Chapter 322 I am indeed a genius (Part 1)
While the staff were reading their names, a mage who was obviously older than Bonn Mac stood out from the crowd.
He is Pao Locke.
To be honest, he was very nervous.
But after thinking about it, there is no life-threatening in this battle, and there is no need to win, so in terms of psychological pressure, it is actually quite acceptable.
Go out and fight for a better future!
This is what Pao is thinking at this moment, and it is also what most people present are thinking.
However, the outcome of the battle did not change because of his firm belief.
The ending of Pao is no different from that of Bon Mac.
The time they lasted should only be a few seconds apart, and even the opening scene was the same - when leaving the deck, he was unable to escape Paul's thick but flexible tentacles, and was directly pulled into the sea water.
Of course, when Pao was thrown back to the deck by the giant octopus and struggled to get up wet and embarrassed, Warrant Officer Xilin had already unceremoniously put a big cross after his name.
Bonn Mike, who witnessed this scene with his own eyes, breathed a sigh of relief unconsciously, and even felt a little secretly happy.
——The staff and the Sea Sentinel mages did not chase anyone away, so after a moment of hesitation, Bonn Mike chose to stay and watch the other people's retest performance.
There is no gap between him and Pao, or it should be said that he does not know him at all.
It’s just that his own failure is terrible, but the success of others is even more heart-wrenching, so after seeing Pao’s failure, he subconsciously felt relieved.
And this feeling of comfort continues endlessly.
The performance of the mages who were drawn next was basically the same as them.
On the other hand, there were two older mid-level first-level mages, who relied on their deeper mana foundation and more spells to last more than ten seconds in the water.
However, it is obvious that these ten seconds are not enough for them to pass the Sea Sentinel's re-examination.
In this way, ten mages who passed the preliminary examination were retested one after another, and the total time spent was less than half an hour
This made Warrant Officer Xilin shake his head frequently.
In fact, he no longer focused on looking at the transparent board on the alchemy machine as before. Instead, he turned around and started chatting with the young Sea Sentinel mage next to him.
"In the future, the people on the preliminary examination side must be more strict. Isn't it just a waste of our time to send these people here?" He said with a frown.
"Warrant Officer Xilin, you can't blame them. After all, the preliminary examination only tests the mana and mental strength, and then combines the basic information to screen. It is normal not to see the overall quality of the registered mages." One of the Sea Sentinel mages said with a smile.
Warrant Officer Xilin naturally understands this, but he is just complaining out of boredom.
"I don't know if I can recruit someone this time." Warrant Officer Xilin said with emotion.
"It's okay, even if we can't recruit people this round, it's not a big problem. We have already had four new members join this year." Another person next to him hurriedly said with relief
"Although there are a lot of people, they can only reach the standard line. It can be said to be better than nothing. It has been a long time since our sea sentry has produced a talent that makes people shine."
Warrant Officer Xilin added: " If this continues, our voice in the Light Sentinel will become weaker and weaker." Hearing this, the other three Sea Sentinel mages also felt helpless, "This kind of thing is still unavoidable after all, alas"
"This Light Sentinel is obviously born out of our Sea Sentinel, why?" One of them seemed to have been stabbed in a painful spot, and he became a little indignant.
"Harry, be careful what you say!" However, before he could finish his words, he was cut off by Warrant Officer Xilin in time.
The Sentinel Mage named Harry was so criticized by Warrant Officer Xilin that he knew he had made a mistake and quickly shut up.
"Next, Gaode."
At this time, the staff had already called out the new name.
"Hey, this Gaode seems to be not simple."
At the same time, another sea sentinel mage lowered his head and glanced at the introduction, and then said in surprise.
"How do you say it?" His words immediately attracted the attention of the other three people.
After hearing his name, Gao De walked out of the crowd silently and calmly.
He was the eleventh mage drawn today. He did not make the finale like in the TV series, but he surprised the examiners who had been disappointed for a day and shocked the whole audience.
However, this ranking is already a good draw. There are people in front of him testing the waters, which is enough for him to understand the situation and be mentally prepared without getting anxious because of waiting for too long.
However, what Gothe did not expect was that after he stepped out of the queue and stood on the edge of the deck, the four examiners who had not expressed much expression from beginning to end, just staring at the transparent board of the alchemy machine, now seemed to have made an appointment. They all raised their heads and looked directly at him
Including the most indifferent Warrant Officer Xilin.
As for the reason, it is actually very simple.
On the parchment written with the names of the mages participating in the re-examination, there will be attached comments from the examiners of the preliminary examination.
After Gaode's name, there is an introduction to his information, including the mage level, magic power, mental strength, and origin.
After the information introduction, there is the evaluation given by the first-time examiner. It is only six short words, but the weight is extremely heavy:
"Top mage talent."
Finally, an extra line of remarks was added: the retest scoring standards can be appropriately relaxed.
This is a preferential treatment for the "top mage talent", and it is also optimistic about Gaode's potential.
