At the end of the dinner on the evening of the opening day of the Elemental Festival, Ms. Bema, the current dean of the Loris National Academy, who accepted the special invitation and appeared before the end of the dinner, publicly announced a reminder about the second day of the Water Elemental Competition.

"Victory belongs to the strongest team" - a bit of a scratching head of the way as a reminder for the Water Elemental.

The eight teams of the four academies who learned the prompt were troubled this night was not what most people cared about, and it was the morning of the second day of the opening of the Elemental Festival in the blink of an eye, and the first water element match of the single-element theme competition in the first half of this year's Four Academies Tournament officially kicked off in a temporary arena on a hillside on the outskirts of Alrant City outside Lorris National College.

The structure of the temporary arena is somewhat similar to that of the Prud Empire's circular arena, but compared to the rugged and primitive style of the arena, the building from the hands of several elite earth-based warlocks and an earth-type arcane mage from the National Academy is imbued with the delicate and mysterious beauty that is unique to magicians.

Considering the instability and spread of many magics, inside this arena, there are two elite warlock-level academy teachers on each side of the surrounding stepped ring stands to guard the match, taking turns to support the magic barrier shrouded in front of one of the stands to prevent the magic of the players from accidentally injuring the stands.

Due to the fact that it is very difficult to make an enchantment generator with qualified defense and such a huge coverage area with the current magic engineering technology, the Four Houses Tournament used mage manpower to release the protective enchantment, but fortunately, the game time is only a few hours, and generally speaking, it will not be attacked at all. Two five-star elite warlocks were more than enough to maintain the surrounding guardian barriers.

Meantime. There are also some transparent magic image windows suspended above the four stands. The scenes in these video windows come from the magic video recorders in the stands that are distributed at all angles in the arena, apparently so that the spectators can better reflect the grand occasion of the game from all angles and observe the performance of the players on the field. Of course, these images will also be transmitted to the large magic screens that have been set up in the various plazas and parks in the city during this time, so that those who are unlucky enough to reserve a seat in the economy arena in advance can see the exciting battles on the field in real time.

At this moment, there were still about ten minutes before the official start of the Water Elemental Competition, but the audience seats around the arena were already full of people, and all of them were densely packed with human heads.

The order management team formed by the student union and teachers of the college was busy in the stands. Although the audience is basically a native of Loris, and in this kind of occasion where the Kingdom of Loris is proud, they generally will not do anything rude to disgrace the motherland, but there are 18,000 people in the stands at the moment, and it is naturally a little stretched to maintain order in the stands with the order management team of those hundreds of people.

If before the official arrival of the game day, these team members even had the idea that "even those savage Prud people can build a large arena that can accommodate forty or fifty thousand people, why did Professor Brooke of our academy (the name of the earth-based arcane mage who was in charge of the construction of the temporary arena in general) take more than a month to build a field that did not even reach half of the number of people", then now almost everyone has only one surprising unified idea:

- How nice it would be to make a small venue with a few thousand people and then watch the broadcast of the magic guide screen near their respective homes, and make such a big place Professor Brooke, dead old man, we remember you.

"Ahh

At the edge of the main auditorium in the center of the arena, a kind little old man in a mage robe with a somewhat outdated old-fashioned pointed wizard hat and a white beard felt a chill and sneezed violently.

"Oh...... Professor Brooke. Got a cold?"

The kind little old man mage took out a handkerchief from the pocket of the mage's robe, wiped his nose, and then looked at the one beside him with a strange look as he spoke. A middle-aged man with a listless face spread out on the chair.

"Terry, I think you're the one with a cold in the two of us right now. ”

Terry, dressed in a fairly neat-looking mage robe, shrugged his shoulders and continued to speak in a lazy tone, having shaved his beard and giving a simple look at his hair that had always been messy.

"Professor Brooke, you should know my ...... I wouldn't be able to get excited without alcohol. ”

The little old man Brooke twitched the corners of his mouth, looked at the heavyweights sitting in the middle of the main audience, and then spoke helplessly to his former student, now colleague and friend.

