Versatile Mage: Choose one of three Hexes at the start

Chapter 9 Breakthrough to Intermediate Level
After carefully looking at the effects of the three runes, Su Chi decisively chose the rune - Silver Key.

His original training plan was different from Mo Fan's. Mo Fan practiced both the Fire and Thunder elements simultaneously, while he wanted to first practice the Water element to the third level, and then directly use the primary magic core to break through the Water element to the intermediate level.

After all, his summoned beast has the strength of a slave at the advanced stage, and it is also a sub-dragon, so it has no shortage of attacks.

After the water system breaks through to the middle stage, even if he fails to control all forty-nine stars in a short period of time, the water magic power in the nebula will be enough for him to release water defense multiple times when encountering danger. In this way, his own safety will be greatly improved.

And for the mid-level wizards who possess nebulae, the speed of stardust meditation will be much faster than before, about 1.5 times.

If this is combined with the Stardust Magical Weapon, then Ming Xiu's speed will be as fast as flying.

However, with the silver key, his summoning stardust cultivation progress will be able to break through to the beginner level three in a short period of time, and all his previous cultivation plans will be overturned.

After replanning his future training plan, Su Chi left the rooftop.

As soon as I returned to the dormitory, I heard my classmates discussing the training news announced by the school today.

"Have you heard? We're going to start a two-month field training at the end of this quarter."

"Field training? What is this?"

"I heard that all mages have to go through this, fighting demons outside the city."

"What the hell? Killing demons? Just me?"

"I won't go. Demons eat people. I'm afraid of death."

Su Chi did not join their discussion. He had been mentally prepared for this matter.

Field training is something that every student must go through. It is mainly to train students' character so that they will not be frightened and lose the will to resist when fighting against demons in the future.

He had originally planned to just feel the wild atmosphere in advance, but with his current training progress, he could break through to the intermediate level mage before the wild experience, so this experience was just a game for him.

Time flies, and there is only one week left before the field training.

That day, after Su Chi asked Tang Yue for leave, he left the practice field and returned to the dormitory alone.

After locking the dormitory door and making sure that he was the only one in the dormitory, Su Chi came to the bed and sat cross-legged, holding the primary magic core in his hand.

At this moment, in his spiritual world.

The transparent stardust emits a light that is sometimes strong and sometimes weak. Outside the stardust, there seems to be a faint light curtain.

The light curtain completely wrapped the stardust like a silkworm cocoon, while the light blooming inside the stardust constantly impacted the light curtain.

As the magic energy in the primary magic core was quickly absorbed by the summoning stardust, the light emitted by the stardust became stronger and stronger, and the light curtain wrapped around it began to swell noticeably.

"Break it for me!"

Su Chi shouted in his heart.

The light curtain finally couldn't withstand the impact, and spider-web-like cracks began to appear. As the cracks grew larger, the light curtain finally broke completely.

The transparent stardust began to swell and expand, and the originally small stardust quickly expanded into a star cluster like a white cloud.

Stardust turns into nebula!!

At this moment, there are no longer seven lonely stars in the nebula, but as many as forty-nine.

These forty-nine stars, just like the seven stars when they first awakened, are moving irregularly in the vast nebula.

In order to successfully release intermediate magic, one must control all forty-nine stars, which will be a very time-consuming and energy-consuming project.

"This feeling." Su Chi felt the seemingly endless magic power in his body, and had the illusion that he could tear demons apart with his bare hands.

A week later, the day for field training arrived.

The one hundred students in the seed class were divided into five groups. Led by two Weifang instructors, they boarded buses allocated to each group and headed to the Xuefeng Mountain Post Station.

It took most of the day for the bus to pass through wasteland and forests, and finally arrived at the border point of Bo City - Xuefeng Mountain.

After getting off the bus, Su Chi entered through the main gate of the post station and walked along the only main road, followed by Mo Fan and Zhang Xiaohou.

There are some shops and stalls on both sides of the main road. If Su Chi didn't know that this was the front line against demons, he would have thought he had come to a small market.

Going further in, you will arrive at the gathering square.

