Cloud Thinking

"Did you hear any noise? Could it be that the team next door is coming?"

The short, light-brown-haired boy who was on guard for the team looked around vigilantly with his ears perked up. The wind that had just blown seemed to be mixed with some other noises, so he asked his partner who was also on guard with him.

"How is that possible? The game has just begun and everyone is busy setting up defensive protective magic. At most, they are just walking around. The distance between the positions is not close, how can they get here so quickly?" The black-haired and unshaven companion picked his ears and did not take Aqia's words seriously.

"Really?" Aqia is a freshman and this is his first time participating in a competition. He doesn't know much about the rules and procedures of the competition. Blackbeard is a sophomore student. Although his level is average, he has experience, and everyone on the team follows him.

"Yes, there was an air wall between the positions before the game started. They couldn't just target us and rush straight at us right away, right?" Blackbeard explained with his experience. "The rules have been changed this year. Everyone must focus on defending their positions. How could anyone abandon their positions and rush over right at the start?"

Helia squatting on the tree: Eh?

Drummond: Hey, you idiot! This is the normal way to play!

Helia gestured to Drummond, and pointed her thumb at the position ten meters away, indicating that they were ready to take action. Except for the two lookouts, the remaining three were still arranging defensive magic, and their royal flag was placed in the center of the position. In Helia's words, she felt that the royal flag was waving at her, welcoming her arrival.

Helia set up Theodore, aimed it at the team's position, and injected magic power into it. A small three-layer magic circle lit up in front of Theodore, and then she whispered, "Shakana, explode!"

The three people who were still gathered together, working hard to set up the defensive protection magic, felt a strong fluctuation of magic. They looked up at the same time in confusion, looking at the woods behind them, only to see a huge fire bomb flying out of the woods and directly hitting the three-quarters of the defensive protection magic they had just set up, and terrible sparks burst out at the moment of contact. The crackling sound of shattering not only came from the barrier built by the defensive protection magic, but they seemed to hear this sound in their hearts as well.

Damn! Who is the psychopath who attacks the position right after the game starts? You are crazy!

How much hatred and resentment!

Seeing the fireball breaking through the defense barrier and flying straight towards them, they immediately dispersed, some crawling, some running, and some rolling. The guardian in the team quickly calmed down, grasped the magic wand and quickly cast a layer of protective magic on the others. The blazing fireball fell in the center of the position and exploded, blowing them all away, without any one spared.

And in the smoke and dust raised by the explosion, a ghostly figure shuttled through it, quickly approached the center of the position, decisively and swiftly pulled out the team's royal flag, and then retreated quickly. The people who were blown away were still dizzy, and couldn't understand why the fireball was so powerful that it not only broke their defensive magic, but also blew them into such a miserable state. They didn't realize that someone had pulled out their royal flag.

After they recovered, the five of them quickly gathered together and confirmed that there were no major casualties, but the position was bombarded and the defensive protection magic was completely destroyed. They must rebuild it as soon as possible, otherwise when the next team arrived, they would be lambs to be slaughtered.

"What a lunatic! Is this team here just to destroy our defensive magic with one shot? What's wrong with that?" Aqiya patted the grass on his body. He had just been blasted into the woods by the aftermath of the explosion and rolled on the ground for several times. He was now in a very miserable state.

But the attackers never showed up at all. They didn't even know how many people were on the other side, whether they were men or women, or which team they were from. As an output position, he didn't notice anything when he was on the lookout. He felt humiliated.

"Maybe he is the enemy of someone in our team? Otherwise it can't explain why he aimed at us right from the start, and he didn't even try to seize the position, but just cast a fire blast magic and left." The guardian in the team looked at the completely destroyed defensive magic circle with heartache. He had been working so hard to draw it for so long, but it wasn't even finished, and in the end it was destroyed by a single shot. He felt heartbroken and angry.

"not me!"

"It's not me either!"

"Why are you looking at me? I'm easy-going and approachable. How could I possibly make an enemy of you?"

"You are so shameless to say such things. I suspect you are the one who invited this person here!"

"Bullshit! You are so eager to push the blame on me because you feel guilty! It was you who led them here!"

Everyone was arguing and blaming each other, but it was just verbal bickering. If there was an internal conflict in the first game, then there was no need to compete in the next one. It was just a waste of time. The five people quickly cleaned up the position and cleared a relatively flat open space for the guardian to draw the magic circle. The most urgent task was to quickly protect the position.

Blackbeard looked at the position where a small hole was blown out, frowning. For some reason, he always felt that something was missing, but he couldn't remember what it was for a while.

"What's wrong? What are you looking at? Is it someone you know?" Aqia walked up to him and saw him staring at the pit for a long time. He thought Blackbeard recognized who attacked them.

Blackbeard shook his head and didn't say anything. Instead, he took two steps forward and jumped into the pit which was no more than half his height, searching for something inside.

Aqia jumped down after him and said, "What are you looking for? If you are tracking traces of magic, then we have to call Machdo."

"No, I always feel like something is missing. The people who attacked us are unlikely to be here to seek revenge, nor are they likely to just pass by and get angry with us and shoot us..." As Blackbeard spoke, he realized something. He finally remembered what they were missing.

