Magic: Reincarnate from high-voltage electricity at the start, level up independently.

"Wanwan, did you hear anything just now?"

Tang Xiaoran clutched the hem of her clothes, her face pale, and stared warily at the dim forest.

What was that sound?

Xu Wan was dealing with the monster's corpse with her head down, without even looking up.

"The sound of an explosion, a really loud one."

"I didn't hear you. You were probably too nervous and misheard."

Her mind was completely focused on the crystal core; she had no time to worry about anything else.

puff-

Xu Wan took out a short blade she had prepared in advance and, with the help of a weak water magic spell, slashed open the abdomen of the giant, blood-red rabbit in front of her.

Although it was his first time dissecting a monster's corpse, his movements were surprisingly swift, and he quickly extracted a monster crystal core that shimmered with a faint white light.

"call."

Xu Wan stood up, took a breath, held the crystal core up to Tang Xiaoran's eyes and waved it, a smug smile on her lips.

"Practice makes perfect. I told you, these low-level monsters aren't anything to be afraid of."

Not long ago, the two encountered this giant rabbit with bloody eyes.

Although it is a demon beast, it is herbivorous, gentle in nature, and never attacks people unprovoked. Its combat power is among the lowest of all demon beasts, making it a sure-fire easy target.

Xu Wan immediately decided to take it.

She instructed Tang Xiaoran to activate wood-based magic, using vines to entangle and trap the giant, blood-eyed rabbit, while she herself condensed a water ball spell to continuously attack its head and mouth.

In the end... this giant, blood-stained rabbit did indeed die.

He choked to death.

My belly has swelled up quite a bit.

Upon seeing the crystal core, Tang Xiaoran simply replied softly, "Yes, that's great." Compared to the crystal core, the gradually darkening sky made her more anxious.

"Wanwan".

She reached out and tugged at Xu Wan's sleeve, her eyes fixed on the swaying grass around her, as if something was hiding inside, ready to pounce at any moment.

"Let's go back. It's getting late, and it will be dangerous to stay in the mountains."

"Why go back?"

Xu Wan glanced at Tang Xiaoran and said with exasperation, "Ranran, it's not that I'm criticizing you, but you need to have ambition."

She pointed to herself, a confident smile curving her lips: "From childhood to adulthood, my cousin has always been the class monitor, and her studies are always top-notch. She receives bonuses every year and is never willing to lag behind anyone."

"We live in the age of magic. It looks glamorous on the surface, but everyone is insecure. If you don't work hard, you will be left behind by the times."

Xu Wan held the crystal core between her fingertips, examined it closely, then popped it into her mouth, closed her eyes, and felt the pure magic power flowing into her spiritual world.

After a long pause, she slowly spoke: "Ranran, trust your cousin this once. The more you improve tonight, the better you'll be at the magic exam tomorrow, and the closer we'll get to the crystal core reward for being in the top ten of the monthly exam."

"In the future, there will be more rewards for monthly exams, middle school exams, and college entrance exams. One step ahead leads to continuous progress, and one step behind leads to continuous setbacks."

"But……"

Tang Xiaoran understood this principle, but she could not suppress the fear in her heart.

"There's no 'but' about it."

Xu Wan's tone hardened, "You even have the audacity to secretly film Chu Ge like a pervert, yet you don't dare stay here?"

"Besides," she spread her hands, "I already ate that crystal core. If you go back now, all your work today will have been for nothing. You have to make another one."

"and……"

Xu Wan stared into Tang Xiaoran's eyes and seduced her, "The Chu Ge classmate you like is very outstanding. If you don't improve your own abilities quickly, how will you be qualified to stand by her side, how will you protect her, and how will you get into the same university as her?"

"Ranran, you wouldn't want to see Chu Ge pinned down by some blond guy other than you, would you?"

Tang Xiaoran: "..."

"...Okay, you have a point."

"That's more like it."

Xu Wan chuckled. Controlling a sycophant is easy enough, isn't it? Just mention the person she's fawning over.

"Let's go."

As darkness fell, Xu Wan took a flashlight out of her bag, pulled Tang Xiaoran along, and headed deeper into the forest.

Tonight, Empress Xu Wan is determined to break through to the intermediate-level mage.

On the other side, deep in the dense forest.

A fireball the size of a washbasin hovered in mid-air, burning fiercely and illuminating an area of ​​several meters in radius as bright as day.

"I hate being ambushed; it brings back unpleasant memories."

