Several more screams came from outside the door, followed by the sound of someone kicking at it, then more screams, and after that, a terrifying silence. Clearly, the magic apprentices on the second floor had all been killed. After a while, footsteps sounded outside the door, coming closer and closer—the assassin was heading toward the room where the three were hiding.

“Don’t kill me, don’t kill me, I don’t want to die! I don’t want to die! Wuwuwu~” The magic apprentice squatting on the ground broke down completely, sobbing with snot and tears streaming down his face.

Celine’s expression didn’t change, but her brows furrowed even tighter.

Outside the door, the footsteps stopped, lasting a full two seconds—an eternity for the magic apprentices inside the room.

Suddenly, with a ‘bang’, a crack appeared in the wooden door.

The flimsy wooden door was no match for the strength of the dark elf assassin.

With a ‘crash’, the second kick shattered the door into pieces. Outside, the dark elf assassin holding a horn bow stood there, looking at the three apprentices in the room and sneering coldly.

“Little rabbits, let me send you to hell, how about it?”

Luke Carter looked at the assassin, and the other’s information appeared in his mind.

Dark Elf Assassin (Elite)

Level 2 Warrior

Combat Skill: Speed Burst

Equipment: Standard Horn Bow (Excellent)

In this era, a level 2 elite assassin was already extremely powerful for ordinary people. Even more frightening, all the dark elf assassins appearing tonight were at this level. Greystone was a small town with very few strong fighters, so it was no wonder they had been successfully decapitated!

Luke Carter’s vision shifted again, and another message appeared—a quest!

Series quest activated.

First quest: Counterattack!

Quest objective: Kill the dark elf assassin who broke into the apprentice dormitory.

Reward: 15 free points.

Luke Carter was delighted—he urgently needed power, and this quest had come at just the right time!

Chapter 5: The Mage’s First Battle

Of the three magic apprentices, Luke Carter appeared the calmest. He was still holding a beautiful magic wand, making him the most eye-catching.

The dark elf assassin stood at the doorway and said something, then raised his horn bow, nocked an arrow, and with a ‘twang’, shot an arrow straight at Luke Carter’s head.

If he had enough magic points, Luke Carter would have used the level 1 spell ‘Lesser Arrow Protection Field’ to block the attack. But a level 1 spell required 10 free points to purchase—far too expensive.

So, Luke Carter chose to use a level 0 spell: ‘Fireball’.

With a light tap of his wand in the air before him, a white fireball the size of a glass marble instantly appeared and shot toward the dark elf assassin’s arrow.

“Hmph, not bad at magic, but thinking you can stop my anti-magic arrow? Too naive.” The dark elf assassin sneered inwardly.

In the next instant, the arrow flew forward, the fireball shot out, but the two didn’t collide—instead, they passed by each other, separated by just a few centimeters.

When the arrowhead passed the fireball, the fireball remained motionless, flying forward. As the arrow shaft went by, the fireball still didn’t change. Finally, when the arrow fletching passed through the fireball, the level 0 spell exploded.

‘Bang’—a not-too-loud sound. The air near the tail of the anti-magic arrow suddenly expanded, sending air currents in all directions, striking the arrow’s fletching.

Yes, to deal with the magic academy, all the dark elf assassins were equipped with anti-magic weapons. If Luke Carter had made the fireball collide with the arrowhead, the fireball would have been easily extinguished into sparks.

But now, by using the fireball’s explosion to affect the anti-magic arrow’s flight, he achieved a miraculous effect!

The arrow’s trajectory immediately veered off course. By the time it reached Luke Carter, it had deviated by more than twenty centimeters, flying past the side of his face and only ruffling a few strands of hair at his temple.

“Huh?” The dark elf assassin was shocked that he had missed.

He nocked another arrow.

But he no longer had the chance—Luke Carter never just took hits without fighting back. His combat style was always an eye for an eye!

‘Shhk’—the floor beneath the dark elf suddenly shifted, and a spike shot up out of nowhere.

Earth Spike

Level 0 Earth Element Spell

Effect: A hard stone spike up to half a meter long rises from the ground… whatever you do, don’t step on it.

Just like the fireball before, the earth spike appeared extremely fast and suddenly, so much so that the dark elf archer had no time to react. What’s more, for stealth, he wore light, thin shoes with almost no protection.

“Pfft”—the earth spike pierced the dark elf’s heel, driving upward until it emerged from the side of his calf.

How painful was such an injury?

“Ah!”

Even a specially trained dark elf assassin couldn’t bear it, screaming in agony. The arrow he had just nocked fell to the ground, and he involuntarily collapsed backward, his whole body trembling.

‘Shhk’—another earth spike!

The spike appeared in a very precise spot, as if it had anticipated the assassin’s movement. As the dark elf assassin fell to the ground, his rear landed right above the spot where the spike rose.