Wizards begin with Occlumency.

Chapter 237 Unrivaled

The division of power and regions in the Wizarding World follows a very regular pattern.

The five saints each ruled over the Central Plains, the East Coast, the West Coast, the North, and the South.

The ninth level of great sages, taking the highly qualified Tudor great sages as an example.

He seized a large area on the west coast and renamed it the Tudor region.

Next are the early-advanced level eight sages who are willing to obey the wartime command of the Tudor sages and pay a certain amount of taxes, and can be assigned to a district in the Tudor region.

For example, the Michel district of the Michel Eight Great Sage.

Next is the section established by the seventh-level sage.

The Rivosos Zone is an exception.

Back then, the sixth-level sage Rivo and the sixth-level sage Soth joined forces through secret techniques and were able to contend with a seventh-level grand sage, shocking the world.

The Revosos Biological and Medical Academy and the Revosos Zone were established without much difficulty.

After that, the exceptionally talented Sage Rivo rose through the ranks, from a Level 6 Sage to a Level 7 Great Sage and then a Level 8 Great Sage.

Not only are they truly deserving of their place in the exclusive zone, but their strength also far exceeds expectations, making them the top force in the Michelle district.

Because Sage Soth also followed suit and was promoted to the rank of seventh-level Great Sage.

If it weren't for the difficulty in collecting the resources needed to advance to the eighth-level Great Sage, Great Sage Soth would have been able to advance to the eighth-level Great Sage soon.

Even so, with an eighth-level Great Sage, a seventh-level Great Sage, multiple sixth-level Sages, and numerous fourth and fifth-level Sages, the strength of Rivosos Academy has already posed a threat to the status of the Great Sage Tower of Michelle.

Now, after years of silence, the Great Sage Rivo has surprisingly taken "high-profile" action, scavenging everywhere in an attempt to gather the resources needed for the Great Sage Soth's advancement.

The Great Sage's Tower of Michel cannot stand idly by, and the other top powers in the Michel District cannot stand idly by.

Allow the Rivosos Institute of Biology and Medicine to become a force on par with the Tower of the Great Sage Michel.

It even exceeded that.

This is not in anyone's interest.

This competition, in which four top powers—Shadow City, Flame and Metal Merchants, White Tower Alliance, and Mesopotamian University—joined forces to target Rivosos Academy, is just the beginning.

Sandra could already foresee the academy's difficult situation for a long time to come.

Looking around, he saw enemies everywhere.

Until the Great Sage Soth either succeeds or fails in his ascension.

"Hopefully, my great-grandfather and the others were prepared!"

Aside from hoping and yearning in her heart, Sandra found herself unable to do anything meaningful to help her family and the academy.

At this moment, Sandra finally understood why her mother had always called her naive and childish.

My eyelids are still too shallow.

Their experience is too limited.

Meanwhile, Sandra, who had initially paid little attention to the competition, also became nervous.

There were only 20 participating teams in total, and the other 16 teams actually agreed to gang up on the 4 teams from Rivoss Academy.

Furthermore, there are even traitors within these four teams who are colluding with outsiders.

The situation is extremely unfavorable!

It was as if they had a "Danger!" sign hanging on the foreheads of all 15 members of the three teams from Rivos College.

"Link Grand, I hope you can live up to the expectations your great-grandfather and great-grandmother had for you."

After much thought, even after adopting the perspective of the team captain and simulating the situation, Sandra couldn't come up with a solution for the time being.

In the end, she could only place her hopes on Link, who had first deliberately ignored her olive branch and then just now refused to give her any face.

On the competition field.

The sudden teleportation didn't throw "Freedom to Do Anything" off balance.

In the previous week's training, Link focused on strengthening his simulation training to deal with various emergencies.

After arriving in this unfamiliar world, the first thing the "free to do anything" group did was to cover for each other.

The reason they cover for each other instead of protecting themselves is because everyone has blind spots in their field of vision and perception.

