Abyss Express

The Galahad Academy Cup took place as scheduled.

This is an annual school celebration. We mentioned the Best Luna Cup earlier. For people in the underground world, the status of this competitive event is almost equivalent to the World Cup.

The Sage's Cup is exclusive to Barathon and is a celebration event of the Academy of Magic. Compared with the Luna Cup, the competition items have been cut down, but like the Luna Cup, there are different themes every year.

Like last year, BOSS held a C√B loser-to-promotion contest, and it was the same for the Sage Cup. The theme naturally became the loser-to-poverty alleviation competition.

The Luna Cup directly provides policy assistance to the land area where the champion is located, and team members receive generous bonuses.

For the students of Galahad, the Sage's Cup distributes scholarships and credit-related rewards. In addition, the students are more concerned about the seat ranking.

As long as you can stand out in the Sage's Cup, it's like the youth training competitions of various professional sports clubs. Once you get the attention of big shots, interact with these wealthy people, and get more resources, your next life will be much easier. .

Xue Ming and Hasben fought for several rounds in the stadium on the matter of "coming out". The result is without a doubt——

——From unarmed to armed sparring seven games, Husband won one game, and the gunsmith won six games.

The red-haired boy bowed to the teacher to thank him, and with complicated emotions on his face, he rushed to his classroom to make up lessons and practice.

Boy Tangning followed behind Mr. Gunsmith in a timely manner, and asked in a low voice.

"Teacher, why did you lose to him?"

Xue Ming: "If I say, I can't beat him."

Tangning: "Hahahahahaha"

Xue Ming pouted, and walked to the students with his arms around Robert Downing.

"Always give people hope, otherwise Haspen will become stronger."

Tangning bowed her head and followed beside the teacher with a puzzled expression on her face.

Xueming explained: "Hasben has never suffered a few defeats. His talent is better than yours, whether it is the essence or the combat instinct-if I defeat his fighting spirit all at once, I will not show any mercy. , to snuff out all hope of winning. He is a hundred-victory centurion, and this kind of humiliation will make him doubt his life."

Tangning was a Blackstone person, so he didn't care about such negative emotions.

"So that's why you beat me eleven to zero?"

Xue Ming: "You're different, Robert—your heart is very strong."

Tangning: "So that's why you beat me eleven to zero?"

Xue Ming: "Please do me a favor, go back to the club and bring my stick. It may be useful."

Tangning: "So this is"

Xue Ming interrupted: "Two hours, I'll let you see Martha, two hours."

Seeing that Tangning was about to break free from the teacher's restraint, he was an Alaska with windy feet. As soon as the teacher let go, he would immediately run to the intercity rail transit station.

Xue Ming grabbed this darling student and came to the seventh grade group—and handed a business card to Director Simmons.

"Don't worry, just sign your name."

Tang Ning lay down on the table, read the competition items inside and out, and then greeted Director Simmons in a friendly manner. Finally signed slowly.

Only then did Xueming take the students away. When they reached a place with few people, they went to ask Tangning.

"You don't seem too happy?"

Tang Ning raised her arm, and when she clenched her fist, a jet of black spirit oozed out of her skin.

"I'm all pupated - there's no need to come to this kid's game."

Xueming: "Aren't you a child?"

"Teacher, you're only five years older than me." Tangning felt aggrieved, "In Galahad, among my classmates who were my age, very few had psionic abilities, not to mention pupation, not even nymphs. What—what is the competition? If you want me to participate in this Sage's Cup, there is no need to compete in the same grade, just give me the scholarship."

Xue Ming: "Are you arrogant? You don't want money?"

"I'm like..." Tangning started to talk, but immediately lowered her voice, "Am I like someone who needs money? Teacher? I just want to be like you."

Xue Ming couldn't understand these words.

"translate."

Tangning immediately said, "I don't like to be in the limelight, Brother Ming, I came to Galahad to study to learn real skills. The secret library and the instructors are very good, but the cup of the sage—"

"—It's not that you don't know the nature of the cup competition. If I really achieve some results, someone will send me a job and ask me to call and send me flyers every now and then. I just feel annoyed."

