Just as Rex said, the Sky Arena is a really good place for Fang Zheng to hone his skills. According to Rex, the entire Sky Arena is divided into three areas: elementary, intermediate, and advanced. The elementary level has ten zones, the intermediate level has five zones, and the advanced level has only one zone. In Fang Zheng's opinion, this is very similar to the server in an online game.

Fang Zheng is now in the last "Novice Server" of the primary level. This section is basically populated by mage apprentices who have just entered the White Tower not long ago, while the intermediate level is for regular mages who have already graduated from apprenticeship, and the advanced level is a special place for those powerful mages.

Although Fang Zheng often heard the saying "There are no useless spells, only useless wizards", this is not the case. For some spells, you will only discover their advantages and disadvantages when you use them in actual combat, and then make choices based on your own fighting style.

Although Fang Zheng chose to specialize in spells, he cunningly chose prophecy as his initial means of combat, because the spells of prophecy just happened to complement Fang Zheng's time ability and work together to produce an effect. Among the spells of prophecy, Fang Zheng's three favorite spells were the first-level clear defense, the second-level see through invisibility, and the fourth-level suppress good luck.

"Understand Defense" is a spell that allows the caster to understand the special defense function of the target. This is extremely useful for Fang Zheng, a Templar Knight and a wizard. It is like the detection in the game. When you encounter an enemy with unknown attributes, you throw a detection at it, first figure out the opponent's attributes, and then attack its weaknesses. This is also a general routine in the game, and now Fang Zheng has obviously used this routine in his own battle.

Needless to say, Fang Zheng could detect invisibility. Although he could use the Zerg senses to keenly perceive things, the mage's invisibility was not that simple. In addition, many mages liked to attack only after they were in an invincible position. Therefore, detecting invisibility was very useful for Fang Zheng.

As for suppressing good luck - that can be said to be Fang Zheng's bad taste.

The effect of suppressing good luck is very simple, that is, within a certain period of time, the target's luck effect is suppressed to the lowest point, and each of his actions will get the most unfortunate result. Since this is not an "attack", but more like a "curse" or "blessing", few mages will cast targeted protection on themselves at the beginning. As a result, many mage challengers sprained their ankles inexplicably in front of Fang Zheng, fell flat on their faces, or simply recited the wrong spell, causing magic power to recoil...

So now the basic process of Fang Zheng fighting other mages is to first use "Future Vision" to check whether the opponent will attack or defend, and then start to cast spells. Then either defend against the opponent's spells, or directly break the opponent's defense, and then raise your hand to send a secondary magic missile storm. Basically, after this set of moves, the opponent will almost surrender. If there is really someone who "would rather die than surrender", Fang Zheng will just jump up and kick the opponent away - he is still a Templar, isn't he better at close combat than a mage?

As Fang Zheng's ranking in the Sky Arena continued to rise, many mages gradually became aware of the existence of this person, and Fang Zheng also became the focus of discussion among many mage contestants. The reason was simple, because in the eyes of other mages, this challenger was too weird.

Due to the dual bonus of "time stop" and "future vision", Fang Zheng's spells were basically cast instantly every time he started. In addition, no one had ever seen Fang Zheng chanting, so many mages thought that Fang Zheng had mastered the two super skills of "instant spell casting" and "silent spell casting". However, these were skills that only high-level mages were qualified to master, and Fang Zheng had never cast a spell higher than level 4 in the arena.

Not only that, what made other mages feel incredible was that every time a battle started, this young mage could perfectly counter the opponent's spells, no matter it was attack or defense. Although the prophecy system did have spells such as "Clear Defense" and "Preemptive Strike", according to the rules of the Sky Arena, everyone must release spells to fight after the battle began.

This means that if Fang Zheng and his opponent start casting spells at the same time, then Fang Zheng will definitely cast the spell that breaks the opponent's first spell.

This is very interesting.

More importantly, until now, Fang Zheng’s record in the Sky Arena has always been undefeated!

Wow, how can this be tolerated?

A little wizard who appeared out of nowhere, but has a perfect record so far? Many of the people participating in the Sky Arena are senior apprentices of the White Tower. Of course, they know that this young man is not a member of the White Tower, but... this does not allow him to beat up the members of the White Tower!

You know, Fang Zheng almost always kills his opponent instantly in every battle, how can these mages accept this? Does that mean they are all weaklings and can be easily defeated by the opponent?

In fact, this has something to do with Fang Zheng's fighting style.

After studying magic, Fang Zheng discovered that if you compare a mage to a gun, then spells are bullets. Ordinary bullets can cause damage, armor-piercing bullets can penetrate, and incendiary bullets can cause large-scale AOE. Theoretically, a mage can fire an unlimited number of bullets until they jam or overheat and stop shooting. But in fact, each mage's "load" is limited. Just like a special forces soldier, you can't carry countless bullets to fight. Before each battle, you can only choose a few magazines. This is also the "preparation" that the mage has to do every day. He needs to consider what kind of battle he will face today, and then decide whether to prepare more ordinary bullets, armor-piercing bullets, or incendiary bullets.

After all, the human body has an upper limit.

Through the battles in the Sky Arena, Fang Zheng discovered that almost all mages had a problem, which was that they particularly liked to make themselves invincible first, then attack each other slowly and steadily, and then lay the foundation for victory.

This is just like in the movies, where the protagonist and the boss shoot at each other, but all the bullets are used up and neither side is hurt at all, then the two sides wrestle with each other, and finally the protagonist suddenly grabs a pistol and gives the Boss a fatal blow... Who plays like this in real life!

If most mages were compared to machine gunners, then Fang Zheng was a sniper. His motto was to deliver a fatal blow and then withdraw quietly. Sprinkling bullets wildly and causing chaos was not his style at all. Because of this, every time Fang Zheng fought, the battle ended very quickly, so that the mages watching the battle could not react in time.

"No. 652 lost, and No. 684 was promoted to No. 652."

"It seems that the young man has won again."

Looking at Fang Zheng who turned around and left the arena, a mage sitting in the audience smiled and said. He had fiery red hair, which was meticulously combed back. He was obviously a young man, but he gave people a very mature feeling. Then, the red-haired mage turned his head and looked at his companion beside him.

"I heard that he came from the Thunder Tower. It seems that the mentor has a successor."

"But he is not an apprentice of the White Tower."

Hearing the red-haired mage's words, a black-haired mage wearing glasses who was sitting next to him snorted and looked at Fang Zheng's receding back.

"For a mere wild mage, it's already good enough to have come this far... But we can only go so far. This is the hunting ground of the White Tower apprentices. We are not here to be hunted."

"oh?"

The red-haired wizard glanced at his companion curiously.

"Don't tell me, you plan to take action yourself?"

"certainly."

As he spoke, the bespectacled wizard stood up.

"I will use my power to show him who is the hunter and who is the prey."

Watching the bespectacled wizard turn and leave, the red-haired wizard curled his lips.

"Hey, this kid is still so arrogant, but..."

Having said that, the red-haired wizard revealed a smug smile.

"Since we have encountered a new killer, let me see what the little wizard is capable of."