Cloud Thinking

"I think we should speed up." Helia's anxiety was growing. She suspected that her house might be robbed. For a moment, she didn't care about Gena who was as tired as a cow, and trotted towards the igloo with the others.

In the end, Britney couldn't bear it, so she cast a weight-reducing spell on Dalli who was still stiff, and also cast a speed-up spell on Gena.

"There are still many good people in this world!" Gena felt that the stones on his body were probably only as heavy as his backpack at the moment, and with the help of acceleration magic, he was able to walk very fast. He was so moved that he wanted to cry on the spot and kowtow to Britney.

"Hey, Bailey, what have you thought of? Who are those people in black robes?" Avril was injured and couldn't walk fast. Helia was still holding her and walking. Seeing that Helia looked so bad, she guessed that she might know something about the inside story.

"What do you think of your current magic level, level one, level two?" Helia did not reply to her, but asked an irrelevant question.

Although no one participated in the graduation rating assessment, in fact, based on their usual performance, they can roughly estimate their level. The rating assessment is more comprehensive and tests comprehensive ability, but in terms of strength alone, although Drummond is only a first-level magician, his output is definitely more than one level, and may be three levels.

Similarly, according to Mobicius's estimation, Helia's current output level is about the third level. In addition to the natural advantage of fire attribute in combat power, if she forces herself, it should be the fourth level.

"How would I know without a test?" Avril thought she was being weird, but she didn't want to lose face in front of her, even though she didn't have much face left. "If we only talk about strength, she should be at level two, but she still has a long way to go to level three."

"You are totally unable to defeat those black-robed men, right? Even if four of you join forces, you can't hurt them?" Helia asked again.

"Yes, Dalli and Donaldson are both better than me. Even so, they are no match for the locals." Avril said truthfully.

She was not stupid. She knew very well that there was a big problem with the competition venue, and the competition team had not taken any action until now. It was very likely that they were stopped by some powerful force that she did not know about. They could only rely on themselves and stand on their own feet. If she concealed the truth in such a critical situation, she was really hopelessly stupid.

Helia thought for a moment and said, "They might be dark magicians."

It was like a thunderbolt, Avril's mind was completely blank. As a student of the magic academy, how could she not know about the dark magician? It was precisely because she knew it that she felt extremely terrified at this moment.

“How…how is it possible…they have been hiding for decades…how could they appear here…” Avril couldn’t believe it, but looking at Helia’s extremely serious face, she should know that this was not the time to joke, and Helia was not in the mood to joke.

"Why are they here..." As soon as Avril asked, the door in the temple that they couldn't open appeared in her mind, "They are coming for the temple..."

"Right. So you just happened to run into them. Your teammates are probably doomed. You have to hide with your people before those guys get what they want." Helia said.

"It's obvious that these psychopaths won't let us go..."

Carter's College obviously has a grudge against the black magicians. In the operation to eliminate the black magicians, Carter's College played its part. Now there is such a good opportunity to annihilate the new force of the college. She doesn't think that these guys with no humanity will let them go easily.

They walked slowly on the way here, and searched the surroundings, so it took them more than two hours. But on the way back they almost ran. With the help of acceleration magic, the silhouette of the igloo appeared in their sight about forty minutes later.

And the thing that Helia least wanted to see had already happened.

Half of the villa was blown off, and it was crumbling in the howling snow and wind. The fire in the fireplace spread all around, happily devouring everything that could be burned. In this pure white world of ice and snow, it was as dazzling as the sun. However, when visitors saw it, they would not feel warm, but would feel as if their hearts were in an icy cave.

"Damn it... Who blew up our base!" Gena saw the rising black smoke and blazing flames from afar. Anger surged in his heart. He quickened his pace and was about to rush up, but was grabbed by Helia and dragged back.

Helia raised her index finger to her lips, shook her head, and said softly, "Don't be anxious, and don't shout too loudly. If the attacker hasn't left yet, we'll be in trouble."

Then she turned to look at Britney, and as soon as their eyes met, they knew what each other wanted to do. Britney held the magic wand and cast a layer of high-level protection magic on everyone, and then activated the perception magic, and the magic power spread out to a radius of ten miles with her as the center, trying to capture the abnormal magic fluctuations.

"No, there is no one around here, and there are no living things except us. They must have escaped." Britney retracted her scattered magic power and said to Helia.

"Go and have a look."

Five people and one "zombie" approached the house surrounded by flames. Helia summoned her magic wand and mobilized the magic power in her body to collect the fire into the wand. The flames were also the result of the action of natural elemental forces, and naturally they could be absorbed by magicians who could manipulate natural elemental forces.

The fire had basically burned away all traces, but some clues could still be seen from the remaining items.

Helia picked up an empty backpack in the corner and put it to her nose to smell it. Although most of the smell was burnt, she still caught a hint of meaty aroma.

This was the bag they had used to pack the leftover roasted wolf meat.

Now it's empty, which means they should have taken all the food away. I'm not sure whether they sensed the danger and left early, or the situation was urgent and they only had time to take the food away.

Perhaps the food was not taken away either, but thrown into the fire and burned.

