magic high school

Chapter 135 is matching you with an equally matched opponent.

He immediately clasped his hands together. The next instant, the earth trembled and shook violently, and rocks and soil rose from the ground, forming a rib-like structure that protected the stone giant's body. In an instant, this terrifying stone giant was enveloped by roaring water dragons, as well as spears and shields made of water. Upon closer inspection, one could even detect that the water possessed unimaginable high temperatures.

This was the simplest combination technique he could think of. Tsuchi-senpai's Noble Phantasm granted him an inexhaustible supply of magic power and a heavy defense, making him extremely strong in close combat, but he couldn't attack aerial targets and had difficulty dealing with those behind him.

However, the Noble Phantasm of the sea element granted him control over the form of water far beyond his own comprehension. Combined with his ability to dye water into liquid fire at a temperature of over a thousand degrees, this is their exhilarating combination technique!

Come on, he's going to start ranking up!

Then, watching the agile armored man, Yi Lian did not hesitate to control the stone giant and throw the liquid fire spear in her hand.

At the same time, Li Ge, who was ready to have some fun, spotted his opponent in the distance.

He was originally planning to give a good elbow to someone who was about to start playing ranked matches, but he didn't expect that before he could even put in any effort in his first match, the other team surrendered. They had no competitive spirit at all and surrendered as soon as they were behind.

So he immediately started the next round, preparing to use the same quick and decisive tactic as before, and then—

You're telling me that the towering rock giant, as tall as Godzilla, is the equally matched opponent you've been matched with?

He just thought it was absolutely outrageous. Actually, when he saw the rock giant, he suspected that he had been matched with the earth elemental senior he had met a few times, but the earth elemental senior was a third-year student!

Dude, there's something wrong with your matchmaking system!

Then he saw that the terrifying earth giant, still feeling that his firepower was not enough, began to put on a layer of water elemental armor and a long spear, which he held in his hand like a missile.

Dude, what exactly are you? How can you control both water and soil?

Okay, okay, is this how you play it?

Then I won't save any teleportation attempts!

Li Ge genuinely thought he had been matched with a high-level player. Damn the EL0 system, it just matched him with a senior as soon as he saw he was ranking up. Fine, fine, fine.

The earth giant's spear transformed into a hurled meteor, striking Li Ge in an instant.

He didn't care about saving his teleportation attempts. In the next instant, the silk thread shot out at subsonic speed, and before the spear could strike him, he vanished from his spot.

"boom!"

The spear, which was clearly like flowing water, exploded violently the instant it struck the ground.

Yi Lian was also stunned. He clearly saw that he was about to kill his opponent in one move, and then he was preparing to start the next game before the copy time was up, so that he could give another opponent who wanted to rank up a good beating.

To everyone's surprise, the opponent vanished just as the spear was about to hit. The spear only left behind a large-scale explosion caused by the compressed liquid fire.

This is an ability he can only use when he has the Noble Phantasm "Ocean Current". Under normal circumstances, he can only control liquid fire, but he cannot compress liquid fire, let alone mix explosive clay into liquid fire.

"Oh no, it's a teleportation-type opponent!" Yi Lian reacted instantly. Then he immediately looked to his side, and sure enough, the armored man who looked like a humanoid insect appeared next to him, even leaping into the air and delivering a violent and ferocious kick from top to bottom.

Not only is there a flash, but there's also an almost subsonic speed-enhancing kick after the flash!

He estimated that the outer layer of rock and soil wouldn't be able to withstand that kick.

Then let's not bother with defense. He immediately and decisively used the few explosive clays he had manipulated with "Heart of the Earth" to form a shield, creating a shield counterattack like a Claymore mine.

However, in the next instant, the other side accurately seized the gap before the detonating clay had fully formed and blasted it almost grazing the edge of the clay.

Then, Yi Lian also became ruthless. Anyway, it was just a virtual arena, no one would die, at most they would just be exhausted.

He was preparing to self-destruct, directly igniting all the explosive clay with liquid fire!

Just before the explosion, he looked at the enemy and suddenly froze. Because on the armored face was a familiar clown mask, and light shone through the gaps in that mask.

"Li Ge?"

Li Ge activated his Golden Eyes; this was his final Knight's Kick. If this kick failed to disconnect the opponent, he himself would be disconnected. Then, as he activated his Golden Eyes, located a gap in the exploding clay, and prepared to kick the connection away, he suddenly realized that the tag on the stone giant looked strangely familiar.

"Ripples?"

"boom!"

The knight's kick shattered the stone giant's rib-like defenses, but in that instant, a mushroom cloud, resembling a giant Patrick Star, erupted from the stone giant's center.

The world seemed to be instantly and completely covered by light and heat.

"Both sides were almost simultaneously eliminated," resulting in a draw!

Returning from the virtual arena in an instant, Li Ge collapsed to the ground, utterly exhausted.

The next moment, he broke out in a cold sweat.

No, no—did this trigger a Morphling duel? Did I win or lose?

Did I lose?

He immediately broke out in a sweat. Then he realized he was fine and quickly left the virtual arena. Sure enough, he saw Yilian, who also seemed exhausted, turn into a puddle of water and flow out.