"I want to be like you, specifically like a gunsmith. If you can teach me how to behave, I will be very satisfied, especially when you first met Husband, asking him to obey your rules , At that time, I could see it clearly in the connecting passage of the snack shop, and I admired you very much. I also want to have this rock-solid power."

"all in all."

Xue Ming interrupted: "Then you listen to me first and go to the competition."

"But." Tangning wanted to say something else.

Xue Ming raised his head and looked at the student who was taller than him.

"You don't even want to face the wind and waves, how can you become a rock on the beach?"

Tangning was awakened by one word -

——Xue Ming continued.

"I want you to participate in the competition. I don't want you to show off, nor do I want you to go through the motions to get a scholarship. Have you really studied the theme of the Sage's Cup?"

"Uh..." Tangning pursed her lips, her mouth was so dry that she couldn't speak.

Xue Ming reached out and tapped Tangning's head with his index finger.

"The theme of this year's Luna Cup is [Survival] - the Sage's Cup is also based on survival. Although the Magic Academy's competition will definitely use psionic magic to compete, but Tangning, I hope You can take this seriously."

"When I face any opponent, no matter how strong or weak they look, I don't take them lightly, and I want you to do the same, enjoy this game. This is a very rare opportunity."

Xue Ming was very cautious, and said in a very, very serious tone.

"You are a passenger, and you have an advantage over Galahad's classmates. Your pyroxene and stick, and the road you must pass through, these things make you transform faster than them. The reason why this kind of opportunity to learn from each other is very rare , because our future tasks are unpredictable, and we don’t have time to practice.”

Immediately afterwards, Xue Ming talked about his growth path with Tang Ning almost like a treasure.

"When I face psykers outside of school, when I officially perform tasks, the result is usually life and death, and there is no such thing as a competition. The only good friend who usually accompanies me in my practice is Meteor. Fortunately, he is strong enough. He is so strong that it is still difficult for me to subdue him head-on, this kind of opponent is a treasure that is hard to find."

"Tang Ning, you have to cherish this opportunity. Cherish every opportunity to practice. Two fighters from the mortal world decide the winner with their physical body and quality. There is a part of randomness in guessing fists and fighting for their lives—how dare you say psionic power? In a duel between samurai, are you sure?"

Tangning blushed, and finally swallowed all the shame in her stomach.

"Understood, teacher."

Xueming continued to ask: "I want you to sign up in the seventh grade, and you said it was abusive dishes and fried fish - do you think it's embarrassing for you?"

Tangning: "A little bit."

Xueming sighed——

——He couldn't laugh or cry, he couldn't understand what was going on in the mind of the Blackstone man.

"Then what if you encounter low-powered but vicious gangsters in the future? You still look down on the gangsters and let them go? After all, you don't kill the unknown, and you don't bully the weak either."

Tangning quickly explained, "This is different."

"Where is it different?" Xue Ming's eyes were as cold as ice: "If you despise your opponent in a martial arts competition in the ring, you will definitely bring this bad habit into your life."

"Stop talking, stop talking! Stop talking!" Tangning repeatedly begged for mercy, "I'm participating! I'm participating!"

Xue Ming pointed at the student's nose, his eyes could eat people: "Prepare carefully, study your opponents, and play with style."

"Okay, okay!" Tangning ran away without a trace. After only a minute, he saw him go back the same way, "Teacher, there are two more things I want to ask you."

Xueming: "Say what you have to say."

Tangning: "Why...why don't you tell Hasben about the big things about big sister, and explain to Hasben?"

Xue Ming took out a card from the inner pocket of his suit——

"——This is the sextant data card of Husben. He still has the Canaan life form in his body, and his madness index is very high. I don't want to stimulate him. If something happens to the child, he will become the second Lawrence. Madison is not well."

Tangning: "Understood."

Xue Ming: "Is there one more thing?"

Tangning: "Did the boss give you a new mission order?"

Xue Ming rolled his eyes——

—He took out his crew card from his pocket.

Tangning looked over and lowered her head.

Immediately afterwards, Xue Ming pulled the small piece of paper in the card holder. Like magic playing cards, these scattered cards, like ramen noodles, become paper strips more than one meter long.

Xue Ming pulled it several times, and put all the notes back into the card.

