On the playground and in the barrage on the official website, a lot of discussions have been set off among students.

"Why did Russell become a fourth-grader?"

"Don't you know? Russell skipped a grade. Some time ago, the blood-red pillar of light that rushed into the air in the Higher Academy was the anomaly caused by Russell when he absorbed the fourth-grade knowledge scroll. ”

"What? Was that caused by the contestant Russell? ”

"Can I skip a grade from third grade to fourth grade? Wait, that Clara seems to have skipped a grade as well. They are all freshmen who have just entered the Higher Education Academy! ”

"Wait a minute, the team of the House Star Tournament is a fourth-year student with two third-year students. If Russell skips a grade, won't Clara's team have two fourth-graders? ”

"I checked the rules, and it seems that there is only a grade limit when signing up and determining the team. It is not illegal to skip a grade after the start of the tournament now. ”

"One team, two fourth-graders! Even if the two of them have just been promoted, their level is not as good as Joker, Radiance and Arctic Wolf, they are still two fourth years. That's scary, isn't it? ”

“……”

Russell, of course, couldn't hear the discussions on the big playground and the barrage on the official website, but just took the parchment with more than a dozen supernatural materials written on it, and flew into the depths of the dense forest with his two teammates.

"The invisible Hell Grass, the rhizome of the Ancient Ogre Flower, the Dragon Crystal born in the Dragon's Lair, and the horn that the unicorn offered and blessed...... Quite a lot to collect......"

They flew over vast expanses of verdant forests, past ancient trees that covered the sky, and deep into the depths of the dangerous dense forest.

As the three of them went deeper, the transcendent monsters they encountered along the way became more and more powerful. From the hundred-meter-long python to the bird that whips up a storm when it flapps its wings, many monsters have passed by them from below or around them.

However, none of the monsters attempted to attack, as if the three did not exist.

Clara applied anomalous memes to the trio in advance, distorting the perceptions of various powerful and ferocious monsters, and treating them as unnoticeable things like flying insects.

"Most of the material on the parchment is herbs, which is the easiest task for me as an herbalist." Russell, who was flying at high speed, looked at the names of various materials written on the paper and was quite confident.

After reaching the depths of the dense forest, the three of them fell back to the ground, Russell took out his magic phone, opened the Bixian APP, entered the names of various materials, and asked the Bixian to help provide clues to the materials.

Thousands of ghosts flew deep in the forest, searching every inch of hundreds of square kilometers and gathering all the information into Russell's mind. Subway also drew a number of creatures to aid in the search.

The three of them traveled through the depths of the dense forest at an astonishing speed, approaching those extremely rare herbs.

Occasionally, some extraordinary monsters with special abilities are not affected by the psychic suggestion meme, and launch an attack on the three Russell, and Russell only waved his hand lightly, and the monster died violently, turning into a large area of blood mist.

Many of these herbs are not much different from ordinary weed flowers in appearance, or they are extremely hidden, and some of them even automatically go into an invisible state or sneak into the land, and cannot be found without careful inspection in a special way.

But Russell, as the best herbalist in the academy right now, knew all about the properties of these herbs and easily collected them.

Moreover, after learning blood magic, Russell's extrasensory perception has become more sensitive to those living things, as if every plant and tree exudes different colors and brightness, and it is not difficult to find it at all.

Some herbs themselves are supernatural plants with combat effectiveness - when the giant man-eating flower weighing more than 50 tons opened its bloody mouth at Russell and the others, only to see a black death ray flash, and the huge man-eating flower fell to the ground with a bang.

In just a few hours, the three of them collected seven or eight herbs, almost matching the progress of the previous three teams!

In the live broadcast room of the college's official website, there are surprised barrages flashing from time to time.

"I'm not mistaken, it's only been a few hours, and Clara's Russell's team has already collected half of the materials. If they continue like this, they won't be the first team to collect all the materials. ”

"The amount of materials they have collected has already caught up with the glorious team. Wait, is it already the 8th material? That's more than the Radiant team! ”

"That's an exaggeration, isn't it?"

Even Professor Black Amber, who was watching the live broadcast in his office, was amazed by the efficiency of Russell's team.

She knew that Russell had become a fourth-grader, but now Russell's first team performance was still far beyond her expectations!

What Professor Black Amber didn't know was that Russell was not a newly promoted fourth-year student now, but an existence close to his peak in the late fourth year, and he was considered the top figure in the entire supernatural world.

Today's Russell, whether it is extrasensory perception, the search efficiency of the Bixian APP, or the number of ghost scouts that can be driven at the same time, is far more than when he was just promoted to the fourth grade, which is why he has such an amazing performance.

……

While Russell's team searched for herbs, the Arctic Wolves' team traveled through the dense forest to gather materials.

Bai feels that his brother is not in good shape today.

When searching for materials, he basically relied on Duncan's divination to guide the direction the whole time, and from time to time sweat broke out on his forehead, and several times he almost recognized the wrong herb to be picked. And there was no flight during the whole process, and he relied on his legs to shuttle through the dense forest, and the speed was quite slow.

