Team

Three days later.

Binhanson and Yorkris finally met up with Lafi, Green, Yorklianna, and Robin, forming a complete little group.

If Green had not possessed such powerful strength, Lafi's group and Amland's group could have joined into one team. But after Green appeared, Amland, ambitious and unwilling to remain ordinary, naturally would no longer team up with Lafi.

As for Hainlo, when faced with Yorklianna's attempt to make him stay, he actually left as well, saying he was unwilling to drag them down. Coupled with what they had previously heard from Yorklianna, this immediately made Green's group change their opinion somewhat of this unknown wizard apprentice.

After a brief burst of warmth and excitement, everyone sat in a circle around Lafi.

Lafi sat on a fallen tree trunk, one foot brushing aside the leaves on the ground. Holding a branch she had picked up, she pointed at the map with a serious expression.

"Right now, we're here. Judging by probability, the next time the secret realm opens, there's a very high chance it'll be somewhere near us. Also, this place is in a relatively hidden valley forest. Normally, no one will notice it. These next few days, we'll first practice our coordination."

After saying that, Lafi looked at Green.

"Even Robin has fought alongside us before. We all know a little about one another's backgrounds and abilities, but you, this guy, haven't even done it once!"

Although Lafi was angry at him, Green was very happy. This proved that Lafi truly had forgiven him.

Binhanson, who did not know what had happened before, smiled and leaned over beside Green, patting Green on the shoulder as he said, "I really didn't expect this. Three years without seeing you, and you've actually become the strongest among us. Hehe, but Lafi is right. The second secret-realm struggle will definitely gather many powerful fellows. You should properly practice cooperating with us."

Yorkris shouldered his axe and laughed loudly. "Green, what type of sorcery do you mainly cultivate? Let big sister Lafi arrange a position for you."

"Hmph, he mainly cultivates defensive sorcery, so let him protect me and Yorklianna. If Binhanson feels the pressure while lurking, he can come back too."

Lafi did not give Green any chance to speak at all.

Yorkris and Binhanson looked at each other, not knowing why Her Majesty the Queen had such a bad temper toward Green now. Presumably, this was the difference between a girl and a woman?

The two of them maliciously guessed.

As for Robin and Yorklianna, the two had already gotten used to it over the past few days and paid it no mind.

Green gave a wry smile.

One hourglass later.

Green stood at the rear, covering Lafi and Yorklianna. This time, he could be considered to have truly seen team coordination, and the one who drew Green's attention the most was actually Yorkris.

All of Yorkris's sorcery consisted of explosive spells that consumed mana violently. At this moment, Yorkris had completely transformed into the appearance of a werewolf. His right hand held a giant axe, and his left hand wore a set of stabbing claws. Whenever a certain spell erupted in some chance instant, his bodily strength and speed both increased by a huge margin, and his combat power could simply be called terrifying.

According to Green's visual estimate, after Yorkris transformed into a werewolf, the energy intensity of his attacks was roughly between 15 and 50 degrees. Bloodline sorcery had very large fluctuations in close combat.

And after Yorkris suddenly erupted, his highest attack degree absolutely exceeded 70.

However, because the explosive sorcery Yorkris cast consumed mana violently, after using it two or three times, the mana in his body probably would not even be enough to maintain his transformation. At that point, what combat power would there be left to talk about?

And at this time, Yorklianna's role was displayed.

Yorklianna's sorcery could actually transmit her own mana to others.

Moreover, as far as Yorklianna herself was concerned, her mana value seemed to far exceed the matching value of her mental strength. At the same time, she also seemed to have cultivated some kind of sorcery that quickly restored mana.

In this way, the combat power of Yorkris and Yorklianna combined simply turned Yorkris into a terrifying slaughter beast.

"Haha, satisfying! With Green here, I can finally charge out without restraint." Yorkris shouted excitedly.

Lafi knocked Green once and said, "Pay attention. Yorklianna and I aren't strong in close combat."

"Got it."

After agreeing, Green worked hard to adapt to the team's coordinated combat style.

Binhanson's sorcery path was stealth and mobility. Its main functions were ambushes, scouting enemy intelligence, and so on. Perhaps his offense was nothing impressive, but his ability to flee was first-rate. He seemed to have specialized in researching the power of dark elements.

Green simply gave the magic staff he had previously obtained from the secret realm to Binhanson. In any case, that magic staff did not mean much to Green.

Binhanson's girlfriend, Robin, nicknamed Moon, actually had sorcery that leaned toward contract summoning. Moreover, according to Lafi, her curse sorcery was also quite outstanding.

However, Green did not support this kind of sorcery development path, because Green himself knew that as long as any wizard could grow into a level-four Stigmata Wizard, then he himself could control a slave army and had no need for any contract summoning at all.

Of course, a level-four Stigmata Wizard was truly too distant for ordinary wizard apprentices.

