With the third wizard tower as its source, a brilliant galaxy ran through the entire royal city. With an unstoppable momentum, it crushed all the fireflies that tried to compete with it.
This year's Shining Competition must be the most unfriendly competition to the participating wizards.
Because the "fireworks" they had carefully prepared were either intimidated by the starry sky and felt ashamed of themselves so they simply gave up using them, or they launched them anyway. A tiny light was cast into the shining starry sky, just like a drop of water merging into the sea, disappearing silently without even a wave appearing.
The night sky, which should have been full of flowers and blooming one after another, was suppressed by the vast galaxy, hovering above the royal city with the arrogance of a single dominant force.
The participating wizards were dejected at first, but once the galaxy appeared, the winner of the competition became obvious and they had no hope.
Then I was curious, who had come up with such a big battle? How did they do it? Did they research a new type of spell? Draw a unique magic circle? Or some other method?
Soon they discovered that the galaxy originated from the third wizard tower.
Combined with the gossip I heard before the game, it turned out that the third wizard tower was taking on the challenge. As expected of an official team, they hadn't made a move in ten years, but when they did, it was such a big show. The civilian team was convinced and gave in!
It’s just that… if the Third Wizard Tower, which responded to the challenge in a hurry, behaved like this, then the First Wizard Tower, which took the initiative to challenge with no good intentions, would naturally be more prepared and create a greater momentum, right?
A scene even more magnificent than the starry sky before our eyes?
Will there be?
I can’t even imagine it.
But the First Wizard Tower took the initiative to challenge, so of course they would not fight an unprepared battle. Otherwise, would they provoke just to give the other party resources for nothing?
The fact that they couldn't imagine it only showed that their thinking was too narrow. They were short-sighted and couldn't compare to the people in the official wizard tower.
With this in mind, both the participating wizards and the original spectators became extremely excited.
They look forward to seeing a dazzling visual feast that will far exceed their imagination and cover the starry sky.
They waited excitedly.
They were looking forward to it excitedly.
They waited and waited...
My eyes were almost blinded by the stars in the night sky.
But the feast has not yet arrived.
They encouraged each other and comforted each other: If we want to create a bigger scene, we must spend more effort. The First Wizard Tower must be preparing intensively, so wait a little longer!
More haste, less speed; good things take time!
Their hearts were pounding as they looked eagerly in the direction of the First Wizard Tower.
Keep waiting and waiting...
Wait until the last second of the Starfall Day, wait until a new day arrives, wait until the Shining Competition ends, wait until the stars in the sky fade and disappear, wait until the lights in the Royal City, which had been turned off, are turned on again.
They also didn't get to wait for the visual feast brought by the First Wizard Tower.
When the street lights in the streets and squares lit up quietly, they looked at each other in confusion under the bright lights, unable to recover from their shock.
Is this... the end?
Huh?
Hey——!
What on earth do those people in the First Wizard Tower do for a living?
What's going on?
Not at all!
The people in the First Wizard Tower were also desperate at this moment.
Or rather, they gave up hope halfway through.
They developed brand-new light spells, combined with huge magic circles, refined powerful alchemical tools, and researched special potions for amplification - they were fully prepared and confident that they could surpass all the winners of the Shining Contest in the past with absolute advantage.
They were well prepared.
However, their so-called preparations, those spells, magic circles, alchemical props and potions, when cast into the air, were no different from the situation of the other civilian teams, without making a splash, they just disappeared into the galaxy without a sound.
There is no sense of existence at all.
Lost.
They lost completely.
Damn it!
In a study room of the First Wizard Tower, a dull thud was heard, like the sound of something heavy falling on the carpet.
The third wizard tower, the astronomical observatory.
While everyone was marveling at the scene, Ash was held by Sigourney, floating in the sky.
His and Sigourney's auras were concealed by Lord Nance with the help of the power of the Third Wizard Tower, and they just floated in the sky throughout the entire competition, for a full two hours!
In fact, they only needed to stay out of the way for a few minutes, and the victory of tonight's competition would undoubtedly be theirs. But Sigourney was not satisfied with this, and from beginning to end, she did not intend to give others even the slightest chance.
The First Wizard Tower has been prepared for so long, and although it is impossible to be as stunning as the Galaxy, it should still be enough to make people marvel.
But Sigourney didn't give them any chance to show themselves.
Complete suppression.
Do it without leaving any room for maneuver.
After being held in the sky for two hours, when he turned his head, he could see the perfect face of the young man glowing white in the stars... Ash did not find it boring. Instead, he found the experience very interesting, especially since Sigourney took the initiative to talk to him to pass the time, which was rare.
Ash knew that Sigourney wouldn't talk to him just because she was bored.
The reason why he took the initiative to speak was mostly because he was grateful and apologetic for asking him for help and keeping him hanging in the air for such a long time. Another small part of the reason was probably because he was in a good mood because he had screwed over the First Wizard Tower.
Sigourney, who had never chatted with anyone before, naturally had terrible conversation skills. He didn't know what topic to talk about, so he just talked about his alchemy experiments, from guessing to collecting materials to the process of success or failure... In fact, it was even more boring than silence.
