The beautiful mage was kidnapped by the contracted beast again

"[Reminder] Remaining time for the first round of points competition: 6 days, 12 hours, and 37 minutes. Teams, please keep up the good work."

When the announcement sounded, Chi stopped and looked at the sky above his head.

He turned around and said, "It's getting late. It's not safe to stay in the forest. Should we go back?"

Jiang Liujing opened the points jade card and took a quick look at the scores of each team.

The Imperial Magic Academy still occupies the first place on the list, and the score gap has further widened compared to the first and later academies, which seems to be no problem.

He nodded: "Let's go."

However, just as he nodded, the announcement sounded again:

"[Notice] Talia School of Magic has been cleared of points and withdrawn from the competition. Remaining participating schools: 53."

The four of them were stunned at the same time.

The sky was dark, and gray-black shadows crawled all over the tree like maggots.

The sound of wind whistled past my ears, bringing with it a depressing and dull echo.

[Withdrawing? This has just begun? Are you giving up already?]

Is this your first time watching the league? Retiring isn't the only way to clear your points. There's another possibility—

"All the contestants from this academy are dead."

Jiang Liujing suddenly lowered his head and opened the points jade card again, pulling it to the bottom.

As expected, there was a grayed-out college name at the bottom of the rankings.

"Talia School of Magic, points balance: 0."

In contrast, the score of another college suddenly rose sharply, from outside the forties to twenty-second.

"Adeny Magic Academy, points balance: 484."

The situation is already clear.

"It's just started, and some people can't wait to take action? A team can only obtain points once. They won't get many points by attacking others on the first day?" Xile said in surprise.

"It's not for points." Jiang Liujing shook his head.

"They were out to kill people."

[Hiss... I suddenly thought of a way to advance to the second round.]

[…I thought of that, too.]

[The top twenty advance to the second round. Doesn't that mean they can advance as long as they defeat the remaining thirty-four teams, regardless of their points?]

[But if we leave the competition like this, we'll be hunted down like crazy, right? Who among those who can participate in the competition is a simple character?]

[I said before the match that life and death are your own responsibility. It's normal to be killed if you lose.]

"Let's go back to the camp first." Jiang Liujing exhaled, and the slowly rising white mist blurred his vision. "I'm worried that something might happen to them when we're not around."

All three nodded.

However, when they were halfway there, Chi, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped.

In the dim light, his red eyes flashed with a cold and cruel light, his sharp jawline raised a very small amplitude, and with a stretch of his right arm, a terrifying axe as tall as a man was grasped in his hand.

He was clearly standing still, in a defensive posture, but his aura made it seem as if he was the brutal attacker.

The young man's cold eyes slowly swept across the dark shadows of the surrounding trees.

"get out."

The air was silent.

Xile and Chu Zhou took a step forward at the same time, surrounding Jiang Liujing in the middle, their eyes looking forward vigilantly.

"You're not coming out, are you?"

Chi never had any patience with humans other than Jiang Liujing. He didn't even bother counting three, two, and one. He swung his giant axe and chopped at the tree shadow on the left.

There was a whistling sound of wind, and a flash of bright and dazzling fire in the air, followed by the rumbling sound of a large heavy object falling to the ground.

With one slash, all the surrounding trees were destroyed.

The expressions of several dark shadows hiding behind the trees suddenly changed.

They had never expected that this person, who was clearly listed as only awakened at the third level on the leaderboard, could possess such terrifying power. This was no ordinary third level at all!

Before the sharp axe wind cut their bodies in half, several people were forced to roll out in a panic, and this action exposed them in the sight of the four people.

Chu Zhou quickly scanned the area: "One, two, three, four... eleven people. There's still one left! Watch out!"

"Susu-"

Before he could finish his words, the sharp sound of breaking air was already approaching his head.

Arrows infused with magic power were much faster than ordinary arrows. Once locked onto the target, they would reach the target in the blink of an eye.

Jiang Liujing turned around as if he had noticed something before Chu Zhou reminded him. His beautiful eyes happened to reflect the rapidly enlarged arrow tip pointing directly at his eyebrows, and his pupils shrank instantly.

