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Night.

The Garden Square was empty.

A circular open space with a diameter of more than 40 meters was cleared in the center of the square, and dozens of high-level spells "Sunlight Balls" were shot into the sky, illuminating the entire square as bright as day.

On both sides of the temporary duel field, Rosen and Saras stood facing each other more than 20 meters apart.

Sage Levin, Master Shahram, Master Schmidt, and Master Lesent temporarily formed a duel notary group.

Because Shahram had the most neutral attitude and was also the owner of the Blue Whale Mansion, he stood in the middle of the open space and read out the traditional rules of the sacred duel loudly.

After reading the somewhat lengthy rules, he looked at the two people on the sidelines respectively.

"So, are both duelists ready?"

Rosen stood with a sword in hand: "I'm ready to fight at any time."

Salas narrowed his eyes and smiled: "Baron, I won't kill you in the duel, because it's too easy for you."

Master Shahram frowned slightly and urged: "Master Sarath, are you ready? Give me a definite answer!"

Salas played with the blood-drinking staff in his hand, with a leisurely look on his face.

"Master, I am the deputy leader of the Sixth Regiment of Aaron Lion Night Guard, a senior 24-star professional combat mage."

"My opponent is just a low-level mage who just graduated. Do I really need to use all my energy to deal with it?"

Master Shahram could clearly feel Sarath's ready-to-go magic power and knew that he was far from as relaxed as he showed.

His contemptuous look was probably for deterrence, of course, it could also be just for showing off.

"In this case, I now declare. The duel begins!"

The moment the last word fell, Master Shahram retreated to the sidelines with the magic of walking, and the two mages on the field attacked almost at the same time.

Sarath's Blood Drinker Staff suddenly pointed at Rosen, and a bright lightning bolt as thick as an arm was instantly triggered and hit Rosen's body.

The advanced spell "Lightning Chain" was released with the help of the crystal lattice, which was almost instantaneous.

Although mages more or less mastered some instantaneous skills, the crystal lattice casting speed of Aaron Battle Mage was almost the fastest.

Because the energy storage lattice created by Aaron Refiner was not only strong, but also had a large storage capacity of spell energy, and the maximum flow of energy was also extremely high, and the quality was almost perfect.

Therefore, Sarath's lightning chain gave people a sense of cold and crispness, without any drag.

All the Weilan mages present were shocked, and subconsciously worried about Rosen.

'Boom~~~'

With a loud bang, after the lightning hit Rosen's body, it actually passed through his body, hit the ground fiercely, and burst out a lot of hot gravel.

At the same time, Rosen's body turned into a bubble and disappeared, and appeared three meters to the right in a moment.

It was Adler's Substitute Spell again.

Although it was a low-level spell, Rosen used it to perfection and produced amazing results.

Saras was well prepared. He drew his left hand in front of his body, and the force field ring on his hand showed a dim light, and a circle of high-intensity force field expanding outward suddenly appeared around his body.

It was an intermediate spell "Resistance Field", which has an excellent defensive effect against physical attacks.

This move was to prevent Rosen from using flying swords to attack.

At the same time, he was doing two things at the same time.

The second advanced crystal lattice on the Blood Drinker's staff was activated, and the second bright lightning tore through the air and whipped Rosen like a waving whip.

'Snap~~~'

The lightning actually passed Rosen's body again and whipped the ground behind him.

No, it not only whipped the ground, but also hit Saras' own body.

‘Tear~~~’

A shrill sound of tearing cloth.

Saras’ blood-red cloak was torn into pieces by the burst of lightning energy, revealing the matte black tight leather armor inside.

The surface of the leather armor was wrapped with a layer of crystal red light, which was the high-level defensive spell "Agna Ruby Shield" commonly used by Aaron nobles.

At this moment, the crystal red light layer was actually wrapped with a layer of fine white electric net.

The two energies continued to clash and collide, and finally the electric net disappeared, and only a thin layer of ruby ​​shield remained.

Before everyone could figure out what was going on, Levin, who was watching the battle, immediately cheered loudly: "Good spell! Good magic weapon!"

Shahram also praised sincerely: "What a good exchange spell!"

At that moment just now, Rosen used two spells.

One was the Adler Substitution Spell.

The other was the Sager Exchange Spell.

The latter was a strange low-level spell of the Mystical System.

The so-called Mystical System is a general term for a class of strange spells whose principles are completely unclear and only practical techniques are available.

For example, the Sage Exchange, no one knows why this thing works. It is only known that if you do this, you can temporarily exchange some attributes of yourself and the target, thereby achieving the wonderful effect of transferring some spell energy.

But although the spell is low-level, it is very difficult to cast, and the timing of casting is also extremely difficult to grasp.

