When Alice arrived at the Magic Ski Race, their team had grown from four to five people. As the newly joined classmate Long Lian, she did not feel any embarrassment because of her sudden request to follow along.

Long Lian remained silent, listening to Alice and the others laughing and chatting without saying a word.

Dolores put her mouth to Alice's ear, glanced at Longlian, whose silence was golden, frowned slightly and whispered to Alice:

"...How did you promise Long Lian to go to the ski resort with us? She obviously wants you to agree to participate in Greedy Chess next year so that you can compete with Brenda again. You won't watch it.

come out."

Alice nodded, looked at Dolores calmly, and replied calmly and relaxedly:

"Of course I can see that."

Dolores frowned even more tightly, her eyes showed disbelief, and she lowered her voice and asked:

"Then why did you still agree to her? Long Lian obviously has impure motives and doesn't really want to play with us."

Shrugging her shoulders, Alice still looked indifferent and pointed behind Dolores with a smile:

"She feels lonely when she plays alone. It's fun when everyone plays together, right? People have very good ears, and she's looking at you."

Dolores was reminded by Alice, and she immediately swallowed her words, turned her head and looked back, and met Long Lian's gray eyes with unknown meaning.

Being stared at by such eyes, coupled with the fact that she had just quietly discussed Longlian, Dolores suddenly felt that her hair was standing on end. The pink-haired little witch smiled guiltily, turned her head, patted her chest, and thought to herself:

"...What a scary look!"

The venue for the Magic Ski Race is located on a hill in Credo Academy. Due to the snowfall in winter, the mountain is already covered with snow. In order to make the game experience better, the magician in charge of this game also used a magic spell to cast a spell on the mountain.

A magical snow.

"Do I need to buy any tools? How to compete?"

It was Alice's first time to play this kind of game and she didn't know anything. In order to clearly understand how to play, she took a step forward and asked the magic staff in front of the snow mountain.

In fact, this staff member is still a sixth-grade magic student. He looks about fourteen or fifteen years old, has refreshing short hair, and is wearing a round snowball suit.

Upon hearing Alice's question, the Snowball boy reached out and patted his round suit enthusiastically, and then said loudly:

"We don't have equipment here. Ski tools are your own magic broom, or if you want to use a magic wand to ski, you can do that. However, pay attention to safety, there will be a heavy snowfall soon. The Magic Snow Mountain has set up snow-making magic

Formation, if something unexpected happens, remember to use the snowball flare to notify us."

Before Alice could speak, Dolores's eyes widened with an expression of "incredible" written all over her face:

"Isn't it? So stingy?! You don't even sell ski equipment? And those snowball flares, where can I get them?"

Yingyuan also raised her eyebrows. It's too casual to use a magic wand to ski or a flying broom to ski! Can these magic equipment be used as ski tools? Can they slide?

"The rules of the competition are, of course, the fastest skier wins the championship. There is a magic timer, and you can also challenge high difficulty. But you are too young. To ensure safety, go to the low-difficulty skiing area.

!As for the snowball flares, I am responsible for distributing them!"

The boy in the snowball suit smiled mysteriously, suddenly turned around, turned his back to Alice and the others, raised his butt, and "pulled" five precise small snowballs in the eyes of the five little wizards.

Can you still play like this?

Alice blinked her eyes, the mysophobic Willett looked expressionless, Dolores showed a very excited look, Yingyuan frowned and pinched her nose. Although the snowball flare that was "pulled out" did not have an odor,

But it still made people want to cover their noses. As for Longlian, her eyes kept lingering on Alice and Willett, and she didn't care at all about the snowballs pulled out by the staff.

"I wish you all a happy Magic Festival, hahaha, remember to watch your own flares, safety first!"

From a distance, you can still hear the warm voices of the staff.

"...What's wrong, Willett? You seem to have something on your mind?"

Alice was keenly aware of Brenda's slightly frowned eyebrows, the smile on her face faded, and she asked with concern in a natural tone.

Willett shook her head slightly, her ice blue eyes reflected the shadow of Alice, and she explained:

"It's nothing. It's just that the staff member just now looked a bit unfamiliar. I have never seen him in the magic club. Maybe I am overthinking it. He may be a new person who was transferred to temporarily take charge of services due to lack of manpower."

Alice breathed a sigh of relief, the smile on her face stretched again, the lines became softer, and she said happily:

"So, if I have the opportunity in the future, I can also join the Magic Club. Since there are not enough people, I can also help you share some of the work. This way you don't have to work too hard!"

Willett stepped on the snow and followed Alice up the mountain. Although they could fly to the top of the mountain on a flying broom, climbing on foot was not fun. As they walked, scattered snowflakes fell from the sky and fell on the mountain.

Alice's blond hair also fell on the tip of Long Lian's nose. A cold winter wind blew, and everyone's clothes and hair were swaying in the wind and snow...

It started to snow.

"How long does it take to walk? Why haven't you reached the top of the mountain yet?"

