The goddesses attempted to gain my salvation.

Victor and Ryan were preparing teaching materials for the next stage in the materials room, while the students on the playground were practicing independently.

"Tsk!"

Maggie shook her smoking right hand and made a very dissatisfied sound.

Damn it, it went off course again!

Of the five fireballs fired earlier, only one hit the target, and it was a glancing blow, so its power was practically negligible.

In this round, all five fireballs missed their target without exception.

Most importantly, Claire, who is not far away, has not missed a single shot so far.

This made her very irritable.

Before Claire arrived, she was the top student in the class, having awakened two magic circuits at the young age of seventeen. She always came in first place in any magic test.

Her family saw her as the hope of the family, Victor called her a gifted and outstanding talent, and her classmates all fawned over her. They called her a little genius, which pleased her greatly.

However, since Claire, this unexpected guest, appeared, her position in the class has been shaken.

In every test, Claire completely overwhelmed Maggie.

The former number one has become number two.

Sometimes, people are afraid of comparing themselves to others.

Compared to Claire, a true genius, Maggie seemed utterly ordinary, and even her classmates couldn't catch up to her.

This hurt her delicate self-esteem.

At this moment, the most observant lackey number one approached. He was a thin young man, a citizen of the Principality of Ferrante.

“Miss Maggie, you really don’t need to take her seriously. She’s the devil’s child, she’s cursed!”

Maggie gave him a cold look: "Are you saying that I, Miss Maggie, am not even as good as a demon?"

The lackey number one was so rebuked that he couldn't speak and could only manage a dry laugh.

Well, my attempt to flatter backfired and I got kicked instead.

"roll!"

The number one lackey slunk away.

Excellent women are never short of sycophants. When number one leaves, number two quickly takes his place.

“Miss Maggie, this is just practice, not real combat. Hitting a stationary target doesn’t prove anything. Once we get into a real fight, that woman will definitely be no match for you!”

The second lackey is clearly a high-level sycophant, and his sycophancy is quite skillful, but unfortunately, Maggie is in a bad mood today.

"In a real fight, I certainly wouldn't lose to her, but the target practice test counts towards my academic grade!"

"roll!"

The second lackey could only leave with his head hanging low.

Then, henchmen number three, four, and five followed in quick succession. However, the praise that Claire had initially found so pleasing sounded particularly jarring in the face of the reality she witnessed.

Even though it was a compliment, Maggie heard it as if it were a consolation.

Only the weak need comfort, but she is not weak!

"Get out of here!"

Maggie shouted, dismissing all the lackeys around her.

Ugh! So annoying! So damn annoying!

Anger can easily make people lose their minds, and Maggie is clearly angry enough right now.

She strode over to Claire, crossed her arms, raised her chin, and looked down at Claire with haughty disdain.

Claire glanced at her only before continuing to practice casting spells.

That damn woman, how dare she ignore me!

Maggie was furious, her teeth clenched, but she still tried her best to suppress her emotions.

"Now it's free time. How about you be my practice partner?"

Naïve Claire thought it was just a simple matter of helping each other, so she nodded in agreement.

However, when she agreed, the students around her moved away from them and even snickered, which made Claire very uncomfortable.

"You know, real combat is the best way to practice. It's not very interesting to just practice target shooting all the time. Let's do some real combat drills, just to get some exercise."

Claire frowned slightly after hearing this.

“Professor Ryan said he doesn’t want me to have any conflicts with other students.”

Maggie laughed dismissively: "Oh, I didn't realize you were such a good girl. You're clearly the devil's child, yet you pretend to be innocent. How disgusting."

Even if Claire were innocent, she could hear the malice in those words.

However, she was already used to this level of abuse. Back in the Duchy of Ferrante, she had suffered far more miserable pain.

Without arguing, Claire turned around decisively, leaving Maggie alone, and went back to continue practicing target shooting.

