Versatile Mage: I have a proficiency panel

Chapter 82 Pushing all the way

The National Government Competition is a competition witnessed by people all over the world. As one of the links in the competition, the treasure hunt competition certainly cannot be allowed to let the students run around in an independent space by themselves. Those pupil eagles have achieved the best live broadcast effect, allowing people to see the performance of the students in the independent space.

Although this independent space has mountains, water and sky, it gives people the feeling that a illogical painter randomly put these scenes together, which is very different from the visual coherence of real nature.

The pupil eagle will closely follow the students, on the one hand, it will serve as a camera, and on the other hand, it will ensure the safety of the students. This is an environment very close to the wild, and it has been arranged by the competition organizers, with some traces of human intervention, and it is inhabited by many demons that will threaten the lives of the students. In the twisted area, there are many battlefields that look like a patchwork of terrible scenes from a black fairy tale, and the brilliant light of magic rises from different places.

Countless students have taken great pains to step into the World Academy Competition just for this important treasure hunt. In previous years, countless unknown students have become unstoppable after shining in the treasure hunt and directly transformed into the brightest magic stars. It is precisely because of this excitement that all students from various countries have worked extra hard. They all know that if they want to be far ahead in strength, they must frantically plunder the resources scattered across the battlefield in this treasure hunt. If they want to win in the final decisive battle, they must use all means possible in this environment!
The pupil eagles frequently fly under the low, thick gray sky. There are a large number of them, and the pupil eagles themselves have special properties. They are not likely to arouse the hatred of the monsters, so even if they fly over the territories of some monsters, they are rarely attacked. This also allows these special eagle-eyed creatures to come and go freely and record different battle scenes.

At the beginning of this competition, most of the students were carefully exploring the independent space and looking for allies, but there was one person who was rushing around recklessly!

The river was surging and silver light was flashing. Bai Jue killed an aquatic demon and took the spirit seed in his hand. Most of the space was within his detection range. He knew clearly where there were people and what had happened!
"A valley?" Bai Jue stroked his chin. He was currently in the middle of the river, at the foot of the mountain range. Not far away was a large area of ​​valleys, gorges, basins, and ground marks. There was not a trace of water. Above this large area of ​​connected basins, black miasma floated, which looked like a black lake from a distance.

The entire Black Air Lake is not a complete flat basin lake. Some areas of it are valley basins, some are narrow fissures in the ground, and some places are divided into several pieces by mountain peaks. The big lake is connected to the small lakes, and the small lakes run through the mountain gorges and long streams. In this mountainous area where the overall terrain is sinking, a group of dry lakes without water are connected. If you look down on this area from the top of the mountains, it must be spectacular!
If my guess is correct, the Mind Stone should be in this Poisonous Curtain Lake Valley. Although this Mind Stone cannot bring about a qualitative change in his spiritual realm, it can at least save him several months of hard training and bring him one step closer to the ninth realm.

"Stop! This is a forbidden area. A super-class magician who entered here almost lost his life. Retreat immediately!" Seeing someone approaching in this direction, the two battlefield assistants guarding outside the valley shouted a warning!

"No need to say more. I know very well what is involved. I will bear all the consequences. Please make way." Bai Jue did not argue too much with the two assistants. He restrained them with telekinesis and walked straight towards the poisonous gas layer.

This level of poison couldn't even cause the slightest fluctuation in his poison system.

“Damn it, why didn’t this student listen to the advice?” The two battlefield assistants, who were wearing white robes with gold threads, did not regain their freedom until Bai Jue’s figure disappeared from their sight. They looked with extremely solemn expressions at the poisonous gas layer that covered a large basin-shaped lake area in front of them.

"We must inform the Governor immediately about this matter!"

"He just went down. If we chase him immediately, we still have a chance to pull him back!"

"Don't waste your time. Let's not talk about how we can get down from here because we can't disperse these poison layers. Just look at the strength of that student. Even if we find him, we can't bring him back!"

