Chapter 18 "Ha, Your Ex-Fiance"
"Don't rush to cast a spell to catch it after you find it. It may scare away other birds." Edith lowered her voice and said, "Observe first and find an open place before you do it."
Several people nodded, lined up vertically, and slipped through the gaps in the bushes one after another.
Edith was the first to stand up. Before she had time to take in the surrounding scene clearly, she suddenly felt something was wrong.
The concentration of magic power in this area...isn't it a little high?
After all, she was an ordinary person in her previous life. She had possessed magic powers for less than a year and had not yet established a conditioned reflex of perception. The reason she could detect the difference was because of the contrast - there was only a bush between them, so there was no reason for there to be a noticeable difference.
Is it a monster, magical fodder, or... a human?
"Don't move."
Edith frowned and pressed Hedda's head. She raised her voice a little: "We got lost and came here. No offense, are you students taking the entrance exam?"
No one responded.
Edith let out a soft sigh. She heard breathing, so someone must be waiting. The other person deliberately lowered his voice and did not respond to her friendly greetings, so he must be harboring evil intentions.
It’s just the beginning now, and no one will think that if someone cures the bird, it’s either to snatch it away or to kick them out.
It harms others and does not benefit yourself, but you think you have hidden it well. How childish.
Edith sighed, raised her hand and cast a blink spell, and a row of neatly arranged human-shaped lights suddenly lit up in the bushes not far away, no more, no less, exactly four.
Edith: “…”
The four people who were hiding in the bushes, thinking they were very hidden: "......"
Joyce outside the venue: “…Pfft.”
The imperfect start meant that the two sides could not get along well. At Thompson's command, the reading companion beside him rushed out of the bushes and fired a fireball at Edith.
Edith didn't even move her feet. She raised her eyes lazily, and the hand holding the wand trembled slightly. A complete protective shield instantly blocked her and the flames.
"We have no intention of arguing with you. Stop attacking and we will leave immediately." Edith looked up at the sky. The noise just now startled many birds resting on the trees. Many dark shadows flapped their wings and fled everywhere, and the whole tree became empty.
There can't be any bigger conflicts.
Edith retracted her gaze and looked at the flame ball in front of her that was still moving forward stubbornly. She waved her wand to make it completely dissipate. "I said, stop attacking."
Hedda finally crawled out of the bushes, stood next to Edith, and whispered in her ear, "I saw that there were no demon-eating birds that just flew away. Their habitat should be a little further in."
Edith nodded and continued to confront the person opposite: "I'll say this for the last time, get out of the way and stop attacking."
The companion took back his wand and looked at Edith's hand with fear. He had tried his best in that attack, but he didn't expect that it could be blocked so easily by the girl opposite.
It would have been fine if she could just block it, defense isn't something that's too difficult to learn, but she was able to actually resolve it in the opposite direction - according to the fluctuations of her own magic power, she could give a completely opposite attack. To be able to do this, her strength was definitely above mine.
The companion took a step back and whispered to Thompson: "Brother, forget it, let's go."
"Why are you leaving?" Thompson shook off his companion's hand. It was his idea to intercept Edith. If he gave in, wouldn't it mean that his command just now was wrong? Lynch would definitely use this experience to refute him. How could he take the leadership position like this?
You have to go ahead with it.
Edith frowned. Although the demon-eating bird hadn't appeared yet, it was definitely not far away. If a fight broke out, even if she didn't lose, she would definitely not get anything good.
"Is there anyone who can cast a soundproofing spell?" Edith asked without turning her head. "My hands are occupied, so it's inconvenient."
Barney and Nina looked at each other and shook their heads.
The soundproofing spell... This kind of skill-based spell should be a third-grade course. Plus, it has no practical value, so most people won't learn it unless the textbook requires it.
"I'll take over your defense while you cast the soundproofing spell." Hedda stepped forward and pulled out her wand.
"Be careful." Edith nodded, and suddenly thought of something. She looked up at Hedda and hesitated, "Your earrings... avoid the attack."
"Hmm?" Hedda thought Edith was afraid that she would damage the gift, so she patted her chest and assured him, "Don't worry, the spells they cast can't destroy this kind of metal."
That's not what I'm worried about...
Edith knew that her every move was being monitored by the examiner, so she didn't dare to speak too clearly. The opponent had already begun to accumulate strength, so she had to quickly take back the magic power lost to the protective shield.
"Get started!"
Thompson gritted his teeth and said, and the two companions stretched out their wands almost at the same time, and two beams of light, one blue and one red, shot directly at Edith's team. Hedda groaned, her face turned pale, but her hands did not hesitate at all, and she blocked the attack.
Barney and Nina also hurriedly joined in. Although they were not very strong, they were able to add strength to the completed spell. With the help of others, Hedda and Edith felt much more relaxed.
With her worries resolved, Edith finally breathed a sigh of relief and focused her attention on setting up the soundproofing spell.
......
Outside the dense forest.
Joyce nodded approvingly. It was not easy for a newly formed team to achieve such a level of coordination. Especially in contrast to the situation where Thompson on the opposite side ignored the opinions of the team members and was determined to be dictatorial, such unity was even more precious.
But according to the current situation, the dispute between the two will inevitably end with the complete failure of one side, which means that on the first day of the exam, one team is destined to lose the qualification to take the exam.
Edith is very strong, but Thompson has a family at the bottom after all. Who will win?
......
Thompson could no longer be a leader who only gave orders in the face of such a situation. He had to draw out his wand and fire attack spells at the shield, trying to break down this only defense.
