Julia is so confident that no matter how skilled or talented the lightning mages are, she will be able to defeat them. It's just that their elemental compatibility differs too much.

First of all, a lightning mage has little protection against the attacks of magma, because magma is the perfect combination of all the calories consumed with the power and power of the earth. Her most basic slingshot even shattered the shield of an earthen Abjur. Combined with transmutation, she can jump, she can blink, and she can throw devastating little meteors. During Rosebay's field trip, Julia single-handedly knocked down two hundred green-skinned elves. She even threw it to the ground.

If so, how exactly did she lose?

Her defense is impeccable! Her mentor has adjusted her magma skin transmutation so that it can withstand the onslaught of electricity. In addition, she prepares lightning resistance, lightning absorption, and a series of effects designed to negate Gwen Song's abilities.

Julia tried to think, trying to remember the last 10 seconds.

Her opponent strikes for the first time, that's for sure. After all, Gwen is a lightning mage with the fastest action element second only to light, while Julia is as slow as ooze. However, as long as Julia endured Gwen's first spell, it was all over, as Julia knew that it was almost impossible for the mana cost of attacking the caster to match the mana cost of the defender. Whether by becoming oh defeated, or succumbing, Julia is sure that the lightning mage will fail her challenge.

If yes, why is she the one lying on the ground?

Julia lifted her right arm and searched around the arena for answers. Her chest hurts. She was in pain all over her body. She's been struck by lightning, but how did Gwen Song break through her defenses?

Around the arena, Rossby's ranks were filled with confusion, disbelief, and confusion, all of which were stirred into a moment of frustration. Julia looked up, feeling anger and resentment rise in her throat. Did Gwen Song cheat? Is she a magician?

Hallucination?

A cold sweat broke out on Julia's forehead. Did she fall into a hallucination?

Julia concentrated her mana and felt the lingering magma on her skin boiling and bursting, turning red and liquid.

"Julia!" the only Erin Ferris, the master of her master, shouted to stand back!

She didn't want to, but the voice was like an iron whip striking her mind. Magma skin falls off her, sizzling the turf. The deformed landscape faded into the grey concrete floor of the uncultivated training ground.

"Ma'am. Julia whispered. She didn't believe it. She wanted to tell the mage that Gwen Song had somehow cheated.

"It's not an illusion," Erin said kindly, as you can't compare to you. ”

Julia shuddered. Defeated?!dwarfed?!

She turned to look at Mags Stone, who waved frantically at Julia, ordering her to come back.

What else could she do?

The judge has already said it.

She lost.

Erin Ferris didn't like the man next to her very much. Henry the Immortal, they called him - Henry Kilroy, the Ten Masters. She didn't like the moniker at all. No one is a master of Erin Ferris, especially not an old relic left over from a past war.

There are other reasons why Erin doesn't like Henry, but these are more pragmatic. As a soothsayer, her divination often foreshadowed the impending opportunities and wayward risks to which the tower would be exposed. Sometimes, Henry listened to her, and sometimes, he ignored her. The man's level of operation seemed to be beyond the questionability of the other nine people, and she didn't like it at all.

Was it because Henry Kilroy was part of the Great Generation? the people who pioneered the tower system and helped with the Great Reclamation? Of course, the August Kilroy fell for the sake of managing a secondary tower, but that doesn't mean he should be above the rule of law, right? As the oracle and soothsayer of the tower, she certainly had more say in the matter of defense.

However, the old man insisted on his "middle way" of isolation.

Develop human cities and suppress the half-human. Block trade between all species and control inter-ethnic contact.

How will Sydney progress if its rulers force the economy to stagnation?

She herself, Walken and Lin, they all had the same idea, they believed that the mage and the man would soon be separated, and the name would inevitably bury the mage in an avalanche of incompetence. She was inclined to believe that mages, so immersed in mana and magic, had more in common with the magical half-human race.

In that case, why not open up trade with merfolk? learn about their culture and language? why not set up emissaries between the legendary race of wise men like elves and dwarves, as Europeans did? Who can say that orcs and vagabonds are only useful to their biological core?

Ferris is well aware of the dangers of human cities and their civilizations opening up to malevolent races, but also knows that they have a lot to learn from ancient elements. Older races, such as the so-called High Elves or their cousins, the Dark Elves, possess spells that surpass those of humans. Even the dwarves, who are isolated in the unseen underground city, contribute to the art of making puppets.

But Kilroy won't have that. On his corpse, he would say.

