Doctor of Science's Journey into Another World

The last martial arts test was obviously much more difficult than the previous two. Kalia had heard of the name of her opponent. He was an apprentice of fire magic like herself.

Painan was feeling very happy now, because he was assigned to the last round a magic apprentice who was one year younger than him and was taking the exam for the first time.

Painan has the long red hair that all fire elemental mages have. He is a civilian mage genius adopted by Viscount Fram. Although he has won the first two martial arts tests, he wants to win three games in order to gain the Viscount's further attention.

Painen knew that Kalia was from the Campbell family, and there were even rumors that she was the future mistress of Campbell, but Painen didn't care. After all, Campbell was a noble territory with strict laws, and he was not worried that he would be liquidated afterwards. He was even considering giving Kalia some leeway to let her lose the assessment with dignity, and perhaps even doing her a favor for the Campbell family.

Looking at the red-haired Pain who was on high alert, Kalia couldn't help but feel a little nervous. She knew clearly that the Pain opposite her was a well-known civilian genius, and this battle would not be easy for her.

Following the professor's order, the martial arts test began. Both sides, being fire elemental mages, naturally chose to release fireballs first. Painan lived up to his reputation and quickly suppressed Kalia.

Kalia thought of Irene's teachings: When fighting an elemental mage, if the opponent is higher in level than you or is too powerful to fight, then retreat. If you must fight, set up some traps while retreating, use the traps to fight the enemy, or use the terrain, the surrounding monsters, and external forces to stop the enemy, and use external objects to achieve an even match.

Kalia immediately dodged to the side, stopped casting Fireball, and cast Ground Sinking Spell while estimating the possible pursuit route of Painan.

If Bai Hao were here, he would cast the Light Spirit Technique on himself when dodging, use the Gale Technique to interfere with the opponent's field of vision before releasing the Ground Sinking Technique, and prepare the Light Ball Technique for counterattack in advance while escaping.

But Kalia is not Bai Hao. Two months of special training can only improve Kalia's combat awareness to a limited extent. Painan soon noticed that Kalia was casting the Earth Trap Technique on the ground, and cast the Light Spirit Technique on himself while chasing her. He quickly bypassed Kalia's trap and came to Kalia's side.

Seeing Painan nimbly avoiding the trap and approaching quickly, Kalia felt a little panicked, and then she remembered to cast the Light Spirit Technique on herself to move quickly.

But Painen obviously would not give Kalia this opportunity. After approaching, he did not cast a spell, but adopted the most correct melee combat, hoping to interrupt Kalia's spellcasting and launch an effective attack in time.

Looking at Painan's fist, Kalia had to interrupt the spell and was hit by several punches from Painan in panic. After holding on for a while, Kalia was knocked out.

But fortunately, Kalia accepted Xinglili's special physical training. What Xinglili taught her most these days were some ways to resist blows and defensive techniques to reduce damage.

Xinglili's training prevented Kalia from falling into a coma after being knocked away. A little blood flowed from the corner of Kalia's mouth. Looking at Painan who was constantly gathering magic power, Kalia, who was also a fire elemental mage, immediately realized that if she did not admit defeat, she would also be defeated by this spell.

Painan watched as Kalia was knocked to the ground and had difficulty standing, so he smiled and chose to use the Flame Pillar Prison, which had a long casting time. This magic was too difficult for a magic apprentice to cast, but Painan was confident.

It was obvious that Painan performed this magic with the intention of showing off his skills. In his opinion, victory was already decided at this point. If he performed the more difficult magic of Flame Pillar Prison to end this final martial arts test, his reputation would surely be even greater, and he would be able to gain the Viscount's attention in a better way.

The Flame Pillar Cage will raise five magical cylinders composed of blazing flames around the target to construct a cage. The magic power of the mage in the cage will be gradually depleted, and he will continue to fall into a powerless and weak state. During this time, the target's magic power reserves, magic power flow and other physical conditions will be known to the caster.

This magic is generally a common magic used by mages. Although magic apprentices can also perform it, Kalia has tried it many times and the success rate is less than 10%.