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Water City Stadium
The Governor of Water City, Fabio, wore a black knight's hat with the brim pulled down, revealing only his high nose bridge and sword-like chin.

"Governor, a student has broken into the Poison Lake Valley." The referee came over and said to Governor Fabio with a serious face.

"Haven't we already sent two assistants to guard the end of the mountain range to prevent the students from entering that scary place?" Fabio frowned immediately.

"The two assistants tried to stop them, but the student was too strong. He controlled them the moment they came into contact. There was no chance to stop them. Their warnings were also ignored." said the referee.

"Are you kidding me? Two senior veterans can't even stop a student? And they were controlled in an instant?" Governor Fabio asked.

"It's the student from Jiuzhou who used his spirit to strengthen his star." The referee was also helpless. What could he do in the face of this situation?

"Alas... Let's notify the Kyushu embassy staff first and tell them the situation. No matter what, the main responsibility for this matter does not lie with us." Governor Fabio rubbed his temple and sighed.

Before long, several people representing Kyushu learned about this matter, and two of them gathered at the Governor's seat.

Pang Lai had a frown on his face at this moment. He was secretly delighted as he watched Bai Jue making great strides forward. Suddenly, Tong Ying lost track of him. He knew something was wrong, but he did not expect that they had entered a forbidden area!
You know, that is not the area planned by the Hunter Alliance Treasure Hunt students. There has been a lot of debate about the battlefield before, and many people have opposed the use of this twisted battlefield. This is because there are many unknown worlds in this battlefield, and the most terrifying and dangerous one is the mysterious valley world shrouded in poison gas!
Han Ji seemed worried, but in fact he was not worried at all. Pang Lai did not know Bai Jue's inner situation, but he knew it very clearly. Although Bai Jue's poison system was abolished, he still had the ability to use poison and mix medicines. Since he dared to go down, it meant that the poisonous miasma was not an obstacle for him.

Then there is nothing left to be afraid of. There is no monarch in the independent space, so there is nothing that can threaten Bai Jue's safety.

"We need an explanation." Han Ji said seriously. Although Bai Jue had his own ideas, he still had to put pressure on him. Even if he couldn't get any resources, he had to pretend.

"Governor...there is one more thing that we just discovered." Another referee hurried over and saw the national representative of Kyushu present. He didn't know how to start talking for a moment.

"Just tell me." said Governor Fabio.

"After the students from Jiuzhou entered the forbidden area, another group of people wanted to enter. Fortunately, they were stopped. The leader was Kelly, the nephew of Feimeng, the Hunter King of the Hunter Alliance!" said the referee.

"This..." Governor Fabio was stunned.

When Han Ji heard the news, his face suddenly fell, but he was in a good mood. He originally thought that he would not gain anything, but he did not expect to get an unexpected surprise!

The hunting king Feimeng was the main planner of this treasure hunt, and the final decision on the battlefield of the treasure hunt was also made by him. Now that such a problem has arisen, especially involving his nephew Kelly, this matter is obviously not as simple as it seems.

"Go and call the hunting king Femon over!" said Governor Fabio.

Not long after, the Hunter King arrived.

"Are you sure that the team led by my nephew Kelly wants to enter the forbidden area?" Hunting King Feimeng asked with a serious expression.

"Yes, it was indeed him. If the assistants hadn't stopped them, they would have already gone in. And before that, the students from Jiuzhou had already broken in. Do you know why they wanted to enter the forbidden area?" asked the referee.

Fei Meng's face looked a little strange. He was silent for a long time with a serious expression.

After a long while, Fei Meng finally spoke: "I don't know about the Jiuzhou students, but I think Kelly must have mistakenly thought that there was a place where the treasure of the battlefield was hidden."

"Hunter King, what do you mean by this?" said Governor Fabio.

