7 Screwed (1/2)

Such a miscalculation! If he had thought about it earlier, he definitely wouldn't have used Frost. After all, it was only a control spell with limited power. It would have been better to use a spell with burst power like Flame Burst! Even if that fellow had a magic tool that could resist magic, he definitely would not have had such an easy time stopping it. Just the shockwave from Flame Burst would be enough to leave him cutting a sorry figure on all fours. The stress had apparently gotten to Raymond, making him forget the reason for casting Frost in the first place.

'Okay, this was a bit unexpected, but using Flame Burst will fix it!'

Raymond used a few words to comfort himself before chanting the incantation for Flame Burst, full of confidence. Raymond appeared very calm this time. He shortened neither the incantation nor the spell gestures this time and just resolutely chanted his spell. Even the arrangement of the elements spinning in his mana whirlpool was textbook, to the point that if a strict teach saw his spell, they wouldn't find any faults.

'There won't be anything unexpected this time,' Raymond thought complacently.

But the result was...

Before Raymond even finished casting, a sharp whistling sound suddenly passed by his ear.

That ”whistle” felt like something was ripping through the air. It was followed by Raymond feeling his shoulder tingle before his whole body was sent flying like a cannonball...

Raymond landed on the ground a few meters away.

At that time, Raymond felt a painful heat on his shoulder and connected it to that sharp sound he'd heard a second ago. Raymond realized that this was the 2nd Rank spell, Tornado Whip!

But recognizing it didn't mean that he understood. In fact, after he noticed that it was Tornado Whip, Raymond was even more confused. 'Wh-what… What happened? How could a Tornado Whip appear here?' For a moment, Raymond even thought that he had chanted the wrong spell, mistaking Flame Burst's chant for that of Tornado Whip, causing him to receive backlash from the misfire.

If that wasn't the reason, the only possibility was that it had been cast by this apprentice.

But the situation quickly changed...

Raymond didn't have time to get up before a sharp whistle echoed once again. He felt his other shoulder go numb this time before he went sailing through the air.

'That's not it…'

Raymond lay on the ground once again, in a state of complete bewilderment. He didn't cast anything this time, so how could another Tornado Whip appear?

'No way, is it…'

As he gradually gathered his thoughts, Raymond raised his face and slowly paled. Even a lousy mage couldn't cast two completely wrong spells in a row like that, let alone having the same backlash twice. The only reasonable explanation was that those two spells truly came from that 9th Rank Magic Apprentice.

No, not a 9th Rank Magic Apprentice...

The two spells that came from that guy were clearly both silent and quickened. 'Damn, that scoundrel is an actual mage, a mage who has mastered at least two types of metamagic!'

At this time, Raymond really wanted to find a hole to hide in. 'You could have just said that you were a mage, why did you have to pretend to be a magic apprentice? And did you even need to use Tornado Whip on me twice? Are you a psycho?'

Raymond really couldn't understand at all… When did Lin Yun break through to become a mage? He was clearly a 9th Rank Magic Apprentice just a month ago, so how could he suddenly become a mage? And a mage that could easily use two metamagic abilities, how heaven-defying was that?

”How could you have become a mage!”

”Why not?” Lin Yun looked at Raymond strangely, not explaining anything. He only casually continued, ”Oh right, don't forget to thank your father once we return.”

”What do you mean?” Raymond froze when he heard that.