When Lu Yuan released the ice dragon, many people guessed who he was.
Then one protest after another rang out.
"Unfair! Lu Yuan's cheating."
"Why does he get to wear a mask? Is that even allowed?"
But no matter how fiercely the students in the audience argued, the instructors watching the match didn't react at all.
Because this was the contingency they'd left in place for the competition.
Lu Yuan's actions didn't affect the fairness of the match.
Or rather, this wasn't exploiting a loophole. It was a strategy.
And this revealed a key problem:
Why hadn't the students near Lu Yuan run the instant they saw what happened?
They'd even needed a moment to process it? Their awareness was far too poor!
That wouldn't do.
Lu Yuan had no idea that the audience was protesting so fiercely.
Because by now, he was on a rampage!
Whenever he spotted someone, he casually tossed out a spell,
then quickly moved on without even needing to look back.
That was how Xiu Yas had been trapped to death by Lu Yuan's "Mystic Ice Strangling Array," without any means of resistance.
Naturally, many students had noticed what happened.
After all, Xiu Yas had earned S-rank privileges in last year's all-school student competition, and was fairly well-known.
Seeing Xiu Yas die a horrible death, utterly unable to resist that one spell,
while Lu Yuan remained relaxed and his score kept soaring,
the doubts and protests gradually grew fewer and fewer,
replaced by gasps of amazement.
At that moment, Lu Yuan was like a human-shaped nuclear bomb, with spells to spare.
The students also noticed that every spell Lu Yuan released carried the power of annihilation.
"Is that power of annihilation free? He's just tossing it out like it's nothing."
The students were utterly