The beautiful mage was kidnapped by the contracted beast again

Crash, crash.

The rhythmic sound of water waves.

It seemed as if waves were crashing against something.

Is he dead?

Can people still think after death?

A gentle voice suddenly sounded in his ears, like thunder, but with a strong indifference: "Get up quickly if you are conscious."

Hagadi slowly opened his eyes.

For the first time in his life, he felt that the light from the outside world was so dazzling.

Just the act of opening my eyes felt like entering another world.

Intense pain surged from his limbs and bones, making Hagadi's drowsy will clear up a little.

He turned his neck with difficulty and found himself lying on a rock by the sea. Not far away sat another man wearing a gray hood.

The man was holding a fishing rod in his hand. While other teams were fighting fiercely, he was fishing here leisurely.

Hagadi looked at him for a moment and said, "You saved me?"

"What else? If you grow wings, can you fly back from there?"

The man's attention was completely focused on the pole. He didn't even turn his head when facing the noble prince, and his tone was completely disrespectful.

Hagadi glanced at him a few times, but did not express his dissatisfaction as he did when facing his subordinates.

He lay back down, letting his face turn towards the sky.

He knew from the pain alone that he was covered in wounds and was probably only a step away from death.

But he didn't die after all.

He is still alive.

Only when you have been so close to death once can you truly feel that being alive is such a wonderful thing.

Hagadi raised one arm with difficulty and shielded his eyes. The light was obscured by darkness.

He suddenly said, "Can't you buy me some healing potion?"

As soon as Hagadi saw his injuries, he knew that he had not received any treatment at all.

The man remained merciless.

"It's not like you don't have hands. Use your team points to buy it yourself."

"..."

Hagadi finally completed the process of purchasing and applying the medicine on his own with great difficulty.

During this time, he saw the changes in the rankings on the leaderboard and paused for a moment.

"Don't worry. After the last day, the gap in points between you will be even bigger. I guess you won't even be able to keep your second place." The man said calmly.

The teams that died in the canyon weren't the only ones participating in the alliance. But the consequences of failure in the canyon weren't solely borne by the dead. The man was certain that Jiang Liujing and his team would also take the remaining teams' points.

They all have legitimate reasons.

The hatred of those teams that were damaged and those schools that failed was inevitably transferred to Hagadi to some extent.

The benefits enjoyed and the risks taken by the leaders are equal.

"I lost." Hagadi looked at the pure sky. He had never thought that one day he would be able to say these three words calmly.

"There is only one day left, so you can rest here." The man pretended not to hear, retracted his fishing rod which had caught nothing, and stood up as if to leave.

Before he had walked a few steps, he heard Hagadi say, "Glory Wings Magic Academy, confirms its withdrawal."

The man stopped walking.

For the first time, his dark grey eyes, like a pool of stagnant water, showed a wave, but it was because of incomprehension.

The second round hasn't started yet.

Hagadi still has a large points advantage.

Even if a team member dies, it doesn't matter, there will be new backup members to replace them.

"Sorry." Hagadi lay on the reef, still looking up at the sky.

"For me, this match has been meaningless since the moment the outcome was decided."

Even if there was a chance to fight back in the second round, Hagadi knew that the outcome would not change.

"This cooperation ends here. You, Yueying, should do your best."

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"【Notice】Glory Wings Magic Academy automatically forfeits and abandons the competition. Their ranking will be void."

"There is still one day and six hours left until the end of the first round of the points competition. Please keep up the good work, everyone."

"What the hell? They gave up?" Mo Ya was shocked when he heard Maoqiu's announcement.

They were still discussing where Hagadi could escape to. Hiding in a corner of the island with a large amount of points was as tempting as a lost treasure.

Mo Ya won't be able to sleep tonight unless he digs deep into the ground to find him.

"You don't want to play anymore, right? Anyone would lose their spirit after being beaten like this, let alone him." Liu An said.

"It's not a bad thing for us. It saves us a headache in the second round," Lesden mused. "It's just a shame we can't get any points."

"Find the remaining teams and make up for this loss."

Jiang Liujing looked at the grayed-out name on the points jade card, and his calm tone inexplicably made everyone around him shiver.

Right.

Among everyone present, Jiang Liujing was the angriest.

After working so hard for a long time just waiting for Meimei to harvest the points, he ended up running away, and after running away, he turned around to give up his rights and disappeared with the points.

It's clear that they have no chance of getting it.

Jiang Liujing's anger has reached its peak.

I urgently need an outlet to vent.

Soon, the points structure of the teams on the island underwent the biggest reshuffle since the start of the competition.

This day is also self-deprecatingly called "the day of despair" by off-track bettors.

