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

  "If there were a sealing technique with enough coverage and power, even something like Durvile's 'Wave Crash', Eilin's fighting style wouldn't be possible."

  "That's also a selective question, at first who would have thought that he would have such amazing physical strength and momentum, even if it was Durville against Ailin, maybe seeing Ailin's way of fighting, they might think about letting Ailin exhaust himself first. By the time they realized it wasn't working, it was already too late."

  "Not bad, even if Ruo Feng had woken up from the start and broken Elin's way of fighting, who knows whether Elin wouldn't have changed to another way of fighting."

  "The key is still that your seal is too weak. If it were strong enough, a single powerful technique would be able to hit Eirin so hard she wouldn't even have time to run away."

  "Nonsense! Who has such an overwhelming advantage? That skill, are you saying everyone is at Chris's level?"

  In the midst of shocked discussions, more and more people feel that even if Yu Fengan still has some powerful targeted techniques, Ailin might still be able to win.

  In their eyes, Ailin became a person who could no longer be measured by ordinary standards.

  "What a terrible momentum and recovery ability."

  At first, the teacher who agreed to swap groups was also staring at Ailin in amazement. After such a long period of full-speed explosion, he saw that Ailin had only panted for a while and seemed to have recovered his strength, walking towards the rest area for contestants.

  "Teacher, we'd like to forfeit our next match." Just then, the other two students who were paired with Ailin and Ruofeng walked up to him and said.

  "Give up? Why, is it because you think we temporarily adjusted your opponent, so you feel it's unfair?" The teacher was taken aback for a moment.

  "No way, teacher." One of the students immediately shook his head and looked at Ailin with admiring and astonished eyes: "We just discussed it, we are very clear about our own strength, and we absolutely can't be Yifeng's opponent. If Ailin can defeat Yifeng, he can naturally also defeat us. We want to let him save some physical strength."

  Another student immediately said, "We want to see him fight against even stronger opponents. In our group, there is no one stronger than Ruofeng for him, but in the next group, there will be people who are even stronger than Ruofeng. We want him to conserve as much energy as possible and fight against those people, so we can see an even more exciting match."

  "Not a bad idea, to be honest I didn't think he could beat Ruofeng at first, but now I'm also looking forward to it more and more, maybe he can really make it through this selection match and enter the college team." The teacher suddenly burst out laughing and patted the two students on the shoulder, "I agree with you two to give up, but you two must work hard too, I heard that Ailin's training intensity is four times that of an ordinary person."

  "Four times?" The faces of the two students suddenly turned slightly pale, but in Ailin's eyes, a more fierce flame burned, "Teacher, we understand, we will definitely work hard!"

  ……

  "Never thought you had such an astonishing momentum."

  "Chris!"

  Ailin had just sat down beside Gijibei when she heard Keli's voice.

  "No wonder you've been saying you want to join the academy team, and Coach Kate even helped you sign up specially." Chris didn't know what kind of training she had just finished, her left hand wrapped in bandages all day was still shaking non-stop, but looking at Ailin, her tone was full of surprise.

  "What! You didn't sign up yourself, it was Ms. Kate who signed you up?" As soon as Chris said this, Gilbey, who had been wondering why Ailin and Chris were so familiar with each other, was shocked again.

  So this guy was actually a genius who had already been spotted by elite teachers?!

  "Did you just watch my match?" Ailin didn't notice Gibawi's expression at all, and instead laughed towards Chris: "How was it? Do you think I can make it into the academy team this time?"

  "Not necessarily."

  "Seriously, think about it: the other two in your group have already given up. You've made it out of the group stage, but the real battle is only just beginning."

  "Are they all at least as tough as that Ryofu guy?" Eren nodded, looking up at Christa: "Then give me some more motivation."

  Gibiwel almost fell over when he saw Kris and Eirin's ambiguous relationship.

  Give me some motivation... Do you still want Chris to give a kiss in public or something?

  "What's the motive?" Chris wasn't as complicated as Gideon thought, but she was also a little curious about what Ailin wanted.

  "Get me something delicious... preferably something that smells good." Ailin rubbed her stomach, looking unhappy and said: "After running for so long, I'm starving... If food is the reward, I'll definitely do better."

  "……" Kaito's eyes rolled over in disappointment, muttering: "At least it's a beautiful woman... yet she doesn't want anything else, just food. This is the kind of brain only a low-class glutton would have."

  "What did you say, Gil? Are you hungry too?" Elin heard some murmurs but didn't quite catch them, and turned around to ask him with great interest.

