Project: Mage - The Frugal Mage

The plains were completely flat and sometimes some small hills could be found. In a certain place on the flat land, it was possible to see a young man sitting cross-legged while several green lights were around him.

A meter ahead was a small wooden chair, on top of which was a green sphere that was releasing a great deal of magical energy. This item was called Windstone, a stone that had a lot of wind energy.

The young man's goal was to use the energy of the sphere to lure wind creatures to him.

The young man was meditating while channeling his wind energy. He was Liu Yang, after figuring out how to lure the wind creatures, he decided to stand still and lure the creatures.

Since Liu Yang's powers were sealed, he could only show the power of a level 6 novice mage while his element was intermediate.

The seal that transferred its magical energy to Liu Xia restricted only cultivation, not the power of the elements, so Liu Yang's elements could be used as intermediate.

Roar !!!! Roar !!!! Roar !!!!

Several sounds of fierce roars were heard dozens of feet away.

Liu Yang opened his eyes slowly before turning his body, he saw that seven wind wolves and one wind snake were charging towards him. A look of shock appeared on Liu Yang's face, he never imagined that he would see a creature of rank 3 when trying to lure the creatures. A solemn look appeared on his face.

The snake was made completely of wind, the length was ten meters and one meter high.

"Looks like I'll have some more work this time…" Liu Yang got up and stretched his body. Then he waved his hand and several dozen wind knives appeared. Liu Yang already knew where the wolves were weak, but the problem was the snake because he didn't know where the weakness was.

Twenty meters… Fifteen meters… Ten meters…

Shuooo… Shuooo… Shuooo ...

When the eight wind beasts reached ten meters from Liu Yang, he acted. Liu Yang waved his hand and seven wind knives flew toward the seven wolves while the thirteen knives went toward the wind snake.

The wolves were quickly defeated by having their backs cut off. But it was different for the snake when the wind knives hit the snake's body, hit the wind and were absorbed. The power of the wind snake was far greater than that of the wolf.

Zzzzzzzz

The snake opened its huge mouth and attacked Liu Yang, a hurricane came out of its mouth. He dodged rolling to the side.

Part of the snake's body passed Liu Yang, but its tail spun and slammed toward Liu Yang, he had no time to react.

Bang !!!!

Liu Yang received a heavy blow to the chest, the power of the tail was very strong.

Boom !!

Liu Yang's body hit the floor hard and created a small crater with several cracks around it.

Coff… Coff…

Liu Yang spat blood when he got up, this was the first time he had hurt himself so much in a fight.

(It seems that fighting a target that is much stronger than I am is very risky. Especially when it's a doll that doesn't feel pain or anything. I need to find a way to pierce the snake's magical defense. But how much power do I need to use to do this?) Liu Yang had some quick thoughts before doing a desperate act. He kept the stone that was attracting the creatures and looked solemnly at the snake.

"Wind Blade" Liu Yang cast his spell, but unlike the mages at the same age as him, Liu Yang managed to cast the spell the instant he spoke its name, and ignored the casting time.

To do that was very simple, but the requirement was one of the hardest things to complete, control. A magician can accelerate casting through magical equipment, which is the fastest or slowest form of practicing elemental control and magical energy.

When a mage becomes a master at controlling the element and the magical energy, he can cast spells without the need for concentration and casting time.

A five-foot-long wind blade was as thin as a strand of hair, but unlike usual, Liu Yang put much more magical power to increase the power of magic. The wind blade glowed a bright green light as it emanated powerful energy.

Liu Yang spent eighty percent of his remaining power to combine skill and reinforce with magic.

Zzzzzzzzzzz

The snake saw the wind blade and attacked immediately, it jumped straight as it opened the largemouth.

"It's all-in." Liu Yang gritted his teeth when he saw the snake carrying, he waved his hand and the wind blade shot straight.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

A humming sound was heard as the blade struck the snake, but to Liu Yang's surprise, the wind blade pierced the snake's body as if it were made of paper.

A light shone as the blade struck the middle of the snake's body, the glow was the weak point, the blade cut the weak point and passed to the other side of the snake's body.

The snake began to disappear and only one green card remained.

"It looks like the tournament organizers made it easy for the participants if this snake were a true rank 3 creature, I wouldn't even have a chance to break its defenses. The more I defeat one from the front. It seems that the mages who trained control are very low, and they had to lower the level of the creatures so that they could defeat them, otherwise it would be a one-sided fight. "

Liu Yang realized this fact. The organizers were helping the students to realize that they lacked control, and if it was a fight against a real wild beast, things would be very different.

A rank 3 wild beast can kill an intermediate mage as if it were nothing unless the mage has much powerful defensive magic equipment.

The black card absorbed the green card, the number was increased by five thousand points and another three thousand of the five wolves. Liu Yang had a great harvest this time.

Since there was no safe place with trees, Liu Yang could only hide in a place with tall grass to recover. Liu Yang returned a few miles to rest before walking again.

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"It seems like this maze place, no matter where I go, is all the same. The flat land, plants, the sky, all the same. The only thing that changes are the hurricanes that are in some places in this place. Should I go to these places or pick up a few more points before moving on to the most dangerous places? "Liu Yang was pondering while meditating, the wind element's magical energy in the place was very strong and could qualitatively improve the wind element of Liu Yang.

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After walking for five days and accumulating points, Liu Yang beat thousands of wind golems, hundreds of wind wolves, and dozens of wind snakes. For now, he has not yet found any creature of rank 4.

The more Liu Yang advanced toward the center, the more magical energy became concentrated. If the wind's magical energy concentration was like in the real world before, Liu Yang's location was at least four times more concentrated.

Another thing, which Liu Yang discovered by walking randomly around the place, was that the closer he came to one of the hurricanes, the more concentrated the magical wind energy was. Liu Yang understood that there was something about those hurricanes for that kind of effect to happen.

After a few hours of meditating, Liu Yang has already been able to greatly improve the quality of his wind element magical energy, if he went to other areas, he could also improve his other elements, but his secret would be revealed if he did so.

"I think I'll meet with the big sister first before going to the place where the hurricanes are." Liu Yang took off the compass and pointed to the direction the arrow was trying to point. To his surprise, the tip was indicating the direction of one of the hurricanes.

"It seems that the older sister went in that direction too, but given her personality, she would be cautious about going to those places. Does she know anything? Or did she find someone from our school? "Liu Yang had some doubts when he saw this. The only thing he could do now went that way and find Xiao Mei.