Li Ge: "————"

Ripples:

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The two stared at each other, feeling unexpectedly awkward.

In the lounge, Li Ge and Ge You were sprawled on the sofa, while Yi Lian remained in a state of slumped stillness, as if she had lost her dreams.

"By the way, is this considered your tribe's—what kind of duel?" Li Ge asked.

Yi Lian rolled her eyes. Who knows how Li Ge could see an eye roll in a puddle of water?

"A duel requires a ritual to begin; it's not something you can just start with any random battle. Don't worry, you're not going to turn into Little Nanliang," Yilian retorted.

"Ugh."

After they finished speaking, they both sighed.

The two brothers were planning to give their solo PvP friends a good beating once they got their new gear, but they ended up being matched together and both got wiped out.

It's like a professional player being matched against another professional player.

We were all planning to come here for fried fish, but we ended up coming up at the same time.

"Hey, you two are both here?" A familiar voice suddenly came from behind.

The two of them struggled to lift their heads and saw Xiaoye approaching. "What happened? Were you being tortured in the virtual arena?"

Li Ge:

"————"

Yi Lian: "————"

"Are you here for training too?" Li Ge asked, skipping over the sore topic.

"Yeah, my Noble Phantasm seems to have evolved a bit again. I'll give it a try and get familiar with it." Sayo shrugged, preparing to go straight into the arena to give it a shot.

"What evolution?" Both of them were stunned for a moment, very curious.

The next instant, both of them felt a sharp elbow strike. Li Ge gasped in shock, while Yi Lian was jolted to the ground, the water scattering before slowly gathering back together.

"Hiss—when did you do that?" Li Ge immediately clutched his waist.

Damn, this elbow strike is getting harder and harder to defend against!

"As long as we're in the same shadow, I can control the shadows of others. Just now, it was your own shadows that attacked you." Sayo shrugged; this was the new evolution of her Noble Phantasm.

"Wow, what a disgusting ability!" Li Ge immediately realized that in the future, he would not only have to guard against frontal elbow strikes, but his own shadow might also suddenly elbow him. This ability was just too evil!

She's truly an inherently evil woman!

Xiaoye immediately rolled her eyes and ignored this guy who was spouting nonsense. Besides, this guy's nonsense was different from Ryza's; although they both spouted nonsense, they were on different levels.

Lysa has even lower morals, and Li Ge has an even more foul mouth.

She wanted to conserve some spiritual energy to give those who wanted to climb the ranks a good beating in the arena, instead of wasting it on them.

For these newly-ranked second-level mages, every bit of spiritual power is incredibly precious and must be used sparingly.

As for why Yilian was so arrogant just now, well, there's no way around it; the Earth Element Senior's Noble Phantasm with its infinite mana bar is just too authoritative.

Yilian even felt that Earth Element Senior's Noble Phantasm was going to become a fixed position in her God Hands, and she would go to Earth Element Senior to borrow it every time she used it.

Soon, the two people who were slumped in the lounge saw Xiaoye silently walk out and then also collapse onto the sofa.

"What happened? Were you tortured?" Li Ge asked.

"I got matched with someone playing Holy Light—" Xiaoye complained.

"Isn't that normal? There are quite a few people on the religious side of our school, and Valerie already knows basic Holy Light," Li Ge said casually.

"She casually conjured up a small sun, and that thing actually worked like a shadowless lamp, splitting into seven light sources in the sky. I couldn't even find a shadow within the sun's range—" Xiaoye continued to complain. The woman she was matched with, who seemed to be an elf, was originally planning to torture others, but ended up being tortured herself.

Li Ge and Yi Lian: "————"

We've been matched against a natural counter, oh well.

Xiaoye's strength lies in her ability to perfectly utilize shadows, while her weakness is that her power is greatly reduced when there are no shadows.

Therefore, whether in a dark area with no light source or in an area full of light, her abilities are almost unusable, since the condition for the creation of a shadow is the presence of light.

However, under multiple light sources, the range of shadows she can control is greatly reduced, so it's better to just go up and stab them.

However, it seems that after losing his shadow, he hasn't taken any more.

"Who is it? I'll go find some information. There shouldn't be many girls who use Holy Light to this extent," Yi Lian complained, starting to fiddle with her phone.

Then, to his astonishment, he found a name and said with slight surprise, "That's not surprising, that's not surprising—"

"What's wrong?" Li Ge asked curiously.

"Xiaoye was matched with the top student in the traditional department, that fairy named Sylph, who has the second-highest average score in the entire grade, second only to you," Yilian immediately complained.

He even felt that, in terms of pure strength, that fairy was probably stronger than all of them. After all, Li Ge's average score of first place was mostly due to his brains, while that fairy, Yi Lian had studied her style, and she mostly preferred to confront people head-on, with whoever won being the boss.

"This person's average score is second, and in terms of strength, it may even surpass Li Ge's," Yi Lian continued to complain.

Xiaoye: "————"

Just as the group was complaining, Yi Lian suddenly received a message from the dark web. It was information he had asked a friend to find out about the senior who had been sacrificed, as mentioned by the old dwarf.

"I don't know much else, but I've heard that the boss and his team's business trip might be related to this," his friend on the dark web said.