But Ash has always been a good listener, especially now that Sigourney is the one telling the story.
Even if the topic was about inducing sleep, he listened with great interest.
Sigourney's cool and calm voice, like beautiful leaping notes, is the perfect accompaniment to the brilliant galaxy, making the magnificent scene before one's eyes more vivid and three-dimensional, imprinted in a corner of memory, and becoming the most beautiful pattern.
Two hours were spent happily.
When Sigourney took the pentacle from his hand, the galaxy dimmed and disappeared instantly. Ash was still a little slow to react. This, was so fast?
Then I landed on the astronomical platform and looked down at the royal city. The brilliant lights were lit up again in large areas, and I felt that it was really over.
Nance had been guarding them here the whole time, and he laughed again. "The First Wizard Tower must be crying now, right?" He raised his hand and patted Ash on the shoulder. "Who told us we have Ash? The night sky just now was so beautiful!"
Ash curved his eyes, "It was all Sigourney's idea."
I actually thought of using the five-pointed crystal that the children at the market had just used as a toy - "There will be stars that love you for me."
"Without you, this idea wouldn't have come true." Nance exclaimed, "Who else could be loved by the stars to this extent except you?"
Ash felt very embarrassed by the compliment, and thinking of those lovely stars, he whispered, "I like them too."
"Next." Sigourney threw a small bag over and said calmly, "Your favorite star."
Ash took it in his hand. It was a small leather bag with inscriptions on it. It was sealed in a square shape and there was no way to see where the opening was.
"This is..." He squeezed it and found that the bag contained the pentagonal crystal.
Is this okay for him?
"Take it. You can't open the bag. It has defensive inscriptions." Nans looked between the two of them and said with a smile, "Although you can't play with it directly, it's nice to touch it through the bag."
Ash nodded, holding the bag in his hand, and looked at the indifferent young man happily: "Thank you."
Sigourney waved her hand, probably meaning she was not welcome. Then she said to Nance, "Remember to make the First Wizard Tower fulfill its promise tomorrow. One tenth is one tenth, no room for negotiation. Don't be a good person again."
Nan Si's eyes were smiling, but his face was bitter: "Ah, I have to deal with those people again, what a hassle, what a hassle."
Sigourney ignored his complaints and walked towards the exit. When she was about to leave, she paused and seemed to smile: "Ash, you have class tomorrow, right?"
After saying that, the figure disappeared on the astronomical table.
Ash was a little stunned.
Sigourney always called him by his full name, Ash Alwin, Ash Alwin, or hey, you, kid, etc. Occasionally, when she called him Ash, her tone was cold or irritable.
It was the first time that she called him "Ash" in a calm and composed manner, even though she didn't see him but was probably smiling.
First time...
Nance patted his shoulder in surprise: "Ash?" Could it be that this kid just realized that he had to go to school tomorrow and was shocked?
Ash raised his eyes to look at him and suddenly said, "Sir Nance."
Nance: “Huh?”
"I had a very, very good time tonight."
The young man raised his clean and refreshing smile, and when people saw it, they couldn't help but feel happy with him.
…
Ash didn't waste any time because of the next day's classes, so he said goodnight to Nance and went back to his room to rest.
During this time, Yelena and Ivan returned to the wizard tower in a daze. Yelena was itching to find Ash and ask him how they did it, but Ivan stopped her - it was so late, Ash must have gone to bed.
So I could only wait until the next morning to ask.
The whole night, Yelena was immersed in curiosity and excitement. She was extremely excited and tossed and turned until dawn.
So when Ash saw her in the morning, he was shocked by the dark circles under her eyes.
"Tell me!" Yelena rushed forward and held Ash's hand, saying sincerely, "How did you create the galaxy?"
Ash blinked. Telling the truth would not work, but he did not want to deceive his friend. After thinking for a while, he said, "Sigourney did all this. I was just there to help him get some things."
The absolute truth. But it sounds like Sigourney was the only one who did this and he was just a helper.
Yelena was a little disappointed. It was impossible for her to get an answer from Sigourney.
But then she became excited again: "Hey, no matter how we did it, we won anyway!" She nudged Ivan with her elbow, "It would be fun if we met that guy Lawton in class today!"
Looking at her eager look, it was obvious that she was full of ridicule, mockery and criticism.
Ivan looked at his sister and felt that she didn't need to be obsessed with taking Lord Scarlet Moon as her teacher. She had already secretly learned most of the essence of the skill of taunting alone.
Yelena, who had no idea what her brother was thinking, remained in high spirits.
"The five-pointed crystal I bought last night fell off, and I don't know where it fell. But forget it, it's just a toy, and it's not worth much."
"A lot of friends came to help at the Shining Contest - although none of them made it to the finals - Ash, your classmate, that kid called Ann something? He came to help too!"
"Also, this morning I inexplicably received a large amount of points from Mr. Nance, saying it was compensation. Strange, what is the compensation? How come I don't have any clues at all?"
“…”
We talked and laughed all the way, and even if some people were sleep-deprived, they were still in high spirits.
I never thought that the encounter with Lawton that Yelena had said would actually happen today. However, it was not she and Ivan who encountered Lawton, but Ash.
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