Chapter 411: Contest in Secret
After the brief opening speech, the preliminary test of the Dragon Knight Reserve Selection officially began.
With a strong witchcraft fluctuation flashing, a white light curtain suddenly appeared above the Dragon Knight Reserve Camp, which was shaped like the ancient Roman Colosseum .
Looking down from above, it was like a rice bowl with a lid.
It was also like a closed can.
"Now, let's draw lots in order!" After a person in charge announced.
A waiter walked up to the candidates with a transparent glass box.
Everyone could see that inside the transparent glass box was a stack of folded papers, which emitted some kind of weak witchcraft fluctuations, as if to prevent some people from using mental power or some kind of perception to detect the numbers written on the paper in advance.
The rules of the preliminary test are very simple. First draw lots to sort, and then fight.
The battle time limit is three minutes. Once the three minutes are up, whether or not the enemy is defeated, the preliminary test is over.
Next, five examiners will score on the spot and calculate the total score after accumulation. At the end of the preliminary test, the total score will be sorted and the top 30 will be selected.
In addition, the selection of the opponent is also random.
However, it is in the form of a turntable. There are
seven choices, namely Hurricane Elemental, Thunderstorm Elemental, Fire Peng Group, Stinging Giant Bee Group, Shadow Vulture, Frost Wing Wind Serpent and Bloodthirsty Dragon Eagle.
The first two are legendary elemental creatures with good strength and high immunity to physical attacks.
The two creatures in the middle are both group-based violent species. Overall, if there are a large number of them, they are also legendary-level combat power.
If the examinee has group combat skills, it will be a little easier to deal with. If not, it will be more annoying. Even if you can win, you may exceed the time limit or be embarrassed.
Although it is not said that you must defeat the enemy within three minutes, being attacked or failing to defeat the enemy within three minutes will be an obvious loss of points.
The last three are all powerful flying violent species, also at the legendary level, and each has its own characteristics in battle.
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 for air combat.
Of course, if the examiner can imprison the opponent or turn it into a ground battle, it is not against the rules.
But it is obviously very difficult to do this.
"Number 13." As the waiter walked to Ryan with the glass box, Ryan drew a card, opened it, and whispered.
"Fuck! I'm number one!" Luther couldn't help but exclaimed!
You know, generally speaking, the examiner also needs to "warm up" to score.
Basically, it is difficult to give high scores to the first and second.
In other words, the scores will be more conservative, and the scores will naturally be lower.
Generally speaking, after the tenth place, the on-site examiner will have a better idea of how many points are appropriate.
In this regard, Luther, who is participating in the Dragon Knight Reserve Assessment for the second time, is naturally unhappy!
"Number 72!" The number in Harlowen's hand is obviously much later than Ryan and Luther, which makes him a little relieved.
After all, there are many strong people on the scene, and it is naturally good to observe more.
Luther's turntable drew a swarm of stinging giant bees.
The giant stinging bee is about the size of a five or six-year-old child, and its tail has a sharp poisonous needle that emits a black and purple light.
Its characteristics are extremely fast speed, and it has a disturbed airflow protection all over its body, and it has good defense against physical attacks and witchcraft attacks.
In addition, the signature tail needle is like a sting when it is shot out, and it has strong penetrating power.
If it were a single giant stinging bee, it would be completely insignificant, and a liquefied wizard could easily kill it.
But at this moment, Luther had to face a full hundred giant stinging bees.
"Buzz!"
The giant stinging bees, which were dozens of times larger than the wasps, rushed towards Luther and the two-headed Chimera under his crotch like a dark cloud.
Luther clamped his legs together and controlled the Chimera to take the initiative to attack.
Although Chimera Knight Luther obviously had the upper hand, as time passed, the giant stinging bees were quickly killed by Luther, and at the same time, the bodies of these giant bees fell to the ground like raindrops.
But when Luther cleared the scene, the time limit reached three minutes.
This made Luther look unhappy.
This was his second time participating, and he knew that the length of his fight would be a clear deduction.
In addition, this was his first match, and the examiner's scoring would tend to be more conservative.
"Six points!"
"Seven points!"
"Total score 32 points." The waiter shouted.
Sure enough!
This score is quite shaky.
It's hard to say whether he can enter the retest.
When Luther returned to the crowd, Ryan and Harlowen on the side comforted him.
Next came the others.
After Ryan looked at a few people, he found that
although the initial test had a three-minute upper limit for the fighting time, in fact, there were relatively few candidates who could really fight for three minutes. Those
with strength often resolved the battle within one minute, and at the same time, they were likely to get higher scores, and they were considered the first echelon. Those with slightly weaker
strength could basically resolve the battle in about two minutes. It was hard to say whether the score was high or low, and the fluctuation was relatively large. There were the most people in this category, and they were considered the second echelon.
