Chapter 128 Spark Academy
After the two academies exchanged supplies and took a short break, they continued to move towards the remaining second-rate academies*. If they encountered aliens along the way, the two academies would fight together, and whoever killed the alien would get the points.
After about five hours of marching, until the sun was about to set, Jiang Ning led the team to finally stop. If they continued forward, they would enter the territory of the lower city.
Jiang Ning stared at the sunset sandwiched between the two sides of the street and gradually submerged in the clouds. When the team behind her caught up, she turned her head and asked Qingzhou: "Which academy is the next team?"
"Spark Academy." Qingzhou walked to her side and stood side by side with her.
Hearing this name, Jiang Ning's eyes suddenly flashed. She had only heard the information about the seven second-rate colleges in a hurry before, but now that Qingzhou specifically mentioned it, she suddenly felt that it sounded very familiar.
"Do they have a Spark Training Camp?" Jiang Ning asked.
"Yes." It was Cheng Yao who answered her, "The Spark Training Camp is the pre-enrollment class of the Spark Academy. It usually selects some talented children to be trained from an early age."
"Jiang Ning, how do you know about the Spark Training Camp?" Simon was a little curious.
"This training camp held a live broadcast competition for all amateurs before, and I participated in it." Jiang Ning shook her head embarrassedly. She and Ke Lai also earned a lot of star coins in this competition.
She remembered that the competition was held to promote the training camp to the numbered stars, and the champion had already been decided.
The man was about her age. If he had successfully entered the Spark Academy, he should be in the Federation now.
Jiang Ning's performance in the previous competitions attracted much attention. Before the audience had time to dig up her growth trajectory, Jiang Ning mentioned a story herself, and the audience with quick actions immediately went to find the competition she mentioned to watch.
Because the "Spark Forward" at that time was participated by all amateurs, unlike the previous contaminated areas, the location of this competition was on the Aurora Star, a place where even alien beasts had to be introduced artificially.
Most people with special abilities find the show boring just by listening to the introduction, so it doesn’t attract much attention. It was only held for one period and then it couldn’t be continued and was withdrawn.
The Spark Organizing Committee never thought that after so many years, their show could still be rejuvenated.
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In the stadium.
Several people chatted briefly, and then Jiang Ning greeted Qingzhou. This time, she still attracted most of the firepower, and the rest of the people were handed over to them.
Qingzhou nodded slightly and led the team to the direction of Spark Academy in advance.
Then Jiang Ning took the little fat man and went ahead, letting Cheng Yao and Si Yuan be ready for support at any time.
Her fighting style mainly focuses on attacking by surprise, so it is best to wipe out most of the troops at one time, otherwise it will be useless when they are prepared.
On the other side.
The light of the setting sun could only illuminate half of the building, and the street was shrouded in shadow.
The people from the Spark Academy walked halfway and suddenly raised their hands to signal the team to stop.
A woman's figure appeared in the street camera.
"It's that woman! She's back with her roses!!" Jiang Ning was famous on the main live broadcast screen. Many viewers knew her. Knowing that they were going to deal with a second-rate academy, most of the audience had already waited in the exclusive live broadcast room of the Spark Academy in advance.
Although Jiang Ning only used it once, the audience already understood her style.
The team of the Spark Academy looked at their main commander. The street was estimated to be twenty meters long. They and the woman who suddenly appeared stood on each side. They were against the light here, and they couldn't see the face of the person opposite them at all.
"Is it a contaminant?" Someone asked the commander in surprise.
The commander of Spark Academy was a woman with long black hair half tied up and a cold face.
The commander did not answer the person who spoke. Their commander rarely spoke, and even when giving orders, he was as concise as possible.
The two sides were deadlocked for about a minute, and the commander of Spark Academy finally raised her hand. The perception in her palm continued to gather, and finally merged into an ice-blue spike.
The spikes burst out in the direction of Jiang Ning.
One, two, three...
Seeing that the spikes were about to reach her, Jiang Ning finally moved.
She was very fast, and she used her flexible body to shuttle between the two sides of the street to avoid the icy spikes.
