Surrounded by more than two thousand apprentices, many of them laughed heartily. For them, the opportunity to surround, kill, and humiliate a top apprentice was indeed rare.
This is the final battle of the championship. The outcome is decided; all that remains is to wait for time to pass.
Although Alice hadn't participated in the tournament for nine years, she knew what had happened just by simulating it in her mind.
Black Skull Academy has the most top students. Although Leo killed Adelaide, their number of top students is still greater than that of other academies. Most importantly, Black Skull Academy is the common enemy of the other five academies, which will make them extremely united.
The other five academies are different. Each academy only has two or three top apprentices, and they fight against each other. Once Black Skull has secretly gathered his forces, he can find an opportunity to fight them one by one.
Just keep fighting until they're all defeated!
Victory is that simple!
As for the Purple Flame Academy, there are only two top-tier apprentices: she and Abigail.
She didn't say anything more, because she had spent nine years with Leo on a special mission and hadn't cared about anything at the academy.
As for Abigail, she was a loner who never traveled with her fellow students and whose whereabouts were now unknown.
Without those two, Purple Flame Academy would be without top-tier students to lead it, and it would be unreasonable for it not to rank last.
Perhaps seeing no hope of victory, all the apprentices saw the Body Refinement Wizard Apprentice who had been with Alice squatting on the ground, his fingers constantly poking at his own shadow.
Alice slowly squatted down beside Leo, as if she had resigned herself to her fate, squatting together as if she wanted to die together.
"Although I'd love to see you beg for mercy, I've heard you can summon Fire Elemental Spirit, so I'm sorry, attack."
At Aidelin's command, almost all the Wizard Apprentice faced off simultaneously.
Nine years ago, Leo witnessed the battle between two thousand Heluoluo Wizard Apprentice and one thousand Big Ben Wizard Apprentice. Even from dozens of kilometers away, the battle made Leo sweat profusely. The battle directly leveled a mountain.
This indirectly led to Leo's reluctance to participate in the competition, causing him to bury himself in the laboratory.
Now, having personally experienced being targeted and attacked simultaneously by more than two thousand Wizard Apprentice, Leo's understanding has deepened.
In an instant, the more than two thousand Wizard Apprentice completely drained the surrounding elemental energy, making Leo feel like a fish thrown ashore, unable to sense any elemental aura. This suffocating feeling left Leo with no ability to resist.
Goosebumps erupted all over his body, his hair stood on end, every pore trembled, and he desperately gasped for air, trying to absorb even a tiny bit of elemental power from the thin air.
Every cell was frantically signaling the approach of death. Leo suspected that if these cells could survive outside the body, they would escape in an instant.
The next second, energy erupted like a cataclysmic volcano, and in an instant, the sky was filled with countless spells.
The sky, the sunlight, the earth—all paled in comparison to this saturation of sorcery.
The earth trembled, the air turned icy cold, and even the sky changed color, as if the whole world was making way for this attack.
Such an attack could wipe him and Alice off the face of the earth in an instant.
"Walk."
Alice let out a low growl and instantly crushed something in her hand, creating a Teleportation Witch Array beneath their feet.
"Teleportation array! They need to escape."
It was too late to stop it.
Space distorted, and before any spells could be cast, Leo and Alice vanished instantly.
Just as the two teleported away, a chubby black bomb left behind was constantly flashing with elemental energy.
Just as all the witchcraft was about to unleash its fury on the black bomb, a light suddenly shone from within it.
At the foot of the mountain behind the thick mountain, Leo and Alice, panting and with hearts pounding, suddenly appeared.
Neither of them spoke, but they were both panting heavily. Although they hadn't actually fought, every second felt like dancing on a knife's edge.
After catching her breath, Alice was about to ask Leo if his plan had succeeded when she suddenly felt a violent explosion coming from the other side of the mountain.
Endless rays of light shone from the other side of the mountain, like the rising sun.
The violent explosions seemed to tear the entire world apart, relentlessly tormenting all life with ears that could hear the world.
If such a situation evokes fear and dread, then the body perceives despair.
Alice trembled uncontrollably. What kind of energy was this? The world she perceived had completely changed.
It was like the end of the world, a cataclysmic upheaval, the destruction of everything, and the world felt filled with endless light and heat.
With a trembling staff, Alice tapped the mirror three times before the magic flowed out smoothly, and an Ice Mirror appeared in front of her. Alice adjusted it continuously, and soon an image appeared on the Ice Mirror.
Where she and Leo had just been surrounded, a fireball more than a kilometer in diameter rose into the air. Alice didn't know how hot the fireball was, but even through a thick mountain, she could feel the temperature around her rising rapidly. The images she saw through the Ice Mirror alone filled her with fear and trepidation.
