The Necromancer in the Wizarding World

Matthews stepped into the arena and faced the elemental apprentice again. He was no longer nervous and anxious as in the first confrontation, but was instead calm and confident. As a challenger this time, he no longer needed to work hard to break through the opponent's solid defense.

However, his relaxed attitude turned into arrogance and contempt in the eyes of the elemental apprentice opposite him: "Boy, my name is Bugatti. Yesterday you said that the elemental apprentices can't do anything to you, right?"

Matthews didn't know whether to laugh or cry. This was obviously not what he said at the time, nor what he meant. But now that it seemed to have spread like this, he felt that he had no way to defend himself. "My fellow wizard, you may have misunderstood. I just wanted to motivate my opponent at the time. There was no other deep meaning."

Bugatti snorted coldly: "I don't care whether you did it intentionally or unintentionally, but Tina is my senior sister. I must tell you that you have completely offended her!"

Matthews felt a headache, thinking that he had stirred up a hornet's nest. He tried to explain: "The arena is like a battlefield, and rhetoric is also a weapon in battle. So please don't take the passionate words on the battlefield seriously."

Although Bugatti felt that Matthews' words made some sense, he came here today with the determination to avenge his senior sister, so he would not back down easily: "Stop talking nonsense, take it!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Bugatti actually used the same attack magic as Tina - Roar of Water Dragon, and there were two of them.

Matthews was already very familiar with dealing with this, and he even performed the witchcraft combination slowly and steadily, with magic whirlwind protection + two death weakenings.

Unsurprisingly, the powerful twin dragons were weakened and became limp after breaking through Matthews's whirlwind protection. The last bit of power was not worth Matthews's magic, so he used a magic bomb to solve the problem.

Seeing that the first attack didn't work, Bugatti immediately increased the intensity of his attack. He even spent a lot of his mental and magical power to cast three even larger water dragons.

However, everything seemed to be destined. The roar of the water dragon seemed to be restrained by the weakening of death, and what Matthews said about being invincible did not seem to be empty talk.

Bugatti, unable to believe it, knelt on the ground, muttering "Impossible!" His magic power was exhausted, his will to fight was crushed, and the outcome of the fight was already decided.

Finally, a voice came from the air announcing the failure of the challenge: "Challenge failed! The challenger's battle score will be reduced by one, and the challenged's battle score will be increased by one."

Bugatti looked frustrated and had no choice but to leave after glaring at Matthews angrily.

Matthews rented a temporary lounge and urgently needed to recover his mental and magical power in preparation for the afternoon fight.

In fact, he insisted on challenging the Shadow Apprentice because he was eager to experience the power of Shadow's close combat techniques for himself.

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In the afternoon match, as soon as Matthews stepped into the competition space, he immediately cast a layer of magic barrier for himself. He knew the danger of the shadow system, so he must not take it lightly to avoid being defeated by the opponent's surprise attack.

However, Dex's behavior was beyond Matthews's expectations. He did not launch an attack at the first time, which made Matthews quite confused because this was seriously inconsistent with the typical tactics of the Shadow Department.

Usually, Shadow Apprentice will launch a surprise attack when the enemy is not yet stable, or release shadow fog to create conditions for his own stealth and surprise attack.

Dex stared at Matthews and said slowly: "I know you. You are the spectator who always believed that Senior Garlon must have a backup plan."

Matthews was slightly startled. Did he say that at the time? He couldn't remember it clearly. But since Dex mentioned it, he felt it necessary to clarify.

"I am only expressing my opinion based on facts. I have no intention of belittling or elevating any party. After all, Senior Garlon must have made up his mind when he dared to challenge the top of the previous year's list."

Dex nodded in approval. "Very good. Your insight and judgment prove that you are no ordinary person. I will do my best to show my respect for you."

At this point, Matthews no longer hesitated and quickly cast the Death Mark at the opponent. However, actual combat was far from practice, so how could the Shadow Apprentice be so easily hit?

He quickly adjusted his tactics and continuously used the defensive auxiliary combination: Magic Whirlwind Guardian + Death Perception to build a large-scale defensive barrier and enhance his detection capabilities.

Almost at the same time, Dex also used Shadow Mist and Shadow Stealth, and the battle officially began.

Matthews did not dare to be careless at all, and concentrated on sensing the movements around him, trying to catch Dex's whereabouts. However, he did not find anything abnormal within his perception range, as if Dex was really able to do it silently.

At this moment, Matthews's magic barrier was suddenly hit from the side and shattered instantly. At this critical moment, he relied on his agility to slide away a little in time, and barely avoided the powerful physical attack that followed. At the same time, his already formed witchcraft death stun also attacked Dex fiercely.

However, Dex had mastered the technique of Shadow Strike to perfection. After missing the first strike, he immediately retreated and hid again.

This made Matthews' counterattack completely in vain, and he had to hastily build a magic barrier for himself. However, before he could gather the magic to counterattack, Dex's attack came again without warning, and another powerful surprise attack broke through Matthews' magic barrier, and stabbed with his staff without any gap in between.

Matthews almost instinctively slid sideways and avoided Dex's fatal blow again, but the witchcraft in his hand was not yet formed, making it difficult for him to counterattack.

However, it was not realistic to fight with the opponent barehanded, because the shadow apprentices had the blessing of shadow fighting witchcraft, which made their physical attack explosive power extremely strong. In a hurry, Matthews could only use the magic bombs prepared in advance to fight back.

Originally, Matthews would not have had the time to activate the magic bomb, but Dex was stunned for a moment, which allowed him to escape death.