The Starfire commander did not use his full strength. His attack was to test the opponent's strength, while he was thinking about the opponent's superpowers.
Jiang Ning's figure was getting closer and closer to the team of Starfire Academy.
It was obvious that they were coming for their academy. The Starfire Academy commander reminded the team members through perception to [turn on perception defense.]
The team immediately went into a state of alert.
At the same time, the perception of the Starfire Academy commander was also constantly spreading outward. She couldn't be the only one here. There should be ambushes around.
She wanted to know which academy was attacking them. She squinted her eyes. After the distance was shortened, she finally saw clearly the clothes worn by the person opposite. They did not belong to any second-rate academy. The
one attacking them was actually a third-rate academy!
The pupils of the Spark Academy's chief commander suddenly widened. The next second, the woman raised her hand, and the palm of her hand sensed the release. Suddenly, countless petals swept towards their team like a storm.
The petals brought the momentum of breaking the army. Everyone used superpowers to attack or resist, but many members were still eliminated.
Fortunately, there were only some A-level and a few S-level.
Jiang Ning released his superpowers and was caught off guard. The petals were dancing in the wind, and they could not intercept them on a large scale.
After Jiang Ning released the roses, she quickly distanced herself from their team. The Spark Academy's chief commander was not like the Pegasus commander. She was a 3S-level ice elementalist, not to mention that there was also a 3S-level auxiliary superpower standing next to her.
The two of them together were enough for her to eat a whole pot.
Even if this attack did not meet expectations, Jiang Ning had to retreat.
The overall strength of the Spark Academy team was indeed much stronger than that of Pegasus. Only less than 30 people were eliminated in one attack, while Pegasus eliminated nearly half of them.
Someone in the Spark Academy team wanted to chase after them, but was stopped by their main commander: "Don't chase, there are ambushes around, retreat!"
The commander's face darkened. They were afraid that they had underestimated the strength of the third-rate academy this year.
Jiang Ning did not forget to pick up the fat boy at the corner of the street. She conveyed the message to Qingzhou and returned to the team of Semir Academy.
Thinking that Qingzhou would not be able to deal with their commander, she led the team to rush there again.
...
This was the first time that Xinghuo Academy lost so many members because of a third-rate academy. The commander's face was black. She was leading the team to continue on the road, and suddenly she sensed something.
Without saying a word, she released her supernatural power directly to the back of the stacked containers. The ice spread along the ground all the way to the feet of the containers, and the people behind were forced out.
She looked at the clothes of the person opposite her. It was another third-rate academy.
The commander of the Spark Academy was just so angry that he had nowhere to vent. What right did these third-rate academies have to compete with them for the promotion quota!
With an order in his mind, the team of the Spark Academy swooped down towards Qingzhou and the others, and quickly activated their supernatural powers in their hearts.
Each of the remaining members here has reached double S-level, and each member has been selected through the rigorous selection of the Spark Training Camp.
I originally wanted to save some strength, but these third-rate academies are too ungrateful!
The attack of the commander of the Spark Academy was fierce, and ice cones rose from under everyone's feet.
Qingzhou jumped to dodge, but under the strong suppression, her figure suddenly disappeared in the surroundings.
Qingzhou is also a super double S, and she feels that her mental power has always been at a critical point. It will break through 3S as long as there is a sudden opportunity to burst out.
The Starfire Commander narrowed his eyes and immediately realized that the other party was a space-based esper.
The strength of space-based esper lies in their body movements and speed, which is exactly what the elemental force system does not have, but...
The Starfire Commander glanced at the person next to him, and that person immediately understood and released his superpowers, attaching to the back of the commander like a shadow.
When Jiang Ning and his group arrived, they happened to see the scene in front of them. The Starfire Commander was carrying a black shadow on his back.
"What is that?" Jiang Ning asked in confusion.
Si Yuan came forward and explained to her: "It is an auxiliary power, following you like a shadow, and can greatly increase the speed of the person who is attached."
Jiang Ning glanced at Si Yuan and remembered that Si Yuan was the 'Abyss' in the game.
'Abyss is good at using various powers, and there is almost no repetition of powers in any game.'