  "Get lost! Don't bother me, I'm annoyed." Ji Baiwei grumbled, thinking to himself that he was beaten so badly that he almost wanted to throw up everything in his stomach, and yet someone still asked him if he wanted to eat.

  "Then you wait for me here." Chris completely uncharacteristically covered her mouth and smiled, then instantly disappeared into the rest area.

  "It's not as scary as the rumors, it's quite cute, and actually, it's pretty good as a girlfriend." Gilbi glanced at Chris' back with envy and muttered: "Not crazy at all."

  "What you said about Chris, of course she's not mentally ill." Just hearing the second half of Gil's sentence, Ailing suddenly said seriously: "Just a little face blindness."

  "I don't know how you're so familiar with her, she's always training and doesn't talk to people much, and she's also a bit face-blind, I've heard she doesn't have any friends in the same class." Ji Baiwei said jealously. After all, although Kuriyisu is often said to be a strange and scary girl like a nervous disorder, she is still the idol of Saint Luminous Academy, and she's pretty and has enough charm. If some boy can really make Kuriyisu his girlfriend, then that boy must have a lot of face too. In fact, for boys of their age who are just starting to dream, they don't understand love yet, everything is still vague, many boys will often pursue a certain girl for some reason, and think they'll die without her, but after breaking up the next day, they'll wake up in pain and find that they're still alive. After not too many days, maybe they'll recover from their wounds and rush to the next battlefield of love, until the hot blood of youth fades away, and only when truly matured will they realize what true love is.

  "Since she normally looks so normal, lovely and generous, why does she have to train so hard, with the slogan of taking the national championship on her lips all day long?" Kijibay's mind flashed through this thought again, he couldn't help but look at Ailin again, asking seriously: "She wants to win this competition so much, there must be a special reason, Ailin, you're so familiar with her, do you know what it is?"

  "Huh?" Ailin shook her head: "I don't know, I didn't ask either. I think if there's a special reason, she would tell me if she wanted to. If not, then she definitely doesn't want to tell me."

  Ji Baiwei stared at Ailin's face for a long time without making a sound.

  Ailin touched her face with a puzzled expression and asked: "What's wrong?"

  "There's nothing." Ji Baiwei said gloomily, "I just see that your head looks very normal, but why does it seem like the inside of your head is always different from us?"

  "Isn't it different?"

  Ailin smiled awkwardly and said: "I just think that if you want to help a friend, then go ahead and help, no need to ask the friend why they want to do that thing."

  "...". Kitagawa didn't know what to say for a moment, but a voice in his heart told him that being friends with this guy was definitely better than being enemies.

  ……

  As the match continued, the remaining groups also decided their last winners.

  But on the entire platform, the eyes of the vast majority of people were always focused on two people.

  One is Ailin, who can't be seen through and can't be inferred by common sense, and the other is Deborah, whose strength is astonishing, even most of the contestants think she must be the first.

  Everyone is waiting for it, who will be their next opponent.

  In many people's minds, Ailin and Dipper have already become the hope of Sheng Li Ming College team in the official preliminary round.

  "Deborah to Rachel!"

  "Ellen to Roger!"

  Finally, the top 20 knockout stage matchups have been announced.

  "Roger that?"

  While the vast majority of people in the stands focused on these two focal point battles, Ailin couldn't help but nudge Gijibai beside him and ask who his opponent Rogrit was.

  "You're the one who's been secretly attacking, aren't you!" Gilbewi's face turned white as he was hit right in the sore spot by Ailin. He nodded reluctantly at a tall and thin figure on one side: "It's him... a formidable third-year student. He's proficient in 'Burst Flow Technique' and 'Sand Scorpion Technique'. The way you fought against Rofeng earlier won't work against him. If you can't think of another strategy, I'd advise you to just give up."

  Ailin sized up Rogrit.

  He was a tall and thin boy, except that his neck seemed longer than usual, he looked very ordinary. When Rogrit found out that his opponent was Ailin, he also turned around to look at him, saw that Ailin was looking at him too, so he nodded at Ailin, smiled, with a friendly appearance.

  "I know the Collapse Technique is going to have a waterfall-like water flow coming over." Ailin asked Jibaiwei in a low voice, "What about the Sand Scorpion Technique?"

  "A technique that can gather sand and pebbles on the ground, forming a number of sand thorns." Gilbi looked at Ailin and explained: "Those sand thorns won't attack him, but if you get close or accidentally step on them, they'll give you an unforgettable blow. You can imagine what it's like to have a sharp thorn pierce your flesh, and then turn into dozens of sand grains moving through your flesh."