Chapter 183 – Strange Siblings

Lin Xiao abruptly remembered that their greatest enemy wasn’t Heino Academy, but Cato Academy!

That team of three assassins plus an archer was too annoying, even now Lin Xiao hasn’t caught onto their trail.

Loran Academy was now in first place, so there were surely numerous eyes on them, so not only did he have to be careful of ambushes, he also had Elena detect movements in their surroundings at all times, yet they still haven’t discovered Cato Academy.

They never met any enemies on the third day.

On the fourth day, they met a strange team from Bamboo Academy, which was also part of Lombard Kingdom. They weren’t a strong team, just a small magic academy in a rural area somewhere near Winterless City.

Bamboo Academy’s source of students were from nearby villages, most students did not have much innate magic talent, there would occasionally be one or two magicians, but they would just return to their hometowns and use their magic to help their village farm better.

The two teams ran into each other by accident, Lin Xiao wanted Shen DaiYing to finish them as fast as possible, but they ran!

“Sister YaoZi, you guys run! I’ll protect you!”

Suddenly seeing the beautiful Shen DaiYing, a short youth immediately grasped his staff, and quickly cast his magic without underestimating the enemy.

“Ice Wall!”

The sapphire on top of the staff release a dazzling light, and a thick ice wall appeared in an instant trapping Shen DaiYing inside. They took that opportunity and ran.

“Brother LingTian, where should we run to?” A soft and gentle female voice sounded.

That was a beautiful girl, half a head taller than LingTian. She grabbed his cuff with concern, she seemed to be the sister YaoZi and the one who cast the ice wall should be her little brother, LingTian.

“Don’t worry about me, run! I can deal with it!” LingTian yelled.

“But, I…” YaoZi hesitated and wouldn’t leave.

“Shut up! Scram, you annoying woman!”

“Eh? O-okay…”

“LingTian, YaoZi?”

Hearing how they called each other and seeing that they had the same black hair as her, Shen DaiYing paused and guessed that they could be just like Lin Xiao, of the Eastern Tribe. So she got curious and planned to have a chat with them.

Of course, she had to take them all down before they could have a chat.

Blossom!

In an instant, the firm ice wall became ice shards, Shen DaiYing gently kicked off the ground and vanished.

“Sister, run!” LingTian cried out in alarm.

He originally wanted to continue casting magic to stop Shen DaiYing’s attack, but he didn’t expect her to completely ignore him and went straight after YaoZi!

From the staff he was holding, it was clear that he was an ice magician, and could quickly cast ice defense magic, and was rather annoying. So Shen DaiYing determined that girl would be easier to deal with, so she used Shadow Blink and closed the distance.

Shiiiiiiing.

The sword was unsheathed at a speed difficult to see with the naked eye.

“Sister!!!”

“What? Ah!”

Hearing her brother’s call, she turned around and saw the closely approaching Shen DaiYing, with that beautiful sword Snow. She knew she was finished and instinctively screamed!

“Don’t!”

“Cherry Blossom Dance, Blos… eh?”

Shen DaiYing originally thought it was a waste for her to use such a move on a small fry, but it turned out that she was right to.

As she was about to cut her down, that woman suddenly glared at her.

For some reason, Shen DaiYing felt a strong sense of unease, that was her sixth sense as an assassin. So, she changed her direction and didn’t pursue after her, instead, aiming her cherry blossoms below her.

In the instant the petal landed, a sharp ice wall shot out of the ground! Colliding right into Shen DaiYing’s slash and exploded into ice bits.

It was different than the thick and sturdy ice wall LingTian cast earlier, this wall was full of sharp icicles, if Shen DaiYing was any slower, she would have been pierced full of holes.

What a close call!

Shen DaiYing still had lingering fears, when she snapped out of it, the siblings already escaped far away with the protection of their teammates.

“Sister Ying! Are you okay?” Lin Xiao quickly ran over.

He obviously didn’t want Shen DiaYIng to be injured, but if she was, then he would have to take care of it like before!

“I’m fine.” Shen DaiYing shook her head slightly, flipped her sword and sheathed it, but her gaze still lingered in the direction they ran off to.

“What happened?” Caesar also ran over and looked at the ice shards on the ground in puzzlement.

Where did the last ice wall come from? That ice magician LingTian was still far away, and didn’t have any chance to cast any magic… so if it wasn’t him, then who was it?

