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

Miss Witch reminded: "Mobility magic such as flying, levitation, and space flash is disabled here. Okay, the countdown starts now."

After that, she was the first to go up the bridge. An hour was not a long time, and everyone started to scramble to squeeze forward. Iris deliberately stuck to Olivia, and Olivia quickly pulled her onto the bridge.

The rope closest to Iris had a gap that was cut almost in half. She couldn't help but loosen her grip on it, fearing that the rope would break if she exerted too much force.

With her feet on the bridge, her body swayed uncontrollably. She estimated the distance to the other side and walked forward step by step.

Olivia was walking in front of her, with no one else between them. She tried to keep up with her, so they were very close.

After walking for a distance, the already shaky suspension bridge swayed even more violently. The person in front of Iris's left didn't react in time and fell to the outside of the bridge, while holding on to the rope of the suspension bridge tightly with his hands.

The already tattered rope was stretched straight, and the small gaps cut by the blade gradually became larger. Suddenly, a water ball hit the back of the man's hand, which was tightly holding the rope. After the water slid away, the back of the man's hand was visibly red, and the veins on the hand that was tightly holding the rope bulged.

In the blink of an eye, Iris saw another wound on the back of her hand, cut by the rapidly attacking light blade. Blood flowed down, dyeing the thick rope around the hand red.

The noise of fighting could be heard behind them. It was obvious that the bridge could not bear the weight of seventy-two people, and some people could not help but attack others.

There were sounds of collisions coming from the surrounding area as some people tilted to the left. The weight added to the left by the person who was holding the rope and trying to climb up again caused the nearby bridge surface to lose balance.

At this time, Iris passed by the man, and the ice element was gathering around his mouth and nose. A wooden vine flew from afar and slapped the man's body several times. The vine slapped with great force each time, and soon the man was knocked unconscious. The man naturally let go and fell into the lava.

"That's good. Virtual scenes won't really hurt anyone. Being eliminated by a scene is much happier than being eliminated by a person. Even treatment is much easier..."

Iris muttered silently and moved her neck to the side. A flame attack brushed past her hair. She turned slightly and condensed an ice cone with her left hand to pierce the center of the fire mage's neck, but was blocked by a magic shield.

Someone took advantage of her busy schedule to throw several wood magic spells at her. She quickened her pace and left those attacks to the people behind her. She thought that it would be better for these people to have a group fight before going up the bridge. Wouldn't fighting on the bridge lead to total annihilation?

A snowflake fell on Olivia's hand. She slowed down. Iris leaned over her back and whispered:

"Senior, there are so many people here now. I'm scared."

Olivia was busy gathering water around the mouth and nose of the fire mage who attacked Iris. She answered while drowning him:

"Then try harder and throw more people down."

After a while, several people nearby were nearly suffocated by the water suspended on the sides of their faces and left the stadium on the spot.

Look, this is the most suitable magic for this situation. Those light blades and flames flying around here are so dangerous. It's okay if people are eliminated, but it's really over if the bridge collapses. The bridge - wait, there is both a building block tower and a bridge. Miss Witch's game really likes to make things collapse.

Iris stared at the footsteps of the man walking in front of Olivia. The man was fighting with a wood mage. She found the right moment to condense a layer of ice under the man's feet. The man was dodging the attack, but suddenly he slipped and lost his balance when he was caught by the vines and thrown out of the bridge.

The wood mage was looking for his next target when he suddenly heard a sound of breaking air behind his ears. An ice cone hit him right in the back. When he opened his eyes, he was outside the arena.

The attacks around were becoming more and more intense. Iris put a layer of ice shield on herself and asked Olivia if she wanted it. She shook her head and gathered water around her body to resist the attacks.

[No, why are they working together? ]

[Did we agree to use the prizes together? ]

[Impossible, there must be a trick here! ! ]

"Boom!!"

A terrifying explosion sounded from behind, and everyone turned around. It was a contestant who had been thrown off the bridge and was about to fall into the lava. He threw his staff upwards at the last moment, recklessly leaving a final blow to the crowd attacking him on the suspension bridge.

As everyone watched in horror, the rope closest to the staff was blown to the point where only a thread was left, on the verge of being severed.

At this moment, the two vines ran towards the gap at a very fast speed and automatically tied themselves with the ropes on both sides of the gap. At the moment the ropes broke, the two vines also tied themselves with each other, replacing the broken thick rope.