So imagine how surprised Ferris's disciples were when they told her that Kilroy's dog, Alessia de Botton, had come with a marriage proposal

- One is called Gwen Song.

Ever since de Botton brought Gwen Song to the tower to see Kilroy, Ferris knew about Gwen Song. During that fateful encounter with Walken's guards, Ferris watched from her room until Gunther Schultz (Gunther Schultz) came to dispel the heat.

Until Gwen started showing up on the girl three months ago, she didn't have much stock in the girl. Later, both Walken and herself decided to keep an eye on the girl. Of course, Erin could kill the girl if she wanted to, but Kilroy would know that it would trigger a level of disobedience that Erin was not prepared to face. As far as she knew, Gwen was Henry's new favorite. The man had done the same thing with Gunther Schultz, who had long been rumored to be his apprentice, and later fought again in the late 80s with the unlikely torch Alexia de Botton (Alexia de Botton). Now, he's working on the third. She knew that Gwen was a lightning mage, and she had heard from secret sources that she might also be a genius, an early awakened mage. This is certainly impressive, but not enough for Erin to pit the immortal Henry. Why did Henry like that girl so much? That was the question she wanted answered.

Now she knows.

She really should have taken the risk.

When it happened, Ferris thought she was caught in a charm—something that couldn't have happened, because the owner of a school like her was actually immune to the effects of hallucinations. However, Ferris only witnessed something she had only heard about in old war stories.

A flash of darkness that swallowed up all light. A disgusting eruption of mana that gave all who witnessed its terrifying birth a sickening feeling of vertigo.

She felt a palpable distortion of the space itself, a tilt of her stomach, a moment of fear emanating from her bones.

Then came a burst of lightning.

And then it's over.

The moment Gwen knew she had used a focused detection spell on Julia, she was really in trouble. Their elements don't work well together. Even if all of her spells and summoning spells were hit by Alpha, there was a chance that Julia would survive. As a magma mage, Julia's heat resistance reduces the impact of lightning, and her earthen-made body dispels its paralyzing effects, nullifying the best parts of Gwen's magic.

When Gwen stood on that energy field, she could further feel the resonant effects of the girl's metamorphosis magic, far more powerful and skilled than Deborah's. There are also some things, hidden in the girl's mana signature.

If she had to guess, Gwen's divination bones would risk saying it was a confession. Only a school that directly refuted her call could give her such a creepy, ominous premonition.

Richard was right. Rosebay sent their governor, with the highest self-confidence, and they had countered her every move. She had no choice but to use her Void powers, and the only way she could do so was to minimize exposure while maximizing the effect.

"Let's go!"

There is no time to think.

Now, she must act.

"Molten armor!" Julia cast a spell, and her skin began to boil, accompanied by flowing particles of fire and earth mana, forming a hard carapace. If she was given a few seconds for the spell to mature, Gwen knew her opponent would be unstoppable.

"Dimensional Gate!"

To everyone's surprise, Gwen disappeared from where she stood.

The next second she reappeared, slamming into the unsuspecting Julia, a semicircular mass of dense darkness flickering for a few seconds.

Her opponent couldn't see or feel Gwen teleporting within a few centimeters of her. It's a ridiculous move, even crazy. The temperature around Julia was almost a few hundred degrees!

But none of this happened. The girl who suddenly appeared next to Julia flickered, and then Julia stumbled to the ground.

Gwen felt her offensive dimensional gates connect, and her void mana instantly devoured the molten armor that the magma mage was still forming.

She immediately felt her vital signs descend like stones, but continued to attack a small part, feeling it creak in the magma and touch the primordial mana below. When Julia falls on her hind feet, the center plating of the molten armor spreads, and the spell is overloaded and dispelled, causing the unformed Smokestone to fall from her.

Gwen reached for Julia's hand, one on her shoulder, and the other touched Julia's solar plexus, forcing air out of her lungs.

Gwen's inner metronome counted for a few seconds until her brain was ready for the next spell.

"Lightning!"

Before Julia could hit the ground, Gwen extracted a beam of plasma from her left hand and shot it into Julia's chest, feeling the energy violently transmitted through the magma mage's body, satisfyingly. Julia's clay constitution absorbed most of Gwen's spells, but enough spells passed through Julia's torso to paralyze her opponents.

When Julia finally landed, it let out a crisp thud.

When the battle was already over, the crowd was still waiting for what would happen.

"What's wrong?" someone asked.

"Where's the molten armor?"

