Wizard's Journey

Chapter 104 Strength and Goals

Spirited and excited, one after another, the excited faces became the main theme in the square.

but……

This wasn't the only melody; besides some wizard apprentices who had given up all hope, there was also Grin, who was standing next to Raffi and the others, looking haggard.

Clad in metal armor, Grimm stood quietly in the crowd, carrying the Hydra Greatsword on his back. A disposable spatial pouch hung at his waist. Beneath his pale mask, his eyes, weary from thought, seemed to be calculating endlessly.

After last night's ball, Green didn't continue his romantic time with Raffi. Instead, he chose to continue his research on explosive fire magic alone, and even now he's still using every spare moment to calculate the final aggregation point for the basic annihilation reaction. In everyone's eyes, Green seems to have returned to his mysterious, unassuming wizarding apprentice persona, as if everything from last night was just a dream.

On the high platform, numerous formal wizards flew down and distributed a strange metal tag to each wizard apprentice, with a special spatial fluctuation flowing on it.

At the same time, almost the instant each wizard apprentice received the token, the number "twelve" and a black chain pattern automatically appeared on their forehead, similar in shape to those during the newcomer's trial.

Green looked up and glanced at the mark on Binghamson's forehead.

Lin Ge and his group were from District 12 of the Seventh Ring Holy Tower, while five districts were participating in this Holy Tower Qualifying Battle. District 12 has six wizarding academies, with a total of about 40,000 to 50,000 wizarding apprentices. If the other districts are roughly the same, then there will be a total of 200,000 to 250,000 participants in this Holy Tower Qualifying Battle.

However, only two hundred wizard apprentices were qualified to become prospective demon hunter wizards, which shows just how elite they were.

With this in mind, what kind of terrifying wizards would the Seven Rings Holy Tower's demon hunters be, as the wizarding force that fights against other wizards in the wizarding world!

Green lowered his head and once again immersed himself in the complex calculations of his mental world.

On the high platform, the female wizarding headmistress below Peranos was shrouded in white mist, indistinct and unclear. The tinkling sound of flowing water seemed to whisper in the ears of each wizarding apprentice: "The Holy Tower Qualifying Battle will be held in a small secret realm, and the badge in your hands will serve as your life-saving measure. Once it is broken, you will be directly returned to the ninety-ninth floor of the Black Tower Wizarding Academy. Of course, the same applies to wizarding apprentices from other academies."

Now everyone finally understood the significance of this badge, and they all carefully preserved it, placing it close to their bodies or even holding it in their hands.

If you were to lose your badge in the trial realm and then encounter an unstoppable powerful pursuer, you would be finished.

The female dean continued, "The Holy Tower Qualifying Battle will last for ten days. Within those ten days, as long as you leave the secret realm, the mark on your forehead will automatically be reduced by half and transferred to the wizard apprentice who forced you to leave. This mark will only be used for accumulating points and will no longer have the natural power deterrent effect it had during the newcomer trial. However, a friendly reminder to wizard apprentices who are not strong enough: you can crush the badge the moment you enter the secret realm, otherwise, if you don't have enough time..."

The female dean didn't say the rest, but everyone understood what she meant, and many people quietly swallowed.

Green was engrossed in calculating the key parts of the Explosive Flame Spell. After receiving the badge, he simply tossed it into his spatial pocket and ignored it.

It's likely that this sign was created by the Black Tower Master's soul servant forcing Grimm to leave the Black Tower Secret Realm.

After scanning all the wizard apprentices, the female headmistress smiled and said, "Now, the wizard apprentices present will enter the Twisted Scales in reverse order of their entry into the academy. There will be ten batches, and the teleportation will be completed within two hourglasses. Remember, there are only two hundred prospective demon hunter wizards for the Seven Rings Holy Tower. These two hundred will not be selected based on specific mark points, but only the first two hundred."

Peranos's voice suddenly interrupted: "Heh heh, so to become a prospective Demon Hunter Wizard, you should accumulate as many points as possible. Even if you're eventually driven out of the secret realm by a powerful figure, as long as you've accumulated enough points beforehand, you can still become a prospective Demon Hunter Wizard. And for those of you vying for first place, your safest approach is to drive every single competitive individual out of the secret realm, heh heh heh heh..."

Peranos, as always, joined in the atmosphere with an evil laugh.

"Alright, it's almost time." The male wizard dean upstairs in Peranos suddenly said in a low voice, the blue stone sword that looked like a huge cross still on his back, and the rustling black cloak covering his whole body.

After the three deans gathered together and discussed in hushed tones for a while, the wizards began to arrange for their apprentices to enter the scales of justice. Green's class of wizard apprentices were the first to enter the Holy Tower Qualification Battle Secret Realm.

