Chapter 92

Lin Ke

Rivers snorted, his tone full of sarcasm, "At this point, you're still playing that fawning trick."

Saying this, Rivers' face turned somewhat ferocious, grinding his teeth, "You relied on that trick, licking Ella Smith of the advanced academy to make her comfortable, thereby securing your re-election, right?"

Newblood Mutual Aid Society

Pureblood Will

Newblood

Two Districts Grand Comparison

Li Fu Si

An Tuo Wan. Xi Er Dun

Peter Lionel no longer pretended to ask for the Paro wizard's opinion, directly giving a glance to Soren Lucia, the male wizard whose appearance somewhat resembled Sophia Lucia's.

Su Fei. Lu Qi Ya

The Blood Meat Mill Arena, aside from the central arena where a life-and-death battle is underway, also has several small combat rings for VIPs to settle personal disputes.

The rings are fully enclosed, with no spectators on site; only designated boxes can watch the battle in real time.

Pa Lo Wizard

Two staff members arrived quickly, with clear division of labor: one led Rivers and Antoine away, while the other adjusted the glass window into a large screen.

Soon, the screen displayed an empty dueling arena.

Though called a small arena, its area is actually close to 200 square meters.

Taking advantage of the waiting lull, Lin Ke began to review the day's many events.

Judging from the current results, his intuition was both right and wrong.

Professor Paro indeed had a task for him, but it wasn't the horse‑race‑like battle he imagined; rather, it concerned a wager on the Two Districts Grand Comparison.

Perhaps because the Newblood Mutual Aid Society hadn't developed any promising prospects among the first‑years;

After all, Lan Ni. Tai Le, who ranked first in aptitude and tied for first in grades, is a lone wolf who joined no apprentice organization;

Mo Li Kidman, sixth in overall scores, first joined then quit;

The five brothers with decent aptitude and grades, after being beaten up, not only quit the society but also targeted its members in various ways;

The other Newbloods who placed in the top ten each found their own affiliations, joining other apprentice organizations.

Meanwhile, Pureblood Will, an apprentice organization that develops exclusively among local wizard apprentices in the North District, not only surpasses the Newblood Mutual Aid Society in member quality, but also overwhelms it in resources.

In past Two Districts Grand Comparisons, Pureblood Will members have consistently performed slightly better than those of the Newblood Mutual Aid Society.

Given the Newblood Mutual Aid Society's poor operation and lack of strong first‑year Newblood members, Lin Ke became an indispensable external reinforcement.

This eased Lin Ke's tense nerves considerably.

The Two Districts Grand Comparison—he was already set to participate, with multiple wagers on him, so it made no difference.

As long as it's not a battle against an unknown opponent, it's fine!

At that moment, Li Fu Si and An Tuo Wan. Xi Er Dun's figures appeared at the two ends of the arena on the screen.

No host, no referee, and no rules.

The battle was about to erupt.

Who lives and who dies will be known shortly!

On the arena.

Li Fu Si seized the initiative, striking first to gain the upper hand.

A Lesser Explosive Fireball was hurled forth as he raised his hand.

A fireball the size of a human head, blazing with fierce flames, whistled toward An Tuo Wan. Xi Er Dun.

Its momentum was tremendous, and its speed was astonishingly fast.

In flight, sparks scattered in all directions, littering the arena.

An Tuo Wan. Xi Er Dun did not dodge; standing firm, he summoned a thick earth wall in the fireball's path with a thought.

Without rune items or magical implements granting speed, levitation, or acceleration, even a Third‑Circle wizard apprentice is lacking in evasive arts.

After all, not every spell can be perfected to the point of instant casting.

Li Fu Si curled his mouth into a savage grin; a burst of blazing flames rose from his body, his head tilted slightly back, and he spread his arms.

The fireball about to smash into the earth wall suddenly skipped like a stone on water, tracing a strange arc and shooting past the wall's top.

A heat wave struck, his hair slightly singed.

An Tuo Wan. Xi Er Dun faced the imminent exploding fireball, startled but not panicked; a earth shield he had concealed behind him swiftly flew to his front.

Boom—

The fireball exploded, scattering sparks, fire serpents lunging.

The earth shield shattered into seven or eight pieces, falling to the ground.

An Tuo Wan. Xi Er Dun was shoved backward two steps by the expanding shockwave and repulsive force.

Several fire serpents, taking advantage of his lapse, licked at him.

An Tuo Wan. Xi Er Dun hastily summoned a sheet of water from above to douse down, extinguishing the fire serpents.

It was already somewhat late.

The same Lesser Explosive Fireball, when cast by Li Fu Si, gained double boost from super affinity with the fire element and the Rageflame Meditation Method, making its power far greater.

An Tuo Wan. Xi Er Dun's earth‑wall technique was bypassed, and his earth‑shield technique could not fully defend.

Though he suffered no serious injury, his hair was scorched, his face blackened, his clothes burned through in several places, his arm skin blistered, and his whole body soaked, leaving him looking like a drowned chicken.

Judging by the scene, he had indeed fallen into a disadvantage.

However, An Tuo Wan. Xi Er Dun was not merely a punching bag.

As Antoine Hilton retreated two steps, the stone platform between him and Lifusi Fulansi became a mire swamp.

The combined effect of the Secondary Mud and Stone Technique and the Water Purification Technique.

Doing this is to defend against Lifusi Fulansi's Blazing Flame Charge.

