Preliminary Round 4
At the training hall management office, Fiona carefully checked the fine slip.
【Violations】
[Severe Facility Damage: A-grade Alloy Training Wall, 3m x 5m, replacement cost 2800 gold]
[Security System Damage: 1 full training room alarm, 60 mechanical guards dispatched, 600 gold damage]
[Total cost (excluding tax): 3400 gold]
【Total cost (tax included): 3944 gold】
【Payment deadline for fines: within 3 days】
"I have to pay taxes on the fine?" Fiana held her forehead with her hand.
"Yes, ma'am," the staff member said businesslikely. "The fine does not exempt us from paying Coachella's city taxes, which are a flat 16%."
Looking at the more than 500 gold coins that appeared out of thin air, Fiana couldn't help but want to catch the two troublemakers and plant potatoes with them.
It's okay that Rinyin always destroys public property, she's naturally strong and she's used to it. Why doesn't Song Baiyue stop it?
On the large-scale surveillance screen on the side, the backs of Rin and Song Baiyue were playing in a loop as they sneaked out of the training room. Behind them was an alloy wall that had been torn into pieces.
"This... could this be a misunderstanding?" Fiana wanted to argue for the school's funding. "No normal training would ever tear down a wall like this..."
"We have a sufficient chain of evidence to support accountability for this sabotage." The staff member pulled out an inspection sheet and swiped it across the table towards Fiana. "According to the inspection, 96.8% of the high-strength coating on this Grade A alloy wall has been lost, and the structural integrity has decreased by 89%. The cross-section is also flat. We infer that this damage occurred at a molecular level, which is definitely not the type of damage caused by normal training."
"If you ask any more, you'll have to reveal your team's killer move to us. Are you sure?"
Fiana sighed softly and reluctantly opened the terminal payment interface. "Remember to give me the receipt."
Jerry stared at the surveillance footage of two people holding hands, and quietly opened the terminal to take a picture.
"Teacher Jerry?" Fiona happened to see this scene after paying the fine and poked him with her elbow.
"Huh? Oh, I'll take some pictures as evidence."
"Leave evidence? You're planning on charging them money?" Fianna's teeth itched, but she defended her position. "This is all normal training wear and tear. How can we charge students for it?"
"Teacher Fiona is right!" Jerry gave a thumbs up.
It was a close call, I almost exposed my status as a CP fan.
The two men walked towards the training room in Area C. Halfway there, Jerry suddenly spoke again with his soul.
"You said, it would be nice if there were surveillance cameras in this training room."
The wall is so damaged, what kind of a scene would it be like...
……………………
Area C A-level training room.
Today's training content is a 1v1 ring match simulation.
Belle was assigned to a group with Han Jiangxue. The clouded leopard's phantom beast armor made it light and swift. Belle responded passively throughout the whole process, and only dodged at the last moment when the clouded leopard got close to her.
"So boring." Belle dodged the clouded leopard's attack again, "Can I apply for a partner change?"
Han Jiangxue was stunned. The light and shadow of the Clouded Leopard Armor swirled around her, but she didn't say a word.
"I'll practice with you."
Lin Yin patted Han Jiangxue's shoulder, indicating that she should go to a group with Song Baiyue. Then, facing Bei'er, she said calmly, "Is that okay?"
“…”
sure.
Belle achieved her goal and stopped trying to be stubborn. She knew that if she said no, Linyin would really change someone else.
"Okay." She nodded.
"Release the Night Orchid."
"Why?" Belle was puzzled. "You can only use your Breathless Realm once a day. Are you sure you want to use it up during training?"
"No need for the Breathless Realm." Lin Yin said little, covering half of her face with one hand, and slowly injecting the Wuji True Qi.
A strong sense of oppression came over Belle, and she no longer insisted. A huge blue-purple orchid shadow emerged from behind her.
"Let's get started."
Linyin's figure began to move, her legs brimming with boundless Qi. Her afterimage filled the training room. This move was inspired by Han Jiangxue's mythical beast, the Cloud Leopard's "Thousand Cloud Shadow Splits." She couldn't yet create a mirror clone, but it was more than enough to create a deception.
The shadow of the dark night orchid behind Belle swayed, and countless blue and purple petals flew towards Linyin's afterimage.
"Your petals are too slow." Linyin's voice came from Belle's right. Belle turned around and saw that Linyin had already taken off into the air, her toes radiating golden light, and she actually stepped on the petals to leap higher.
"Falling Star Step!"
Linyin's figure suddenly fell down, and her right leg chopped down with a fierce gust of wind.
In a hurry, the dark night orchid behind Belle turned from virtual to real, and its leaves grew wildly, forming a dense shield in front of her.
The two forces collided, and the impact was deafening.
The recoil sent Rin falling backwards. Before Belle could catch her breath, she saw Rin's right hand clenched, and a strangely shaped curved cone appeared out of thin air.
"Isn't this the hooked foot of your centipede? Where did you take it out from?" Belle was a little breathless and tried to talk to delay time.
