The wizard starts by trimming the donkey's hooves

As the brief opening speech ended, the preliminary selection test for the Dragon Knight reserve force officially began.

As a rather strong wave of witchcraft flashed by, a white light curtain suddenly appeared over the entire Dragon Knight reserve camp that resembled an ancient Roman arena.

Looking down from above, it looks like the rice bowl has an extra lid.

It's like a closed can.

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

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

Everyone can see that inside the transparent glass box is a stack of folded paper. The paper exudes some kind of weak witchcraft fluctuations, which seems to prevent some people from using mental power or some kind of perception to detect in advance what is on the paper. Write the number.

The rules of the initial trial are very simple, first draw lots and sort, and then fight.

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

Next, five examiners will conduct on-site scoring and calculate the cumulative total score. At the end of the preliminary test, the total scores will be sorted and the top thirty will be selected.

In addition, the selection of opponents is also done randomly.

However, it is in the form of a turntable.

Choose one of the seven, namely hurricane element, thunderstorm element, fire roc swarm, stinging giant bee swarm, shadow vulture, frost wing serpent and bloodthirsty dragon eagle.

The first two are legendary-level elemental creatures with considerable strength and high immunity to physical attacks.

The two creatures in the middle are both group-type ferocious species. Taken together, if the number is large, they are also full of legendary level combat power.

If the assessor has group fighting skills, it will be slightly easier to deal with it. If not, it will be more annoying. Even if he can win, it may time out or be quite embarrassed.

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

The latter three are all powerful flying ferocious species. They are also at the legendary level and have their own characteristics in combat.

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

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

Of course, it would not be illegal if the examiner could imprison the opponent or turn it into a ground battle.

But it is obviously extremely difficult to do this.

"Number 13." As the waiter walked up to Ren with the glass box in hand, Ren took out one, opened it, and whispered.

"Holy shit! I'm actually No. 1!" Luther couldn't help shouting!

You should know that generally speaking, examiners also need to ‘warm up’ when scoring.

Basically, the first and second, it's hard to give a high score.

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

Generally speaking, after ten, the on-site examiner has a better idea of ​​the appropriate score.

Luther, who was participating in the Dragon Knight reserve assessment for the second time, was naturally unhappy about this!

"Number seventy-two!" The number in Harlowen's hand was obviously much later than that of Ren and Luther, which made him feel a little relieved.

After all, there are many powerful people on site, so it would be good to observe them more.

Luthor's wheel draws Stinging Bee Swarm.

The Stinging Giant Bee is about the size of a five or six-year-old child, and its tail has a sharp poisonous needle that emits black and purple light.

It is characterized by its extremely fast speed, its whole body is protected by disturbing airflow, and its defense against physical attacks and sorcery attacks is good.

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

The strength of a single stinging giant bee is completely worth mentioning. A liquefaction wizard can easily kill it.

But what Luther has to face now is a hundred giant stinging bees.

"Buzz!"

I saw the stinging giant wasp, which was dozens of times the size of a wasp, rushing towards Luther and the two-headed chimera under his crotch like a dark cloud.

Luther, on the other hand, clamped his legs together and controlled the Chimera to initiate an attack.

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

But when Luther cleared the scene, the time also reached the three-minute limit.

This made Luther look unhappy.

This was his second time participating, and he knew that the length of the battle he had just fought would be an obvious deduction.

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

"Six points!"

"Seven points!"

"The total score is thirty-two points," the waiter shouted.

really!

This score is relatively high.

Whether I can pass the re-examination is hard to say.

When Luther returned to the crowd, Wren and Harlowen on the side expressed a few words of relief.

Then came the others.

After looking at a few people, Ren discovered,

Although there is an upper limit of three minutes of fighting time in the initial test, in fact, there are still relatively few candidates who actually fight for three minutes.

Those with strength often resolve the battle within a minute. At the same time, they have a high probability of getting higher scores, which is considered the first echelon.

Those with lower strength can basically resolve the battle in about two minutes. It’s hard to say how high this kind of score is. The fluctuations are relatively large. This kind of person has the largest number of people and is considered the second echelon.

The third echelon is the one whose battle duration reaches the three-minute limit and has not yet been able to defeat its opponent. There are relatively few of them.

Therefore, despite the large number of people present, once the initial trial started, it went very quickly.

In less than two minutes on average, it’s the next person’s turn.

"Assessor No. 9, please come on, Barnes." The waiter shouted from the side.

"Hey, it's him." Renne suddenly saw a familiar figure appear.

The opponent rode an ugly bone-eating vulture and came to the center of the field. It was one of the three people who had been observing him from the side and behind.

