.

Everyone was a little surprised at how quickly Ryan cast the spell, but they did not agree with Ryan's continued choice of metal-based spells to attack.

Because of the thunderstorm element, it is highly immune to attacks from metal-based witchcraft.

In comparison, attacking with fire magic would be much more effective.

However, before anyone could say anything, suddenly, the entire thunderstorm element disappeared like ashes.

Only some broken thunderstorm crystal cores were left on the ground.

This made everyone look surprised, but they quickly reacted and figured out why.

Ryan's attack directly shattered the crystal core of the thunderstorm element!
Some of the stronger candidates even figured out why Ryan had just cast those two spells.

It turned out that the purpose of Ryan's first spell was to interrupt the thunderstorm element's first-hand attack rhythm.

At the same time, Ryan also predicted that the thunderstorm element would inevitably shrink its electrical energy and quickly leave the metal cage.

So, he then released the second spell, and the fine metal cutting net directly crushed the crystal core of the thunderstorm element in one fell swoop.

One hit kill!

"Hiss~ Three seconds?!"

"Is this the fastest so far?"

It took only three seconds for Ryan to win.

The three members of the Dragon Scale Brotherhood who were observing Ryan's strength from the side - Barnes, Reagan and Bronson - looked calm, but they were actually a little nervous in their hearts.

Especially Reagan and Bronson, their eyes briefly met, and they both saw a hint of shock in each other's eyes.

Because Ryan's combat response was impeccable.

When encountering the thunderstorm element, which should actually be the most restraining force against metal wizards, how could it be able to kill them instantly?

How strong a combat awareness does this require?
Not to mention them, even most of the people present, although they are the top legends, there are probably only a handful of them who can do this.

Another problem was that the battle time was too short, which prevented them from observing the full picture of Ryan's strength.

They were in a difficult situation because they couldn't get more information.

After all, you are strong. If you know the witchcraft and combat habits you are good at, you can still make targeted preparations in advance.

But now the entire battle took only three seconds and used only two spells, so the information obtained was too limited.

This added a bit of uncertainty to the three people's subsequent plans in the secret realm.

Among the three, Barnes is the strongest.

But at this moment, a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes.

When Ryan drew the enemy who was a thunderstorm element, Barnes thought about it from his perspective and thought of several possible ways to deal with it, but none of them was as concise and efficient as Ryan's just now.

"very!"

"very!"

Four consecutive examiners gave the paper a perfect score of 10.

At this time, the second prince Everton, with a smile on his face, slowly raised the score card in his hand, and it also clearly showed ten points.

This caused the candidates waiting for the exam to cheer.

“This is the second perfect score.”

"Full marks, no matter how you rank, you've already made it to the retest."

There was also a hint of surprise in Ryan's eyes, because in his opinion, he had offended the other party by refusing the Second Prince's invitation to join the Dragon Scale Brotherhood.

But judging from the current situation, the other party doesn't seem to mind?

He actually got full marks for this preliminary exam.

this.
(End of this chapter)