Containment
On the other side, Phyllis was clutching her hair with both hands and screaming, "What is going on? It's in the same group as the Kostner team who finished first in qualifying? Are you mistaken? Why did you ask Weedmeire to go up and draw lots?"
Otto also knew that it was his fault, so he lowered his head in embarrassment, and at the same time took the crystal ball in Kevin's hand and held it to his chest, so that Phyllis and Darko on the opposite side could not see him.
Leah was stunned, and also hid her face and sighed, "I should have known that I should have asked Costner to go up and draw lots." ”
Wendy shrugged her shoulders and said, "It's really a narrow road, and it looks like our game is not going to be smooth sailing." ”
Kevin kept staring at the water curtain in the ring, and his eyes never took off for a long time. It wasn't until Leah patted him tentatively on the shoulder that he looked around as if he had just woken up from a dream, and then immediately added, "I'm fine." ”
At this time, the chief referee stood in the ring, although the grouping had been completed, he still needed to announce it again, and there was a brief explanation of the rules of the group stage in a week. During this period, many spectators in the stands have already gotten up one after another and moved towards the exit, ready to leave.
On the other side of the crystal ball, Darko didn't pay attention to the grouping information on the water screen, but looked at a certain area in the stands. He suddenly said in a deep voice, "Wendy, look at the front left stand, count the person in the eighth row from below. ”
Wendy was puzzled for a moment, then walked towards the stands, most of the spectators were moving towards the exit, and the people who were still sitting became more conspicuous. Wendy's body froze suddenly, and if it weren't for the cloak and hood, this loss of consciousness would have been noticed.
Phyllis followed Darko's instructions and looked around for a moment, then exclaimed, "Devon, what is this idiot doing here?"
Darko recognized the fifth-in-line heir to the Harris family, Devin Harris, who had fought him at the San Diego School of Magic and Wizardry. Although more than two years have passed, Darko still remembers the appearance of this man vividly. He carefully tilted his head to prevent his gaze from drawing the attention of the others, and whispered, "There is also a problem with the three people next to Devon, their eyes seem to have been fixed on the cloaked contestant, most likely to have come to find Wendy. ”
Wendy's face was a little unnatural, and she murmured, "Sure enough, it's the people from the Stormwind Church, they must have come to me, and I'm in trouble." ”
Due to Phyllis's absence, Wendy must have attracted the attention of the other party when she used that kind of gas magic to dismantle magic materials during the previous match. Otto glanced at the stands and then withdrew his gaze, "Four-to-four? ”
Leah kicked Otto in the calf, "Stupid, those four haven't left the field to block the door until now, which means that they must have helpers outside the Colosseum, don't just think about solving problems by violence at any time!"
For a moment, the six people on both sides of the crystal ball all fell silent, and Kevin also recovered from the emotions he had just grouped, and asked in a low voice, "Is that plan going to be used in advance?"
"No, the other party came prepared, if they blocked at the entrance of the Colosseum, it would be too difficult to complete that plan. It was Wendy who said this, and she had analyzed the multiple possibilities of escaping from the Colosseum.
Darko kept directing Otto to change direction, observing the situation in the Colosseum through the crystal ball, and his eyes suddenly lit up, "Have you noticed that there are many people wearing cloaks in the team participating in the competition?" ”
"There are about ten of them, probably all old guys who are participating in the competition under false identities. Leah looked around, frowned again, and said, "The key is that Wendy has already exposed the identity of an air magician in the game, and the skill of breaking down magic materials is not something that ordinary people can master, they know that Wendy is from our team, and they will definitely focus on probing." ”
"Wendy doesn't have the team logo on her, as long as she doesn't walk with you, won't no one know?" Darko smiled weirdly, and pointed to a few cloaked players in the distance, "And they are similar to Wendy's cloaks, who can tell if they are huddled together?"
"Good idea! let's go our separate ways!" Otto smashed his fist into the palm of his hand, but then thought of it again, and hurriedly asked, "What if they intercept all the cloaked people?"
