Three days passed in a hurry.

First-year students at St. Herte are preparing for their first house competition in their careers.

At this moment, the sky is unmistakably blue, without a trace of clouds, and it appears unusually pure, reminiscent of the boundless sea.

The morning sun slanted down and illuminated the school arena of St. Herte.

Its specifications are larger than all the academy arenas, and both the materials and the shape make people feel more simple and heavy.

The stepped auditoriums around the arena were filled with students from all grades, all dressed in the uniforms of their respective colleges.

In the middle of the arena, hundreds of first-year students gathered waiting for the competition to begin.

Their eyes are firm, expectant, or nervous, permeating the atmosphere of youth.

Monteroy didn't rush to the place where the Lamdora students gathered, but stood at the edge of the crowd, looking out at the gathering place of the Hilmi students, his eyes chasing Rogers' figure obsessively, his throat rolling and swallowing.

He could feel that the smell of depravity in Rogus was far stronger than before, and that it could only happen if the gods of the Bottomless Pit had sent down boundless blessings, and only the believers of the Bottomless Pit could have seen such a miracle.

His hands were clenched into fists, his fingers turned slightly white, his body trembled slightly, and his chest rose and fell.

Trying his best to suppress the excitement that was about to overflow, he didn't even dare to take a single step closer in the direction of Rogers, lest he would collapse to the ground with excitement.

"It's almost ...... It's almost there...... Wait until the end of this event......"

He licked his lips once, muttering something that no one else could hear.

"Monteroy! Did you tell you about Moloster Academy?! ”

A young man with short light brown hair and a rebellious look dressed in an Augustan uniform approached Montroy and opened his mouth to ask.

"Oh? Isn't this Lord Lord Edith? Montroy withdrew his gaze with difficulty and looked at the other party with a smirk: "Are you referring to those guys who use the name of Chief Rutgers to collect money for themselves?" ”

Edith's face gradually turned gloomy, he didn't expect Montroy to admit it so easily.

Although Montroy was in the Randora Academy, his mother family was a royal nobleman, and he had been very withdrawn since he entered the school, and he happened to have little contact with the Third Prince, so he was chosen as one of the candidates to contact the students in the Moloster Academy.

According to the rules, Edith does not need to have direct contact with Monteroy, and there is a second-year senior between them, so he only needs to let Monteroy know that this is an instruction from the nobles of the imperial power.

But when the incident comes to an end, these cumbersome precautions become irrelevant.

"You ......" Edith pointed to Montroy, who looked calm and unrepentant, and gritted his teeth, "Your habits are almost similar to Rogus Breed!" ”

However, what he didn't expect was that in the face of such extreme humiliation, Monteroy had no anger at all, but a flush rose on his feminine face, and his eyes were filled with joy as if he had been given great recognition.

"You...... Can you say that again? Montroy's voice trembled, and his demeanor showed the joy he felt at the comment.

Seeing this, Edith subconsciously took a small step back, the reason why he came to Montroy to ask for the guilt was to avoid the pervert named Caspar, but he didn't think that the guy in front of him was actually an indescribable thing.

"You're definitely going to pay for what you're doing now!"

He said this viciously, and left quickly without looking back.

Montroy looked disdainful when he heard this, these naïve imps did not know that he would be long gone in St. Helte by then.

He originally wanted to give the other party an imperceptible curse to punish the other party's disrespect, but remembering the exciting compliment just now, he still decided to kindly spare the other party once.

As he shifted his gaze again in the direction where the Hilmi Academy students had gathered, several waves of magical power had erupted there.

The students of the Holy Maiden Academy and the Demon King Academy each agitated their magical power, constantly rushing towards each other, setting off gusts of wind and smoke.

"Why don't they fight yet? Alice isn't here, and no one is stopping her, what are you afraid of? ”

Rogers wears a monocle in his left eye, a magic book around his waist, and is putting his hands in his sleeves, looking leisurely complaining about the situation around him.

Alien magic items like monocles were not allowed, but he paid a hefty equivalent credit in exchange for the power to use them in any competitive setting.

The students of the two academies not far from him were trying their best to compete with each other, but at the same time they maintained a certain tacit understanding, neither releasing a substantial spell nor letting the magic impact sweep into the range where Rogers was.

