After the departure of the students of Honeyman College, the hustle and bustle of Lutheran College regained its peace, and the students returned to ordinary studies and club life, while Kenneth took on a huge debt to work for the Student Council, and did not dare to complain.

The Student Council soon announced the exact date and specific arrangements for the Holy Grail Rite Trials, which began three months later on September 15, and all Lutheran Academy students were required to participate in the Trials. The competition will be conducted regardless of grade level and will be divided into two rounds, the first round is Smash Bros., which will be divided into four groups, and forty-eight people will be selected to enter the second round; The second round is a knockout round, which is divided into six groups to select the final six people who will represent the Lutheran Academy of Magic in the Holy Grail Sacrifice.

In addition, the exam schedule was also announced, since every year Lutheran School of Magic and Magic can get a ticket to Castro, so every December all Lutheran students will go to Castro to cheer on their team, and over time, the final exam will be held in November, first three written exams, followed by the practical assessment that Sophia said in the first class.

As a result, all the students who were interested in participating in the Holy Grail Festival began to prepare, and at the same time, the classes became extremely serious, and even the number of people sleeping in the magical history class was much less, and the learning atmosphere in the entire academy was unprecedentedly high.

Kenneth continued to be busy with the work of the Ministry of Security, leaving school from time to time to take Marcas to solve problems for those in need, and at the same time studying seriously and trying to organize and digest the knowledge in his head; Mick honed his magic skills under Calvin's tutelage, pondered his own magic combinations, and began to learn the third order of magic in the Ring of Darkness. Both Kenneth and Mick are working hard for the selection battle, in their own different ways.

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Three months later. September 15th.

Kenneth stood in the middle of a forest with a string around his neck and a wooden plaque with the number "51" engraved on it.

Kenneth looked up at the sky that was almost obscured by the shade of the trees, the rare sunlight projected in, and looked around to observe the surrounding environment, the snake whip chrysanthemum at his feet looked so real, Kenneth crouched down, and could vaguely smell the flowers, which could not be felt as a spatial simulation at all.

At this time, Kenneth was in the second practice range of the first round of the Holy Grail Trials, and the surrounding environment was also created by space, but it was difficult to feel the difference between it and the real forest.

However, although there seemed to be no one around, Kenneth knew that there were about two hundred people still hiding in the shadows, ready to snatch each other's wooden cards and eliminate them until there were only twelve left in the driving range.

Everyone is asked to remove the space ring before entering the room, and replace it with the space ring provided by the student council, which contains everyone's number plate, a uniform wand and three days of food rations, and if you want to give up the game, you only need to destroy your number plate to exit the space immediately. And each number plate has everyone's spirit imprint, once the number plate leaves the ten meters of the person's body, the spirit imprint will disappear, causing the wooden card to self-destruct.

Kenneth's Flame Dragon Ring has not been discovered due to its hidden properties, but no other items can be placed in it.

Although it seemed eerie to other students, Kenneth, who had played in the Hephaestus Mountains since childhood, had a strange sense of intimacy, so he blatantly hung a wooden sign around his neck and walked through the forest.

That's right, he just wants to use himself as bait to lure out the students hiding in the shadows and catch them all.

And now, the first prey has come to the door.

A second-year student quietly hid in the bushes, watching Kenneth swaying towards him through the leaves, a sly smile on his lips.

I saw that there were scattered leaves in front of him, covering some traces of the magic array on the ground, which seemed to be a trap magic.

It's just that at the moment when the senior slowed down his breath and was looking forward to Kenneth stepping into the trap, he found that Kenneth, who was still in front of him, suddenly disappeared from his field of vision.

And just when the senior couldn't help but poke his head out with curiosity, his shoulder was suddenly slapped by the person behind him, and he was so frightened that he sat down on the ground, looked at Kenneth who was smiling in front of him and screamed: "You, how did you know that I was here!" ”

"Breathe," Kenneth said helplessly, pointing to his ear, "Senior, you're breathing so loudly, it's hard not to let me notice." ”

"Yes, yes?" The senior smiled bitterly.

"So, will the seniors do it themselves, or will I do it for me?" Kenneth said with a "friendly" smile.

The senior showed an unwilling look, and a green second-order magic array appeared on the top of the wand in his hand, but before the magic could be cast, he had been pushed to the ground by Kenneth mercilessly with one hand, and the space ring between his fingers was removed.