Kevin's mouth turned into a wicked smile, "So we need to create a little chaos." ”
"Can you?" Leah looked at Kevin, who had just learned that he was on the same group as his brother, and she was worried that Kevin would be out of shape.
Kevin said lightly, "Don't worry, I've been mentally prepared for a long time, and now we have to study the battle plan carefully." ”
At this time, the chief referee announced that he had finished announcing and had already walked towards the stage, and the players of each team began to exit the player tunnel in turn. The elation of advancing to the group stage was non-stop talking and laughing, and some of the eliminated ones were very low, but most of them were able to accept the result, and many acquaintances between different teams greeted each other and walked together in confusion. After all, many people come to compete for the sake of fame, not to win the championship, such as Diego.
Several people from the Darko team also happened to discuss the countermeasures, and Phyllis said quickly, "Darko and I have already entered the teleportation distance, and we will use the return scroll to pass back immediately, and act according to the plan, Weedmeire, you don't drop the chain." After that, the screen in the crystal ball flashed and disappeared, returning to a transparent state.
Leah took the crystal ball back into the spatial ring, looked at Kevin and Otto for a moment, and then took a deep look at Wendy in the cloak, nodded imperceptibly, and the four of them separated, blending in the flow of people and walking in different directions. There are 72 teams of contestants, with a total of more than 400 people, and it is also a very chaotic scene to walk out of a passage at the same time.
Kevin ran directly towards the passage of the player's entrance as fast as he could, and the other players were not in a hurry to leave, the speed was not too fast, and Kevin was really desperately squeezed to the front of the crowd. And Leah found the people on Diego's team, went to their side to greet them, and at the same time walked into the passage in the crowd. Otto pretended to be inflexible, led the orc warrior to the rear, and waited until the crowd had entered the passage before he followed, and silently tore a teleportation scroll in his sleeve to deliver a message. Wendy, on the other hand, had already nimbly swam to Ben Klein's team, and was not far away from the cloaked men.
Ben Klein's team, Team Tucson, also finished 11th in qualifying and were placed in Group A. At this time, they passed the qualifying round, and they were also full of ambition, and several people wore cloaks and walked in the passage with their heads held high.
Wendy was originally surrounded by qi magic, holding up a space in the cloak, and looked like a big fat man. After blending in with the crowd, Wendy stopped maintaining her magic and slowly lost weight, and no one around noticed Wendy's changes.
Outside the exit of the Colosseum, several people in the robes of the Church of the Storm stood in three directions, waiting to block the cloaked entrants. They kept an eye on the crowd that walked out, and the first one to run out was Kevin, who ran towards the people in front of him as quickly as if he was in a hurry. The people of the Storm Church hesitated, and one of the sallow-faced people had a blue-green light in his eyes, glanced at Kevin, and then shook his head, and the others let Kevin run past them.
Kevin's face was silent when he saw this, but in his heart he had already determined the purpose of the Storm Church, they came to capture Wendy, and even in order to prevent Wendy from transfiguring or using illusions, even people with pupil skills were found. There are many kinds of pupil techniques, which are roughly divided into three categories, Void, Delusion, and Proclytic, and Darko's Pupil of Cause and Effect belongs to the pupil ability of prophecy. And the ability of the storm to teach this person is obviously delusional, able to see through all illusions, straight to the heart. Hitomi's abilities have always been rare, among which the ability of the prophecy type is the most powerful, while the ability of the delusional class is the rarest, and the fact that the Storm Church sent such a person to hunt down Wendy also shows that their determination is not small.
Although the delusional pupil can ignore illusions, they do not have the ability to see through the clothing and see the true face that is covered, so they also need to arrest all the people who have covered their faces in order to determine which one is Wendy. Most of the crowd had already passed the exit, and Wendy was floating out behind the Tucson team. At this time, the Storm Church believers in the three directions were all lifting their spirits, staring closely at the dozen or so cloaked figures.
