After a while, a group of people, including Richard and the young man, followed the wizard named Peggy and two other male wizards to a wide courtyard.
The yard is over a hundred meters long and wide. There are more than a dozen water tanks filled with water in the center. I don’t know what they are used for.
Everyone looked at it curiously, then Peggy reached out and took out a gray crystal ball from her sleeve. He sent it to the nearest wizard apprentice and said concisely: "Touch it."
The wizard apprentice took a look at the crystal ball and realized that it was a tool for testing the wizard's level. He asked aloud: "Do you want to inject mana into it?"
"No need." Peggy said, "Just touch it."
"Oh." The wizard apprentice nodded and touched it carefully, as if he was afraid of breaking the crystal ball.
As soon as his hand touched the surface of the crystal ball, the crystal ball quickly lit up, and a light red light flashed inside.
"Master Wizard, what does this mean?" the wizard apprentice asked softly.
"Passed." Peggy said aloud, without further explanation, she took back the crystal ball and handed it to the person next to her, "Next."
The wizard apprentice next to him had the experience of the previous one. He quickly touched it without hesitation, and a brighter red light immediately flashed in the crystal ball.
"Passed." Peggy said again, taking back the crystal ball and passing it to the third and fourth people...
Just like that, the test proceeds quickly.
The final test result was that two ordinary people disguised as wizard apprentices and were about to try their luck were thrown out directly by the male wizard waiting next to them. There was also a person who had the strength of a first-level wizard but deliberately disguised himself as a wizard apprentice. He was politely invited out of the courtyard by the male wizard.
Richard did not belong to any of these three people. As a wizard apprentice, he successfully passed the test and quietly waited for the follow-up.
At this time, the young man next to him spoke up, with a bit of appreciation in his tone: "Not bad, when you touched the crystal ball just now, the red light produced was very bright, only a little worse than me. It seems that you have some Strength. In this case, the chance of being retained by the Pangbo family will be very high."
After hearing this, Richard looked at the other party, smiled politely, and said nothing more.
The young man was reluctant and wanted to continue discussing this topic. Just as he was about to continue speaking, he suddenly saw the witch Peggy looking at him intentionally or unintentionally. Her expression froze and she shut her mouth obediently.
Witch Peggy withdrew her gaze expressionlessly, walked to the water tank in the center of the yard and said: "Okay, now the thirty-one people can be officially tested. The content of the test is very simple. There are sixteen in total here. There is a water tank, you are divided into two groups, go forward and completely freeze the water in the water tank. If you do it, you will pass the test. Okay, let’s get started, who comes first?”
A group of wizard apprentices looked at each other, and sixteen people walked out one after another, each standing in front of a water tank.
Without saying anything, they opened and closed their lips and recited incantations. Sixteen people cast the water-based ice branch spells one after another, causing the water in the water tank to continuously cool down and slowly freeze.
"Kakaka..."
Within a few tens of seconds, thin ice appeared on the surface of the water tank, and then the thin ice spread to cover the entire water surface, extending downward layer by layer.
Because the volume of ice after freezing is about one-tenth greater than that of water, you can clearly see that the ice surface is slowly lifted up.
As time passed, the ice surface became higher and higher, and the faces of some wizard apprentices became pale. This was the result of excessive consumption of mana in the body. After all, they are just wizard apprentices, and they basically master zero-level spells. Compared with one-level spells, there is a big gap. Freezing a small amount of water is no problem, but freezing a whole tank of water will be a severe test.
Ten minutes later, some capable wizard apprentices had completed the test, while others gritted their teeth and persisted.
Twenty minutes later, the witch Peggy announced the end of the test, and unceremoniously eliminated the five people who had not yet reached the standard.
After "sending" the five people out of the yard, Peggy glanced at the water tanks with different degrees of freezing, walked to the water tank, and slowly stretched out a hand to hold it.
"Buzz buzz buzz!"
I saw the ice cubes in the sixteen water tanks suddenly vibrating at a small amplitude and high frequency, and shattered into fine powder in a few seconds. It then absorbs enough heat during friction to melt into water.
After doing this, Peggy let go of her hand and said to the remaining fifteen people who had not been tested: "Okay, it's your turn."
"Brush", the remaining people came up with expressions that were either worried, excited, or calm, and Richard was among them.
Walking to a water tank near the end, Richard waved his hand and prepared to cast a spell, when a familiar young man's voice sounded next to him.
But this time I didn't talk to him, but to the wizard Peggy.
"Well, Master Wizard, Master Wizard!" The young man touched the water in the water tank, as if he had discovered a huge loophole, and called Peggy repeatedly, "Master Wizard, this is wrong, the water in the water tank is so cold. ah."
"What, is something wrong?" Peggy walked over with a frown.
Seeing Peggy approaching, the young man seemed to feel the pressure. He swallowed, calmed down his excitement, and said carefully: "I don't think the water should be so cold. At least when they tested it with the first batch of people, the water It won't be that cold.
We all know that the colder the water, the easier it is to freeze. I think this is unfair to the first batch of people to test, and it does not show my ability. Maybe... it would be better to wait for a while until the temperature of the water is higher before testing? "
Peggy's eyebrows slowly rose. After listening to the young man's words, she asked: "You think the water temperature is too low to show your ability, right? Well, I'll satisfy you."
After saying that, Peggy walked over to the young man and dipped her hand into the water tank.
A second later, Peggy withdrew her hand and saw a large burst of white steam suddenly emerging from the water, followed by a large string of bubbles and began to boil crazily.
"Okay, now you can show your abilities, let's get started." Peggy glanced at the young man and said.
"I..." The young man looked at the water tank in front of him, opened his mouth, and turned to look at Peggy with a bitter expression. "Master Wizard, that's not what I meant. I just want the test to be fair."
"Isn't it fair now?"
"Is it fair now?" The young man's expression became even more bitter.
"Let me tell you, kid." Peggy looked at the young man and said, "Here, I say fair is fair, you can either choose to freeze the water in front of you, or change the place."
"Changing places means kicking me out?" the young man asked cautiously.
Peggy didn't reply this time. She just glanced at the young man meaningfully and stepped aside.
The young man looked at Peggy's back, his face drooped, and he focused his desperate eyes on the boiling water in front of him that was still boiling.
At this time, the other wizard apprentices had already frozen the water in the water tank with a thick layer.
Richard, who was among the wizard apprentices, closely observed the progress of the wizard apprentices, constantly adjusting the intensity of his spell casting so that he would not stand out too much, and at the same time not be too miserable, trying to be an ordinary wizard apprentice.
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