Before everyone could breathe a sigh of relief, another gap finally couldn't bear the heavy pressure and cracked in half with a "hiss". Iris's hand on the suspension cable moved slightly, and the thick rope around her fingertips was frozen and spread all the way backwards. The gap that was about to break was frozen in the ice, and it remained like it was about to break.

Several water mages put out the flames that were running wildly on the ropes. Vines and ice blocks from different mages patched up the place. For a while, no one continued to attack others. After the situation was under control, someone took the initiative to propose:

"There are only about fifty people now. Why don't we just cross to the other side like this first... If we continue to fight, no one will be able to cross the bridge."

Then someone echoed:

"I see there are quite a lot of Wood and Ice Mages here. They should be able to control the suspension bridge. Everyone, stop attacking randomly and get off the bridge first."

Someone else went on to say:

"Yes, let's cross the bridge together first. Anyway, if I'm eliminated, I will definitely find a way to break the rope before I leave, so that no one can have an easy time."

"Me too! If anyone touches me, I'll touch the rope!"

"I agree."

"I agree."

[…That’s not what you just said.]

[We have reached a consensus. We are united at this time.]

[I guess I don’t want to experience the explosion again, hahaha]

Iris and Olivia were in the front, and the group of people approached the center of the suspension bridge peacefully. Iris suddenly felt a huge pulling force coming from the place where she was frozen, but at this time everyone was far away from the rope that was just frozen.

She quietly moved her gaze and found that the wood mage closest to her had frowned at some point. When he saw something floating on the lava in front of him, he raised his eyebrows slightly in surprise, and his brows, which had been through many storms, soon relaxed.

"What is that thing on top of the magma..."

Many people noticed a large group of dots floating over the lava ahead. When they got closer, they found that they were round pieces of wood with a diameter of about half a meter. They were called "wood chips", but no one knew what material they were made of under the paint that could float over the lava.

Iris looked at the witch lady in front of her. She was still walking forward, seemingly unmoved.

In fact, along the way, Iris had been thinking about how to complete the S-level task of "becoming friends with the witch lady."

Simply trying to please the witch is not the right solution. "Friends" cannot be gained through one-sided efforts, but require both parties to give their sincerity.

But in a competition, if a contestant is required to express real feelings to an NPC, it would be too difficult. Moreover, what kind of program can accurately determine whether a person has real feelings for a specific object? How can a "witch", as a virtual character, develop real feelings for the contestant?

On the other hand, what does the name of the game mean? The first round of the game is to draw a stick, but the name of the game is "accompany"; the second round of the game is to cross the suspension bridge, but the name of the game is "correction".

Who accompanies whom? And who corrects whom?

The "accompany" game is a wooden stick drawing game organized by witches and in which witches also participate. Iris tends to understand "accompany" as contestants accompanying witches to play games, or witches accompanying contestants to play games - to put it more broadly, it is mutual companionship between "friends".

So, does the “correction” come from the contestants correcting the witches? Or is it mutual correction between “friends”?

In fact, Iris still had some doubts - the tasks in the early stages of the competition had always required the contestants to actively approach the witch, and then the contestants also took the opportunity to cater to the witch, which made it seem that in this friendship, the witch had a higher "status".

Giving one party in a relationship the benefits that the other party desires, actively promoting the weaker party to please the stronger party in order to achieve the purpose of promoting the relationship - is this the "friendship" that the competition committee wants to express? Or is it actually irrelevant, and Iris is just overthinking it?

At least so far, it is the contestants who have something to ask of the witch, and it is the witch who is being flattered. So in a normal interpersonal relationship, it is also the witch who occupies the dominant position in the "relationship" -

From this point of view, the one who was "accompanied" in the first round of the game should be the witch, and the one who was "corrected" in the second round of the game was most likely still the witch.

So what did they want to correct the witch? Was it because her posture when walking on the suspension bridge was wrong, or was it too dangerous to play near the lava?

Iris looked at the logs that were gradually approaching and let out a sigh.

She walked quickly to the witch. Ernest had already grabbed the witch's arm. She heard him say:

"Let's get off the bridge."

Iris pulled the witch's hair and said:

"Don't go any further."

Miss Witch said "OK" softly, then immediately jumped down and landed steadily on a piece of wood.

