Chapter 367 Opening Lightning Strike
The desert island used for the competition is called Lieyang Island. It is not a naturally occurring island, but an artificial island built specifically for this Hundred Schools Battle.
The construction of Lieyang Island started on the third day after the New Year. It was built in less than a month. The total area of the island reached 8,600 square kilometers. The islands were covered with vegetation, but at this time they were all covered with snow. At first glance, Go and see only white.
A large cruise ship is getting closer and closer to Lieyang Island, and the cruise ship is carrying all the contestants.
On the deck, Beiming Zhiyao looked around. Although the sight was not very good due to the heavy snow, she could vaguely see several warships moored on the sea around Lieyang Island.
"The formation is really huge. These should be warships from the Eastern Fleet." Zhao Shiran was amazed: "I didn't expect that even warships were sent out."
"It's not just the Eastern Fleet of the Empire..." Su Yian used Elf Eyes. Farther away, there were three Dongri warships flying the flag of the Dongri Alliance, and there were three of them!
Su Yian did not tell what he saw. The reason why the warships of the Empire's Eastern Fleet appeared here was to be wary of the Japanese warships.
After all, those participating in the Hundred Schools Battle are all the top geniuses in Great Qin. If they are all taken away from them, the future of the magic world in the Great Qin Empire will be completely ruined.
However, at this time, the East-Japan Alliance dared to send warships over, causing the situation to suddenly become tense. Aren't they afraid of causing diplomatic disputes?
Suddenly, the cruise ship stopped, and Hua Jue's voice came from the radio: "From now on, contestants from sixteen colleges will disembark on the island every ten minutes. Ten minutes after contestants from all schools land on the island, the competition will begin. It’s announced that the game will end at two o’clock tomorrow afternoon, and I will come here to pick you up again.”
"Do you understand everything?"
After getting responses from the students, Hua Jue began to announce the order of going to the island.
The private magic schools come first, and the top ten national magic schools come last. This is also fair, and it is fair to the private magic schools.
No National Academy of Magic raised any objection to this.
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Tianji Magic Academy was the last to land on the island. After they landed on the island, the cruise ship left the island.
ten minutes later.
Su Yian and his group of seven people had already occupied a hilltop in the southeast of the island. The students who were originally here were students from a private magic academy. At this time, the students of this private magic academy were all robbed of their school badges.
They were not tied up by Five Flowers. Even if they wanted to leave, they could leave at any time, and they could also take back the school badge, but they had no hope.
If you are lying in ambush here, you can't hurt the opponent even if you are standing high, so how can you fight in a head-on confrontation? They could only leave here with a look of helplessness, and they planned to visit the island.
And at this moment——
In the gloomy sky, a bolt of lightning suddenly flashed across, illuminating the gloomy sky. The students on Lieyang Island subconsciously raised their heads, and then heard a huge roar!
Boom!
A ray of white lightning tore through the thick dark clouds, as if splitting the sky into two. One of them fell from the sky and hit the center of Lieyang Island directly!
The bright thunder light made it difficult to open one's eyes. The thunder light that struck Lieyang Island made the entire Lieyang Island tremble. The sea water around Lieyang Island was undulating, but fortunately it did not form too big a wave.
In the vast white thunder light, Su Yian's eyes glowed with silver. He opened his elf eyes and stared at the center of the island.
The dazzling and scorching lightning made him feel a sting, and the surge of spiritual power in the spiritual world increased the opening of the elf eyes.
But still nothing could be seen clearly except the lightning.
However, he judged that the lightning did not come from nature, but from the magician.
Moreover, the power of lightning seems to be huge, but the lethality contained in it is extremely low. It is impossible to achieve this step without having a profound knowledge of thunder magic.
What is the purpose of the magician who releases this thunderous light? Just looking at the lightning?
At this moment, Tan Jin's voice sounded from the wireless headset Su Yian secretly wore.
"All the space windows in the Spruce Arena are out of order, and nothing can be seen on the big screen."
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At this moment, the Yunshan Stadium was in chaos, and some people even started to curse loudly. They bought tickets to watch the game live and just watched this?
There were snowflakes on the big screen, and the situation on Lieyang Island could not be seen at all.
