Fifteen minutes later.
"The test is over, everyone stops." The witch Peggy said, ending this batch of tests five minutes earlier than the previous batch. Some wizard apprentices finally understood why Peggy didn't care that the water they tested was colder. It turned out to be this reason.
Only the young man in blue clothes had a dull look on his face, feeling that he was a fool. He looked at the water in the water tank in front of him that had not completely frozen, and poured in the last mana with all his strength.
Peggy walked to the first wizard's apprentice's water tank and began to test the degree of freezing.
He stretched out an onion-white finger and tapped it on the ice. Hearing the dull sound, he nodded and said, "Passed."
He stepped towards the next one, stretched out his hand and knocked again: "Passed."
The third one: "Qualified."
the fourth…
In front of the fourth wizard apprentice, Peggy tapped her fingers on the ice and paused slightly. Hearing the obviously different response, he slowly showed a dissatisfied expression and turned to look at the wizard apprentice.
"Master Wizard, listen to me, I..." The fourth wizard apprentice opened his mouth to try to explain, but was coldly interrupted by Peggy the next moment.
"Go away, don't let me say it a second time." Peggy said.
The fourth wizard apprentice froze, swallowed back the unfinished words in his mouth, and ran out of the yard in embarrassment.
"snort."
Peggy made a slight nasal noise and walked towards the fifth wizard apprentice without saying anything else.
Then the sixth, seventh...
After a while, Peggy walked to the young man's water tank.
The young man was panting heavily in front of the water tank, panting like a dog. Seeing Peggy approaching, she panicked and gasped: "Wizard... Lord Wizard, the time for this test is too short, and the water in my water tank is too hot, so I can only... I can only barely freeze. I It’s not your fault, it’s all my fault, but you have to take this situation into account, and you can’t treat me like everyone else.”
Peggy stopped, glanced at the young man, raised the corners of her mouth slightly, and said with a faint smile: "You know, when I told you to change places just now, I meant I asked you to change to a water tank." The second batch has Fifteen people tested it, and there were sixteen water tanks, and there was indeed an extra water tank at the end.
After hearing this, the young man was stunned for a moment, and then his expression became exciting.
Peggy continued: "However, since you must insist on taking the test in front of this hot water tank to show your ability, I have no objection. I will treat you like everyone else - qualified is qualified, unqualified is Unqualified. After all, just like you said, you asked for it."
The young man opened his mouth, his expression became extremely bitter, and then he became nervous again before he could say anything. Looking straight at Peggy, he reached out and knocked on the ice in the water tank in front of him, making a "bang" sound.
The young man's heart was in his throat and he stared at Peggy, waiting for the result to be announced.
"Barely qualified." Peggy said softly, walking towards the next person.
After hearing this, the young man sat down on the ground, panting continuously, with a face filled with joy. After that, his expression became a little sad again.
The result of the final test was that nine people passed and six people were eliminated.
In summary, a total of thirty-one people participated in the test, eleven were eliminated, and twenty people were left. Richard and the young man both belonged to this one-twentieth.
At this time, most of the twenty people were pale due to excessive consumption of mana.
Peggy glanced at it and said, "Rest for an hour, recover, and then conduct the second round of testing."
After everyone heard this, they first let out a suppressed wail, and then they didn't dare to waste time at all. They all sat on the ground and began to meditate.
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An hour passed quickly.
"The break is over!" Peggy announced, then looked at a male wizard assisting her and said, "Huck, bring up the props."
"Okay." The male wizard named Heck nodded, turned around and walked out of the yard. After a while, he came back carrying a heavy black iron box and placed it on the ground.
Peggy waved her hand, and the lid of the iron box opened with a snap, revealing the neatly arranged silver-white iron blocks inside.
Each iron block is a cube, almost ten centimeters in length, width and height, and is quite heavy.
Just when everyone was guessing what test was going to be conducted, Peggy waved her hand again, and the iron block flew out of the box under the pull of invisible force, and accurately landed on the ground in front of each wizard apprentice, making a "ding" sound. sound.
"The next test is even simpler than the previous one." Peggy said, "That is to try to melt the iron in front of you. If it melts completely, you will pass the test. The time is half an hour, okay, You can start."
Is this called simple? This is a piece of iron... After hearing Peggy's words, everyone's expressions were a little ugly, but they did not dare to say anything more. After all, they had learned from the experience of young men. She was afraid that if she opened her mouth, Peggy would throw the big iron box over and demand that it all be melted.
After a brief silence, everyone took action and used all their strength to try to melt the iron.
One minute, two minutes, three minutes.
Ten minutes, twenty minutes, thirty minutes.
Not long after, half an hour of testing time passed.
In this round, twelve people were eliminated directly, and only eight people were left. The young man and Richard were both one-eighth of them.
Peggy announced that all eight people were qualified to be temporarily employed by the Pangbo family, but there would be an assessment period of one to three months. After the assessment period is over, we will decide who will stay and who will leave based on each person's performance. There will be no more than four people left.
After hearing the words, everyone breathed a sigh of relief at first, and then looked at each other with somewhat hostile and wary eyes.
The young man looked at Richard, not with much hostility, but said that Richard was qualified to know his name. His name was Brando.
Brando... Richard recited it silently in his mind. Before he finished reciting it, he saw the other party approaching and muttering in a low voice, complaining about this test.
The reason for this is because his performance is not the best. The best is a guy named Fording.
The man named Fording was very young, estimated to be no more than twenty years old. He was wearing black clothes and had a cold expression and a serious smile. In both rounds of testing, I was the first to finish, stealing the show.
Glancing at Fording, Brando curled his lips and whispered to Richard: "Actually, if I hadn't consumed too much in the first round of testing, I would have definitely beaten him, really! Look at him now, how proud he is. The more I look at it, the more uncomfortable I feel."
"Is the other party proud?" Richard glanced at Foding's glacier-like face and asked.
"Huh, don't look at his expression, but he is definitely proud in his heart. I can feel it." Brando said confidently.
Richard: "..."
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