Duel Arena Fame

After the meeting inside the ' Aether Palace ' ended, Lexi reported to Oinrich on the latest progress of the project.

"Most things have been arranged, but it will take time to see results. A few things, such as the special sensor you specifically arranged, have already been completed."

Lexi's current project is, strictly speaking, mostly just beginning, so naturally there won't be much feedback yet.

"That sensor is finished... Maybe they got lucky this time. I remember I did something similar a long time ago, and it took more than a dozen mages almost three months to make a suitable one."

While it's somewhat strange that the sensor specifically designed to detect the presence of Deity was completed so quickly, overall, it's still possible that three of them could be gathered in a very short time.

Sometimes you can win the grand prize on your first try in a lottery, so Oinrich didn't react much to it, only making a brief comment.

"Send me those three sensors; I need to do the final adjustments..."

"By the way, have you arranged for someone to go and test the engines of the Floating City?"

"Sage of Time, that place has long since been reorganized and is now called the Propulsion Department... I've also arranged for a Fourth Order Mage to go there."

Hearing Lexi's arrangement, Oinrich nodded and slowly said:

"That's good. Just complete the tasks I assigned before the specified date."

Oinrich felt more at ease assigning a Fourth Order Mage to the Propulsion Department, since their Alchemy School only had a dozen or so Fourth Order Mage in total. They never had the resources to send a Fourth Order Mage to the engine department before.

That would be a complete waste of manpower, and no Fourth Order Mage would agree to work there.

But times have changed, and now even Fourth Order Mage are willing to go there.

As for the Fourth Order Mage's abilities, Oinrich wasn't too worried, because a mage who could become Fourth Order mage not only excelled in magical Talent but also had outstanding problem-solving abilities.

As Oinrich left, Lexi recalled the Propulsion Department that had just been mentioned, and she had some doubts.

"That's strange. Why didn't we see Iris at the meeting? Shouldn't Fourth Order Mage like her have had the opportunity to attend that meeting?"

Lexi scratched his head, realizing that Iris had other important duties besides the Propulsion Department, which was why she wasn't attending the meeting.

Meanwhile, in the Duel Arena atop Number Nine Floating City, Fran entered the preparation room ten minutes early and then spent fourteen minutes emerging from it.

Today is her fourteenth Magic Duel, and her fourteenth victory with a score of 3-0.

Lately, she doesn't know what's wrong with her, but every time she submits an application after a duel, a mage always accepts it, and the staff member has to go to her and explain the procedure:

"Hello, duelist number XXXXXX, your duel request has been accepted."

However, Fran also liked this quick acceptance method because at this pace, she could fight a Magic Duel every day, with a very high margin for error.

Recently, she has basically been unable to send her opponent away with a single Greater Fireball and easily secure a victory. Now, almost everyone is wearing a First Order Shield Spell Ring.

She didn't know exactly how many rings the other player had brought; the mage who had used three Shield Spell Ring in a single game had left a deep impression on her.

Although she ultimately won, it served as a wake-up call for her. If she continued to use tactics like the Greater Fireball, her opponent might seize an opportunity, and she might lose the game.

Therefore, Fran must make a change, at least try other fighting styles, to prevent herself from one day making a mistake and ruining her current favorable situation where she hasn't lost a single round.

"We need to change our strategy. Let's start from the next match, and then change our starting spell every few matches."

"Also, I just happened to buy some Tier 2 leather, enough to make a pair of boots. I'll engrave the Lord of Shadows's runes on them..."

While Fran was still pondering how to handle future Magic Duel, on the other side of the Duel Arena, a mage who had just secured his fifteenth Magic Duel with Fran was boasting to others, saying that he was certain he could end Fran's winning streak.

The other monks looked indignant, because he was the fifth person to say this before them, and each time the result was 3-0, with no difference in outcome.

After Fran defeated Warren, her opponent who had tried to ambush her, in Fran tenth duel, her fame soared. Now, all the Magic Duel on Number Nine Floating City knew that a monster had emerged there, extending her winning streak to an extremely terrifying 3-0 record.

This number has already doubled the previous record, and now it's almost on par with the highest winning streak record in the Preliminaries.

A strong, powerful hand picked up a match record sheet that had been printed many times; it was filled with scores of 3-0.

Most Magic Duel would be thrilled to win ten consecutive matches, but this opponent had a full page of 3-0 victories.

The large hand tucked the match record under its arm and carried it back to the dressing room in the Duel Arena.

He counted the number of rooms on the reserved lounge door before finally opening the door to the second-to-last one.

