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As soon as he saw William disappear again, Richard instinctively swung his sword backwards with all his strength, vibrating at a high frequency.
"Dang!" A ball of sparks rang out along with the ear-piercing sound of metal clashing!
Richard, whose physical fitness was obviously at a disadvantage, was knocked away again, and the knight's sword in his hand broke into two pieces, with an unnatural bend at the elbow joint.
But William was not feeling well either. Affected by the recoil force of the previous attack, he suddenly stopped where he was.
But at this pause, something bad happened!
Richard, who was in mid-air, used mental guidance to control the huge dark element palm, and suddenly changed direction, grabbed William directly, and slammed him to the ground outside the ring!
The freshmen around him were so scared that they fled in panic!
"Boom!"
William was hit hard on the hard ground, raising a large cloud of dust. People around him felt pain just by looking at him!
After the dust settled, William, with his disheveled hair and face, stood up with difficulty, muttering to himself. His leather armor was in tatters. He staggered a few times and fell heavily to the ground again!
"Damn it! I should have put up a shield for myself earlier. I underestimated the enemy!"
Even a high-ranking knight would feel uncomfortable if hit head-on by the Shadow's Grasp. This is the horror of witchcraft.
"Richard Clavier wins!" The third-level wizard apprentice on the ring loudly announced the result of the third game of the semi-finals.
Suddenly, the whole audience burst into warm applause that lasted for a long time.
When the applause gradually died down, the third-level wizard apprentice continued, "In one hour, the fourth game of the semi-finals will be held, Ophelia Acorn versus Andrea Johnson!"
At this time, although the competition had not yet ended, everyone present already knew who was the top freshman!
It was undoubtedly Richard Clavell!
A son of a minor noble from the Kingdom of Heron, he defeated a group of powerful enemies and won the championship.
As the leader of this class of freshmen, his name will quickly spread throughout the Ignis School. From now on, he will no longer be a passerby in the eyes of others, but a rising star.
For the contestants participating in the semi-finals, each school arranged a witch doctor to provide physical examinations and treatment. William was quickly carried away. Apart from a dislocated arm, Richard's other injuries were not serious. After a little treatment, he began to rest.
On the rostrum, the witch Meiya smiled at Seres and said, "Congratulations, Seres, on having such a good disciple."
"Yes, Ceres, you and Maya, one has this chief as a disciple, and the other has the previous chief as a disciple, only I, alas!" Ivan shook his head and sighed.
"Evan, why don't you consider accepting this heir of the Bennings family?"
"Forget about him. I'm not too familiar with the Bennings family. His family probably has already made arrangements for him, and the mentors and the like should have been contacted long ago. It seems that I can only ask the fourth place later."
Mei Ya smiled and said, "Ivan, if it doesn't work, you can just host another freshman ranking competition. It's not like the freshman leader will be picked in advance every time."
It turns out that the Ignis School has an unspoken rule that when a formal wizard wants to accept disciples, he can take the initiative to apply to host the freshman ranking competition, thereby obtaining the priority right to select the top batch of freshmen.
But it was obvious that Ivan's hosting this time was in vain, because the first to third places had all been booked in advance, and the only one left was fourth place, which made Ivan very helpless.
Finally, the top four freshman rankings were announced as follows: from first to fourth: Richard, William, Ophelia, and Andrea.
After all the competitions were over, the black-robed wizard Ivan was responsible for presenting Richard with the reward, an intermediate witchcraft item - the Banshee's Finger.
William was rewarded with the Shadow Power Potion, which can slightly increase the body's affinity to dark elements after taking it. However, for a genius like William whose affinity for dark elements has already been rated as top-notch, the effect of the Shadow Power Potion is merely icing on the cake.
Ophelia was rewarded with a wisdom potion, which can slightly increase the concentration of her mental power after taking it. Although both are potions that increase mental power, the Prophet Potion and the Wisdom Potion have different focuses in terms of effect. The Prophet Potion focuses on increasing the total amount of mental power.
Andrea, who came in fourth, only received a reward of fifty magic stones, which basically meant he was just a runner-up.
Only after Richard got the Banshee's Finger did he have the opportunity to take a closer look at this intermediate witchcraft prop.
This is a long piece of hand bone that was cut off from the wrist. The five fingers on the palm are complete and slender, but except for the index finger, the other four fingers are slightly bent.
Since he had previous experience in studying the charred wood short staff, Richard took a quick look and easily found the "★"-shaped, flickering magic circle at the end of the hand bone, which was the explanation of the magic circle.
After Richard probed his mental power into the explanation array, he knew the usage and effects of the Banshee's Finger.
Banshee's Finger: An intermediate witchcraft item. If the holder casts shadow witchcraft, the power of the witchcraft will be increased by 11%. At the same time, it has the zero-level witchcraft of fear, which needs to be charged for 24 hours before it can be used again.
Generally speaking, witchcraft props with two attributes are intermediate witchcraft props, and those with three attributes are advanced witchcraft props, and advanced witchcraft props are extremely rare.
Of course, there are things that are more precious than high-level witchcraft props, and they are top-level witchcraft props.
Top-level wizardry props are hard to come by, and are not much more numerous than low-level magical tools. They are basically in the hands of formal wizards or a few top third-level wizard apprentices.
But a top-level witchcraft item does not mean that it has four attributes. It is very likely that it only has two or three attributes, but the effect is very large.
If a second-level wizard apprentice can have a handy low-level wizard item, he is considered to be doing well. And if he can have a mid-level wizard item, he is considered to be doing quite well even among second-level wizard apprentices.
Therefore, when Richard gets the Banshee's Finger, as soon as he is promoted, he will immediately become one of the second-level wizard apprentices with top-level equipment.
Unlike the previous trophy, the charred wooden staff from Seymour, the Banshee's Finger awarded this time is an exclusive witchcraft item for the Shadow Department. It also consumes a standard unit of mental power and can mobilize more dark element energy. Richard couldn't let it go.
After the game, Richard did not return to the dormitory, but followed Celes to his laboratory.
"Richard, you really surprised me. I originally thought that you just had the strength to make it to the top four, but I didn't expect that you would win first place!" Celes looked at Richard with approval.
Celes found that he liked this disciple more and more, and immediately took out a bottle of prophet potion from the cupboard beside him.
"This is the second bottle of prophet potion I promised you. After taking it, it can still achieve about half the effect of the first bottle. But if you take it again in the future, it will basically have no effect.
Richard took the prophet potion respectfully and said, "Thank you, mentor. I will continue to work hard!"
"By the way, Richard, I think your total mental power should have reached the standard. When do you plan to take the assessment to be promoted to a second-level wizard apprentice?" Celes asked.
(End of this chapter)
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