Can this sentence be understood as Si Yuan knowing all the powers?
Jiang Ning thought about it, and asked Si Yuan with a studious attitude: "How to crack it?"
Si Yuan held his chin and thought for a moment and said: "After using the shadow, the two of them are tied together and regarded as a whole. If one of them is injured, it will also hurt the other. The ice-type mutant is not easy to deal with. I suggest you attack the shadow behind her directly from behind."
Jiang Ning nodded and said: "You will take charge later."
Si Yuan paused at first, and then said in a very serious expression: "Okay."
The most difficult person to deal with at Xinghuo Academy is their main commander. As long as she helps Qingzhou to deal with her, the others are not a big deal.
"Cheng Yao, let's go." Jiang Ning only brought one person this time.
Even if she knew the weakness, it would be difficult for her to get close to their main commander, and she needed Cheng Yao to cover for her.
Jiang Ning also synchronized this information with Qingzhou in her mind. Qingzhou did not reply, but Jiang Ning knew that she must have heard it.
At the moment when Qingzhou was about to be penetrated by the ice of the Starfire Commander, Cheng Yao released his supernatural power, and the outer layer of the earth element covering the ice ridges was quickly wetted.
Collapse. In a
moment, the ice and wet soil instantly disintegrated.
Qingzhou drew her hand in the air, rolled to the side after landing, and teleported to Cheng Yao's side.
The Starfire Commander looked at the sudden appearance of one more person, and her heart was calm. She flashed and approached the two people at an extremely fast speed, while continuously releasing the ice ball in her hand.
Just as she was about to approach the two men, she suddenly felt a breath approaching from behind. Her body quickly turned 180 degrees in the air, raised her hand and quickly released the ice shield to block the sneak attack, and then attacked the opposite side.
The ice chain was cut off inch by inch, spreading in all directions. Wherever it passed, the temperature around it dropped by several degrees.
Jiang Ning did not move. There was a surge under her feet. Cheng Yao released a ball of earth and included her in it. The ice was just attached to the ball of earth.
Cheng Yao squeezed his palm slightly, and the ice ball broke instantly.
A green spherical substance flew towards the face of the Starfire Commander.
The chief conductor of the Spark Academy frowned, then raised his hand to melt the peas. The two collided together to form a layer of ice flowers. Following the trend of inertia, the ice flowers flew in the air for a distance before stopping less than an inch away from her eyes.
She looked in front of her. The girl from the third-rate academy was standing behind the ice chips and red soil on the ground. In front of her was a half-human-high green plant, and the plant just grew out of the red soil layer that had just collapsed.
She immediately thought of a plant-type mutant among this year's contestants. She squinted her eyes and realized that it was the person in front of her.
Jiang Ning controlled the pea seedlings, and the bean pods kept exploding. Several peas attacked the chief conductor of the Spark Academy.
She did not take it lightly like the previous few people. After seeing Jiang Ning kill so many people in their team with petals, she realized that this plant system was different from the plant system she knew before.
She spread her senses and focused on releasing ice elements, trying to stop those peas, but there were so many peas around her and they were dense. Even if someone gave her speed, she could not resist them all, and some could only be dodged.
The peas she dodged did not fall to the ground, but attacked the team behind her directly. It seemed that it had identified the people of Spark Academy. All 12 peas that missed hit her team members.
The bodies of the players hit by the bullets were instantly attached to a thin blue wire net with a tiny electric current on the wire. Their bodies were fixed and difficult to move. The members of the opposite Sai Ya Ben seized the opportunity and eliminated them directly with one blow.
After losing another 12 members, the main commander of the Spark gritted her teeth. She took a deep breath and tried to calm herself down.
The battle is not over yet, and now is not the time to get emotional.
The main commander of the Spark suddenly rushed out and dived towards Jiang Ning. Cheng Yao saw the situation and attacked from the other side.
Her movements stopped abruptly, and she could only raise her hands to block Cheng Yao's attack.
Cheng Yao and Jiang Ning restrained each other from two sides, one with 3S+ and the other with super double S, and the Starfire Commander had no room for a third hand.