"It's like this. Before I chose the Twisted Battlefield, I reviewed some older information and found that about thirty years ago, there was a treasure hunt for the World Academy Competition that was also held in a distorted space. I studied it carefully and felt that the distorted space is indeed very suitable as a battlefield for the treasure hunt."

"In fact, earlier, the lake at the southern foot of the mountain range was indeed a normal mountain lake with a relatively large area. But from some day on, the lake water began to evaporate due to an unknown force. The evaporated water vapor lingered above the entire lake valley all year round, absorbing the highly toxic air over time and condensed into a huge poisonous sky curtain that is difficult for non-special people to approach."

"In that world academy competition, the Poison Curtain had already been formed. The planner at that time hid the battlefield treasures of that session in the Poison Curtain Lake Valley. As you know, it is very difficult to obtain the battlefield treasures of each session. The planner at that time did not want the students to get them easily, so he put them there. As expected, no student obtained the battlefield treasures at that time." Hunting King Feimeng said.

"And that battlefield treasure from the World Academy War has never been recovered to date."

After hearing this, Han Ji understood what was going on. He asked why Bai Jue broke into the forbidden area for no reason.

In fact, Han Ji was one of the students who participated in the competition that year. The resources and rewards of that treasure hunt were quite generous. It was with the help of that treasure hunt that his strength was greatly improved, which laid the foundation for his subsequent breakthrough and finally entered the ranks of super-class mages.

From this, we can infer that the battlefield treasure must be more valuable than the one we have now!

But there is still a problem...

That's why the battlefield treasures were not recovered!
Battlefield treasures are all very heavyweight treasures. As the hottest rewards in the second round of the world's academic competition, even if the students fail to find them in the end, they must be taken back!

"Apart from the poisonous miasma, are there any other deadly dangers in the Poison Valley?" Han Ji asked.

Besides the poisonous miasma?

King Fei Meng glanced at Han Ji and replied, "After eliminating the poisonous miasma, the remaining dangers are naturally the demons. The Lord of the Poison Valley has been sleeping for many years, and the most threatening is his people, the Heart-eating Prison Demon..."

"...What did you say? There is a monarch in the Poison Valley?"

(For details about the Lord of Poison Valley, please see Chapter 1106. It was said by the Hunter King in the original novel and is not fabricated.)
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After passing through a two or three meter thick poisonous gas layer, Bai Jue leaped and landed directly on the bottom of the swamp-like ground full of corruption. The environment covered by the poisonous gas was really creepy. It felt like falling into the bottom of a deep sea where there was no light at all, and he was suddenly enveloped by endless unknown, dampness, coldness and darkness!

Take a photo first, and then take it back to enjoy it slowly. The surrounding terrain is ever-changing, sometimes narrow like a crack, sometimes rugged like a valley road, and sometimes the terrain suddenly sinks, as if you have fallen into a complex valley maze.
Bai Jue casually took out a long, straight stick and knocked on the mountain wall next to him. The sound spread along the medium, and the surrounding layout emerged in his mind.

In fact, he is a bit directionally challenged and has lost his way many times, but this has never happened since he awakened the sound system. This is probably one of the charms of magic.

Walking along the dark valley, there were many forks in the road. As he walked, Bai Jue suddenly stopped. He really fell into a misconception of thinking. Others walked in the valley because they were afraid of poisonous miasma, but he was not afraid!
Without any hesitation, he unfolded his winged magic tool and traveled through the poisonous gas layer at an extremely fast speed. Soon he arrived at his destination, which was a deep pool with a total of seven narrow paths converging here. It was called the Seven Python Dragon Pool. If there was water flowing here, it must be a very deep place!
It was very quiet here. Even the sounds of a few small worms and insects could not be heard. The only sound in the entire poison barrier trench was the sound of his own footsteps.

Bai Jue lit a fire, not to illuminate himself, but to guide the little thing in the dark. The flame hissed and seemed to be burning something. The air here was quite turbid. Even the range that could be seen with the eyes was quite limited. Everything was hazy.

