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Chapter 83 Arena Competition

The magic academy competition began as scheduled. Lu Renkui sat in the waiting area for the contestants and overheard the whispers of the people next to him.

"Hey, have you heard?" the blond-haired boy said. "I heard that Heledy, who's been all the rage in the academy lately, is going to have a match with our school bully, Derian."

"Wow, these two are playing a match? That's so exciting!" said the brown-haired boy. "Everyone's guessing who will win."

"Who do you think will win? I guess it'll be Derian," said the blond-haired boy. "He might not be good at theory, but his practical scores are on par with the top students."

“I don’t think so,” said the brown-haired boy. “That Heledi is pretty good too. His recent practical results have been among the best—how come I never noticed how good he was before? Besides, his written test scores are better than Derian’s. Maybe he’ll surpass Derian.”

“That makes sense. Sigh, it’s pitiful for us ordinary people.” The blond boy put on a self-pitying look. “We can only barely get some points on the written test.”

"You still want to get points on the written test?" The brown-haired boy looked at the blond-haired boy, thinking that the blond-haired boy was simply delusional. "Have you forgotten about the elite class, the A class, and the C class? As long as those three classes are there, then we have no chance of getting a good score on the written test, okay?"

"Well, that's still better than those guys in Class B who only know how to do practical problems, right? Besides, our practical skills are better than those guys in Class C who only know how to solve problems," said the blond-haired boy.

The brown-haired boy twitched the corner of his mouth and didn't say anything more.

Lu Renkui stopped listening to what the two boys were saying because she felt that gaze directed at her again.

But when Lu Renkui looked back, he only saw Evangeline sitting in the audience with Aunt Martha, Reid, and her two younger sisters, looking at the body he was in.

"Are they watching me?" Lu Renkui wondered, then waved back at Ivangeline.

After waving, Lu Renkui felt that all the sounds around him suddenly disappeared.

Lu Renkui turned his head to see what was going on, and then saw Haikar and another blond-haired, blue-eyed boy standing at the door of the waiting area—but the blond-haired, blue-eyed boy opposite Haikar was more muscular than Haikar.

"That's the male lead, Heledi, across from Heikal." The system WQBYRZM, which hadn't been active much this week, suddenly popped up—because the system WQBYRZM had previously said that she always felt like someone was watching her when she was in the consciousness space, so apart from chatting with Evangeline, the system WQBYRZM had been in a dormant state. Today, she was awakened from dormancy because of a plot point.

"I've run into the male lead. I hope nothing unexpected happens this time." Lu Renkui thought of the main characters from the previous two worlds and silently prayed that she wouldn't run into Heledi. First, Heledi now had an ancient magic book, and she didn't know what spells were in it. If she clashed with him, she probably wouldn't be able to win. Second, she was worried that the butterfly effect caused by her actions would lead to something bad happening to Heledi and ruin the plot.

However, the original story doesn't seem to mention that the original owner participated in this magic competition, and the original owner only truly showed her strength the day before graduation, which shouldn't match Heledi, right? Lu Renkui thought to himself, then looked down at the spellbook.

Yesterday, Lu Renkui saw a spell that was very suitable for actual combat, but it was different from the spells that were easy to understand at a glance before—this spell that was very suitable for actual combat was a little difficult to understand.

Lu Renkui asked the system WQBYRZM, and the system WQBYRZM replied that the reason why the original owner could understand the spells at a glance was because the original owner had read them many times and could use them skillfully. The spells that Lu Renkui found difficult to understand were probably ones that the original owner had not seen in the books before.

The difference between ordinary people and magical geniuses was fully revealed at this moment. This was Lu Renkui's thought after he had recited the spell 30 times without being able to pronounce it smoothly.

Lu Renkui snapped the spellbook shut, sighed, and then suddenly realized that while it was noisy around him, only the area around him was quiet.

Lu Renkui turned her head to the left and saw the thin, blond-haired, blue-eyed young master of the Lepssner family sitting next to her.

Hu Xiaohai ran into Hai Lai Di at the entrance to the waiting area.

Hai Cai Di looked warily at Hu Xiao Hai inside Hai Kar's body.

