Chapter 18: The Year of the Year
After solving the problem of forming a team, Han Feng returned to Xu Lao with peace of mind and continued his cultivation. Basically, there hasn't been much change in his life, except for going to training camps every weekend. Oh, and there was also a small episode in between. When Liao Huajie confidently introduced his new teammates to Han Feng, he got the news that he had successfully formed a team. Suddenly, it was like five thunderbolts. However, after repeatedly confirming the authenticity of this news, he could only accept it helplessly!
The monotonous days pass so quickly that it is almost impossible to feel the passage of time. Before you know it, the annual competition is just around the corner. In order to prepare for this annual competition, everyone gave up their vacation and chose to stay in Longjing City to continue training. Ouyang even gave up the opportunity to go out to practice with his family and chose to stay. And Xu Lao, after learning about this situation, invited a few people to his home to live temporarily.
The invitation of the Magister naturally made everyone ecstatic! As a result, there were six more members in Xu's family, making this always deserted place lively. Every day, while supervising Han Feng's cultivation, Elder Xu would also give a few words to several other people from time to time. Although Xu Lao is an ice magician, a magic master is a magic master, and it is more than enough for him to guide a few junior magicians.
With the guidance of Xu Lao, everyone's strength improved rapidly. In addition, they soaked together all day long, cultivated together, endured hardships together, and lived together, and their relationship has also made great progress, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are friends. As the main purpose of the training, their ability to cooperate has greatly improved, and even Xu Lao said that their cooperation has been a little hot.
After preparing for so long, I finally waited for the annual competition! The Longjing City Arena was full of people, crowded with spectators and contestants. Because the scene was too crowded, and there were girls in the team, Han Feng directly asked Ouyang to squeeze in and see the next schedule of his people clearly.
"Boss, when will it be our turn? I can't wait!" Lan Tianyu trembled with excitement and said to Han Feng. This guy has always been very envious of Han Feng's ability to quickly improve his strength. After knowing Han Feng's daily training content, he once secretly ran to try it once. As a result, he lay directly in bed for three days! Since then, he has been calling Han Feng the boss.
"How do I know. Han Feng rolled his eyes, feeling helpless about his self-confessed "little brother". This guy is a cynical playboy on the surface, but in reality he is very childish and often pushy. "The matter of registration has always been the responsibility of Ouyang. You should ask him!"
"Isn't Ouyang here?" Lan Tianyu said with a hippie smile on his face. "Anyway, Ouyang is going to draw lots, when will he come back?"
"It's coming!" Mu Zinan, who had a bald head, suddenly spoke up, attracting the attention of the others. "Ouyang is back!"
The Mu brothers are all stable people who are not good at words. However, compared with his elder brother Mu Zidong, Mu Zinan, who is a younger brother, is much more frizzy and impulsive. Therefore, the relationship between Mu Zidong and Han Feng is better, while Mu Zinan prefers to mix with Lan Tianyu and Ouyang.
Before Mu Zinan's words fell, everyone saw that Ouyang, who was sweating profusely, was struggling to squeeze out of the crowd. "You bastards, you know to instruct me, the next time something like this happens, whoever likes to go. There were so many people, I was almost squashed. ”
Hearing Ouyang's complaints, looking at his embarrassed appearance, everyone looked away in embarrassment. Only Lan Tianyu was still adding fuel to the fire, and said, "You can't say that." You're the vice-captain, and it's all your responsibility!"
"Get out!" Ouyang roared angrily, pointing at Han Feng very angrily. "Isn't there still a captain here? Why are you holding on to me, the vice-captain?"
"Hey, hey, hey, don't get involved with me!" Hearing Ouyang's words, Han Feng said calmly. "We agreed to be the captain of the team because I only had to fight, and nothing else had anything to do with me. You have to talk the talk, or I won't be the captain. ”
"Is it really good for you to cheat me like this?" As soon as he heard this, Ouyang suddenly became stunned.
"Hee-hee, you deserve it!" Li Ying grimaced at Ouyang and gloated. "Let you bully me all day long as the vice-captain, and now you will be punished!"
Looking at the bitter gourd on Ouyang's face, everyone laughed. Li Ying and Lan Tianyu laughed the most exaggeratedly, and the whole person leaned forward and backwards. The brothers Mu Zidong and Mu Zinan, who are silent and serious on weekdays, can't help laughing. Even the gentle and lovely gentleness couldn't help but cover her mouth and snicker.
After a while, Han Feng stopped everyone's play.
"Okay, now that we're laughing and laughing, we're making trouble, let's get down to business. Han Feng straightened his face and said seriously. "Ouyang, have you collected the above information? What is the situation of this annual competition?"
