The backdrop can also be propped up.

Heledi frowned as she looked at the document, but secretly rejoiced – if he succeeded, his honor would reach even greater heights.

Elena and Helene picked up their wands and began to fight.

It seemed that Elena's group outside had also started their attack, as Borest heard some screams.

Borest used his magic to sense the situation and found that they hadn't killed anyone yet; they had simply separated the civilians according to gender, age, and gender.

Just as Borest was wondering why they weren't just killing people directly, but instead going through all this trouble, he suddenly noticed a flash of dark purple magic on the ground.

However, the magical energy fluctuation was so small that the people watching the match intently did not notice it.

A thought flashed through Borest's mind: Elena and her gang never intended to let them go; it seemed they wanted to use everyone around the church as sacrifices—or something else—in any case, Elena and her gang were going to kill people.

Borest glanced around and, seeing that no one was paying attention to his little actions, began to wave his wand at the ground—the energy fluctuations on the ground were relatively small, meaning that the ground formation had not yet taken shape, and this was the best time to destroy it.

After extinguishing the dark magic on the ground, Borest began to deal with the magic circle on the church roof.

Magic circles are regenerative, so they need to be broken all at once to prevent them from recovering. Borest pondered, but the destruction of magic circles must be done in an orderly manner. The one Heledi just used was completely suppressed by magical power, and the risk of being discovered was too great.

They used the church's magic lamps as the key to their attack, a potential breakthrough—because the magic used to ignite the lamps was the magic of the God of Light, not the magic of the Lord of Hell. They had used some method to transform the God of Light's magic into dark magic. Once Borist understood this, he began searching his memories for relevant information.

Borest remembered that his father had written about magic conversion in his notes.

When he was a child, his father would hold Boris and tell him stories about magic transformation as bedtime stories. After listening to them for a week, Boris could recite them by heart. Then, his father changed the story to one about how to blow someone's head off while using invisibility magic.

They first used a medium to convert light magic into dark magic; once they found that medium, they could neutralize the dark magic on this array. Borest thought.

With a few modifications to this formation, we can use it to trap those who use dark magic. Borist rotated his wrist, trying to recall the materials used to make the magic lamps—since Elena only used the transformation magic on one lamp, and the other transformed lamps were affected by Elena's affliction magic, the medium was likely something that all the magic lamps contained.

Borist first considered the tiramisu wick in the magic lamp.

However, tiramisu naturally possesses a barrier that isolates black magic and is difficult to break, which is why it is commonly used as a wick for magic lamps.

Borist's eyes were sore from looking at the other parts of the magic lamps, but he still couldn't see any related patterns or text on the magic lamp closest to him.

That should still be on the tiramisu. Borest twirled his wand, pondering what magic Elena had used to make the tiramisu no longer block dark magic, then glanced up at how Heledi and Elena's fight was going.

The two fought fiercely, and whenever Elena was at a disadvantage, she would return to the side of the children she was holding hostage.

At this point, Heledi stopped using overly powerful magic on Elena, and Elena regained the upper hand, moving away from the children to fight Heledi.

Hu Xiaohai, inside Haikar's body, watched the battle between Heledi and Elena and couldn't help but ask System 4352: "In the original text, wasn't Heledi the kind of person who would definitely harm the whole family if she wanted to mess with someone? When did she become so moral? I remember that many of the children's parents mocked him because of his status as an illegitimate child?"

"Maybe he wants to do someone a favor and then gain a good reputation among the common people," System 4352 said.

"What about Elena? She's already hiding behind the children. Why doesn't she keep hiding? Why doesn't she wait until she has the upper hand before running out to fight Heledi?"

"Because she wants to experience the feeling of victory, and if she always hides behind the little kids, her classmates will laugh at her," System 4352 explained again.

“Alright, in the original text, Heledi didn't seem to act so quickly, right? I remember that after a fight between some of the teachers from the outer magic academies and the others who came with Elena, they seized the opportunity and worked together to forcefully suppress the magic circle. Then the headmaster of the magic academy arrived, and Heledi finally defeated those using dark magic,” Hu Xiaohai said. “Is this related to the background system helping Borist unintentionally defeat Heledi?”

“There’s some connection,” System 4352 said. “Originally, Heledi planned to wait until Elena and the others had brought the people to the brink of death before making his move. But he figured the academy competition was going to ruin their reputation, so he decided to act then to save more people and restore his previous honor.”

Hu Xiaohai smacked his lips, then asked System 4352, "What was Borist doing in the original text?"

"I don't know, it wasn't mentioned in the original text, but there's a high probability something happened, because the penultimate chapter says that his 17th birthday present to Evangeline was delivered by teleportation, so it shouldn't have arrived." System 4352 opened the laptop and checked the original plot.

“So now, if Borist and Elena were to fight, who would have a higher chance of winning? And I think he's more interested in breaking the magic circle that's currently trapping them than fighting Elena.” System 4352 gestured towards Borist.

After pondering for a while, Borest came up with a bold idea. Elena and the others didn't actually use tiramisu as a medium directly; instead, they used the flames from the burning tiramisu.

"If that's the case, then extinguishing the tiramisu will do," Borest thought.

Borist first tested each magic lamp to see if magic could be used, and found that, except for the first lamp that Elena had hit, the flames of the other lamps could be affected by magic to varying degrees.

Borest looked up again to observe the magic circle. He had already noticed that although there were many magic lamps in the church, enough to create several magic circles in a row, most of the key points of these magic circles overlapped.

By simply finding the lamp that overlaps the most, most of the magic circle can be destroyed.