Magic High School.

However, that look of disdain was still a bit off-putting. I'll find an opportunity to snipe her in the virtual arena, put a sack over her head, and beat her up.

That's how little devils are; they'll be fine after a beating from Seven Wolves.

"But I'm a little curious, are there only women and no men among them? How do the fairies reproduce?" Xiaoye began to think about this question very seriously.

"Hey, you don't understand!" Yi Lian suddenly realized it was time for her intelligence network to come into play.

"Fairies can have offspring with any race, and the offspring will always be pure-blooded fairies. This is why they consider themselves superior, claiming that they have the blood of gods flowing in their veins, which is why they can look down on any other race. Their culture is also completely fairy-centric."

"Wow..." The group felt like they had really seen something new.

"So, are they really the chosen ones of the gods?" Valerie asked the most crucial question.

"Who knows?" Yi Lian shrugged. However, he thought it was unlikely, after all, the fairy race was just so-so. If they had racial stats, their racial stats would be about the same as forest elves, or even worse than his own elemental elves, not to mention truly stat-monster races like dragons.

Therefore, their self-proclaimed status as a "favored one of the gods" is most likely just self-aggrandizement.

"Isn't it a bit inappropriate for us to talk badly about others behind their backs?" Valerie suddenly asked.

other people:"……"

Didn't you start this topic? And now you realize it's not a good idea, huh?

"Let's go, let's stop chatting and get into ranked matches," Li Ge said immediately.

He came to the rankings to refine his masked armor and psionic enhancements, and incidentally to feed some naive kids like Akaishi.

Anyway, my recent task is to improve my basic spiritual power, and I'll rely on natural refinement in terms of my domain.

According to Abaddon, after consolidating their psionic energy to the intermediate level of the second tier, they should go to him for the next stage of domain development.

The next step is to try to gradually let the field influence reality.

After completing this step, he estimates that he will be able to gradually expand his coverage and try to go back to his hometown to check on the situation.

Li Ge felt that the six years given by the school was too much time; he estimated that he could complete the course in six months.

So the group started lining up.

Soon, they were matched with equally matched opponents.

The next instant, the group appeared by the lake. Excellent, the randomly selected scene is perfect for our team to utilize.

The group was immediately eager to try and give those who started playing ranked matches at this time a good beating.

They are playing in squads, which means their opponents could be any team of two to thirteen players.

But it didn't matter; even with a full team of thirteen, they never backed down. And up until now, Yilian's God's Hand hadn't even been used.

After all, the four of them were top students in the blue dormitory, and their strength had gradually surpassed that of the other students in the yellow and red dormitories.

As is usually the case, most people's psionic abilities only gradually reach the second tier after the second year, but they are now a team with all members at the second tier, the kind that wouldn't necessarily lose even if they were to PK with regular second-year seniors.

So, ranking up as a freshman is basically like smurfing. However, their points are not enough, especially Li Ge's, who has lost a lot of points recently, so they need to climb the ranks first if they want to rank up to a higher level.

You are being matched with an equally matched opponent...

Matchmaking complete, opponents are: temporary lone wolf team!

The group was stunned for a moment.

A temporary lone wolf?

This is a very strange situation; it only happens when a solo player starts a team. Essentially, their team is a four-person squad, while the opposing team is a temporary, combined team of multiple squads plus a lone wolf.

Generally speaking, this situation will not occur. After all, if you are alone, you can just play solo. No one would be crazy enough to play multiplayer games alone, right?

Then, Li Ge activated his Golden Eyes; he was going to take a good look at the intelligence on the other side…

[The Fairy Princess]...

When this label appeared, Li Ge was stunned for a moment.

"What's wrong?" Xiaoye asked.

"We've reached the fairy lady's line! Looks like we're in luck!" Li Ge was eager to try and prepared a burlap sack.

After he finished speaking, Yilian and Valerie became excited.

"You really got a turn in line?"

"Why doesn't she go solo queue and start a group queue by herself?"

Li Ge shrugged and casually said, "Maybe he felt that solo queue wasn't challenging enough and wanted to challenge himself."

Then he turned his head and saw Xiaoye, who was already eager to try.

It's clear that she was a little upset about her solo queue failure last time.

"Hey, I won't pretend anymore, I'll warm up with three Noble Phantasms first." Yi Lian also became excited. He was also very concerned about this guy who was nominally the second seat, but in terms of combat power, he should actually be the first.

In particular, the fact that she, a member of the traditional department, possesses combat power surpassing that of the chief disciple is something that inevitably excites Yilian as well.

He plans to unleash a small burst of Noble Phantasms first, and if things don't go well, he can unleash his full power in his Noble Phantasm form.

The Hand of God granted him the ability to store five replicas of Noble Phantasms, which, although only lasting for a little over ten minutes, was still sufficient.

Valerie is also ready to go all out. She hesitated before even blowing up a small pony, but now she's going to blow up a fully-formed Holy Light Pegasus to see how it turns out.

Meanwhile, Xiaoye kept touching the short knife in her hand, seemingly preparing to win back the points she had lost.

As for Li Ge, he simply patted his belt, and then a masked armor with yellow and purple stripes instantly covered his entire body, perfectly matching his clown mask.