The third echelon was the kind of people who had reached the three-minute limit for the fighting time but had not yet resolved their opponents, and there were relatively few.
Therefore, although there were many people at the scene, the speed of the initial test was still very fast.
On average, it took less than two minutes for the next person to take the turn.
"Please invite examiner No. 9, Barnes, to the stage." The waiter shouted on the side.
"Hey, it's him." Ryan suddenly saw a familiar figure coming on stage.
The opponent rode an ugly bone-eating vulture and came to the center of the venue. It was one of the three people who had been observing him from the side and back.
The opponent he drew this time was a bloodthirsty dragon eagle.
This made Ryan narrow his eyes and look at the opponent with a little interest, wondering how he would respond.
As a typical melee flying ferocious species, the bloodthirsty dragon eagle is very similar to the blood-feathered horned beast.
But it is obvious that as a legendary beast, its strength is far superior to that of the blood-feathered horned beast.
The dragon eagle, as the 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, and its wings are particularly large, comparable to the huge wings of a butterfly, with blood-red feathers on the surface of the wings.
Its body is like a dragon, covered with red scales, with thick hind legs and a pair of sharp claws.
As the bloodthirsty dragon eagle was released from the iron fence on one side of the camp, it saw the bone-eating vulture on the field at first sight, and immediately cried out, and rushed towards the opponent with great momentum.
Every time the dragon eagle's broad wings flapped, its speed would increase synchronously.
"Chiu!"
Just when everyone thought that the dragon eagle would directly choose to fight melee, suddenly, the bloodthirsty dragon eagle suddenly inhaled and spit out a stream of fire more than ten meters away from Barnes.
At this time, many people remembered that the bloodthirsty dragon eagle also has the ability to breathe that dragon creatures often have, called dragon eagle breath, which comes with powerful fire damage.
Facing the dragon eagle's breath attack, most people thought that Barnes would choose a safe way to deal with it, either dodge it or use defense to resist the witchcraft.
But to everyone's surprise, Barnes chose to attack!
Facing the conical dragon eagle's breath, Barnes's body suddenly swelled, and red scales appeared on his body. The bone-eating vulture under his crotch seemed to be affected by something and sank suddenly from mid-air.
"Roar!"
After the dragon-man Barnes suddenly opened his mouth and spewed out a breath of fire towards the bloodthirsty dragon eagle.
Suddenly, the two flames collided fiercely in mid-air!
For a moment, the flames were raging!
It was as if two flamethrowers were bombarding each other, and the heat waves rolled and swept around.
Ryan, who was observing on the side, was looking at Barnes in the dragon-man form and was quite surprised!
Because the opponent's form was very similar to his form after the first stage of the dragon warrior transformation, with a short tail and a height difference of about four or five meters.
At the same time, the opponent should be of red dragon blood, but somehow, the red dragon scales were faintly black.
This corresponded to the information Claire said, and it was probably related to the potion that the opponent took in the Dragon Scale Brotherhood.
Just as Ryan's mind was turning slightly, the situation of the battle in the field suddenly changed.
Suddenly, the dragon eagle's breath stopped.
I saw its beak was tightly grasped by a thick dragon claw.
After Barnes transformed, he relied on the visual obstruction caused by the collision of two flames and rushed over at once.
Unable to open the beak, naturally unable to perform breath, facing this situation, the bloodthirsty dragon eagle seemed extremely angry, and many earthworm-like blood vessels suddenly emerged from its body surface and expanded rapidly.
"This is the innate ability of bloodthirstiness!" said another candidate beside Ryan.
But even if the dragon eagle activated bloodthirstiness, increased its strength, and struggled violently, the dragon claw still held the dragon eagle's head tightly, motionless.
"Crack!"
The sound of bone cracking sounded, and the dragon eagle struggled even more desperately.
"Snap!"
As the dragon claw closed, the dragon eagle's head was crushed like a watermelon.
This is a legendary dragon eagle, and it is also the hardest skull, and it was directly crushed by Barnes in the form of a dragon man.
"Hiss~ Such strength!"
"Is this the blood of the red dragon?"
"Only took five seconds?!"
The others gasped.
At this time, Barnes' body began to shrink rapidly and turned back into human form.
The bone-eating vulture under his crotch roared excitedly a few times, then quickly landed beside the dead bloodthirsty dragon eagle with Barnes on its back and began to devour the dragon eagle's remains.
Barnes did not stop his mount's behavior, but looked around, and his eyes lingered on Ryan for a moment.
Ryan could see a hint of hidden provocation in the other person's eyes.
It was as if he was saying, "Look, I've solved it, it's your turn."
Interesting.
"Ten points!"
"Ten points!"
Including the second prince Everton, everyone gave a full score of ten.
