Sonia is playing a game.

However, it is not the Meteor Tribulation, but the Star Palace Tribulation, which is a five-person team battle based on schools, divided into pioneers, forwards, centers, second-placed and chiefs. Each person only plays once, and the player sequence must be submitted before the start of the league and cannot be changed midway.

In order to avoid the situation where "a superior horse beats an inferior horse" which is detrimental to the spirit of competition (entertainment), Xinggong Jie does not simply look at the win or loss. Each game is scored 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 points respectively. Therefore, even if the first three games are all lost, the 4+5=9 points of the second place and the first place are enough to reverse the situation. This requires the school to arrange the contestants from weak to strong, otherwise they will be overturned.

Because it is a single-player competition, the restraint between the magic factions is particularly obvious. If you are unlucky, the fire magician will be beaten by the water magician. Therefore, although Sonia played as the leader in the friendly match, she could only play as the third center in the official game.

The second place was senior Leonie, who was familiar to her, and the first place was the fourth-year student, Negus Balfour, who was once known as the 'Sword Grass'.

Like Sonia and Leonie, Nagus is a student of the Sanctuary Mage 'Rainsinger' Valentine. He has been relatively unknown in Jianhua University in the past year because he has been adventuring in the third and fourth layers of the Abyss. If it weren't for the college league, he would definitely not return to the surface. He is a very pure battle mage.

It was natural for Nagus to become the chief of Xinggong Jie. He had entered the Time Continent as early as his junior year. In a year and a half, he had completely condensed the Golden Wings. He also had many adventures in the Abyss. In terms of seniority and combat power, Sonia could not compare with him at all. It was rumored that Nagus had been reserved by the royal Bullet Star Guard and would become a Sword Lord upon graduation - the lowest rank in the House of Nobles, the starting point of the ruling class of the stars, and a truly promising future.

As for who should be the runner-up between Sonia and Leonie, Professor Trozan said there was a debate at the school level because they both became two-winged magicians at about the same time, and Sonia even defeated Leonie head-on, but in the end they chose the safer Leonie.

After all, Xinggong Jie cannot adjust the order of battle, and once he encounters a player who restrains him, he will have no power to fight back. Although Sonia is indeed stronger, Leonie, who has three years of experience as a magician, has more combat experience and a more complete magic spirit system than Sonia, so the chance of her being restrained by the enemy player will be lower.

Apart from anything else, Sonia still had no good way to deal with the Gunslinger, but Leonie was an outlier—she was called the 'Orange Dancer' and could dodge the Gunslinger's lock with her speed. In other words, she could fight against most Gunslingers with her speed alone.

Sonia had only been a magician for a short time, and she had been too comfortable in the virtual world. After all, she only needed to focus on burst output, and the Observer Witch was responsible for everything else, so it was inevitable that she would have shortcomings.

In the Meteoric Disaster melee, she can still find opportunities with her fighting talent, but in a one-on-one magic competition, her shortcomings will be infinitely magnified. It is reasonable for Jianhua Academy not to choose her as the second place.

In this Xinggong Jie, except for the vanguard who is a silver magician, all other Jianhua are gold magicians, which can be regarded as the best lineup of Jianhua in the past five years. At this point, everyone can see that although Jianhua University has good teachers and ranks at the top, its success rate is far lower than other universities of the same level. In a Xinggong Jie, it can't even produce five two-wing magicians - the reason is that Jianhua University is the first choice for the children of wealthy nobles who can't enter the University of Truth.

Simply put, the quality of students is too poor.

It's not that the students are not talented enough, but their college life is already filled with dances, socializing, and entertainment, and they have no energy to learn magic. In the past, in Sonia's dormitory, students like Ingrid who focused on practicing swordsmanship were the outliers.

Sonia chose Jianhua University because of its location advantage, where it is easy to meet children of aristocrats.

In the past five years, Jianhua Xinggong Jie couldn't even enter the top 16, and this year he was able to reach the top 8, all thanks to the sudden rise of Sonia and Leonie. Sonia was a freak, but Leonie quickly upgraded her magic spirit system to the second wing level as soon as she stepped into the time continent. In addition, her "rhythm swordsmanship" was strong in the golden stage, and her combat power instantly surpassed the fourth graders of other schools.

With this configuration, Jianhua University can compete with other universities. It doesn't matter if the pioneers and forwards all lose, they can almost win the next three games, and maintaining the fourth place and fighting for the second place is not a dream.

However, when the draw results came out, the entire Jianhua fell silent.

boom!

When the crescent-shaped blood-red sword light fell, the thick concrete wall shattered, and the green-haired young man hiding inside immediately raised his hand: "I surrender."

"Oh, my luck is so bad." He sighed: "If it was the Orange Dancer or the Water Walker, I would definitely win, but I happened to meet the Red-haired Sword Princess... I was the only one who lost. I will be laughed at for a long time when I go back..."

Although it was very impolite, Sonia knew what he said was true. As a magician who practiced both civil and engineering, he not only possessed the earth magic defense miracle "Concrete" that was enough to counter gunfire, but he also mastered an extremely powerful forest miracle "Soul-stealing Vine"!

The entire venue is now covered with soul-stealing vines, and its effect is simple: to steal the magical power of other magicians and use it for one's own benefit!

In his previous battles, he had relied on the combination of Soul Stealing Vine and Concrete to grind all his opponents to death! The most surprising thing was that Soul Stealing Vine was not weak to fire, but weak to poison, darkness and other corrosive spells, so it was difficult for him to be restrained by spells!

If it was Leonie or Nagus, they might have been worn down by him. His concrete wall defense was too scary, but his opponent was Sonia, who had the strongest burst. When Sonia used "Blood Moon Shattered Lake" three times in a row to break his defense, he could only surrender gracefully.

