Can the sadness that magic cannot take away be offset by love?

There were already quite a few people standing scattered in an open space in the center of the city. When Iris and the witch appeared together, only a few of them showed surprise.

Some even came over to greet them: "Good afternoon, both of you."

Then he squatted down and asked Miss Witch:

"Our bet - did I win? There are more than twenty people chatting with you, right?"

"Of course, Jason, but you're just lucky this time."

Many people gradually moved closer. Iris stepped back a few steps to make room and watched a girl pour potion into the bleeding wound on the witch's abdomen.

"No, this won't heal. Someone gave me medicine before, but it stopped working after a while."

"Don't worry about it. I have too much medicine."

……

Iris stared at the witch's wound that had just healed and was bleeding again for a while, then turned to Ernest, who was wearing an eye patch, and said:

"It's exactly the same location as her wound, right?"

Ernest turned to her:

"I don't remember you telling me that - how did you know her wound was in that spot?"

Iris smiled and replied:

"You couldn't protect her in the past, and the same is true today."

She turned her head to look at the witch lady who was surrounded by everyone without even a hair showing. Even though Ernest wore a blindfold, it did not affect his vision at all. He followed her gaze and was silent for a long time.

"That's not her."

He finally said this.

Iris couldn't help laughing:

"After you get out, you can try to put her in the same position as now."

"I'm not that stupid."

He looked at her with an icy gaze.

Iris was unwilling to be outdone:

"You can't protect even a fake of hers."

"I don't need to protect a fake."

"Of course you were chased by this fake for a whole round."

Ernest turned his head and ignored her.

Iris refused to let him go:

"Did you see the fireworks just now? How did they compare to the magic fireworks you set off all over Kakar on the day she was born?"

Ernest's fingers on his arm moved, and his tone seemed too calm at this moment:

"I don't know. It's been many years."

"Really?" Iris looked up at the sky and said meaningfully, "I feel like time goes by very quickly."

In her peripheral vision, she saw a tall figure slowly walking towards her, so she took two steps to the side and distanced herself from Ernest: "Stay away from me, don't let my good senior sister misunderstand me."

Ernest looked at Olivia Novello for a moment as she was getting closer and closer to them, then looked away expressionlessly, but his feet stayed rooted to the spot without moving an inch.

Olivia finally walked up to her. She first touched Iris's arm. Having just used the ice element, her hands were still cold, even though she herself didn't feel it obviously.

"Your hands are so cold, why don't you put on a coat?"

As she spoke, she tapped the transparent teardrop-shaped earring on her left ear with her fingers. A white half-length cloak that reached her waist fell on her arms. She draped the cloak over Iris, lowered her eyes to straighten out the wrinkles for her, and then pulled Iris away from Ernest without looking away, widening the distance between the two again.

"Stay away from unknown people outside."

Iris followed her movements throughout the process, and then touched the long silver braid at the back of her head:

“It’s definitely more convenient this way.”

Olivia looked sideways at her and moved her braid from her shoulders to her chest:

"Don't always put your hands on people."

Iris said a little aggrievedly:

"Is it not possible for you too? You were not like this before..."

Olivia ignored her and began to look around. Iris complained to herself:

"You're always thinking about other people and don't talk to me... Don't look for him, the one with green eyes is in the tree—"

As soon as she finished speaking, Olivia subconsciously looked up at the surrounding trees, and then there was an awkward pause, then she lowered her head to look at her:

"you--"

"Wow--"

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, a figure jumped down from the tree. Green leaves fell around him like rain. His half-long black hair tied up low beside his ears swayed as it fell to the ground. His emerald eyes, like snakes and scorpions, were filled with a malicious smile:

"I heard someone is looking for me? Isn't it said that--"

"It looks like we're all there."

Olivia, who had just been interrupted, turned to Iris.

She also interrupted Levin Auceptin.

Iris snorted:

"Why are you looking for me? Go talk to those questionable people. Why are you still talking to me..."

Olivia formed a water ball in her palm and held it in front of her. Iris took the water ball and poked it.

It’s icy and cool, and quite fun.

Olivia didn't really talk to the other people. After looking around, she asked slowly:

"Will you join me for a minute?"

Iris was trying to pinch the water ball in half, but she took the time to answer her:

"No."

"..."

Olivia, who was treated coldly, stopped talking.

Levin Auceptin waved his hand helplessly at Ernest:

"I'll treat you to a meal after we get out, and then I'll invite the others."

After these words were spoken, the gazes on Levin and Ernest restrained a little.

Ernest nodded and said half-jokingly:

"But there are some people you can't invite that I can't invite either."

Levin Auceptin leaned against the tree trunk like a boneless man, and said meaningfully:

"Who doesn't have friends that they can't invite?"

He emphasized the word "friend".

Olivia raised her eyebrows, took Iris's hand and walked to another place. Iris was missing one hand, so it was inconvenient to play water polo, so she pulled back the hand that was being held unhappily.

The few eyes that were originally looking at her cautiously gradually turned into silence, and then moved away.

Not long after, the radio sounded:

“The number of people remaining in the arena has reached 500,000. The first round of eliminations has ended and the reward round is about to begin.