There's no way around it. In the past, even on the very first day of a duel, only half of the lounge would be occupied. But now, because of this player's fourteen-game winning streak, there are hardly any lounges left.

He went inside and looked at the blond man inside. The man was dressed in simple black clothing and held a gray longsword. The sword had no metallic luster, but it would make an ordinary person feel a chill.

"Lynn, come and take a look. It seems a new monster has appeared in Number Nine Floating City. She's won fourteen matches in the Preliminaries, almost matching your father's record."

Lynn's expression clearly became impatient. He stood up and snatched the competition record from the burly hand with incredible speed.

Upon seeing this record, he instinctively gasped.

"A 3-0 victory across the board—even my father couldn't achieve that level of performance."

Looking at this competition record, he couldn't help but think of his father, who once set a record of sixteen consecutive wins in the Preliminaries.

This was the greatest thing his father had ever done in his life, and it was also his father's glory.

Even after his father became Champion Mage and joined the Battle Mage Corps, he still boasted about it.

Even after his father and his special squad of Battle Mage Corps defeated a Fourth Order Profession Holder, his father still considered achieving those sixteen consecutive victories to be the greatest honor of his life.

"She's winning every game 3-0 right now, and she's on a 14-game winning streak. The next game will be her 15th. If she does, she can challenge your father's record."

Lynn gripped the match record in his hand tighter, an indescribable impulse surging within him, but when he looked at his uncle Caleb, he couldn't say anything.

Fortunately, his uncle Caleb knew what he wanted to do, and he sent over the match record so that Lynn could have a match with his opponent.

Regardless of whether the opponent faces Lynn before ending his winning streak, this battle will definitely provide Lynn, a genius who has only been playing Magic Duel for less than ten years but has already scored 140 points, with a lot of experience.

Lynn's father and his uncle both had high hopes that Lynn could advance through Magic Duel, so after Lynn had dueled all the mages in the local Floating City, Caleb took him to various Floating City to find opponents.

"Lynn, don't worry. I just inquired and found out that the mage who fought the duelist with the fourteen-win streak has a score of 134. That's very close to yours. If nothing unexpected happens, you should be able to face each other through proper channels."

"Even if we don't end up dueling through the Preliminaries, I can still privately contact you and see if we can arrange a practice match..."

Lynn nodded upon hearing this and thanked him, saying:

"Thank you, Uncle. You've gone to so much trouble."

"It's okay, just keep up the good work. I'll go outside and see if I can get you a chance."

Caleb took his leave, telling Lynn to do some basic preparations in the lounge.

When Caleb went outside and saw the mages holding the competition record and talking about it, he couldn't help but feel a little fortunate.

"Fortunately, her preparation time for each duel is very short; she would start the second duel almost the next day."

"In such a short time, her reputation hasn't spread to the other Floating City yet. Otherwise, the entire Duel Arena would be crammed with mages by now, and some mages would probably try to fly away and get punished..." he thought to himself.

Then he went to look up information about Fran's battles. A renowned mage like her could hardly conceal any information before a battle.

This is to break the winning streak's advantage, and it's also why it's so difficult to achieve a winning streak. Once you maintain a winning streak, a lot of information about you will spread throughout the entire mage community, making it impossible to stop opponents from targeting you based on your habits.

He was usually in charge of the rough work of collecting information, and after collecting the information, he would also organize it and summarize the corresponding combat strategies to hand over to Lynn.

Lynn's achievements are also due to his own hard work.

After learning some basic information about Fran's combat abilities, Caleb was somewhat skeptical, even wondering if Fran was deliberately spreading false information.

"How can a mage's casting speed be faster than casting a shield? That's ridiculous!"

"It can even fly, the most powerful kind of flight, capable of hovering and accelerating, without needing to cast spells beforehand. Even the Battle Mage Corps doesn't have such good flight capabilities, right?"

"Members of the Yobner Society can cast two Elemental Conversion Elemental Conversion without the aid of spell scrolls... How is that possible? Putting aside the question of why people from the Yobner Society would even be here... only someone who's never witnessed Elemental Conversion before would dare to say such a thing..."

After gathering some intelligence, he tore up the notebook containing the information.

"This is too unbelievable. One is one thing, but so many powerful abilities... If this is true, Lynn will have a hard time even winning a single round."

Caleb genuinely felt that this intelligence was too fake, and some of it was beyond his understanding as someone who frequently collected intelligence.

"When I was gathering intelligence for the Main Tournament, I never encountered such an outrageous opponent..."