The World of Demons (11): Jealousy

Gardner led the eight people and wandered out of the inner city again. They turned left and right on the streets of the outer city and found a small restaurant that looked unremarkable from the outside. After entering, he raised his hand generously and said proudly:

“Order whatever you want! As long as you can eat, I can afford it!”

Xia Ruize looked at Gardner meaningfully. He was so naive. There were six trialers with big appetites sitting here.

Since Gardner asked so sincerely, several trialers were not polite to him at all. The menu was so long that Gardner’s face turned green, but he could only watch the whole table of food being eaten with a green face.

They had to say that the food in this small restaurant that Gardner found was very good.

When paying the bill, Gardner’s hands were shaking as he handed over a gold coin. He actually ate half a gold coin in one meal! It was enough for an ordinary family’s food expenses for three months!

Although these newcomers helped him exchange a bottle of potion, which was worth at least three gold coins, it was the first time he heard of someone spending half a gold coin on a meal, and it made him feel heartbroken.

Heartbroken Gardner didn’t want to see these difficult newcomers anymore. After sending them back to their residence, he said, “Have a good rest and practice well. I’ll send you your ID cards at 8 o’clock tomorrow morning.” Then he disappeared in front of the eight people.

When the two native students thought of the magic potions given by the academy as rewards before departure in their luggage, they could no longer hold back and quickly ran back to their rooms to practice. With the help of the magic potions, the process of practicing the elements entering the body was particularly pleasant.

The six trialers did not rush back to their residence. Instead, they went their separate ways in front of the gate of their residence and each explored the city called Sack, which was actually known as the “main battlefield”.

There were many magicians wearing various robes in the inner city of Sack City. Even magicians wearing black robes with silver edges could be encountered occasionally, and magicians wearing blue robes were even more likely to be encountered. As for magic apprentices wearing gray robes, they were almost everywhere in the streets.

The entire inner city was tightly protected by a circle of tall walls. The center of the inner city was the auditorium of the Magicians Association. Behind the auditorium was a large magic transmission array. The entire inner city was built around the auditorium and was divided into eight areas by wide bluestone streets. Most of the buildings were on the ground, but there were also many buildings underground.

After exploring the inner city, Xia Ruize and his two companions wanted to visit the outer city as well. However, they were stopped by the gray-robed men guarding the city because they could not give their identity cards. They had to return to their residence and wait to get their identity cards.

When they returned to the room, they found that their red-haired indigenous roommate had fallen asleep due to exhaustion from practicing.

After washing up, Xia Ruize and the other two sat on the wooden beds and practiced magic. Since this mission world only recognized the offensive power of magic, they decided to fight magic to the death.

The main mission had been completed and they could leave the world at any time without any pressure. They really couldn’t understand why they shouldn’t stay and explore the world of the Silver Page Area. After all, they had never encountered such an easy-to-complete main mission when they were newbies.

Cheng Huaiqian and Gao Hexuan each had a bottle of potion, but Xia Ruize had two bottles of potion, one was a reward from the academy, and the other came from the demon soldier’s treasure chest.

After one night, the two bottles of potions in Xia Ruize’s hand were used up. After comparing them personally, Xia Ruize confirmed that the potions produced by the treasure chest were more powerful and lasting.

Xia Ruize smiled happily. Before they were forcibly kicked out of this mission world, let them harvest the treasure chests and try their best to increase the upper limit of magic power stored in their bodies.

“Let’s go! Today is the day you officially go to the battlefield. You have to hold on for six hours. I believe you can do it!”

Gardner had witnessed with his own eyes yesterday how sharp the attacks of several newcomers were, but when it came to combat endurance, these magic apprentices who had just stored up a little magic power in their bodies were definitely trash. Gardner was very excited when he thought that he would be able to teach them a lesson later today, just like his predecessors.

Today, everyone had their ID cards in hand, so the guards at the inner city gates didn’t even ask any unnecessary questions. They just glanced at the ID cards and let everyone leave the city.

The number of empty black cars parked in the square was less than the day before. This might be because more magicians went to the battlefield in the morning and had already gone out to see people off.

When they arrived at the dispatch office of District 7, they saw a long line of magic apprentices waiting for arrangements in front of the office.

While waiting in line for the arrangement, a non-Hua Country trialer took the initiative to suggest to Gardner that they wanted to be divided into groups according to the rooms, with each person in charge of one room.

Gardner thought about their fighting power, and the words of refusal were stuck in his mouth. He had to turn to Xia Ruize and others for advice, but saw Cheng Huaiqian nodding repeatedly to show his agreement.

What could Gardner say? He could only take the initiative to communicate with the dispatcher when it was their turn: “Please arrange two rooms for us.”

The gray-robed dispatcher glanced at the unfamiliar faces behind Gardner, with a hint of doubt on his face. Gardner quickly assured with a smile:

“Are you still worried about my work? These new guys are really amazing, and I’m watching from behind. If anything goes wrong, I will definitely take care of it.”

After Gardner’s assurance, the dispatcher did not refuse and assigned the eight people to two adjacent rooms 82 and 83 on the second floor. When Gardner and the newcomers arrived at the corresponding defensive positions, the ordinary soldiers who had been attacking here earlier hurriedly saluted them.