If you only think about yourself, you'll easily be caught out and defeated.

By providing mutual cover, a more comprehensive defense system can be established to prevent surprise attacks.

"Spread out in search formation, reconnaissance teams move forward to scout."

Link doesn't have "Mind Link," so he can only use "Telepathy" to issue commands.

Even though "telepathy" is not as discreet as "telepathic communication," it is still better than communicating by voice.

There has never been a shortage of witchcraft and magical artifacts for listening to sounds.

With the promise of "freedom to do anything," everyone immediately sprang into action.

Buck led the way, scouting ahead.

Ezio and Lynn were a step behind Buck, flanking the reconnaissance team on the left and right.

Dalton and Deeja, who were in charge of reconnaissance, quickly launched their fist-sized, disc-shaped reconnaissance artifacts, entrusting their own safety to Ezio and Lynn, and focused on controlling the flying saucer to monitor the surrounding situation in real time.

The two boys in the socially awkward group, Mead Brent and Terry Bloom, formed the third group, standing on the left and right respectively, protecting Molly and Betty.

Betty is primarily responsible for medical matters and is a member of the mobile unit.

Jasmine wore a spatial storage artifact necklace, mainly responsible for logistics, and served as a member of the mobile team, as well as the vice-captain.

If Link, the captain, has to leave or an emergency occurs, Molly must take over command immediately.

Link personally brought up the rear.

There are three main ways to launch a surprise attack: frontal assault, flanking maneuver, and rear ambush.

Generally speaking, head-on collisions are less common.

This will give the attacked team time to respond in a timely manner.

Side penetration occurs more frequently and has a higher success rate.

However, the attackers themselves will also suffer heavy casualties if the attacked team is determined, tenacious, and strong.

Rear-attacks are infrequent, but when they do occur, the results are often substantial.

In this situation, the attacked team is either surrounded by traps or a strong encirclement in front of and to the sides.

Simply put, the attacked team was surrounded and wiped out.

In dire straits, an attacked team without reinforcements has only one option: to break through!

Breaking through from the rear is actually the easiest way to succeed.

As long as the person providing rear cover is strong enough to form an arrowhead, they can pierce through the formation of the attacking team that has not yet established a firm foothold.

Link wouldn't dare claim he could take on a thousand men single-handedly, but he was more than capable of unleashing a rapid barrage of firepower in a short period and suppressing the attacking force.

Upon entering the competition venue, a special stopwatch-like device automatically appeared in Link's hand, sending his "freedom to do whatever you want" location to the other nineteen teams.

The phrase "freedom to do anything" necessitates an immediate relocation to find a favorable location and observe the situation.

Link doesn't need to give much command; he's "free to do whatever he wants," with clear division of labor and tactics, so they can get moving immediately.

Link kept an eye on his stopwatch as he walked.

With a gentle press of the raised button on the side, a map projecting the initial positions of the other nineteen teams appeared in the air.

After a quick glance, he noted down the initial positions of the other teams, determined the location of his own team, and checked the information of the nearest team.

As luck would have it, the team's logo was that of the Flame and Metal Trading Company.

After careful consideration, Link decided to unleash his full power from the very beginning, sweeping away all opposition.

With competition from numerous teams on the outside and betrayal from the Rukia family on the inside, the situation is complex, so we should act decisively and decisively.

Otherwise, the longer it drags on, the less favorable it will be for winning a ranking.

"Change course, 10 o'clock. Reconnaissance team, be alert for aerial reconnaissance devices. Jasmine, activate the jammer. Everyone, be ready for combat at any time."

Link issued several instructions in succession.

"Freedom to do whatever you want" was implemented immediately and systematically.

The UFO reconnaissance device split into two: one overlooking the ground, and the other searching the high sky.

Buck, Ezio, and Lynn, as the first and second tiers, would be the first to engage in combat in the event of an encounter, and each of them would raise their vigilance to the highest level.

The hulking Mead and the brooding Terry were constantly on guard against attacks from both sides.

