“Eh? What? What happened? Were we ambushed?”

Deep into the night, a short girl awoke from her dreams in terror. The strange thing was, when she thought that they were being attacked, her first instinct wasn't to fight back or escape, it was to anxiously look for someone in her surroundings.

“I'm over here, Sister Yao Zi!”

In the darkness, Ling Tian responded briefly, but his gaze was towards the distance.

“Phew, as long as you're here.” Yao Zi breathed out a sigh of relief after finding her brother, then approached him and nervously asked, “Hey, what was that loud noise earlier? I thought we were being ambushed.”

“Not us, there's a battle over there… it should be two strong teams!”

“Mmm… since it's other teams fighting, then let's go back to sleep, I'm so sleepy.” Yao Zi yawned and started lying down to go back to sleep.

“No, you can't!” Lin Tian quickly pulled her back up, “They're not too far from here, we should hurry and go over!”

“Eh? Noo, I still want to sleep…”

Yao Zi didn't want to and tried to push him away, but Ling Tian held her even more firmly and didn't let go.

“Let's go!”

“No! Why do you want to go? It's not like we can beat them…” Yao Zi feebly complained.

“We should go take a look even if we can't beat them! We might even be able to get lucky!”

Even though they weren't a strong team, but they could take advantage of the opportunity to make a quick buck!

When strong teams fought, neither were coming out of it unscathed. At that time, when they're weakened, they could take advantage of that opportunity and pick them off then.

That was their only way of winning!

Ling Tian didn't want to let go of this opportunity.

“Taking advantage of them?” Yao Zi frowned like she heard something she couldn't believe, “How could you do something that despicable?”

“This is a compet.i.tion! There's no such thing as despicable. As long as we can get points, as long as we can get first place, nothing else matters!” Ling Tian said resolutely.

“But, you….”

Seeing her brother's resolute expression, something didn't feel right, but she couldn't say what exactly it was…

“Stop wasting time and follow me!” Ling Tian pulled Yao Zi's arm, completely ignoring her will and headed towards that loud sound.

The good thing was that the battle happened nearby, and before long, the four from Bamboo Academy arrived at where the fight took place. What surprised them was that there was no one there.

At first they thought they got the wrong place, but the dimly burning ashes in their surroundings proved that this was the place!

The night was truly dark, the ground full of burning ashes quickly lost its light. Ling Tian just followed his intuition and tried to catch up to them, but the scene was a a complete mess and he couldn't tell which direction was which.

If he was thorough enough and pa.s.sed through the shrubs close by, he would see the tragic aftermaths. Not knowing whether to describe them as lucky or unlucky, but their only harvest was a tiny little thing.

“Ling Tian, look at what this is.”

Coincidentally, a teammate found a blue rectangular crystal in the gra.s.s.

“This is… a resonance crystal?” Lin Tian was astonished and quickly s.n.a.t.c.hed it from his hand and after carefully confirming it, he couldn't help but exclaim, “What? 96 points!”

The crystal showed 96 points, several times more than what they had.

It had to be a strong team to have this much points! But the crystal was left in the gra.s.s, that most likely meant that they already lost.

“Whatever, we'll think about it after we plunder it!”

Ling Tian didn't bother worrying about which team this crystal belonged to, but he would be stupid not to take advantage of this opportunity, gathering points were more important than anything else!

With every additional point, their chances of winning goes up.

Ling Tian plundered all the points and now their total already surpa.s.sed 100 points, almost catching up to Loran Academy, they even had a chance of coming first!

“Hehe, how lucky.”

Watching the crystal they picked up for free crack while their own crystal exploding past 100 points, Ling Tian was bursting with joy.

But it didn't just end there.

“Ling Tian, look, what's this?” His teammate found an old leather map from who knows where.

“This is… a map, right?” Ling Tian took the map and carefully examined it under the limited moonlight and then cried out in shock, “Could this be… a map to the silver vault? That's it, haha! Awesome!”

Ling Tian laughed crazily and almost pa.s.sed out from the happiness.

It seems they didn't come for nothing, not only did they get free points, they also got a map, it seems like they were blessed by the G.o.ds! Now their chances of winning greatly increased!