"You think I can escape? This is all arranged until 2030 - I'm getting married next month, brother! I'll call you Brother Tangning! Can you stop urging me to go to work?"

Having said that, Xue Ming grabbed Tang Ning's beautiful champagne-colored blonde hair and licked her.

"I finally took a vacation and came to Galahad to rest. Do you know how scared I was on the last mission? How nervous?"

He pinched his fingers and counted them one by one.

"Just the psykers who have awakened the power of the soul, plus Flavia and Dulan, who are not known to be two or five young units, the little brother will have four red morpho butterflies——I started from the eleventh district , with a meteor that even the Iron Knight couldn’t lift up, I went all the way to the 48th district, and in the end I still had two SCAR-H bullet rolling wounds on my stomach, and I passed out from poisoning.”

"I'm really terrified. Thinking back on these things, it's only been more than half a year. To be honest, did the BOSS call you here? Robert? You tell me the truth, I'm not the big sister, the war madman - I just want to be safe Take it easy, do you understand?"

Tangning nodded dully.

Xueming continued: "So you come to ask me, when will I go on a mission—I guess, you want to come with me."

Tangning nodded vigorously, "Take me, take me."

"Then you bring me back the Sage's Cup." Xue Ming gritted his teeth, his eyes dull: "At least when you appear on my teammate list, it will make me feel a little bit more at ease, okay?"

Robert Downing finally came to his senses, and he ran to the podium dormitory to prepare for the competition without looking back.

After tidying up the students——

——Xue Ming returned to the students and took out the bachelor card given by Professor Wood Pluck.

"Simmons, I want to participate. Is there a bachelor's group or a teacher's group?"

Hearing this, Simmons looked like he was watching a freak.

"Are you ill? Gunsmith?"

Xue Ming said bluntly: "I didn't come here for money, and I didn't come here for a name. For the past six months, I have been teaching and attending classes at the same time. I haven't seen the power of magicians who combine sticks and stones."

The magician of Barathon, and most of the lapis lazuli guards.

Their wands and stones, the unique skill of these bluestone people, is the combination of wands and stones.

The subject that Dean Lu Bang is researching is also the combination of stick and pyroxene.

If the stick is the spirit supervisor that Aohen Mingde gave to the passengers, the pyroxene is the augmentation prop that Lingweng gave to the passengers.

Using the magic wand inlaid with pyroxene is the extraordinary supernatural power of the bluestone magicians. They can use the pyroxene to amplify the characteristics of the stick and release amazing power with immature spirit bodies. It is another kind of wonderful psionic magic besides the path of soul power's transformation.

Sticks and pyroxenes are exclusive props for passengers. Galahad students must be at least sixteen years old and officially complete their first life journey in the station system before they are eligible to get sticks and pyroxenes.

When they got the blue stone and returned to Barathon, they had the opportunity to study the magic of combining the staff and the stone.

In the past six months, Xue Ming has come into contact with bluestone people who have magic wands, which is very rare. It would be great to have a friendly encounter at the Sage's Cup match.

"Gunsmith." Director Simmons grabbed the poster of the Sage's Cup from the registration office, and said to the referee team on the field: "You are a fucking referee! Referee, please go back to the referee's seat!"

"Oh." Xue Ming was slightly disappointed, but still asked persistently: "Is there a referee team?"

Simmons flicked his beard in horror——

——Xue Ming immediately explained: "No. I didn't mean to hit you. I didn't mean anything else. I just wanted to see how miraculous the bluestone man's magic is."

Simmons was skeptical, and finally spoke to the gunsmith.

"If you really want to find a magician for a match, I can arrange it for you."

Xueming: "Thank you."

Simmons looked disgusted: "You don't know that you are a referee?"

Xue Ming: "The event organizer called me this morning, but I didn't answer."

Simmons: "Why didn't you answer!"

Xue Ming: "He is from the school of conjuration, and he let go of harsh words with me before, because I took his credits - I later blocked him."

Simmons: "Hahahahahaha!"

Xue Ming: "Simmons, tell me about the Sage's Cup."

The two just stood in front of the registration desk at the student office, chatting without saying a word.