Generally speaking, this batch of wizard apprentices is just a way to give points to those who come after them. It is difficult for this batch of wizard apprentices to reach their full potential in twenty years. In fact, most of the wizard apprentices' mental strength is still around twenty points, with only a few reaching thirty points.

Of course, this is just the general case...

The most elite wizard apprentices, such as Amgond, Solem, Yunli, and Bibiliona, will have their mental strength forcibly increased to the maximum value of a wizard apprentice, 40 points, under the conscious arrangement of their mentors and themselves.

"Go Green!" Binghamson suddenly turned around and said to Green.

Green looked up in surprise and suddenly saw Binghamson's slightly moist eyes. He froze and his body trembled.

Did he... sense something?

Nodding silently, Green said softly, "Mm."

Everyone else waited anxiously for the scales to be transferred, but Green's train of thought was interrupted by Bingham, and out of sheer boredom, he simply took out the black crystal ball and glanced at it.

Mental strength: 40, Magical strength: 388~423.

体质：111，体力：85~98，力量：67~202，活性：77~91。

Needless to say, Green has already reached the maximum level of an elemental wizard apprentice. Unless he advances to become a full-fledged wizard, his magic power will not increase by even a little bit.

In terms of physique, Green's 111 points are simply too exaggerated for an elemental wizard apprentice or even an underground body-refining wizard. In fact, if Green were in the underground world, with the added bonus of the flying dragon and certain unique martial arts of body-refining wizards, he might already be a level one body-refining wizard.

At this point, although Green had an exaggeratedly high physical attribute, he lacked the corresponding systematic training and did not bring his high physical attribute to the limit of a body-refining wizard. Instead, his attack methods were more like those of an elemental wizard and he did not reach the level of a true underground body-refining wizard of the same level.

However, even so, Green's numerous elemental wizarding techniques, combined with his terrifying physique, make him a nightmare for wizarding apprentices.

Even when facing weaker formal wizards, Green's superior physique is not without resistance. He can completely follow the path of a body-refining wizard to fight against elemental wizards, ignoring the suppression of natural forces.

Needless to say, his physical strength is exceptional.

With a Strength of 67-202, Grimm's highest attack power has reached 202 degrees, which is the basic foundation that gives him enough confidence to become a prospective Demon Hunter Wizard. His Activity level is 77-91, and with the defense of the Pale Mask and Fire Shield, plus a dozen or so points of standard elemental resistance…

(Grimm's ten magic wands inflict self-harm, utilizing the passive adaptability of cells to enhance resistance, as mentioned earlier; defensive stacking is far inferior to a single absolute defense, that is: a single 200-degree attack can destroy two 120-degree defenses.)

With the strength of these body-refining wizards, plus basic fire bat magic, repulsive dual forces, cooperative magic, blood terror doll, greedy flame giant, three secret great magic, alienation magic, and even the Black Tower Key of Friendship, Green was quite confident in competing for the top wizard apprenticeship in Districts 11 to 15!

however……

However, Green ultimately lacked a trump card that could crush all other wizarding apprentices. This lack of a trump card would introduce some unpredictable variables into Green's struggle. This trump card had to instill despair in ordinary wizarding apprentices, but it didn't have a limited number of uses like the Key of Friendship from Blacksota—this was the Explosive Flame Spell.

After acquiring the Burst spell, with the basic 30x bonus to its annihilation power, this spell will reach an attack range of around 240 degrees, which is already the limit for a typical wizard apprentice.

but……

Because this sorcery is an incomplete one that uses the power of annihilation to trigger the eruption of fire elements, it also needs to be enhanced by the tenfold increase of the basic mental strength of the Grimm's Fiery Body, which means an additional 80 degrees, reaching 320 degrees!

What does 320 degrees mean?

The requirement for a first-level underground wizard is a stable attack power of 250 degrees, while the attack power of an academy guardian is generally between 230 and 270 degrees. In other words, those so-called legendary wizard apprentices are essentially humanoid academy guardians during regional wars, and their attack power is generally within this range.

Of course, it's possible that some legendary wizard apprentices with special skills might have slightly higher or lower attack angles, but a 320-degree attack generally creates an absolute suppressive effect...

Suddenly, after a spatial distortion that felt like his body was being stretched into noodles, Green opened his eyes again.

A hazy gray sky and a forest of stone pillars with countless obvious signs of human intervention form the main theme of the scene. The stone pillars vary in height and thickness, stretching towards the horizon. There is a faint, "violent" elemental force in the air, which seems to form an invisible suppression, slightly hindering the wizarding apprentices from casting spells. Although the natural forces here have been assimilated by the wizarding world, there are still slight differences.

This……

Is this the trial space for the Holy Tower Qualifying Battle?

(End of this chapter)