The Necromancer in the Wizarding World

Although Matthews knew that he had zero points, he still decided to go to the Apprentice Hall because he needed to understand and study the opponent he was going to challenge.

When he walked into the apprentice hall and saw the densely packed names on the score wall, he couldn't help but feel a little surprised. There were more than 600 third-class wizard apprentices in the academy, which made him realize how difficult it was to cross the gap to become a formal wizard.

Matthews was soon relieved, because he understood that the number of formal wizards was limited, and the third-level apprentices were the largest group in the wizarding world. As the life expectancy of wizard apprentices has increased, the number of third-level apprentices has continued to accumulate.

Suddenly, Matthews remembered the brutal struggle his teacher had mentioned. He began to wonder if this was a way for the wizarding organization to remove redundancies and optimize resources. After all, many third-class apprentices with no future would only waste the limited resources of the wizarding organization.

Matthews stared at the list of apprentices and found that his name was at the end of the list. His basic points and battle points were both zero, which made him feel a sense of pressure. Although many apprentices ahead of him also had zero points, his entry into the ranks of third-class apprentices was almost on time.

Matthews felt helpless and embarrassed about his ranking. The top of the list is naturally the focus of everyone's attention, but the bottom of the list is also likely to attract people's attention, just like the exams on Earth, the students who rank first and last are easy to be remembered, and even decades later, they will be talked about with relish!

Message alerts continued to sound, and Matthews's nameplates lit up one after another. The first was a congratulatory message from Finistin: "Congratulations on getting the last place."

Then, Senior Sister Annie also sent a joking message: "Last place, you are amazing!"

Even the usually serious Joseph couldn’t help but tease him: “Matthews, you are the best, but you are the first, but you are just counting from the back, hahaha!”

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Matthews simply ignored the many humorous messages on the identity plate and continued to focus on the list, looking for possible opponents.

He found that although Senior Sister Annie's points were not high, she was already a senior third-class apprentice who participated in the points battle last term. There were many familiar names on the list.

The top spot was held by a bloodline apprentice named Barnes. Matthews had seen Barnes' information in the introduction to the 'Top 100 Apprentices' Bill had given him. It was said that Barnes had fused a bloodline called the Three-Eyed Nether Wolf and constructed a corresponding witchcraft model, which enabled him to fully stimulate the bloodline power of the wolf, thereby greatly improving his speed, strength and defense capabilities. Such strength made Matthews feel a little far behind.

The second one is also an apprentice of the bloodline side, which is enough to show the powerful position of the bloodline side in the current wizarding world. The third one is Garlon from the shadow side. He is good at shadow stealth and shadow raid, and is an extremely difficult opponent to deal with.

Facing these powerful apprentices, Matthews could only look up to them. He knew the gap between himself and these top apprentices. His target should be those who had points but ranked lower.

Matthews had already conducted in-depth research on the characteristics of each branch of witchcraft, and compared their own strengths and weaknesses. He developed a set of fighting strategies that suited him.

Matthews' strategy was to start with those side systems with relatively weaker attack power. His sights fell on the Illusion System and Secret System, which were ranked lower in points.

He ran to the challenge registration office without hesitation, even though there were nearly ten service windows there and there was a long queue in front of each window.

The wait was long. When it was finally Matthews' turn to register, the apprentices of the Illusion and Secret Puppet Departments that he had originally intended to challenge had already been picked up by other apprentices. In desperation, he had to hastily choose Sanchez, an apprentice from the same side of death, as his opponent.

Afterwards, Matthews' identity badge flashed, and the message prompted: A challenge has been launched to the death side apprentice Sanchez. Please attend the morning session tomorrow, please be on time!

There are three sessions of the points battle every day, namely the morning session, the noon session and the afternoon session.

Although Matthews chose Sanchez as his opponent out of helplessness, he was looking forward to this duel in his heart. He hoped that through this competition, he could gain a deeper understanding of the gap between himself and his fellow apprentices, find out his own shortcomings, and further deepen his understanding and mastery of the power of death.

As they were all apprentices of the Death Side, the witchcraft they mastered should not be very different in nature. Therefore, this match would truly test their mental strength, spellcasting efficiency, and the quality of their witchcraft equipment.

At this moment, Bill suddenly appeared in front of Matthews and looked at him teasingly: "Matthews, I didn't realize that you won the first place!"

Matthew's face immediately turned black. He really didn't want to be teased about this. He responded unhappily, "So you should take me off your list of top 100 apprentices right away."

Bill didn't seem to care about Matthews' reaction. Instead, he laughed even more happily: "If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have forgotten about this. This is a highlight!" Matthews wanted to slap the other person to death. He was so angry that he turned around and wanted to leave.

However, Bill stuck to her like a dead plaster and continued, "Don't leave in such a hurry! Have you chosen your challenger? I'm looking forward to watching your performance!"

What? Matthews couldn't help but ask curiously, "Can we still watch the fight? Didn't I hear it was at the Independence Arena?"

Bill laughed: "How can the academy waste such a good opportunity to earn magic stones? The academy will select ten duels every day for mirror broadcast. Of course, if you want to watch it, you have to pay for the magic stones!"

Matthews was amazed that there was actually a live broadcast of magic battles in this world! He immediately asked Bill about the location of the live broadcast room, intending to go there to broaden his horizons and perhaps learn something useful from it.