Hu Xiaohai didn't speak, and neither did Hailaidi. The two stood silently at the entrance of the waiting area for a while before finding seats to sit down, though they were quite far apart.

However, since the original owner of Haikar had spent so much time in the castle, he didn't know anyone at school. After careful consideration, Hu Xiaohai immediately focused on the dark gray head among the clump of colorful hair.

Hu Xiaohai called out as he approached "Borist," but "Borist" did not react at all; instead, it was engrossed in its book.

Hu Xiaohai then sat down next to the dark gray-haired boy, wanting to see when the boy would notice someone sitting next to him.

While Hu Xiaohai waited, no one around dared to speak. Everyone was afraid that if they spoke even slightly loudly or sneezed, the paper cutout of the Lepsner family would be blown away immediately.

After a long while, Hu Xiaohai finally saw "Borist" put down the book in his hand, look ahead for a moment, and then turn his head to look at who was sitting next to him.

"Hello," Hu Xiaohai greeted him expressionlessly.

"Oh, hello." Lu Renkui maintained her persona and greeted him.

After a moment of silence, the two turned their heads toward the ring, where a fight had already begun.

After watching several matches, Lu Renkui finally saw the match that the students had been discussing before—the match between Hai Cai Di and Delian.

The two boys standing on the ring were both spirited and muscular. The difference was that Heledi had blond hair and blue eyes, while Derian was the opposite, with blue hair and blond eyes.

Lu Renkui recalled that the original text devoted quite a lot of space to describing the battle between Heledi and Delian.

Before Lu Renkui could even recall the original plot in his mind, he heard a loud bang on the stage.

The arena erupted with golden and green light, so bright it hurt the eyes.

Lu Renkui felt large chunks of dust being thrown at his face.

Lu Renkui sensed something was wrong and immediately cast a protective shield, covering himself and everyone around him.

Sure enough, just as Lu Renkui finished setting up the protective shield, a fist-sized piece of gravel fell onto it, causing ripples to appear.

"I should have known better than to sit so close to the ring," Lu Renkui thought, continuing to watch the ring as the light faded.

A large crater appeared on the ring floor, but Heledi and Derian were unharmed and remained standing where the ring hadn't shattered.

However, the situation on the waiting stand was not so optimistic—aside from Lu Renkui setting up a protective shield that protected seven or eight people from injury, most of the people on the waiting stand were injured to varying degrees, and the more seriously injured had already been carried off.

Lu Renkui quickly turned to look at the audience seats. She remembered that her two younger sisters and Ivangeline were sitting at the very front. Seeing the blue-glowing barrier above the audience seats, Lu Renkui breathed a sigh of relief, then began to curse the school in her mind—the audience seats were already full of protective shields, so what was wrong with adding one more to the waiting area?

After criticizing the school, Lu Renkui waved to the audience to indicate that he was fine.

Unlike Lu Renkui, who felt relaxed after the initial tension, Hu Xiaohai felt like he had survived a disaster, but not quite over it.

At first, Hu Xiaohai thought that although the arena was shattered into such a terrible state, it might just be an accident. Although the original owner, Haikar, had a great hatred for Hailaidi, Hailaidi would not try to kill Haikar in public, right?

But when Hu Xiaohai met Hailaidi's sinister gaze, he knew he was wrong. This girl really wanted to take advantage of his mistake in the arena to kill him!

The few people covered by the protective shield released by Lu Renkui were secretly relieved and thanked him. They had been forced to sit in the most dangerous position because they were ostracized, but they did not expect that there would be such a powerful person here who released a protective shield to protect them all. Now they were the most lively people in the entire waiting area.

At this point, the teachers watching the match had already issued yellow cards to the two fighters on the stage, and the match continued.

Lu Renkui wanted to continue watching the match. Although the magical light would interfere with her vision, she could still catch a glimpse of some of the moves.

At that moment, Lu Renkui felt someone pat his shoulder. He turned around and saw "Haikal".

Looking into the boy's dark gray hair and his green, almost black eyes, Hu Xiaohai offered his most sincere thanks: "Thank you, Dad."

"You're welcome." After replying, Lu Renkui was still thinking to himself that this young master was quite polite, which was quite different from the arrogant and domineering description in the original text.