ys, he had outstanding spiritual energy, with an extremely lasting combat stamina. He was very familiar with all types of magic and was very good with people, which was why he got all the way to the final battle.

There are really some talented mages in this team.

"Joanna, I’ll let you have the crystal, after all, you are specializing in fire magic. I also do not want to fight you... ..." Varys stood on the field and said with a creepy smile, like pedophile who was offering a lollipop to a child.

"No." Joanna immediately shook her head and said, "You must fight me. You always look for excuses saying that you are busy and will not battle with me. Now is the only chance, I’m not going to pa.s.s it up."

Hearing this, Varys had no choice.

The last battle finally began. The two of them stood on opposite ends of the field, looked at each other, nodded, and started chanting spells.

According to a mage’s usual fighting pattern, Varys made a defensive s.h.i.+eld—— when facing an attack with fire magic, he chose a very useful water s.h.i.+eld and protected himself from any blind spot.

For Joanna, there was no need for defense - she immediately casted a difficult intermediate-level magic: Phoenix Flame, which summoned a group of white flames in front of her.

Benjamin was not surprised.

Fire magic had always been weaker in defense, having a physical s.h.i.+eld was not very effective and Joanna's fighting style was also very direct. This caused her to usually forgo defense totally for a much more kamikaze-style attack.

Her spell - Phoenix Flame, it was a very interesting choice. The flame was named after the phoenix, not because it has anything to do about the legend of the Phoenix, but because the fire possessed regenerative characteristics like a Phoenix. if summoned, it will spontaneously generate new flames; without needing any instructions, it can continuously attack with small fireb.a.l.l.s.

To master such complex magic in such a short time… Joanna must have practiced for a long time in private to get to this stage.

After the flame was initially summoned, countless small fireb.a.l.l.s were also summoned. Like an infinitely fueled flamethrower, it completely boiled Varys’ water s.h.i.+eld into a thick mist. Seeing this, Varys could only use other defense magic to block the fireb.a.l.l.s.

The situation forced him to stay on defensive. Joanna flew to the air, and started to wield flames to her heart’s content. b.a.l.l.s of fire, bursting fireb.a.l.l.s, pillars of fire… all kinds of fire magic were casted – like some kind of glorious flame show.

"How did Joanna suddenly become so powerful? She didn’t tell us about this at all!"

"No… she has said it before but we all thought she was bragging and even thought that she was being delusional. But this…. this is …."

There was no doubt who was going to win.

This was probably the reason why Varys did not want to battle with her.

Joanna's way of fighting was very interesting. Through the crazy continuous attack, she suppressed his casting. Varys’s foundation may have been better than hers, but in this case, his full strength could not be fully expressed.

It seems that by continuously completing mercenary task, her combat skills had increased greatly!

Benjamin could not help but to think, should he figure out an idea to encourage those who do not want to partic.i.p.ate in mercenary missions, so that they will get involved and improve themselves?

He gradually started to form an idea —being happy every day was very good, but, they also needed a functional reward system to encourage everyone to pursue higher level magic.