Chapter 28: Actual Combat Training, One-On-One Combat Against Magical Beasts
Translator: Simple MTL Editor: Simple MTL

Swano Magical Beast Forest.
Sophia led Lin An and the others deeper into the Magical Beast Forest.
Although they were in the outer area, there were also differences in strength in the outer area.
The closer they were to the edge, the weaker the magical beasts became. For example, the Thorn Hound from before seemed very strong, but after knowing its weakness, it was very easy to kill it.
This kind of magic beast wasn’t very challenging for low-level sorcerer apprentices.
Only the stronger existences among the rank-1 magic beasts could pose a threat to everyone and allow them to grow.
Soon, after walking for two to three kilometers, they finally encountered a powerful rank-1 magic beast in front of everyone.
“Golden-Armed Ape!”
This was a type of ape-type magic beast, a rank-1 magic beast famous for having two arms made of steel.
Its arms were made of steel, and it had immense strength. It could even withstand a portion of the magic damage. It was very powerful.
If this Golden-Armed Ape continued to evolve and its entire body turned into steel, it would become a tier-4 magic beast, the Diamond Ape. Even a magic sorcerer would not be a match for the Diamond Ape.
And although this Golden-Armed Ape only had two arms that were comparable to steel, it still gave many people a headache.
“Morrison, you go and fight it,” Sophia said to Morrison expressionlessly.
Morrison was stunned, but he still braced himself and walked up.
Morrison swore that this was definitely the first time he faced a magical beast head-on.
Although the Golden-Armed Ape’s body was not big, the light reflected from its arms made Morrison afraid.
“Roar!”
However, the Golden-Armed Ape was not afraid at all. It climbed back and forth between the trees and soon arrived above Morrison.
“Great God, please grant me the power to turn it into a cute pet.”
Morrison chanted the spell at the fastest speed in his life.
Immediately, the Golden-Armed Ape that was extremely fierce just a moment ago turned into a cute puppy, baring its fangs and brandishing its claws on the ground.
Sophia, who was not far away, said, “Transformation magic. Not bad, but you have to be careful. Your magic can’t completely transform it.”
As expected, as soon as Sophia’s words fell, the cute puppy turned into a Golden-Armed Ape again, and an arm directly attacked Morrison.
Bang!
Morrison did not have time to dodge, and one of his arms was directly hit by the Golden-Armed Ape, and the bent bone was broken.
“Ah!”
Morrison’s head was covered in cold sweat. He collapsed on the ground, unable to stop trembling.
Seeing the figure of the Golden-Armed Ape attacking again, Morrison was terrified.
At this time, he had even forgotten how to cast a spell. His mind was completely blank.
Not far away, Sophia raised her hand, and an icicle condensed in the void. It shot out quickly, piercing through the Golden-Armed Ape that was about to kill Morrison.
A rank-1 magic beast was really no match for Sophia.
After the battle ended, Sophia brought everyone to Morrison’s side. She put one hand on Morrison’s bent arm and cast a spell to heal Morrison’s injury.
After a while, Morrison finally recovered.
At this time, Sophia also said, “Your performance is very bad. You are also a low-level magic apprentice, but you can only cast one spell before you are defeated.”
“If you really face this alone, you will die here today.”
“When you recover tomorrow, continue to fight. If it is still like this, you might as well leave this team and go back to the academy to study.”
The others did not dare to say anything.
At the same time, they thought to themselves, if they were Morrison, would they do better than Morrison?
The answer was no.
After all, this was the first time everyone was facing a magical beast. No one would be able to calm down.
To be able to cast a spell was already considered a pretty good reaction, not to mention defeating a level-1 magical beast.
At this moment, Lin An appeared very calm.
However, he was still very surprised by Sophia’s training method.
It was actually a direct combat training, a 1v1 against a magical beast.
But after thinking about it, if they were to participate in the National Magic Academy Competition, they might face an opponent of a high-level sorcerer-apprentice. That level-1 magical beast was really nothing.
To a low-level sorcerer-apprentice, if they wanted to defeat a high-level sorcerer-apprentice, they had to surpass them in terms of combat experience.
And in actual combat training, what they trained was actual combat experience.
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Not long after, everyone once again encountered a rank-1 magic beast.
This time, Sophia directly sent another student to fight with the magic beast.
The result was very bleak. Other than releasing a spell at the beginning, they were defeated by the magic beast in the end, unable to resist at all.
Very soon, each and every student suffered a deep sense of defeat in actual combat training.
The spell that they had always been proud of could not play any role on the magical beasts.
The only one who was more outstanding was Susanna. Although she did not defeat the rank-1 magical beast, she relied on light magic to stand in an invincible position.
If it were not for the fact that her magic energy was exhausted in the end, she might have been able to fight against the magical beasts until the sky turned dark.
In private, Lin An even asked Susanna why she didn’t learn an attack-type light-type spell.
Susanna only said that an attack-type light-type spell was harder to learn. Otherwise, it would be very easy to kill a rank-1 magical beast.
At this moment, the only person in the team who hadn’t fought against the magical beast was Lin An.
And Sophia didn’t seem to be in a hurry to find a magical beast for Lin An. Instead, as she hurried on, she explained some knowledge about the use of magic to everyone.
“Roar!”
Just in the afternoon, a terrifying roar came from afar. Even from afar, one could feel the immense pressure.
This made the crowd raise their heads to look.
In the distance, a huge lion was biting a magical beast. It seemed to be treating this magical beast as food.
Such a bloody scene made several students dare not look directly at it.
As if she had found her prey, Sophia said to Lin An, “Lin An, go and fight him.”
Instantly, everyone was stunned and looked at Lin An sympathetically.
Lin An was also a little depressed and asked, “Teacher Sophia, you’re not joking, right?”