Chapter 300: Perfect Start, Steady Chicken Dinner

【Dear players, please be prepared, the Battle Royale game is about to begin.】

【During the game, all innate magic and equipment will be temporarily sealed. Players can only obtain temporary spell slots and equipment from resource boxes guarded by resource beasts in the arena. A good start can help you go further.】

【After the game starts, poisonous fog will slowly erode the arena. Please pay attention to escaping the poisonous fog area in time.】

【During the game, Clown Phantoms will refresh at random locations. Defeating Clown Phantoms will give you a chance to obtain better spell slots or equipment.】

【The strength of the Clown Phantoms will increase as the game time progresses. The stronger the Clown Phantom, the better the spells and equipment dropped, but please act according to your ability.】

【During the game, every player has one resurrection opportunity. Please use it wisely. This is Clown Lord's mercy to the unlucky.】

【The game will end when only one person remains. After the end, scores will be settled according to player ranking. In addition, players who participate in killing Clown Phantoms will receive extra points.】

【Finally, a friendly reminder: Clown Lord is watching you. Players who perform brilliantly during the game may receive impression points, so please try your best to show yourself.】

【I wish you all a pleasant game.】

Following the Clown Lord's snap, the nearly two hundred new recruits found that the training ground under their feet began to be recast. The space expanded, directly extending the area to the size of a small world. Moreover, under the effect of terrain magic, the entire arena became complex, with jungles, grasslands, hills, swamps, deserts, and other landscapes all available.

The new recruits were scattered and randomly distributed in various positions in the arena. Their original standard combat robes were replaced with ordinary novice robes, and only the masks on their faces were retained, but some masks with their own abilities also lost their wonders at this time.

Everyone's actions were restricted; a transparent barrier confined them to their original spots, temporarily unable to move, and a one-minute countdown was flashing within the barrier.

At the same time, several rule messages popped up in everyone's minds, which made many people's expressions change.

Especially those successors cultivated by old inquisitors, most of them had heard their elders mention the content of the assessment. The assessments of past generations were nothing more than testing strength and loyalty.

The loyalty test was hard to say, but the strength test was mostly arena duels, so they needed to be familiar with their respective spell slot combat systems in advance so that they could perform better during the duels.

Therefore, in the days waiting for the assessment, these people had been working hard to familiarize themselves with the spell slot combat they had chosen.

But now that these brand-new assessment rules were out, they found that they had practiced for nothing for the past few months. Since they could only use the random spells newly acquired in the assessment, everyone was back at the same starting line.

However, where there is sorrow, there is joy. For example, those new recruits specially recruited through duels, who were outstanding in dueling talent, found it easier to get started with new spells. Such rules were even friendlier to them.

And regardless of whether the new recruits accepted it or not, they were powerless to change anything. Soon, the one-minute countdown ended, the magic barrier that bound them disappeared, and they regained their freedom, which also announced that the Battle Royale game had begun.

Outside the arena, Dorothy and the two bronze-medal teaching assistants were paying attention to the progress of the entire game.

Only then did Dorothy have time to look at these two teaching assistant witches.

Judging from the aura on them, these were two genuine Grand Witches, and their races were also easy to determine. The one wearing a lion mask was an Angel Witch, and the other wearing a half-face mask with a flame butterfly eye patch was a Demon Witch.

The identity tokens on their waists also highlighted their factions. The back of the bronze token hanging on the Angel Witch's waist had an angel relief, while the Demon Witch's token had a ram-horned demon relief.

Obviously, they belonged to the other two Grand Inquisitors of the Tribunal besides her own mother.

After a few polite words of small talk, Dorothy learned their code names. The Angel Witch's code name was Lionheart, and the Demon Witch's was Madame Butterfly.

Lionheart had some opinions about Dorothy's Battle Royale game, feeling it was too radical and not fair enough, but Madame Butterfly liked it very much, exclaiming that Clown Lord's method was interesting and fun enough.

However, the assessment had already begun, so whatever they said was useless. After the three chatted briefly, they all focused their attention on the arena in front of them.

After all, this assessment was an exam for the new recruits, but for them, it was a recruitment drive. After the assessment ended, they needed to find a way to see if they could pull excellent new recruits into their own factions.

Of course, these two teaching assistants were just watching, while Dorothy had already taken action. She left one line of thought to pay attention to the assessment process, while the other three lines of thought had already been invested in the arena, splitting into nine Clown Phantoms.

Hunting time has arrived...

And the perspective came to the new recruits' side.

Miss Ghost Mask accepted these assessment rules very easily, and she immediately started taking action as soon as the assessment began.

Although her spellcasting ability was sealed, as the next shrine maiden candidate in the village, Miss Ghost Mask had been cultivated as an all-rounder since childhood. She was proficient in both literature and martial arts; without spellcasting ability, her physical arts were still there.

Her starting location was a vast primeval forest. Various tall trees shot into the clouds, and the dense canopy covered the sky, making the forest look a bit dark, with only a few mottled sunlight projecting through the gaps in the branches.

Miss Ghost Mask liked this kind of start very much, which reminded her of the days when she was undergoing ninja training in the village.

She found a random tree and ran straight up along the trunk.

Well, it seems that although spellcasting ability was sealed, the simple trick of gathering magic power at the feet to make climbing trees as easy as walking on flat ground could still be used.

This made Miss Ghost Mask very excited, and then she jumped and galloped between the branches quite familiarly, running with various fancy ninja styles all the way.

First, find the resource box. The rules said that resource boxes are mostly guarded by magic beasts, so let's see if there are any magic beasts nearby.

Miss Ghost Mask thought to herself.

Her luck was quite good. She didn't search for long before she saw a huge python coiled on a tree stump on a big tree.

As soon as she saw this snake, she didn't hesitate at all, jumped directly toward the giant python with a force from her feet, and the giant python also discovered her, just about to open its mouth to intimidate and warn her.

But just as its mouth opened, the next second, a blade light flashed, and the giant python was neatly split into two along the position of its mouth.

Miss Ghost Mask shook her hand, a blood-shaking move, shaking the blood off her hand blade. She searched for the big tree where the giant python was, and finally found a resource box on the branches.

Opening the box, she was immediately overjoyed. There was a magic light ball in the box, which seemed to be a spell slot, and beside the light ball was a long blade and several magic potions.

Although the shape of the long blade was not the katana she was most familiar with, it was enough. With this, she at least unlocked her own swordsmanship.

And looking at the spell slot again, her beautiful big eyes curved into crescents, feeling that her start this time was directly taking off.

6th-Ring Combat Technique: Snake-Style Draw Slash.

Great, it turned out to be the iaijutsu she was best at. Learned, learned.

However, just as she was about to reach out and take the last few magic potions in the box, her gaze suddenly froze, and she retreated far away.

And just the next moment after she retreated, a sword light flashed, landing on her previous position, and then directly slashed across this giant tree that required five people to hug.

*Boom... *

The giant tree collapsed, the trunk hit other trees, making a loud noise, and also splashing dust all over the sky. And in that dust, a figure walked out unhurriedly.

The other party was wearing a familiar clown mask.

This is a Clown Phantom.

... Both sides in a standoff... ===== CHAPTER 301 =====