“Hm?” Yao Zi tilted her her head and sniffed around a couple of time, “Why does it reek of blood?”

“Blood?”

“It's coming from you… eh? The crystal and map…”

“Crystal and map… what about it?”

After Yao Zi brought it up, Ling Tian turned over the crystal and map that he was holding and noticed what was wrong.

He didn't realize it earlier, but now, he saw that they were both dyed dark red with blood.

“T-this!?”

Ling Tian almost threw them away from fear.

The crystal and map were left behind and were both stained with blood, that definitely wasn't a good omen… was that team already done in?

But why?

If they had the map and this many points, then they should have been a very strong team. Doesn't that mean the people that beat them were even stronger?

Even if they were defeated by someone stronger, but why did they just leave the crystal and map, isn't that strange?

Could it be that the people they met weren't partic.i.p.ating in the compet.i.tion, so they didn't care about these things?

“I-I feel something chilling nearby that's giving me gooseb.u.mps… why don't we get out of here!” The sensitive Yao Zi hugged her chest, and urged Ling Tian to leave.

What points, or champions.h.i.+p, she didn't care about any of time! She just wanted to peacefully end the compet.i.tion and go home with Lin Tian, claim their rewards and live a good life!

She thought that he would oppose that idea, but this time he agreed with her.

There was indeed a chilling air, just by standing here made their neck hairs stand up, like they were being watched by a wild beast.

Since they already got the points, Ling Tian already achieved his goal, even if he was curious, he still left with his team.

“Ling Tian, hurry up, be careful of an a.s.sa.s.sin jumping out and chopping your head off.”

“Tsk, like h.e.l.l, I'm an ice magician, specialized in dealing with a.s.sa.s.sins! Neither am I afraid of speed type warriors!”

“Hah? … Little brother, did you forget about being chased by that beautiful princess from Loran Academy?”

“I-I already said stop bringing that up! Just wait, sooner or later, I'll be the one chasing them!”

“Okay, okay, you're awesome, let's go!”

“Hmph, this time… hm?”

As they were leaving, Ling Tian thought he heard something and turned to take a look at the shrubs behind him. He didn't notice anything unusual and followed the rest of his team.

“Your Highness, why didn't we ask them for help?”

“Right now… I cant trust anyone.”

During the battle, he accidentally dropped the crystal and map, and he originally wanted to find the crystal with Devoru and use it to contact Jennifer for help. But they couldn't find it, and those people from Bamboo Academy that pa.s.sed by took it all, how unlucky.

Conversely… aren't those people way too lucky?

What made him more depressed was that all the teachers responsible for rescuing them were out, so even if their crystal was plundered, no one would come…

They couldn't send a signal for help and couldn't trust anyone, which meant that Charles could only rely on his legs to leave the island.

The only guard he had left was Devoru, although he's loyal, the battle exhausted all his power. So now they were both powerless normal people and had to stay hidden in the shadows while escaping the island.

And so, on the morning of the sixth day, Heino Academy was completely wiped out by some mysterious person, and Prince Charles's whereabouts was unknown…

…

…

No matter what happened during the night, no matter how many died, when a new day came, the sun would still rise from the east.

Day after day, year after year, human lives were short existences, no matter who was gone, you or I, the sun would still rise without change.

“Elena, get up!”

The delicate voice next to Elena woke her up from her dreams.

She rubbed her eyes, yawned and slowly got up.

“You really can sleep, how lazy! You're nothing like a maid!” Rosie complained.

“Laz…y?”

Perhaps so.

Ever since becoming a maid for a certain pervert, her sleep has been getting deeper and deeper, without any vigilance. She was clearly powerless and could be in danger at any time and had to stay alert.

Compare to before, when she was the Demon King and had unparalleled power, she never could get any good sleep. She would be worried and anxious and suffered from insomnia so she always got up early and never needed anyone to wake her up.

She slept well when she was weak, and lost sleep every night when she was strong.

Life, it really doesn't make any sense.

“Elena, stop thinking about your master. He might even be getting intimate with sister Ying! A man and woman by themselves, not returning all night… hehe, it isn't strange for something to happen, right?”

“Intimate?”

If those two were somewhere by themselves, would they… be intimate?