"Then it's better for you not to get excited, at least not today. ”

His Royal Highness Garnes, the only and most trusted prince of the new king, His Royal Highness Jenny, the current Holy Daughter of the Cult of Solan, His Excellency Camos, the former Dean of the Academy, Lady Bema, the current Dean of the Academy, His Excellency Tucker, the Elder Professor of the Academy, His Excellency Zarco, the Deputy Head of the Knights of the Templars, and the leading teachers from the other three academies, all of them are long-established veteran mages and gold-level technicians who are quite famous in their respective academies and countries.

Brooke could imagine that if Terry, who often did things that were considered a profligate mage for an arcane mage because of his drinking, on such an occasion, and brought his usual raunchy image out of alcohol because of alcohol, then he would be finished, in all sorts of senses.

Well, in a variety of senses.

"I said Terry, after all, today, we teachers of the National Academy are also half masters, you should start your spirit...... Dean Pema had been glaring at him several times since just now. ”

The grumpy old mage's persuasion finally worked for a while, and Terry, who heard a certain name, turned his head and opened his somewhat blank eyes to glance at the center of the main audience, perhaps by some coincidence, Terry's gaze met the beautiful eyes of a lady sitting next to the former dean Camos, who was full of anger and reproach.

“...... Ahem, okay, okay. I know...... Tut. Women are trouble. ”

Muttering something. Terry seemed reluctant to straighten up from the backrest and straighten his seat, while the old mage Brooke, who was sitting next to him, looked at him and didn't seem to feel much sense of accomplishment from his successful persuasion.

Well, it's all between young people—

“...... Pema, maybe we can get started?"

"Yes, Grandpa. ”

Pema withdrew her gaze from the side of the main auditorium, and the face of the current president of the National Academy, who was recognized as a strong woman in the wizarding world, had a rare hint of the flush that was common to the faces of young girls.

"I'll tell them. ”

Camos smiled at his granddaughter, a powerful magician with a lifespan that ordinary people could not reach. As a result, the aging of the appearance will also be slowed down accordingly. As the granddaughter of a centenarian, Pema is now nearly fifty years old, but just from the appearance, maybe some people who don't know Pema will only think that she is a beautiful woman in her late twenties.

While Pema got up to find the person in charge of the student council's temporary command of Sekaria, who was in charge of the arena in place of the competition, Camos glanced meaningfully in the direction that Pema had been glaring in just now, and happened to see the stiff sitting posture of the boy who had been quite eye-catching today.

Really, I don't know how two people with such incompatible personalities can ......

Camos shook his head with a wry smile, then turned to the two distinguished guests beside him and spoke.

"Your Highness Garnes, Your Highness Jenny, sorry to disturb you both. But we're about to start our game. ”

The Holy Maiden Jenny and Prince Garnes, who were chatting in a friendly atmosphere, stopped talking in tacit understanding, and at the same time showed a very polite smile to Camos. Although the identities of the two people are very noble on this occasion. But in the strict sense, the identity of the Grand Sage of Camos is truly respected anywhere on the mainland.

"Master Camos, I've got you all in the trouble of the Laogui Academy. ”

"I'm looking forward to it, Master Camos. ”

Soon, a burst of exhilarating music that had been amplified by magic suddenly echoed in the arena, and the noisy venue fell silent, and soon the only sound left in the arena was the symphony of the Magical Rhapsody composed hundreds of years ago by an arcane master who was proficient in music theory, reminding people that the most exciting moment was about to come.

Sure enough, the tournament hosts at the National Academy didn't keep them waiting long.

After a minute or so of the excerpt of the music was over, a male voice full of passion and vitality immediately came out from the magic loudspeakers placed in all corners of the venue.

"Ladies and gentlemen, all magicians and friends who are passionate enough about magic!

Suddenly, the cheers of nearly 20,000 people rang out at the same moment, as if a thunderclap exploded in the arena.