When it came to business, Ouyang immediately became serious. He put away his bitter melon-like face and frowned slightly. "It's a bit of a hassle. You all know that this annual competition is, in the final analysis, a competition between several colleges. Zixiao, Haoyue, Deep Blue, Qingteng, and Blazing Flame all have the privilege to directly recommend a team to directly enter the quarterfinals, which is the so-called seeded team. The remaining teams must participate in the preliminary round to compete for the remaining seats. ”
Han Feng frowned and asked, "In other words, we have to participate in the so-called preliminaries." I don't know how many teams have grabbed the qualification?"
"Basically, that's what it means. Ouyang shrugged. "We'll have to get a place in the quarterfinals. ”
"It's not easy!" Mu Zidong looked at the crowd of people in front of him and said dejectedly. "There are only 16 teams that qualify for the quarterfinals. Excluding the places reserved by several colleges, there are still eleven seats left. We have to stand out from so many teams, and it feels like a lot of pressure to think about it!"
"I don't think so!" Unlike the pessimistic Mu Zidong, the careful and gentle has another opinion.
"Think about it, what is your strength in the academy? You are all students from several colleges, you should know the situation. In our class, how many students can reach the fourth order? It shouldn't be many, at most, only a part of the elite has this kind of strength. This is the case even for several large colleges, and even more so for those small colleges. Perhaps, they don't even have fourth-order students. ”
"So, we're dealing with just a few magic apprentices and a handful of junior magicians. Han Feng's eyes lit up when he heard this, and then Wen Ya didn't finish what he said. "How big a gap there is between a magician and a magic apprentice, I think everyone knows it very well. It's definitely not a difficult thing for us to qualify, at most it's a little troublesome. After all, there are as many as eleven places to advance. I don't believe that there are so many teams made up entirely of fourth-order magicians. Even if there were, with our strength, we would not instigate them at all. ”
"That's right, now what we have to do is hide as much as possible. Li Ying said with a wicked smile. "Wait for a powerful opponent to burst out again and kill them by surprise. When the time comes, hehehehe·····"
When everyone came to the competition venue according to Ouyang's draw, they found that most of their opponents were only third-order, and there were even second-order mixed in.
This discovery made everyone very speechless. A team composed entirely of fourth-order mages to fight third-order or even second-order mages. Can there be any other outcome than one-sided abuse? Perhaps, as long as they send out a random person, they can easily win. A place in the quarterfinals? That's already in their pocket.
Not only did they think so, but they did it! Because their opponents were so weak, they didn't have the desire to fight. Even Li Ying, who made the most trouble, was also lacking in interest and unwilling to make a move. In the end, it was our tragic Vice Captain Ouyang who was pushed out by everyone to clean up the mess. The reason is still very good, he drew the lottery, so this matter will be left to him to solve.
After being deflated at the hands of his teammates, he couldn't have a seizure, and Ouyang could only vent his depression on those poor opponents. Ouyang was very unhappy, and the consequences were very serious! Ouyang, who was full of unhappiness, used the fourth-order magic flame explosion technique as soon as he entered the arena to directly roast a few opponents who didn't know whether they were alive or dead and wanted to challenge him into half-baked pieces. Ouyang's brutality frightened the other side into surrender.
In the next game, many teams directly chose to abstain when they knew that they were going to face Ouyang. Fighting such a brutal fire-type junior mage, no matter how you think about it, you can't help but feel like a good thing. Those who refused to surrender and still wanted to fight, Ouyang was not polite, and directly greeted them with the Flame Explosion Technique.
Those very few teams with fourth-order magicians to support the field, after seeing that Han Feng's lineup on their side was all junior magicians, they also decisively chose to abstain. If you continue to fight, you can only bring humiliation on yourself at most, and it is better to directly abstain from voting. In this way, Han Feng and they can be said to have been on a breakthrough all the way, successfully qualified for the quarterfinals, and their strength was not exposed much.
For Han Feng and the others, this is the best result! It is ideal to successfully qualify for the quarterfinals without revealing their strength.
However, the next game will not be so easy! According to the information they have obtained, in addition to the seeded teams cultivated by the major academies, there are also a lot of hard stubble in the remaining ten teams! In every battle, they may lose, and they must go all out!
Han Feng and they are all full of confidence that they can overcome their opponents. However, if you want to defeat these people, you will have to go through an uphill battle. From the quarterfinals, it's impossible to win a battle with one or two people. They all know very well that in the next game, there is no fluke, and they can only rely on strength.
Before the quarterfinals, the matches were distributed in the respective arenas of the major colleges, which could only be regarded as semi-public competitions, and the audience was not large. And from the quarterfinals onwards, all the matches were arranged in the largest arena in Longjing City, which was open to everyone. This can also be regarded as several colleges showing their strength to the outside world, and they naturally attach great importance to it.