Chapter 1: The Awakening of the Young Man! Thaumaturge...

  "That doesn't seem right."

  The closer they got to the Sacred Dawn Arena, the more suspicious Ailin's expression became, and she couldn't help but mutter to herself.

  "What's wrong?" Berro turned his head and glanced at Ailin: "Ailin, can't you eat your own sausage before speaking? You're talking with a roasted sausage in your mouth, don't you think it's ridiculous?"

  "Alright."

  Ailin finished the half sausage in two bites, then looked at the majestic and magnificent Dawn Arena that was already close at hand, and said: "Bailuo, have you got the wrong date for the match? This is a matter of honor between colleges, and it's the most intense confrontation between the top students of the two colleges. It should be more exciting than the Beast Tamer Assessment, and there should be more people coming to watch. Why are there so few people on the way?"

  "It's very simple."

  Looking at the sparse crowd on the road ahead, Bai Luo said: "Because our Sheng Li Ming College's record is really too poor. Every time we want to see our own college beat up other colleges and advance, but every time we see our own college being beaten by others. It's too disappointing for the same thing, too embarrassing, so of course there are fewer people going to watch. For the vast majority of colleges, this annual competition is the largest event in the entire Aichi Kingdom, with countless students, even graduates coming in droves to watch their college's matches. But at our Sheng Li Ming College, this popular event that sweeps the entire kingdom, the most exciting match, is about to be completely forgotten."

  "The worse their performance, the weaker they are, the more we should go to the scene to cheer them up." Ailing said, "In this way, the momentum is sufficient, and the play may be better."

  "That's your idea, there aren't many people like you who don't know what it means to be embarrassed."

  "But the more I feel embarrassed, the less attention I pay to this competition, and the less I throw myself into it like other colleges do, isn't that going to make us fall even further behind and make it even more impossible to defeat other colleges?"

  "This sentence of yours is quite insightful, hitting the nail on the head." Beru's eyes narrowed, "Nowadays, many students at Saint Bright Academy who have some talent like Hawthorn, quickly condense their magical particles and become mages. They're all just a bunch of trash who only know how to hide in the academy and pretend to be cool. I think these wastes have long forgotten what courage is. If I didn't think that Saint Bright Academy has many powerful techniques that other academies don't, as well as many elite teachers, I wouldn't have entered this embarrassing academy."

  "What? Isn't that Mo Si? He's also come to watch the game."

  Ailin suddenly stretched out her hand and pointed forward. In the sparse crowd, the red-haired Mo Si had already approached one of the entrances to the arena.

  "The newer you are, the more curious and hopeful you are about this competition. So it's normal for freshmen to come watch in their first or second year, isn't it?"

  "Have we sat together with him before?"

  "Alright, let's gang up on him!"

  "Never mind, then."

  ……

  "Courage is the door to all dreams"

  At the entrance of the Azure Dawn Coliseum, Ailin saw a line of words on the indicator signs of the arena.

  He seemed lost in thought, lowering his head and following Bello into the venue.

  As he passed through the passage, his vision suddenly broadened, and the sky light poured down from above, enveloping him in an instant. His body shook, and his eyes snapped wide open.

  The blue grandstand, capable of holding tens of thousands of people, surrounds the circular arena below in a wave-like circle.

  But this circular arena was not as flat as the beast training grounds.

  The entire site only has scattered, isolated weeds that sway in the breeze, but most of the area is covered with large and small pits and cracks!

  Everywhere were the marks of flames that had scorched, heavy objects that had crashed, and sharp instruments that had cut.

  Even Ailin, who had entered this place for the first time, could be certain that these were all marks left by battles.

  Those who fought here may have long been forgotten by name, but the traces of their battles still exist.

  At this moment, Ailin couldn't understand why the students of Sheng Li Ming College, who saw these battle scars, would still ignore this match.

  Not many students from Sheng Li Ming College came to watch the game.

  Other colleges have students with distinct personalities and various hobbies, but during competitions, the venues of most colleges are packed, whereas Saint Luminous College's venue is only half full.

  Suddenly, a commotion broke out in the seemingly empty and cold stadium.

  Following the sound, Ailin saw a large group of people wearing yellow clothes rushing in and quickly occupying a section of the stands.

  These people wearing uniform yellow clothes also brought small drums, beating them with a loud "boom boom boom", and the originally quiet stadium suddenly became extremely noisy.

  "Are these students from the Southern Breeze Academy? Their uniforms are yellow with a paulownia leaf emblem?" Ailin reacted, turning her head to ask Beru.