Having just taken a step, he was about to exert force and charge toward Antoine Hilton when an intimate, clinging Lifusi Fulansi forced him to halt his steps.

Changing the terrain?

Retracting his steps, Lifusi Fulansi glanced at Antoine Hilton, who was preparing a counterattack, and his sinister smile grew even wider.

Fire has never been limited by terrain.

Sorcery is also not bound by rules!

Pushing off the ground with his feet, the flames all over his body converged toward the soles of his feet, instantly erupting in a violent spray, and Lifusi Fulansi actually turned himself into a rocket, soaring into the air.

This is a variant application of the Fire Arrow Technique, using flame spray as propulsion and his own body as the arrow, advancing relentlessly in a desperate, mutual-destruction fighting style.

Drawing a parabolic trajectory, the Lifusi Fulansi-brand humanoid guided missile shot at extreme speed toward Antoine Hilton.

Meanwhile, the spot where he had originally stood suddenly sprouted from the ground a series of sharp earth spikes, just missing the soles of Lifusi Fulansi's feet.

Antoine Hilton's carefully prepared Earth Spike Technique ambush came to nothing, only piercing the blazing tail flame.

In the blink of an eye, facing Lifusi Fulansi, who was intent on mutual destruction with him, Antoine Hilton finally employed sorcery outside the earth system—a Light System Zero-Rank Flash Technique.

He raised his right hand high, a cluster of radiant light appearing in his palm, which then instantly exploded.

Intense white light flashed, stimulating Lifusi Fulansi's eyes in an extremely short time, producing a blinding effect.

Antoine Hilton also took advantage of this flash, employing the Zero-Rank Light-Bending Phantasm technique, his form splitting into six.

The speed of light, the fastest in the world.

Six Antoine Hiltons instantly formed a ring around the platform, one real and five phantoms.

Yet the phantoms were lifelike.

The six Antoine Hiltons shared identical appearances, postures, and expressions.

Lifusi Fulansi, like an arrow that must be released from the bow, had no time to distinguish and crashed straight into the Antoine Hilton before him.

A flicker of light and shadow, and this Antoine Hilton's form dissipated.

Lifusi Fulansi then charged out of the platform, nearly crashing headfirst into the stone pillar supporting the dome.

Fortunately, Lifusi Fulansi reacted quickly; otherwise, he would not have killed the enemy by collision but would have broken himself, dying in a most miserable fashion.

After flying a circle around the pillar, just as he looped back above the platform, Antoine Hilton's attack arrived.

Three human-head-sized water balls arranged in a 'pin' character formation, lying in wait, stationary on the essential path Lifusi Fulansi would take to return to the platform.

After several turns, Lifusi Fulansi now lacked the ability to change his course and could only crash headfirst into them.

The water balls were large, but possessed little offensive power.

What Antoine Hilton wanted was not the slight damage of the Water Ball Technique.

What he wanted were only two things: first, to extinguish or at least reduce the flames burning on Lifusi Fulansi's body; second, the high-temperature steam produced when the water balls were scorched by the flames.

"You, Lifusi Fulansi, aren't you playing with fire and high heat?"

Then let's see if you can withstand the scalding of the high-temperature steam!

The super affinity of the fire element brings flame resistance, not high-temperature resistance.

By the time Lifusi Fulansi broke through the three water balls, his entire body was covered in blisters from scalded skin, miserable beyond compare.

Lifusi Fulansi was not angry but delighted; the remaining flames on his body exploded, following the permeating water mist that covered half the platform, falling onto the remaining five Antoine Hiltons.

Even the slightest attack will cause the phantoms of the Light-Bending Phantasm to dissipate without a trace.

Antoine Hilton's true form was thus simply exposed beneath Lifusi Fulansi's eyes.

This is what 'spinning a cocoon to bind oneself' means.

The moment Lifusi Fulansi landed, he turned into flames, vanished from the spot, and, using the sparks around Antoine Hilton's true form, appeared beside Antoine Hilton.

"Fire Leap?"

At this moment, Antoine Hilton actually shouted in shock, rather than trying to dodge or construct a defense.

This shows how great an impact Lifusi Fulansi's action had on him.

"Fire Leap is a First-Rank Sorcery!"

Lifusi Fulansi has only just been promoted to Third-Rank Sorcery Apprentice; it's utterly impossible for him to have reached the threshold for promotion to full sorcerer this quickly, let alone master a First-Rank Sorcery!

"Antoine Hilton, die."

Lifusi Fulansi would not miss such a good opportunity; spreading his arms, he immediately clung tightly to the dazed Antoine Hilton for a moment.

The blazing flames roared to life once more, engulfing both Lifusi Fulansi and Antoine Hilton.

"Ugh... ah!"

Antoine Hilton was jolted awake by the excruciating pain of his burns, wanting to break free from Lifusi Fulansi's restraint, but it was already too late; he could only groan in anguish.

In the blink of an eye, this battle is about to end.

Antoine Hilton, knowing he had no way out, hardened his heart, endured the pain, and in the midst of the blazing flames unleashed two successive Secondary Mud and Stone Techniques.

"If we must die, let us die together!"

The two sank together deep into the swamp.

Before losing consciousness, Antoine Hilton desperately cast his final sorcery, the Earth System Zero-Rank Falling Stone Technique.

Above the heads of the two mired in the swamp appeared a grindstone-sized rock, which smashed down in the blink of an eye.

The next second, a spray of flesh and bone fragments splattered across the platform.

Life and death were decided in an instant.

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(End of chapter)