Chapter 31: duel

There are only ten days left before the three-month period. James looks countlessly old. From the time he first saw him, his appearance became gray. This was the result of too much effort. James leaned on Magic maintained his youthful appearance, and at this moment he had no such mood.
He sat paralyzed on the ground waiting for Adam to complete the construction of the last unproven meditation idea. He was full of despair. After so many years of research and so many years of hard work, it was about to end, and it was about to end. He was just A person with no talent, relying on pure mental power to advance to the mage is really just an extravagant hope, and what is more sad is that he even hasn't improved the total amount of spiritual power much.
　　 "I'm going to die, I'll die silently like this." The experiment report in his hand was held tightly by him, and then it was shattered to pieces by the magic that accidentally escaped, James thought desperately.
Adam’s mental power collapsed again, blowing the fragments on the ground apart. He shook his head at James and said,
It’s still not possible. It cannot be self-consistent. The Mage’s armor constructed by this kind of meditation cannot carry the magic ."
James looked at him blankly and said: "Forget it, you don't have to come tomorrow from tomorrow. The experiment of mental strength curing rune structure stability and complete rune group construction has failed. The laboratory will be in ten days. Disband afterwards."
Each of James’ voices were lighter than the last word, and the decadence in his words made Adam frowned. He opened his mouth to speak, but before he could speak, James said again: " After ten days, if you want, you can come to receive your salary for this month. If you don’t want to, I will directly credit your balance. Also, I am about to leave."
　　 Adam temporarily put what he wanted to say back to his heart, and asked: "Go? Where to go?"
James smiled miserably: "Leave the Mage Continent, find an island, and leave your offspring. Then...just so," James turned off all the optical projectors in the laboratory and turned off all experiments. The report was destroyed, and he whispered in the darkness: "Adam, don't study the idea of ​​meditation in the future. You are different from me. There is no need to waste your talent here. I am really jealous of you. What is it like to be a formal mage? "
Adam opened his mouth again. The darkness couldn't resist the apprentices' sights. James interrupted him directly: "You don't need to comfort me. At least compared to ordinary people who do nothing, I have experienced the charm of magic and it is enough. You first Let's go, I want to be alone."
Adam walked out of the laboratory helplessly. In fact, he wanted to tell James that after countless demonstrations in the past two months, he was confident that he had come up with a set of self-consistent meditation ideas, but it would take a few days to organize. , But James did not give him a chance to speak. But it’s nothing, ten days is enough, just sort it out earlier and lend it to James.
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After about three months, the atmosphere between the new apprentices has been different from the beginning. There are fights where there are people, and it is even more serious among these self-proclaimed apprentices. In just three months, Many apprentices have already united to form organizations with various eyes.
Most of the energy stones on most people have been exhausted. Everyone turned their attention to the task hall as they were learning. Then the problem arose-the tasks suitable for them as rookies were limited, and most of them were cleaning, recording, and serving. There are not many such tasks, at least there is no way to meet the needs of nearly a hundred people.
Up to now, everyone has mastered more than one kind of magic. With the acquiescence of the academy, conflicts are commonplace, and the official mages treat them as air. This acquiescence and indulgence make them more powerful. Apprentices with higher scores became pretentious.
　　The five people on the desert island are still united, and they can’t help but not unite, because no other team is willing to accept them. Although their strengths are pretty good, William has successfully mastered three fire magics, and Ophelia has developed smoothly on the path of the body refining mage, but because the number is too small, he is still on the oppressed side.
At this moment, a conflict broke out in the mission hall. The cause was a short-term job of sorting metal for the senior alchemist apprentice. This job was paid for two units of energy stones, which was already very rich. Randy wanted Taking this task, it was also discovered by a native apprentice at the same time. What's more unfortunate is that this person was the one who initially expressed disdain for the desert island apprentice. Later everyone knew his name, Sean, two The offspring of the apprentice of the mage.
"Why? Country folks want to earn Energy Stones too? Haha, do you know the metal?" Sean stepped out of the road in front of Randy and said arrogantly, seeming to find what he said was interesting, the companion behind Sean We laughed together for a while.
　　 "Get out of the way, Sean, do you want to have a bit of pain?" Randy's face became gloomy. I don't know why this Sean kept biting him like a mad dog. There have been similar insults many times.
