Leo thought about it and realized he hadn't done anything special; it was just a casual strike!
Leo could swear to the Wizard Will that he hadn't even chanted a spell, nor had he moved an inch; it was truly just a casual strike. Clearly, the wizard was too weak.
"Haha, what trash! How dare First-Level Wizard like that participate in the competition?" Yaoyao stood on Leo's shoulder and mocked him without any restraint.
He had clearly spent a year studying extra hours to improve his computational skills, and he entered the competition full of joy, ambition, confidence, and the desire to win first place through hard work.
The wizard they encountered couldn't even withstand a single blow from Leo, so there was no need for him to take action!
If he doesn't even lift a finger, wouldn't all his hard work this past year have been for nothing?
Leo stroked his chin thoughtfully. This wizard Su was clearly not weak either. How could a wizard who could have two proactive protective magical artifacts and counterattack immediately be weak?
However, when faced with its own attack, it still lacked the power to strike back.
It's not that he's too weak; it's clearly that I'm too strong!
With 100 points of mental strength, and due to his affinity for the lightning attribute, although he hasn't improved or trained much, he can still unleash 15 times the attack power, which is 1500 points.
That's nothing; 1500 attack power is already low among First-Level Wizard!
However, the two Godslaying Set increase attack power by 40%, Elemental Body Refinement Wizard increases it by 20%, which together directly increases it by 60%.
This allowed Leo's ordinary, casual attack to reach a terrifying level of 2400 points!
With a casual strike, he surpassed the upper limit of an ordinary First-Level Wizard. In this Level-One Championship, Leo was simply a big bad wolf infiltrating the flock of sheep!
" Leo, let's go! Let's go on a rampage, and hopefully rescue Alice from danger. Maybe she'll even offer herself to you in gratitude."
When Yaoyao saw the power of Leo's casual strike, she immediately became restless. "You're already the Great Demon King, what are you doing sitting here?"
The Great Demon King is about to instill fear in the other wizards!
"No rush, wait a little longer."
Leo remained invisible. The elimination rounds had only just begun, and the wizards weren't all there yet. What was the rush?
The Great Demon King isn't destined for a life of toil!
As they were talking, three more wizards descended near Leo.
Excellent. Before they could even react, Leo casually struck each of them, instantly killing all three.
The three who were initially wary of each other probably won't even know how they were eliminated in the end!
It would be easy for a medium-sized world to accommodate hundreds of millions of wizards; the vastness of the world would be enough to prevent a single wizard from being seen within a few kilometers.
Such a large open area gives wizards the freedom to play their part. As long as they can survive the initial surprise attack, the subsequent survival matches will be much easier.
Leo hid for ten days, using his Shadow Talent to teleport within a few dozen kilometers, and only managed to eliminate less than twenty wizards.
Seven of the wizards withstood Leo's casual attack, forcing Leo to unleash a second casual attack.
The rest were all eliminated with a single, casual strike!
"We've had enough wizards descended upon this world; let's head further afield."
Leo gripped the Godslaying Staff, the heart at the staff's tip absorbing a small amount of energy from the air with each breath, storing it within. This energy absorbed by the heart was just enough to replenish the energy consumed by Leo's casual strikes.
This means that Leo didn't expend any energy at all and maintained a state of full mana throughout!
This situation is terrifying.
A wizard with the ability to sustain combat for an extended period of time is powerful enough, even if they are just ordinary wizards.
Not to mention a wizard like Leo who can unleash devastating attacks!
So much so that Leo doesn't even know how strong he is. A large part of the reason he came to participate in the championship is that Leo wants to prove his strength!
With a light tap of the foot, his figure appeared a kilometer away.
With the Godslaying Set, Leo's Shadow Jump directly exceeded a kilometer, and he no longer needed to jump from within the shadow. He could simply tap on the shadow and traverse any area within 1280 meters of it.
This is no longer Shadow Jump; Leo named it -- Shadow Walking!
He was like a ghost walking on the earth; no one could see him, no one could sense him, and he didn't even notice when he brushed past several wizards.
"Let's do it, let's do it!"
Upon discovering the wizard's trail, Yaoyao jumped up and down, urging Leo to take action. He loved seeing the bewildered expressions on the wizards' faces when they were eliminated.
Leo walks slowly and leisurely across the land every day, measuring the land with his footsteps. He hasn't felt the sensation of walking on his own two feet in a long time.
After advancing one level, the energy in one's body is sufficient to counteract the gravity from the world, granting the ability to fly.
The faster and more convenient flight made Leo forget the last time he walked on foot.
"Let's do it, let's do it!"
