Rainbow beams rose one after another.
One young hunter after another was carried by the rainbow light onto the Performance Stage, displaying their unique understanding of magic to the guests on Lishan Mountain, the judges below it, and their peers by Crescent Lake.
These young people from the major wizarding families all possessed impressive magical skill. Many had even passed the Registered Wizard assessment and could skillfully employ divination and set up Magic Circles as supporting measures while casting spells. Multicolored spell-light flowed endlessly between mountain and water, radiating wave after wave of enchanting magical energy.
Zhang Shuzhi, Friedman Black Karen, Pomer Wolf, Zhao Qiao, Deng Xiaojian, Jiang Jun, Nicholas Duning, Sima Yi, Adam Black, Carlyle O'Brien, Michael Talbot, Qian Wen, Louise Coty, Zhan Yuchen, and more—names familiar to First University students rang out one after another at the foot of Lishan Mountain.
Crescent Lake was very quiet.
The young hunters watched the spells unfolding on the Performance Stage with rapt attention, pondering the gap between themselves and their opponents, wondering what they should do later to make a stunning impression. Most of them were more serious and focused than they ever were in academy classes, afraid of leaving a poor impression on the elders seated atop Lishan Mountain and affecting their usual allowance or their families' supply of magical resources.
Lishan Mountain was equally quiet.
Professor Charles, deputy dean of Alpha Academy at First University, narrowed his eyes and held a cup of clear tea, looking perfectly at ease as though lost in thought; Huang Shi, spokesman for the Wizard Alliance's Witch Alliance Committee, and several Grand Judges from Danhaag huddled together, smiling as they argued quietly, though not a sound carried out; several fox maidens of the Qingqiu Su Clan, meanwhile, as always, fought with their eyes against