Chapter 210 : Chapter 210

Chapter 210: Setting the Mountain on Fire…

“That witch is truly insane.”

The elves who fled in panic had witnessed the tragedy just now with their own eyes.

But just as they thought they were safe, that the witch hadn't pursued them, they saw a plume of thick smoke rising in the distance.

Wood that didn't burn completely would produce thick black smoke.

It was still somewhat difficult to burn growing trees, as they had a lot of moisture inside, but once a large fire gained momentum, the high temperature would dry out the water, and vast stretches of trees would become the best fuse.

However, the speed at which a wildfire spreads was still very slow compared to spells, so relying on this to kill the elites of the various academies was naturally out of the question.

But precisely because it started slowly, with my external acceleration, I could directly speed up this process.

Fortunately, I sent that Sea Race member back in advance; otherwise, if she used those kinds of methods a few more times, I wouldn't have had the chance to build momentum.

At this moment, I unhurriedly selected suitable large trees and threw Fireball spells at them to guide the flames, and I was also experimenting with what kind of Fireball spell was most efficient at igniting this forest was it a sustained one, a high-temperature one, or one with instantaneous high temperature.

During this time, with the Protection of the Fire Elemental Spirit and the Flame Fairy Transformation Spell, I strolled through the blazing woods, counting my spoils from this battle.

The spoils were not just those life fruits, and these life fruits couldn't be used now anyway; they could only be exchanged for real resources after the competition.

This batch only had a total of nine.

I counted them over and over, and there were indeed nine, which was enough to trigger my OCD.

Logically, shouldn't they come in a set of ten?

Could they have secretly hidden one?

Whether they really hid one or not, it was a good excuse to rob them the next time we met.

The contents of the storage bags I snatched, however, greatly surprised me.

As expected of a team leader, there were so many things inside the storage equipment: recovery potions, healing potions, unknown weapons, armor, strange materials, food, water, and so on.

It seemed I had robbed some good stuff this time.

What I valued most were the recovery potions.

These things were the best; if there were enough, I could act even more recklessly.

Let's not forget I still had a Super Consumption Spellbook, which seemed to be called Fire Rain Domain.

The name was quite intimidating, but I had never used it.

But Tan Han had used the Ancient Glacial Ice Transformation Spell, which was also from a Super Consumption Spellbook, so I presumed this one also had a spell effect capable of influencing celestial phenomena.

Unfortunately, my Magic Power Source limit was just over a thousand.

Using such a technique at full power would leave me completely drained.

That was why I valued recovery so much; the Magic Power Source recovered so slowly on its own, and the wait made me very anxious.

While I was fighting for resources here, the commotion over at the Wizard Academy also died down.

It was about time it did.

I checked the Academy Ranking, and still, only the Witch Academy had scored.

Needless to say how things were progressing.

I didn't know if they managed to snatch the designated resources after they descended.

If they lost the resources just to disrupt the Wizard Academy's ritual, it would feel very unworthy.

After all, that was a qualification the Witch Academy had earned.

It was highly likely to be something like a Magic Power Source or a Spellbook.

As the wildfire grew larger and larger, many academies also realized the seriousness of the situation.

But they weren't spellcasters.

Most of the ones here were elves, and guys from the Beast Academy.

Even for the other academies running around, while they might have methods to extinguish fires, it was like a drop in the bucket against a forest fire.

Only the Sea Race could save them at this time.

Since the Sea Race could form an alliance with the elves, it was naturally because their territory was near the sea.

But if they wanted to help extinguish the fire now, it would also come at a cost.

As the perpetrator of the forest fire, after accelerating it to a certain extent, I flew into the sky on my broom.

But I still didn't dare to remove the Protection of the Fire Elemental Spirit; otherwise, I would be cooked by the high temperature up in the sky.

As for why I didn't use the lower-consumption Flame Fairy Transformation Spell, it was naturally because that spell couldn't protect my flying broom.

The broom was an alchemical item; what if the high temperature damaged it?

But now that I had stopped my acceleration, although the fire had already gained momentum, it was still too slow in my eyes.

The terror of a forest fire lay in its duration; only with enough time would its spreading speed become relatively fast.

But forest fires could last for ten or even tens of days, and the exchange competition wouldn't give me that much time.

However, who told me to be so rich in resources now?

I could drink recovery potions like water now.

It was a pity the exchange competition didn't last long, and not many resources had been found.

And when I looked back at the burning forest, how many undiscovered resources had been damaged in this great fire?

What a pity.

At this moment, facing such a crazy act, some people would risk danger to confront me.

“Yang Yuehan! What are you doing! Are you insane!”

“You actually started a forest fire! Do you want to stand against all the academies in the exchange competition!”

These were mixed with countless curses and anger, as if they wanted to stand on the moral high ground to condemn me.

Their voices were like an accompaniment in the midst of the fire's roar; the main melody was still the crackling of the blazing flames, with the occasional creaking of trees in the fire, or the sound of them crashing to the ground.

The rules of the exchange competition didn't prohibit starting a forest fire, so this was naturally a permissible action.

To those who questioned what benefit there was in doing this, I didn't respond, because doing this didn't harm me either, and it even brought me pleasure.

Destroying the territory their opponents relied on for competition, threatening the World Tree Mother God they believed in this was also one of the methods to strike at them.

