Shinonome Academy, Fifth Basement and Simulated Tactical Field
"Please confirm the identity of the challengers - Funk, Alfie, Rhein."
Mechanical sounds echoed through the wide metal halls. The three of them stood at the teleport, their figures fading into the blue light.
Simulate tactical field, activate.
At this moment, for the first time, the Magic Department entered the school's toughest combat test field as a tactical unit.
"Tactical Environment Loading
"Area Type: Ruined city street."
"Enemy Type: Intelligent Counter-Soldier - Curse Hunter."
"Battle rules: Survive within thirty minutes and crack three spell array suppression points."
When Funk opened his eyes, he found himself in a ruined city street shrouded in gray fog.
Walls were crumbling, railroad tracks were twisted, and magical streams on the ground were shimmering blue.
In the shadows in the distance, a humanoid machine about two meters tall stood silently, its chest inscribed with the blood-red letters - Z-42 - Ex: Sorcery Execution Unit.
"Hunter of Mages... Weapons? "
Rhine snorted: "This beginning is too unreasonable, isn't it?" "
Surgical Suppression Initiation]
Suddenly, the surrounding space beeped and beeped, and the three lock spells around them activated.
Alfie calmly analyzed: "This is the anti-mantra matrix that limits the chanting time and suppresses the path of conception. "
Funk understood immediately - the speed at which they were casting magic at the moment would be tripled!
"In other words, the first move is the enemy."
In the next second, the spell hunter moved.
Its body split into five shadows, and between the afterimages, solidification arrows spewed out, shooting accurately and silently at the vital points of the trio.
"Rhine!"
Funk shouted, and Rhine jumped sharply, unfurling a red flame shield with both hands-
Rumble!
The arrow slammed into the fire shield, creating a shock wave that knocked Rhine back ten feet.
This firepower... It's not analog at all. "
Alfie whispered as she constructed the deconstructor ring, "This is an overrun test. "
"The game begins.
Funk quickly analyzes the surroundings:
"There are three cores of surgical suppression - towers, subway entrances, and waste energy stations."
"Find a way to hold off the fighters, and Alfie and I will go in to break up the formation."
"Leave it to me!" Rhine grinned, wrapped his fists around the molten rune cloth, and sprang to his feet.
He ran straight at the hunter and fought head on!
"Hey, you all said it was a warlock killer, so I'm not a warlock, so it's okay to beat me!"
"Come on, iron lumps!"
The giant fist lashed out, hitting the hunter in the chest and sending a spark of metal flying, but the enemy was barely hurt.
The next moment, the hunter flicked his claw with his backhand, sending Rhine ten meters away and crashing into the ruins!
[Tactical Division]
Funk had charged into the tower area.
Carefully avoiding the traps in the environment, he arrived at the core of the first spell array.
"... This is an inverted chanting array that should be dissolved by inverted composition. "
He took a deep breath, and seven silver magic cards appeared in his hands, arranged in order and chanting one phrase at a time:
"At the end of the night, break the emptiness, trace the light and the shadow-sleep."
The card spun and turned into a wheel of light, slicing through the core array!
The technique twisted for a while - the suppression was lifted at one point. "First, settle." On the other side, Alfie arrived at the abandoned energy station and faced the complex runic diagram at the center of the spell circle. She pauses, her expression unusually solemn: "... It's an old version of the array I designed. This is exactly the surgical suppression mechanism she had built when she worked for the Intelligence Research Society in the past! Zell ... You arranged it on purpose. She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and clasped her fingers. "I'm to blame-I'm to blame." She injected her magical power into the array, and the originally solidified pattern trembled slightly, "interpreted" back into its original format bit by bit. The second point of suppression is lifted. Funk whispered over the communicator: "Alfie, Rhine is not in good condition, give me the last one." "... No. Alfie's tone was cold but firm. "This is the magic circle I created - it had to be done by me." "You go and save him." Funk was silent for two seconds, then turned and rushed out of the ruins. "End of the Hunter At this time, Rhine, covered in bruises, stood up against a broken wall. The hunter approached him step by step, and the final program mark, [EX-Burst], appeared on his body. "If you don't come back, I'll be brave and righteous - Funk!" A roar suddenly came from behind him: "-[Illusion Structure: Empty Blade Seven Style]!" Seven phantom-like light blades slashed out from different angles, hitting the hunter's limbs, neck, and chest with precision! The mechanical body fell to the ground with a bang, and the data disintegrated. Funk landed and stood in front of Rhine, holding out his hand. "You're right, it does hit you hard." Rhine took his hand and grinned, "I'm glad you believe me." A few minutes later, Alfie walked out of the subway entrance and the light behind her went out. The system prompt sounds: [Mission Completed] [Simulated Tactical Field: First Level Clearance] [Rating: Grade A] [Overseer's Words] In the surveillance room of the Supervision Bureau, Shi Wujing stood up and looked at the figures of the three people from the Magic Department in the picture. "They cracked the tests designed for them." Zell laughed and said, "What do you think that means?" Shi Wujing said quietly: "It means we have to play our cards differently." Alfi Kurova said, "Technique is not a shackle to limit life, but an orbit for the manifestation of will. I will use the rules I've built with my own hands - to reopen the door. "