novelraw Chapter 60
Chapter 60
60. Luoluo
Kunkun: "Class Monitor, something happened. Come quickly!"
Walking out of the office, Meng Lian unexpectedly received a private message from Shen Ning.
Meng Lian felt somewhat surprised. She suddenly thought of how Shen Ning had discussed with her this morning about tracking Luoluo. Shen Ning sending this message now gave Meng Lian a bad premonition.
Meng Lian: "What happened? Wait for me, I'll be there soon."
Shen Ning was her friend, after all. Meng Lian couldn't just stand by and watch.
Kunkun: "It's hard to explain in one or two sentences. Class Monitor, can you bring more people?"
Damn, what kind of trouble did this girl get into?
Meng Lian felt a headache coming on.
What did she mean by "bring more people"?
The only people she knew were Jiang Jiang, Gabriel, Phoeby, and the others. If they went, they'd just be adding numbers. Going would be pointless. They might all end up getting caught there.
If Modu hadn't been in seclusion, Meng Lian could have thick-skinnedly asked her for help. But now, Meng Lian really didn't know who to turn to.
Should she ask Eldest Senior Sister?
Meng Lian thought of Xian Yun. She hesitated for a while, then finally gritted her teeth and sent a message to Xian Yun.
Meng Lian: "Is Eldest Senior Sister there?"
In Xian Yun's dormitory, Xian Yun, wearing an apron and preparing ingredients in the kitchen, saw Meng Lian's private message and paused.
Xian Yun: "Yes, why does Little Junior Sister have time to find me?"
Meng Lian: "Well, a classmate of mine seems to have encountered some trouble. She asked me for help, and I don't know what to do. I was hoping you could help."
Xian Yun: "Sure. What's the address? I'll be right there."
Hearing that there might be some drama, Xian Yun's eyes immediately lit up. She tore off her apron, eager for action.
"What's wrong? Why so excited?"
Fei Xing, sitting on the sofa playing games, saw Xian Yun's appearance and couldn't help but feel curious.
"Hehehe, probably going to be a fight."
Xian Yun showed Fei Xing her chat history with Meng Lian, and Fei Xing also became interested.
"That exciting? Count me in, count me in."
Eating melons was a witch's natural instinct, especially for drama like this that might involve fighting.
Fei Xing and Xian Yun had been cooped up for an entire break, and it had been a long time since they fought anyone. After all, whenever other witches heard they were from the Illusion Academy, everyone wore constipated expressions and refused to spar with them no matter what.
Illusion techniques were purely annoying. Without having learned specialized defense magic, it was better to just surrender at the start.
Unless you could instantly kill them at the beginning, what awaited you was an endless maze of illusions.
"Alright, later stay behind me. Don't go forward, just like in Nordlin."
Xian Yun didn't refuse. Just then, she received the address Meng Lian sent.
Meng Lian: "Thank you, Eldest Senior Sister! Here's the address."
Meng Lian: (Map Link)
Fortunately, Xian Yun's dormitory had a teleportation array. She had spent a hundred thousand credits on it. It was a lower-end model that could only teleport two people.
Xian Yun and Fei Xing rubbed their hands together, went through the teleportation array, and quickly arrived at the address Meng Lian had sent.
This was a commercial square with people coming and going. A super mall was the most eye-catching feature. Behind Xian Yun and Fei Xing, the teleportation anchor kept flashing white light as many different figures walked out.
"Eldest Senior Sister, sorry. Space congestion, I'm late."
Just then, a white light flashed, and Meng Lian's figure finally appeared.
She saw Xian Yun and Fei Xing with an apologetic expression.
She didn't have a private teleportation array, so she had to go to the nearest public teleportation anchor. But today was the first day of school, and the address Shen Ning gave was at a commercial square with heavy foot traffic. So Meng Lian actually encountered space congestion on the way and spent quite a bit of time.
"It's fine, we just arrived too. But what exactly happened?"
Xian Yun's tone couldn't hide her excitement, and Fei Xing beside her was the same.
This completely stumped Meng Lian. Why did these two look so impatient?
"Sigh, mainly a classmate of mine seems to have been tricked into fighting in an underground ring."
Meng Lian sighed.
On the way, Shen Ning briefly explained what had happened.
