The blue-green light ball appeared again, and another strange auxiliary medicine appeared——
Moon leaves.
It is a crescent-shaped white leaf that can enhance vitality and slightly lift the spirit.
This plant is now the third.
But the apprentices did not rush forward. Instead, they all stood silently.
At a glance, there were no light balls on some short black iron pillars.
Click.
Immediately afterwards, those short black iron pillars with nothing on the top quietly disappeared, about one-third of the total number.
There were originally more than a hundred black pillars in the hall, but now they have suddenly been reduced by one-third, leaving only about seventy or eighty.
The number of apprentices gathered here is about one hundred.
Previously, when there were more than a hundred black pillars in the hall, more than a hundred potions appeared, and each of them could get one, and there were even some left.
But now, there are only about 80 short black iron pillars left, which means that the magic potion and Yuena leaves presented have also been reduced to only about 80 pieces.
More than eighty slices are obviously not enough for the more than one hundred apprentices in the hall.
Colin was mixed in with the crowd. He raised his head slightly and glanced around.
In mid-air, the figure of the Lapp wizard quietly disappeared, and he did not know where he went.
He withdrew his gaze, turned his head and silently observed the apprentices around him.
Most of them had doubts on their faces, and there were faint sounds of doubt.
"How come the quantity of potions has decreased..."
"...Where did Mr. Rapp go?"
"How should we allocate it..."
Most people tried hard to restrain their desires and hoped that the Lapp wizard would come forward to explain.
But the figure of the Lapp wizard never appeared.
Gulu.
Finally, a junior apprentice couldn't restrain the hunger and thirst brought by the strange fragrance and broke the situation.
Whoosh!
He quickly stepped forward and swallowed the potion.
After swallowing, the potion gradually takes effect.
The junior apprentice's face was filled with joy, his energy and blood became fuller, and his spirit became fuller.
Seeing this, no one is willing to wait any longer, especially those who have tasted the benefits of the magic potion before.
They can't sit back and watch these moon leaves being divided up by others!
Colin also stepped forward quickly, and with superhuman speed, grabbed a moon leaf.
After getting the moon leaves, he did not swallow them. He covered them with his hands and pretended to swallow them. In fact, he quietly collected them in his arms.
Previously, when the first plant, the Yeer flower, was presented, the Lapp wizard watched from mid-air.
Basically everyone swallowed the night flowers in front of the Lapp wizard.
After the second auxiliary medicine was presented, the Lapp wizard left.
A long-haired wizard's apprentice.
Maybe he saw the Lapp wizard disappear.
Therefore, he did not hide the fact that he had not swallowed the night flowers like Colin and secretly spit out the night flowers.
Instead, he spat out the blood-colored liquid turned into night flowers without concealment.
This also made Colin notice him.
It also made him understand that apparently some apprentices only swallowed the Yeerhua and did not swallow it in their stomachs.
soon.
The fight for Tsukina leaves ends.
Those apprentices who did not grab the potion looked regretful.
But my strength and luck are not as good as others, so I don’t say anything.
Colin turned his head slightly and looked around.
At this time, the long-haired male wizard who had vomited night flowers like him was not far to his right, holding the second and now third potion in his hand openly.
Colin's eyes flickered.
There are not many apprentices like the long-haired male wizard, but there are quite a few, and most of them are senior wizard apprentices.
He held the potions from the last two times in his hands... As for whether he swallowed the first night's flower, Colin didn't know.
He only clearly saw the long-haired male wizard vomiting out night flowers.
As for other intermediate or junior apprentices, they basically couldn't resist the temptation of the strange fragrance and had already swallowed the auxiliary medicine.
Just when Colin withdrew his gaze and was about to turn his head.
Click!!
Several bolts of lightning appeared out of thin air!
In the peripheral vision, the long-haired male wizard instantly turned into charcoal. As a senior wizard apprentice, he didn't even have time to scream.
Such power has exceeded the scope of apprenticeship!
There were two or three apprentices who met the same fate as him.
Colin's pupils shrank before he could react.
Immediately afterwards, another change occurred.
puff!!
"Ho-ho--!"
"ah--!"
Among the crowd, some wizard apprentices suddenly shed large amounts of blood from their bodies, fell down wailing, and soon lost their voices.
