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

The note in the room on the eleventh floor reads:

"Why don't you go to the seventy-seventh floor? I guarantee you'll find what you want to know there!"

"..."

Then we got to the 77th floor and told her the information was on the first floor?

Iris climbed the stairs unhurriedly, opening wooden doors whenever she passed them, not entering when she saw the table was clean, and occasionally going in to take a look at a note. She climbed more than twenty floors, leaving aside the notes that specified which floors she had to climb, and she only received one piece of useful information:

"Support, pillar."

After reciting the five words, Iris burned the note before the next person came over.

"Can I ask what it says?"

The man asked politely, but obviously had no hope and turned to leave.

"Send someone to the 30th floor."

Iris also replied politely, not caring whether the man believed it or not, and went out of the room to get some fresh air.

The man was stunned for a moment, and said thank you before continuing to walk up. After walking a few steps, he turned around and asked:

"Aren't you leaving?"

Iris didn't expect him to look back, so she replied:

"Anyway, they won't be able to win or lose in a short time, so I'm not in a hurry."

The man raised his head and looked upwards. They were still far away from the top floor and could only see a few traces of magic moves left above.

"It looks like the fight was intense..."

The man sighed for some unknown reason, then said to her:

"I'm Leandre Joe, Miss Green—interested in collaborating?"

Everyone knew her name, and her low profile seemed to be just an illusion - but after all, she was among the top ten in St. Ferguson, which was ranked among the top magic academies on the continent, and she had never been seen in public before, so it was not surprising that her information was handed to her opponents.

"It's too early to say that."

She did not refuse, but did not agree either. As soon as she finished speaking, the number of people present in her field of vision dropped to fourteen.

Someone was eliminated.

"It's a little early," Leandre Joe nodded with a smile, not sure if he was saying it was too early to cooperate or too early to eliminate, "Then let's talk about it later."

He jumped out of the stairs, a pair of snow-white wings grew behind him and he flew straight upwards, soon turning into a small white dot.

The residual magic fluctuations brushed Iris' face. She shook her head to shake them off. A layer of ice appeared under her feet. The levitation magic lifted her and the ice up.

When we reached the 80th floor, we could already see clearly what was happening on the top floor.

The blue-haired Miss Westminton and a blond male wizard were fighting fiercely. Ernest stepped on a flying magic weapon and threw out several attacks from time to time at both sides at the same time. The two of them were dealing with each other's moves while dodging the untouchable flames. It looked very hard.

There were a few contestants watching the game floating around, and few of them were honest. They would often take advantage of any opportunity to attack the mage who showed a flaw.

Leland Viglas is not here, and he may intend to follow his safe approach to the end.

Looking down, she saw Yulia Smith's brother stepping on the sixtieth floor of stairs, opening the wooden door there, and then stepping behind it.

She flew straight to the wooden door on the 77th floor and found a note with words on it on the table:

"If you want to kill someone completely, the quickest way is to attack him at his weak point."

If it is not combined with the existing information, this is just nonsense. Everyone knows that you have to find the weakness before attacking someone - in this context, the person the note wants them to kill is not other players, because there is already another rule that states that killing all other players will end the game directly, and there is no need to emphasize it here. Moreover, the note in the tower room is information provided to those who want to actively end the game from another unknown channel.

She silently recited the last piece of information she had collected:

"Support, pillar."

The broken pillars seen in the center of the witch's garden, the many pillars that supported the ceiling against the rain of knives in the magma game, the building block tower that collapsed after losing a wooden bar in the building block game, and the suspension bridge that collapsed immediately after the suspension cable had a problem...

All of these things emphasize the importance of "supports and pillars".

To actively end the game, you need to kill the "support".

Iris clenched the note and burned it to ashes, then turned around and met Leland Viglas's sullen gaze.

"Exchange clues?"

he asked.

"I haven't found any clues yet."

She has already introduced a proactive way to end the game, and these two messages are too obvious.

Seeing Leland's eyes flickering, Iris was about to tell him to join the guys fighting above if he wanted to, but she stopped herself and said:

"But I'm sure someone has a clue."

Leland said nothing, silently waiting for her to continue.

Iris faced him, smiled at the person behind him, and exhaled slowly:

"He... is a wind mage."

Before she finished her words, Leland felt a murderous intent coming from behind him. A whip of light came at him at a rapid speed and reached his back. He was scratched on the back by the magic attached to the whip, but he still turned around and ran towards the door towards the whip.

He is a wind mage, and no one can catch him when the wind blows in the open air.

Iris emphasized to the man who came to attack him that he was a wind mage, meaning that he should be trapped indoors and not let out.

Leland dodged the whip's crazy attack at a speed that left an afterimage. Iris raised her hand and pointed her fingers at his already injured back. More than a dozen sharp ice cones took shape in an instant, and in the blink of an eye, a small acceleration magic circle was attached, rushing straight to Leland's wound. Unfortunately, he and the people who came to support him avoided them.