Linyin ignored her and the awl flew out of her hand.
Belle looked at the curved cone flying towards her and could hardly believe her eyes.
What had she done wrong? Was Rin really planning to kill her?
The curved cone, carrying a golden, burning energizer, pierced the air at breakneck speed. Belle quickly opened the dark night canopy, and the thick night instantly spread from the center of the training room outward.
However, the moment the tip of the cone touched the sky, it was like ordinary ice encountering a red-hot iron ball, and the golden true energy effortlessly tore a path in the darkness.
Belle maintained a defensive posture, the tip of the cone already pressed against her fair neck.
"Armored weapons!"
Fiana walked to the door of the training room and was thinking about how to communicate with the two people when she saw a shocking scene in front of her.
Dark Night Sky, this move was used by Belle when she was fighting against the principal, and even the principal was trapped in it for more than ten seconds.
Apart from extremely special armored weapons, she couldn't think of any other possibility that could pierce through the dark night sky so quickly.
But, Rin doesn’t have the Phantom Beast Armor.
"Song Baiyue, two against one is a bit of a bully."
Jerry also came to the door of the training room and subconsciously thought that it was Song Baiyue who took action.
The students also turned to look at Song Baiyue, who spread his hands to show that he had done nothing. Please, if he went to help when Rin was 1v1 with someone else, she would be angry.
He wouldn't do such a disgusting thing.
Belle gasped for breath, and the sharp curved cone near her neck that frightened her seemed to have life and flew back into Linyin's hand in a flash.
Now, everyone could see clearly that the curved cone broke into tiny metal particles, changed several times above her palm, and finally turned into a metal bracelet and was put back on her wrist.
"Armored weapon!" This time it was Jerry who screamed, "If this isn't an armored weapon, I'll eat it standing on my head!"
"Huh?"
The students were also very surprised.
"Isn't it said that armored weapons are a kind of 'gift from the phantom beast armor'?" Crystal asked first.
"That's just what the Fantasy Beast Hall said. Haven't they tampered with enough things?" Belle was still angry, her tone impatient. "This... is related to... that, right?"
Linyin turned a deaf ear to Belle's words and said, "I have never seen an armored weapon, but this is indeed unrelated to the phantom beast armor." Seeing that everyone was curious, she took out the curved cone again and showed it to them.
"you……"
Belle didn't know what was going on. She just stood there in a daze. She had never felt so ignored before, and she had done nothing wrong!
…Okay, maybe it wasn't right to be so willful and not come to training. But she came today, didn't she?
...Oh yeah, she lost her temper during training...
But, but the source of all this is that Rin Yin suddenly started to ignore her, right?
"This metal looks familiar." Fiona stroked the tip of the cone and wondered why the metal on the surface felt so much like the alloy wall of the training room.
Linyin and Song Baiyue smiled at each other, "If you don't mind me demolishing another wall, I can show you the construction process."
Jerry slapped his forehead with a loud bang, and recalled the fear of being dominated by the strength tester that was broken by Rinyin. "No, ancestor, don't do it first."
Crystal couldn't wait to pass it around and rushed to Fiona's side, her eyes shining. "You're worthy of being my boss! You can build this just by tearing down a wall!"
Han Jiangxue hooked her arm around Lin Yin's neck and shook her. "With your skills, we can just tear the arena apart!"
Yuzhu immediately raised her hand: "I agree!"
"What are you agreeing with!" Jerry wailed, "You'll have to pay for it!"
Everyone laughed again.
Belle froze in place. The light above her head was blindingly white, and the joy and laughter of the others seemed to be blurred and distant, as if through a thick layer of frosted glass.
She was standing right here, yet everyone seemed to be ignoring her. And Rin—the one who had taken her away from her blind date when they first met, despite clearly hating the nobility—now refused to even glance at her.
My nose felt so sore. She had only been throwing tantrums a few times, just trying to gain some attention by being willful... How did it suddenly become like this?
"I didn't mean to..." She looked down at her own blurry shadow on the alloy floor, feeling wronged and helpless. It turned out she was the most naive one, thinking a little insincerity wouldn't matter, that a cold war would lead to compromise. But now that Rinyin had truly ignored her, not even giving her a chance to argue, she felt incredibly uncomfortable.
Regret flooded over her like a tide. In fact, Rinyin had spoken to her on the way here. If she had come to training on time yesterday, maybe Rinyin would not have completely ignored her.
She was too willful and deserved to be ignored...
But the next second, a surge of anger came up again.
But, couldn't Rinyin be a little more understanding of her?
Why don't you even give her a chance to explain?
Chaotic emotions were running rampant in her mind, and the golden particles in her body spontaneously gathered together to meet the storm that was about to erupt in her body.
"Buzz!"
An ancient and vast power erupted from Belle's body, and the shadow of the dark night orchid appeared behind her, with the edges of its leaves shrouded in brilliant golden light.
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