After a while, a group of people, including Richard and the young man, followed the female wizard named Peggy and two other male wizards, to a large courtyard.

The courtyard is 100 meters long and wide, and there are more than a dozen water tanks filled with water in the center, and I don't know what to do with them.

The crowd looked at it curiously, and then Peggy reached out and took out a gray crystal ball from her sleeve. Sent to the nearest wizard apprentice, and said succinctly, "Touch it." ”

The wizard apprentice glanced at the crystal ball and realized that it was a prop to test the wizard level, and asked aloud, "Do you want to inject mana?"

"No, I don't. Peggy said, "Just touch it." ”

"Oh. The wizard apprentice nodded, and carefully touched it, as if he was afraid of breaking the crystal ball.

As soon as the hand touched the surface of the crystal ball, the crystal ball quickly lit up, and a light red light flashed inside.

"What does this mean, Lord Wizard?" the apprentice wizard asked in a whisper.

"Qualified. Peggy said in a loud voice, without much explanation, took back the crystal ball and handed it to the person next to her, "Next." ”

After the wizard apprentice next to him had the experience of the person in front of him, he did not hesitate, and quickly touched it, and a brighter red light immediately flashed in the crystal ball.

"Qualified. Peggy said again, retracting the crystal ball, and handing it to the third and fourth people......

And just like that, the test went on quickly.

The final test result was that two ordinary people disguised as wizard apprentices and ready to try their luck were thrown out by the male wizard waiting next to them. There was also a person with first-level wizard strength, but deliberately disguised as a wizard apprentice, who was politely invited out of the courtyard by the male wizard.

Richard did not belong to any of the three, and as a wizard's apprentice, he successfully passed the test and quietly waited for the follow-up.

At this time, the young man next to him spoke up, and said with a bit of appreciation in his tone: "Yes, 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, there is a high chance that the Pombo family will be left behind. ”

Richard listened, looked at the other party, smiled politely back, and said nothing.

The young man was reluctant to continue the discussion on this topic, and was about to continue talking, when he suddenly saw the witch Peggy looking at him, intentionally or unintentionally, his expression froze, and he obediently closed his mouth.

The sorceress Peggy retracted her gaze expressionlessly, walked to the water tank in the middle of the courtyard and said, "Okay, now thirty-one people, you can officially test." The test is simple, there are 16 tanks in total, and you divide them into two batches and go up to freeze the water in the tanks completely. If you do it, you pass the test. Okay, let's get started, who's going to come first?"

A group of apprentice wizards looked at each other, and one after another sixteen people came out, each standing in front of a water tank.

Without saying anything, his lips opened and closed, and he recited a spell, and sixteen people cast the spell of the ice branch of the water system of the Plastic Energy Category, so that the water in the water tank continued to cool down and slowly froze.

"Click......"

In just a few tens of seconds, thin ice appeared on the surface of the tank, and then the thin ice spread to cover the entire water surface, extending downward layer by layer.

Because the volume of frozen ice is larger than that of water, about one-tenth of it, it is obvious that the ice surface is slowly lifted.

As time passed, the ice surface became higher and higher, and the faces of some wizard apprentices also turned pale, which was the result of the excessive consumption of mana in their bodies. After all, they are only wizard apprentices, and they basically master zero-ring spells, which are very different from one-ring spells, and it is no problem to freeze a small amount of water, but freezing the water in a tank will be severely tested.

Ten minutes later, some powerful wizard apprentices had completed the test, while others gritted their teeth and persisted.

Twenty minutes later, Peggy, the witch, announced the end of the test, and unceremoniously eliminated the five who had not yet reached the standard.

"Sending the five people out" of the yard, Peggy glanced at the water tanks with different degrees of freezing, walked to the vicinity of the water tank, and slowly stretched out a hand to clench it.

"Buzz buzz!"

I saw that the ice cubes in the sixteen water tanks suddenly vibrated at a small amplitude and high frequency, and shattered into fine powder in a few seconds. After that, enough heat is absorbed in the friction to dissolve into water.

After doing this, Peggy let go of her hand and shouted to the remaining fifteen people who had not been tested, "Alright, it's your turn." ”

"Brush", the rest of the people came up with worried, excited, or calm expressions, and Richard was mixed in.

Walking to a water tank near the end, Richard waved his hand to cast a spell, and the familiar voice of a young man sounded next to him.

But this time it wasn't with him, but with the wizard Peggy.

"That, Wizard, Wizard!" the young man touched the water in the tank, as if he had found a terrible loophole, and called out to Peggy, "Wizard, this is not right, the water in the tank is so cold." ”

"What, what's wrong?" Peggy walked over with a frown.

Seeing Peggy approaching, the young man seemed to feel the pressure, swallowed his saliva, restrained his excitement, and said carefully: "I don't think the water should be so cold, at least when they tested it in the first batch, the water wouldn't be so cold."

We all know that the cooler the water, the easier it is to freeze, and I guess that's unfair to the first people to test it, and it doesn't show what I'm capable of. Maybe...... Wait a minute, wait until the water is a little warmer before testing?"

Peggy's eyebrows slowly raised, and after listening to the young man's words, she asked, "Do you think that the water temperature is too low to show your ability?" ”

With that, Peggy walked over to the young man and reached out to dip into the water tank.

A second later, Peggy withdrew her hand, and saw a large puff of white steam suddenly emerge from the surface of the water, followed by a large string of bubbles, which began to boil wildly.

"Alright, now you can show your abilities, let's get started. Peggy glanced at the young man.

"I ......" The young man looked at the water tank in front of him, opened his mouth, and turned his head to look at Peggy, his expression a little bitter, "Wizard, I didn't mean that, I just wanted to test a little fairer." ”

"Isn't it fair now?"

"Is it fair now?" said the young man's expression became even more bitter.

"I'll tell you, boy. Peggy looked at the young man and said, "Here, when I say fair, fair is fair, you can either choose to freeze the water in front of you or change places." ”

"What do you mean by changing places, kicking me out?" the young man asked cautiously.

Peggy didn't reply this time, just glanced at the young man meaningfully and stepped to the side.

The young man looked at Peggy's back, his face drooping, and with a desperate gaze he aimed at the boiling water that was still boiling in front of him.

At this time, the rest of the wizard apprentices had already let the water in the tank freeze a thick layer.

Richard, who was sandwiched between the wizard apprentices, closely observed the progress of the wizard apprentices, constantly adjusting his spell casting intensity, so that he was not too prominent, and at the same time, he was not too embarrassed, and tried to be an ordinary wizard apprentice.

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