They enjoyed the shelter under the World Tree, enjoyed the advantage and home ground the forest gave them, so they should also do their best to maintain all of this.

At this moment, I really wanted to dance a song in this atmosphere; after all, all of this was too fitting for the scene.

But it was a pity I didn't know any dances.

You should know that everyone was live-streaming right now; wouldn't it be fun to present a dance for the audience?

I seemed to have discovered a pleasure even more interesting than watching the awkwardness of those boys after they turned into girls at the start of the school year.

It was the feeling of being an enemy to everyone at this moment.

Not only being an enemy to everyone, but when everyone was helpless against me it was even more wonderful.

Look at those people in the distance.

Their faces were full of anger, fear, disbelief!

And the terror of facing the raging fire beneath me!

It's a pity the distance was a bit far, so I couldn't see it as clearly as if I were up close.

“Come, let me see your elves' power of nature, the power of elf magic that belongs to the elves. What are you doing just standing here dumbfounded? So indifferent? The fire is about to singe your eyebrows.”

“Quick! Have the rangers contact the Sea Race at the fastest speed.”

“Everyone else who has spells that can help extinguish the fire, don't be stingy with your power. The rest, follow me to cut down trees and create a firebreak!”

The elves would naturally not sit and wait for death.

Indeed, it wasn't that there were no spellcasters among the elves.

Besides being skilled with bows and arrows, elf magic was also exceptional.

But facing such a terrifying forest fire, they, as newcomers, were also powerless.

So they chose the most direct method: cutting down trees to cut off the path of the fire's spread.

The forest area on the exchange competition map was extremely large.

Looking at the currently burning patch calmly, the burning forest actually only occupied a very small area.

If it could be stopped in time, at least it wouldn't affect more places.

But the premise was that it could be stopped in time.

And it wasn't like I didn't exist.

Cutting down trees to create a firebreak?

They would have to ask me first.

Even if they made one, couldn't I just go to another place and start another big fire?

Did they have enough people to stop me?

If they stopped me here, would they just ignore other places?

At this moment, the outside world watching the scenes from this exchange competition was thrilled.

The mentality of enjoying drama, carved into the very bones of witches, was now absolutely relishing this.

Most of the audience inside the arena were seniors from the Witch Academy.

The largest central free-commentary view was also focused on this fire at the foot of the mountain in the Aphrodite Academy's territory.

“Wow! Genius! Burn! Burn it!”

“Yeah! Just like that!”

“Burn! On behalf of the Flame Witch Club, I proclaim Little Han is our honorary member! Cheer for Little Han!!”

“Ooh ooh ooh!”

“Burn more, I love to see it!”

“First time seeing Little Han being so fiery, hehe!”

At this moment, a wave of sound seemed to surge from the audience seats.

The crowd's cheers gradually unified, a momentum that was even more fervent than the enthusiasm for disrupting the Ritual of Truth at the Wizard Tower and fighting for resources.

And the most interesting part was naturally the reactions from Aphrodite Academy, the Elf Academy, and the Beast Academy.

The contrast between the two sides created such a famous scene.

The referee teachers maintaining order on-site had to ensure at all times that fights didn't break out at their boundaries.

This wave of cheers even suppressed the recently revealed news about Little Han's ex-girlfriend.

And the Blood Clan Academy and Demon Academy, who loved to watch drama and didn't mind stirring things up, cheered along with the Witch Academy, which was truly a devastating psychological blow to the opponents.

Holy Angel Academy, because it had to maintain its image, meaning its burden was too heavy, didn't act too out of line.

The Wizard Academy couldn't be happy either; after all, their ritual had just been dismantled by others, and that Tan Han from the Witch Academy was one of the main forces.

The Sea Race couldn't be happy at this moment either; after all, the term 'dried little fish' was like a lingering dark cloud above their heads.

This was a completely one-sided situation.

All the academies thought this was just an exchange competition between newcomers from different academies, and also the one with the smallest gap in strength.

That was why so many smaller academies came to this exchange competition.

At least, their conventional thinking was that even if they lost, it wouldn't be too ugly.

But they had almost forgotten about the Witch Academy, this ridiculously overpowered academy.

Although the Witch Academy was not one of the Three Great Top-tier Academies, it was the fourth academy established by a Transcendent Race in the Main World.

People who had witnessed the terror of witches would find it creepy just thinking about it.

If the Void outside the Main World was treated as the map for this exchange competition, then what the one called Yang Yuehan was doing right now was precisely what witches loved to do in the Void.

That was simply a born witch.

Many teachers from the Transcendent Academies still gave such an evaluation after seeing it.

And the elf Ai Li'er from Aphrodite Academy, who had been sharply critiqued earlier, was also under a lot of pressure at this moment.

She had never thought she would be so sharply critiqued by a student.

This was an insult to her, and she would be laughed at by other teachers, and the ones who laughed the most unscrupulously were none other than the Transcendent Witches of the Witch Academy.

Ai Li'er didn't dare to go alone into that pile of witches to reclaim her dignity; that was courting death.

At this moment, in the Dream State.

I looked at the few figures descending from the sky, a hint of inquiry in my eyes.

“Students from Holy Angel Academy? What? Coming over with such a commotion, do you have some advice for me?”

I looked straight at them and asked with a smile.

I hadn't forgotten what Shop Manager Xia Li had asked me to do.

The shop manager's little treasury, wasn't this a direct win?