In this way, in just an instant, more than forty corpses were lying on the gray-white floor of the hall.
The remaining sixty or so apprentices also stopped in horror due to the strange change and looked at each other.
The whole hall fell silent.
"……How is this going?"
It took a long time before an apprentice murmured.
As his words fell, noisy voices sounded like a surge.
"Where's Mr. Rapp?!"
"Teacher Rapp must know the reason for this!"
"..."
Needham on the right side of the hall looked gloomy. He turned to Berkeley not far away and asked:
"Teacher, what do you mean?"
The lightning just now struck suddenly and was astonishingly powerful.
Although he is a peak apprentice, there is no guarantee that he will be able to successfully survive lightning.
"I don't know." Berkeley shook his head, paused and said, "Maybe there was an emergency."
"Ah!"
Fina on the side sneered, she couldn't see Berkeley's trust in Rapp.
So he sneered in a low voice: "Berkeley, don't be naive, do you really think Rapp is your father?
…He is just a robber who took you away from your real biological parents!”
When Berkeley heard this, he was not angry, but just shook his head slightly:
"I'm different from you, Fina. I remember very clearly that my parents took the initiative to sell me to Teacher Rapp for a gold coin."
He paused and then said:
"...If it weren't for Teacher Rapp, I might have become an abandoned child dying on the roadside."
Fina retorted with a cold face: "It's just your self-righteousness."
She glanced around and then said:
"Those who were killed by lightning were all apprentices who had never taken magic potion even once.
Those who died suddenly were all apprentices who had only taken the potion once or twice and had not taken the moon leaf for the third time."
"Obviously, this is a ceremony with an elimination mechanism."
"Your dear Rapp 'father' never cared about our lives, nor yours at all!"
She made no secret of her reasoning, and although her voice was not loud, it was enough for the remaining apprentices present to hear clearly.
When many apprentices heard this, their faces changed color.
Colin remained calm on his face and secretly hid the potions he had collected earlier even more secretly.
He glanced around slightly, making sure no one noticed him before he breathed a sigh of relief.
But there were many doubts in my heart.
‘… Regardless of whether Fina’s inference is correct, the current situation she observed is indeed correct.
Those apprentices who died, indeed, as he said, did not take the potion completely in order.’
'...But I clearly didn't take the magic potion, so why wasn't it wiped away by lightning?'
Colin's brows knitted together.
But before he could think about it deeply.
Teng!
As the blue-green light ball flashed past, a new potion was presented again.
But this time...the number is even smaller. A rough estimate is that there are only about thirty copies left.
The blank black iron pillar slowly sank, just like the hearts of the remaining apprentices in the hall suddenly sank.
Wow!!
This time, they no longer looked modest.
There was no starter, but all the apprentices moved in unison the moment the blue-green light ball dispersed!
Whoosh!!
The twenty or so senior wizard apprentices had a tacit understanding and did not compete with each other. Instead, they spread out and took the lead in occupying two-thirds of the potions.
The remaining intermediate apprentices were lucky enough to be closer to the black pillar and there were no senior apprentices around to compete with them, so they were lucky enough to grab a potion and swallow it wholeheartedly.
As for junior apprentices…
"Ah!" A twelve or thirteen-year-old junior wizard apprentice who was lucky enough to grab the potion howled in pain and flew to the side heavily.
He was severely knocked away by a thin and pale intermediate wizard beside him.
The potion fell from his hand and was thrown into the air, where it was scrambled by several intermediate wizards who had been waiting for a long time!
All of a sudden, the sounds of witchcraft, curses, and painful wails...were heard all the time!
the other side,
Colin, who had just grabbed a new potion, suddenly changed his expression and flashed slightly to the left.
He dodged a fierce acid attack aimed at his head.
He held a cone in his hand and turned around.
What came into view was the female apprentice Carrie who had forced him to help and go to Regina to reconcile the relationship.
At this moment, Carrie was looking at him in surprise as he dodged the attack.
laugh!
Colin's eyes turned cold, and the cone bullet flew out without hesitation and shot towards Carrie!
boom!
"ah!"
Caught off guard, a large hole was shot out of Carrie's abdomen, and the severe pain caused her to scream in agony.
This painful howl also caused the few apprentices who were watching around to stop their steps, and they quickly turned around and attacked other people!
