After a fulfilling vacation, the new semester finally begins.
After school started, the freshmen finally discovered something was wrong.
"Hedra Chief has advanced?"
"So fast?"
It is not surprising that Sylutia advanced, but as students of the Thetis Academy, they all have high expectations for themselves, so they usually advance after they are fully prepared. This ensures that their core abilities are strong enough.
"Ahem, everyone, be quiet." The teacher asked the students to stop talking on the podium, and then dispelled everyone's doubts.
"As you can see, Hedra has advanced, and there is no reason to be anxious. She is fully prepared." In fact, she is overly prepared. Even Thetis Academy's students are not as wealthy as she is, spending more than 10,000 gold coins to gather the most perfect resources.
After the teacher finished explaining, he told everyone about the arrangements and goals for this semester.
"This semester you will learn relatively advanced things, and you will also gradually come into contact with some of our school's exclusive secret techniques, which can improve your abilities in all aspects."
This semester, they will learn the advanced part of "Mercury Rune", more complex perception check secrets, such as Flame-Gold Technique, "Material-Penetration Technique", Light-Analysis Technique, "Stone-Acid Technique", etc., as well as the newly opened course "Astral Realm Creature Summoning".
"Many students must have seen the fighting method of summoning Astral Realm creatures, especially Xavier student who demonstrated it in the opening test." The teacher stood on the podium and tapped Magic Staff on the drawing board, and the images of various Astral Realm creatures emerged.
"In ancient times, humans were able to rely on animals as assistants to assist in fighting and living. As Mage, we can also use summons to supplement our combat power and cope with difficult situations."
"First of all, the first purpose of summoning creatures is not to simply expand combat power, but to solve problems."
"For example, on your way home, you encounter two robbers blocking the road, one behind the other. They are both armed. If you deal with one of them, you will expose your back to the other."
"Even if your strength is much stronger than the two of them, due to the limitation of your attention, you will inevitably get injured or have an accident when facing a pincer attack. At this time, you only need to summon a low-level creature to help you hold off one of them for a short time, and you can deal with them safely and without injury."
"The purpose of summoning creatures is to solve problems."
"You are very powerful. You master a variety of amazingly powerful spells. It is easy to destroy a town. But when you are in the maze of World of Shadows, facing countless roads and being attacked by monsters day and night, no matter how powerful you are, your physical strength and energy will gradually be exhausted."
"Faced with this problem, you only need to summon a suitable creature, let it help you determine the direction to pursue the target, and help you guard for a period of time at night, and you can continue to fight."
"Do you understand the example I gave? To summon Astral Realm creatures, it's not that the more powerful the better, it's that it applies to the problem you urgently need to solve."
"Remember we are Mage, we have the means, don't act recklessly."
After explaining the main outline of the course, the teacher began to introduce the strengths and uses of each different Astral Realm creature.
"Let's start with the second-level creatures——" He waved Magic Staff and tapped the drawing board. One of the creatures enlarged and occupied the center of the screen.
[Tinnitus Worm] (Level 2·Alien Star), translucent in appearance, shaped like a wriggling black silkworm.
It can invade the enemy's brain and cause extremely disturbing tinnitus in the mind, causing splitting headaches, vomiting,
Loss of balance, loss of consciousness."
"This kind of bug doesn't look big, but it is very effective when used to deal with warriors with weak mental strength. Even a second-level creature can often make a powerful third-level warrior lose combat effectiveness, become unbalanced, feel nauseated, and fall to the ground with tinnitus."
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[Lure-Lantern Fish] (Level 2·Alien Star), a strange floating fish with a small glowing ball hanging from its forehead.
The lamp ball emits fluorescent light and strange fragrance that attracts insects, and it makes a living by devouring insects.
"If you are facing a large group of insect enemies, using this kind of lantern fish to divert the insect swarms in time will be the least costly way."
After that, he introduced many second-level creatures, until at the end of the course, a Sylutia familiar Astral Realm creature appeared on the drawing board.
[Evil Eye] (Level 3·Alien Star), a large floating eyeball monster with different forms and abilities.
Beholder creatures are alien beings that are beginning to gain intelligence. They all have the ability to focus on shooting, and their lethality is among the highest among third-level creatures."
"Among the many third-level creatures that can be summoned, Beholder has a strong comprehensive ability. It can be used for reconnaissance, monitoring, control, and shooting and attack." The teacher introduced.
"However, the difficulty of summoning this kind of creature is also the highest among third-level creatures. It is best for novices not to try it easily."
"In the past, there was a Cult organization named Hundred-Eye Cult. They were very good at summoning such creatures. They also had special means to make Beholder exist in the world for a long time and become a fighting force that obeys their orders. This is very powerful in a third-level profession."
"It exists for a long time?" Some students were puzzled.
"Yes, our usual summons use sacrifices and rituals to allow the summoned creatures to appear briefly and obey our orders. This is convenient, but you have to pay a price for each summons."
"Hundred-Eye Cult is very special. They can make the descending Beholder contract with themselves and stay in the world for a long time without being rejected by the world."
"This means that even third-level professionals with poor qualifications and low levels can use this method to possess above-average third-level combat effectiveness. Especially when they gather a certain number of people, they can easily focus fire and destroy enemies from a long distance." The teacher said the advantages of Beholder.
"Ultra-long sight range, the ability to break invisibility, and the ability to lock and fire accurately. Once these Beholder form a certain number, they will become a group of enemies that are difficult to deal with."
"But Hundred-Eye Cult" is stronger than the third level. After contracting Beholder, it is difficult for this profession to continue to advance. The entire sect lacks high-level combat effectiveness. In the past era, it was easily defeated and wiped out by major factions."
Hearing this, Sylutia also thought of that Cult Leader of Hundred-Eye Cult, who had planned to overthrow a country for many years, just to make sacrifices to improve his own rank.
No wonder it is called Cult. After all, it is not the right path. The short-term strength makes the subsequent advancement path more and more difficult.
After that, the teacher explained in detail the conditions and resources needed to summon Evil Eye. Many students listened with interest, and some even discussed what it would be like to get a Beholder to help them look after their homes and nursing homes.
The effect will be very good, Sylutia commented in his heart.
She had previously used the sealed and tamed Beholder as a housekeeper in the Woodland Alliance. These guys had very good eyesight, and ordinary invisible creatures could not avoid their observation, and they could also be on guard duty 24 hours a day.
The only difficult thing is how to summon them. After all, these guys are also considered the descendants of the evil god. Generally, if Mage summons them, they will have to face erosion and pollution.