The fireball, like the gaping maw of a glutton, greedily absorbed the surrounding oxygen, expanding rapidly and endlessly, devouring everything in its path.
The air around the fireball was so hot that it was distorted and rippled, as if all the light was being deflected by the fireball's extreme heat.
Alice is most skilled in using Ice elements, which makes her extremely sensitive to temperature. But now, looking at this still expanding fireball, the temperature has already exceeded the limit of what she can perceive.
Not a single one of the more than two thousand Wizard Apprentice could be seen, not even a struggling figure.
The spot where the apprentices were standing has long been engulfed by the fireball!
But that wasn't all; the giant fireball expanded as if it were the bravest and most fearless warrior charging towards the sky.
But on the ground, an incredibly powerful shockwave emanated from the center of the explosion, and the supersonic shockwave instantly crushed everything.
The violent shockwave, with its destructive force, relentlessly and wildly blasted everything in sight around it.
Vast swathes of forest were instantly snapped and shattered, the raging shockwave relentlessly and uncontrollably pushing everything aside.
After the shockwave subsided, nothing could be seen protruding from the ground. Boulders were shattered, forests were flattened, and vast stretches of barren grassland were neatly arranged like fields of crops cut by a sickle, all blown away.
Even more terrifying was the shockwave's terrifying heat. The instant it passed, it rapidly ignited everything around it. Alice could see clearly that all the plants within a three-kilometer radius were ignited within a single breath.
Flames, black smoke, suffocating air
The scene reflected in the Ice Mirror appears to be a world dominated by fire, with burning as the sole theme.
After the high-temperature shockwave traveled three kilometers, its power weakened slightly, but it still relentlessly destroyed everything, unleashing a raging inferno with its intense heat, as if an evil fire king was about to burn the world to ashes.
"Boom"
The shockwave struck the mountain, causing the massive mountain to tremble violently, as if an unsteady old man had been bumped and was about to fall.
The impact of the shockwave was equivalent to that of a major earthquake; countless rocks tumbled down, and countless amounts of vegetation growing on the mountainside instantly fell off.
Furthermore, the already unstable mountainside began to slowly slide down, initially at a very slow speed, but gradually accelerating.
In just two breaths, the mountainside slid down like rolling thunder, crashing heavily onto the ground!
Natural disaster, landslide!
Leo hadn't expected the nuclear explosion to be so powerful; even with mountains as a barrier, they could still suffer the aftershocks. He quickly led Alice away.
In less than ten breaths, the foot of the mountain was filled with a thick layer of debris. If Leo and Alice hadn't left, they would be buried underneath by now!
The extremely high temperature from the nuclear explosion was transmitted through the air. With every breath, one could feel the intense heat damaging the nasal cavity. The scorching heat caused some of the dry grass and trees on the ground to curl up. If the temperature continued to rise, wildfires could break out here.
Alice may not have noticed, but Leo has sensed the increasing nuclear radiation in the air. Although the mountains block some of it, limiting the amount of radiation reaching them, more radiation is bound to arrive over time.
The plants and animals here are going to suffer; nuclear radiation will cause a large number of animals to mutate and die.
Before the two of them could recover from the nuclear explosion, a massive hurricane began to rage, its gale-force winds, stronger than any wind magic cast by Wizard Apprentice, relentlessly lashing the earth.
Large amounts of dead vegetation were uprooted, and before they could even take to the sky, they were ignited by the high temperatures carried by the hurricane.
The hurricane carried terrifying flames; the most horrific natural disaster, the fire tornado, has appeared!
The fire tornado set everything it touched ablaze, forcing Leo and Alice to run around frantically, trying to escape the terrible natural disaster.
Leo watched all this in shock; the aftershocks of the nuclear explosion were far more terrifying than he had imagined!
Although he knew nuclear explosions were terrifying, he hadn't imagined they would be this terrible; it exceeded his expectations!
The earth was shaking, mountains were collapsing, flames were burning, gales were raging, and everything was being destroyed!
"What exactly is this?"
Alice, seeing everything before her, could no longer remain calm and roared at Leo, demanding an explanation.
Although Leo had told her beforehand that this would be a powerful trap, enough to kill all the Wizard Apprentice who attacked them.
Alice only believed half of it. What kind of trap could kill so many Wizard Apprentice in one go? Such an attack was simply not allowed in the tournament.
But the reality is that the trap Leo mentioned is far more terrifying than he promised. Not only are the apprentices gone, but even the natural environment of this area has been altered!