My wife, who's in a vegetative state, please stop eavesdropping on my thoughts.

The forced pop-up messages in this chat group can even wake up someone who is sleeping.

There is absolutely no possibility of reading without replying.

However, the astrology team did not respond for a long time.

A sense of foreboding suddenly rose in the Snow Knight's heart.

Wait, could it be that their signal has been blocked...?

For some reason, he always felt that someone was watching him in the dark.

After a moment of contemplation, he nervously sent a message to Bingfei.

[Snow Rider: Hey, hey, hey, can you still receive messages?]

[Ice Princess: What's wrong?]

Snow Knight breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing Ice Queen's reply.

[Snow Knight: Why isn't Miss Xing replying to my messages? I thought my messages were being blocked...]

[Ice Princess: She seems to be drunk. I don't know why she drank so much. Even if she wakes up, she probably won't be able to use her abilities for a while.]

[Snow Knight: This thing that lets us down at the crucial moment...]

Everyone at Night Patrol Headquarters knows that Miss Hoshi can't drink alcohol.

After drinking last time, this guy even dared to act wildly on Xuehou's desk. Since then, the Night Patrol has explicitly prohibited astrology from handling any alcohol. I wonder who secretly brought her alcohol this time.

Even if the astrology regains its clarity, the information obtained from divination will likely be completely garbled within a week.

It's definitely not going to be of any use.

[Snow Knight: I have a bad feeling. I feel like someone is watching me from the shadows. I don't know if it's just my imagination or what, but this is such an important event. If the enemy appears, we're doomed. I'll just treat it as a feeling and send reinforcements to my location as soon as possible.]

[Ice Queen: Okay, just in case, I'll send some experts over to reinforce right now]

Sitting in the office at the Night Patrol headquarters.

After closing the private chat window with Snow Knight, Ice Queen opened the chat pop-up window from the anonymous user.

[Ice Princess: Where are you now?]

[Anonymous User: I'm right here at the training camp, what's up?]

[Ice Queen: The Snow Knight said he has a bad feeling, like someone is watching him. Could you help scout out the surrounding area?]

Anonymous user: No need, I'll just stop staring at him.

[Ice Queen: ......]

[Wei Xiao: Hahahahahahahaha!!]

Actually, Weiss was just a little curious as to why the Snow Knight was posing so melancholy by the lake for so long, so he took a few more glances.

I never expected that this guy was secretly tattling to Bingfei.

Although the misunderstanding turned out to be somewhat comical.

But the Snow Rider's vigilance is indeed commendable.

However, Weiss was indeed using the Sky Wind Field to constantly observe the surrounding area and had not yet discovered anything unusual. He couldn't imagine who would dare to attack the elite students of the entire academy faction.

This kind of thing will not only anger the Night Patrol Headquarters.

Even all the noble factions within the royal city couldn't tolerate it.

...

As the tense atmosphere at the training camp gradually turned a pale white, less than an hour remained before the first Group A match officially began.

After breakfast, Emily, Moro, and the other members of Group A left Icefall's camp.

According to the training camp rules, in order to prevent chaos and potential cheating with extravagant spells, members of other groups are not allowed to leave the camp area during the battle, except for the participants of their own group.

They could only watch the real-time battle situation through a luxurious projection screen maintained by their mentors within the camp.

However, this is still quite reasonable.

After all, there were indeed scandals of extravagant sorcerers remotely assisting with cheating, but those happened in smaller academies. Such things would certainly not happen in the two giant academies of Icefall and White Frost.

Vera ate the snacks she had imagined while watching the huge, extravagant projection screen in front of her.

Their Group D match was scheduled for the last round, so using up a little supernatural power to conjure up some snacks now wouldn't affect their performance later on.

Meanwhile, Weiss, leaning against a large tree in the lake area, was also observing the condition of the students from both schools.

It can be confirmed that all of them are level 8, and there are no level 7 disguises mixed in.

However, to his surprise,

Emily was actually rubbing her hands together and doing stretching and warm-up exercises, which clearly indicated that she possessed a melee-type sequence ability.

He had originally thought this child would be a frivolous sorcerer, which was completely different from her usual behavior at home.

Soon, the academy instructors in charge of supervising the battle began to loudly proclaim the battle rules.

The White Frost Academy's camp was located at the end of the forest across the lake, a straight-line distance of nearly twenty kilometers.

After the battle began, both sides took turns sending one student from Group A into the forest battlefield every three minutes.

After that, whether they lose the ability to move or leave the forest area, they will be considered eliminated.

Then, the most important thing to note—

It is strictly forbidden to finish off trainees who have lost the ability to move, nor is it allowed to attack night patrol members who are on their way to the post-battle scene for rescue. Both of these behaviors will result in immediate elimination.

As for killing others, the punishment is immediate expulsion from school.

After announcing the rules once.

It was almost 9:00 AM.

Bingxia didn't hesitate to send Emily out first.

Emily flexed her wrists expressionlessly, then stepped into the forest alone.

The lavish camerawork follows the viewpoint throughout.

Both academies could only see the projected view of their own team's contestants and could not directly access the real-time footage of the opposing team. Therefore, at this moment, the projected view only showed Emily's movement trajectory.

"Speaking of which, this must be Elune's cousin, right?"

"We haven't even seen it inside the mansion yet..."

Mona sat down next to Vera as she spoke.