The royal flag is gone!!!

"Damn it! Those guys just pulled out the royal flag when we weren't paying attention! Go chase them!" Blackbeard immediately climbed out of the pit, drew the sword from his waist and rushed into the woods.

"Wait a minute! Are we all going? And we don't know where they came from and where they are going now!" The healing magician in the team was still smart and reminded them.

Blackbeard glanced at the position behind him. Although the royal flag was pulled out, as long as they could take back the royal flag and put it back in the position before the end of the game, they could still get the 60 points. But before getting the flag back, they couldn't let the position be lost!

"Guardian, Healing Magician, and Aqia, the three of you stay here and hold the position. Mahedo and I will go get the flag back!" Blackbeard quickly divided the work. There must be someone who can fight left in the position. The little brown-haired Aqia must stay as the output position, and Mahedo knows tracking magic, which can help him track the attackers.

"No! What are these people doing? They stole the flag but didn't plant it. What are they trying to do?" Aqiya cursed.

Normally, everyone would fight to seize a position, and the outcome would determine the ownership of the territory. If the party that came to seize the position won, they would pull out the king flag of the original team and replace it with that of their own team. Then they would defend it for another five minutes, and then they would be considered to have seized a new position.

But the attackers only snatched the flag but didn't plant it, so they didn't even know which team the attackers were from!

"Damn it! Who knows what these psychos are thinking! These thieves! I'll make them pay the price!" Blackbeard cursed as he led his teammates into the woods. The noise was so loud that even Helia, who had run a long way, heard some of the noise.

Drummond caught up with Helia who was speeding towards the next position and handed her the captured royal flag. Helia stopped and looked at the royal flag carefully, then took out their team's ordinary flag from her pocket and used magic to turn her own flag into the appearance of the opponent's royal flag.

Drummond: What is this for?

Among all the teams, only the king's flag is special and cannot be destroyed or changed. Taking this factor into consideration, Helia dared to use the fire explosion magic directly. Even if the enemy's position was blown into a pit, the king's flag would not be damaged.

When these people found out that the flag had been taken away, they would definitely come after them, because the updated rules of the game meant that everyone had to defend their positions, and they would do whatever it took to get the flag back. And if Helia tried to grab the flag everywhere, she would definitely be targeted. There were only two of them, not to mention that there were sophomores among them, so there must be some powerful guys hiding there. She couldn't handle being chased by so many people.

Therefore, after being chased for a while, she will drop the royal flag. In order to ensure that their initial position is not occupied, this group of people will probably not continue to pursue her.

Of course, Helia was not so kind as to really return the stolen flag. What did she return? It was the ordinary flag of their team disguised as the royal flag! Just because the royal flag cannot be moved does not mean that the ordinary flag cannot be moved!

After listening to Helia's plan, Drummond was rarely silent and gave a thumbs up to the person next to him.

When it comes to treachery, you're the one!

At first, no one was on guard, and they took it for granted that other teams were still setting up defensive magic, so Helia took advantage of the opportunity and snatched several flags. But as time passed, the defensive magic of each team had taken shape, some were so strong that Helia couldn't destroy them with a single shot, and some had set up a small protective magic around the king's flag, guessing that someone might snatch the flag and defending against Drummond.

But Helia was not greedy. If the surprise attack failed, she would simply retreat and move on to the next target.

But the further back they got, the harder it became to grab the flag. With other teams chasing after them from behind, each team had three or two people, and when they gathered together there were more than a dozen people, which showed how good Helia was at attracting hatred.

The positions of the eleven teams were arranged in a circular shape, connecting the front and the rear to form a circle. Helia's initial idea was to grab flags along the way, and finally return to her own position to support her teammates and rest. She really set out with the idea of ​​grabbing all ten flags, but unfortunately, ideals are full and reality is very skinny. She had almost finished a circle, and she only got seven flags, two of which she and Drummond had to fight with each other to grab.

"Beleyi! If we continue like this we will be caught up!" Drummond struggled to defend Helia from the attack from behind. Damn, there was a huge group of people behind them, all of them were here to get back their royal flag.

They were all very fierce! They shouted and yelled for Helia to hand her over! Those who didn't know would think that Helia had stolen their wives!

"Ah! Stop chasing me! I'll give it back to you!" Helia shouted, grabbing the fake royal flag in her pocket, which had changed its appearance, and scattering it behind her like flowers from the sky. As for whether they could pick up their team's flag, that was none of her business.

As expected, the people chasing behind immediately stopped and tried to grab the flag thrown by Helia. The dozen people who had been working together started fighting for their own team's flag. Some had already taken back their own flags, but when they saw other people's royal flags, how could they not be tempted!

There are not many people chasing after each team, and there is no need to break the defensive protection magic, so this is a great opportunity to grab the flag!

Although some of them wondered why Helia returned the flag to them so easily, as the melee began, they had no time to think about it and attributed everything to the fact that Helia and the other two were no match for so many people and had abandoned their belongings and fled.

When Helia and Drummond returned to their own position, Lydia was fighting with the people who came to seize the position. She was extremely ferocious with a long sword in her hand. Because she was an orc, the enemy had to defend not only her sword but also her teeth. If they bit down, a piece of meat would be gone!