Although the existence of Rogers was not pleasant, after a month of attending classes together, no one doubted his wisdom and strength, and gradually recognized that he had the same status as the saint.

"That guy has been watching you, are you sure there's no problem?" Alina didn't look away, but spoke to Rogeth in a puzzled voice.

"It's not a big problem." Rogers replied casually, not remembering one more request, because the number of requests accumulated was too large for him to count.

The so-called problem is that after the competition enters the second stage, the arena will be forced to be separated from the present world, and several believers of the Harvesters Association will break into the arena to find trouble with the Holy Maiden, and because of his entry, the gods of the bottomless pit will take the initiative to call their followers to fight the gods of the Discord Abyss.

Everything was expected.

After all, this is the first practical exam that the protagonist has taken, so how can it not be a little unexpected.

After a while, the magical clash between the Holy Maiden and the Demon King's House gradually subsided, and Rogers looked up to see Alice stepping into the gathering area of the Hilmi Courtyard with a serious expression.

She first criticized a few words for the terrible behavior of unleashing a magical bombardment regardless of the friendship of her fellow students, and then slowly walked up to Rogers, waving her hand to raise a noise barrier with her magic, enveloping Rogers and her only.

"There may be problems in the next races, so you have to be safe."

As soon as the barrier was raised, Alice admonished Rogers with a grim face.

"I am confident that the school will ensure the safety of the students." Rogth glanced at Alina, who had a sinking face, and replied with a joke at Alice, just as she was reminding the students that unlimited spell casting between students could cause surprises.

Alice pursed her lower lip when she heard this, because she couldn't explain too much because she had been explained, she had to say a few words of serious advice again, and then asked, "How is the child now?" ”

"She slept pretty soundly." Rogers groaned slightly, then signaled that the other party needed not worry.

Shadow Demon had gone through his mixed training with Alina several times in the previous month, but the results had been very little, and his stubborn temper had not listened to any education at all.

In the end, Rogers and Alina simply treated each other as a degraded version of Alice, waking up from time to time to practice a few times, and occasionally asking Rufia to join in the workout.

Other than that, there's not much else to say.

Alice sensed Rutgers' reluctance to talk about it, and without dwelling too much on the topic, Alice continued to promise: "I will try to be fair in this competition." ”

Rogers was stunned when he heard this, he knew that the school could not let the saint lose to anyone, and he also knew that even if Alice was forcibly recognized as the first place by the school, he would not use the "false ranking" to demand that he fulfill the bet he made a month ago.

This is also the reason why he was happy to enter into the VAM agreement at that time.

"Stay safe." Before Alice removed the barrier, she patiently admonished again, and then returned to the crowd of the students of the Holy Maiden Academy.

It was also at this time that Vice Principal Avery and several deans appeared out of thin air above the arena, in the middle of the contestants' gathering place and the audience.

The vice-principal first told the long tradition of St. Helte according to the old process, and then said that a well-known great magician or sage had also shed his blood in this arena.

Then the rules of the point system for this competition were read out.

Points are divided into individual points and house points.

For example, when a student completes a corresponding competition task, or expells another student to earn points, the points will be divided into two parts, one for the individual and one for the Academy.

When a student is expelled from the competition, the individual points will be reduced to one-tenth, while the academy points will remain the same.

After the competition, the total number of house points earned by each house is divided by the number of people in each house.

The main purpose of this is to reduce the influence of those strong individual students, so as to better reflect the overall level of each college.

Rogers couldn't help frowning as he listened, the vice-principal had been talking for so long, and there was no mention of the special situation of Hilmi being divided into two houses.

It seems that the two houses are going to be settled directly as the whole of Hilmi Academy.

But in this way, there are some vague points acquisition, don't you have to keep arguing with Alice after the game?

However, he was not given a chance to give his opinion, and after the vice principal finished speaking, he directly waved his wooden staff, causing the scene around everyone in each courtyard to begin to move around, and in the blink of an eye, he sent them to the entrance corridor.

Rogus had entered a similar corridor before his duel with Caspar, but unlike the last time in the academy arena, the end of the corridor had become a magic circle nested with circular geometric shapes.

Countless tadpole-like runes slowly rose and fell in it, and students who had experienced the basic education of the magic array course could see that this formation had not yet reached the time to really open.