The total score was fifty points, and the first full-score candidate appeared.
The next few candidates were also quite strong, and two of them solved the battle within one minute.
But with Barnes, the "five-second man", as a role model, the highest score of the remaining few was only forty-five points.
"Please invite the thirteenth examiner, Ryan, to play." The waiter shouted.
This made Luther and Hallowen focus their attention on Ryan. They also wanted to know how long it would take Ryan and whether it was possible to surpass Barnes' five seconds.
As Ryan came on the court, many people on the scene whispered.
Although Ryan had a strong record, there were still many people who didn't know Ryan. Seeing that Ryan looked so young, they all asked about him, and this opened up the conversation.
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 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 started to turn quickly.
In order to avoid interference from the contestants, the contestants had 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 couldn't help but look at each other and said.
They both knew that Ryan was a metal wizard, and it would be too restrained to encounter the thunderstorm element at the moment.
Why?
Metal conducts electricity!
No matter what metal-based witchcraft attack you use, or even if you fight the thunderstorm element with metal weapons, you will be very passive.
Under the paralysis effect of the strong current, the whole battle will become extremely difficult.
Obviously, this score would not be too high.
Of course, the two felt that it would be no problem for Ryan to defeat the Thunderstorm Elemental, 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 beast under his crotch and flew towards the center of the venue.
Seeing Ryan nodded in agreement, the three crystal 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, soon, a huge dark cloud with strong winds lingering around it was summoned. It was the legendary elemental creature Thunderstorm Elemental.
The biggest difference between Thunderstorm Elemental and Hurricane Elemental lies in two points.
First, in terms of color, unlike the white-gray color of Hurricane Elemental, Thunderstorm Elemental is black-gray all over.
Secondly, and at the same time, the biggest difference is that lightning will keep streaking through the funnel-shaped dark cloud body of the thunderstorm element, and thunderous sounds will come one after another.
Once the lightning in its body is released, it will be a lightning attack.
Lightning is not easy to mess with! It is
the speed of light and cannot be dodged, so you can only resist
it. The only way is to counter or interrupt the thunderstorm element before it 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!"
In an instant, 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 actions stagnate, and the lightning strike that was originally intended to be released naturally stopped.
The reason is very simple.
Metal is conductive. Even if the thunderstorm element launches a lightning attack, it will not hurt Ryan, but will be absorbed by the metal fence around it.
Although lightning will not cause any damage to the thunderstorm element itself, its attack will obviously be ineffective.
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 flickered 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 who were watching suddenly wondered if Ryan had made a wrong tactical choice.
After all, whether it is a hurricane element or a thunderstorm element, this high-level elemental creature has no physical form except for the crystal core.
Casting this kind of metal witchcraft will not be able to trap the opponent at all, and it will waste mental power.
However, when the thunderstorm element just walked out of the metal cage, a metal mesh with a mesh only the size of a fingernail and a fine silver witchcraft aura appeared in front of it.
"Chi!"
"Pa!"
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 magic, but they did not agree with Ryan's continued choice of metal magic to attack.
Because the thunderstorm element is highly immune to the attack of metal magic.
In contrast, the effect of attacking with fire magic 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 soon reacted and figured out why.
Ryan's attack directly shattered the crystal core of the thunderstorm element!
Some of the strong candidates even figured out why Ryan just cast those two magics.
It turned out that the purpose of Ryan's first magic was to interrupt the thunderstorm element's first attack rhythm.
At the same time, Ryan also predicted that the thunderstorm element would inevitably use the contraction electric energy to quickly leave the metal cage.
So, he then released the second spell, a fine metal cutting net, which directly crushed the crystal core of the thunderstorm element in one fell swoop.
A one-shot 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 "thumped".
Especially Reagan and Bronson, their eyes briefly crossed, 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 restraining metal wizard, he was able to kill it instantly?
How strong is the combat awareness?
Not to mention 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.
Unable to obtain 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 and only two witchcrafts were used. The information obtained is too limited.
This adds a bit of 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 a different perspective and thought about several possible ways to deal with it, but none of them was as concise and efficient as Ryan just now.
"Ten points!"
"Ten points!"
Four examiners scored a perfect score of ten points in a row.
At this time, the second prince Everton, who was smiling, slowly raised the score card in his hand, and saw that it also showed ten points.
This made the candidates waiting for the test on the scene cry out.
"This is the second full score."
"Full score, no matter how you rank it, you've already entered the retest."
A hint of surprise flashed in Ryan's eyes, because in his opinion, he had offended the other party by rejecting the Second Prince's invitation to join the Dragon Scale Brotherhood.
But from the current situation, the other party didn't seem to mind?
He actually gave him a full score for this initial test.
This.
(End of this chapter)
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