My older sister is a villainous rich girl

“Wien, come to the lab before you leave school these days to help me with something.”

"Hmm? What is it?"

"A device that can store magic power. Remember to fill it up. I'll give you a surprise later."

With a hint of skepticism, Wayne would go to Conley's lab almost every day to diligently charge up a square, pure black memory chip.

But every second, the magic stored inside would dissipate completely.

If it weren't for Wayne's unusually fast mana regeneration, it probably wouldn't have been able to keep up with its reckless spending.

The process lasted for about a week before Conley stopped trying to continue.

……

Could it be... this is what he meant by "surprise"?

On the lectern, Olive, unaware of Wayne's inner thoughts, continued introducing her teacher's "latest masterpiece."

"This device is equipped with a dedicated magic storage device that needs to be replenished with energy beforehand. Afterward, the magic stored inside will form a force field and act as the opposing force."

She took out a spherical object from beside the instrument; a thin tube connected the sphere to the instrument.

“These are magic sensors. Each instrument is equipped with six, which transmit the test subject’s magic into the instrument,” she explained. “Like me…”

A glow emanated from Olive's hands, and the temperature in the classroom seemed to rise slightly.

A crimson straight line began to appear in the long, narrow magic field above.

Immediately afterwards, bright yellow light spots fell from the top, and a crimson straight line moved left and right, successfully breaking the light spots one by one.

Wayne was dumbfounded.

Chris, who was standing to the side, also widened her eyes.

Isn't this... a classic mechanism of modern video game consoles?

Upon seeing such a novel scene, an incredulous gasp suddenly erupted from the audience.

After demonstrating for a while, Olive smiled.

"The red light inside the arena is the magic I input. If you are skilled enough, you can even precisely reduce the amount of magic to save unnecessary consumption."

As she spoke, the crimson strip that occupied the entire magic field disappeared, replaced by crimson dots that corresponded to the orange-yellow dots.

Whenever a reddish light spot touches a yellowish light spot, the two will cancel each other out, and the instrument will record the number of yellowish light spots that are eliminated as the tester's score.

As the score increases, more and more orange-yellow dots fall, and their speed increases.

"If your magic power is insufficient, you will not be able to eliminate the light spots that the opponent lands, and your score will fall behind in the same amount of time."

"The instrument will then analyze the performance of each group of test subjects and score it as a percentage."

Olive gave a brief demonstration before stopping the magic input.

Seeing everyone's excitement about the device, she added a reminder: "The device has a built-in protection mechanism. If it detects that the magic intensity input by the tester does not meet the minimum standard, it will stop immediately after three seconds, so there is no need to force yourself."

"Alright, now each group can draw lots to determine the order in which they will use it!"

Chapter 537 Can't Laugh

After Olive finished her brief introduction, a noisy discussion immediately broke out in the classroom.

Gavin, sitting next to Wayne, suddenly turned around, grabbed Wayne's sleeve tightly, and looked at him hopefully: "Wayne, our group's results depend on you! You have to make sure Ms. Olive remembers you!"

"Cough, let go first."

After shaking him off, Wayne looked at Chris on his other side.

But I saw her staring blankly with a strange expression on her face, seemingly lost in thought.

“Chris?” Wayne waved his five fingers in front of her, which she swiftly grabbed.

"Don't bother me... I'm thinking about something very important."

She was still lost in thought, but she didn't let go of Wayne's hand.

Fortunately, Chris returned to normal not long afterward.

“—How terrifying,” Chris murmured. “It’s like I’ve seen a whole new world.”

After saying that, she stood up. "Wien, you discuss it with the group members first. I'll go up and draw lots."

Before he could answer, Chris hurried toward the instruments.

It seems she really wants to take this opportunity to observe a little longer.

Leaving the rest of the group behind, Gavin and Wayne looked at each other for a moment.

"So, what kind of strategies can this thing formulate?" Gavin asked blankly.

Molly, who was in the same group, guessed, "It should be that we need to find a way to keep the input magic power at a certain intensity, and at the same time, we must extend the duration of this effect as much as possible, right?"

Wayne nodded: "Yes, I thought so too."

"In this way, all six people in the group will be inputting magic at the same time, so the order of who goes first and who inputs more and who inputs less needs to be arranged in advance to avoid waste."

In a sense, it also tests the precision of each person's magical manipulation, still in a team-based manner.

According to the rules, it is theoretically possible for only one person to transfer magic power while the other five team members slack off.

However, doing so would never allow them to compete against a six-on-one situation.

"Wow, our class is at a disadvantage like this!" Gavin complained after hearing the analysis. "Only our class has both strong and weak magic in each group. I know the other two classes didn't group them like this."

Wayne asked in surprise, "Huh? How did they divide it?"

Since the other two classes were merely imitating their own in terms of group learning systems, Wayne didn't pay much attention to them.

He almost never discussed what happened within the two classes with Ge Li.

"Class A is a group of strong students with strong students and a group of weak students with weak students, so everyone is fighting desperately to gain a better ranking."

