The entire crowd fell silent.
Everyone stared blankly at Xu Yi on the platform. Were their eyes playing tricks on them?
This fellow had clearly come to take the Elementary Examination just like them, so how had he sent a prodigy examiner, who was at least a Level Four Mage, flying with a mere wave of his hand?
Xu Yi glanced at Allen, who lay motionless below the platform, and let out a cold laugh.
The kid had decent magical ability, but his mental fortitude and ability to take a hit were far too weak. The fireball Xu Yi had cast was indeed the powerful level-four fire magic spell Thunderclap Fireball, but since Allen had already put up a level-two Water Ripple Spell for defense, it could not possibly have inflicted much damage on him.
Yet the kid had passed out just like that. Most likely, he had scared himself unconscious.
"A magical prodigy?" Xu Yi shook his head, then turned to the arbitrator below the platform. "Does this mean I passed?"
With an ugly look on his face, the arbitrator glanced at Allen, whom several Mages' Guild staff members had just lifted up some distance away, then looked back at Xu Yi. He collected himself and nodded slightly.
Xu Yi had sent the examiner in charge of the test flying in front of so many people. If that did not count as passing, what would?
"Good." Having obtained the result he wanted, Xu Yi had no intention of wasting any more time there. After stepping down from the platform, he patted the still-stunned Elwin, offered him a few words of encouragement, and left the examination grounds. Rather than returning to Anvilmar City, however, he headed farther out into the countryside.
After walking just under five kilometers, he came upon