“Congratulations to all the contestants who are still in the competition. You will participate in the second round three days after the end of this round of bonus rounds.

"All participants can now choose to voluntarily withdraw from the competition or stay to participate in the bonus round. The button to voluntarily withdraw will be available from now on and will be saved until the end of the current round. Participants can choose to voluntarily withdraw at any time during the bonus round.

"In the reward competition, the mechanism of automatic elimination of the dying player is retained, and no matter how the player is eliminated, it will not affect the qualification already obtained."

From this moment on, the number of people in the field began to decrease sharply. Before the start of the game, the organizer had explained that the prize for this round of reward competition was only one magic weapon, and most people would not choose to stay and compete with the top players.

In other words, those who stay will become enemies of everyone except themselves.

Iris finally succeeded in splitting the water ball into two. She looked up at the remaining number of people. There were only more than a thousand left. After a while, the number remained at 1056 and remained motionless.

“Friendly reminder, the live broadcast of the competition will start in three seconds. Every contestant who stays will open a personal live broadcast room. The income from the live broadcast will be divided into 20% and 80% by the organizer and the contestants. Please abide by good live broadcast ethics.

"Three, two, one...

"Live broadcast is on."

Iris heard a "ding" in her mind, and a line of large words appeared in her vision:

Your personal live broadcast room is now open.

She observed the main field of view of her game interface for a while. The remaining number of people in the field and the edges and corners of the field map were no different from before, except that there was a small active exit button in the upper right corner, and the number of people in the live broadcast room and the reward income were displayed next to it.

Iris studied for a while and found the button to close the live broadcast room. There was a line of words under the button:

"Pay 200 points to close the live broadcast room for 12 hours."

However, the button is gray and unusable. When you click it, a box pops up:

"Sorry, the points module is not unlocked."

The live broadcast room can be closed in the next round of competition. She doesn’t like someone staring at her all the time.

However, it is said that the organizers specially created this live broadcast function to restrain the contestants. With so many people watching, it would be difficult for the contestants to do those little tricks that would exhaust their opponents to death in the arena - if they did, it would be considered as leaving evidence and waiting for revenge.

Iris didn't quite believe it. After all, there was a blocking function. Everyone had a way to do something bad. The organizer was obviously trying to make money.

The live broadcast room will not show the barrage to the contestants, and the audience can only chat with themselves.

【I'm coming】

【Open screen beauty attack】

[Ah ...

[Are you sisters standing so close? Okay, beauties should stick together]

[The black-haired guy next to him looks so familiar]

【…】

The barrage was silent for a moment, and a few barrages slowly drifted by:

[Haha, I saw the shadow of four years ago]

[A contestant from four years ago? You must be a senior now, can you elaborate?]

【…】

【………】

【What's wrong? 】

[Hey, I wanted to ask you to watch the screen recording from four years ago, but I just remembered that it has been deleted. You will know when you watch it.]

[Aren’t the live broadcast replays of the exchange competitions always preserved? ]

[Uh… they have a way to completely delete it online, what can you do?]

[Stop talking, brothers and sisters, your account will be blocked soon]

The barrage area was quiet for a long time, and gradually other topics took over the mainstream:

[Who knows these two girls? Please introduce them to me.]

[I found something exciting]

[Long hair and black hair don't get along, the shorter one has some on both sides]

[Are you talking human language?]

[I am a crow that has become a spirit. Thank you. I am not a human being.]

[Do you think this sounds like bird talk?]

[What the hell? How can these two girls be related to Heimao?]

[They are fighting fiercely outside the stadium... Tsk tsk. The relationships among Aaron's contestants are very complicated. There is also the family that raises grass. The one with black hair and green eyes, I heard that he likes the girl with long white hair, but he has publicly stated his position with the black-haired girl, and before that he said he was neutral...]

[I really don’t understand it]

[What about this…white…gray-haired sister? What does it mean to have both? She looks like she’s from the same family as the long-haired sister.]

[Both families are trying to win her over, and she is also trying to get close to both families]

[Although they look alike, I haven't heard that they are related]

[The only similarity is the hair color, and if you look closely, they are still different]

[It's normal. My sister and I have different hair colors, but we are still in the same color family.]

[I have to ask if this is a beauty show, all you see are pretty girls and boys]

[Ka Yan Bureau? No, to be more precise, it’s Ka Gene Bureau]

……

The witch began to ask the crowd that was clinging to her to move back, and then took out the loudspeaker to ensure that her voice could be heard by everyone:

"I have some bad news for you all - I can only invite a hundred people to the garden at the same time."

Olivia slapped Iris's hand away as it was sneaking towards her braid, lowered her head and rebuked:

"Listen carefully."

The broadcast on the field sounded again: "The map is being reduced... The city center is the last safe zone. Players outside the safe zone will be eliminated immediately."

The green safe zone shown on the map in their field of vision is the land where they are standing now.

"Now - everyone, there are only ten minutes left! If there are still more than a hundred people here in ten minutes, I will ask everyone to leave. Okay, the countdown begins!"

Miss Witch put down the horn and held up a sign:

【0:10:00】

【0:09:59】