Chu Ge looked at the beast before him, its fangs gleaming with a dark blue-green light, its fur as hard as iron armor, its scarlet eyes radiating ferocity, its gaze icy, and lightning surging in its hand.

A brutal wild boar, a mid-level monster.

Just now, as Chu Ge closed her eyes to absorb the five newly acquired crystal cores, this guy suddenly jumped out from behind her, ready to knock her away.

Can this be tolerated?

Chu Ge looked at it:

"How do you want to die?"

The tyrannical boar stared at Chu Ge, its pig brain full of question marks: What are you babbling about? Take this! Old boar charge!

The next moment, its aura suddenly became violent, and it charged towards Chu Ge. Its elephant-like body caused the ground to tremble with every step, creating an extremely oppressive atmosphere.

"Heavenly Emperor Fist!"

Chu Ge enchanted his hands with lightning and hurled them at the oncoming savage boar.

"boom--!"

The tyrannical boar has very high defense; official records show it can withstand shotgun fire at close range without taking any damage, making it one of the best monsters. It would take at least four mages of the same rank to defeat it.

Unfortunately, it encountered a formidable opponent today.

Her left punch deals high damage, her right punch deals high damage, and it also has a paralyzing effect.

With three punches, the tyrannical boar's head exploded, and it fell straight to the ground, revealing a green crystal core.

"That's all..."

Chu Ge picked up the crystal core, glanced at it, and then put it in his mouth.

A massive surge of magical power rushed in, instantly condensing into two magic cores.

The twentieth one has also begun to take shape.

"Um?"

Chu Ge's eyes flickered slightly as he looked deeper into the distance, where several auras no weaker than those of a ferocious wild boar were approaching.

Just in time.

……

The next morning, as the sun rose, glistening dewdrops clung to the flowers and grass.

A slightly disheveled figure slowly walked out of Wutong Mountain.

"How come there's something like this...?"

Chu Ge raised his hand and removed the bird's nest from his head, looking helpless.

His face, body, and trouser legs were covered in mud and grass clippings, making him look as disheveled as if he had just returned from working in the fields in the countryside.

She was engrossed in playing games late last night when a sudden downpour made the mountain path slippery. She accidentally tumbled into a ravine and, true to her old habit of being directionally challenged, it took her until dawn to find her way out of the mountains.

This experience intensified Chu Ge's desire for power.

If one could fly, this predicament would never have happened.

But then I thought, if it weren't for this heavy rain, she might have really set the whole mountain on fire last night in her drunken frenzy, and then she would have had to go to the police station to reflect on her actions.

I took a taxi and headed straight to the school.

On the bus, Chu Ge closed his eyes and concentrated, immersing himself in his mental world.

A night of hard work finally paid off.

After slaying nearly a hundred low-level demonic beasts and four mid-level demonic beasts, and with a massive influx of magical power into her body, she finally condensed her twenty-first magic core.

As Chu Ge continued, he found it increasingly difficult because the amount of magic power required was truly overwhelming.

"It seems I'll have to come back again in a while."

Chu Ge looked out the window at the rapidly receding Wutong Mountain, secretly making plans in his mind.

She's probably killed most of the monsters in this mountain.

She sighed, "Draining the pond to catch all the fish is foolish. We should have left a few for them to mate and reproduce."

Not long after Chu Ge left, two more figures emerged from the mountain.

"Finally out."

There was a stream by the roadside. Xu Wan walked over, and her haggard and disheveled face was reflected in the water.

A fifteen-year-old girl's face, clear and bright.

There were some scratches on her forehead, which were still bleeding. Her delicate eyes were bloodshot, and there were some mud spots on her cheeks.

But then she suddenly laughed.

That smile was like sunlight reflecting off snow, like the first rays of sunshine after a storm, radiant and without a trace of gloom, so bright that it made one forget the scar on her forehead.

After a night of hunting, Xu Wan had a very fruitful harvest, with two crystal cores divided equally.

Not long ago, after absorbing one, I condensed the tenth magic core.

She tried to advance her magic crystal, and to her surprise, she succeeded on her first try. Now she is a genuine mid-level mage.

"Let's go, let's go take the exam."

After quickly washing her face, Xu Wan pulled Tang Xiaoran into the ride-hailing car that had just arrived, her eyes filled with confidence and arrogance.

"Today, it's time to show the other classes what the Empress Xu Wan from Class 3 is all about!"