Yaoyao urged Leo again, as the wizard in the sky was flying low and was about to fly over Leo's head.
Leo hadn't originally intended to make a move, but the sight of other wizards freely flying over his head made him feel uneasy.
Eliminating the wizard with a casual strike finally lifted Leo's spirits.
"Look there, a few of them are actually hiding."
Yaoyao Yao nestled close to Leo's ear, pointing to four places in the distance and whispering excitedly, as if she had spotted the most fun toy.
The feeling of shooting arrows from behind was so exhilarating. At this moment, Yaoyao had already imagined herself as a ruthless killer, using her superior wisdom to manipulate her opponents.
You could even conjure up a 60-episode tale of intrigue and scheming in your mind!
It has to be said that given a little time, wizards are incredibly good at hiding. If Leo didn't have his shadow to scout the surroundings, Leo wouldn't have even noticed that there were wizards hiding here.
" Thunderfall Great Witchcraft!"
The four wizards were quite far apart, suggesting they were concealed in a battle formation.
Unfortunately, this battle formation was of no use to Leo, who simply unleashed a large-scale witchcraft attack.
Thunderclouds gathered in the sky, and in an instant, tiny bolts of lightning descended from the heavens, covering an area of over a hundred meters in front of us.
In an instant, all the power of lightning converged at four locations and struck down furiously.
"Damn it, we've been exposed! It's a top-tier wizard!"
When the four saw that all the lightning bolts struck them, without hitting any other parts of their bodies, and felt the power of each bolt, they knew they had encountered a master.
A wizard who can perform such ordinary witchcraft with extraordinary skill and accurately locate all of them without missing a single one must be far beyond their abilities.
What's even more terrifying is that the wizard only revealed a trace of his presence when casting his spell, and then he disappeared without a trace.
They believed that this wizard was lurking among them, ready to eliminate them at any moment.
The lightning continued to strike from the sky. Each bolt of lightning had a low attack power, only between 500 and 800 points, but the reduced attack power represented a terrifying attack frequency.
Before the four of them could even escape the area shrouded by the sorcery, they were all eliminated by the dense lightning.
Even First-Level Wizard can't withstand dozens or even hundreds of lightning attacks with a power level of over 500!
"It's boring. There's not even a single opponent who can make me fight back. What's the point? It's so lonely!"
Yaoyao, with her little paws behind her back, looked around with a lonely expression, but there was no one she could defeat.
"Don't rush, this is how it is at the beginning. Later on, team battles will appear. Do you think all wizards are like us? They've already planned how to regroup," Leo said.
In the year leading up to the competition, Leo also bought some intelligence. Although the teleportation was random, the people he knew were always from a small team participating in the expedition, an academy, or a family.
There are only a dozen or so competition worlds, and they already have a way to deal with it. After teleporting over, they assess each other and then find the nearest address to meet up.
Teamwork is the main theme in the later stages of the elimination rounds.
We're currently in the early stages, which is the prime time for lone wolves to fight!
"Then why don't you contact Alice? Don't you want to protect her and help her advance to the next round?"
Faced with Yaoyao's question, Leo said calmly, "No wizard can grow up under the protection of other wizards. My current strength far surpasses hers. Excessive protection will not help her, but harm her."
"I think she sensed this too, which is why she didn't express her willingness to form a team."
Neither Leo nor Alice brought it up, but they both tacitly agreed not to mention it. To this day, neither Leo nor Alice even knows whether the other is in the same world as them.
With a solid foundation laid on his path to Elemental Body Refinement Wizard, Leo sensed that his peers would gradually fall behind, and he could already feel that his future would become increasingly lonely.
There's no way around it, his promotion speed is just too fast!
Stimulated by nuclear radiation, the body's cells evolved wildly. Previously, the Hunter was only 3.5 meters tall, but now it has reached a terrifying 3.7 meters, getting closer and closer to the limit of level one.
But he's only been promoted one level in less than two hundred years!
At this rate of advancement, Leo will be able to break through the double Bloodline shackles and advance to the Level Two Body Refinement Wizard in less than five hundred years!
The early stages of this elimination round posed no difficulty for Leo. Even if he didn't hide himself and walked openly on the ground, no wizard could pose a threat to him.
"One-on-one battles are no longer beneficial to me; I'll wait until the later stages of the knockout rounds to see how the team matches go."
Leo wanted to test his current strength, but so far, the most he's been able to do in a battle is only a second attack. Such overwhelming victories are meaningless.
Leo is no longer an opponent that can be defeated by fighting alone; he is the kind of big boss that can only be taken down by a team fighting together!