Just like what Rex said, the Sky Arena was a great place for Fangzheng to train. According to Rex, the entire Sky Arena was divided into three regions: beginner, intermediate, and advanced. There were ten regions for beginner, five for intermediate, and only one for advanced. From Fangzheng's perspective, this was very similar to the servers in online games.
Fangzheng was in the last "novice server" for beginner. This region was basically filled with mage apprentices who had just entered the White Tower. The intermediate region was filled with regular mages who were no longer apprentices. As for the advanced region, it was filled with powerful mages.
Although Fangzheng often heard of the saying that "there are no useless spells, only useless sorcerers," the truth was not so. There were some spells that could only be used in actual combat to discover their strengths and weaknesses. From there, one could make a choice based on one's combat style.
Although Fangzheng had chosen to specialize in incantation, he had cunningly chosen prophecy as his first combat method. This was because prophecy magic could complement Fangzheng's time ability, allowing them to work together. Among the prophecy spells, Fangzheng's three favorite spells were level-1 Clear Defense, level-2 See Through Invisibility, and level-4 Suppress Good Luck.
"Clear Defense" was a spell that allowed the spellcaster to understand the special defensive capabilities of the target. This was very useful for a Holy Knight and mage like Fangzheng. It was like the detection in games. When you encountered an enemy with unknown attributes, you would cast a detection spell to figure out the opponent's attributes, and then attack them based on their weaknesses. This was also a common strategy in games. Now, Fangzheng was obviously using this strategy in his battle.
There was no need to elaborate on how to see through invisibility. Although Fangzheng could use the senses of a Zerg to acutely sense things, the invisibility spell of a Sorcerer wasn't that simple. Furthermore, many Sorcerers liked to attack only when they were invincible. Therefore, seeing through invisibility was very useful for Fangzheng.
As for suppressing good luck — — that was Fangzheng's bad taste.
The effect of suppressing good luck was very simple. For a certain period of time, the effect of the target's luck would be suppressed to the lowest point. Every action of the target would result in the most unfortunate result. Because this was not an "attack", but more like a "curse" or "blessing", few mages would cast a targeted protection on themselves from the very beginning. As a result, many mage challengers inexplicably sprained their feet or fell to the ground in front of Fangzheng, or simply chanted the wrong incantation, resulting in a mana recoil.
Therefore, the basic process of Fangzheng's battle with other Mages was to first use "Futuristic Vision" to see if the opponent was going to attack or defend, and then start to cast spells. Afterwards, he would either defend against the opponent's spell or directly break through the opponent's defense. Afterwards, he would raise his hand and cast Lesser Missile Storm. Basically, the opponent would have already raised their hands in surrender. If there was really someone who would rather die than submit, Fangzheng would just step forward and kick the opponent away. He was a Paladin after all. How could he not be better at melee than mages?
As Fangzheng's ranking in the Sky Arena continued to rise, many mages gradually came to know of his existence, and Fangzheng also became the focus of many mage contestants. The reason was very simple. In the eyes of other mages, this challenger was too strange.
Due to the double buffs of "Time Stop" and "Futuristic Vision", Fangzheng's spells were basically instantaneous. In addition, no one had ever seen Fangzheng chant, so in the eyes of many mages, Fangzheng had already mastered the two super skills of "Instant Casting" and "Silent Casting". However, these were all techniques that only high-level sorcerers had the qualifications to master, and Fangzheng had never cast a spell that was above the fourth level in the arena.
Not only that, what surprised the other mages the most was that every time the battle started, this young mage could perfectly counter his opponent's spell, be it in terms of attack or defense. Although there were indeed spells like "Clear Defence" and "Counter Enemy Initiative" in the Sky Arena, according to the rules of the Sky Arena, everyone had to cast their spells after the battle started.
In other words, if Fangzheng and his opponent started casting spells at the same time, the spell that Fangzheng cast must be the spell that countered the opponent's first spell.
That was very interesting.
More importantly, up until now, Fangzheng's battle record in the Sky Arena had always been undefeated!
Wow, how could this be tolerated?
A little mage that appeared out of nowhere actually had an undefeated battle record until now? Many of the participants in the Sky Arena were senior apprentices of the White Tower. Of course they knew that this young man was not a member of the White Tower, but … they couldn't just let him beat up the members of the White Tower!
After all, Fangzheng's every battle was almost an instant kill. How could these mages accept that? Could it be that they were all weaklings that could be easily defeated by him?
But in fact, this was related to Fangzheng's fighting style.
After studying magic, Fangzheng discovered that if a mage was a gun, then spells were bullets. Among them, the ones that could deal damage were normal bullets, the ones that could penetrate were armor-piercing bullets, and the ones that could deal AoE damage were incendiary bullets. Theoretically speaking, a mage could fire an unlimited number of bullets until the bullets got stuck or overheated and stopped firing. But in fact, every mage's "load" was limited. It was just like a special forces soldier. You could not carry countless bullets in a battle. Before every battle, you could only choose a few magazines. This was also the "preparation work" that a mage had to do every day. He had to consider what kind of battle he was going to face that day, and then decide whether to prepare more normal bullets, armor-piercing bullets, or incendiary bullets.
After all, there was a limit to the human body.
Through the battles in the Sky Arena, Fangzheng discovered that almost all mages had a common problem. They liked to put themselves in an invincible position first, then slowly and steadily attack each other to determine the outcome of the battle.
It was just like in a movie where the protagonist and the boss were shooting at each other, but when the bullets ran out, neither side was hurt. Then, the two sides got into a scuffle, and in the end, the protagonist suddenly grabbed a pistol and gave the boss a fatal blow …. Who would play like that in real life!
If most sorcerers were compared to machine gunners, then Fangzheng would be a sniper. His creed was to kill with a single strike and retreat silently. Shooting bullets and causing chaos was not his style at all. Because of this, every time Fangzheng fought, he would end so quickly that the spectating mages could not even react.
"No. 652 has been defeated. No. 684 has been promoted to No. 652."
"Looks like that guy won again."
Watching Fangzheng turn around and leave the arena, a mage sitting in the audience seats said with a smile. He had a head of fiery red hair that was meticulously combed back. He was obviously a young man, but he gave off a very mature feeling. Then, the red-haired mage turned around and looked at his companion beside him.
"I heard that he came from the Lightning Tower. Looks like that mentor has a successor."
"But he's not a White Tower apprentice."
Hearing the red-haired mage's words, a black-haired mage with glasses sitting beside him snorted and looked at Fangzheng's receding figure.
"It's already not bad for a mere rogue mage to make it this far … But this is as far as he can go. This is the hunting ground of the White Tower apprentices. We're not here to be hunted."
"Oh?"
The red-haired mage looked curiously at his companion beside him.
"Don't tell me you're going to fight in person?"
"Of course."
As he spoke, the bespectacled mage stood up.
"I'll use my power to show him who the hunter is and who the prey is."
Watching the bespectacled mage turn around and leave, the red-haired mage pursed his lips.
"Sigh, this kid is still so arrogant, but …."
Having said that, the red-haired mage revealed a smug smile.
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