24: Red Moon Space, hidden profession fusion mage

When Ye Xiao’s vision recovered,

he found himself in an unknown, mysterious space.

The next moment, he saw a somewhat eerie Red Moon hanging above his head.

Around him, there was only void, with no end in sight.

At the same time, Ye Xiao noticed a dark mask covering half of his face.

Ye Xiao carefully touched it.

Buzz!

The mask suddenly emitted a strange, faint glow.

Immediately after, the Red Moon above his head cast a soft red light, shining down on Ye Xiao.

Before Ye Xiao could figure out what was happening,

rows of text suddenly appeared in his vision.

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【Welcome to the Red Moon Trial Tower. Detecting your current profession: Mage】

【You can choose one of the following advanced professions and complete the corresponding task to advance your profession.】

【Martial Mage: A profession that cultivates both body and spirit, making all of its offensive methods imbued with spell damage.】

【Dragon-Tongue Mage: As is well known, the language of the Dragon race naturally provides a great boost to magic power. Mastering Dragon-Tongue will greatly increase the power of your spells, provided you can slay a Dragon.】

【Fusion Mage: This is a profession without any restrictions. You can fuse two or more skills at will to create powerful new skills, while retaining the original skills. However, the prerequisite for doing so is having enough skills and the ability to control them.】

【You only have 60 seconds. Please choose as soon as possible.】

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Seeing the sudden appearance of the text, Ye Xiao was stunned, then ecstatic.

He hadn't expected that after killing Snow Phoenix, he would unexpectedly obtain an item for a hidden profession advancement.

Suppressing the joy in his heart, Ye Xiao calmly began to examine the descriptions of the three professions.

The first, Martial Mage, according to its description, was clearly a profession that combined both physical and magical cultivation.

It could effectively compensate for the Mage's fragile physique, while also providing more long-range damage options than melee physical professions.

It sought a balance between melee protective professions and magic professions.

While it compensated for some weaknesses of both, their advantages were also simultaneously weakened.

Of course, this was still a very good hidden profession.

If it weren't for seeing the descriptions of the latter two professions, Ye Xiao would probably have only chosen to advance to Martial Mage.

Next was the second hidden profession, Dragon-Tongue Mage.

Ye Xiao didn't even need to read its description to know the power of this profession.

The Dragons of the Eternal World have always represented the strongest magical species.

They are naturally proficient in various magic skills, and even adult Dragons can cast various forbidden spells that humans find difficult to control.

To be honest, Ye Xiao was very tempted.

However, in the Eternal World, humans had encountered Dragons only a handful of times in the past hundred years.

In fact, initially, human Professionals only learned about the legends of Dragons from NPCs.

Thus, if a subsequent advancement quest required him to find a Dragon, the difficulty would undoubtedly be immense.

What if the Dragon race had already gone extinct? Wouldn't he have wasted an opportunity to advance to a hidden profession?

Of course, the biggest fundamental reason for giving up on advancing to Dragon-Tongue Mage was the third profession—Fusion Mage.

From the profession description, this profession was undoubtedly the most suitable for Ye Xiao.

The prerequisite for fusing skills is that you must have skills that can be fused.

This might seem a bit impractical for most Professionals.

After skills are fused, the original skills will still exist.

This would implicitly occupy many skill slots.

And a normal person's skill bar is limited.

But for Ye Xiao, this was completely a non-issue.

Even with his Infinite Skill Bar, he could unleash the Fusion Mage's maximum potential.

This profession was practically tailor-made for Ye Xiao.

As for whether its corresponding advancement quest would be difficult,

in Ye Xiao's opinion, it probably wouldn't exceed that of the Dragon-Tongue Mage.

After some analysis, Ye Xiao quickly made his decision.

“I choose Fusion Mage.”

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【Ding! You have chosen Fusion Mage. Task is being generated...】

【Task generation complete...】

【Task Stage One: Challenge of the Fusion Mage: Challenge the Mage Mirror with Fusion Power. Upon victory, you will obtain the Fusion Rune, the core item for becoming a Fusion Mage.】

【Note: If killed by the Mirror, the challenge fails, the task is canceled, and cannot be accepted again.】

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As the text appeared,

the next second, the void and dark space suddenly disappeared.

In its place was a dense forest.

Before Ye Xiao could react, a figure gradually formed about a hundred meters in front of him.

Ye Xiao looked up and was immediately stunned.

The sudden figure looked exactly like him.

Both wore the same mysterious mask on their faces.

Ye Xiao looked closely, and the Mirror's detailed data appeared above its head.

It was exactly the same as himself, even the skills were identical.

Challenging the Mirror?

But wasn't he not yet a Fusion Mage?

However, Ye Xiao's doubts did not last long.

After the Mirror appeared, without any unnecessary words, it raised its hand and cast a spell.

Ye Xiao's eyes widened.

The Mirror cast his most familiar Fireball.

The same move, the same twenty-five consecutive shots.

However, the color and appearance of this Fireball seemed to have some slight differences from his.

But Ye Xiao didn't have time to think too much. Seeing the opponent attack, he immediately retaliated with Fireball as well.

Identical skills met in mid-air, instantly erupting with a thunderous roar.

The next moment, Ye Xiao, who had originally thought he was foolproof, suddenly changed his expression.

Divinity Speed immediately activated, and he barely managed to dodge just as the Fireball was about to reach him.

After the attack, Ye Xiao looked at the scene before him with a face full of surprise.

Even with identical skills, his Fireball couldn't block the opponent's?

He knew that the opponent's attributes were on par with his, so how could he lose?

How could this be?

Unfortunately, the Mirror had no thoughts and could not answer his questions.

Next, Ye Xiao and his Mirror began an endless exchange of blows.

After blocking a few times, Ye Xiao found that his Fireball was simply no match for the opponent's Fireball.

This frustrated Ye Xiao immensely, as he still couldn't figure out why.

Fortunately, the Mirror ultimately lacked the ability to think, and its mechanical fighting style was quickly figured out by Ye Xiao.

Thus, he didn't lose any health.

After another exchange of Fireball attacks,

Ye Xiao distanced himself from the opponent.

Through observation over several rounds of exchanges, Ye Xiao had now completely calmed down.

At the same time, he finally discovered the difference in the Mirror's Fireball.

That is, although the Mirror's Fireball also had 25 consecutive shots,

it wasn't like Ye Xiao's, where each one dealt equal damage.

The damage of the Mirror's Fireball seemed to increase incrementally, one after another.

It was as if these 25 Fireballs were originally one entity, which was why their power gradually strengthened.

Realizing this, Ye Xiao suddenly understood.

Is this the power of fusion?

A hint of fervor flashed in his eyes.

This Fusion Mage was even more powerful than he had imagined.

No matter what, he had to become a Fusion Mage.

Thinking of this, his gaze became serious.