  "That's not a wutong tree leaf, it's a maple leaf emblem. In the history of Nanji University, there was an extremely powerful practitioner who had a secret technique called 'Life Maple', and this maple leaf emblem is to remember that powerful practitioner's glory and legend." Bello pushed his glasses up with a big shot tone: "You take a closer look at those students, see which ones are the most arrogant, the most spirited."

  "What's wrong?"

  "After the game is over, go beat up those who are the noisiest and most arrogant."

  “……”

  ……

  In the midst of a large influx of students suddenly pouring into Nanjing University, bringing with them a cacophony of noise, red-haired Mo Si sat alone in a corner of the stands.

  Ever since he bumped into that five-man team on the road, he had been in a state of inexplicable unease. As someone from a powerful bloodline family, he naturally didn't have the idea of finding a stable job and living a mundane life after graduation like ordinary students. His goal was to become a formidable magician under the starry sky, and for this proud freshman, the glory of the academy was also crucial. Before encountering that five-man team, he had always thought that no matter how poor Saint Luminous Academy's current record was, everything would get better once he became qualified to represent the academy in battle.

  However, the appearance of those five people made him doubt everything he had done before.

  The suffocating feeling that made him almost unable to breathe made him feel that he would be completely unable to cope even if he had one or two more years.

  "What?!"

  Suddenly, with a very complicated mood, some dazed and confused Morse suddenly stood up and let out a heavy sigh.

  At this time, the team leaders of Sheng Liming College and Nanji Feng College, as well as the five-person teams from both sides, had already begun to enter the field. And he saw at a glance that among the five-person team of Nanji Feng College, there was no existence of that blond boy!

  "Aren't they the participating teams of the South Season Wind students?"

  "What kind of people are they?!"

  Mo Ke stared blankly at the small team from Nan Qi Feng Academy, although he had no impression of the other four people except for the blond boy, but at this moment, he could also be sure that this five-man team from Nan Qi Feng Academy was completely different from the one he met before.

  ……

  “She's like a goddess!”

  On the other end of the stands, Ailin, who had spotted Chris among the members of St. Dawn Academy's team, immediately became excited and called out.

  Today Kris's hair was all curled up and looked particularly spirited.

  "What's it called."

  Bailu muttered to himself, his sinister gaze fixed tightly on the five-man team from Nanji Feng Academy.

  "Huh?" He quickly let out a strange sound.

  "What's wrong?" Ailin asked immediately.

  "There's a guy who just joined their five-man squad and he looks very dangerous," Berro said seriously.

  "Which one? Do you know the rest of them?" Ailin was stunned, he saw that all five members of the Nanji Feng Academy team were male. One of them was exceptionally tall, almost two meters, with very short hair and not wearing the Nanji Feng Academy uniform like the others, but instead wore a yellow vest, his skin outside was covered in thick sweat, looking as hard as steel needles.

  Among the other four people, there was a short and stout man who looked like a leather ball from afar, and seemed to be chewing on something. There was a slightly thin person with peculiar green hair, another person with his collar turned up and his hands tucked into his sleeves, always lowering his head, with pale-colored hair tied in a braid. And there was one with light yellow hair, whose build and face were extremely ordinary.

  "I've seen the South Wind Academy team play before." Bero stroked his chin, as if calculating something: "That particularly tall and muscular guy is their captain Ferdinand, that fat ball is Apia, the white-haired kid who's shrinking into his clothes is from the Leswill family, the light yellow-haired kid seems to be called Kuru, and that green-haired kid just suddenly appeared."

  "What's so special about the Laiswell family?" Elin looked at Berro with a hint of resentment: "You still haven't told me what the rules of this big competition are."

  "The Llewellyn family is a hybrid mutant family."

  "Miscegenation mutation?"

  "The bloodline of this family is particularly mixed, with a history of intermarriage between humans and spirits, giants, and beastmen across generations. As a result, they have inherited a bit of every bloodline, making it impossible to determine their true ancestry. However, one thing is certain: the members of this family possess exceptional agility in their movements. Moreover, they possess several secret techniques that can only be used by those with their unique bloodline."

  Bailu's gaze remained fixed on the small, green-haired figure who seemed very low-key, while his explanation to Ailin continued uninterrupted: "Now you've seen both teams' squads, each with five people. The competition rules are simple: each side sends one person up, and the winner can continue to stay on stage and fight until one side's five people are all defeated, at which point the match ends."

  "One-on-one duel, can the winner continue fighting?"

  "Yes, so generally even if you can't win, you have to fight desperately and try your best to exhaust the opponent's energy, creating opportunities for your teammates behind. Berro nodded, "So many matches will end with one side falling down and unable to get up again."