Betty is fine for now, so we're ready to provide support at any time.

Jasmine took out the level 2 sorcerer artifact that Link had bought at a high price to shield him from detection.

It's disposable, discarded after use, and only lasts for 30 minutes.

This isn't consuming magic stones, it's burning them!

"Go, Flandre."

Since we're prepared to go all out, then we'll leave no room for retreat.

Flandre, who can transform into a wind sprite, is undoubtedly a more capable helper than a spy artifact.

"Yes, sir."

No one else could see Flandre's figure or hear her voice.

I felt a gentle breeze blowing by, bringing a touch of coolness.

It sounded as if I heard a series of clear and cheerful laughs, like silver bells.

the other side.

The team from the Blazing and Metal Merchant Guild naturally noticed that a team from the Rivosos Academy was very close to them.

Then what's there to hesitate about?

Just charge straight in.

The team leader had already given a strict order: once inside the competition venue, ignore other teams in the early stages and focus solely on attacking Rivoss Academy.

With such a great opportunity at hand, we should naturally seize it.

When two teams move towards each other, the time it takes for an encounter to break out will be greatly shortened.

Both sides are well aware of this.

Therefore, the most important thing is reconnaissance and vigilance.

Both sides are focusing the majority of their energy and resources on these two areas.

"Master, master, they're almost here."

Flandre's voice echoed in Link's mind, and his vision was immediately shared with Link.

This is Heaven's will to destroy you!

Upon seeing this, Link had this thought in his mind.

"Freedom to do anything" is in a high position, while the Flame and Metal Merchants team is in a low position.

Attacking from above has always been a difficult task.

With the situation unclear, the Flame and Metal Merchants team dared not take to the air rashly.

With interstellar warships unusable, using ordinary spacecraft would inevitably make them easy targets.

The only option is to try to avoid the detection of the scouting artifacts and proceed covertly via side paths.

In fact, the Flame and Metal Company team did evade the detection of the "Do Anything Freely" UFO and successfully traveled quite a distance stealthily.

However, they are now facing a difficult dilemma.

Ahead lies a gourd valley. If we go in and are discovered, we will immediately be in dire straits.

Taking a detour or ascending into the air would make their tracks more easily exposed, rendering all the previous efforts futile.

The reason why the Flame and Metal Merchant Guild team is so conflicted is that they don't want to be discovered in advance.

However, Link had already discovered their whereabouts.

Once their whereabouts are discovered, they can be dealt with.

If it weren't for the fact that the rules of the game clearly indicated to Link the moment he entered the arena that he couldn't use offensive magical artifacts like the Star Destroyer that exceeded the level of a formal wizard, Link would have been unable to use them.

Link had already pulled out his Star Destroyer and fired a shot at that location.

It can melt the entire Flame and Metal Merchant Guild team in one go.

There's no need to consider how to take advantage of discovering the opponent's strengths in advance to plan an attack.

Link communicated his discovery to his team via telepathy and calmly ordered, "All troops, assault! Leave no survivors!"

Whether it's Jasmine, the Brothers Group, or the Social Anxiety Group, they all have absolute faith in their leader's abilities.

Although I don't know how the expert discovered the enemy that even the reconnaissance artifact couldn't detect, I'll just do it the same way.

The boss said to leave no survivors, so let's kill them all.

Each person prepared themselves, and the "freedom to do whatever they want" shifted from a search formation to an assault formation.

Based on his instructor's cautious approach to the first battle and the principle of winning the first battle, Link decided to take the lead in this battle and set an example for the battles to come.

With a thought, the armor version switches, activating combat mode.

The armor he donned again was primarily made of gold, fire, and light, and possessed extremely high offensive power.

Moreover, after Link's innate sorcery "Armor" was integrated with the three sorcery models given by the Dean, he no longer needed to rely on sorcery artifacts to achieve supersonic flight!

This speed is far superior to that of an ordinary first-level wizard.

However, considering the team members' need to keep up, Link deliberately slowed down his speed a bit.

