Just became an evil god and was summoned by the saint.

Chapter 305 Initially, no one cared about the absence of several teams.

What was anticipated to happen, but which Celia thought was unlikely, ultimately did happen.

She looked at Anke, and the two stared at each other.

After waiting a few minutes without the absent team appearing, the referee declared the Saintess Team the winner, securing a 2-0 victory.

Backstage, Celia immediately found Nicodimers and reported the unusual situation to him, asking him to decide whether or not to report it to the league committee.

Upon hearing Celia's report, Nicodimus pondered for a moment: "Someone will definitely go to investigate the situation if he is absent, but according to what you said, there is a chance that the person who goes to investigate will also fall asleep. Only mages of the fourth rank or above can resist this. I'll go and talk to the committee."

Nicodimers then left.

A short while later, he returned and told Celia, "Besides your opponents, two other teams are also absent, but when I arrived, their representatives were arguing with the committee, saying they had misread the time and overslept."

Celia asked, "So, do I need to retake the exam... no, reschedule for another session?"

Nicodimers shook his head: "The league committee didn't allow any replacements, they just told them to pay attention to the timing next time. As for what I said, they didn't take it seriously and thought it was just a coincidence."

“Alright…” Celia said, “Professor Nicodimers, I don’t know if you believe me or not, but I hope you will pay attention tomorrow.”

Celia thought for a moment, then took out a small bottle of Dream Essence and a small bottle of antidote. "'Oversleep' should originate from this purple Dream Essence. The blue one is a potion that helps with magic flow and is also an antidote for Dream Essence. It comes from Anko. If you want to equip other teams, you can go to Anko."

Nicodimus nodded, took the two bottles of potion, and first opened the purple one and smelled it. As a fifth-tier mage, he was very sensitive to changes in magic power and quickly determined the effect of this thing on magic power.

“It seems you might be telling the truth, but by the way, where did you get this?” Nicodimus asked.

Celia said, "I went out for a stroll a couple of days ago and stumbled upon a small heretic stronghold. I almost fell for this trick, but I got this after destroying the stronghold."

Nicodimus nodded and smiled, "As expected of you."

Celia: "..."

She wanted to refute it, but didn't know how, so she simply shut up and acquiesced.

Nicodimus left with the medicine, and Celia didn't know what happened afterward. However, Nicodimus seemed to be in a bad mood, perhaps because his communication with the league committee hadn't gone smoothly.

The committee may have thought it was just a normal accident and that Nicodimers was being overly pessimistic.

In response, Nicodimus sought the antidote from Anko and distributed it to all the participants of the Holy Magic Academy.

The antidote was very cheap; dozens of bottles only cost one or two gold coins, and Nicodimus paid for it generously.

As Nicotimers and Anko exchanged money for goods, Celia looked at the others after Nicotimers left and couldn't help but ask, "What do you think will happen tomorrow if all the other teams are absent, but only our school's students are present?"

Doris snorted and said, "That goes without saying, the league committee directly suspects that our school was behind it."

Benovia said thoughtfully, "You know what, it's actually possible."

Anke said, "We know that Professor Nicodimers took the Dream Essence to get the league committee's attention, and afterwards all the other teams were 'late,' only we arrived early..."

The girls exchanged glances, realizing that under these circumstances, it couldn't be called mere suspicion; given the League Committee's casual attitude today, they were practically pinning the blame on the Holy Magic Academy.

Just as Celia was pondering how to handle such a situation, Ross's voice rang in her ears: "How about this, get up early tomorrow and go check on the other contestants' accommodations. If you confirm that everyone is showing signs of 'oversleeping,' then wake up all the participating teams from the Ishtar Empire, and ignore everything else." Celia was puzzled, not understanding what Ross meant.

Ross smiled slightly: "Nothing else, just changing the blame for the Holy Magic Academy to the blame for the Ishtar Empire."

"what?"

"Think about it, if only your school is fine, the league committee will definitely suspect you. But what if it's the entire empire? Don't you want to see what the league committee will do? Will they directly say that the Ishtar Empire is behind this, or will they continue with the same excuse as today?"

Celia's eyes lit up: "Wouldn't that be a bad idea?"

Ross didn't say anything because he knew that Celia was just saying it and would definitely go to check on things tomorrow morning.

……

The next day comes quickly.

Celia got up an hour early and was about to go out to check when Ross's voice came: "No need to go. The other side has increased the dosage and secretly used Dream Essence in the resting places of fourth-tier mages. You will be affected if you get close. There's no need to go. Go directly to the other contestants from the Ishtar Empire and destroy the hidden Dream Essence."

Celia said, "But I don't know where those Dream Essences are..."

Ross said, "I can see that most of them are at the entrance, which means that someone deliberately walked around the hotel last night and dripped Dream Essence at the entrance."

"How should we destroy it? Should we collect it?"

"No need, I'll teach you a simple dream spell to break it."

"Ok."

Soon, Celia learned this simple dream spell. After disguising herself, she ran around the doors of all the contestants from the Ishtar Empire. At the same time, Rose used her puppet to walk around the rooms where the mentors or leaders of other teams lived, using dream spells to remove the effects of the Dream Essence.

All of this was done quietly under Ross's surveillance.

The Dream Essence can only affect the fourth tier at most, and cannot affect the fifth tier. However, not every team has a fifth-tier mage; only major magic schools have fifth-tier mages accompanying them.

Many of the selected teams and individuals came alone, without even a person in charge. They relied entirely on the Empire to send someone to handle matters outside the competition venue.

These people in charge are mostly third-tier or even second-tier mages. They're good at handling odd jobs, but forget about fighting.

They slept more peacefully than the athletes.

Soon, as the competition time approached, all the athletes began to get up and prepare.

The area around the Ishtar Empire was bustling with activity, just like yesterday and the day before.

Because the other empires lived in different areas, they did not notice anything unusual about the contestants from other empires.

Just like yesterday, everyone chatted with their friends as they headed to the stadium.

It wasn't until the competition began and the players entered the arena, facing numerous absent opponents, that they realized something was wrong.

　Thanks to Gu Chengqing for feeding Celia~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)