At this time, the ice layer condensed out from under her feet, and then pierced all the way to Leland's feet. Leland, who was busy dodging the whip and ice cones at the same time, was caught off guard and felt a sudden chill rising from the soles of his feet. It was the rich ice element carried by the ice layer that climbed up as soon as it touched the soles of his shoes, and then quickly condensed into ice.

Leland staggered, and the whip flew in front of him again, throwing him into the room. Even the ice under his feet that connected to the ground could not hold him back. His right leg, which had turned into ice, separated from his body with a "crack".

The man walked in quickly and put on a magic lock.

It was Dennis Anthony, whose left hand injury had not yet healed. He was very good at whipping with his right hand. Although Iris did not set a high hardness for the ice on Leland's legs, she thought that the ordinary ice she condensed would not be easily broken by a whip.

There were several spells stacked on the whip in a dazzling manner. Iris looked at the wall that was hit and cracks appeared instantly, and was obviously not recovered yet. She looked at the door that was locked with magic and raised her eyebrows.

In the blink of an eye, a strong wind suddenly blew up in the house, and the wind, which was almost condensed into a shape, turned into a sharp blade and cut the skin of the two men. The whip could not be swung smoothly.

Yes, it is not easy to catch a wind mage outdoors, but that does not mean he has no ability to fight back indoors.

Perhaps, in a small room, the range of wind magic is smaller, and the power is greater -

Iris was blown by the wind and was a little unsteady on her feet. The ice elements on her body gathered together to resist the invasion of the wind elements, allowing her to stand up again.

Dennis Anthony put away the whip, raised his hand to summon a long knife, and then quickly closed the distance with Leland.

When the wind blows, streamlined flying objects will have more advantages. Iris waved her staff, and a group of ice flakes with smooth surfaces and less air resistance flew towards the black-haired young man standing against the wall. Dennis said with a little dissatisfaction:

"I was so close to him—and you ignored me again!"

"I avoided your angle!"

During the "dispute", the originally "weak and powerless" Leland Viglas had blood on the corner of his mouth, but he rushed towards Dennis with extremely swift and powerful movements. The strong wind blew out from his sleeves, and Dennis couldn't hold the knife firmly for a while.

Leland took Dennis and retreated away from the wall to avoid her ice flakes. Dennis reacted quickly and quickly regained his grip on the knife handle to fight back. The two of them started fighting back and forth.

Dennis felt that he was being tricked by Iris. He came to support her with good intentions, but she forced him to face Leland alone. When Leland heard that her attack had avoided Dennis, he immediately ran in Dennis' direction! How could Dennis not fight with him when he faced him with a knife?

"Feel sorry……"

Iris waved her staff again with a look of shame on her face, but the two men who were fighting so hard didn't feel any movement from the ice elements in the house for a long time. During the break in the fight, Leland's eyes moved quickly and he finally saw the magic lock on the door covered with ice.

"She's betrayed us! Why don't you stop!"

Leland shouted angrily, and Dennis immediately adjusted his chopping action slightly to another direction to avoid Leland.

Leland could figure out with his toes what Iris was going to do - seal the door completely and plot to kill both of them!

The magic lock belonged to Dennis. After a faint element that he left in the lock out of caution conveyed to him that the lock was frozen, he stood together with Leland.

"I never thought you were this kind of person! You're just like the farmer and the snake! I came to save you out of kindness—"

Dennis swung his knife at Iris while cursing, and new wind blades formed around Leland, pointing directly at Iris.

Iris, who was some distance away from the two, was unmoved. She could guess that Dennis "supported" her in order to seek her cooperation. His own biggest weakness was hurt too badly, and he probably felt it would be difficult for him to stay alone until the end.

As for why he chose her, she didn't care, she was going to get him out anyway.

Before their attacks reached Iris, the two noticed that the room temperature had dropped significantly.

At first, because Iris had cast several ice spells here, and Leland's wind would blow the condensed ice elements everywhere, they all thought that a small amount of cooling was reasonable.

But they can feel the abnormal temperature just with their skin. If there is a real-time thermometer here, the value will definitely drop by a large margin!

The two of them suddenly woke up at this moment, realizing that the pale cold air visible to the naked eye had spread in the closed room, and it seemed that this place was about to turn into an ice cave.

In a room with limited space, the damage caused by wind magic would be greatly increased, and the same is true for ice magic - after the door was locked, the cold air that could condense into ice filled the entire room, and they didn't even have a way to escape.

Leland and Dennis looked tense, and behind Iris, a thumb-sized tornado popped out from the ground and began to spin rapidly, getting bigger and bigger and getting closer to Iris.

Now the whole room is filled with her ice elements. It would be a lie to say that Iris didn't notice.

The next moment, the knife and the wind blade were in front of her, and behind her was a tornado that had already formed. Under attack from both sides, Iris did not dodge or avoid. She just moved her mind and opened her hands -

"Click."

With a slight sound, everything outside the space she was holding was like water put into the freezer, with a time accelerator placed next to it, and the time accelerator was set to the fastest speed.

In the blink of an eye, the two people who were fine just now turned into motionless ornamental ice sculptures - the kind that were properly preserved in an ice cave.