"Joker! Combine!" The voice deliberately added by Li Ge from the belt resounded in the sky.

This bio-armor, mimicking an insect swarm, has two scarf-like tentacles, one yellow and one purple, dancing wildly in the wind around its neck.

Then, Xiaoye seemed to transform into liquid and slipped into Li Ge's shadow; this was their most common form of cooperation.

"Battle begins!"

In the next instant, the group rushed towards the other side like strange creatures.

……

Meanwhile, Miss Fairy looked impatiently at her random teammates.

There's a two-person team, a three-person team, and myself alone, making a total of six people.

Most importantly, these two teams...

Weak, too weak...

She found solo queue too boring and had never been matched with anyone she could enjoy.

Even among her fellow students in the Noble Phantasm Department, who were supposedly dedicated to combat, the strongest person she had ever encountered was that shadow puppet guy, who was nothing more than a weakling, utterly helpless against her light magic.

There wasn't even one person who could say, "I'm very sorry I couldn't let the fairy have his fill of fighting."

This, in turn, prevents his frequently modified techniques from receiving useful validation.

She actually wanted to be ranked against higher-ranked players, but in reality, her score wasn't high enough to qualify for higher-ranked matches because solo queuing didn't add many points for her anymore.

Unless you play solo in a multiplayer match and get MVP every time, it will probably take more than ten matches before you can apply for a higher-ranked match.

So she started playing solo queue, hoping that whether the opponent was ganging up on her or using a series of attacks, she could have a good time and have the opportunity to refine and test her improved techniques. That would be the best outcome.

She glanced at the group with haughty eyes, then coldly turned her head away.

Just don't get in the way.

She looked down on it in her heart, but she wouldn't say it out loud, after all, a proud fairy has her own glory.

So, while the two teams were revealing their Noble Phantasms and discussing tactics, she left and prepared to wait in the most conspicuous spot for her opponents to challenge her.

The other two groups she was assigned to immediately became dissatisfied.

"Who is she? Whose young master or princess doesn't play solo queue but comes here to pretend in group queue?" someone said indignantly.

Most people come to the virtual arena to improve their combat experience and to test their new techniques or tactics.

For them, isn't this just a training exercise? Why are they putting on such a show?

Do I have to serve the young master and princess myself?

"Forget it, ignore her. I see she's from a traditional department, so she probably doesn't have much fighting ability and is just here to loaf around."

Chapter 153 Beating the Female Demon

Therefore, the five of them quickly informed each other of their Noble Phantasms and their corresponding abilities.

They either come to gain practical experience or to test new abilities of their Noble Phantasms. Basically, everyone who comes here has one of these reasons, so they all want to have a good fight with someone of equal strength.

Although they often complain about the matchmaking system, saying that it matches opponents of similar skill levels, it is true that the hidden MMR of both sides is similar, and the side with the lower MMR will have a slight advantage.

The fact that they've added a flashy lone wolf to their team proves that the opposing team must be very strong, so they're forcibly pairing them with a lone wolf to boost their hidden MMR. However, they all feel that teammates matched like this are pretty useless anyway.

"Battle begins!"

Soon the announcement came from the sky, and they immediately prepared. One defense, one melee, two ranged, and one support/healer – their two teams were a very standard configuration. They even had the feeling that after logging off, they could try to coordinate their attacks and then merge the two teams into one.

Then, a pony fell from the sky and landed next to everyone.

The chibi-style pony looked quite adorable, even flapping its wings as it landed, which surprised them for a moment.

"boom!"

Suddenly, light and heat exploded, and at the same time, fragments that looked like holy light burst forth.

"Hold on, hold on! An attack of this level and range will definitely come at a great cost!" the temporary captain roared.

He wasn't wrong. As fellow newcomers, pseudo-Noble Phantasms generally come at a higher cost for stronger effects. In fact, before becoming true Noble Phantasms, the base values ​​of all Noble Phantasms aren't that different. The only difference is that weaker Noble Phantasms consume less resources, while stronger ones often come with certain side effects—either high resources or high costs, or both.

Of course, this only applies to counterfeit artifacts. As Noble Phantasms begin to evolve into genuine ones, this pattern will gradually be broken.

Just when they thought that the explosion that had almost wiped out their team must have come at an extremely high cost, the next moment, the team's support seemed to notice that there was something wrong with the scattered fragments of holy light around them.

"Wait..." The temporary captain raised a defensive spell, but shards of holy light were already plastered to his face. He wanted to shout for retreat, but before he could even open his mouth, an explosion filled the entire world.

A tiny speck of holy light ignited instantly, as if setting a fuse. The next instant, countless fragments around them exploded into flames like wildfire, the outward manifestation of which was…

"Buzz!"

A violent explosion, resembling a mushroom cloud, erupted into the sky. Thick mushroom-shaped white smoke and the resulting shockwave instantly spread throughout the battlefield, outlining the shape of Patrick Star in the sky.

In fact, Li Ge didn't expect Valerie's Noble Phantasm to become more and more artistic. He originally thought that her Pegasus would evolve towards being faster and more durable, but after it became capable of exploding, her Noble Phantasm has been evolving more and more towards explosiveness.