Few mages dare to use it in a life-and-death battle, but then again, mages who dare to use it and successfully achieve the exchange effect are either crazy or geniuses.

Now, Rosen not only used it, but also used it with the equally difficult Substitute, and successfully broke the induced defensive crystal lattice magic weapon worn by Saras, greatly eliminating the opponent's magic weapon advantage, which can be called a legendary operation in the history of magic confrontation.

And without the life defense line constructed by the induced defensive magic weapon, Saras clearly felt the breath of death.

Unconsciously, the evil smile on his face disappeared.

Schmidt and Lecent, the two magic masters, also completely put away their casual mentality and began to watch the battle seriously.

Mrs. Agnet was surprised. She didn't expect that the apprentice she usually looked down on would have such amazing spell-casting abilities.

Most of the Weilan spectators who were watching did not know the details of the spell. They only knew that Weilan's baron had the upper hand, so they all cheered loudly.

The cheers were like a thunderous tsunami.

But Salas is worthy of being the deputy commander of the Night Guard and has experienced rigorous combat training.

The small defeat in the battle did not make him panic. Even the resistance field on his left hand was maintained, leaving no opportunity for his opponent to take advantage of.

Of course, he did not rush to launch an attack to regain the situation. Instead, he held the staff tightly and faced Rosen in a defensive posture. He took a deep breath and carefully smoothed out some of the turmoil in his heart.

Rosen was not in a hurry to attack.

He stood thirty meters away from Salas, slowly pacing around Salas, his posture was like a tiger pacing around its prey.

"Mage Salas, there should be three advanced lattices on your staff. Now you have used two, and you have the last one left."

"I advise you to use it quickly, otherwise you won't have the chance to use it when I strike back."

In a few breaths, Salas had basically calmed down.

He smiled coldly: "Your spell-casting skills are indeed great, and I do underestimate you, but next, I will let you know the insurmountable gap between high-level and low-level spells."

Before he finished speaking, the Blood Drinker staff in Salas' hand suddenly pointed toward the sky.

Although the spell has not been released yet, huge mana fluctuations have already appeared.

Ordinary people couldn't feel it, but the mages immediately realized that Salas would use an advanced spell with no target locking and range attack in the next moment.

No target lock, meaning it cannot be affected by Sag Swap.

Range attacks are the best way to deal with Adler's substitute technique.

The nearly instant spellcasting assisted by the crystal lattice means that it is basically impossible to be interrupted.

Therefore, Salas relied on powerful spells and advanced magic weapons to crush them.

Although this move is stupid, it is impossible to break.

All the knowledgeable mages present sighed secretly.

Rosen is just a low-level mage after all.

Selena also held onto the Sleeping Beauty staff tightly.

She already figured it out.

As long as Rosen loses, she will take his life to save him from torture, and then she will immediately kill herself to follow him.

But in the next moment, Rosen's magic sword suddenly pointed at Salas and used the most common interference spell "Arcane Shock".

Arcane Shock is a low-level spell that almost every mage knows.

Used well, this spell can turn the tide of a battle.

If used incorrectly, it is equivalent to setting off a small lavender firework.

The problem is that Arcane Shock requires casting time. No matter how you practice it or what techniques you use, even if it is close to instantaneous, it still requires casting time.

This casting time is longer than the lattice-assisted casting time anyway.

Therefore, it is almost impossible to use arcane shock to interrupt the crystal lattice and cast spells.

But such an impossibility actually happened!

After an inconspicuous arcane shock, the power fluctuations condensed on the blood drinker's staff turned into chaos.

After a moment, the spell energy was completely out of control.

If it is a normal spellcasting, just stop casting the spell at this moment, but when the crystal lattice casts a spell, the spell energy is pre-stored. Once out of control, the out-of-control energy will explode directly.

Salas was shocked and threw the staff decisively.

The staff flew into the air, and there was a loud "pop" sound, and it exploded into two pieces. The energy stored in the crystal lattice was violently released, turning into a ball of violent lightning.

If Salas hadn't thrown it fast enough, the lightning would have raged directly on him.

"Use shock to interrupt my crystal lattice casting?"

Salas looked at the staff fragments with blank eyes.

The casting time of Crystal Lattice is less than 0.2 seconds, and a thought is completed. How can this be interrupted in a targeted manner?

In fact, this is probably the first time that someone has targeted the interruption since the birth of the crystal lattice spellcasting method.

It directly challenged Salas's common sense of magic.

All the mages present, including the magic master, looked shocked and couldn't understand why Rosen did it.

Rosen was still pacing slowly around Salas like a tiger, smiling lightly.

"Salas, I have seen through you and predicted your every move."

All the mages were stunned and felt that this baron was really crazy for daring to gamble like this.

Salas also recovered and gritted his teeth and sneered.

"See through me? Predict and interrupt? Arrogant!"