"Brother, why are we walking like this. Wouldn't it be faster to fly directly to the next location where you need to scry out the materials needed for the existence? After pushing a branch away, Bai finally couldn't help but ask.

"This ...... This is because ......" the Arctic wolf shuddered.

I can't say that I have limited talent and haven't learned flying magic yet!

Duncan, who was in the back, walked slowly and taught Bai Dao:

"What are you suggesting?

"In the depths of the forest, there are so many powerful monsters. There are no psychic and illusionary transcendents among us who can be subjected to anomalous memes that distort our cognition, allowing us to swagger and act without attracting the attention of other monsters.

"Flying directly in the air will only become a live target for monsters, wasting strength and time in battle!"

It turns out that this is the case, or is my brother thinking about it...... Bai nodded slightly, suddenly realized, but still glared at Duncan fiercely.

Being taught a lesson by this unfamiliar freshman of the higher academy made Bai feel very unhappy, if it weren't for the fact that he was a teammate specially invited by his brother, Yibai's character would have been angry a long time ago.

"Yes, yes, that's it." The Arctic Wolf breathed a sigh of relief and nodded repeatedly.

Suddenly, a deafening dragon roar sounded in front of him, instantly sweeping through a large area of dense forest, and the land and trees trembled slightly.

"It's a dragon's roar, we're approaching the dragon's lair!" Bai's eyes suddenly lit up, and the speed under his feet sped up a little.

One of the materials to be collected in Round 2 is the "Dragon Crystal" that can only be found in the lair of powerful dragons!

"It's over, I'll challenge the dragon later. There's no way I'm going to stand still. Why don't you have a showdown with Bai directly......" The Arctic Wolf's thoughts were churning, cold sweat flowed, and he tried his best to speed up his pace, brushing aside the branches and shrubs, and only then did he keep up with Bai, who was strong at the beginning of the third grade.

"Brother, let me tell you something, actually......"

Before the arctic wolf could finish speaking, he heard a click, and his feet were in the air, and his whole body fell into the pit—apparently stepping on a natural trap pit covered in vines.

"Oops!"

"Is my brother okay?" Bai hurriedly turned his head and saw the arctic wolf that had fallen into the pit, and hurriedly stepped forward to help.

As soon as he took two steps, Bai felt that something was wrong.

They are high-grade transcendents who fly to the sky, and with the extrasensory perception, reaction speed, and body coordination of fourth-grade transcendentals, will they still fall into the pit?

The gray-faced Arctic wolf, who slapped the dust off his face, saw Bai who had walked to the edge of the pit, and immediately realized his gaffe.

The arctic wolf took a deep breath, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and finally mustered up the courage to say to his brother:

"Actually, Shiro, listen to me, there are some things...... It's not quite what you think. ”

"Brother, what's under your ass?" Shiro interrupted the Arctic wolf.

The arctic wolf hurriedly moved away, only to see a crystal clear pure white crystal underneath, nearly the size of his head, half embedded in the earth.

"That crystal is ......"

Bai's eyes were even bigger, and he quickly took out the parchment that recorded the materials to be collected, and compared them with the illustrations drawn on them:

"Dragon Crystal! Actually in this position! Not in the dragon's lair? ”

Duncan, who walked slowly, looked at the crystal under the pit and explained:

"Dragon crystals are crystals that take hundreds or thousands of years to condense from the dragon's magic, and are usually found only in the dragon's lair. However, in extremely rare cases, the dragon's magic escaping from the lair may also condense elsewhere near the lair, allowing the dragon crystal to appear outside the lair. ”

The arctic wolf under the pit nodded repeatedly:

"Yes, yes, yes. Such...... That way we don't have to collide with the dragon head-on. ”

As he spoke, he pulled the pure white crystal out of the soil and put it in the storage bracelet.

- Storage items are so common that they are allowed to be used in tournaments, even if they are not made by the contestants themselves.

Only then did Bai suddenly realize:

It turned out that my brother had just sensed the dragon crystal hidden in the natural pit, and went down to look for it, instead of stumbling and falling.

Let's just say, how could a dignified fourth-grade great power fall into the pit!

No one noticed that ten seconds ago, Duncan, who was walking at the end of the line, turned his head sideways and whispered in a tone that stated the eternal objective facts:

"The Arctic Wolf was particularly lucky, he just walked casually and came across a precious material that he needed."

……

Near the dragon's lair ahead.

Russell, Subway, and Clara levitate in the air, setting their sights on the dragon's lair embedded in the mountain that they had targeted.

Before them, the teams of Radiance, Starfire, and Crescent had arrived, battling the golden dragon.

It was as if a giant dragon made of gold was roaring in the sky, and the terrifying dragon power swept through the surrounding dense forests for several kilometers, startling countless monsters.

