Chapter 56: Crystal Beast
On the other side of Iridium Academy.
"The fourth round of the retest begins." The staff member announced from the podium.
"In the fourth round, you will face challenges together with your 'companions'. There are three small rounds in total. Each small round will have stronger opponents. During the period, whether you or your companions are eliminated, the challenge will fail."
"This round will be scored according to the number of levels passed. Each small round has a full score of 10 points, and it is not required to pass all of them."
"Now, step forward in order and start the challenge."
After the announcement, everyone talked about it. This time, no one took the initiative to step forward.
Instead, they wanted to see how others passed the level first, so as to learn from their experience. The staff above was not surprised by this, but posted a timetable. The assessment time is [2:00 pm-7:00 pm].
This means that if you sign up too late, the assessment may end before you get a turn.
"Huh, what a coward." The girl in the flowing golden skirt stepped forward again and became the first student to take the assessment.
"Student Paola is the first to participate, and you will be awarded 2 points." The staff member announced, and then began this assessment.
"Wow, if I had known that there would be bonus points for being the first, I would have gone up earlier." Someone discussed below.
"However, being the first one with an intelligence disadvantage is not necessarily a good thing."
"Stop talking, let's watch first."
Paola and her golden scorpion walked into the venue, and on the empty space opposite, a white crystal core emerged from the bottom, and then two blue rays of light radiated from the sky above the venue to gather it.
Soon, the crystal core heated up and vibrated rapidly, and finally suddenly exploded, a crystal mist dispersed, and then gathered again, forming a fanged giant beast, which was shaped like a tiger.
Original Sequence 3: Phantom Crystal Fang Beast (Standard Dark Silver Level) is
a puppet creature temporarily formed by a magic crystal core. It is controlled by other extraordinary people or AI behind it and is often used as a training object.
Although it is a consumable for training, the cost of creating such a phantom crystal beast is not low. It is estimated that only schools with rich wealth like Iridium Academy will use it on a large scale.
"The challenge begins!"
After a command was given, the phantom crystal beast that simulated a real alien beast rushed out fiercely, rushing towards the weak golden scorpion like a tiger.
"Tsk." The girl in the golden skirt and brown hair frowned, then raised her hand, and a series of golden rotating flying saucers emerged from her side, rushing towards the phantom beast, trying to stop the crazy attack of the puppet beast.
These golden flying saucers have five leaves. After a short acceleration in the air, they rushed to the attack route of the phantom beast and collided with it.
The rapidly rotating leaves shattered pieces of blue debris. And the phantom beast itself also shattered in the collision and scattered all over the ground. Such an attack only slowed down the speed, and the phantom beast still hit the golden scorpion head-on and took it away.
Facing the golden scorpion flying in the air, the phantom beast still did not give up. It jumped up suddenly, waving its claws, and slapped it directly, smashing a small pit on the ground, making it limp all over and unable to move.
Then the phantom beast fell and pressed the golden scorpion directly to the ground with its palm, causing it to struggle continuously.
"Roar--" The phantom beast roared, turning its beast eyes to the rushing Paula, as if warning her, and also threatening her.
Should I continue to attack, or should I give up the attack for the sake of my companions? The first girl to join the challenge felt the choice.
"How evil..." She muttered to herself as she lowered her arms, then slowly stepped back, staring at the phantom crystal beast.
"Roar——"
Seeing this, the phantom crystal beast seemed a little satisfied. It released the golden scorpion from its paw, then sprayed a mouthful of crystal sand, making its body heavy and difficult, and then swept it away with a palm, allowing it to return to Paula's side.
Such crystal sand is not fatal, but it has side effects on the next challenge. It makes the golden scorpion inconvenient to move, and it becomes difficult to absorb the Aigeka particles in the atmosphere, and it is difficult to clean them up in a short time.
This is only the first mouthful. If it sprays two more mouthfuls, the golden scorpion will completely lose its ability to move, and will be declared a failure and leave the stage.
The challenge entered a difficult moment, and the spectators in the audience were also talking about it.
"It feels difficult."
"If I go up, it probably won't be much better."
"I am a Sequence 2 myself. Even with a Sequence 2 partner, it is still too difficult to defeat a Sequence 3 fantasy beast."
In the venue, Paola first tried to clean the crystal sand attached to the golden scorpion, but she soon realized that such an action consumed a lot of magic power. If she cleaned it up, it would mean that she would not have much strength to fight next.
Sequence 2 is only the starting stage of the extraordinary. Many people's abilities are not perfect, and their magic power reserves are not much, so they cannot be squandered so luxuriously.
"I can only go on." Paola frowned and put down the golden scorpion, and then rushed over first.
Seeing this, the tiger-like fantasy beast charged again.
"Golden Glowing Technique: Thousand Needles Piercing the Air."
One by one, golden light dots floated in the air and surrounded Paola. Then she clenched her fists, and these floating light dots instantly gathered together to form extremely thin long needles.
A buzzing sound passed through the atmosphere, and these long needles pierced the charging crystal beast and pierced into its body.
"Shatter!" She shouted again, and the golden needles in the crystal beast's body also bloomed instantly, flashing golden spots in the azure body. The
broken golden thorns inside did not cause the crystal beast to disintegrate, but it also made its body suddenly stiff, and it staggered to the ground, bringing up a lot of mud and crashing into the distant wall.
After using this move, it was almost exhausted for Paula. She sweated on her forehead and her body was shaky. After all, she was only Sequence 2. Even with the family secret technique, it has reached its limit now.
"Clark, go!" She weakly commanded the "partner" beside her to attack, and soon the little guy rushed over.
The crystal beast that fell to the ground was still struggling. The golden needles and thorns in its body flickered unsteadily, making it difficult to move. However, as time passed, these golden spots were slowly weakening, and sooner or later there would be a moment when they would dissipate.
"Ah, that golden scorpion rushed forward."
"Look, it jumped directly onto the head of the Crystal Beast."
"That's the stinger, the bright red on its tail is almost all of its magic power."
"It stung and pierced into the Crystal Beast's ear. Now let's see if it works."
Inside the venue, the Crystal Beast kept struggling and finally shook off the golden scorpion on its head, then barely stood up. Just as it tried to rush at the golden scorpion again, its body was shaky and finally fell to the ground with a bang.
"Paula, passed!"
"Wow, I passed the first level. It's not easy."
"Congratulations, Paula. Do you want to continue the challenge?" The staff above asked.
"Can I give it a try? Although it's unlikely to win, I still want to see the scene of the second level."
"Sure, Paula." The staff above nodded and waved his hand.
Three white crystal cores appeared at the same time, and the blue light above them gathered. After a vibration and intense heating, the three crystal cores turned into three phantom crystal beasts, in the form of a tiger, a hawk, and a swift wolf.
"I give up." After watching, Paola decisively gave up. She was definitely not going to be able to beat such a lineup.
"It's okay. Paola is the first student to reach the second level, and she will be awarded 2 points. The final score is 14 points."
"Then, please invite the next student to come forward."
(End of this chapter)
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