Countless people who had made their bets firmly because of the situation in the previous few days saw a future where they would lose everything on this day - Jiang Liujing and his team were chasing after the teams that had blocked their way one by one.

And these teams are all the favorites that advanced previously.

"Either keep the points or give up your life."

"Choose between the two. Which one do you choose?"

The elegant young man gradually approached, and his clear and cold voice was as beautiful as mountain spring splashing on jade.

Facing that impeccable, perfect face, the people on the ground were in no mood to admire it. Their faces were pale, their lips trembling, and they stepped back repeatedly: "Demon..."

"what?"

"devil!!!"

"boom!"

Mo Ya threw a stone and knocked the man unconscious. He said dissatisfiedly, "How can you talk like that? Do you have any eyes? How can there be such a good-looking devil?"

"..." Wen Xun glanced at him and commented, "You are also an accomplice to the evil."

Chi came over from the other side, holding two people who had fainted from fear. He took out a jade token from one of them and handed it to Jiang Liujing.

"Miaomiao."

Jiang Liujing took it and said, "Ding!"

After the points were credited, he lost interest in these people. He didn't like killing people unless necessary, so he said tolerantly, "Throw it away, next one."

The team that came like a whirlwind also left like a whirlwind.

By the time the remaining day of the first round of competition was completely exhausted and the voice of "Time is up! The points calculation for the first round of points competition has ended!" came from the flying ball's mouth, the island was already filled with teams with tears in their eyes.

They had never felt that a day was so long, and every minute and every second they were worried that they would be the next to be caught.

Even so, when the final qualifying spots were announced, people could no longer find several of the once glorious names on them.

However, the teams that allied with Jiang Liujing, except for the only one that was inexplicably destroyed before the canyon battle, all the other teams were at the top of the list.

Not to mention advancing, they already had a natural advantage before the second round even started.

"Thirteenth place, Iskandir Academy of Magic? I don't seem to have seen this academy team in many competitions." Mo Ya flipped through the final rankings and felt a little unfamiliar when he saw the name of a qualified team.

These days, through fighting, they've almost learned to recognize every college on the mainland. If there's a name they don't recognize, it's probably because they haven't fought before.

Lesden took a look and said, "This is the aristocratic school of the Moon Shadow Principality. It seems to have cooperation with Hagadi, but it doesn't appear often."

Mo Ya hissed, "Come to think of it, we seem to have wiped out the organizer's team. Will they cause us trouble after the competition?"

"We will definitely look for them, but not in the name of the country. That would be too embarrassing. Most likely, it will just be the families of those students who come out to look for them." Chu Zhou said.

Lessden nodded. "We'll talk about what happens after we get out. Now we should discuss the plan for the second round."

When the first round of points competition ended, the rules for the second round were also announced.

The second round, the collection competition, has the following rules:

The organizers have placed designated collectible items in the lairs of Rank 6 and above mythical beasts on the island. Each team must search for and collect these items. Note: Items may be duplicated. The competition is limited to three days. The team with the most diverse items will win.

In the collection competition, each group can summon one phantom beast from the outside world to assist each day. Once a phantom beast has been summoned, it cannot be summoned again.

Twenty teams advance to the next round, and their points, team member magic levels, and redemption items will inherit the remaining points from the competition. Points can be used to redeem special effects such as map navigation, temporary invisibility, and aura elimination. Unused points will be converted into gold coins after the competition.

The second round will begin one day after the first round."

A lair is a vital territory for a mythical beast; entering it is tantamount to declaring war. Lesden frowned, pondering where to begin.

What is the probability of duplicate items? Are there patterns in the placement of items? Should the team be split into smaller groups to improve search efficiency? What if they encounter danger while working separately? Can they exchange items with other groups?

But he saw that several people in the team were looking at him with very strange eyes.

"Second round?" Mo Ya asked in a voice of pure doubt. "Isn't that easy?"

"If I had known it was so simple, I wouldn't have bothered to increase my magic power."

Lesden: “???”

"Close the door and let Xiaojing in." Mo Ya smiled and pushed Jiang Liujing forward.

"The phantom beasts all like him the most and would welcome him to their home as a guest."

Pointing to the rabbit crunching on a bone nearby, he said, "Look, there's one right here."

Not only was Jiang Liujing allowed in, but they also enjoyed free accommodation.

Jiang Liujing showed a helpless expression on his face because of his words.

He knew that these people had always regarded him as the "catnip" exclusive to fantasy beasts.

For other teams, these three days would be a non-stop journey of searching for and battling sixth-tier mythical beasts. But for them, the second round of competition was a pure vacation-like relaxing experience.

It’s just that Jiang Liujing’s “innocence” will be “tainted” in the process.