Shaking her head and casting aside the thoughts in her mind, Jia Na refocused her attention on Grace-Eva.
"What I'm going to teach you today is Magic Lock."
With that said, an interdimensional spatial rift opened beside Grace-Eva, and two hummingbirds, only the size of a baby's fist, quickly flapped their wings, flying out of the rift and soaring into the clouds.
"Apart from Ritual Wizardry and Curses that require specific mediums, all Wizard spellcasting needs manual calibration. Therefore, whether you can aim at enemies during Witchcraft casting is the key to determining if you can survive in future battles."
After speaking, a scarlet venomous snake crawled out of Grace-Eva's sleeve, quickly slithering onto her right arm. Accompanied by a flash of blood-red light, a snake-shaped wand covered in blood-colored scales formed in Grace-Eva's hand.
"Watch closely. What I'm going to teach you this time is a combination spell, combining Magic Missile and Eagle Eye Technique. You can call it Magic Lock."
A short incantation was quickly uttered from Grace-Eva's mouth. At the same time, her left index finger and thumb formed a circle, held in front of her left eye, and her right hand lightly waved the wand clockwise twice. Two white orbs of light-like Magic Missiles shot out from the tip of the wand, piercing through the air.
"Bang! Bang!"
Like two gunshots, the hummingbird puppets, which had already hidden in the clouds and disappeared from sight, were directly blasted apart by the Magic Missiles, shattering into debris that scattered down from the air.
"The incantation must be fast and accurate, and the hand holding the wand should not tremble at all. Of course, if the lack of muscle strength is due to poor physique, you can consider bloodline modification..."
"Eagle Eye Technique is relatively simple. Once your proficiency increases in the later stages, you can cancel gesture casting and switch to more concealed blink casting..."
In the following hour, Grace-Eva required all apprentices present who had not mastered Eagle Eye Technique and Magic Missile to immediately construct the models for these two Witchcrafts.
Although Grace-Eva demonstrated the Witchcraft models for free, in the noisy outdoor and densely populated scene, very few people could concentrate enough to simulate them.
"Jia Na, have you mastered these two Witchcrafts in advance?"
"I happened to have learned them before."
The model structures of these two Witchcrafts were extremely simple, only slightly more complex than apprentice cantrips. Just by looking at them a few times, Jia Na had already achieved basic mastery of these two Witchcrafts using her 【Exceptional Memory】 talent.
After that, it was simply about brute-force leveling up.
【Wizard Skills: Contract Summoning (Level 19 - Temporarily Unable to Upgrade), Elf Summoning (Level 19 - Temporarily Unable to Upgrade), Soul Lash (Level 19 - Temporarily Unable to Upgrade), Vine Entanglement (Level 19 - Temporarily Unable to Upgrade), Acid Spray (Level 19 - Temporarily Unable to Upgrade), soul chain (Level 19 - Temporarily Unable to Upgrade), Siren's Chant (Level 19 - Temporarily Unable to Upgrade), Elementary Transformation (Local Deformation: Level 19 - Temporarily Unable to Upgrade), Eagle Eye Technique (Level 19 - Temporarily Unable to Upgrade), Magic Missile (Level 19 - Temporarily Unable to Upgrade)】
Looking at the two Witchcrafts on the skill list that had already been upgraded to the current level cap, Jia Na closed the skill interface under Vivian's suspicious gaze.
"You actually learned a useless Witchcraft like Magic Missile? Could it be that you've learned all Level 1 apprentice Witchcrafts?"
"I don't know Frostbite and Ice Cone, which you're best at."
"Well, I don't know Contract Summoning..."
Through simple mana conversion techniques, Jia Na could also release Flame and Frost. But due to the long casting time and power that couldn't even be called an apprentice cantrip, Jia Na didn't waste time focusing her energy on areas she wasn't good at.
"Since your Ice Cone Technique is already perfected, there's no need to repeatedly practice Magic Missile. Professor Grace's combination Witchcraft principle isn't complicated. The reason she uses Magic Missile as a prerequisite for casting is simply because this Witchcraft is very simple and more suitable as a combination Witchcraft."
"I think so too! And the power of that Magic Missile isn't even as strong as Acid Spray... It's just that the attack range is a bit farther."
Hearing Jia Na's words, Vivian, who wasn't good at non-ice element Witchcraft, also couldn't be bothered to practice anymore. She shook the expensive wand in her hand towards Jia Na and said with raised eyebrows:
"In a bit, I'll let you see the power of this new wand."
Clap clap—
Seeing that it was about time, Grace-Eva lightly clapped her hands, drawing the attention of the apprentices back to herself.
"Since you're all pretty much ready, let's begin the practical exercise."
Boom—
Blood-red light filled the air. As Grace-Eva lightly stepped on the ground, a semi-circular blood-red barrier, nearly a hundred meters high and with a radius of about five hundred meters, enveloped all the apprentices present, using the rock garden as the center.
"Buzz buzz—"
The interdimensional rift opened again beside Grace-Eva. Accompanied by a piercing buzzing sound, ten hummingbird puppets rapidly flew out of the rift.
"There are a total of ten puppets. As long as you can shoot down any one puppet within an hour, I will reward you with one free question opportunity."
Ding—
【Today's Mission: Shoot down at least one puppet hummingbird;
Mission Rewards: 100 Talent Experience, 500 Skill Experience, one random reward.】
Looking at the randomly triggered mission content on the mission interface, Jia Na's right hand, which was holding the green field wand, couldn't help but lightly clench.
"There is only one rule: remember not to damage school public property, otherwise, you will be responsible for the consequences."
As soon as she finished speaking, Grace-Eva's figure quietly disappeared. Seeing this, apart from a small number of students who had not yet broken through to Level 1 apprentice, and a few students who, even if they had broken through, still only mastered Witchcraft limited to apprentice cantrips, everyone else present had already aimed at the hummingbird puppets in the air, which were so fast that only afterimages remained, gathered their Witchcraft, and were ready to strike.
"Ice Cone Technique!"
A cold light flashed, and an ice cone wrapped in cold air rapidly condensed on Vivian's wand. In just an instant, the ice cone was launched. The powerful magic fluctuations even blew Jia Na's hair to the side.
"How is it? Not bad, right?"
Shaking the wand in her hand as if showing off, Vivian was clearly extremely satisfied with this Ice Cone Technique she cast.
"I'll praise you when you hit the hummingbird puppet."
Bang bang bang bang—
Following Vivian's ice cone offensive, there was a large number of Magic Missiles from other apprentices, as well as countless Fireball and Frostbolt spells exploding in the sky one by one.
Although the momentum was great, no apprentice had managed to shoot down any hummingbird puppet yet.
"No, it's too high. Even with the Eagle Eye Technique, it's not easy to lock onto targets at high altitudes, unless combined with flying Witchcraft..."
"You're right."
Before Vivian could react, a pair of emerald green, magnificent butterfly wings rapidly unfolded behind Jia Na.