Without the assistance of the staff, he still has a strong fighting ability.

Casting spells with bare hands is a compulsory course for every Aaron battle mage.

Salas pointed at Rosen and silently fired an arcane shock.

‘Bah! ’

Spellcasting failed!

His silent arcane shock was interrupted by Rosen's faster arcane shock.

Not only did the opponent's spell-casting skills surpass him, but his thinking and reaction speed was also significantly faster than his.

This is the crushing of hard power!

You know where the gap is, but you can never bridge it.

Salas was shocked again: "It's impossible, it must be a coincidence!"

"Ice wind technique snap!"

"Feng Xing. Bang!"

"Arcane Missile. Bang!"

I tried three times in a row and was interrupted all three times.

Every time he interrupted, Sarath felt like he was slapped in the face, and his cheeks were burning.

‘Gulp~~’

Saras swallowed his saliva secretly, and the blood flames in his eyes flickered, as if they would go out in the next moment.

Panic could not be suppressed from the bottom of his heart.

“Could it be that he really saw through me?”

“How is it possible? I am the ace graduate of the King’s Military Academy!”

On the other side, Rosen was still pacing slowly, his face as calm as at the beginning.

“I have interrupted your spell five times, and every time I interrupt, I can get a counterattack time of half a second.”

While speaking, he suddenly raised his hand and interrupted Sarath’s secret attempt to cast the spell again, and the action was as easy as drinking water.

"But I didn't choose to fight back, because I was waiting for you to realize that you were already standing on the edge of hell."

"And I just need to raise my foot and kick you lightly on the butt, and you will fall into hell."

"Go to hell!"

Salas collapsed at once, roared hysterically, gave up all defense, and used two attacks at the same time to exchange his life with his opponent.

"We give up!"

Master Schmidt's shout suddenly came from the side.

'Pah! '

Rosen did not take the opportunity to kill Sarath.

He interrupted Sarath's left hand spell again with an arcane shock, and dodged another spell with Adler's substitution spell.

Afterwards, he did not make up the knife, but slowly retreated to the side of the black iron guard.

Master Shahram's magic phantom appeared in the middle of the duel again and announced loudly.

"In this duel, the Baron Rosen Saxon of the White Sturgeon Island won the final victory."

"No~~I didn't lose~~I didn't admit defeat~~I will continue to fight!"

Salas looked crazy.

"Enough!"

The shadow master Lesent flashed over with a divine movement, knocked Sarath unconscious with a punch, and then dragged the will-broken deputy leader away.

It was a duel that was clearly a must-win, but he actually lost, and lost so disgracefully.

All the Aaron Night Guards present were ashamed, lowered their heads, and kept silent.

On the contrary, the people of Veran cheered and were extremely excited.

The nobles of Veran were much more reserved, but they also greatly overestimated Rosen, thinking that this young man was really amazing.

The civilians didn't have so many thoughts, they just felt very encouraged, and revered the Baron of the White Sturgeon Island as a hero.

Amid the clamor, Master Schmidt took two steps forward with a gloomy face, bowed to Levin, and said in a serious tone: "Sage, the Baron won. We abide by the agreement and will give up this revenge action."

This was said explicitly, but two secret words were whispered in the heart afterwards.

"But I hope you remember that tonight is not the end, but the beginning!"

"Aaron will remember this humiliation, and in the future, he will use various other methods to return it tenfold to Weilan!"

Faced with this threatening word, the sage Levin laughed.

He did not refute, but sang with "Voice of the High Sky".

"Ared said, 'There are many aliens, and we are weak.'"

"Villan said, for the land under my feet, I will take the lead in fighting."

"The shining Arcanite sword will be stained with blood, and no matter how many aliens come, they will destroy themselves!"

"Ah~ Saint~ Saint, she is the darling of Mother Nature and the supreme glory of the giant island!"

It is "The Song of Saint Villen", the lyrics and melody are well-known to everyone, telling the ancient epic of Saint Villen fighting against invading aliens and protecting her homeland.

At first, only the sage Levin was singing, but after a few sentences, the black iron guards followed, and then the Villen wizard.

Finally, all the Villen people present sang along.

While singing, they followed the footsteps of the sage Levin and gradually pressed towards the Aaron Night Guard.

At this moment, whether it was the noble elites or the most ordinary dock workers, their souls and wills merged with the singing, thus gathering a terrifying and majestic momentum!

This momentum was like a mountain collapsing, like a huge wave hitting the table. With every step forward, the army of Aaron's Night Guards could not help but take a step back.

At this moment, even masters like Schmidt and Lesent could not help but feel trembling in their hearts.

Finally, they could not bear it anymore.

"Retreat!"

Master Schmidt shouted, and quickly fled from the Garden Square with 300 Aaron's Night Guards.