Chapter 20 Double Click
Faced with Ronan’s “charge”, the wizard was not in a hurry and even smiled, as if he was extremely speechless about Ronan’s performance.

Ronan only remembered halfway through his charge that the general fighting style of wizards should be to keep as much distance as possible, leaving themselves enough distance to cast spells, and then cast spells at each other. It is rare to see someone rushing forward headfirst like him.

He was a complete rookie, but he couldn’t care less at this moment.

[Charge Weapon] can only be effective in close combat. If he doesn’t get close, he will just be a target.

“Take advantage of the opportunity to kill him while he’s casting a spell!”

Ronan had a clear idea, but he was almost dumbfounded the next second.

The wizard just raised his hand casually, and a ring on his left ring finger flashed, followed by a transparent light curtain rising up quickly, protecting him.

“Depend on!”

Ronan couldn’t help but swear.

“Protective magic tool?!”

No wonder he wasn’t afraid of being “taken advantage of”, it turned out he had already made preparations.

The magic tools with protective ability must be at least intermediate level zero, because the most common [Protection] rune is intermediate level zero.

Could a mere third-level wizard apprentice like him break the protective power of a zero-level intermediate magic tool?
Ronan didn’t know, but people were already halfway there, so he had no choice but to go ahead.

“Woo!”

When he rushed to within about five meters of the wizard, Ronan raised his right hand and uttered a short syllable.

In an instant, the dormant mental power in the mind became like boiling water, vibrating rapidly at a certain frequency.

Expert level.
【Energy Missile】!
When Ronan chanted the spell and raised his hand, the wizard in the protective light shield showed a mocking look on his face.

When a short syllable fell, a large amount of energy particles surged, the air was distorted, and a dark blue ball of light as big as two fists was born in the void.
The wizard was stunned for a moment.

“Uh this.. so fast?!”

The dark blue ball of light came closer with a terrifying whistling and tearing sound. The wizard’s face suddenly changed and he raised his hand hastily.
“boom!”

A terrifying gust of air erupted with the sound, and the spreading energy particle shock wave blew Ronan so hard that he couldn’t help but step back.

“What kind of magic is this?!”

Amid the fluctuating air waves, an uncontrollable, sharp and distorted sound was heard.

Looking up, he saw the wizard in gray robe staring at Ronan in disbelief.

In front of him, large, clear cracks visible to the naked eye had appeared on a layer of transparent white light shield.

Ronan himself was shocked.

The next second it turned into great excitement and ecstasy.

“The power of the expert-level [Energy Missile] is so great? Even the protection of the zero-level intermediate magic tool is shattered with just one touch?!”

Ronan took a quick step forward, chanted the spell again, and fired another [Energy Missile].

The expert level of proficiency is once again on display at this moment.

Ronan’s mental power was like a transparent string beating, short auxiliary spell syllables were uttered, and a large number of energy particles gathered.
The entire casting process is as smooth and natural as flowing water.

When Ronan raised his hand for the second time, the wizard came back to his senses from the shock and tried to cast a spell immediately.

But before he could finish half of the spell, the second deep blue light ball came whizzing towards him.

“Boom! —Crack!”

The ball of light exploded with the sound of something breaking, and the scattered energy particles rushed past like a colorful turbid current.

When the noise subsided, Ronan cautiously took two steps forward, only to find that only half of the wizard’s body was left standing on the ground, and the part above the chest and abdomen had already been blown to pieces by the energy missile.

Ronan’s first reaction was to relax. Then he was surprised. He was happy to win?! And it seemed like he won easily?

Finally, there was the wave of nausea that rose in my stomach.

When practicing magic, he had killed many wild animals such as wolves and deer, and most of them were blown to pieces.

But it was just a beast after all. Suddenly, a human body with half of its body missing was placed in front of him, especially when it was done by his own hands. The strong physical and psychological discomfort was like the day after a hangover, empty, numb, and disgusted.
After spending quite a while to calm himself down, Ronan began to review the battle that had just taken place.

The first thing was the surprise at the power of the expert-level [Energy Missile].

After his proficiency in [Energy Missile] reached the expert level, Ronan knew that its power had increased a lot, and had long surpassed the general low-level zero-order spells.

But I didn’t expect it to be so powerful. It even blew away the protective shield of an intermediate magic tool with ease, and it only took two shots.

“General level zero intermediate spells may not have such an effect.”

“This is still at the expert level. If you practice to above the expert level.”

Ronan’s heart was pounding, and he felt as if he had dug up some treasure for an instant.

He immediately made up his mind that he must practice [Energy Missile] madly and see what this ordinary low-level spell of rank zero would become when pushed to the maximum level.

After standing there excitedly for a while, Ronan calmed himself down and prepared to leave, but he turned back after only two steps.

“Touching the corpse… I almost forgot to touch the corpse”

With mixed and uneasy feelings, Ronan walked step by step to the body of the dead wizard.

He tilted his head to the side, trying not to look at the upper body of the corpse.

He carefully took off the two rings on the corpse’s hands, then quickly stepped back a few steps and held them in his hands to examine them.

Both rings were emitting fluctuations of magical energy.

One is black with an ordinary turquoise in the middle.

The other one was red all over and looked much more beautiful than the first one.

Ronan channeled his mental power into the black turquoise ring and soon found traces of enchanted runes inside.

This ring is enchanted with two runes in total, both of which are intermediate level zero [Protection] runes.

Ronan was delighted.

Intermediate magical tools with two intermediate runes are considered to be of good quality even among intermediate magical tools, and their price is much higher than the vast majority of intermediate magical tools with a single intermediate rune and one or two low-level runes.

These are two [Protection] runes, which can be said to be a small top-grade item.

Looking back, I realized that my previous assessment of the power of the expert-level [Energy Missile] needed to be repositioned.

The defensive power of the double rune is much stronger than that of a single rune. After two blasts, the power feels like it is almost catching up with a zero-level advanced spell.

“It’s mainly because the spell is cast quickly, twice in a short period of time, without any buffer time at all…”

Ronan sighed twice and looked at another magical ring.

The remaining red ring looked beautiful, but it turned out to be just a low-level magic tool of rank zero.

The ring was enchanted with a [Fireball] rune and two runes that Ronan didn’t recognize, both of which were low-level.

Ronan guessed that the three fireballs released by the wizard when he was chasing him, and the third fireball following the second one, should have been cast with the help of this fireball ring.

He probably wanted to catch me off guard so as to kill me, but he didn’t expect that I would react quickly and dodge it with my agility.

So I just stopped taking the medicine to replenish my energy.

(End of this chapter)