I saw that the opponent I drew this time was the bloodthirsty Dragon Eagle.

This made Renn narrow his eyes slightly and look at the other party with slight interest, how he would respond.

As a typical melee-type flying ferocious species, the Bloodthirsty Dragon Eagle is very similar to the Blood-feathered Hippogryph.

But it is obvious that as a legendary strength, its strength is far better than that of the blood-feathered hippogryph.

Dragon Eagle, as its 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 huge, comparable to the huge wings of a butterfly, with blood-red feathers on the surface of the wings.

The body is like a dragon, covered with red scales, with thick hind limbs and a pair of sharp claws.

As the bloodthirsty dragon eagle was released from the iron fence on one side of the camp, it first saw the bone-eating vulture on the site. It immediately chirped and rushed towards the opponent with great momentum.

Every time the dragon eagle's broad wings flap, its speed will increase simultaneously.

"Chirp!"

Just when everyone thought that Dragon Eagle would choose to fight directly, suddenly, the bloodthirsty Dragon Eagle suddenly inhaled and spit out a stream of flames more than ten meters away from Barnes.

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

Facing Dragon Eagle's breath attack, most people thought that Barnes would choose a safe response, either to dodge or to use defense to resist Witchcraft.

But what shocked everyone was that Barnes chose to fight!

Facing the incoming cone-shaped dragon eagle's breath, Barnes' whole body suddenly swelled, and red scales loomed on his body. The bone-eating vulture under his crotch seemed to be affected by something, and it suddenly sank from mid-air.

"roar!"

After transforming into a dragon, Barnes suddenly opened his mouth and breathed out a stream of flames towards the bloodthirsty dragon eagle.

Suddenly, two flame breaths collided fiercely in mid-air!

The flames suddenly exploded!

It was as if two flamethrowers were blasting each other, and heat waves rolled across the surrounding area.

And Ren, who was observing from the side, looked at Barnes in the form of a dragon, and was quite surprised!

Because the opponent's shape is very similar to his first-stage dragon warrior transformation, with a short tail and a huge difference in height, four to five meters tall.

At the same time, the opponent should be of red dragon blood, but for some reason, the red dragon scales had a faint hint of black.

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

Just when Renn's thoughts changed slightly, the situation in the battle suddenly changed.

Suddenly, Dragon Eagle's breathing stopped abruptly.

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

But after Barnes transformed, he relied on the obstruction of vision caused by the collision of two flame breaths to rush over at once.

Unable to open its beak, it naturally cannot breathe. Faced with this situation, the bloodthirsty dragon eagle seemed to be extremely angry. Many blood vessels that wriggled like earthworms suddenly appeared on the surface of its body and expanded rapidly.

"This is the innate ability bloodthirsty!" said other candidates beside Renn.

But no matter how bloodthirsty Dragon Eagle turned on, his strength increased, and he struggled violently, the dragon claw still held Dragon Eagle's head tightly and remained motionless.

"Crack!"

There was a sound of cracking bones, and Longying struggled harder and harder.

"Crack!"

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

This is the Dragon Eagle with legendary strength, and it is also the hardest skull. It was crushed directly by Barnes in the dragon form.

"Hiss~ Such strength!"

"Is this the blood of the red dragon?"

"It only took five seconds?!"

Others gasped.

At this time, Barnes' body began to shrink rapidly and returned to human form again.

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

Barnes did not stop his mount's behavior, but looked around, and when his eyes were on Renne's side, he paused for a moment.

Renn could see a hint of hidden provocation in the other person's eyes.

As if to say, ‘Look, I’ve solved it, it’s your turn. ’

interesting.

"very!"

"very!"

Including the second prince Everton, everyone gave a perfect score of 10 points.

The total score is fifty points, and the first candidate with perfect scores appears.

Although the next few candidates were also good in strength, two of them resolved the battle within one minute.

But with Barnes, the ‘Five Second Man’, at the forefront, the remaining people’s top score was only forty-five points.

"Assessor No. 13, Ren, please come on," the waiter shouted.

This caused Luther and Harlowen to focus on Renn. They also wanted to know how long it would take Renn and whether it was possible to surpass the five seconds of Barnes.

As Ryan came on the stage, many people on the scene began to whisper.

Although Ryan had a strong record, many people did not know him. Seeing that Ryan looked so young, they asked him about him. All of a sudden, they started talking.

After all, there were still many 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 is a metal wizard?"

"Sir Ryan, please turn the turntable." The waiter said respectfully.

"Okay!"

As Ryan stepped forward, he turned the pointer on the turntable, and the pointer turned quickly.

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

Ryan naturally left the platform where the turntable was.