This afternoon after school, Shen Ning learned that Meng Lian had been called to the office by a teacher, so she decided to follow Luoluo alone, wanting to see what the other party was up to.
Shen Ning followed Luoluo to this commercial square. She saw Luoluo heading straight for the super mall, in the direction of the basement.
Shen Ning sensed something was wrong. She hurriedly followed and discovered that this underground mall had more to it than met the eye. Luoluo walked through a black door where two tattooed witches stood guard at the entrance. They didn't look like proper witches at all.
Shen Ning saw Luoluo enter and wanted to follow, but was stopped by the two at the door and told that only members could enter.
Standing at the entrance, Shen Ning could hear deafening roars from inside, as if there were thousands of people there. Faintly, Shen Ning could even smell traces of blood.
Shen Ning also saw some small advertisements on a nearby wall.
"Desperately need credits? No problem. The Bloodfire Arena can satisfy your needs. Come join us!"
Shen Ning now completely understood. Inside was an underground fighting ring, and Luoluo was actually fighting in underground matches here!
But Luoluo had just undergone Witch Transformation. This morning, Shen Ning had seen with her own eyes that the other girl couldn't even produce a spark with her Fireball spell. Going in to fight in underground matches, wasn't that just sending herself to death?
Shen Ning immediately became anxious. In her panic, she thought of Meng Lian and sent her a message.
Meng Lian walked and talked with Xian Yun and Fei Xing, and they quickly arrived at the entrance of the underground arena Shen Ning mentioned. Not far away, a petite figure was crouching.
"Class Monitor! You're here!"
Seeing Meng Lian, Shen Ning immediately brightened up. She walked in front of Meng Lian and saw Xian Yun and Fei Xing.
"This is my Eldest Senior Sister and Third Senior Sister."
"Hello, Seniors."
Shen Ning politely greeted them.
"Hello, Junior. I just heard from Little Junior Sister that a classmate of yours was tricked into fighting in underground matches? Um, things might not be as you think."
Xian Yun didn't have the excited expression from before at all.
"Sigh, the fighting in here is completely legal. To participate in the matches, it has to be voluntary. It can't be a trick."
Xian Yun saw the confused expressions on Meng Lian and Shen Ning and briefly explained.
"How about this, I'll take you inside to see. Combat between witches is also one of the ways witches entertain themselves."
Xian Yun took out a black-gold card and waved it in her hand, then led everyone to that door.
"Hehe, Black Kite, Black Rose, long time no see."
The two witches at the entrance, one with a black kite bird tattoo on her face and one with a black rose tattoo, seemed very familiar with Xian Yun. Seeing Xian Yun, they also smiled slightly.
"Xian Yun, long time no see."
They looked at the three people behind Xian Yun. Seeing this, Xian Yun immediately explained, "They're with me. All their expenses go on my account."
Seeing this, Black Kite and Black Rose didn't say anything more. They each pulled open a door, and the scene inside came into view.
Inside was a massive circular arena. The middle was a field about the size of three football fields, surrounded by densely packed spectator seats. Deafening shouts came like waves.
Above the bottommost field floated three huge holographic projections. The middle one was the largest and could clearly display the fighting scene at the very bottom. On the left and right sides were two different witch portraits, with a progress bar underneath that constantly changed with the scene in the middle image.
"That's each witch's win rate. Mm, right now the witch on the left is at 38%, getting pretty dangerous."
After Xian Yun entered, a server quickly led them to a private room. The view here was excellent, and they could see the intense fighting in the very center without needing to look at the holographic projections above.
At this moment, the two witches in the middle of the field had already entered the most intense phase. Both had tattered clothes with large areas exposed, appearing even clearer under the holographic projection, drawing strange shouts from the audience outside.
"However, that win rate is only for reference. After all, the battlefield changes in an instant, anything is possible."
Sure enough, before Xian Yun finished speaking, the witch who only had 38% earlier, panting heavily, looked at her opponent who was also at the end of their rope. A trace of determination flashed through her eyes. The next moment, she took out a thumb-sized palm-leaf fan from thin air, tossed it upward, and it instantly grew to the height of a person. The girl hugged the palm-leaf fan and fiercely fanned toward the opposite side. A tornado immediately formed and blew the witch on the other side away, slamming her hard into the wall at the farthest end, creating a human-shaped hole.
And her win rate had now completely changed to 100%.