My Elf System

"Oh, they're entering the portal now," Mia noticed the contestants stepping into the portal along with their beasts.

Dahlia also turned towards the screen after hearing what Mia said, but she noticed something else so she asked her. "Princess Mia, why is Prince Galdur the only one in the inferno zone?"

"Hmm, it looks like everyone is in the same zone as him but they're in different locations," Mia replied after looking at the map displayed on the screen.

The map had something like a heat signature of all the contestants in the inferno zone, and this allowed everyone to know exactly where each of the contestants was on the map.

"Oh, okay." Dahlia nodded her head in understanding. "I think the academy did this to distance everyone from the portal."

"You're right, Dahlia. There's only one portal and everyone is at an equal distance away from the portal."

"So, it is like a race? Do the tournament officials want the contestants to slay monsters and race against themselves to the portal?"

"It seems so because only sixteen of them will be allowed to qualify for the third round."

Dahlia returned her gaze back to the screen, and she noticed Orion was about to encounter a nest of lava wyrms, which had about a hundred of these monsters.

The Lava Wyrms looked like they were feeding on the carcass of a dead monster. But while they were eating, a few of the wyrms had noticed Orion's presence and they turned towards him, roaring with rage.

And as if that wasn't scary enough, thirty of the wyrms abandoned the meal in front of them to enjoy a new type of meal that had arrived.

The carcass of the dead monster they were eating could never be enough for a hundred lava wyrms, and so a lot of them were unable to eat to their satisfaction, while some couldn't even grab a bite of the meat, so they had no choice but to turn towards a new source of food.

Actually, it was a handsome meal with pointy ears, riding on a big chicken, and who didn't love chickens?

"Food?"

"No, it's chicken!!!"

"A huge Chicken!!"

"I love chickens."

"I saw it first."

"No, I did!"

"It's mine!"

"All mine!!"

"Come to Daddy, you delicious chicken."

The wryms hurriedly slithered towards Orion and Aurora like winged serpents, gliding through the sky.

Well, the wyrms were wingless beasts with a serpentine appearance, but even though they had no wings, the wyrms could still manage to fly towards their prey.

They weren't bothered by the fact that their meal was high above the ground because they could also fly.

Meanwhile, Orion remained relaxed as he watched the lava wyrms close the distance between him and them with their mouths drooling in anticipation of what they were about to eat.

And for some unknown reason, Aurora felt relaxed even though there were about fifty wyrms in front of her.

It was strange, but it was also really relaxing.

She felt relaxed because she knew Orion could handle the number of monsters heading towards them.

'Stupid serpents, this prince is going to end you all within the blink of an eye,' Aurora huffed in petty annoyance.

She was still mad at the wyrms for calling her a chicken.

How could a beautiful, mythical creature like Aurora, be called a chicken; these useless serpents had to be taught a lesson.

Unlike Orion, Aurora had understood what the wyrms were saying when they noticed them, and she had been angry at the wyrms since then.

She wanted to kill them herself, but she thought against it because she was interested in knowing how strong Orion really was.

'I'm still curious about how his mana suddenly tripled that of mine,' Aurora uttered in her thoughts.

'It was weird, so I really want to gauge how strong this prince really is.'

'I've never seen anyone boost their ranks to be three ranks higher than mine.'

'I will definitely find out how strong he is.'

One could wonder what Aurora was talking about, and she was simply referring to when a huge hole had appeared underneath Orion during their first encounter.

This had been thanks to his title as 'Child Of Mana'.

The title allowed Orion to increase his mana capacity for a brief moment, allowing his mana capacity to be similar to that of a rank eighteen mage, and this was what Aurora didn't know but wanted to find out.

She wanted to see if Orion was really as strong as a rank eighteen mage.

With that out of the way, she refocused her mind back to the lava wyrms in front of her.

The lava wyrms had a huge ball of light glowing from their bellies, and the light could be seen slowly heading toward their mouths while they got closer to Orion. The moment they were very close enough to him, a huge ball of lava shot out of their mouths, flying towards Orion and Aurora.

Orion swiftly shielded himself from the wyrms attack by casting a mana shield.

And at the same time, he began to cast a new set of spells. Then, twenty magic circles surrounded the wyrms heading his way and the ones still occupied with the dead monster they were eating.

With a click of his fingers, the magic circles activated, and the loud, high-pitched wailing of a banshee filled the ears of the lava wyrms.

A few of the Wyrms cried out in agony while some of them tried to escape, but they couldn't because Orion had cast the spell in a way that the Wyrms wouldn't be able to escape, even if they wanted to.

The loud high-pitched wail continued for about five minutes, and before the wyrms knew it, their bodies ignited in flames, while the rest of them exploded as though they had swallowed a lot of dynamite.

Their entire surrounding turned bloody, with chunks of meat flying everywhere, and a rain of warm blood drizzled down to the ground.

The moment he noticed there was no other monster in sight, Orion turned toward the direction of the portal, and Aurora flapped her wings before heading toward the portal as well.