"What do you think?" Warrant Officer Xilin raised his eyebrows slightly, moved his eyes away from the parchment, and asked the questions to the young Sea Sentinel mages around him.
"He is indeed a genius. He was born as a wandering beggar and has not enjoyed many cultivation resources, but he was able to become a first-level mage at the age of fifteen. Not to mention, he actually has a mental strength of 186 in the early stage of the first level."
"This is a good way to cultivate a person. Next, it is very likely that I will become a limit-breaking mage in the future. "
"It is a pity that I have this background. I have no resources to support me since I was a child. No matter how talented I am, the first-level expertise will most likely not be that outstanding." Another Sea Sentinel mage lamented.
Features depend on the mage's knowledge system, spell library, and a bit of luck.
And these three are the shortcomings of the poor.
"Indeed, and I guess spells are also a weakness."
“That’s why we relaxed the scoring standards appropriately.” The mage who initially spoke up shrugged and said matter-of-factly.
"It's no problem, the spell is weak, but you can slowly make up for it after joining our Sea Sentinel. He is still young anyway, but this expertise is a bit of a pity"
"It's just a one-level expertise. Although the impact is there, it is not very fatal. There is still a chance to catch up later."
The three young Sea Sentinel mages discussed each other one by one.
"But after all, he is not a native subject of the dynasty, but a naturalized person from another country. You still need to think more about this. Our Sea Sentinels are the face of Dorne. We cannot be vague about the identity and background of our members, let alone cause any trouble."
Warrant Officer Xilin folded his arms, but expressed a different opinion, "My opinion is that we should neither raise the scoring standards nor relax the scoring standards." , at best, he is considered to be gifted."
Warrant Officer Xilin continued: "The talent of a mage also includes spells and combat items. Just a strong mental power. If the spells are not fluent in actual combat, the combat skills are a mess, and the psychological quality is not up to standard, then it is just an illusion but not useful."
Warrant Officer Xilin continued: "That's what Warrant Officer Xilin said!"*
"He is the most outstanding person among this group of mages, but that's all. Do we still have few geniuses among the sea sentries? But how many of them actually left their names in the end?"
h "Resources are limited, but geniuses are endless."
Standing on the edge of the deck.
Gothe didn’t know Warrant Officer Xilin’s evaluation of him and his views on genius.
There is only one thing on his mind right now: not to mention defeating Paul, at least not to be thrown on the deck like a ball.
While waiting for the game to take place, Gothe had already made a "brain draft" in his mind and had a preliminary spell strategy.
With a thought, the mana in his body became active instantly, flowing and changing, and quickly flashed past the spell model in the sea of spells.
【Mage Armor+】, 【Increase Resistance+】, 【Shield +】.
His body surface glowed with glimmers of light one after another.
The three protection spells have all been blessed.
Then followed by [Wolf Speed +].
As the spell took effect, Gaode could clearly feel his legs shaking slightly, and a vigorous force continued to gush out from the soles of his feet.
Seawater is not a terrain, but an environment, so [Light Feather Step] does not work, so he does not waste extra mana.
After making preparations for casting spells in advance, Gothe took a deep breath, exerted force on his legs, and jumped high from the deck like an arrow from a string.
At almost the same moment, Paul was still doing the familiar "old routine". His thick tentacles were wrapped in the whistling wind, and he whipped towards Gothe with great speed.
This is considered a bright card.
But the problem is, what Paul knows is "King", so even if you know its card, you can't deal with it.
The speed of the tentacle was so fast that it left only a blurry black shadow in the air, leaving no one with time to dodge.
However, this time Paul's invincible tentacles finally failed.
With the blessing of [Wolf Speed +], Gothe possesses both the speed of the wolf and the jump of the wolf.
So, when Paul's tentacles roared towards him, Gothe stepped on its tentacles in an extremely agile manner, used the force to bounce, and jumped up again.
The next moment, two intense energy beams burst out from Gothe's fingertips.
【Magic Explosion+】.
The only one-level attack spell he currently masters is [Frozen Blade], and this is his trump card spell, so Gaode is not prepared to cast it easily.
This also led to the fact that in this retest, he could only attack with magic tricks.
And Paul's skin is glowing with dark luster, which shows that his toughness and resistance are full at first glance.
In this case, [Magic Explosion+] whose damage type is noble force field damage is undoubtedly the best choice.
More importantly, his [Magic Explosion+] has the function of automatically detecting enemies.
While moving at high speed, he can also cast spells quickly, which already relies on the [Body of Legal Ninja].
If you want to accurately track the enemy, the difficulty must be raised to a higher level, at least for the current Gaode, it is extremely difficult.
Hence, let’s leave it to the automatic detection of enemies.
Two energy beams hit Paul accurately.
Having penetrating force field damage, it directly ignores its skin and causes force field damage to it.