But it was this attitude that completely ignited Maggie's anger.

"Hey, forget about that useless mentor's nonsense and come fight me!"

Claire froze, turned around abruptly, and stared coldly at Maggie.

"You are not allowed to speak ill of Mentor Ryan."

Seeing this, Maggie was secretly delighted. So, your mentor is your weakness.

Despite Claire's warning, Maggie ignored it and instead intensified her efforts. She was determined to provoke Claire!

Only in this way can I rightfully teach her a lesson!

"What, did I say something wrong? If your tutor is truly capable, why would he bring you to my class to audit it?"

To put it bluntly, it's simply a lack of ability!

"Sigh, the magic academy has fallen into decline these days, with all sorts of nobodies wanting to become instructors."

Claire was so angry her hands were shaking.

She could accept any insults, but she would never allow her mentor, Ryan, to be insulted.

"If you ask me, you two are a perfect match – a useless mentor paired with a trash student!"

Claire radiated terrifying heat as she spoke, enunciating each word clearly: "You are not allowed to speak ill of Instructor Ryan!"

"Immediately! Take back what you just said! And apologize!"

"You want me to apologize?" Maggie met Claire's angry gaze, assumed a fighting stance, and said, "Then come and fight me! If you win, I'll apologize!"

Countless practices have proven that there is a connection between human emotions and magical circuits.

When a person is emotionally agitated, the magic circuits will also respond to their owner.

Claire is now furious.

Although the magic circuits are not fully repaired, and only one circuit can barely function, that is enough.

She raised her right hand, extended her index finger, and without any extra movement, a fireball carrying an astonishing heat wave shot out, heading straight for Maggie.

Everything happened so fast that by the time Maggie realized what was happening, the fireball was already right in front of her.

At the critical moment, Maggie raised her right arm and used magic to counteract the impact.

The heatwave still managed to burn off some of her prized hair.

Watching her hair slowly fall, Maggie's last shred of reason snapped.

Driven by her surging emotions, the two magic circuits were pushed to their limits, engulfing her in raging flames as she transformed into a fire spirit and lunged forward.

"Damn woman! I'll turn you to ashes!"

In terms of magic, Maggie is no match for Claire. However, in terms of the total amount of magic power and the speed at which magic is released, Maggie, with her two magic circuits, has a natural advantage.

She planned to use this advantage to completely defeat Claire!

From this moment on, this so-called competition completely transformed into a real, hard-fought battle.

The slightest carelessness could lead to death.

Is Ryan going to be in trouble in Chapter Eleven?

Confidence often becomes the driving force for people to move forward.

Excessive self-confidence can lead to blind faith.

Maggie had always been one of the top students in her class, and with the constant sycophancy and fawning of her followers, her confidence swelled to an extreme degree, eventually turning into arrogance.

Therefore, despite considering herself a genius, she never seriously listened to Victor's lectures on magic theory.

She believed that those things were just outdated knowledge, and that a genius like her could learn magic simply by figuring it out on her own.

Maggie didn't realize that if she had listened to even a single word, she would have understood just how reckless and ignorant her actions had been.

Magic is like a pile of dry tinder.

The quantity and quality of firewood determine how long the flame will burn and how much heat it will generate.

But firewood is just firewood; people can't fight with firewood.

Magic, on the other hand, is the flame that ignites dry tinder. Flames can turn living beings into charcoal, burn dense forests to the ground, and even bring destruction to an entire city-state.

This is the most fundamental difference between the two.

Maggie's current actions are like trying to ignite a raging fire with dry wood; the result is self-evident.

Maggie was engulfed in flames, a primal outward manifestation of the fire-attribute magic within her.

It looks intimidating, but it's actually not very destructive.

Therefore, Maggie could only keep closing the distance between herself and Claire. Once they were close enough, she would then unleash the burning flames like a snowball.

This fighting technique is both primitive and useless.

Most importantly, it consumes a lot of magic.