"Oh, oh, oh the gods are above! It seems that I underestimated the enthusiasm of my friends, I'm sorry friends, I just wanted to say hello to all of you, if you are willing to pity my voice, please put away your cheers and let me make a brief pre-game introduction. You know, there are limits to these PA devices, and I don't want to shout at the beginning of the game, and if I can't make a voice at the best of the game because I shouted dumb for the introduction before the game started, I will apologize for my own shame. ”

The cheers in the stands turned into bursts of laughter and whistles, and the presiding style of the host of the tournament was clearly more appetizing to the commoners who occupied the vast majority of the stands than the orthodox ceremonial masters who spoke as dignified and solemn as the speeches of the noble lords. Because of this, the host easily grasped the emotions of the audience by making fun of himself, and at the same time successfully focused the attention of the nearly 20,000 people present on his own voice.

"Friends, you guys are such a group of empathetic guys, I swear I'll have a few drinks with you if I have the chance, oh of course, not all of you at once, then I'll definitely go to see the gods, haha...... Okay, okay, that's the joke, I think if I don't cut to the chase again, our dear dean, Ms. Pema, will definitely sentence me to fail this semester, don't look at me like this, I'm also a student of the magic department of the National Academy who usually works very hard. ”

"Huhuhu......" Saintess Jenny chuckled lightly with her white hand over her lips, her beautiful eyebrows narrowed into a curved line, "Master Camos, Dean Pema, the students of your academy are really talented. ”

"Let Her Highness Jenny smile. ”

After instructing the person in charge of the student council to officially start, Pema, who had come back to sit down, said with a proper smile,

The host of the competition, who completed the warm-up scene in the middle of the conversation and successfully introduced the topic to the next formal session, is a fifth-grade magic student, born in a small aristocratic family, and his grades are not outstanding, but because of his good eloquence, he has a very outstanding popularity in the academy, and he is also a student talent with different specialties.

As he spoke, the host of the contest had already begun to introduce the identities of the important spectators in the main audience one by one, among them, the cheers received by the holy daughter Jenny and the prince Garnes were particularly enthusiastic, compared to the cheers that were enough to be equal to these two equal sages Camos and Tucker, but this is normal, after all, for ordinary civilians, they don't have an intuitive understanding of how strong the great sage is, anyway" That's right, a big man who is more powerful than a four- or five-star magician."

Soon, the host, who had finished introducing the members of the main audience, spoke in a very excited tone.

"Alright, then, please get ready for your cheers! Yes, please, the contestants of our first competition today, the young talents from the four colleges, the freshman team of the four academies, is here!"

What was it like to greet the cheers of nearly 20,000 people head-on for the first time?

At least, according to the experience of Langton, the good old man, it was not something that he found pleasant.

From the moment he stepped into the center of the arena, Langton felt the irresistible tension and oppression that His Highness Sekaria and the three seniors who had participated in the freshman tournament two years ago had told them before the game.

People are all people, cheers, cheers everywhere.

The host of the game seemed to be talking about something while they appeared, but Langton seemed to have completely lost his ability to understand, but he couldn't understand the meaning of it in his ears, he just instinctively controlled his hands and feet not to walk safely to the central arena, and after feeling that he was slightly accustomed to such an environment and atmosphere, he turned his head to observe the situation of his teammates around him for the first time.

Everyone looked nervous, and even Robert, who was usually the most nervous, and the nervous Shanoff had an unpleasant expression on their faces. No wonder, after all, it was an audience of nearly 20,000 people, and even if they were geniuses, they were only a group of fourteen or fifteen-year-old teenagers and girls at best......

Of course, the best situation among the six people in the team is Cheruth, which is also more in line with Langton's cognition, after all, this wolf girl usually looks a little eccentric and not afraid of the sky, and now even if it is the first time to face the attention of thousands of people, Cheruth is only a little pale on her cute little face to show some nervousness, but her eyes and expressions are not as stiff as others, and she is relatively natural among everyone.

"Cherus...... It's amazing, it looks so calm. (To be continued.) )