Sean looked back and exaggerated and exclaimed, "Oh my God, listen to what he was talking about, he wants to teach me," then turned his head and said to Randy, "It's up to you? A countryman? Oh, yes, yes. Yes, I forgot that you are still a genius with a soul tendency. What is it? Curse affinity? Hahaha! Do you want to curse me for a try? I doubt you can't hurt Uncle Sean a single hair!"
Randy clenched his fists and the veins bulged. Three months were enough for the apprentices to gather information. All the apprentices who showed their soul tendencies during the aptitude test were remembered by everyone, except for Randy, because the curse of affinity is really Too unpopular and useless. This made him a laughing stock, and it was also a negative scale in his heart.
"Damn, you bastard!" Randy lost his reason and rushed towards Sean with red eyes. Quentin, who was almost inseparable with him, hurriedly grabbed him. Fighting here is no good, senior apprentices will not allow it. .
　　 Xiao En stood still watching them mockingly, and squeezed them away from his companions behind him, and accepted the task.
The senior apprentices watched this scene lazily. It was too common. It was so common that they couldn’t arouse their interest. They also came from this stage. After experiencing the first cruelty, the novices will know that the conflict is now. How naive and stupid.
　　 Randy stood in place like a beast, breathing heavily, and said in a low to almost hissing voice: "Bastard, dare to fight me?"
The mission hall is quiet. Although conflicts have occurred from time to time, they have remained verbal so far. No one has conducted real duels. After seeing the power of magic, they learned that apprentice duels can’t be based on you. It is carried out by foot, and a slight accident means death.
　　 Sean walked to the door and turned around, looked at Randy in disbelief and said, "What did you say?"
　　 Randy broke free from Quentin and walked to Sean step by step, looking at him almost face-to-face like a cockfight: "I said, duel, bastard."
Shaun couldn’t help taking a step back, panic surged in his heart, but in the next second he became angry at the reaction just now, and said fiercely:
Okay, let’s fight, you trash, since you want to die, Shaun Uncle will fulfill you!"
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The first duel between new apprentices became the most popular topic among rookies within a few days. Adam knew nothing about this. He resumed his previous life in the dormitory and library. The news is still in and Elliott learned from his small talk that he saw Adam again a few months later. He expressed regret about James's experience and Adam's wasted time.
　　 "Speaking of which, you are also from a deserted island, right?" Eliot asked casually.
　　 "Yeah." The book Adam is reading is called "Discussion on the Stability of Runes", and the explanation of the runes in the book helps him to construct his mind.
With Adam's acknowledgment, Elliott approached very gossipingly and said: "I heard that just today, the apprentice on the deserted island with cursed affinity is about to fight people, don't you want to go and see?" And although it is useless ~EbookFREE.me~ but it is considered a conspicuous label, Eliot has no impression of Sean.
　　 "Oh." Adam replied perfunctorily and continued to flip through the book.
　　Elliott curled his lips and moved closer: "Didn’t he come from the same place as you? Don’t you want to go and see?"
　　 Adam turned the book to the last page and closed it, put it back on the shelf properly and said, "No."
"Why? The first duel of rookies, haven't you seen it? Tsk tsk, think about it, really miss it, we also came here back then." Elliott entered the memory mode very offline. .
"It's boring, I just came into contact with the most superficial force, I just focused on being brave and relentless, stupid. Besides, what's so good about their duel, do the two people stand opposite to build a rune group?" Adam said. Turn around and leave.
"Um..." Eliot imagined such a scene, and it was not interesting at once, but he was really boring, and when the number of apprentices was sparse, it was rare for Adam to chat with him. , "Let's go, go and see, aren't you going back to the dormitory? Just on the way, it won't delay you a lot of time."
Adam was helplessly stayed by Elliott. Fortunately, the rest of the thread continued to calculate day and night. The daily thread did not delay the progress of the task, and there was no need for Eliot's interest, so the two walked out of the library and headed for the duel. Go.
　　 Elliott kept boasting about his rookie record and repeating his glorious history of poisoning his opponents with poison, and thus walked to the duel.
　　 Someone kept saying hello to Eliot along the way, and looked at Adam next to him with surprised eyes, wondering how this ‘abandoned apprentice’ got together with the pharmacy tutor.