Among the group, it was none other than the head of the group who hunted down Wendy in St. Yale, Tacit Harris. After gathering a lot of information in the early stage, they finally started to launch an operation against the suspect. At this moment, he suddenly raised his head and looked at the sky strangely, and several people next to him were puzzled for a moment, and then they also looked up at the sky. Soon their faces changed, and dozens of black spots in the sky were growing sharply, and as the distance decreased, the number of black spots was gradually increasing, and soon it was discovered that each black spot was a meteorite.
One of the Stormwind Church frowned, "Who dares to release magic here?" If you let those meteorites fall, I'm afraid it will affect our containment, so I'll stop it." ”
Tacit raised his left hand and stopped the person who was about to take off, "You flew into the sky here, which is equivalent to telling the Alchemy Guild that we will arrest people on their territory." ”
The man paused, looked at the meteorite that was getting faster and faster, and asked, "What then?"
"Keep an eye on the target and wait and see what happens!" Before Tacit could finish speaking, those meteorites had already smashed into the crowd, making an earth-shattering sound. For a while, the crowd below jumped and jumped, but fortunately, the players who participated in the Alchemy Grand Prix were not of low rank, and the meteor shower only seriously injured a dozen unlucky people at most, and it did not cause much damage, but it still caused a lot of chaos.
Those meteorites all smashed to the ground in a matter of seconds, and the eruption of air knocked many people to the ground, and as soon as the shocking sound passed, a rough shout was heard from the back of the crowd, "The Alchemy Guild and the Stormwind Church are at war!
The previous meteor shower didn't cause much chaos, firstly, because it didn't cause too many casualties, and secondly, because this was the territory of the Alchemy Guild, and everyone believed that the Alchemy Guild would be able to quell this small chaos immediately. But hearing this shout, people immediately became confused, if it was really a war with the Storm Church, then the Alchemy Guild would be unreliable, and even if it died, it would be in vain. Although it was a meteorite that attacked them before, the chaos on the scene didn't give them much time to think about the possibilities, even if someone found out that it was unreasonable, they also wanted to avoid the chaos, so they tried their best to escape from this place, and for a while, the players who had just come out scattered like rats, escaping in all directions, and even the more than ten people arranged by the Storm Church in three directions could not stop it.
"Bastard!" he cursed angrily, he didn't know why he had been framed, but he couldn't think much about the situation at the scene. The chaotic crowd had blocked his vision, and he could only see the situation from above, and he flew directly into the air with his arms fluttering, looking for the cloaked target in the crowd. And the people behind him and the other blockers in two directions saw this, and they also flew into the air to look for them condescendingly.
There are not no magicians in the Qi system in St. Yale City, but at this moment, more than a dozen people in the same costume who can fly suddenly appeared, which has to be reminiscent of the Stormwind Church, which further confirms the previous rumors. And these dozen or so people from the Storm Church are still surrounded on three sides, which makes everyone think that they want to make dumplings with themselves, and they are desperately rushing out.
"Fight with them!" "I don't know where a leaf flew out of nowhere, attacking one of the Storm Church members flying in the air, of course, this level of leaf dance technique did not hurt that person, but her shouting made the anxious crowd find a way, and for a while, all kinds of magic beckoned to the dozen or so people flying in the air. It is convenient for them to find their targets, but at the same time, they are also easier to become targets, and for a while, several people are rushing to release defensive magic for themselves, how can they have time to find targets?
"Look for death!" Tacit suddenly pushed his hands sideways to the sides, and a buzzing sound came into everyone's ears at the same time, interrupting all the magic that everyone was preparing within a radius of a hundred meters below, and at the same time, the magic that was flying in the air was also weakened to varying degrees, and the magic of the first and second levels was even directly destroyed and dissipated, and reduced to the basic element.
Level 5 Qi Magic, Shock Wave.
Tacit snorted, feeling that he had finally breathed a sigh of relief, but he lowered his head and swept over the crowd, almost vomiting blood, the crowd that had surrounded him had already run out of their range, and the dozen or so people in cloaks had already fled in different directions.
Tacit shouted fiercely, "Follow one per person, chase me!"