Looking at Painan who was about to successfully cast the spell, Kalia's eyes were full of determination. She stood up trembling with her aching body and cast a spell at Painan with both hands.

The casting time of the Flame Pillar Cage is long, but it is a continuous magic. When Painan finishes chanting the spell, the Flame Pillar Cage has already taken shape, and some negative effects of magic will be imposed on the target. Subsequent casting is just to gradually improve the Flame Pillar Cage.

Kalia endured the growing feeling of weakness, raised her bruised arm with difficulty, and tried to cast a spell on Painan who was not far away.

Painan smiled contemptuously upon seeing this. At this moment, he could clearly sense through the Flame Pillar Cage that the magic power at the source of Kalia's heart was almost exhausted. Although he didn't know why Kalia's magic power was being consumed so quickly, it was obvious that the situation was irreversible.

Suddenly, the soil under the feet of Painan, who was about to finish casting the spell, became soft and muddy. This was the earth-trapping spell that Kalia had cast not long ago.

Painan was shocked. He clearly saw all the places where Kalia cast spells when she was escaping. It was impossible for the ground beneath his feet to be cast with the earth-trapping spell at this moment.

Suddenly, Painan thought of something and a look of realization appeared on his face. Then, a huge fireball flew towards him. Painan's body below the waist had sunk into the mud. Painan, who was unable to dodge, was hit hard by the fireball and fell into a coma.

The Flame Pillar's cage was soon released, and Kalia immediately collapsed to the ground. Bai Hao hurried over. He had cast the Light Spirit Technique on himself long before the professor announced Kalia's victory, and now he flew over almost like teleporting.

Bai Hao cast the Light Healing Technique on Kalia, and smiled bitterly at the bruised and battered Kalia: "You are really reckless. You actually endured the opponent's punches and kicks and secretly cast the Earth Trapping Technique under your body."

Kalia was enjoying Bai Hao's embrace at this moment. She was a little exhausted but said slyly, "Ms. Irene taught us well. She knew she was unbeatable, so she set up a confusing formation, showed weakness to the enemy, and exposed her superficial weaknesses and strategies to the opponent, so that he would relax his vigilance and have a chance of winning. Brother Bai Hao, I didn't embarrass you, did I?"

"But you actually transferred some of the magic power needed for the fireball to the vesicles in your arm in advance. Did you know in advance that Painan would definitely use the Flame Pillar Cage?" Bai Hao was treating Kalia without stopping, but he still couldn't help asking curiously.

Upon hearing this, Kalia laughed out loud, and her laughter caused the torn wound to grimaced in pain again. Looking at the puzzled Bai Hao, she said happily: "Brother Bai Hao, are you asking me for advice? Since you ask sincerely, I will tell you." Kalia pursed her lips and said complacently.

"As an apprentice of fire magic with ordinary talent, successfully performing the Flame Pillar Prison is the common fantasy of all magic apprentices, and this Painan is one of the few geniuses who can successfully perform this magic. I saw that he did not cast offensive magic during the pursuit, and after interrupting my Light Spirit Technique, he did not use the most efficient close combat magic to completely defeat me, but kept punching and kicking me in an attempt to beat me to the point where I could not resist. All of this was obviously for the purpose of performing the Flame Pillar Prison."

"Luckily, I endured Sister Lili's beatings for two months. I often pretended to be beaten unconscious or unable to fight back to trick Sister Lili into stopping, but Sister Lili was never fooled by my acting skills. I didn't expect that Painan was fooled by me and thought I would never be able to stand up again, haha."

Bai Hao remained silent. He had never expected that the third test that he had deliberately arranged just to make Kalia not be too spoiled would turn out like this. After a while, he said, "You have already passed the test with two wins. There is no need to go to such lengths for this insignificant victory."

"Because this way I can stand tall with Brother Bai Hao!" Kalia raised her head, her eyes full of a tenacious spirit of not giving up. It was already evening, and the red glow in the sky was not as gorgeous as Kalia's red hair.

Bai Hao felt distressed when he saw Kalia, who was still smiling happily but covered in wounds. He made up his mind to make Kalia shine like a star in the coming night, just like those talented mages.