Let's Put That Little Matter Behind Us!

"How did it go?"

Bell asked Shanna, who had just emerged from the ground.

"No good. The underground routes are all sealed off too."

Shanna shook her head grimly and spoke in a low voice.

"I see... Sigh! What a hassle!"

Bell sighed mournfully at her words.

"Gege, what should we do?"

Shanna furrowed her brows, her face full of reluctance.

"Sigh!"

With another sigh, Bell raised his right leg, tangible Magic Power coiling around it.

"Take this!"

Boom!

The Defense Array before them shattered instantly, erupting with a thunderous blast.

Just as Bell could not set up a powerful Defense Barrier, the other contestants likewise could not establish powerful arrays without materials.

Unless a dozen or so people stayed at the array nodes all day, acting as human batteries.

Therefore, the Defense Array before them was not actually very strong. It was more useful as an early warning system.

"..."

Hermione stared speechlessly at the brother and sister, one looking grim while the other kept sighing.

What happened to all that trouble they had been talking about?!

It was troublesome just because he had to lift his leg?

Just how lazy was he?!

What Hermione did not know was that Bell and Shanna really were not putting on a comedy skit... probably?

As a trap master famous both far and wide at the Academy and Hogwarts, Shanna had wanted to personally challenge the traps set by the other contestants.

On one hand, she hoped to draw inspiration from them.

On the other hand, she also wanted to show everyone that, as the second-generation successor of the Brute Force Cracking Method—so take a guess who the first generation was—not only was she good at setting traps, but she was also second to none at dismantling them!

Unfortunately, when she arrived