“That woman, YaoZi. I can’t believe I didn’t see it, really…” Shen DaiYing sighed and blamed herself for the mistake.

“Sister Ying, you’re saying…” Lin Xiao understood.

“Ah, that’s right.” Shen DaiYing gave him a positive look, “It was chantless instant cast, she cast that ice wall instantly.”

“What?”

Everyone was surprised and looked at Lin Xiao.

“Uh… don’t look at me like that. Although I can also instant cast… but only for low-level magic, not throwing an ice wall like her.” Lin Xiao quickly removed himself.

After that, he secretly confirmed with Elena, the siblings were both intermediate fifth-level magicians and haven’t broke through yet. LingTian used his staff to quick cast, which made sense, but how did YaoZi do it… unless she was cheating like Lin Xiao and is a bug!

“She’s, very strange.”

Elena could only give a short evaluation as to what happened.

It all happened so suddenly, so Lin Xiao didn’t expect Elena to provide any useful information, but being evaluated as very strange by the Demon King was already scary enough.

All this time, only Lin Xiao’s magic talent has surprised Elena before, even the gifted magic swordsman Caesar, only got an evaluation saying that he was impressive.

Lin Xiao never would have thought that a small rural academy would have a powerful character using chantless instant cast. It was good that they ran as soon as they met, if they actually planned on fighting, then it might really have been troublesome to deal with.

“… Another damn genius!” Rosie mumbled to herself behind everyone.

No one included her in the fights or discussions, it was like this competition already had nothing to do with her. The only way she would get attention is when she becomes luggage for the team and gets targeted by the enemies…

“Hmph, just born lucky. What’s so remarkable being born a genius?”

And so, Rosie Childe, born of the extremely wealthy merchant family, was now complaining about the fairness of birth.

“It’s just instant cast… I can learn it too, sooner or later! Nom, nom, nom…” Rosie stuffed a pale yellow fruit intro her mouth and chewed away.

“Hey, what are you mumbling about by yourself?” Lin Xiao turned to ask.

“Hmph, I don’t need you to worry!”

“Are you eating… a silver leaf fruit?” Lin Xiao asked curiously.

“Of course, we already gathered the points anyway, so why not eat a perfectly good fruit?” Rosie puffed her cheeks and angrily replied.

Since she wasn’t useful in a fight, Lin Xiao made her responsible for collecting silver leaf fruits, although she was unwilling, she could only listen obediently.

While she was picking the fruits, she had nothing to do so she tried one. She found that it tasted pretty good so it became her tasty snack.

“Elena, is that thing poisonous? You wouldn’t get an upset stomach, right?”

Lin Xiao knew that the Demon King was experienced and knowledgeable.

“It’s not.”

“That’s good.”

“But…”

“But what?” Her pause made Lin Xiao a bit nervous.

“I heard that the silver leaf fruit has a breast enhancement effect.” Elena responded seriously.

“Uh… who did you hear that from?”

“I heard it from a cook when I was making food for you at the camp.”

“So are your breasts that big because you ate them all the time as a kid?” Lin Xiao lowered his head and looked at Elena’s breasts.

“Heh heh.” Elena forced a laugh, hugged her chest and stared at him coldly in return.

“So it’s just a rumor…”

“Eh? What did you say? Breast enhancement?” Rosie ran over with her cute ponytail shaking, engrossed in their conversation.

If it really has that effect, then she has to eat more!

“Breast enhancement?” As he brushed past her, Caesar who also heard glanced at her skeptically.

Even if it did have that effect, with her current flat airport, if she wanted to catch up to Elena, it wouldn’t even be enough eating all the fruits on this island…

“Hey, w-where are you looking? Pervert!” Rosie noticed Caesar’s gaze and blushed.

Caesar’s thoughtful expression made Rosie suspect whether he was going to say something disrespectful, but Caesar just took out two yellow fruits from his pocket.

“I just picked them, here.”

“Eh? Why are you especially giving them to me? Okay, since you’re giving it to me, then I’ll take it… thanks.” Rosie stammeringly accepted the fruits, but heard something that made her furious.

“If it’s really effective then you should eat up.”

“… Eh? W-what did you just say?”

“Nothing, let’s go.”

“Damn Caesar, don’t think I didn’t hear you… are you learning from that damn pervert Lin Xiao! How dare you ridicule me, apologize!”

Rosie cursed while continuing to eat the fruits, but she didn’t notice that the fruit was a bit strange.