The pointer finally stopped slowly, and the pointer happened to point to the thunderstorm element!

"Hiss~ so bad luck?" Luther and Harlowen looked at each other and said.

They both knew that Ryan was a metal wizard, and he was too restrained when he encountered the thunderstorm element.

Why?

Metal conducts electricity!

No matter what metal magic attack he performed, or even fighting the thunderstorm element with metal weapons, he would be very passive.

Under the paralysis effect of the strong current, the whole battle would become extremely difficult.

Obviously, the score would 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 laborious, and even if he was attacked by lightning, he would be a little embarrassed.

"Sir Ryan, if you are ready, then 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 horned eagle under his crotch and flew towards the center of the venue.

Seeing Ryan nodded in agreement, the three crystallized wizards on the south side of the venue immediately began to summon, and saw a thunderstorm crystal core that had been prepared long ago was placed in the summoning magic array.

As the low incantation sounded, a huge dark cloud with strong winds around it was summoned soon. It was the legendary elemental creature Thunderstorm Element.

The biggest difference between Thunderstorm Element and Hurricane Element lies in two points.

First, in terms of color, unlike the white-gray color of Hurricane Element, Thunderstorm Element is black-gray all over.

Second, and at the same time, the biggest difference is that inside the funnel-shaped dark cloud body of Thunderstorm Element, lightning will keep passing through, and thunder-like sounds will come in waves.

Once the lightning in its body is released, it will be a lightning attack.

Lightning is not easy to mess with!

It is at the speed of light and cannot be dodged, so you can only resist it.

The only way is to counter or interrupt the opponent in advance before the Thunderstorm Element launches an attack.

As soon as the Thunderstorm Element was summoned, it rushed towards Ryan.

As it got closer, the thunder in its funnel-shaped dark cloud body became more and more dense.

Obviously, the Thunderstorm Element may launch a lightning strike at any time!

At this time, Ryan silently chanted a spell and pointed at the thunderstorm element.

"Metal cage!"

Instantly, a square metal cage locked the thunderstorm element in it.

Although it did not cause any damage, Ryan's witchcraft still made the thunderstorm element's action stagnate, and the lightning strike that was originally intended to be released naturally stopped.

The reason is very simple.

Metal conducts electricity. Now even if the thunderstorm element launches a lightning attack, it will not hurt Ryan, but will be absorbed by the metal fence around it at the moment.

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

Therefore, the thunderstorm element chooses 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 was less than one second.

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

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

Casting this kind of metal witchcraft can't trap the opponent at all, and it is a waste of mental power.

However, when the thunderstorm element just walked out of the metal cage, a metal net with a mesh of only the size of a fingernail and a fine silver witchcraft aura came in front of it.

"Chi!"

"Snap!"

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

Everyone was a little surprised at how fast Ryan cast this witchcraft, but they didn't agree with Ryan's continued choice of metal witchcraft to attack.

Because the thunderstorm element is highly immune to the attack of metal witchcraft.

In contrast, the effect of attacking with fire witchcraft will be much better.

However, before everyone could say anything, suddenly, the entire thunderstorm element disappeared like flying ash.

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 attack rhythm.

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

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

One hit to kill!

"Hiss~ Three seconds?!"

"The fastest so far, right?"

It only took three seconds for Ryan to win.

The three members of the Dragon Scale Brotherhood who were observing Ryan's strength on the side - Barnes, Reagan and Bronson, showed calm faces, but their hearts were "smacking".

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

Because Ryan's combat response was impeccable.

Encountering the thunderstorm element, which should actually be the most restrained metal wizard, he was able to kill instantly?

How strong is this combat awareness?

Let alone them, even most of the people present, although they are all top legends, can only do this.

Another troublesome thing is that the battle time is too short, which makes them unable to observe the full picture of Ryan's strength.

They can't get more information, which makes them feel a little tricky.

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 whole battle only took three seconds, only two witchcrafts were used, and the information obtained is too limited.

This adds a little uncertainty to the subsequent plans of the three people 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 as a thunderstorm element, Barnes thought about it from another perspective, and there were several possible ways to deal with it, but none of them were as concise and efficient as Ryan just now.

"Ten points!"

"Ten points!"

Four examiners scored full marks in succession.

At this time, the smiling second prince Everton slowly raised the score card in his hand, and it also showed ten points.

This made the candidates on the scene exclaim.

"This is the second full score."

"Full score, no matter how it is ranked, it has entered the re-examination."

And Ryan's eyes also flashed with a hint of surprise, because in his opinion, he rejected the second prince's recruitment to join the Dragon Scale Brotherhood, which was considered an offense to the other party.

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

He actually gave him a full score for this initial test.

This.