After a quick search, Britney confirmed, "There are traces of black magic left. They must have attacked this place."

If what was said on the way was just speculation, then now it can be confirmed that a group of cruel and vicious black magicians have sneaked into the competition venue, and all the students are in danger.

“The Black Mage…” Alturamon’s face was very ugly. No matter how hard she thought, she could never have imagined that such a terrible person as the Black Mage was actually near her and had already attacked her teammates…

"What should we do?" Gena was much calmer, but he, who was always smiling and making jokes, now put away his nonchalant look and asked seriously.

For a magic swordsman, no matter how powerful the enemy is, he must have the courage and confidence to fight it. This is what his teacher told him.

This may be stupid, but it is this kind of belief in rushing to die that allows generation after generation of magic swordsmen to protect the human homeland and the future of the human race.

"Go find them." Helia picked out some things that weren't burned and put them in her bag. She slung it over one shoulder and walked to Britney. "Britney, use resonance magic to find where Beavis is."

Every time at this time, Helia would be extremely grateful to her emperor father, thanks to the magic props he gave her before he left. Each one was extremely useful, otherwise she would not know where to find him now.

The reason why she didn't use tracking magic to activate the positioning magic crystal was because the beam of light shooting into the sky carried magical fluctuations, which would most likely be detected by other black magicians. Beavis and the others must have been hiding. If she did this, wouldn't she be alerting the enemy?

No no no.

Resonance magic will allow the seeker to be aware of the other party's location. Although the positioning is vague and the effectiveness is not long, it can be used without alerting others.

"Over there, but they don't seem to be moving." Britney pointed to the southwest, which was the direction the mixed team went before they met up with Beavis and the others. "We seem to have come from that direction. Did they find a place to hide?"

"I don't know, let's catch up with them first."

Helia and her group walked hurriedly and soon returned to the place where the wolf's body was sealed. On the scarf, in addition to the line of words Helia wrote at the beginning, there were several more words below.

"Take one, thank you (love)"

"Thank you for the gift from the Mixed Team. May the goddess bless you!"

"My foster father, you are so kind! I can never repay you!"

Avril also came over to take a look, and then looked up at the ice. There were still two left, both very thin, and it seemed that they were the ones who were picked out. "I didn't expect you to do good things."

"You should be thankful that I am a person who knows how to do good things, otherwise I would have watched you being bitten to death by Dalli." Helia said.

They continued walking forward until they were near the rabbit hole where they had been hiding before. Britney suddenly stopped and pointed to a place three steps away. "Over there."

"Hidden in the hole?" Helia stepped forward and leaned over to lift the grass at the entrance of the rabbit hole. As her hand touched the ground, she saw a cold light flash before her eyes. She instinctively turned her head and a sharp sword brushed past her face, but thanks to Britney's protective magic, she was not injured.

She took two steps to the side, raised her hand to summon her wand, looked at the cave entrance vigilantly, and did not act rashly. She was not sure whether the one who attacked her was her teammate or the enemy who killed her teammate.

"Lydia! Is that you? I'm Belei!" Lydia was the only magic swordsman left among the people who stayed. Helia thought they had mistaken her for the pursuers, so she shouted.

Two figures jumped out of the rabbit hole one after another. One was Lydia, who was covered in blood and had a ferocious look on her face. The other was Beavis, who was also in a miserable state, with wounds of varying sizes all over his body. The two looked at Helia and her group vigilantly.

"Are you all right? Sorry, we're late." Helia tried to take a step forward, but was forced back by a sword swung by Lydia.

"This time the imitation is quite similar." Beavis threw out this sentence, and then raised his wand to attack Helia.

"Imitation? What imitation? I'm the real thing!" Helia couldn't fight back and could only dodge. However, magicians hate being approached by others the most. Lydia was too fast. If Britney hadn't helped her, she would have been struck by lightning.

"Liar!" Lydia gritted her teeth. Looking at her eyes, she looked like she wanted to eat Helia's flesh and blood. Arturamon and Genna drew their swords and stepped forward to help. They quickly subdued the two.

"Did those black magicians imitate us and deceive you?" Helia asked, wiping the blood from her cheek with her thumb.

Beavis didn't know who attacked them. After all, the black magicians disappeared decades ago, and not many people have seen what black magic is like. When he heard Helia say the word "black magician" with certainty, his eyes gradually widened, and the things he had been unable to understand before finally became clear.

No wonder they totally ignored their explanation and were determined to take their lives. It turned out that these people were not students at all, but black magicians who came from nowhere.

Even though all signs showed that the group of people in front of them were their former teammates, Beavis still said cautiously: "Prove yourselves."

"But there are no secrets between us." Helia shrugged, "And I don't know how those black magicians deceived you. What if they can read people's memories?"

"Domain, domain won't lie. Show me your domain." Beavis said.

"That's right!" Helia held Theodore, injected magic into him, and summoned her own domain. It was different from the domain she used to punish Duke and the others last time. The interior of this domain was the warm and harmless little garden that Beavis had seen before. Helia grabbed Beavis's hand and led him into the domain, and soon came out again.