"The theme of this year's competition, like the Luna Cup, is [Survival]—Gunsmith, do you watch the Luna Cup?"

"I'm very busy and rarely watch these games."

"Then let's start with the history of the Best Luna Cup?"

"No, you can just talk about [survival] as briefly as possible. I still have classes in the afternoon, and I have to call my fiancee in the evening. Without my remote kiss, she can't sleep."

"tsk"

"Don't be disgusted, don't you have a wife?"

"Tsk tsk tsk Let's start directly from the theme. This year's Sage's Cup is set in six areas around Barathon—the theme is [Survival], so the competition must revolve around the ruins of the field and compete in psionic skills. Victory can be achieved by defeating the opponent from three aspects."

"Details."

"The first point is to directly defeat the opponent and use any method to make the opponent lose consciousness. It is impossible to continue [surviving] in the competition field."

"The second point is to defeat the opponent's will to fight and let the opponent surrender on his own."

"The third point is to listen to the referee's instructions, and when the player runs out of ammunition and food, and cannot guarantee their own [survival], they will be directly judged as a loser."

Xue Ming was a little surprised: "It's that simple? I thought you guys would play around a bit, like you have to use spiritual power to win or something."

Simmons explained patiently: "The Best Luna Cup doesn't have this rule—we are humans first, and then magicians. Due to the existence of Mrs. Bai's products and panacea, as long as no one is killed , there is no intention to kill, the Luna Cup will not impose unnecessary restrictions, and the Sage's Cup will be the same."

In this way, after the theme is determined, the only thing left that can determine the outcome of the game is the venue.

Xue Ming: "What about the competition system?"

Simmons: "A team of five, four on the field and one on the bench."

Xue Ming: "The rules are the same for different grades?"

Simmons: "Those who are over 16 years old are divided into the adult group. The adult group needs sticks and pyroxenes to be eligible to participate. Even if they get pyroxenes and sticks in advance, those under the age of 16 are not allowed to bring them into the competition. They have to enter the arena with bare hands."

Xue Ming scratched his head: "Hasben has to find someone to borrow sticks and pyroxene, which is difficult."

Husben Madison has never worked for the BOSS once, nor has he seen the spirit, no pyroxene and club. Most of the soldiers in Guangling Zhixi are the same. When they enforce the law, they use rifles as their main hands and throwing objects as their secondary hands—unlike passengers who need sticks and pyroxenes to deal with special spiritual pressure environments.

Right now, right now. Meteor came to sign up for the competition. It was the eighth grade group, the most competitive graduation group.

After Xueming asked about the matters to be paid attention to during the competition, he and Meteor left the student office to discuss the wedding next month.

On the south side of the podium of the school building, scarecrows stood next to layers of wheat waves under the ultraviolet headlights in the distance.

Farther away, you can see the train slowly entering the intercity rail transit station in Barazón, and people are swarming down, most of them are scalpers who come to Bluestone City to snap up tickets for the Sage's Cup.

The Great Baker Stadium is the main stage of the arena, and there are twelve flags hung in front of the auditorium, which also represent the heroes in the history of Galahad Academy, who have become various schools of spiritual energy today.

Dean Lupine tried the microphone in front of the football field, but he couldn't deal with the current noise of the stage audio.

"Cough cough! Cough! Mmm! Audience friends! Everyone look up to me! I have something to announce!"

The old dean tilted his head to look at the multimedia center with surging electronic music, picked up his wand and clicked it.

"You are the only one who is disobedient!"

really--

- Stories in fairy tales don't happen.

The multimedia center was completely short-circuited in the powerful psychic impact.

In a disguised form, I told Xue Ming, who was watching the ceremony at the rehearsal site, two facts.

The first fact is that psychic power cannot fix electronic equipment well, and it cannot [I think about it] solve the problem in one go.

The second fact is that the name of the Great Baker Stadium comes from Baker, a berserk hero in the history of Galahad. He used magic to illuminate the path of the cave ahead. Apart from that, it has nothing to do with magic. . It can be seen that Dean Lu Bang is also a person with a bad temper. On the road of research on the integration of staff and stone, I have been trying to increase the power of psionic impact, while ignoring the functionality.