In the center of the dragon pond, there is a black rock with a strange shape. Where the rock meets the ground, a box covered with gray nets is quietly placed there. The treasure of the battlefield was easily obtained.

"Why don't you dare to attack me?" Bai Jue gently wiped off the dust and cobwebs on the box, and the Italian-style pattern was revealed after being cleaned. After opening it, it was the Nian Stone as expected.

"The helpers are already here, why are you still hesitating?"

Bai Jue raised his head and looked towards the strange boulder, where countless woven silk threads were hanging straight down, with corpses tied at the end. Most of those corpses were wind-dried, like mummies, and it was unknown how many years they had been hanging there.

There are two strange creatures between the woven threads. Their legs are like scorpions and spiders, distributed on both sides of their bodies. Their number is comparable to that of centipedes. Their legs can easily grasp the woven threads. At first glance, they look like they are crawling in the air.

The two creatures were hesitantly crawling up and down. Their bodies were actually somewhat similar to humans, with a head that was extremely small and pointed compared to the body, a strong human torso, and a long snake tail...

Most of its body was covered in poisonous scales. Its appearance, pieced together from a human, a scorpion, a spider, and a python, reminded Bai Jue of the undead that Corpse Minister had made from snake and scorpion tribes. There was a kind of beauty in its patchwork.

"Heart-eating hell demon...haha, you don't want to advance, and you don't want to retreat. How about I send you underground? This way you don't have to endure the pain of thinking." Bai Jue put away the thought stone with a smile and snapped his fingers.

"Sigh!"

The heart-thirsty hell demon hanging upside down on the woven silk suddenly felt something was wrong. Its pointed head suddenly opened, revealing most of its head to be a ferocious mouth with its jagged teeth exposed to the air, which was extremely terrifying!

Before they could change their position, the two monsters had their heads pierced by imperceptible black lines!

It has to be said that the vitality of this thing exceeds that of any commander-level demon that Bai Jue has ever seen. Even if its brain is destroyed, it is not dead yet. The only way to destroy its soul is to use another sound magic.

"This rare and special monster should be worth a few commander-level spirit essences." Bai Jue didn't think the little was too little. The high-level stars had been strengthened almost enough, but after breaking through to the super level, the spirit essences required would increase several times. Nothing was too much.

After collecting the spoils, Bai Jue did not leave the Poison Valley in a hurry, but cast his gaze into the depths. He never expected that there would be a monarch living here. He was wondering whether to provoke it.

Killing the monarch is not a difficult task for him. The key is whether the noise he makes will be discovered... Go and take a look. Use the Scorpion King Sword if you have the chance!

Bai Jue used the Eye of Deception and in the blink of an eye he turned into one of the two heart-thirsty hell demons he had killed earlier.

It must be said that the effect of the Eye of Deception was better than he expected. It completely replicated the body structure of the Heart-Eating Hell Demon and crawled on the silk thread at an extremely fast speed. Bai Jue tried to control his body, sometimes stepping sideways like a spider weaving a web, sometimes rushing like a scorpion, and sometimes walking in a coil like a snake...

After making sure that there was no problem, Bai Jue crawled towards the darkness deep into the Poison Valley. On the way deeper, he encountered many of his kind, the Heart-eating Prison Demon. Fortunately, there was no communication between them, and they just watched him go away.

Although these monsters have no eyes, one can always feel their greedy and vicious gazes.

The habitat of the Lord of the Poison Valley is in the very center of the Poison Valley, which is also the place where the poisonous miasma is the most concentrated. Under the depressed poisonous gas layer, there is a large "Heart-eating Prison Demon" sleeping, or it should be said that it is the Heart-eating Prison Lord, inhaling and exhaling poisonous miasma with every breath. This poisonous gas layer was created by it.

