After Alec said it was time to join the race, the whole War God Mage Academy team moved out with Pale and Endrick in the lead, as they neared the base, they found a cluster of mages from another kingdom, ones who’d been thrown back by the stairway’s rebound earlier, loitering around the stairway to recover before trying again.Despite not being ready to climb now, those mages were still hogging the platform, since they couldn’t go up yet, they chose to bully anyone who tried. When a clearly powerful squad approached, they would simply step aside, but if they spotted a group they thought they could push around, then they would switch to their full douche-bag mode, acting like they owned the place.A few strong teams noticed, but didn’t bother to even intervene; as they felt it “wasn’t their problem,” especially since some of the troublemakers’ own elites were already climbing the stairs, the arrangement was obvious, they let their own captains and aces gain a head start while the lac

From the mages’ perspective, they finally understood that with each twenty-fifth step. It’s like an upgraded dimension of sorts, just like how illusion began on the 26th step, it was clearly designed to weed out those with weaker mentalities, as the Origin World envoys don’t only want human geniuses, They want geniuses with at least some talent in mental ability; otherwise, taking such a mage would be a waste of time, since mages with weaker mental talent find it hard to enter the high-rank realm, and even if they manage to breach the gap with pills later on, it always takes a steep amount of resources to push them to the next level compared to others with normal or gifted mental affinity.This is another aspect of the first trial, which is why the minimum requirement was for the mages to be able to stand firmly on the 26th step before they would have qualified, to many of these talented mages from the top academies, such mental illusions or hallucinations weren’t enough to stop them

Immediately, Alec realized the rest of his team were already staring at him, hoping to hear his plan for how they would proceed with the second trial.Funny enough, he didn’t even have a plan yet, which made him look around, hoping he’d catch some kind of clue about how he was supposed to handle it from the teams nearby .Then he noticed most teams with more than ten members were already splitting into two groups: with one consisting of their main members, and their reserves in the other, in cases where a reserve member was particularly special, they adjusted, pulling that specialist into the main squad and sending one of their heavy hitters to the reserve team.They still didn’t know what the second trial would be, but many of these mages seemed confident they could handle whatever came with just their main team, that kind of confidence was standard among the premier institutions of all the Five kingdoms.However, for some teams that already had exactly ten members, they didn’t both

At the Arena, many people were already watching different water screens showing the teams they were interested in, the system of the water screen was so advanced that mages could draw in the air with their mana to interact with any of the multiple water screens they wanted to view personally, and a miniature water screen showcasing that match would pop up before them. Even outside the four axis gates, many were watching the second trial in this way.This setup was probably arranged like this because there were teams from all five Kingdoms, and it’s not like anyone would just enjoy watching multiple teams at once, since their attention would be divided. That’s why the system was deployed this way, so they could simply interact with the water screen showing the team they wanted to support. And even then, there were still many who wanted to watch more than one match at once.This new water-screen format allowed the viewers up to at least three miniature water screens, that was how citi

Legion was no longer in midair again, instead just like his cyborg golems. He too had taken cover behind a chunk of collapsed buildings, as he watched the smoke obscuring the tower slowly clear. He finally sighed in relief after confirming Alec was okay atop the Tower, and nothing had happened to him after the collision of the two projectiles. But that didn’t mean he’d forgiven the robots that almost cost Alec a loss, Legion immediately turned his attention to the rear-line robots carrying heavy weaponry and issued new orders. “1, 2, 3—provide cover for me. 4, 5, 6—you’ll breach with me. 7, 8, 9 you lots would provide long-range support, and your primary objective is to keep the robot back line from interfering again. “If anyone tries to act too clever, eliminate them before I reach them, number 10, as for you, your mission is to handle healing and all support, just be ready when we need you.” Legion was furious that he’d allow something like that slip through and intended to mak