In the Operations Committee Building, Duan Pengcheng talked anxiously with the referee team, asking them to quickly send out magic engineers to repair the fault.
Dongfang Xiong sat expressionlessly on his office chair with his eyes closed, making it unclear what he was thinking.
"Chairman Dongfang, thunder appeared above Lieyang Island and struck Lieyang Island. Do you want to terminate the competition and recall the students?" Hua Jue opened the door and came in with a serious expression.
"No need, it's just a small lightning flash, no lethality." Dongfang Xiong said calmly.
"But……"
Dongfang Xiong opened his eyes and looked at Hua Jue: "Are you questioning me?"
"I don't dare." Hua Jue lowered his head.
"I am the great mage. Whether Lieyang Island is in danger cannot escape my perception!" Dongfang Xiong said calmly.
"The resentment of the audience..."
"Let the referee team make emergency repairs as soon as possible. If the repairs are unsuccessful, double the ticket price will be refunded to the audience."
"I know." Hua Jue's eyes flashed with haze.
The Yunshan Stadium was built by the Huashi Group. The ticket money was a considerable income. Now it is doubled. The Huashi Group not only did not make any profit in this Hundred Schools Tournament, but also lost part of it.
After all, he is a so-called big shot. He only needs to talk and doesn't care about anything else.
...
"Something is happening." Xu Chongfu's voice sounded in the headset again. His voice was a little weird-
"Hundreds of unidentified creatures are heading towards Lieyang Island. They are coming from the direction of the Dongri warship."
"That is... dark energy?!"
Listening to the voice in the headset, Su Yian narrowed his eyes.
The incandescent lightning gradually dissipated. When there was no light in the field of vision, Lieyang Island had undergone tremendous changes.
The snow on the ground and trees disappeared, and even the thick fog that had been pervasive disappeared completely, and the field of vision suddenly became extremely broad.
Although the snow was still falling, it would not be possible to cause the visibility of less than five meters as before in a short period of time.
Su Yian and his seven companions on the top of the mountain could even see the turbulent sea, but——
"What is that?!" Dongfang Xiaoxin suddenly spoke, pointing at the strange figures that climbed out of the sea.
When these things just came up, they seemed to be frozen in the sea, and their limbs were shaking very stiffly, but the dark energy coming out of their bodies made their movements gradually smoother.
"Strange beasts." Su Yian said calmly.
Suddenly, everyone's eyes were focused on him.
Strange beasts? Really? How could strange beasts appear in such a place?
"Dark energy." Su Yian took the sniper rifle from Beiming Zhiyao's hand and aimed at the strange beasts that came ashore.
The fire magic in his body surged, and he fired a shot.
Bang!
Blazing!
The flames burned and instantly engulfed the several strange beasts that came ashore, but in the flames, several strange beasts seemed to feel no pain and continued to move forward.
Suddenly——
The beasts in the sea of fire stopped moving, but only for three seconds, all the beasts ran towards the mountain as if they were injected with chicken blood, and the speed was so fast that people could not help but shudder.
"Zhiyao and I will stay here, and you go to support others." Su Yian said calmly.
"Why?"
"Because the beasts not only come up from here, they surround the entire island, and it is difficult for the students of the private magic academy to protect themselves, so we must help them."
"If there are major casualties, the Hundred Schools War will be forcibly terminated."
Beiming Zhiyao immediately understood the meaning of Su Yian's words. Once the game was forcibly terminated, there would be no champion, runner-up and third place in this Hundred Schools War. They had worked hard to win until now, but it was all in vain!
"I know." Zhao Shiran nodded, and then heard Su Yian continue to say: "Focus on saving people, and move towards the center of the island after saving them."
"I know." Zhao Shiran responded, and then took Su Yige and the other five people to move quickly.
Only Su Yian and Beiming Zhiyao were left on the mountain.
"Why do we have to go to the center of the island?" Bei Ming Zhi Yao asked, "Wouldn't we be surrounded if we do that? We can just send out a distress signal."
"It's useless." Su Yi An said, "No one will pay attention to us, including the warships anchored nearby?"
"Their goal at this moment is to forcefully terminate this Hundred Schools Tournament!"
Bei Ming Zhi Yao sighed, knowing that it was because of her, but -
"Why are there strange beasts? Why do strange beasts appear? How can strange beasts be controlled by humans?"