"This poison is quite interesting and worth analyzing and collecting." Bai Jue felt the surroundings and evaluated secretly in his heart that the toxicity of this miasma in small doses was not fatal, but as the scale increased, the toxicity would become more and more severe. This was not a simple quantitative change, but a qualitative change!

No wonder the Heart-Drinking Prison Lord can sleep peacefully, this poisonous gas layer is his biggest protective umbrella. I believe that even other monarchs would not be willing to get close to it. As for the commander-level demons, they are probably poisoned to death before they even get close.

A cold light flashed, and the space flickered as a white ring came to the top of the Heart-eating Prison Lord's head. The Scorpion King's sword penetrated into his head like tofu, and poison that was enough to threaten the emperor spread out.

Even though the Scorpion King's sword is as tiny as a hair compared to the size of the Heart-eating Lord of Hell, it can still kill a monarch silently.

The skin on the Heart-Drying Prison Lord's body began to soften, and Bai Jue quickly separated the scales and took out its poison sac, leaving only rotten flesh eaten by decaying insects. In just a blink of an eye, the body had rotted away beyond recognition.

"The monarch's spirit...it seems like I'm lucky today!" Bai Jue simply dealt with the poison sac and prepared to leave. As for the monarch's body, it slowly disappeared.

The poison system is very convenient, but that is one disadvantage: some poisons are too strong, and except for some special parts, nothing can be left.

After passing through the poisonous gas layer, Bai Jue saw the bright sky and mountains again. Although the scenery was not that good, it was better than the Poison Valley. In a blink of an eye, he saw Han Ji and his group who had just arrived here.

"...Are you okay?" Hunting King Fei Meng was a little surprised when he saw Bai Jue was unharmed.

"Why should I be in trouble?" Bai Jue frowned and asked with his eyes who Han Ji was.

"No, it's best if you're okay. Then can you tell me why you broke into the forbidden area and what you encountered inside?" Fei Meng didn't argue too much and just asked.

"This is the main planner of this treasure hunt, the Hunting King Fei Meng. It's just a routine inquiry." Han Ji said to Bai Jue, and at the same time gestured a number with his hands. The other party gave compensation and his attitude was slightly better.

"I heard some people discussing that there were treasures in here, but after I went in, I saw nothing but poisonous miasma. I didn't even encounter a demon. I searched around and then came out." Bai Jue said.

"The treasure hunt is still going on, and I haven't asked you for help. I should be able to continue the treasure hunt, right?"

"Of course." Hunting King Feimeng nodded.

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"Damn it, what is this Kyushu guy doing, he's such a barbaric bandit!"

At the Portal Arena, the relevant personnel from various countries were sitting in their seats, staring at the scenes that were constantly being broadcast.

After Bai Jue came out of the Poison Valley, the scenes around him were sent directly to the main screen. All this was because he was too crazy. People from all countries prayed that their teams would not encounter this guy.

Look at the scene now, one person surrounded a team of an entire country, and then took away all the treasures they had searched for. Even the space scroll could not escape. The time delay of four seconds is still too long!

First it was Egypt, then Great Britain, and then Citigroup... There were many strong teams among them, forcing the remaining ten teams to unite together, not daring to be left alone.

But even if there are ten teams, Bai Jue will still grab it!

The Kyushu Provincial Team at this time.

With Bai Jue's help, the nine people were teleported to the same place from the beginning. They joined forces to search for treasures, and never lost when they met other national government teams in the competition. However, because there were too many people, the harvest per person was only mediocre.

"Lao Ai, although our method is quite stable, the harvest is still a bit small. How about we just go and grab what other teams have?" Mo Fan counted his harvest. Although it was not a small amount, people are always greedy and want more.

"...Don't even think about it. We have no chance to implement this plan." Jiang Shaoxu looked strange.

The Psychic Mage can read the information in Tongying's memory, so she naturally noticed Bai Jue's actions through Tongying...

"The captain has eliminated all the teams except ours."

　I'm writing the next chapter. Please forgive me for my poor typing skills.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)