The Rise of the Cemetery

"Master, we need to discuss it!" The head apprentice's eyes were reddened by such promises, and he dared to make the request. After getting the approval, he immediately called everyone to a corner of the room, and started a heated discussion in low voices. .

Sure enough, there is no fool who can become a mage's apprentice. After some discussion, the apprentices quickly made up a dozen or so confusing spellcasting plans, and kept them all in their hearts.

After the task was assigned, all the apprentices spread out in the room with a whoosh. Facing the young high-level mage with closed eyes and resting his mind, he couldn't help but eager to try.

Gold coins are harmful! Li Xun sighed. Just now these mage apprentices were afraid of themselves like tigers, but under the stimulation of the gold coins, they surrounded themselves at this moment, and there was a faint murderous look in their eyes.

"one!"

With a shout, 20 mage apprentices stepped forward in unison, holding spells and casting spells at the same time, all dancing lights.

Uh... well, I actually want to win with more!

Li Xun couldn't help being a little nervous. He could flexibly control only 23 nodes, and facing 20 spellcasters at the same time was a challenge.

The eyes are still closed, but under the closed eyelids, the operation of the brain has been brought to the extreme in an instant. In the panorama, 20 well-arranged casters swayed for a while, and then clearly appeared in the virtual panorama space.

20 casters, 20 mana shock sources, due to the difference in spell holding time and gesture frequency, plus the difference in spellcasting proficiency, the progress of these 20 mana shock sources is also different, from 1.3 seconds to 2.4 The seconds vary and also herald a sharp increase in the difficulty of interception.

It took Li Xun nearly 1 second to complete the modeling and fully incorporate their conditions into the telepathy in the panorama. That is to say, after counting the information of these 20 casting points, the one with the fastest casting is close to the completion of casting.

At such a moment, it is too late for rational analysis and induction, and Li Xun can only follow a kind of spiritual prompt, waving his hands casually in this virtual space. The 23 fulcrums of the mind manifested in the air immediately differentiated, jumping and causing chaos among the 20 shock sources in turn according to some mysterious law. All kinds of small and micro energy tides and mana turbulence swirl and extinguish, wreaking havoc and stirring in the space where these shock sources are located.

"Ah..." "Oh..." "Unlucky!..." "Not good!..."

All kinds of exclamations and screams came and went, and there were blue smoke everywhere after the failed spell casting, but amidst the chaos, the two rising white dots were particularly noticeable.

All the apprentices were silent at first, and then howled excitedly!

It worked, and 2 people made it!

Even Li Xun couldn't help opening his eyes, nodded approvingly to the two lucky winners, and announced loudly: "The 12th and the 17th each succeeded once!"

It's rare, I've put my mind to the extreme, but unfortunately there are still various accidents. No. 12 and another apprentice in the venue accidentally synchronized their mana, and they were divided into two ends, so this No. 12 was inadvertently missed in the choice, and the No. 17 was tenacious and resisted. Overcoming the disturbance of the insufficiently differentiated mind, he successfully completed the spell.

But no matter what, this is the collective success of all the mage apprentices, and it is also the success of Li Xun testing his limits. Without this method, Li Xun didn't know that the instinctive response of the mind is so fast and efficient, and in some blur processing, it feels no less inferior to the smart computer in the previous life.

The successful example immediately deeply inspired the apprentices present, and amidst the howling of wolves, they made persistent efforts to start the second round of spellcasting.

This time there is no luck in the first round. They were overly excited, and there was a huge gap in their cooperation, which caused the timing of the initial chanting of the mantra to be inconsistent, so there was a huge gap in the time interval, which reduced Li Xun's jumping thoughts. In the end, only one apprentice successfully cast the spell.

"Number 17 is successful!" Li Xun announced loudly, and he couldn't help but focus on the female apprentice No. 17. The first time her success was a bit of a surprise, the second time I had consciously increased the intensity of the mana turbulence impact on her, and she was able to maintain a very high concentration in casting spells, and completed the spell with force.

This could not fail to attract Li Xun's attention.

As his mind turned to this female mage apprentice, some data contained in her thin body under the simple apprentice robe was transmitted to Li Xun's brain through various sensing methods, and added to her body in the panorama. in the image.

Gina, human, female, mage apprentice, has a pretty face, slender body, weighs 76 catties, and is 163 cm tall.

Uh... the last one is purely an instinctive reaction when probing, not an attack of Li Xun's satyr attribute. Her basic mental strength should be 1.6 times that of other apprentices, no wonder she has such a high ability to control spells. If such a character embarks on the path of a mage, the later the stage, the more limitless the future will be.

