Chapter 209 – Seed of Self-Doub (2/2)

The black-haired siblings along with their two teammates carefully traversed through the serene forest.

“Sis, look, the forest of despair is right ahead! The map was right, haha!” Lin Tian pulled the beautiful girl’s arm and ran up.

If it wasn’t for Yao Zi who was a burden, he probably would’ve already ran into the forest to look for the silver vault!

No one would think that a small academy like them could take the championship, but now the chance was right in front of them, Lin Tian had to grab onto this precious opportunity!

“Listen, what’s that sound?”

A nearby explosion caught their attention.

“Another battle?” Rather than surprise, Lin Tian was more excited!

Maybe they can get even an even bigger harvest than last time!

Lin Tian immediately took their team and headed towards the direction of the explosion. When they got there, there was nothing there other than a burnt tree and some remnant embers on the ground.

“Seventh-level magic? How is that possible?”

After seeing the scene, Yao Zi held her mouth in shock.

It was strange, Yao Zi sucked at theory and didn’t know anything about magic knowledge but just by examining the traces left behind the magic, she could tell it was seventh-level magic!

“Seventh-level magic? What kind of joke is that, h-how could there be someone that can cast seventh-level magic?” Although Lin Tian denied it, he was panicking on the inside.

Such a large scale explosion but there was just one explosion, along with the embers on the tree and the blast radius, it could only be done by seventh-level magic.

There were no seventh-level magicians in this competition, and the highest level was Heino Academy’s Devoru, a sixth-level warrior, so how could anyone cast seventh-level magic?

“Strange… wait a minute, what is that?”

While he was considering the possibilities, he noticed footprints along with a bow knot cloth dyed with blood!

“Is it an injured teammate? Haha, what luck! Let’s go!”

Isn’t there luck too good? It’s like it was arranged by the Goddess!

“Eh? Are we really going after them? I think we should leave.”

“Quiet, hurry up and follow me!”

Lin Tian forcibly ordered, and they could only obediently follow him. Soon, they stopped at some dense shrubs.

“Strange, the footprints end here…”

Lin Tian lowered his head, looking for clues but Yao Zi looked up ahead with a serious expression.

This was the forest of despair.

The surroundings was incomparably quiet, there wasn’t even the sound of birds.

“Why don’t we go back.” She said while tightly hugging her arms with a slight trembling voice.

“Sis, what are you saying, how can we turn back now? We have the map, victory is right in front of us, do you not want to win?” Lin Tian excitedly clenched his fist while continuing to look for the injured member without looking up.

“Whatever! I-I think there’s something spooky here, something bad will happen if we go in!” Yao Zi suddenly lost control of her emotions, she ran over to him and pulled on the edge of his clothes, like she wanted him to stop, “Hey, let’s go back, okay? We already got a lot of points, even if we don’t get first, we can make it into the top five. That’s already very impressive, the principal will be satisfied for sure!”

“Hah? Sis, what are you afraid of? Don’t worry, I’ll protect you if anything happens!” Lin Tian shook her off without any worries.

“No! That’s not it!” Yao Zi bit her lips with a complicated expression, “This time’s enemy seems, seems…”

“Sis, you… eh?”

Lin Tian impatiently turned back and wanted to complain, but he stopped after seeing her tearful expression.

Not just him, the other two teammates also found it strange and silently stared at her.

Yao Zi was an incompetent magician, everyone knew that. She knew nothing about magic theory and couldn’t complete a magic circuit. Even if her magic power broke through the fifth-level, she couldn’t even successfully cast fourth-level magic. Her combat capability was troubling, so being scared was natural.

But this time, her reactions far surpassed being afraid, it was like she had premonition of a terrifying disaster.

Disaster? Even then, Lin Tian wanted to win, no one can stop him!

“Okay, calm down! We’ll definitely find the silver vault and win! So don’t worry and just follow me!”

“But, but… eh? What’s that?” While she was thinking about how to persuade him, she saw a vague figure in the shrubs nearby.

There was an injured woman hiding there!