At this moment, through contracts, Robin had summoned a total of two otherworldly lifeforms enslaved under the wizard world.

One of them was a steel-bristled boar, one and a half meters tall and fully four meters long. It was a main-combat, brute-strength type creature. The other was a green-eyed macaque the size of a palm, lying on her shoulder, which seemed to possess some warning ability.

Robin likewise received the magic staff Lafi had previously obtained from the secret realm.

Apart from this, Robin's true trump card was a strange lifeform called the Moon Bell. This was also where her nickname came from.

Finally, there was Lafi.

Lafi had now thoroughly become an ultra-long-range wizard. Usually, the sorcery arrows Lafi shot through life energy could reach a range of over fifty meters, with an intensity of roughly between 30 and 40 degrees. This was probably difficult for ordinary wizard apprentices to imagine.

For example, Green's firebird attack could only attack within a distance of fifteen meters.

Moreover, on Lafi's back were four special arrows called Hurricane Arrows, capable of supporting Lafi in erupting with an ultra-powerful attack exceeding 100 degrees in an instant.

Even at crucial moments, Lafi's life energy could cast some simple medical sorcery.

Mm, as for Green himself, there was nothing much to explain.

Night.

After the shift change for guard duty, Green suddenly sensed a figure slipping into his tent. Smelling that familiar body fragrance, Green's heart relaxed, and he removed his mask and began kissing Lafi passionately.

Four days later.

"Hmph, Black Isotta Wizard Academy?"

Looking at the six people ahead, a somewhat mocking voice came from the female wizard apprentice's mouth.

The mark on this female wizard apprentice's forehead was shaped like an hourglass. She had short black hair parted down the middle, a conspicuous scar at the corner of her right eye, and a high-slit skirt that revealed a pair of fair, slender legs. In her hand, she held a whip that kept writhing without stop.

No one knew whether this whip was some kind of plant life or some rare sorcerous artifact.

Beside this female wizard apprentice followed a full thirteen wizard apprentices, forming a large-scale team.

Lafi sneered. "Hourglass of Time Wizard Academy? Hmph, don't tell me you think that just because the Son of the Sun defeated Golden Eyes, Hourglass of Time stands a level above Black Isotta?"

Just yesterday, the Hourglass of Time Academy's Despairer titled Son of the Sun had practically chased Bibilionna across half the trial grounds. Many wizard apprentices had seen it, and the scene had been shockingly spectacular.

Licking her lips, the extremely bewitching-looking female wizard apprentice from Hourglass of Time carefully looked over every member of Lafi's team. Though she held the advantage in numbers, she had never dared give the order to begin battle.

On Lafi's side instead, Yorkris said in a low voice, "What are they dragging their feet for? If they want to fight, fight. If not, leave. Why so much nonsense?"

Of course, only the people in Green's team could hear those words.

Robin said with a smile, "Let's still follow Big Sister Lafi's arrangements. After all, our target is the second secret realm. If the wizard academy calls it a consumable, high-power magic-guiding sorcerous artifact, then it must be something good enough to threaten Despairers, absolutely not some casual little trinket like in the first secret realm. With this sorcerous artifact, whether or not we participate in the fight for the third secret realm later, the initiative will be in our hands."

While the two teams of wizard apprentices were locked in confrontation, suddenly, a grand fluctuation of a mark appeared at the edge of the sky, then flew off into the distance at extreme speed, accompanied by billowing flames and waves of heat.

Even though it flashed past several hundred meters away, everyone could still feel the terrifying energy fluctuations at the center of that heat wave.

The pupils of the two confronting teams of wizard apprentices constricted at the same time!

"Son of the Sun!"

Everyone murmured the words in a daze, not knowing why this powerful Despairer was flying off into the distance in such a hurry.

The Son of the Sun flashed by and very quickly flew extremely far away.

At this moment, three more terrifying mark fluctuations followed close behind. One of them seemed to sense something and glanced toward Lafi and Green's team, faintly smiling.

This person was precisely Solam.

"Undying, Twisting, Golden Eyes! Black Isotta's three Despairers have actually all gathered, chasing down the Son of the Sun together!"

The female wizard apprentice from Hourglass of Time sucked in a breath of cold air and cried out in alarm.

Even if she had confidence in her own academy's Son of the Sun, she probably would not think the Son of the Sun could be a match for three Black Isotta Despairers joining forces.

On Green and Lafi's side, everyone's expressions were even more complicated.

Back on the sea ship, those three people had been absolute, lofty rulers above all. Even three years later, in the new apprentice trial grounds, was it still the same?

In the sky, Bibilionna's shriek rang out in every direction.

"Son of the Sun, you can't escape! Brother Yun Li, Brother Solam, today we have to kill him and avenge the humiliation I suffered yesterday!"

Bibilionna no longer had her former false pure innocence; fury had already driven her mad.