[Number of participants ready: 16/16]
[Ding! Check that all participants are ready]
[This team scenario will officially begin in three minutes]
“Heh, there seem to be quite a number of new faces this time.”
Seeing the girl’s agitated face as she threatened him with lightning right in his face, the middle-aged man hurriedly coughed twice and pretended to survey the other participants seriously.
Lime let out a ‘tsk’, not in the mood to bother about him. The man heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that the lightning was gone. He lamented in his mind,
‘Hah, this girl has been a bit grumpy lately. Sure enough, it’s because that special instance reward was taken away by someone else a few days ago, isn’t it?
“Oh? Little Lime, you’re here too?”
Temporarily ceasing fire with Adversity, Hua Ling looked at the girl and middle-aged man sitting next to her, and unexpectedly put on a smile.
“Sister Hua Ling, long time no see.”
Lime also nodded. Although they were both comrades in the Night Bureau, it had been a long time since she had met each other, as she was not attending school in the capital.
Yin Kui looked at Hua Ling, who was chatting with Lime, with a hostile gaze. However, he did not flare up. Instead, he turned his head away and began conversing with the person at the same table as him, who also seemed difficult to deal with.
“Uh, older brother, why do they all seem to know each other?!”
At this moment, Fang Ran was staring at the night scene outside the window with his arms crossed and a serious expression on his face, as if he was appreciating the depth of the night.
“Well, they’re big shots after all.”
At this moment, Impetuous was pinching his chin with one hand while looking out the window with a serious expression, as if he were admiring the brilliance of the lights.
Ling speechlessly watched the two buffoons who were acting cool. She then explained lightly,
“There are not many night battle participants in the world, and the higher the rank, the smaller the circle, not to mention between the various teams.”
“The level of the Night Battle team scenario this time is not low. All the participants present here are all B and C grades,…”
At this moment, Fang Ran and Impetuous felt as if the power bank summoning beast was glancing sideways at them as she sneered derisively.
“Except for you two E-grade noobs.”
“Uh…”
‘We’re sooo sorry for being such noobs!’
Fang Ran and Impetuous both grumbled in their hearts at the same time and rolled their eyes.
“What’s up with the scenario this time?”
“There are no special requirements. Everyone just has to rely on their own abilities.”
“Hmph, after all those two forces are as incompatible as water and fire.”
As the countdown to the Night Battle continued, a group of B-grade big shots were discussing the Night Battle. At the end of it, they looked towards the two tables where Hua Ling and Yin Kui were seated at, and smirked as they commented.
Hua Ling and Yin Kui both scoffed and did not respond.
After that, those people started casually making small talk. From time to time, they would sneak glances at the enchanting mysterious woman seated at the table at the center, who stunned everyone. After all to them, this team scenario was no more than an ordinary scenario.
“Hmm? Those two people over there are E-graders?! What the f*ck are they wearing?!”
Out of the blue, a man with his face covered, looking totally like an assassin, seemed to discover something and opened his mouth in shock. Following which, everyone, including that mysterious woman looked over in interest as they looked towards the two people who tried their best to make themselves seem invisible.
The two noobs who had snuck into the group of big shots, had been spotted.
There was nothing to be done. Fang Ran who was covered in dirt was not too bad, but the person who was wearing only underwear and whose upper body was bare, was just too conspicuous.
“F*ck! Younger brother! We’ve been discovered, what should we do?!”
Impetuous’ face was drenched in sweat as he forced himself to keep a straight face even though he was panic-stricken internally. Should Lime recognise him right now, Impetuous did not think that he would be able to withstand the high voltage electric current flowing through his body.
“Calm down older brother! Calm down! We must stay calm! The more so at a time like this, the more we must display our manly composure!”
Fang Ran was also breaking out in sweat as he whispered the sentence he had been using often as of late. However, in actuality, he was desperately yelling in his mind, “It’s over! If that guy with the Tang Dynasty sword notices anything right now, I’ll probably not be able to defeat just his Tang Dynasty Sword.’
‘Duh! Right now, he’s neither been injured by someone’s blazing ultimate move, nor has his physical stats been depleted from experiencing a chaotic battle.’
‘With my tiny arms and legs as an E-grader, I will definitely die if I were to face off with him who’s a C-grader!’
Just when Fang Ran and Impetuous were high strung, the system’s voice rang out, like music to the ears!
[Ding! The countdown is over!]
[Number of Participants Ready: 16/16]
[C-13 has been released]
[Night Battle Team Scenario]
[Begin!]
Rustle!
As if the air had turned still, the atmosphere in the tea room seemed to have changed.
Everyone stood up and headed out. They were sombre and valiant, as if they had entered an exclusive Night Battle mode.
They could no longer care less about how two E-graders had snuck in.
Hua Ling and Yin Kui exchanged a glance and did not say anything, because they were destined to fight each other the moment they ran into each other. There was nothing to say between the both of them. Right now they were just afraid of letting others take advantage of their fights.
Crash! Rumble!
Boom!
Some teams shattered the window and jumped out directly, while others smashed straight through a wall. Some of them turned into gas and phased through the wall, and some even vanished with a snap of a finger!
Not a single soul walked out through the door.
“Holysh*t, are these people so snazzy that they don’t even walk out through doors now? Won’t the door feel ashamed if you guys do this?”
Fang Ran could not help but comment as he watched this group of big shots each showing their special prowess and fleeing helter-skelter in the blink of an eye.
“Hah, whenever this happens, I’ll always envy the abilities of those big shots. It’s really cool!”
Sensing the absence of the lightning girl, Impetuous turned around, shirtless and wearing only his underwear, and said this with a melancholic expression.
“Yeah, older brother, if only we could use such cool abilities as well!”
Fang Ran also sighed as he looked at the upscale tea room that had become a mess. A rueful expression crossed his face, even though his face was now covered in blood.
Ling was at a loss for words when she floated up and looked at the two magical boys who were clenching their teeth as they admired the abilities of others.
‘Puh-lease, with both your current images, one looking like he had been dragged here in the midst of receiving “special service”, while the other looking like an African refugee who has just fled from calamity…’
‘Even if you have ten powers, you two will never have the imposing aura and demeanor of those participants.’
Deriding these two idiots inwardly, Ling quietly watched them act cool.
‘In such a short span of time, these two idiots have already chatted till…’
“Okay, younger brother! This time! This time around! We must find the perfect way to disguise our powers and not let others find out that they are magical girl powers!”
Impetuous was suddenly filled with a valiant spirit as he thumped his chest and shouted.
“That’s right, older brother! Wasn’t the reason we formed this team to cover up the blemish of us having magical girl powers! After accomplishing this difficult task, we will reach the pinnacle of life!”
Fang Ran also got excited. He could feel his fighting spirit burning brightly.
Clap!
Both of them held their right hands together, as if they were noble-minded patriots who had gathered together for a common revolutionary goal!
A flame burned brightly behind them!
However, right now in the data space, Ling was silently burying her face in the wide sleeves of her gothic loli dress. There was only one thought in her mind,
‘These two idiots are hopeless.’