Magic: My equipment slots have no restrictions

"I am willing to go to Silvermoon Academy."

"Let's go now!"

Elena's heart skipped a beat. Suppressing her excitement, she turned to look at Meurles.

Her sudden change in attitude made Meurles wonder if he had misheard.

Could it be that my younger sister is actually a very studious and ambitious person?

Was it because you were worried that the people escorting you might have problems that you refused in every way?

No matter how he thought about it, something felt wrong. After taking a closer look at Victor's face, his expression immediately darkened.

This kid is already half as handsome as I am.

"Senior, come here."

Meules' senior was also observing Viktor, but when she heard her junior call out, she quickly came over.

"What's wrong?"

She asked with a smile, without making any unnecessary movements.

Meurles picked up his coffee, took a sip, and gestured with his chin toward Victor.

This was to ask him to help test the boy's abilities.

The senior student immediately understood.

Although she didn't know why he did this, as a fellow mage, she was also very interested in the suddenly appearing level 3 young mage.

"Little brother, come with me."

A blue light flashed in her hand, and a wand appeared in her palm. She raised her other hand and beckoned to Victor with a finger.

Her voluptuous figure, which even the academy mage robes couldn't conceal, had a provocative quality.

How dare you say I'm young?

Viktor was taken aback for a moment, then realized that the other party wanted to have a fierce mage duel with him.

I never expected that before the escort mission even started, I would have to fight with someone first.

However, he had no reason to refuse.

"Come."

Having just reached level 3, he hadn't yet tested his strength, and now was the perfect opportunity.

Thinking this, he followed the other person to an open space. Along the way, he saw Elena cheering him on from afar, and he simply nodded in response.

But for some reason, after greeting him, the blond youth looked at him with a strange expression.

Aren't you taking your wand?

After the senior student chose her spot and stood still, she saw Viktor standing empty-handed opposite her and asked in confusion.

Let's set the rules first.

Viktor shook his head in response.

"Oh? You know a lot about this."

The senior student tucked a strand of hair behind her ear and winked at him.

Just then, the servants outside placed the [Isolation Stone] used to isolate the spell, and a blue halo immediately enveloped the two of them.

As the aperture rose, the two were completely locked inside.

As all this was happening, the senior student was also setting rules:

"This duel is simple: survive for 5 minutes against me. You can use any move you want within those 5 minutes. As long as you survive, you win."

"By the way, I'm level 5."

After speaking, she immediately began chanting a spell rapidly and pointed the tip of her staff at Victor.

Instantly, a huge fireball hurtled towards Victor like a cannonball.

Viktor didn't expect the other party to be so shameless, but his years of combat experience had already made him react accordingly.

"boom!"

As he dodged to the side, the fireball struck the spot where he had been standing.

Using the force of the exploding fireball, Viktor spun around and charged toward his senior, raising his hand at the same time.

Snap your fingers!

The magic [Flame Arrow] was instantly unleashed, heading straight for the senior's face.

"Didn't you chant the incantation?"

The senior student was slightly surprised, not expecting Viktor's counterattack to be so swift.

As she dodged to the side, she continued chanting incantations and swung her staff repeatedly.

The purple light representing the [Slowness] spell and the white light representing the [Immobilization] spell chased after Victor one after the other.

Viktor had never seen this kind of tracking before, but his clear mind immediately made him roll to the left.

"Whoosh!"

The purple light grazed the hairs on the earlobe, while the white light that shot towards it collided with a pale blue shield.

Spellcasting without a staff?

At that moment, a clear look of surprise flashed in the senior's eyes.

Meureus, who was watching the battle, also raised an eyebrow slightly.

Few mages are capable of casting spells without a staff. This advanced casting method is only available to warlocks who can use the "instant spell" ability and high-level druids.

All that's left are monsters, or... people with the talent to cast spells without a staff.

"Alright, it seems we can't be careless."

Seeing the spell broken, the senior student smiled, feeling more pleased than surprised.

She could naturally see Viktor's extraordinary abilities and no longer regarded him as a regular level 3 mage.

"bite."

As she silently chanted the incantation, the tip of her staff shone with a silver light.

Instantly, a circle of silver ripples spread out from beneath her feet, quickly covering the entire isolation zone with a layer of frost-white.

The ground is frozen?

Viktor was quite surprised to see his blurry reflection in the ground.

But at this moment, the senior student had already started chanting incantations rapidly.

As she tapped her staff repeatedly, two ice spikes shot towards her.

Victor was about to move to the side when [Magic Affinity] issued an invisible alarm.

His pupils dilated slightly, and he quickly leaped backward.

Then, a meter-long ice spike suddenly shot up from the ice surface where he had been standing, and the cold air emanating from the ice spike seemed to drop the temperature in the area by more than ten degrees.

Viktor barely dodged the incoming ice spikes and struggled to regain his footing, knowing that continuing like this would be disadvantageous for him.

"It's no use. In this confined space, hiding will only expose more weaknesses."

The senior student spoke up at the right moment, pointing her staff at Viktor again: "There are two minutes left until the challenge ends."

The moment she finished speaking, two more ice spikes shot out from the tip of her staff.

This time, Victor didn't dodge, but instead activated [Shield] again.

As the two ice spikes struck the blue barrier, he used up his three chances to cast spells without a staff or incantation for the day.

Moreover, he discovered an even bigger problem.

That is, the cold air in the space is becoming more and more intense, and in my perception, this cold air is composed of magic.

If we let them continue to grow, I'm afraid something very bad will happen.

"We succeeded."

The change came sooner than Viktor had anticipated. As the senior student's teasing words fell, all the chill in the room began to gather.

Viktor's eyes narrowed; he knew he couldn't hide his abilities.

As the [Magic Affinity] warning sounded again, he abruptly stepped back, raising his hand at the same time.

"Smack."

The snap of fingers ended.

The senior student suddenly froze.

Why... I can't see anything at all.

As soon as the thought crossed her mind, she felt her ears go deaf.

Viktor stood there, watching the chilling aura that had only paused for a moment before resuming its gathering, and couldn't help but sigh.

Even with visual and auditory deprivation, the opponent's spellcasting couldn't be interrupted, so the only option left was to use the newly learned technique.

His eyes narrowed, and he snapped his fingers again.

But the senior student couldn't hear her.

She suddenly became able to see, but what she saw was not the scene before her eyes, but an illusion.

That was the room I lived in as a child.

The pink setting is filled with exquisite plush toys of all kinds.

But before she could even be shocked, she suddenly saw an uninvited guest rush out from under the bed.

Those are... a bunch of cockroaches!