Wayne was slightly taken aback.

Could this have been suggested by Ascletis?

...At the very least, it was tacit approval; he believed that Ge Li definitely had the ability to influence the formulation of class rules.

"Class B is a voluntary group, but because everyone wants to find stronger group members, the top students generally play together with other top students, and the lower-achieving students play together with other lower-achieving students, with only a few exceptions." Gavin told everyone what he knew.

Wow, how realistic.

Compared to those classes, the stratified sampling method used in my class was simply bizarre.

Despite having himself and Tasia as top-tier fighters, the overall strength of the group actually greatly diminished their advantage.

I wonder what the overall magic power level will be in the strongest group from the other two classes.

Thinking of this, he glanced in another direction of the classroom.

Ge Li sat calmly in her seat, resting her chin on her hand. Several other people were whispering and discussing something beside her.

—If nothing unexpected happens, her group should be the strongest opponent for me and Tasia, right?

As if sensing the gaze coming from afar, she suddenly looked in this direction as well.

When their eyes met, Ge Li gave a subtle, slightly arrogant smile.

Somehow, Wayne clearly sensed from that expression what she wanted to say.

Enjoy the taste of failure, you loser.

bah bah bah!

Wayne shook his head violently, dispelling the illusion.

This is just a pointless fantasy in my mind, and it does not prove that I am the image that Ge Li has in his mind.

When he tried to continue exchanging glances with Ge Li, he found that she had already looked away.

Wayne felt inexplicably disappointed.

After a lottery drawn by the representatives of each group, the three instruments divided the testers into seven batches.

The main force of his group was actually only Wayne himself, so the specific tactics were naturally left to him to formulate.

After Chris returned, Wayne reiterated the countermeasures he had come up with.

"...In short, you will input your magic power in order from weakest to strongest until you can no longer continue. I will input my magic power throughout the process, mixing it with yours, and will be responsible for controlling the direction of movement and adjusting the overall intensity accordingly."

Simply put, it means taking oneself as the main focus and others as supplements.

"Remember not to resist my control over the light spots when the time comes; just focus on replenishing your magic power."

Although this method may increase one's own burden, it should allow for the maximum utilization of the magic of other team members, which means an increase in overall efficiency.

As for his level of magic manipulation... Wayne was confident that no one could compare to him.

Speaking of which, my recent training for Tasia has included this aspect, so she should be able to perform well, right?

The brief team preparation time passed in the blink of an eye, and with Olive as a witness, the testing officially began.

It must be said that the first three groups to take the stage had a natural disadvantage.

Since they had never used this type of equipment before, even though Olive had given them extra warm-up time, their performance was still unsatisfactory.

The group belonging to their own class, after stumbling and missing many bright yellow dots, finally finished the test with the highest score so far.

Olive commented at the opportune moment: "According to the results presented by the instrument analysis, Group 3 was the group that persisted the longest and broke the most light spots, breaking a total of 51, with 9 missed."

"Team 1 was almost entirely fighting for control, managing to take down only 10 and missing 40."

"Team 2 coordinated quite well, but unfortunately their magic ran out too quickly. They triggered the protection mechanism after defeating just 30, forcing them to stop. They missed 3..."

She provided scores and briefly analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of each process.

Everyone watched the performance of each group on the field, and Olive's analysis was accurate, so no group that was dissatisfied with the result raised any objections.

Soon it was Wayne's group's turn.

"Groups 13, 14, and 15, please come to the stage!"

Wayne almost laughed. Olive's lines sounded just like those of a TV show host.

But he soon stopped laughing.

Then, Tasia and Goli stood up at the same time.

Chapter 538 Who Will Win?

Ah this...

Why would such a malicious grouping happen?! Did you really get drawn by lot?!

Under the dazed gaze of Wayne, who seemed to be questioning the meaning of life, Goth was slightly taken aback.

Immediately, she curled the corners of her mouth into a confident smile.

"Ha—a piece of trash like you only dares to fight me now because of men, Miss Chris."

Wayne snapped to attention and quickly stepped forward to separate the two.

But before he could say anything, Chris grabbed him from behind by the back of his collar and shoved him away.

"Don't forget how you were utterly defeated by me back then."

“Things are different now.” Ge Li seemed completely unfazed by her words, his expression unchanged. “Now, do you still dare to fight me one-on-one?”

Chris's expression froze.

If limited to one-on-one competition, I can no longer fight as recklessly as before.

Because she could no longer confidently say that she could definitely defeat the person in front of her.

If Ge Li were to disregard martial ethics and challenge him to a direct fight, given the current situation, there would be absolutely no chance of winning.

Perhaps sensing Chris's lack of confidence from her silence, Goece's smile became much more genuine.

"It's okay, even if you hide behind someone else, I can still win."

"As long as I win that last time, it doesn't matter how many times I lose before that... but you can't afford to lose even once."

At this moment, Wayne deeply understood what it meant to be truly caught in a dilemma.