"Very well."

Felat's expression remained impassive, but the veins on his forehead pulsed twice.

He nodded.

Felat didn't know if this young man was truly ignorant of the situation or deliberately provoking him.

But it didn't matter.

He would just vaporize him first.

The chief examiner Felat slowly opened his palm in mid-air, every movement of his fingertips seeming like an indisputable and unchangeable rule.

Instantly, his eyes became as deep as the starry sky, and around him, a powerful magical force was gathering, preparing for a grand magical ritual.

As Felat's lips moved slightly, reciting a complex and obscure incantation, the surrounding air began to rise in temperature sharply, permeating with the aura of violent fire magic.

An invisible wave of magical power swept across the entire grassland, howling and stirring up huge air currents.

In this moment, the green grass tips beneath him began to turn yellow and smoky, as if overwhelmed by Felat's high-temperature magic.

Even without using magic cards, the spells Felat himself mastered were enough to easily kill the two.

However,

Underestimating weaker enemies is not a wise move.

Felat knew well.

For lower ranks to defeat higher ranks, the only turning point is "special mechanisms".

For example, high damage reflection or other instant kill points that even higher ranks can easily fall victim to.

Before Felat came, no matter what intelligence resources he used, he couldn't find any combat records for Lanqi.

It was as clean as a blank sheet of paper.

Plus, Lanqi's thinking was often a bit unusual, making Felat instinctively cautious.

So he was initially unwilling to attack Lanqi actively, largely because he was worried about triggering special mechanism magic cards like damage reflection.

If he could persuade him to withdraw through words, that would be best.

But since this kid was determined to muddy the waters, there were plenty of ways to deal with him.

For example, giving this young man called Lanqi a nice death experience, letting him die slowly and painfully in the burning flames.

Felat was also very certain that this duke's daughter had a temperament of never surrendering even in death.

In this artificial Shadow World where killing wouldn't result in real death, after burning Lanqi, this uncertain factor, to death, there would be plenty of time to deal with her one-sidedly later.

On the distant grassland ground.

Feeling the approaching dangerous scorching aura, facing Felat who finally made his move, Huberrian's eyes flickered, as if she discovered something.

"Felat was probably guarding against you being a reflection type earlier, but we can't withstand his Third Order magic for long either!"

Huberrian quickly said in a low voice.

She noticed that the spell Felat was currently chanting was not a Fifth Order damaging area spell.

But a Third Order sustained area spell with less damage!

"Don't worry, I told you I'm a function-specialized white mage."

As Lanqi spoke, a magic card had already appeared in his hand.

He already had a countermeasure when Felat started chanting the spell.

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This spell card, made using the demonic toxin principle taught by Talia, could finally be put to use.

......

In the conference room.

Even though most teachers didn't think there was much suspense about the outcome of this exam.

But at this moment, they became extremely focused on the battle situation.

"Is this guy called Lanqi finally going to make his move?"

The teachers had long been curious about what kind of role Lanqi could play.

White mages, due to their spell structure containing over 70% healing magic to gain functional recognition, are often specialized healing-type mages.

The remaining few spell card slots provide various types of support for the team.

If their own spell structure is specialized functional, they often wouldn't be judged as white mages during professional identification, but would be judged as other support-type functions due to the proportion of their own spells.

So the teachers only knew that Lanqi carried a large number of healing spells.

But they didn't understand exactly what kind of style Lanqi was, and what the card slots were besides healing spells.

"Even if he carries spells that can have strong control effects, he can only interrupt Felat's casting once."

"And at his rank, he might not be able to affect Felat at all."

The teachers discussed while closely watching the magic screen.

Often, the harder the control effect, the more difficult it is to apply.

For example, [Stun], [Freeze] and other hard controls, Lanqi at Second Order simply couldn't affect Felat who was now at Fifth Order.

The only soft control that might be applied to interrupt casting was [Silence].

But the [Silence] Lanqi could apply to Felat would only last for a moment, and Felat could just cast again.

The battle was still continuing on the screen.

The teachers all knew that this was likely to be the decisive wave.

If Lanqi and his team could get through it, there would still be room for further maneuvering.

But if they had no countermeasures, it would end here!

"Spirit of flame hidden deep in the earth veins, please bring forth the wrath of lava......"

Just as Felat was chanting the incantation in ancient human magic language.

The chanting voice suddenly stopped.

He moved his cold gaze, only to see Lanqi holding a magic card emitting a purple haze.

Obviously, Lanqi had used this [Purple Rare] quality spell card to interrupt his incantation.

Felat's expression was cold, but showed no change at all.

......

"He did use a silence spell as expected."

"It can indeed interrupt Felat once, but this is just drinking poison to quench thirst."

The senior professors watching in the conference room sighed.

Even for a Second Order purple quality card, to silence Fifth Order Felat, it could only last for a moment before automatically dispelling.

And such spell cards that can apply [Silence] often have quite long cooldown times.

Felat would be able to cast again very soon.

At that time, the outcome wouldn't change at all!

Just as the teachers were about to stop watching.

One second passed.

Two seconds passed.

Five seconds passed!

Felat still couldn't make a sound!

Even Lanqi was standing in the distance with one hand on his hip, looking at the chief examiner Felat in the sky like an old cadre.

"???"

"Why can it silence for so long?"

"What card can add such a strong [Silence] effect? Impossible!"

It was just a purple rare Second Order spell card, even if it defied the heavens it shouldn't be able to control Fifth Order Felat like this!

At this moment, not only Felat with a shocked expression in the image.

Even in the conference room, the teachers watching in the background finally realized the seriousness of the situation.

"Holy ※!!"

Along with the exclamation.

The teachers finally saw that the backend terminal had successfully identified and displayed the attributes of the card Lanqi just used!

On the projection of the magic screen.

"Ugh ugh!!"

Felat wanted to question Lanqi, but could only make strange sounds.

He understood at this moment.

The reason he couldn't continue chanting spells was due to that strange spell card Lanqi used to interrupt his casting earlier!

It wasn't [Silence] at all, damn it.

But — [Mute]!

[Friendly Communication]

[Category: Spell Card]

[Grade: Purple Rare]

[Rank: 2]

[Effect: Lightly damage the enemy's throat with poison magic, applying a "Mute" status: causing their throat to feel like it's being scraped by a knife, unable to make sounds. Cooldown time 15 seconds.]

[Note: You have violated the user agreement and have been permanently muted.]