Someone noticed their movements and discovered something was wrong, but Iris ignored them and jumped off the bridge after choosing a landing point, while at the same time removing the ice magic she had cast on the suspension cables of the suspension bridge.

When the logs came, the ones who reacted the fastest and jumped off the bridge like dumplings were basically the Wood and Ice mages. This was because this group of people had previously cast reinforcement magic on the suspension cables, and they were the first to sense the signs that the ropes were about to be forcibly broken after the abnormality of the suspension bridge occurred.

As for Iris herself, the extremely strong pulling force she sensed was enough to indicate that the suspension bridge was about to self-destruct.

Many mages who fell on the logs began to launch frantic attacks on the suspension bridge and the people on it as soon as they stabilized their bodies.

The people still on the suspension bridge reacted one after another and jumped down, while dealing with the attacks of others at the same time. For a while, the battle was raging.

[Peace soon began again]

[This is a competition. Competition is the norm.]

[嘤, the anchor I was watching just now was eliminated, come over here and take a look]

[Then you are in luck, you can see the beautiful lady up close here hehe]

Iris put up her shield and tried to control the direction of the log under her feet, but the log was being carried around by the lava and could not be controlled at all.

In her sorrow, she saw that logs were still floating towards her from the other side. She looked at the logs moving around at her feet and smiled bitterly, "I am really out of my mind."

She jumped up and leaped towards the log in front of her. After landing, she found the right direction and continued to move on the lava by stepping on one log after another.

After jumping forward a few times, she suddenly remembered something and turned around to look for Miss Witch. She discovered that Miss Witch was standing on the log blankly, not jumping towards the shore, letting the log carry her around.

The contestants had been gathering near the suspension bridge. They should have moved forward, but the uncontrolled logs had already carried the witch to the right side of the suspension bridge.

Ernest had already taken action at this time, and he moved quickly towards the witch.

The distance between Iris and the witch was already farther than that between Ernest and the witch. At first, she was unwilling to fall behind and wanted to chase in the direction of the witch. However, when she raised her foot, she paused, changed her mind, turned around and rushed directly to the shore.

Beside her, the suspension bridge collapsed with a loud bang, falling piece by piece into the lava. Those who were close to it were knocked to the ground and eliminated in a few seconds - the remains of the suspension bridge did the work, and the other contestants around who were trying to take advantage of the situation also tripped them up.

She was getting closer and closer to the shore. Ernest, who had picked up the witch, was also moving fast. In order to save time, he picked up the witch with one hand, which resulted in a lot of blind spots.

Iris kept an eye on the movements of the two as she hurried on the road, and would intercept any attacks that reached Ernest's blind spot to ensure that the witch could finally land safely.

Gradually, more and more people gathered around Iris. The ones she knew included Olivia, Levin, and Adrian, who was seriously injured but still on the field.

Someone's attack hit the bottom of Iris's next landing log, causing her landing point to shift. At this time, Iris was already in mid-air. Even though she adjusted her body shape as quickly as possible, she almost flipped over when landing. Fortunately, the log tilted towards the lava side and floated up in time, allowing her to stabilize her body.

It was Olivia's water element that quietly supported the tilted log. When she caught Iris, she also found the familiar fire element around the log, but the fire element arrived later than the water element and hardly exerted any force. But Olivia was sure that even if her water element had not arrived, the fire element would have been able to support the log in time.

After Iris stood firm, both the water and fire elements dispersed silently. The ice element, which had been shrunk in the magma under the log from the beginning, slowly rose up at this time, circled around the bottom of the log, and felt the excitement of the incompatibility of water and fire before dissipating.

Olivia Novello turned her head to look at Ernest Ramirez, whose face was still expressionless. Thinking of what Iris Adela had said to her in the winter, her expression looked a little strange.

She quickly came back to her senses, but she still looked at Iris and Ernest from time to time while she was on her way, causing Levin Auceptin on the other side to look over here frequently. Adrian Lewis was injured too obviously and was always being targeted, so he was too busy to pay attention to anything else. Occasionally, when contestants from other countries passed by, they would snort coldly, but would not say much.

Some contestants did not understand and looked around like others, asking:

"What are you looking at?"

The contestant who happened to be next to that person would then say disdainfully:

"The key NPC is over there. We should ensure her safety at this time." The S-level mission has not been completed yet.

"NPC still needs protection?"

The man wondered, and continued on his way with confusion.