The audience cheered, but it wasn't very enthusiastic. When Sonia returned to the contestant's seat, no one was very happy either. Only Professor Trozan and Leonie nodded to her.

She went over and patted Leonie on the shoulder: "Senior, let's go back and have a drink later?"

"No, you always rushed to the virtual world to reject my invitation before, and I will use this reason to reject your invitation tonight." Leonie stood up and said with a smile: "After this fight, I will definitely be full of enthusiasm for the virtual world. Thank you, junior sister, at least you made our loss not so ugly."

The village girl looked at her senior sister’s back as she walked onto the field.

The host's voice sounded: "Next is the second place match, between Leonie Victor from Jianhua University and -"

"Athima University, Aisha Maltz!"

The opponent of Jianhua University's Xinggong Jie in the quarterfinals is Zhenli University!

The pinnacle of all universities, the nightmare that has dominated the college league for decades!

No matter how upset Jianhua University was about the result of the lottery, there was always another school that would be destroyed by Zhenli University, so why couldn't it be them?

The vanguard battle and the forward battle were almost instantly defeated. Although Sonia won back a game, no one thought that Jianhua University had any hope.

The second and first place of the University of Truth are so powerful that it is despairing.

On the field, Aisha said to Leonie from a distance: "Nice to meet you. I have long wanted to see the famous skill of the Rhythm Swordmaster, 'Rhythm Melody'. It is said that Rhythm Melody needs three hits to fully unleash?"

"That's right."

"Then I will let you attack three times. I hope you won't let me down."

Facing Aisha's contemptuous words, Leonie nodded seriously: "I won't let you down."

"Very good." Aisha smiled, raised the shield with his left hand, and took out a pistol with his right hand.

As the host shouted "start", Leonie disappeared immediately, and only a faint orange color could be seen passing by. Aisha stayed where she was, not only did she not use the defense miracle, she even looked up at the starry sky.

clang!

Aisha suddenly slapped her shield backwards, just blocking Leonie's attack. After failing to hit her, Leonie did not retreat, but quickly changed the angle to attack from the side.

Snap!

Although she didn't have time to swing her shield, Aisha's body lightly tilted to the side, just avoiding Leonie's attack, and the long sword only cut off the end of Aisha's hair!

Leonie disappeared again, and after a brief adjustment, the third rhythm melody fell from the sky, and the golden sword light fell like a meteor!

clang!

Aisha's block was so crisp that it was almost ear-piercing. Not only was she fine, but Leonie was sent flying and rolled on the ground for several rounds. The orange dancer tried to stand up, but her legs went weak and she knelt on the ground, coughing and vomiting blood foam.

When Leonie looked up, she saw Aisha pointing the gun at her head.

She smiled bitterly: "I lost."

There were neither cheers nor boos from the audience, only the natural silence.

Aisha, proficient in the prophecy faction and the shield defense faction.

Shields are actually quite common among magicians. Everyone will condense a shield in the early stage of the virtual realm, which can more or less block the fish-slaying dragon. However, the shield defense faction is a very unpopular faction because it focuses on defense. However, other factions can also achieve defensive effects through miracles and have no demand for shield defense.

The biggest advantage of Shield Defense is that it has the miracles of 'perfect blocking' and 'perfect deflection', which means that if you grasp the timing well, you can completely invalidate the enemy's attack or even deflect the attack back.

But it is very difficult to grasp the timing, the almost instantaneous opportunity is fleeting, and the enemy has no rules at all, and each attack is a new pattern. A normal shield master can only do "normal blocking" and "normal parrying" at best, which is not as good as other defensive miracles. Therefore, it is inevitable that the shield master will be unpopular.

However, the 'Invincible Star' Aisha let everyone know how terrifying the power of Shield Defense would be once combined with the Prophecy Faction.

Fire, water, wind, earth, sword, gun, spinning stick, fist and foot... She can perfectly block any attack. She has never been defeated or even injured since her debut! And once the enemy uses a strong attack, she will use a perfect counterattack to return the enemy's attack exactly as it is, and even stun the enemy!

It was because the third rhythm melody was perfectly rebounded that Leonie suffered 100% of the power of the miracle. Even if Aisha did not point the gun at her, she would not be able to fight again!

Aisha is certainly not invincible. For example, Sonia's opponent just now, the defensive group attack combination of "Concrete" and "Soul-stealing Vines" seemed to be able to easily kill Aisha, but now it was her turn to use her pistol - it was not an ordinary standard pistol, but a Starcast 85 type spirit weapon, which required magic power to activate, and its power increased with the input of magic power.

Because there are no miracles sealed inside and the magician needs to consume magical power, the college league allows the use of such props.

This pistol certainly cannot match the destructive power of a regular gunslinger, but if Aisha pours all her golden magic power into a bullet, it will be no problem to punch a hole in the concrete wall. Although the hole will heal quickly, and it will be fine as long as you dodge, the question is who can guarantee that they can dodge the prophet's attack?

If you don't hit her, she will shoot you to death; if you hit her, she will shoot you to death.

Fortunately, Aixia is not strong enough to deal with multiplayer melee, otherwise she would definitely be able to kill her way through Meteor!

Watching Leonie being carried out to heal her wounds, Sonia turned her attention back to the arena. Compared to the prophet Aisha, the next battle was the one Sonia was most concerned about.

Because the two magicians in the duel are both in the top eight of Meteor Robbery! If Sonia wants to seize the Meteor, she will have to fight with them sooner or later!

"Next is the much-anticipated match between the Sword Flower University, Negus Balfour, and -"

"Truth University, Dimi Vosiloda!"