It was still fast, but the players weren't falling too far behind, so that their attacks wouldn't break down.

"Freedom to do anything" means that everyone in the second echelon is just to follow Link and charge forward, providing additional support.

A whooshing sound suddenly rang out.

The convoy of the Flame and Metal Merchant Guild, more than 20 miles away, could hear it.

"Enemy attack! Defend!"

Although they didn't understand what was making that sound, the captain instinctively knew it was an attack!

Moreover, this kind of momentum is very likely an extremely powerful attack.

In any case, it's always good to take preventative measures first.

A team of ten people, in an emergency, all division of labor and such are put aside, and they focus on defense.

Use all defensive magical artifacts, whether they are level 1 or level 2.

Use all defensive spells, whether for single-target or group defense.

Multicolored defensive shields lit up one after another, covering everyone in the Flame and Metal Merchant Guild team.

The captain activated a level 3 defensive artifact that he had bought with most of his savings, and he also directed his two strongest offensive team members to prepare for a defensive counterattack.

In the blink of an eye, a whooshing sound approached, and Link flew diagonally above the Flame and Metal Company's ranks.

The aircraft transitions from a diving flight posture to a forward, upright position.

The ring on the chest of the armor began to accumulate energy.

Inspired by the Iron Man's attack methods, Link developed this deadly move based on the first-level light and fire magic spell "Dissolve Ray".

The essence of witchcraft remains "ablation rays".

The caster condenses, restrains, and compresses light and fire magic to form a ray with extremely high temperature, strong penetration, and great radiation. With its super impact and annihilation power, it melts away anything that blocks the path of the ray.

Of course, this "everything" must be in quotation marks.

Link's version of "ablation ray" seems to have a tendency to remove the quotation marks.

He didn't make many changes, he simply... simply switched the energy of the "Dissolving Ray" from his own light and fire magic to the "sun".

The "Sun" is a product of the two favors of the Wizarding World's will.

No sooner said than done.

In less than 0.2 seconds, the energy storage ring on his chest was completed.

A colorless beam of light, as thick as an infant's arm, emanated from the chest ring that had finished accumulating energy.

Link didn't stop moving; the instant the beam of light was emitted, he changed from standing upright to diving downwards.

Make a fist with your right hand.

With most of his spiritual power and magical power amplified, as well as the surging source power of the "small world," he punched down, following closely behind the +++ modified version of the "dissolving ray."

Supersonic speed is definitely slower than the speed of light.

The colorless beam of light struck the multicolored defensive shield as soon as it was shot out.

The protective shields of the first and second ring defensive artifacts, which were the first to be hit, instantly dissipated without even a ripple.

The level 1 defensive spells cast by the members of the Flame and Metal Merchant Guild dissipated instantly upon contact.

Amidst boundless terror, the captain's level 3 defensive artifact barely managed to withstand the colorless beam of light.

The cost was that the shield of the level 3 defensive artifact was also worn down by more than half.

What the hell is this?!

What kind of magic can a wizard of this level perform?

Its power is comparable to a quarter of the power of a Star Destroyer, right?

That's fucking outrageous!

Even a level two wizard can't do that!

The entire team from the Blazing and Metal Merchant Guild was utterly shocked.

outside world.

Inside the opera house-style building, the five team leaders and their five followers watching the battle all exclaimed in surprise.

The likes of "Damn it" are constantly heard.

Sandra blushed with excitement as she watched!

Lani stared blankly into space, feeling as if she had permanently lost something.

At that moment, Link unleashed a punch even more terrifying than the colorless beam of light, slamming it down onto the damaged protective shield.

The endless raging waves surge across the vast ocean, and a single punch from the heavens can suppress the crest of the tide!

This punch is meant for you...

Ashes!

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Also, starting from this chapter, I'll be writing about fight scenes, which I'm not good at, but I have to grit my teeth and keep going.

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I hope I can write better, sigh...

(End of this chapter)