Chapter 47 Hey, isn’t this Joe?
Mu Lin, who was guarding the bag, subconsciously took a step back.
The remaining people stepped forward, forming a triangle with three in the back row and two in the front row, guarding the people firmly behind them.
"Excuse me, who are you?" Edith narrowed her eyes.
Joe's smile faded: "You don't know me?"
His legs, which were casually dangling on the ground, stopped shaking, and he slowly straightened his body to stand up. Edith stepped forward to avoid a sudden attack from the opposite side.
The other side doesn't look like a normal person.
"Joe, let us pass." Tuttle suddenly said, but his words were very cautious. "We have no intention of causing a conflict. We just want to borrow a passage."
"Sure." Joe shrugged nonchalantly. Before anyone could breathe a sigh of relief, he smiled and said again, "You can go ahead and leave the bag behind."
As soon as he finished speaking, a wave of magical power that was difficult to conceal spread out, carrying a strong attack intention. For a moment, the temperature of the entire cave seemed to drop by several degrees.
Edith raised her wand, ready to fight at any time, but her eyes drifted towards the man's companion.
"Is this what you guys mean?" She passed by Qiao and shouted directly to the boy behind them, "Aren't you afraid of losing your reputation when you go out?"
Seeing the man was indifferent, she changed her words and added a few words: "Aren't you afraid of bringing shame to your family name?"
This really works.
Joe's companion raised his eyes, glanced at the crowd in front of him expressionlessly, and finally moved his feet and walked to Joe's side.
"return."
"Hoover, it's none of your business."
Qiao smiled, but his voice was full of sarcasm, "Since you are so willing to listen to Xia Zhi, why not go down and meet them now? Even a well-behaved dog should know when to protect its master."
Hoover still showed no emotion: "Come back."
While the two were arguing, Tuttle took the opportunity to fill in some non-King's capital people with Joe's background. This man was a family illegitimate child, who was taken home because of his talent and had the same status as other children.
"The Rodney family seems to be cursed. Every child has difficulty taking on important responsibilities due to various illnesses. Joe is the most normal one among them." Tuttle lowered his voice. "Although he is bad, he has a normal brain. The only shortcoming is that his magic power is not very stable. When it attacks, it can even kill relatives... It is best to avoid direct confrontation as much as possible."
Edith nodded slightly: "In other words, even if he does something to harm nobles of the same or even higher level, the family will do whatever it takes to protect the only heir?"
Tuttle nodded: "It's better not to gamble with your life.
Edith tutted silently.
It's a bit troublesome. This kind of person who neither likes nor fears can be threatened or bribed. His only interest is to have fun. It seems that he can't leave until the fight is life or death.
"Why do I feel like I'm the same kind of villain as you?" Bell complained, looking at Amy beside him, "The joy of life is to find new things."
"I'm not like him!" Amy raised her hands innocently. "A fight is a fight. I will never steal things with such unskilled means."
"Okay then, you are a skilled villain."
"Are you done?" Joe on the other side pushed Hoover away and looked at Edith with cold eyes like a snake. "I've changed my mind."
He suddenly said this, smiling again: "I don't want the materials anymore."
"How about this, two of you stay and play with me, and the rest of you can take your things and leave."
Edith frowned at this increasingly strange request and tilted her head to look at Hoover. The man did not try to stop her this time, as if he thought it was fair, and glanced at the ground unconsciously.
"...Okay." Edith nodded, and pulled Amy forward amid the panic of the people behind her, "Two of us stay, and the rest leave."
Tuttle's face changed: "I can stay--"
Before he could finish his words, Lin Qi had already pulled out his sword and stood beside Edith, expressing his intentions silently.
Bell also wanted to stay, and even Mullin forced himself to straighten his chest, saying that he was fully capable of handling the current situation.
"Hey, hey, hey, stop grabbing!" Compared to most of his companions who stayed behind out of a sense of responsibility, Amy was the only one who was really interested. With excitement flashing in his eyes, he shouted to everyone to leave, "See you later!"
Edith also reached down in time to ask everyone to be quiet, and secretly made a 5 sign behind her.
What she meant was: See you in five minutes.
My teammates understood.
Finally, under Bell's initiative, the rest of the group followed the gap left by Joe and walked down. Edith and Amy stayed where they were and took a tentative step forward, and Joe moved sideways to block their way.
"No, you paid me the toll, how can you just run away?" Joe laughed creepily, "Come on, let's have some fun——"
"run!"
Edith gave the order, and the two suddenly ran back without warning. Joe's smile froze on his face, but Hoover's reaction was even faster, shooting out like a sharp arrow.
"How fast can you draw the magic circle?" Edith shouted to the side while running, "It's the magic circle that changes the terrain used in the entrance examination!"
She kept Amy because she was good at this.
Amy said nothing, but just quickened her pace silently.
“I asked you, can you draw?”
“It’s finished!”
Amy suddenly spoke up and threw a ball of paper in front of Edith. Edith ran forward naturally and felt something stuck on her face. After taking it off with great effort, she finally saw the crooked words on it.
