The Necromancer in the Wizarding World

Matthews' mood was refreshed, and the previous haze was swept away. He returned to the apprentice hall and chose the challenge target for tomorrow with confidence.

Having learned from the previous lesson, Matthews became more wise this time. He no longer just focused on the apprentices with lower rankings, but carefully selected the right opponents according to his own necromancy direction.

This is just like choosing a university major. You should not only consider the overall ranking of the school, but also pay more attention to the strength of the major itself. Sometimes, finding a major that suits you is more important than getting into a top university.

After careful consideration, Matthews decided to challenge the apprentice of the Illusion Department. He was eager to get his first victory and get rid of the hat of last place. He did not hesitate and completed the registration procedures for the challenge directly at the registration office.

It was still early, so Matthews stepped into the competition hall again, intending to watch other people's live broadcasts of the game to gain some knowledge.

Only then did he realize that this competition hall actually had five live broadcast rooms, which were specially used to broadcast the fights between popular apprentices for everyone to watch and learn.

Matthews spent a magic stone and chose a live battle hall on the side of the shadow challenge element. This is a small space that can accommodate about a hundred people at most. There is a huge mirror screen in the front. Matthews knows that this is achieved using special magic array technology. The teacher's laboratory window has a similar magic array arrangement, which can reflect the blue sky and white clouds during the day and present stars at night.

He found an empty seat and sat down. The duel had already begun. The elemental apprentice in the center of the arena had laid a dense fire net around him. The shadow apprentice's figure seemed blurry, appearing and disappearing from time to time, like a ghost, wandering on the edge of the fire net.

Obviously, this shadow apprentice was troubled by the effectiveness of the fire net. A forced attack would inevitably touch the fire net, and once triggered, the elemental apprentice would immediately detect his position and launch a fierce attack.

The two sides formed a standoff in the arena, seemingly waiting for the other to reveal a flaw. However, as the challenger's shadow apprentice, time was of the essence. If he could not decide the winner within an hour, he would lose the fight.

Finally, the shadow apprentice could no longer bear it and started his strategy. He did not choose to attack directly, but adopted scattered feints, aiming to confuse the fire apprentice's judgment, create chaos, and make it difficult for the opponent to lock his real attack route.

As expected, the elemental apprentice was in a panic. He not only released the counterattack witchcraft he had prepared, but also threw out a lot of the magic bombs he had prepared. In the end, he didn't even touch the opponent's hair.

After a round of harassment, the shadow apprentice no longer hesitated, forcefully broke through the layers of fire nets, and quickly approached the opponent. The elemental apprentice had already released a large number of attacks before, and was unable to condense witchcraft to counterattack immediately. Despite this, he still reacted quickly and erected a solid shield in front of him. It was a magical defense item, which barely resisted the shadow apprentice's shadow attack.

The shadow apprentice missed the target and quickly sneaked to another position, launching a surprise attack from the side of the elemental apprentice silently. His movements were as fast as lightning, which made people dumbfounded.

The Elemental Apprentice had no time to react before he was hit hard by the Shadow Apprentice's staff. He flew backwards involuntarily and fell heavily to the ground as if he had been hit hard.

The shadow apprentice's shadow raid was indeed extraordinary, and the attack magic he cast was always closely attached to the staff, keeping it within a very short range. This not only ensured the concealment of the magic, but also made the raid effect reach the best.

Although the Shadow Apprentice had the upper hand, he did not make another finishing blow to seriously injure his opponent, because the rules of the points battle allowed for serious injuries to the opponent during the battle, but it was not allowed to deliberately inflict heavy damage when knowing that the opponent was unable to fight back.

In fact, if you encounter such a shadow apprentice, it is really difficult to fight back if your perception is insufficient. Unless you have extraordinary combat intuition, you may be able to deal with it in a short period of time and barely maintain your invincibility.

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The next morning, Matthews learned from his mistakes and went to the competition bulletin board to check the arrangement of the competition live broadcast. However, he found that the competition management seemed to be targeting him, and he was once again scheduled to play his fight in the live broadcast.

He carefully studied other live broadcasts of the competition, and one of the fights between bloodline apprentices particularly caught his attention. He knew it would be very exciting. Therefore, he was determined to finish his fight as soon as possible so as not to miss that exciting fight.

So, Matthews immediately went to the competition hall to sign in. To his surprise, his opponent was already waiting in the hall. The two of them did not have any extra communication and were directly led by the staff into the Fragment Arena.

Standing in the arena, Matthews and his opponent were a hundred meters apart, both of them tightly grasped their staffs, and the atmosphere was tense and murderous. Matthews knew that the audience outside was watching this fight through the mirror live broadcast, so he deliberately posed in a confident posture and shouted out a domineering opening remark:

"Today I will vindicate the side of death. Even the shallowest power of death is enough to destroy everything!"

However, the illusionist apprentice on the other side was like a wooden man and had no reaction. Matthews was slightly stunned, and immediately realized that the other party had cast an illusion. He quickly gathered his magic power and cast a magic barrier for himself. At the moment when the witchcraft was completed, the opponent's attack also arrived, and a strong magic turbulence came from the magic barrier.

Matthews' forehead was covered with cold sweat, and he knew that he had just escaped a disaster. If he had reacted a little slower, he might have lost the fight again.

Matthews was annoyed. The other party was really unethical and actually launched a sneak attack. However, he knew that entering the arena was the beginning of the fight, so he had no reason to blame the other party.

He decisively cast the defensive auxiliary witchcraft combination that he had prepared long ago - Magic Whirlwind Guardian and Death Sense. Magic Whirlwind Guardian surrounded him like a whirlwind, not only providing a large range of defense, but also effectively dispelling the illusions created by the illusion apprentices within this range.

Matthews's death perception had already captured the other party's figure. However, the other party still did not give up and launched another powerful attack. Although this attack directly penetrated Matthews's magic whirlwind protection and the remaining magic barrier, its power had also been exhausted.

The illusion apprentice leaped back to create some distance, surprised at Matthews' reaction speed and the consistency of his spellcasting, otherwise victory would have been within his grasp.

Matthews taunted, "A sneak attack? Since you like to play dirty so much, don't blame me for using powerful witchcraft." Although he kept talking, his witchcraft was not affected at all.

Upon hearing this, the opponent immediately raised his guard and quickly built a magic barrier in front of him. Matthews was just waiting for this, and this was exactly what he wanted. He was ready to use this opportunity to unleash his carefully prepared combos, striving to win with one strike and make a quick decision, either defeating the opponent or exhausting his own magic power. He was still anxious to watch the internal fight between the bloodline apprentices!

His spell combination has reached perfection, and he cast two sharp magic blades in succession, followed by a powerful death stun. Although the opponent cast the magic barrier again, the two magic blades still penetrated the opponent's defense cleanly, and the death stun successfully knocked the opponent to the ground.

Then, the voice of the decision that Matthews had been waiting for for a long time sounded: the challenge was successful, the basic points were swapped, the winner’s points would increase by one, and the loser’s points would decrease by one.