The stone slab under everyone's feet is flat and hard, and the surface of the slab seems to have been trampled on countless times, leaving traces of wear and tear all over the place, both old and new.

Through the colorful light and shadow cast by the hole in the top, Rogus raised his eyes and swept over the more than forty people in the corridor, all of them were students who followed him, and there was no shadow of half of the students of the Holy Maiden Academy.

It's obviously an overall score, but it's a separate entry?

He didn't understand the school's operation too much, and guessed that the school was afraid that the students of the two academies would fight in the middle of the road.

Shaking off the chaotic conjecture, he cleared his throat and said in a loud voice to the people in front of him:

"As is customary, I, as the chief, should have made a few inspiring and lengthy declarations.

"But with the start of the game just around the corner, I'll start by saying something that will be useful to you.

"I won't ask you to hand in the individual points you earned for this competition. In addition, if you expel more than five students from other colleges, you can also draw the corresponding prizes from the final rewards settled by the school. ”

The people of the Demon King's Court did not react to Rogers' statement at first, but when they heard that their personal points could be private, they couldn't help but burst into cheers.

After a month, they had completely forgotten that these were supposed to be their own.

"Why do you want to deliberately expel the students of other colleges? Completing the competition tasks normally is the fastest way to earn points, right? ”

As the cheers faded, one of the students asked his own question.

"Good question!" Rogers nodded at the other party, and then pulled up theories such as the chain of suspicion, the law of the dark forest, and the untrustworthy except for fellow students.

The expressions of everyone who listened slowly changed from stunned to solemn, and even afraid.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with normal competition, but according to Rutgers's understanding of future competitions, the proportion of strength confrontation between students will gradually increase, and the current melee is one of the best opportunities to improve personal strength.

He doesn't like greedy algorithms that only seek the optimal solution for the time being, but wants to cast a long line to catch big fish, hoping that this group of followers in the future can bring him greater benefits.

"The next thing we have to face is not our classmates, but our enemies.

"Think of the students of the Holy Maiden Academy, who have always relied on the brilliance of the Holy Maiden and slandered us at will; Think of the scofferers who stigmatized you as members of the Demon King's Academy just because you were forced to follow me.

"No one wants their enemies to stand and fall themselves.

"Therefore, I hope that you will deal a mental and physical blow to your enemies in the fastest and most efficient way possible!

"If you can sneak up on you from behind, don't go head-to-head.

"If you can cheat and plot, don't be open.

"If you can attack in a group, don't go it alone.

"To be able to expel completely, don't just stun.

"If you can be stunned, don't just get seriously injured.

"If you can get a serious injury, don't just hit a minor injury.

"If you have a ranged spell, release the ranged spell, and be sure to control the distance you can escape at any time.

"In short, we must put down decency, strive for efficiency, and do whatever it takes to hit them and destroy them! You know, to have mercy on the enemy is to bleed yourself!

"If you can't let go of decency, and other students in the same house get a lot of credits after doing this, then you will be left far behind everyone, completely ranked at the end of the normal distribution, and you will never be able to get up again!"

Rogers shouted a wise quote about unrestricted martial arts, and his tone gradually slowed down, and he continued to preach flatly:

"Wolves travel thousands of miles to get meat, and dogs travel thousands of miles to eat.

"I hope you can show me, and let the garbage in the Holy Maiden Temple see who is stronger.

"Does anyone remember what I used to say to you?"

Under the influence of the [Liqi Bonus], many students were already flushed, breathing heavily, and their emotions were bursting and burning like a lit bonfire.

"All for credits!"

One of the trainees had bruises on his forehead and shouted loudly.

"Credits are everything!!"

Dozens of people followed with a roar of rage, which converged into a thunderous noise that diffused throughout the corridor, as if stirring up a storm that would always reverberate.

"Good! Very energetic! Rogers bowed his head in satisfaction, and he cleared his voice a little:

"Since those guys are known as the 'Demon King', then I'll let them see what the horror of the 'Demon King' is!"

At this moment, the magic array behind Rogus glowed with bursts of fluorescence, and countless tadpole-like runes flowed around the mysterious route.

He slowly opened his arms, and with a smile on his lips, he proclaimed:

"The time has come! The hunt begins! ”