At this moment, Qingzhou quietly approached her side, and a solid light blade silently appeared in her palm where she didn't notice.
Jiang Ning didn't plan to do it herself at first. Under the powerful attack of the Starfire Academy Commander, she couldn't get close to her at all, so she asked Qingzhou, whose supernatural power is space, for help. Qingzhou
is agile and has supernatural powers that can appear and disappear at will, making him most suitable to be used as an assassin. Qingzhou
swung his sword and stabbed, and the light blade chopped the black shadow on the back of the Starfire Commander.
At the same time, their main commander also suffered the backlash of the attack. She covered her chest in pain, spitting out a mouthful of blood, and her other hand turned into an ice claw and swung out.
Qingzhou evacuated in time, but there were still a few claw marks on her back.
Qingzhou stumbled when she was sent out. Jiang Ning saw this and gently helped her. She turned her head to look at the wound on her back and laughed softly. She used all her strength in that attack, and it was inevitable that the Starfire main commander would fight back.
But she knew that the battle was about to end.
The person on the back of the Starfire main commander separated from her body, and his face also showed a painful look.
Their team noticed the situation and shouted, "Commander!"
Cheng Yao did not give the two a chance to catch their breath. She released two earth spikes and sent the two out.
Looking at the two teams fighting, Jiang Ning had no intention of joining in the fun. She supported Qing Zhou and prepared to leave: "You are injured. Go to the side and rest for a while."
Qing Zhou trusted her team members unconditionally and did not refuse Jiang Ning's help.
On the contrary, the man who had just spoken from Xinghuo Academy suddenly burst out with a powerful ability, overturned the person in front of him, and went straight towards Jiang Ning and the other two who were leaving.
"Be careful!" Cheng Yao was the first to notice the movement behind him and pulled Jiang Ning.
The man missed his target and vented all his anger on the injured Qingzhou.
It was this man who killed their commander!
With a fierce look on his face, he rushed towards Qingzhou again.
Qingzhou's pupils shrank. It was too late to teleport herself. She set up the teleportation array in front of her. The space twisted and the man was teleported several meters away.
Cheng Yao and Jiang Ning rushed forward to stop him.
He looked a little abnormal. His pupils were filled with blood-red mist, and his muscles were all bleeding. The blue-red blood vessels were clearly visible. He was tilting his head at this time, looking like he was ready to eat people at any time.
She was somewhat suspicious of what kind of drug he used as a supernatural catalyst. She immediately released her senses and carefully examined him. She didn't know if the illegal drugs nowadays had evolved. She couldn't feel anything unusual at all.
The boy was still struggling to break free when he was shackled by Cheng Yao. He kept mumbling something in his mouth, like the whisper of an insect, which was not very clear.
Jiang Ning leaned over and listened carefully with his ear tilted. Only then was he sure that what he said was: "You all have to die, everyone has to die here!"
"The 'death' mentioned in the arena generally refers to being eliminated, so is he making a harsh statement?" Jiang Ning looked at Cheng Yao uncertainly.
"Why are you talking to him? He must have gone insane after staying in the contaminated area for so long." Cheng Yao shrugged, "I'll get him out now."
She raised her knife and chopped it on the opponent's neck. Seeing that it had no effect, Cheng Yao directly released the attack with one hand and clicked on the elimination button.
Jiang Ning thought about it and it was indeed possible.
Maybe the concentration of pollution in the boy's body was at a critical value before the game, and it was not detected by the machine. Then he entered the contaminated area again, which might have caused this situation. Are
n't most of those contaminated bodies like this?
Jiang Ning said goodbye to Qingzhou and returned to the team with Cheng Yao. They encountered a few low-level alien beasts here, and the team solved them and earned a few points.
"Is it solved?" Si Yuan asked happily when he saw the two of them return safely.
Jiang Ning whispered, "The Saiyaben College is doing the finishing work. Let's go first and wait for them at the redemption point."
After Qingzhou and the others are done, they will definitely go to the redemption point.
They will be out of the city in one day.
The confrontation with the two academies wasted some time, so they must speed up their schedule.