Seeing Kenneth take away his ring, the senior's eyes showed a look of despair, and Kenneth did not relent, because he had made an appointment with Mick to participate in the Holy Grail Sacrifice together. Kenneth immediately took out the wooden plaque from the spatial ring, engraved with the number "146", and crushed it. The next moment, the dejected senior disappeared in front of Kenneth, but the ring remained.

Kenneth transferred the rations from the ring to his own spatial ring, and then continued to walk forward, swaggering for fear that others would not know his whereabouts.

And it turns out that this trick has indeed caught a lot of fish, among which there is a particularly big fish, that is, a fourth-grade senior, a fourth-order wind magician, with the third-order acceleration magic "Wind Wing", the speed is already on par with Kenneth, plus the cooperation of other wind magic, it still makes Kenneth feel a little tricky, but in the end Kenneth still exhausted his mental power and won with difficulty and eliminated him. However, after the battle with this senior, Kenneth's own consumption was not small, so he stopped fishing and lurked in the forest.

I don't know how to do it, but there seems to be a distinction between day and night in this space, and the forest has become dim at this time, unlike the real-world forest with the starlight of the four holy stars as a guide.

Kenneth sat on the branch of a spruce tree that required five people to hug, about twenty meters above the ground, with his back to the trunk and swallowed the student council ration as quietly as he could.

Speaking of rations, it was actually bread with a few pieces of ham and a few biscuits, and for Kenneth, three days' rations were not enough for him to eat in a day.

"Looks like we're going to have to pick up speed......," Kenneth thought, swallowing a dry loaf of bread.

And just when Kenneth was thinking about speeding up the elimination, a mutation suddenly occurred.

Without a sound, without warning, an arrow from the wind elemental grazed Kenneth's nose and flew in front of him, so frightened that Kenneth almost fell straight off the branch, but he couldn't help but slip under his feet, and he was about to fall off the branch.

However, Kenneth was short, jumped down, grabbed the branch with both hands, and swung to another branch behind him, and then turned up by inertia and stepped on a thick enough branch, leaning against the tree and gasping slightly.

And just as Kenneth had done this, an arrow with a shimmering green light flew silently again, pinned to Kenneth's location, and then dissipated.

This is a third-order wind magic called "Wind Arrow", which converts the wind element into a silent arrow and shoots quickly in the direction of the magician's spiritual power, which is a magic that is very suitable for sneak attacks and assassinations.

And now, on this silent night, Kenneth has clearly become the prey of this magician hiding in the shadows.

Kenneth swallowed slowly, feeling his physical state, now only two hours had passed since the fierce battle before, fortunately, Kenneth had eaten three days of rations just now, and his body had roughly recovered to fifty percent. However, Kenneth didn't know the state of the person hiding in the shadows, so he couldn't talk about whether he had an advantage or not, but judging from the current situation, he was undoubtedly at a disadvantage.

Although three months have passed, with Kenneth's current knowledge reserves, he still doesn't know what the name of the magic that sneaked up on him just now, but he still guessed the general nature, probably a magic arrow. Kenneth clung to the trunk of the tree and slowly slid down.

At this time, Kenneth was extremely grateful for the information that Auston had collected for everyone before the game, so he wore his own dark clothes and pants that were easy to move, and the place was dim, so as long as he slowed down, he could merge with the trunk of the tree, making it difficult for people to detect with the naked eye.

That's right, with Kenneth's personality, how could he be in his options, and he was eager to take the opportunity to knock him out of the game.

However, a flash of green light suddenly flashed through the grass on the ground, and Kenneth was startled, and hurriedly left his hand to let himself fall freely and quickly, and sure enough, the sound of arrows driving into the bark of trees was heard three meters above his head.

Seeing that Kenneth tried to grab the trunk of the tree again after dodging the arrow, there was a violent friction between his palm and the bark, but fortunately there were dragon scales to protect it, so that his palm did not become a bloody blur. Kenneth gritted his teeth, seeing that it was still seven or eight meters away from the ground at this time, but he still let go and jumped straight down, and at this moment, another arrow glowing with green light grazed Kenneth's scalp and shot at the trunk of the tree, startling Kenneth into a cold sweat.

Kenneth rolled on the ground just before he hit the ground, buffering and rolling straight into a mass of trees, and after a moment of silence the forest fell silent, with only the occasional rustle.

With the attack just now, Kenneth had already determined the location of the sneak attacker, so he quickly approached the magician.

The identities of the hunter and the prey are always inadvertently switched.

That's what Kenneth thought when an arrow of wind hit Kenneth in the shoulder.

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