Can the sadness that magic cannot take away be offset by love?

[Matching has been completed and the competition is about to begin——]

[Please take your place, both players]

[It is detected that the contestants are in place]

[Countdown to three seconds, three, two, one——]

【The game officially starts】

The sun is hidden behind the clouds, and the weather is cool and suitable for fighting.

On the stage, Iris and her opponent faced each other and bowed together.

A common symbolic ritual before a friendly sparring session between mages.

There is no requirement to salute on the field, everything depends on the students' wishes. Generally speaking, if someone makes the first move, the other party will quickly respond and salute. After all, they are still students, and the goodwill rooted in their hearts will make them unable to bear to embarrass a person who treats them politely in front of everyone.

In addition, the person who does not accept the courtesy in front of everyone will most likely be posted on the forum and be scorned by thousands of people.

Her opponent was a second-grade boy with a total of 76 points. When he saw her poor points, he immediately became extremely vigilant.

He has played several games today. Those who have very few points at first glance are either stubborn people who did not listen to the advice and did not accumulate points in the past few days, or they are confident people who wait until later to harvest points.

Thinking this, he shifted his eyes and saw the grade of the other party, and he was visibly confused.

what's the situation? First grade? She looks like a pretty honest girl... Wait, these ten points are not the result of her hard work for a long time... Hiss.

He confessed a little in his heart for a while and decided to be a little gentler to the poor school girl later.

Iris' eyes stayed on the opponent's points for a while, and then she looked away without changing her expression.

This score is below average on today's rankings.

But she is at the bottom, no matter how many points she scores, she will not be dissatisfied.

Sensing the faint pity in the other party's eyes, Iris thought for a moment and felt that since the game had already begun, it was better not to linger any longer.

Thinking that Albinia was looking at her lovingly in the audience, she shouted sweetly:

"Senior..."

The boy's heart trembled. In a blink of an eye, dozens of ice blades flashed in front of him. He could even feel the biting chill coming from the sharp ends of the ice blades.

He instinctively retreated and dodged sideways, summoning a stone shield in his hand to block his face. The speed and momentum of the attack could already explain a lot, and he immediately overturned his judgment a few seconds ago.

"There's no way to slap someone in the face! It's too much!"

He shouted, and densely packed stones formed in front of him. Stone rain poured down in an instant. From Iris's perspective, each piece was as sharp as a blade.

Iris raised her hand to freeze the stones into one piece, and then let them shatter in mid-air. After the obstacles blocking the view were turned into powder, the ice pick passed through the place where the fragments originally stayed and rushed straight towards the opponent's life gate.

I felt something strange under my feet. I took a few steps back and saw a stone thorn growing upward from where I was standing. Although I ran in time and didn't sting the sole of my foot, I still felt itchy on my foot due to psychological effects.

The opponent jumped upwards lightly, and with the support of the wind element, he seized the opportunity to step on the ice pick, jumped into the air with a lever, and with a wave of his hand, he dropped a barrage of arrows that were rapidly downwards from a high place, aiming at the thorn on the ground. outside the range.

Iris looked up at the swarms of sharp arrows, formed thick ice blocks from her fingertips to resist the attacks, and then summoned a sheet of ice blades all over the arena above her opponent.

The tip of the blade was almost touching the boy's head. His scalp felt numb and he jumped down decisively. Then he looked at the ice spikes all over the ground and saw that there was no place to stay.

He very calmly began to chant the spell, but was interrupted halfway by another ice spike heading straight for his head. Just as he was about to hit the ground, the barrier on the arena lit up, and a solid light plate was placed on top of the ice spike to catch it. he.

There are two conditions for failure, one is leaving a specific range, and the other is encountering a major danger and activating the emergency rescue mechanism attached to the barrier. If one of the conditions is fulfilled, the duel will end.

The boy who imagined himself as a hedgehog glanced at the harmless gray-haired magician before he left. He looked more and more familiar:

"Wait! You're not the one with mental problems..."

Iris raised her eyebrows and looked at him with a smile.

The other party held back his words and laughed awkwardly:

"Ah...haha, goodbye, junior schoolmate. Goodbye, junior schoolgirl."

With more than seventy points in hand, her ranking immediately rose, but it was obviously not enough.

The next opponent is a fourth-year senior with short hair and brown eyes. She has nearly 200 points. She is ruthless and doesn't talk much. After a salute, she manipulates the vines that fill more than half of the arena to surround her. She stands in the circle surrounded by green and thick vines. Guilty, she looked alone and helpless.

Several fourth-grade students gathered together in the audience.

"I'm so tired. Let me tell you, I met the wooden man from the next class on the field. It took me a long time to pierce his wooden skin..."

"Hey, who is that? Your deskmate is facing a first-year schoolgirl this time."

"Wow, wow, wow, zoom in when you come up, you are so cruel."

"Are you bullying people like this? Don't scare the school girl."

"Can you please read through the player information? You don't know who that is..."

"Oh, it turns out it's her."

"I thought I was wrong...this guy didn't fight much in the past few days, right?"

"I saw her running toward Ramirez a lot."

"I heard that she sparred with the student council president every day... It doesn't matter if you zoom in at the beginning."

"Ai, do you think she and the president are a little too..."

"Too what?"

"Don't talk nonsense, they are several years apart in age."

"But they are all adults..."

"She would still be a minor in the next country! That one knows how to get into oranges, right?"

"I have long said that the entire continent should unify the standards of adulthood..."

"No, how come you all say it as if it's true?"

"I can see that Ramirez is trying to attract talents. They haven't even been together a few times. How come you can do anything?"

"What did you take? Who took it? How miserable it would be if it were a real school girl... Tsk, tsk, that guy is simply inhumane."

"No one has come out to clarify the matter of human experimentation. Anyway, I don't dare to let my sister get close to him. I don't know when my sister will be squeezed out of her value."

"I don't have a brother like you."

"I'm convinced that you guys dare to talk about anything."

"Oh, don't worry. I just saw the student union patrolling over there. They won't come to us... uh..."

Sensing something was wrong with the person in the front row who turned around to speak, several people fell silent.

In the peripheral vision, a man in black passed by the aisle closest to them. The man didn't seem to hear their conversation and walked straight over.

Several people looked at the figure with long black hair hanging behind, and then looked at each other, but no one said anything for a long time.

"Y-should be... you heard it..."

"How could I not hear..."