He casually took some of the snacks she had placed on the table.

After hearing what she said, Vera thought about it and realized it was true.

She visited the Lunette family mansion several times but never saw Emily.

Furthermore, even though her seat was not far from Emily's, she seemed to have never spoken to Emily and did not know about Emily's sequence abilities.

"By the way, you're in charge of security, right? Why are you sitting down in the student area?"

Vera turned to look at Mona with a puzzled expression.

Mona, however, answered with an air of self-righteousness:

"I'm personally supervising you as you cheat using extravagant magic, is that not allowed?"

"Give me back my snacks..."

"This is something you cheated with extravagant magic, isn't it? As a member of the Night Patrol, I have no choice but to confiscate it."

"Your mother..."

The two little ones are still arguing back.

However, in the extravagant projection, Emily initially walked slowly and deliberately, which was quite in line with the elegant image of a noble lady.

However, as a few more minutes passed, without any warning, her speed suddenly increased, from brisk walking to running, from running to sprinting, and finally her whole body left a blur in the projection screen.

It was around the time the second student entered.

Emily's originally pale purple pupils gradually turned blood red.

A rich, pure crimson color spread outward from the center of the iris until it engulfed the entire pupil.

Then, she began to crawl on the ground like a wild beast, using her hands and all four limbs to move, like a phantom darting through the forest at high speed. Even with the extravagant projection tracking, it was impossible to see her exact appearance.

"It's a level 8 Slaughter Claw..."

Mona remarked with great surprise.

The Killing Rank 8 [Claw] path is the prerequisite for the Rank 7 Leopard King. The most famous characteristic of this sequence is its love of straw hats. According to historical records, there are many cases of male Leopard Kings mating with wild cats that pass by.

The female leopard queen is even more ferocious, surrounded by a pack of lions and tigers.

Besides liking to be the Straw Hat Boy, this sequence has another characteristic—

That is, the kill threshold does not need to rely on kills to accumulate, but can automatically increase until it reaches the maximum value over time.

During one's student years, being able to reach the maximum kill threshold without any actual combat experience is indeed a significant advantage over one's peers.

"Swish, swish, swish—"

The afterimages in the projected image became increasingly blurry, and the frame rate was almost unable to keep up with Emily's actual movement speed.

As time accumulated, her kill threshold had reached over 20%.

Its movement speed continued to surge in an incomprehensible direction, traversing the entire forest battlefield in just a few minutes and directly rushing to the vicinity of the starting area on the White Frost Academy side.

At this moment, the first student sent out by the opposing team, Bai Shuang, was leisurely waiting for his teammates at the edge of the open space at the starting point, completely without any vigilance. As a result, he didn't even see the shadow of his opponent. The shadow on his side flashed without warning, and he fell straight down without making a sound.

Emily took down one of them first!

Upon seeing this, almost all the students at the Ice Cloud Camp cheered.

Even the mentors wore expressions of reserved satisfaction.

This is why Ice Cloud Academy put Emily first.

Although it would attract fire and waste energy, as long as there was enough warm-up time, her kill threshold could be automatically maxed out. By the time the White Frost Academy realized something was wrong, the match had already entered a one-sided massacre mode.

Furthermore, Emily, as the [Claw] pathway, possesses the ability to locate enemies by their aura. Even if someone deliberately hides, she will be found very quickly, making her practically invincible under these battle rules!

Soon, Emily sensed the aura of the second extraordinary being.

Her figure shot out like an arrow released from a bow.

The muscles on the entire thigh and calf were taut and bulging, like countless steel cables parasitizing the surface of the bones, creating a visually striking effect that could terrify anyone.

In almost an instant, it covered hundreds of meters and delivered a vicious claw strike to the figure that appeared before it.

However, the sound that came when the claws struck was not the muffled sound of flesh and bones shattering, but a sharp, teeth-grinding metallic clang.

Without warning, countless swords, halberds, and long sabers appeared in the air, each hovering and rotating in mid-air, like a battlefield formation of troops.

Emily's powerful claw strike slammed into the rotating sword wall made of countless overlapping blades, but it failed to break through the defense, leaving only a white scratch on the spines of the outermost few swords.

After the sprint, she used the momentum of the slide to slide several meters on all fours before coming to a stop, kicking up a cloud of fallen leaves and dirt. Then she turned her head with a somewhat strange expression.

As the sword formation slowly and neatly spread out to both sides, a black-haired boy standing in the center of the formation was revealed.

The brooch on his Whitefrost Academy uniform bore a chalice emblem.

He looked at the purple-haired girl in front of him with a smile.

"I am Aaron Frost, Miss Emily. It's an honor to meet you here..."

"You should have heard of my name, right? I am the [Floating] pathway of the 8th level of the Luxury System. On the day I awakened, I made the entire Frost family mansion fly up."

"Swish, swish swish swish—"

As the black-haired boy spoke with a smile, a series of dense, explosive metal-like roars erupted all around without any warning.

That was the collision of blades and steel claws at a speed that was impossible for the naked eye to track.

Emily's afterimage wove a high-speed moving spider web around Aaron, frantically attacking the other side with almost 360-degree leaps and turns, moving at a speed that was too fast to be captured by the naked eye.

But she was still unable to get past the wall of swords, which was woven from countless weapons and had no gaps.

Of course, Aaron also couldn't pinpoint her exact location or movements.

The two were locked in a stalemate, a war of attrition.