Su Yi An thought about it and lied, "You also know that we humans have raised a lot of strange beasts. These strange beasts may have been deliberately captured and placed on this Lieyang Island. The purpose is to cause casualties. Even if one person is seriously injured or killed, this game will be terminated."
Su Yi An looked at the half-runners. The strange beast on the mountainside continued, "And it was not the Operation Committee that terminated the game, but the Cabinet."
"With so many strange beasts appearing here, the people in the Cabinet cannot handle it. They must prioritize the investigation of the truth, and the progress of the Hundred Schools Tournament is not in their consideration. They will definitely terminate the game."
"So, Zhiyao, you are shouldering a heavy responsibility at this time." Su Yian said, "Before the Operation Committee sends people, let's perfectly solve these monsters."
Beiming Zhiyao smiled slightly, looked at Su Yian and asked the last question: "It is impossible for all the people in the Operation Committee to sit and watch. There must be people with justice who see our current situation..."
"I can't see it, because all the cameras are out of order, because of the lightning just now."
"How do you know?" Beiming Zhiyao asked in a daze.
Su Yian smiled slightly: "Because I know someone will tamper with this game, so I made preparations in advance..."
After that, he took a step forward and punched out.
The blazing flames swept out from the fist, and in the process of blasting out, the fist turned into a palm, and directly sank into the left heart of the four-like beast in front of him.
Swish...
The dark energy was torn apart, and Su Yian's arm pierced through the chest of the beast, and in his palm, he held a semi-finished alien core.
The dark energy of the beast that lost its alien core began to overflow, and then it turned into a pool of black mud.
However, this mud was extremely corrosive, and it directly corroded a hole in the ground and destroyed the structure of the soil.
Bei Ming Zhiyao also took action and directly activated the multi-sensor to cover all the approaching beasts.
This group of alien beasts are just low-level alien beasts, so once the multiple senses are covered, Beiming Zhiyao can feel the place where the dark energy is strongest in the alien beasts, which is where the alien core is.
Taking out a gun-shaped magic auxiliary machine from her waist, she showed excellent marksmanship. Not a single magic bullet missed, and all of them could accurately destroy the alien core.
Su Yian was looking at the alien core at this time. It didn't matter if he didn't look at it. When he saw it, his expression became a little serious.
The heteronuclear core is not prism-shaped, and the color it appears is not purple, but half red but not black, like a human heart.
The size of a palm, half black and half red, the red half still has a little blood flowing, and the black half feels a little hard and is changing in the direction of the lens.
"The human heart is never wrong." Su Yian gently touched the red part and let out a breath of heat.
Ling'er ran out of the spiral nebula with a serious expression: "You can't inhale the dark energy inside the semi-finished alien core into the spiritual world."
After a pause, she continued to explain: "The negative emotions contained in these semi-finished products are not only the alien beasts, but also the negative emotions of the deceased. If you absorb them, it will have a great impact on you. You may run away one day. ”
Su Yian's expression remained unchanged as he looked at the increasingly larger alien beasts in front of him and said calmly: "But there are very few good opportunities to encounter so many alien beasts."
"You!" Ling'er's expression remained unchanged, and just as he was about to yell, he saw a ray of dark energy entering the spiritual world, and in an instant, negative emotions broke out.
Su Yian absorbed this dark energy!
Ling'er accused Su Yian. While quickly mobilizing his strength to suppress it, Su Yian was already scolded in his heart!
This guy must have done it on purpose. He must have known that he would not sit idly by, so he absorbed the dark energy so boldly and recklessly.
Sensing Ling'er's busyness, Su Yian smiled. He knew that Ling'er would not sit idly by and ignore them. Then he looked at the huge number of strange beasts, like a wolf watching a flock of sheep.
"Zhiyao, fight and retreat at the same time. There are too many. You are responsible for this side and I will go there to prevent us from being surrounded."
"Okay." Beiming Zhiyao agreed without much thought.
So Su Yian began to retreat while seizing the semi-finished alien core and absorbing the dark energy.
At the same time, in the eastern corner of Lieyang Island, students at the private Ruihe Magic Academy encountered a crisis.
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(To be continued)