"We have to perform well in this field training. I heard that it is related to our school assessment next year, and it accounts for a considerable proportion, as high as 20%." Zhang Xiaohou said on the side.

Su Chi nodded. He had some impression of this matter before, and his old class teacher Xue Musheng had also mentioned it before.

But before the three of them could chat any further, the call to gather was rang out.

"Everyone, assemble!" Luo Yunbo, the instructor from Weifang, shouted at the top of his voice.

After the hundred students had taken their positions, a team of uniformed military mages marched in front of them in unison. Leading them was none other than Chief Instructor Zhan Kong.

"Hello, I'm Zhan Kong, the chief instructor for this training. You're the first batch of trainees I'm leading. My rules are different from before, so the training requirements for this batch have also changed. I just received a bounty, and it's not difficult. As long as one of you completes it, you'll all get an A in this training. If no one completes it, it means all of you have failed." Zhan Kong said.

When these words were spoken, not only the one hundred students were confused, but Xue Musheng, Tang Yue and other team mentors were also not calm.

"Chief Instructor, is this inappropriate?" Teacher Zhang Jianguo asked in a tactful tone.

"There's nothing wrong with that. It's settled. Of course, if anyone can complete the test, I'll give him a defensive magic tool out of my own pocket."

In order to ensure fairness and to increase students' enthusiasm, Zhan Kong did not hesitate to spend a lot of money.

Even the most common defensive magic tool costs hundreds of thousands.

The students were all stunned by Zhan Kong's generosity.

The field training officially begins.

One hundred students were divided into groups in advance and headed along different routes towards the mission area which was thirty kilometers away in a straight line.

More than ten days later.

The group Su Chi was in and the three groups led by Xu Zhaoting finally met outside the old lair of the one-eyed wolf.

"Brother Chi, Brother Fan, I'll go ahead and scout the way." Zhang Xiaohou said.

Su Chi looked at Zhang Xiaohou who was about to cast a spell and quickly stopped him, saying, "Don't, it might not be safe in this cave."

But he knew that there was a ghost wolf beast inside.

But there was no need for Su Chi to say anything more, because at this moment two terrifying wolf howls were heard from deep within the nest.

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The students who awakened the light element immediately released the elementary light element magic - Radiance - into the nest.

As the light illuminated the nest, a green-haired paw stepped out from the darkness, and then a ferocious wolf head appeared in front of everyone.

"Demon, demon, demon!"

"Run! Run!"

The appearance of the demons frightened these magic rookies who had never participated in actual combat and had always stayed in school.

Everyone ran away like frightened birds.

"Brother Fan, Brother Chi, run!"

Zhang Xiaohou shouted and then quickly retreated to the rear. Before he had run a few steps, he saw He Yu still standing there blankly, so he took her hand and ran away with her.

Before he had run far, Zhang Xiaohou realized that Mo Fan and Su Chi had not caught up with him. He turned around and saw that Su Chi and Mo Fan were actually rushing towards the demon's lair.

"Chi Zi, are you sure you can do it?" Mo Fan was still very nervous.

Su Chi said firmly, "Believe me, I can kill it. I have something to tell you."

The ghost wolf saw that the two bipeds not only did not run away but also rushed towards it, so it raised its front paws and slapped them.

"Water Control·Guardian!"

"Water Control·Guardian!"

Although Su Chi's current casting speed has not reached the level of instant casting, it is not much different.

The release time of the two star tracks is almost the same.

With the water armor worn by the two men, the claw attacks of the ghost wolf beast could not break through their defense at all.

Su Chi led Mo Fan deeper into the den. The Ghost Wolf gave up chasing the other students and followed closely behind them.

Not long after, the ghost wolf chased the two people to the depths of the lair.

"Chizi, there's no way out. What should we do now?"

Mo Fan's questioning voice rang in Su Chi's ears.

"What should I do? Of course I should just kill it!"

Su Chi turned around and looked at the ghost wolf beast that was about to rush in front of him, and shouted.

"Dimensional Summoning!!"

(End of this chapter)