It's just that the magic energy blast that was enough to kill the ice wolf instantly fell on Paul, but it failed to have even the slightest substantial impact on him.
Paul only trembled his huge body slightly, as if he had been bitten by a mosquito, neither painful nor itchy.
——Huge creatures may not necessarily be very powerful, but their health bars are basically very thick.
The same is true for Paul.
As a mutated creature, it can torture all mages of the same level who only recruit elite sea sentries, so it naturally has many abilities.
Plop!
After casting [Magic Explosion+], Gothe jumped straight into the blue water without even looking at the results.
He is the only person so far in the retest who has entered the water by himself instead of being pumped into the water by Paul.
Although the water is Paul's home field, it is also a helpless choice.
After all, there is no place to stay off the deck. How can it be suspended without entering the water?
As soon as you enter the water, the sunlight penetrates through the layers of water curtains and spreads into countless fine bright lines, reflecting the underwater world like a dream, but it provides a pretty good view.
Of course, even without this light, it would not be a big problem. Gaode's ability to see in the dark has already been improved to over 40%.
He held his breath and looked forward.
Half of Paul's body was on the water, and half of his body was under the water.
It was also at this time that Gao De realized that the name of the giant octopus was really too vivid for Paul.
In the part where Paul is underwater, his tentacles stretch out wildly, like a writhing forest of shadows.
The thickest parts of the tentacles are as wide as the waist of an adult man, and are covered with dense suckers. Each sucker is the size of a bowl mouth, and there is a circle of small but sharp saw teeth on the edge.
The surface of the tentacles is sticky and covered with a layer of smooth and transparent mucus. It shines with a strange luster in the weak light and sways gently with the water flow.
From time to time, a few small bubbles will appear and rise slowly upward.
Phew!
The next moment, Gothe noticed something. He had no time to think about it, and his body instinctively twisted to the other side.
It is not as light to move your body in the water as it is on land, because there is resistance everywhere in the water, and you have to contend with this force every time you move an inch.
However, Gaode's movements were extremely smooth and smooth, as if he had some help.
This is indeed the case.
【Induction of water flow increased by 36%, oxygen uptake increased by 61%】
The blessing brought by [Adaptive] has greatly improved Gaode's swimming ability and breath-holding time in the water.
It can even be said that the water area can be regarded as half of his home field.
· Thanks to the improved ability to sense water flow, Gaode can keenly detect the subtle movements of countless slender and silky water flows, and thus skillfully use the force to move.
Just the moment he finished moving sideways, one of Paul's tentacles was like a swift harpoon, enveloping countless crystal bubbles and tearing through the water.
The tentacles break through the water and move forward, creating a series of whirlpools with a fierce momentum.
Fortunately, Gothe took a step ahead and managed to escape from the edge of the tentacle's attack range.
—This also relies on the ability to sense water flow.
In water, any slight movement will trigger a chain reaction of water flow, creating a new direction of water flow.
Even just a slight wiggle of your fingers can disturb the originally smooth water flow and create new, intricate ripples.
These movements, either rapid or slow, are intertwined into an invisible information network, conveying all potential information in the surrounding environment.
Of course, just a 36% improvement in water flow sensing is not enough for Gaode to capture such secret and detailed information.
However, the changes in the water flow caused by Paul's rapid movement of tentacles are still obvious and easy to capture.
It was through this ability that Gothe realized Paul's intention to launch a surprise attack in time.
After flashing through Paul's playful temptation, Gothe has also introduced a new spell model.
A little light flickered on Paul's skin, which was covered with deep and shallow grooves.
This light was like a bean at first, and then quickly spread to all directions, outlining a strange, mysterious and complicated totem shape on its skin.
A rare spell, [Hunter's Mark+]!
As the spell took effect, a secret connection seemed to be established between Gothe and Paul.
Paul's every move seems to be locked by Gothe's perception.
In addition, the next attack spell he casts on Paul will also receive an additional damage bonus.
Immediately afterwards, Gothe's right hand burst out with light again.
Trick, [Frost Bite].
This is a spell like Hunter's Mark, with no cast trajectory at all.
Once activated, the magic power will silently cross the space and act directly on the target.
The temperature of the mucus on Paul's body dropped sharply, and there was a faint layer of frost forming.
Bang!
However, Paul just twisted his body, and the layer of frost that was about to condense shattered in an instant and ceased to exist.
Frostbite is easily broken.
Gothe was not discouraged. He already knew that a trick was basically impossible to work on Paul.
This is just to delay some time.
The moment he left the deck, his third-level Mandora Eyes had quietly unfolded.
In Gothe's left eye, there are golden lines at this moment, like agile fish, constantly swimming and changing.
【Insight】The ability is running at high speed, quickly building a model of Paul, and gaining insight into the intricate energy flow on the surface of his body.
Gaode pointed forward.
【Opportunity to Defeat the Enemy】has been cast to help Mandora's Magic Eye find weaknesses and build basic models faster and more completely.