"Why is Julia on the ground?"

"Why is the lightning mage standing next to Julia?"

Their voices quickly became frantic and anxious, filled with questions and emotions that no one could answer.

Gwen turned to check on Kilroy and Ferris. Young Master Henry grinned, smiling so happily that his old face was wrapped in an uninhibited mask of laughter. Ferris made an "O" of his own, and his lips were round enough to hold a quail egg.

The whispers of the crowd below grew louder and louder, and then Julia sat down abruptly and jumped straight up from her horizontal position.

By that time, she had lost consciousness for 5 to 6 seconds.

Gwen turned, then bowed.

Julia returned to her corner in frustration, still staggering in disbelief. How did she lose? She didn't even have her armor on! Of course, if she could put on the armor, then she would have a chance. Somehow, Gwen Song used some magic to penetrate her impenetrable armor, but why didn't Master Ferris say anything?

"Mrs. Stone," Julia protested.

"Shhhhhhhh She gets a private message from Principal Ferris and doesn't have time to deal with her student's unexpected failure.

"I suspect that this Gwen song may be digging into the element of nothingness, or at least something like that. Ferris warned her disciples that this was said to be a very prohibitive element because of its cost of life, which explains why they had such a low-level healer. In group battles, take out the Healer first, or alpha attack the invalid Mage. Don't let Gwen get close to Julia! Give Julia a moment to cast her best spell and you'll know. ”

"Understood, master," Stone replied silently.

"Make no mistake. I want this girl, Mildred. I'm going to marry her, you know?"

"Ma'am!" replied Mildredstone in absolute certainty.

On the opposing field, Gwen returned to her teammates. She has maintained an illusion of health since her victory.

Her companions clapped their hands and applauded, but in the eerie silence of four hundred pairs of disapproving eyes, there was only their noise. If Gwen had defeated Julia in a fight to the death, they could certainly applaud the challenger, but what happened was ridiculous.

"Gwen!" Elvia rushed to Gwen's side, clasping her hands and weaving through the endless flow of life mana to keep Gwen healthy.

Gwen only has her master's dimensional door to be thankful for, the shield of the half void. It's not just a gamble, because if Gwen loses control of the spell, or if she overestimates the power of her armor, her Void Blaster could pierce Julia and seriously injure the girl. If she hadn't been able to penetrate Julia's defense, then the match could have been lost.

So, to outside observers, it's a simple strategy, the culmination of magic, summoning, the void, and lightning.

Gwen was delighted. Because her gambling was successful. She barely revealed her abilities, however, her enemies were defeated, but still alive. It's a win-win for all customers.

However, the cost of using two invalid spells in a row is terrible. The Dimension Gate is a level 4 spell that is more demanding than the level 1 bolt that Gwen usually uses. The shield also took a toll on her body. When she touches Julia at the last moment, the long-lasting heat from the molten armor makes her hands even more confused.

Gwen gasped and received healing energy from Avia, feeling her body rejuvenated. After a minute, she no longer felt dizzy, exhausted, and suddenly felt dizzy. Her hand also returned to normal function.

"Yes, Gwen!"

"Good ass, sister!" Rittal applauded. "I'm so sick!"

"Oh my God!" Alexia hugged Gwen, took her in her arms, crushed her hard, picked her up, and performed a celebratory jig. "You're going to be famous! What the hell is that? Who taught you to use dimensional gates as offensive spells? It's not on your class schedule yet. ”

Gwen glanced at Henry, twisting his beard expertly and smugly at an enraged Judge Ferris.

"I talked to Richard, the cousin of the prince's family, and he told me that if the opponent is not good, I should burn the ace and finish it quickly, so that I have nothing to give up. If it doesn't work, I'm likely to lose, so there's no loss. ”

"What an irresponsible suggestion!" Alexia snapped just for the game, Gwen! Don't do this in the wilderness!

"Yes, ma'am," Gwen replied earnestly.

"Oh, my little sister!" Alexia hugged Gwen again. "Well done!"

A loud bang came from the direction of the podium and caught their attention. It's Mags Stone.

"Congratulations to Gwen Song of the Black Acacia Academy for participating in the duel for the first time. ”

She continued.

"Now we enter 3 May 3. Players, please come on stage. ”

Gwen looked at her friends, who nodded confidently.

Yue, Deborah, and Wetu take the stage.

From the stage at Rose Bay, Julia emerges again, followed by the Ice Magician and the Earthen Breaker.