"Damn it, what the hell are you doing!" He turned around and shouted at Lin Qi who was standing there in a daze, "There are three of them, and there are three of us. We only need you to succeed!"
"You're not still thinking of resisting me at this time!"
Lynch ignored him. His mind was completely blank, and the only information he could process was Edith's face.
She was different now. Her thin body had obviously been well-nourished. Not only had her figure become healthier, but her height had also increased significantly. She looked taller than Hedda.
How could they meet so soon? He is not ready yet... Why did such a big thing as a reunion start with a state of confrontation?
Thompson called him twice, and seeing that Lynch was still like a ghost and couldn't recover, he remembered to curse loudly, cursing so much that even Edith, who was concentrating on completing the spell, noticed the only person left in the bushes.
Their eyes met for an instant, and somehow, when Lynch met those green eyes as deep as a lake, he felt his heart skip a beat.
Edith raised her eyebrows and quickly looked away.
"Here, your fiancé."
She poked Hedda's waist, and the other's teeth chattered. She even took the time to look in the direction Edith pointed. Seeing the clear visitor, she lowered her voice and cursed: "Get lost, it's just a failed family marriage. If you say that again, I will fire you."
"I'm so scared."
Edie agreed without any emotion, and finally completed the arrangement of the soundproofing spell, blocking out the sounds of the argument.
"Wait, there's a vacant person on the opposite side." Thompson's companion was the first to notice Edith's stop, "We must leave one person to defend--"
"call--"
Before his companion finished speaking, a gentle breeze blew from the front. The breeze was not aggressive at all, as if it was formed naturally in the forest, and failed to arouse his subconscious resistance.
Because he spoke with his mouth open, the air flowed smoothly into his throat. By the time he realized something was wrong, it was too late - the air containing threads of magic pierced his trachea from the inside, extended to the outside, and tightly bound his neck.
“Hmm!”
The two companions groaned at the same time and fell to the ground with their heads down.
"Wait, what!"
Thompson didn't even have time to react to his teammates' loss of contact before the shield's suddenly increased mana consumption drained his body. He wasn't very talented to begin with, and he didn't even have time to adjust his breathing rhythm, and he collapsed to the ground.
"Isn't there only one person——"
He struggled to raise his head. Edith, who was walking slowly towards him, was blurry in his sight, but his general outline was enough for him to understand the situation: Edith was holding a wand in each hand, working in parallel, controlling two companions at the same time.
Joyce's face changed.
Not to mention whether it is feasible to precisely control both hands simultaneously, the amount of magic power required to cast two spells at the same time is an astonishing number.
Who is this Edith?
Thompson's mother was completely restless at this moment. Even though the injuries her son suffered in the picture were not fatal, it did not prevent her from being dissatisfied with Joyce.
"Go save him!" she screamed hysterically, "We won't take the entrance exam, we won't take it!"
Joyce clicked his tongue.
The current scene has finally developed to the stage that she likes to watch, but due to the restrictions of the identities of these nobles, she has to act according to their ideas appropriately.
It's really frustrating.
She closed her eyes and let her shadow travel into the dense forest.
......
"You didn't throw away the old wand?"
Hedda and Baninina tied up the four opponents and confiscated their wands. They looked at Edith's hand with some curiosity: "Why did you keep two?"
"I'm afraid you won't be used to it, so I'll keep it for now. It can be used as a backup." Edith shrugged.
She loosened the restraints on the two companions' necks appropriately to ensure that they would not suffocate to death, and kicked Lynch, who lowered his head and remained silent, "What on earth do you want to do? Kill our bird and disqualify us?"
Lin Qi still lowered his head, and after a long while, he said with a red face: "...I'm sorry."
"It's really stupid to hurt others and not benefit yourself." Hedda didn't have a good impression of Lynch, and she didn't even bother to act, and just started to mock him. Unexpectedly, he, who always had a bad temper in her memory, was unusually well-behaved - apart from the fact that he would secretly look up and glance at Edith from time to time.
Hiss, come to think of it, was Edith forcibly snatched away from Charles's manor by me?
Heda patted her head in a trance. She was so stupid that she only thought about ruling the world and almost forgot about Edith's origin. So, it seemed that she took Edith away without Lynch's consent...
Oh hoo, that's kind of fun.
Edith, who was the center of their attention, had no awareness of being stared at at this moment.
Seeing that her two study companions were in great pain, she bound their hands and feet with a spell and concentrated on unravelling the magic threads around their necks.
There is no need to kill anyone, just teach them a lesson.
In this scene where Edith was paying attention to her reading companion and the rest of the people were paying attention to Edith, in a corner where no one was paying attention, Thompson slowly supported his body with his hands.
He struggled, bit by bit, using his elbows to push himself forward. When he found that he really couldn't reach the wand, he used his tongue to pick out a small, shiny, gem-like fragment from behind his teeth.
This is a magical artifact left to him by his brother. It is said that it is engraved with a spell and can produce huge impact force.
——Since the hope of getting a high score is already slim, I might as well find someone else to take the blame for me!
"Bang!"
He spat the thing out with force, and the bright red fragments instantly cut through the air, penetrated the almost completely dissipated protective shield, and flew straight towards Hedda.
"not good!"
Joyce, who was hiding behind a tree watching the show, suddenly changed his expression and pushed himself out in an instant, but he was still no match for the speed of the fragments.
Hedda had no idea that danger was approaching. She just turned her head subconsciously, not intending to let her earring point in the direction of the attack.
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