The figure of the archer was hidden in the darkness, with a scornful smile on the corner of his lips.

Even with all the hype, it was nothing more than that. What good was a genius? A magician was as fragile as a piece of thin paper in front of these magic warriors.

The captain was still too cautious. He used all the team's points to strengthen himself, but in fact he didn't need it at all.

He accepted the head of this number one genius without hesitation—

"call."

The arrow pierced the target's head like a rainbow piercing the sun.

However, the expected screams and blood splattering scene did not appear.

The bowman was stunned, confusion quickly welling up in his eyes.

He had clearly seen the arrow pass through the other person's body with his own eyes, so why didn't he react as he should?

With a "thud", the arrow was deeply embedded in the ground, splashing up a large amount of dust.

Amidst the flying brown and yellow dust, the figure of the black-haired young man flashed and turned into a large piece of transparent water droplets and disappeared.

Without even turning his head, Chitou seemed to have known that Jiang Liujing could handle the attack. He stepped forward, raised his great axe, and chopped it down. A crimson blade, swirling with flames, instantly broke free from the axe and swept towards the people in front.

"what--"

A shrill scream and the loud sound of flames exploding rang out at the same time.

With the attack point as the center, the air wave rolled outward violently, sweeping away all the dust and stones on the surrounding open space, mixed with body fragments that no one knew who they originally belonged to.

On the other side, the disappeared Jiang Liujing appeared silently behind the archer who was still in shock.

The boy's black eyes were clear and quiet, neither happy nor sad. He just looked at the exposed neck of the figure in front of him and raised the mirror-smooth ice knife in his hand high.

The magic warrior's instinctive sense of danger allowed the archer to react at the last moment. His hair stood on end for a moment, and he gave up looking back and tried to dodge as quickly as possible.

However, wind and vines suddenly emerged from the darkness, binding his legs on the left and right. The young man was unable to move as if he had suddenly fallen into a swamp.

At that moment, his eyes widened in horror, and the fear of impending death made him open his mouth to beg for mercy.

"Please don't kill me—"

A sharp cold light flashed across his throat.

The sound stopped abruptly, and the lifeless body fell from the tall treetop and fell backwards, hitting the ground with a dull thud.

"[Notice] Sachi Magic Academy's points have been reset to zero and they have withdrawn from the competition. The number of remaining participating academies is 52."

Jiang Liujing jumped back to the ground and walked over to the few people.

The battle lasted only five minutes from start to finish, and the participating teams had already lost members again.

Chu Zhou was frowning and reasoning with Chi: "We should leave someone alive, so that we won't know why they attacked us."

Chi's expression was indifferent: "They won't be the only ones. The same will happen if we catch the next batch."

Seeing Jiang Liujing coming over, Chi immediately gave up talking to Chu Zhou.

Although he knew that this level of damage would not likely injure Jiang Liujing, he still habitually examined the boy's entire body carefully.

Jiang Liujing also let his own fantasy beast look at it over and over again.

The young man, who had just killed someone, now raised his beautiful and soft face and let people do whatever they wanted to him.

It was like a small animal with snow-white fur, receiving licking and cleaning from its own kind after the battle.

Not far from their feet, a mess of blood and flesh lay all over the ground.

The white ball of fur fluttered around the two of them, recording the scene faithfully.

It is bloody and absurd, but because of the two protagonists' outstanding looks, the cruel scene becomes beautiful.

[Damn it, I actually thought they killed people elegantly.]

[The only elegant one is Jiang Liujing. Look at what Chidu has done to the scene. It's all bloody and sticky, even more spicy than a bowl full of chili peppers.]

Is this even the point? It doesn't matter who dies. What matters is whether they can kiss right now.

[Sister, is your heart made of steel? You can't even spare a second of pity for these students who failed?]

【What's so pitiful about this? They were the ones who started it first.】

"I think he should not be injured. You don't need to look so carefully." Chu Zhou said silently.

He didn't even think Jiang Liujing had lost a hair in the previous battle. Chi's caution made the real dead look even more miserable.