Colin raised his head, no longer caring about the dying Carrie, and after coldly scanning the surrounding area, he used the cover of his palm to pretend to take the magic potion.
Secretly, he kept it in his arms like the magic potion before.
Soon, the situation gradually subsided.
Looking around, including himself, there were only forty-three wizards still standing.
Among them are three peak wizard apprentices, eighteen senior wizard apprentices, and twenty-two intermediate wizard apprentices.
Among the intermediate apprentices, seven of them looked gray at this time. They did not grab the magic potion.
All the other junior wizard apprentices were either dead or seriously injured and unable to move, quietly waiting for death to come on the ground.
The apprentices are no longer as close together as before, but are separated from each other by a distance around the black pillar, standing at intervals.
When the fight is over and the new potion has not yet been presented.
The hall was enveloped in an eerie silence.
The tip of his nose was filled with the smell of blood, and apart from the gasps of the apprentices, only the moans and whispered curses of the seriously injured were left in his ears.
There are thirty-six short black iron pillars in front of me.
But each of them knew in their hearts that in the near future, there would not be thirty-six blue-green balls of light, let alone thirty-six magic potions.
The short black iron columns will continue to settle.
And only a small percentage of them will survive...
Or, only one person can survive.
Colin was as calm as the other apprentices, but he was thinking rapidly in his mind.
He didn't understand why he slipped through the ceremony...
But he knew that as the number of people decreased, he, who was only an intermediate wizard apprentice on the surface, would become more and more conspicuous.
This cannot go on any longer.
boom!
Suddenly, the sound of flesh colliding with the stone wall was heard.
Colin followed the sound.
In front of the gray-white stone wall they entered, an intermediate wizard apprentice was covering his head with a gloomy expression.
Colin reacted quickly.
The hall here is generally circular, flat and open, and you can see the whole thing by looking up.
The hall is surrounded by gray and white stone walls, with no possible exit.
The intermediate wizard apprentice covering his head obviously wanted to return along the original route.
But it failed.
This means they may have no other way out.
Although Colin had been vaguely aware of this for a long time, now that it was truly confirmed, a haze still enveloped his heart.
The apprentice was unwilling and tried frantically around the walls of the hall.
But right now!
Teng!
A blue-green light group flashed past the black iron pillar.
The next potion was presented without any warning, this time there were only twelve.
"No!" When the apprentice who was looking for an exit saw this, he yelled and rushed towards the black pillar in the middle.
But soon, he stopped in despair.
Those potions have all been swallowed.
at the same time.
puff!
Blood mist sprayed out from the body of the intermediate wizard apprentice who had not grabbed the magic potion in the previous round.
They fell down in miserable howls, and finally lost their voices just like the apprentices before them.
Some senior apprentices also changed their expressions. They failed to grab this round of potions.
Grabbing the potion and swallowing it is a matter of seconds.
If you are unlucky and slow down, even if they are stronger than the intermediate apprentices, it will not help.
Needham is also on this list.
With a gloomy look on his face, he looked around and decisively attacked the lucky intermediate wizard apprentice nearest him.
Wow!!
Before the joy on the face of the intermediate wizard apprentice who was lucky enough to swallow the potion faded away, his eyes suddenly became dim and lifeless.
Needham held the body of the intermediate wizard apprentice, controlled the magic power, stretched out his right index finger with familiarity, and traced the middle line of the body.
The index finger is like the sharpest scalpel. Starting from the lower lip of the intermediate wizard apprentice, the fair skin is like a hot knife cutting through butter and splitting.
Exposing the inside of the larynx, the inside of the esophagus, and the inside of the stomach that are hidden underneath.
Then, Needham slowly leaned down, stretched out his long bright red tongue, and licked every bit of the undigested potion inside!
In the hall, there were only about twenty wizard apprentices left at this moment, all standing sparsely scattered.
Some intermediate apprentices were upset because they didn't get the potion just now, but now, looking at Needham's actions, they couldn't help but feel a little happy in their hearts.
But soon, I thought that the ceremony would continue, the blue-green light would flash, and the black iron pillars would continue to sink.
The joy in their hearts is like a candle in the wind, fleeting.
On the left side of the hall,
Colin looked at Needham with a calm expression, but felt a little nauseous in his heart.
Suddenly, there were slight footsteps approaching him.