The dispatch of ordinary soldiers, magic apprentices, and magicians was arranged separately. It was possible that all three were present in the same room. Ordinary soldiers would definitely be arranged, while magic apprentices and magicians would be arranged by the dispatcher according to the situation on the battlefield.

Gardner nodded slightly in response, and focused on teaching the newcomers how to stick their ID cards on the city wall. He said with regret:

“Hey, from now on you will have your own ID cards, and your kills will be recorded on them.

In my opinion, with your abilities, you can collect a bottle of potion for yourself every week, plus the one issued by the Magicians Association… God! You may have two bottles of potion a week, which is really enviable…”

Gardner felt more and more regretful as he spoke, regretting that he would never have the chance to gather everyone’s efforts and collect a bottle of potion in one day like he did yesterday.

However, after the disappointment, he still cheered up and watched the performance of the eight newcomers, especially the two indigenous newcomers who seemed not so adaptable to the battlefield.

Today, the eight people were not assigned to the top of the third level of the city wall, but only to the second level. In the closed and dim city wall, there was a lookout in each room. All the attacks needed to be completed at the lookout, and they also needed to rely on the light coming in from the lookout and the candles for illumination.

Although the lookout was not particularly large, the magician’s attack required the chanting of long spells, so they could take turns to attack. Even in the gaps between the magicians’ attacks, ordinary warriors could take advantage of the opportunity to shoot arrows.

Thinking that there would be identity cards recording battle records starting today, Xia Ruize did not open the illusion, and soon Gardner was stunned.

Yesterday he only knew that Xia Ruize and his companions had strong magical attack power, and he estimated that they would not be able to last long. After all, as magic apprentices, shouldn’t they stop after casting one or two spells and draw elements into their bodies so that they had enough magic power to continue casting magic?

Who could explain how these newcomers could cast one spell after another?

Gardner watched Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian cast five or six spells in a row before they could sit down and draw the elements into their bodies to recover. He then compared this with a newcomer in the same room who had to sit down and draw the elements into his body after casting one or two spells. He intuitively felt the huge gap between ordinary geniuses and top geniuses.

After all, he would not think that the two newcomers who performed similarly to himself were not geniuses.

Gardner became even more depressed when he saw that Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian were the last to start absorbing the elements into their bodies, but were the first to recover and join the battle again.

Looking at the four newcomers in the other room, three of them were also casting magic one after another and recovering quickly. Gardner was full of questions and could not figure out what was going on in this little-known city of Beian this year?

How could it teach so many monsters at once? They were obviously newly graduated magic apprentices, but their strength was not much inferior to that of an experienced magic apprentice like him.

Gardner, who had been observing from behind, soon discovered that the newcomers from the two rooms quickly developed a combat coordination, alternating between attacking and recovering, and very self-disciplined in constantly repeating the process of attacking and training, refusing to slack off at all.

Although he knew that magic apprentices who had just graduated from the academy still retained the training habits that were strictly required by the teachers in the academy, it was not necessary for them to not give themselves any rest time at all, right?

Gardner secretly decided that he would have to teach these youngsters a lesson sometime and teach them to combine work with rest. Their current state of excitement was doomed to not last long. It would be bad if they couldn’t hold on for six hours.

Then Gardner stood in the back with a numb face, watching the newcomers quickly adapt to the state of fighting for a long time on the battlefield, insisting on fighting continuously for one hour, two hours, three hours…

Gardner was numb, but the three non-Hua Country trialers were just jealous.

Because Xia Ruize did not use the illusion to cover up today, after he killed the demon soldiers and the treasure chest dropped, the six trialers present all saw the treasure chest.

The three people secretly rejoiced that they completed the main mission and did not leave the mission world immediately. They killed the demon soldiers with greater enthusiasm, looking forward to opening the treasure chest.

But the reality was, the Hua Country trialers next door dropped a treasure chest every now and then, while it took them half a day to get one, which really made people jealous.

So, the three non-Hua Country trialers and Xia Ruize started a fight, working harder to kill the demon soldiers, vowing to get more treasure chests than the ones next door.

Of course, they lost miserably in the end.

If the dropped treasure chest would not stay among the monsters below the city wall before being opened, the three non-Hua Country trialers would have wanted to jump outside the city wall to retrieve the treasure chest.

But the reality was that they could only watch the treasure chest remain unclaimed until the time was up and the treasure chest disappeared into the air and automatically returned to the owner’s space.

After six hours, the three non-Hua Country trialers were furious. Just by watching the treasure chests next to them being collected one after another, they had opened four treasure chests in the whole day. It really made their eyes hurt.

The three non-Hua Country trialers were jealous, but the two real indigenous newcomers really couldn’t hold on any longer.

Even though they arranged longer and longer rest periods between each round, the energy consumed in the cycle of attack and recovery was real and exhausting.

The pressure on a real battlefield was much greater and more difficult than studying in college.

They now deeply understood the good intentions of the academy teachers. After all, the time they spend studying in the academy after passing the divine screening was too short.

In just ten days of study, the teachers in the academy ruthlessly squeezed the students’ energy limits, making them accustomed to the constant cycle of drawing elements into their bodies and casting magic every day. In fact, this was to allow the students to adapt to the rhythm of the battlefield in advance.