Fortunately, the remaining three academies are still ahead of them, so they don't have to go back and catch up.
Now there are only three of the seven academies left, and there is no guarantee that they will not have cooperated.
She should be thankful that the elimination of academies will not be broadcasted in the arena, otherwise these three academies will definitely unite to resist them. After all, all competitors have been eliminated. As long as they can solve their two academies, the promotion quota will definitely be theirs.
Outside the stadium.
Today it was Arakawa's turn to commentate. It should be said that Arakawa really understood what the audience wanted to see.
The audience looked at the scene of Jiang Ning and her team moving forward. The camera turned around and the other three academies they had to deal with appeared in one picture.
The three academies stood in a three-way confrontation, and the atmosphere was tense.
The fans of the three academies shouted, "Don't fight among yourselves. If you continue to fight, your family will be ruined."
However, there was a wall between the inside and outside of the stadium, and the words of the audience could not reach the ears of the participating members.
The main conductors of the three academies moved, and the battle was about to break out.
It seemed that there was no need to wait for Semir Academy and Seaben Academy to come. They could completely eliminate themselves internally.
Arakawa was explaining the situation of each of the three academies.
No one expected that the highlights of this year's Federation Supernatural Competition would be the second-rate and third-rate academies. Even the spectators who had been waiting in the four first-rate academies have switched sides.
Arakawa is quite happy to see this scene. It would be great if all the flowers bloomed together, otherwise the champions would always be those four academies.
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On the other side.
Qingzhou finally led the Saiba College team to catch up with Jiang Ning's progress. The two academies rested for less than an hour and then set off again.
During the day, they were busy looking for other colleges to fight. Qingzhou did not forget that the team competition was a points system. Jiang Ning and her team were fine. They split into two groups. Wei Shengyu and Wen Renchao, two stronger people, led the team to continuously kill the monsters.
However, their team was fully focused on fighting other colleges. The points had fallen far behind. If they did not work overtime at night, they would be left behind.
After Qingzhou reported the location of the remaining colleges to Jiang Ning, the two teams went their separate ways and agreed to meet nearby.
Jiang Ning had no objection. Qingzhou and her team were accumulating points, which was essentially accumulating points for their Semir College.
"We'll leave the city tonight." Jiang Ning said to the team members, "It's not safe to travel at night. Everyone, don't save your mental energy. If you find any abnormal situation, please communicate with me in time."
"Yes!"
The psychics with slightly stronger attack power quickly dispersed around the team and protected the rest of the people inside.
The team moved normally for about twenty miles, and the surrounding environment became more and more desolate. They knew that they had reached the outskirts of the city.
The city's high defense had been cut off at this time. No one had maintained it for too long, and it was rusted and cracked.
Jiang Ning's eyes were always on the front. Suddenly, a team member said to her in her mind: [Something is moving on the protective net ahead.]
She paused and glanced at the protective net ahead, but saw nothing.
But in a contaminated area, any movement cannot be missed.
[Team alert.]
Jiang Ning's voice appeared in everyone's mind, and the team immediately entered a state of alert.
Jiang Ning moved, quickly locked on to the member who had just spoken to her in the team, walked up to her and asked: "What did you see? Tell me in detail."
"I was just staring at the protective net, and then I saw the net on it move, as if the silk thread on the net was constantly pulled by someone." The girl said.
"Did you see the alien beast?" Jiang Ning asked again.
The girl shook her head: "No, you said that I should report any abnormality to you, so I told you as soon as I saw it moving."
Jiang Ning looked at the protective net again. The girl said that the thread was pulled by something, but she didn't see the monster.
"Did anyone else notice that the protective net was moving?" Jiang Ning raised her eyes and asked the other people in the team.
The team was silent, and everyone shook their heads to indicate that they didn't see it.
The girl who first discovered it swallowed her saliva and forced a smile on her face: "Maybe I was staring at the protective net for a long time, and I was dazzled and saw it wrong."
When only one person notices something and she can't describe it accurately, she will not be sure whether what she saw is real or an illusion.
"No!" Jiang Ning said seriously, "Maybe you really found something."