The usually orderly conference room had become chaotic, with many teachers wide-eyed, staring at the magic screen suspended in the center, standing up with their hands on the table!
"...?"
The spacious room suddenly echoed with voices of confusion and shock.
Unless one had mastered non-verbal casting techniques,
Otherwise,
This single [Friendly Communication] card could be a nightmare for all traditional mages!
Due to the convenience and free combination of magic cards, modern mages, even if they learn spells to expand their skill set, rarely practice non-verbal casting techniques.
"Did the Magic Engineering Department develop something new behind our backs again...?"
Even Vice Principal Roen, who had been holding his pen without speaking, couldn't help but twitch his eye.
He knew.
From now on, "Non-verbal Spellcasting" would have to become a compulsory course at the Sage Academy.
This annoying card would spread like a virus, starting from Icerite Academy where it first appeared, gradually spreading to the entire royal capital, the entire Heton Kingdom, then to the Southern Continent, and the whole world...
And its creator was still unknown.
There are often card makers with mysterious talents who don't realize the disruptive nature of their cards to the environment when creating them, until their works have been circulating in the market for a long time before their true identities can be traced.
It seems that after the exam,
Regardless of whether Lanqi passes or not,
Someone will approach Lanqi to investigate the source of this [Friendly Communication] card.
Or, directly obtain the [Friendly Communication] card in his hand, reverse engineer the poison magic contained within, and then attempt to replicate its spell principle as quickly as possible!
"It's probably not possible that he made it himself..."
Vice Principal Roen rubbed his brow.
Although students at the Sage Academy also learn to make magic cards, it's mainly the students of the Magic Engineering Department who specialize in card making.
A card maker who could come up with this [Friendly Communication] would be quite a explosive existence even in the card-making world.
Now it seems,
Rather than letting Lanqi, who holds clues to this "amazing card maker", go home, it would be best if Lanqi could join the Sage Academy.
Because with Principal Loren there, no one would dare to mess with Lanqi.
And if [Friendly Communication] were to quickly circulate widely in the market, it would undoubtedly be very troublesome for the Sage Academy.
Where did this newcomer come from out of nowhere?
Vice Principal Roen couldn't help but flip through the documents in his hand, puzzled.
The blank-like resume looked stranger the more he looked at it.
If the last round of exams was just a coincidence,
This is the second time Lanqi has given them a shocking performance.
And he hasn't even demonstrated his primary abilities as a white mage yet.
His entire system still remains a mystery.
The data shows,
Lanqi himself doesn't master any spells, and his white mage function was certified by the Magic Tower.
So most of the card slots on him should still be healing spell cards.
Pure functional spell cards like [Friendly Communication] would be at most two or three.
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But what Roen found incomprehensible was—
With such low magical power, what was the consideration for carrying such a high proportion of healing cards?
Each person's soul has a limit on the number of magic cards it can carry.
The higher the rank of the magic card bound to the soul, the more it occupies of one's soul space.
For example, Lanqi is Second Order, he can at most soul-bind magic cards with a total [Rank] of 20.
And he can only bind up to Second Order magic cards.
If he reaches Third Order in the future, he can bind magic cards with a total [Rank] of 30, and can bind Third Order magic cards.
On the other hand,
If Second Order Lanqi binds all Second Order magic cards, he would reach the carrying limit with just 10 cards.
But if he binds some First Order magic cards, he can bind more cards.
The [Rank] of magic cards can be viewed as "cost" to some extent.
Lower rank magic cards can be seen as having a lower "cost".
So some high-quality, versatile low-rank magic cards won't be eliminated even when one reaches higher ranks.
At this moment, Vice Principal Roen thought,
If Lanqi were to carry a full set of targeted functional spells like [Friendly Communication], with the high mana limit and sustained casting ability brought by Lanqi's high spirit, he might truly be a pure functional support that could have miraculous effects.
"Even if Lanqi has shown miraculous effects, the real challenge is yet to come."
"The rank gap is too big."
The teachers in the conference room began to focus intensely on the battle situation.
In their view, the originally one-sided confrontation had unexpectedly shown a glimmer of hope, which naturally brought some unusual expectations.
But they also knew deeply that the gap in basic attributes between Fifth Order and Second/Third Order was like an unbridgeable chasm.
Even if Felat relied on his fists and ordinary attack magic, he could easily kill the fragile Lanqi and Huberrian, let alone Felat still had a few small spells that could be cast instantly. Conversely, the two examinees could hardly cause effective damage to Felat.
The situation had merely changed from 10-0 to 9-1.
......
On the magic screen.
The battle on the Elayven Great Plains continued.
Just as Felat was stunned, he understood the abnormal fact that he couldn't chant spells.
At this thought, a chill suddenly ran through Felat's heart.
He suddenly became alert.
As if hearing the sound of something cutting through the air.
A figure appeared from nowhere, and when her silhouette reappeared, she was already fiercely stabbing towards Felat's chest!
The attacking Huberrian was now extremely close to Felat.
Her dagger was almost about to succeed, piercing Felat's heart.
Moreover, the strange scorpion-tail shaped dagger was gleaming with an eerie crystal light, obviously carrying a deadly poison.
Get lost!!
Felat wanted to shout in anger but could only make strange sounds, while immediately a deep red, scorching light ring burst out from around him!
Even if he couldn't chant spells, he still had low-level, small-scale instant-cast spells he could use!
This light ring spread out from his body, flashing for an instant, and the suddenly appearing Huberrian was immediately violently repelled by the fire ring.
"Huff, huff."
Huberrian, who was hit directly by this attack, quickly got up from the ground.
She had only some slight burns on her body, with no major injuries.
And the Huberrian who was originally by Lanqi's side had scattered like a bubble, just an illusion left after she used a spell to become invisible.
"Bastard, you managed to dodge."
Huberrian said in a low voice with a gloomy expression.
In mid-air.
There was now a line of blood on Felat's cheek, with fresh blood beginning to slide down along this wound, dripping.
In that instant earlier, realizing she couldn't stab Felat's heart, Huberrian had used all her strength to fiercely throw the scorpion-tail dagger in her hand as a projectile, aiming straight for his head!
Felat, with his rich combat experience and quick reflexes, instinctively tilted his head, dodging this follow-up attack.
But in the end, he couldn't completely avoid the sneak attack at close range.
Intense pain spread from the wound on Felat's cheek, causing the veins on his forehead to throb continuously.
Obviously, even with just a graze, he had already been poisoned, and the wound was difficult to heal, even though Felat had already applied a delayed healing state to himself before coming.
And Felat was currently under the mute status applied by Lanqi, unable to cast purification magic to remove these negative states.
He still had to endure the pain of his throat feeling like it was being scraped by a knife, and could only rely on his own Fifth Order resistance to endure the duration of the poisoning!
Although the Third Order poison on Huberrian's dagger posed almost no threat to Fifth Order Felat,
Felat was gradually feeling a burning rage in his heart!
The two weak newcomers on the ground, although they had no real coordination to speak of,
Were both sinister creatures.
One who could turn invisible with poison and bleeding effects, impossible to find on the map.
And behind her, a spell-sealing bastard who might pull out who knows what else.
This damned couple must have been cursed by the heavens to be paired together!