“So fast!”
"Of course. It's just that there are no materials used and it's drawn purely with magic power. The effect is poor and the duration is short." Amy screamed as she looked at the person chasing her from behind, "It's coming! What should we do!"
"Speed up first, then slowly slow down. Follow my movements." Edith said in a controlled voice.
The two of them accelerated first, leading Hoover and Joe who had not yet tried their best. They took out their wands, used spells to speed themselves up, and quickly caught up with the two people in front.
Edith and Amy seemed to be exhausted, and their speed gradually slowed down. Finally, when a right corner appeared in front of them, the girl shouted loudly: "Turn!"
Hoover accelerated too fast and didn't react at all. He rushed through the corner and continued forward at an uncontrollable speed. Joe had discovered Edith's intention early and started to slow down two minutes ago. This time he braked steadily and flexibly got into the lane on the right.
Edith's face flashed before him. The girl who turned right suddenly stopped her magic supply, forced herself to speed up, leaned back, and slid past the man like a fish.
It's so silky!
"Damn it," Qiao's expression changed instantly, "You fooled me!"
He had not thought about the possibility that Edith might feint again, so he had been paying attention to her use of magic power to make sure she had no preparations to turn. But who could have thought that Edith could cut off the magic power without any warning?
"How did you do that?" Amy was equally curious. He ran as fast as he could, shouting excitedly in the whistling wind: "Teach me, teach me - I want to learn too!"
"What a sinister way to do this! I love it!"
Edith: “…”
Why does it feel like it doesn't sound like a good thing?
"Okay, get ready." She briefly confirmed the position of the person behind her. Considering the opponent's strength, she called Amy to stop in advance, and the two of them slowed down together.
“This is a good place.”
......
Joe rushed back angrily.
Hoover followed closely behind. For some reason, the two clean and smooth paths they had walked on were now covered with dust and stones. Not only were people easily tripped, but the sand and dust raised by running was blinding. He had to distract himself to clean his eyes, and if he was not careful, he would bump into the wall with a big hole in it.
"Who is digging at the wall?" Qiao could no longer hold back his smile, and gnashed his teeth in hatred. "Let's follow them and go down. They will definitely run into Xia Zhi."
When the time comes, he will chop them all into pieces!
Hoover frowned. He felt something was not right. There were traces of magic left around him. If he had simply used spells to assist in climbing, there would be no reason for so many traces to remain.
Not to mention... he seemed to smell a slight burnt smell, like the strange smell emitted after the scroll was torn open.
But the confident Joe didn't notice this at all, or rather, he didn't believe that a first-year student could do anything in just one minute before he arrived.
He quickly walked to the downward passage with a huge drop, spotted a protruding stone, and stepped on it.
"Damn it!"!
Joe cursed. For some reason, the flat stone that looked smooth and dry became extremely slippery when he stepped on it. He subconsciously reached out to grab the protrusion above to stabilize his body, but the sharp tip of the stone cut his palm.
"How can it be pointed!"
Qiao Cuo fumbled with his fingers and dug into the soil, looking at the round stone in front of him in astonishment, totally unable to understand where the edges and corners appeared on that thing. Hoover frowned and said, "I feel something is strange, let's go up first."
"Give me a hand." Joe was trying hard to avoid falling with both hands. He couldn't pull out his wand, so he could only ask for help from his teammates above.
"Lean back slightly, otherwise it will be difficult to exert force." Fortunately, Hoover was not a petty person. He simply told the other party to adjust his posture, then took the initiative to step forward and stand on the edge, ready to pull Joe up.
——He missed the target.
Joe's body just leaned back as required, forming an angle between his body and the vertical rock wall, leaving enough force-bearing area. Hoover, who missed his step, just squeezed his foot into the tip of the angle, and tied up Joe, whose center of gravity was already backward, and fell together.
The fingers of one of them were covered with mud, and the wand of one of them was stuck between his robe and the chest of the other person. No one could cast a spell in the air. Finally, the two people with tinnitus and dizziness fell into a dense net, were quickly tied up and hung firmly in the air.
Several hands reached out from below and quietly took away the two people's wands, and made sure that no other valuables were left. After doing everything, Edith breathed a sigh of relief and sat down on the stone beside her.
"How did you do that?" Amy didn't look tired at all. She was extremely excited and quickly moved towards Edith. "My simple magic circle should only be able to hide very few things."
"I didn't modify it too much. I just stretched it and moved the visual object a little below the real object." Edith shrugged.
That's why Hoover misjudged the position and stepped on the empty ground. Joe also misstepped and held the wrong stone at the same time - the round stone he was trying to hold on to was the culprit that caused his foot to slip.
Amy quickly took out her notebook and for the first time, a desire for knowledge flashed in her eyes.
Joe was also completely awake at this time. Before he could open his mouth to negotiate the terms, a familiar voice appeared in his ears.
"Hey, isn't this the famous Joe? How come you have become so useless after just a while?"
Xia Zhi's gloating expression appeared before his eyes.
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