Compared to the academy's domesticated Mr. Dragon, this dragon seems to be affected by the magical energy that pervades the dense forest, and has undergone some kind of mutation, crazy and violent, low intelligence, and unable to communicate, but its strength is much stronger than that of the academy's Mr. Dragon!

Starfire and Crescent Moon summoned one summoned creature after another from the magic array, but these weaker creature realms were all below the third grade, affected by the dragon's dragon might, and fled in a hurry.

With pale blonde hair and a handsome face, she swirled and tossed in the air, dodging the dragon's breath, and when she raised her hand, thousands of silver-white force field missiles fell from the sky, like a storm composed of force field missiles.

Missile Storm!

Missile after missile smashed into the dragon's scales, shattering into bits of light and dissipating, seemingly failing to do too much damage except to provoke the dragon to roar further.

Radiance once again sprang through the air, dodging the golden glow of the dragon's spew, but his left arm was still slightly stained by the dragon's breath, dripping with blood.

"This dragon's scales have a strong resistance to magic, and external spell attacks seem to be difficult to hurt him." Hui Yao frowned slightly, and at this moment, he saw Russell's two tentacles flying towards them.

Russell flew in front of Hui Yao, his expression indifferent but kind, he glanced in the direction of the crescent moon and said:

"Classmate Huiyao, your cousin had a lot of opinions about me before, and thanks to you for helping me out."

As he spoke, Russell took out a bottle of healing potion brewed two days ago and threw it to Huiyao:

"You seem to be in some trouble. Can I help you? ”

The genius of the High Academy, who had short pale blond hair, wiped his sweat, nodded, looked at the golden dragon that was tearing several summoned beasts apart, and cautiously reminded:

"The strength of this dragon is amazing, especially the dragon scales have a strong resistance to magic, and it is difficult for external spell attacks to have an effect. Starfire and my cousin wanted to summon monsters for physical attacks, but the summoned creatures were all terrified and trembling under the dragon's might, and it was difficult for them to exert any combat power......"

If the two teams were to join forces, there would be no problem dealing with this dragon! Radiance clenched his fists.

Russell's expression was still indifferent, and he turned his head to the subsea next to him:

"Release the blood."

Subway smiled slyly, and already knowing what Russell was going to do, he gently rubbed the storage ring on his finger.

This Subway handmade ring has more storage than a dimensional belt bag!

In the pure white glow of the ring, a giant sphere of scarlet color with a radius of several tens of meters appeared in the air.

It's a sphere of tumbling blood!

At this time, the audience who was watching the competition was either discussing it in the playground or asking questions in the live broadcast room of the official website.

"A sphere of blood? Condensed under the control of blood magic? ”

"Where did so much blood come from? How many people or monsters do you have to kill to make it? ”

"It must have been made by the jungle monsters Russell and the others killed along the way, right? I saw that after the supernatural monsters were killed, the blood was drained and flew towards Subway. ”

"No, the blood of those dozen monsters alone is far from enough! There are at least tens of thousands of tons of blood balls! ”

Russell couldn't hear the discussions, and his eyes froze on the huge ball of blood.

Before the tournament began, he went to the cafeteria of the primary school and extracted tens of thousands of tons of blood from the trolls! Coupled with some supernatural monsters killed along the way, such a ball of blood was gathered.

Through the sensing of blood magic, Russell was able to sense the life energy contained in the blood ball, and these energies were at his disposal.

I saw Russell's palm flip, and tens of thousands of tons of blood balls condensed into a huge and incomparable scarlet giant sword, and all the life energy contained in each drop of blood burst out, making the giant sword intent emit a scarlet light that was enough to illuminate the entire sky.

Russell clenched his palm and pulled down suddenly.

Whew.

The Scarlet Greatsword descended from the sky and slashed head-on at the golden dragon that was rushing towards them.

Just as Hui Yao was about to react, he saw the eyes of the golden dragon suddenly lose focus, as if he had fallen into a brief trance.

Thundered.

The scarlet greatsword slashed head-on and plunged into the earth, the earth trembled, the dust filled the sky, and the earth cracked and cracked.

The golden dragon's head fell to the ground.

Blood gushed from the dragon's severed neck.

Slay the dragon with one sword!

Russell waved his hand, and the scarlet greatsword spread out again, turning back into a huge blood sphere, only slightly smaller than just now.

On the dragon's massive corpse, precious dragon blood gushed out like a fountain under Russell's control, converging into the ball of blood.

In the blink of an eye, the corpse of the dragon, which looked like a small hill, dried up, and the orb of blood, which was larger than the original one and more mana, returned to Subway's ring.

At this moment, whether it was Radiance who was just about to assist Russell's attack, Starfire and Crescent Moon who were disbanding the summoned beast, or those spectators who watched the competition, they were stunned at the same time.

Rows of barrages glided through the live broadcast room of the official website.

"One hit kills in seconds?"

"That's it? I thought I'd fight a little longer. ”

"Is this something I can watch for free?"

(End of chapter)