However, such gifted "little geniuses" are also popular in the Mage Guild, and they will not receive special preferential treatment until they truly show their outstanding potential. After all, resources are scarce, and people are endless.

The mage apprentices in the arena couldn't help cast their envious eyes on this shy and gentle girl. The crowd's surrounding made the girl lower her head, but Li Xun could clearly see her calm and clear eyes through the panorama. Not bad, the spell control is super strong, and the will is tough enough, he is a good seedling!

But all of this has nothing to do with Li Xun. He only cares about his proficiency in using his mind to project power, and other things are not considered.

The third round was temporarily postponed, because the apprentices got together again to discuss a solution. At the same time, casting the spell had a good effect for the first time, and it would be difficult to catch people by surprise later on. From the ease with which the mage dealt with it in the second round, it can be imagined that the effect will become worse and worse later on. The most important thing is that the apprentices' mana is limited, and the number of 0-level spells that can be cast is in the single digits, ranging from 6 times to 9 times, but there is no capital to waste by trial and error.

Therefore, casting spells separately and maintaining the continuity of casting spells is an inevitable choice. But the smaller the number of people, the more difficult it is to steal chickens from the high-level mage.

When the apprentices were frowning, it was Gina No. 17 who whispered a few words, which made everyone's eyes light up suddenly, and they couldn't help but seriously look at this female companion who was usually not obvious.

Soon, the result of the discussion was finalized, and the apprentices redistributed around Li Xun, exchanged winks, and started casting spells at the same time under the shout of the head apprentice.

Li Xun's mind is also constantly surging, projecting one by one at different nodes, drifting and jumping in the panorama according to the results of telepathy, ready to intervene in their spell-casting links at any time.

But at this moment, 16 of the 20 apprentices suddenly interrupted their spellcasting, leaving only 4 apprentices distributed in the four corners who suddenly accelerated their spellcasting speed.

Hey, they started playing tactics!

Originally, when the apprentices were discussing tactics in the panorama, they couldn't hide from Li Xun's perception, but in order to train himself, he intentionally blocked his perception and didn't eavesdrop on their conversation, so he was really caught off guard by them.

It is a little difficult to gather the thoughts that have spread out in time, and the remaining four apprentices consciously chose the ones with similar levels, which made the interference even more difficult. As a result, two more white dots successfully lit up in the spell practice room.

Uh, using more to protect less, not only saved everyone's mana, but also successfully covered those companions, a good idea!

"No. 3 and No. 7 succeeded!" Li Xun had to announce again.

So for most of the day, they went back and forth in this kind of deception and stealing chickens. In the afternoon, the apprentices exhausted their mana one after another, and the game finally came to an end.

According to the last statistics, the apprentices successfully cast spells 11 times, including one time for No. 1, No. 3, No. 4, No. 7, No. 12, and No. 18, two times for No. 12, and three times for No. 17. If the fixed 300 gold coins that Li Xun had already promised them were added, he would need to pay 18,650 gold coins today, of which No. 17 Gina got 1,300 gold coins alone.

Li Xun reminded them of the principle of confidentiality again, and then he turned and left the magic practice room in satisfaction, leaving behind a group of painful and happy apprentices. The dizziness brought about by the exhaustion of mana did not affect the joy of the apprentices carrying a "large amount" of gold coins. They all smiled and cheered everywhere.

Gold coins are only dispensable at the level of a high-level mage. After all, anything you need cannot be obtained with a few gold coins. But for mage apprentices, gold coins are the most tangible thing. At their stage, the required low-level spell books, low-level scrolls, magic materials, etc. can all be bought with gold coins. And their shallow magic knowledge and scarce mana can't take on well-paid tasks at all, so they can only rely on doing odd jobs near the Mage Guild's residence to earn the resources to continue.

It's okay if you don't learn alchemy or enchanting. A mage apprentice only needs 120 gold coins to maintain the minimum learning cost for a month. But once you want to achieve something on the road of refining magic potions, creating magic equipment, and making scrolls, you need sea-like resources to practice repeatedly.

Not to mention anything else, the sobriety necklace that is most helpful to mage apprentices needs 700 gold coins, the fireball ring 500 gold coins, and the apprentice staff 1100 gold coins. These things are indispensable in the apprenticeship stage. In the past, they could only drool with envy and dare not imagine extravagantly, but today, they can get them in their pockets.