Dolores, who had the weakest physical strength, breathed out large swaths of white mist. She couldn't help but groaned and stopped. She bent down and supported her knees with both hands. She was panting from exhaustion and was unwilling to walk up the mountain anymore.

Not to mention Dolores, except for the strong Alice and Yingyuan, the other three people were very tired. Long Lian, who had been silent, finally spoke:

"...I'm tired, can I rest for a while before climbing?"

Alice looked at Dolores and Long Lian who were panting, and then at Willett who looked calm but could not hide his fatigue. She nodded and said to Long Lian:

"Of course, it's just that there are only trees around here besides snow. The magic staff have said before that if there is going to be a magic snow, we can't stay here. We might as well hide under the big trees to avoid the wind and snow.

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Yingyuan did not object. Looking at Dolores who was so tired that she was unwilling to move another step, she couldn't help but show a proud smile, walked up to the pink-haired little witch, folded her hands on her chest, and said in a slightly mocking tone:

"It's not enough to walk such a short distance. You've eaten so much food, but your physical strength is so weak. Did you use all your food to gain weight?"

Dolores gritted her teeth angrily and wanted to talk back, but she was too tired from the quarrel, so she gave up halfway. She just puffed her mouth angrily, stood up straight, snorted from her nose, turned away, and did not intend to pay attention to Yingyuan.

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Alice and the five of them came to the foot of a big tree. The snow on the tree crown was thick, and in Dolores's eyes, it looked like pieces of creamy ice cream.

After climbing the mountain for a while, her stomach was already a little dissatisfied. She simply sat down on a root exposed under the tree, took out her snack reserve from the hat, tore open the packaging bag and ate.

The wind on the mountain gradually became stronger, and the scattered snowflakes became denser in just a few minutes. The strong wind swept the flying snow, and the five people who were not wearing magic school uniforms all felt the cold.

And the snow is getting heavier and heavier, and there seems to be no intention of stopping. In the violent snowstorm, if they head towards the top of the mountain, only Alice Yingyuan and Willett can do it.

But the risk is still not small. Without the protection of magic, even if they arrive at the competition site, their bodies will be frozen stiff and their teeth will chatter. It will be difficult for them to recover for a while.

For this reason, the only way to go to the top of the mountain is to wait until the snow stops. According to the staff of the Magic Ski Game, you can only participate in the competition when you reach the top of the mountain. But along the way, Alice and the others saw nothing but snow and snow.

There is no magic figure in the tree.

Have all the participants in the competition already reached the top of the mountain? This doesn't make sense. Something seems wrong. Alice leaned against the big tree and twisted her beautiful eyebrows in deep thought.

Willett took out a magic carpet from his magic hat, spread it on the snow, and sat quietly opposite Longlian, his ice-blue eyes looking at the winter sky divided by tree trunks and snow. Although he was under the tree

, but the wind and snow can still get through the gaps between the branches and fall on their shoulders and hair.

Longlian looked at Willet, the silver-haired girl wearing a polar bear suit, who seemed to be integrated with the flying snow between heaven and earth, calm and distant, her ice-blue eyes looking up at the sky, cold and dusty.

Longlian waited for a while, but did not wait for Willet to speak, but this was expected. Brenda was not a person who talked a lot. Rumor has it that the Magic Guild President is a "walking iceberg", and no one has the temperament of an iceberg.

A person who is a talkative person.

"Are you a beginner at greedy chess?"

Long Lian asked proactively. If she didn't take the initiative, I believe Willit wouldn't take the initiative to talk to her.

"no."

Willett shook his head slightly and retracted his gaze to the sky. His ice-blue eyes were silent but clear and bright. He seemed to understand Longlian's intention. Brenda replied in a low voice:

"I was exposed to it when I was very young."

Long Lian's depressed mood due to the failure of the game improved slightly. It turned out that the president had been exposed to greedy chess when he was a child, and he must have practiced hard for a long time to reach the level he is today. Thinking about this, the scale in Long Lian's heart was

Finally it changed from tilted to straight.

Long Lian is a very competitive person and will not give up easily. She also makes no secret of her ambition to gain a higher status and dares to compete with many chess players. Although on the surface she is calm and capable, neither humble nor overbearing, in fact

But he has a proud character, and his personality is therefore relatively withdrawn.

I believe everyone present knows that the reason why Long Lian wants to follow Alice is to make her willing to participate in the Greedy Chess competition at next year's Magic Festival. She will not be embarrassed because her purpose is seen through, because she has never thought about it

To cover this up.

Even if he is said to have impure motives, it doesn't matter.

If Willett has acquired such superb chess skills through hard work since childhood, then she, Longlian, also has the opportunity to defeat the opponent again and regain her reputation as the number one chess player through her own efforts.

Alice's left ear twitched slightly, and she came back from her thoughts. Alertness was written in her amber eyes. She stood up straight, no longer leaning against the big tree, and looked towards the top of the mountain on the left.

Noticing the change in Alice's movements, Yingyuan and Willett both sat up straight, and Brenda asked:

"What's wrong?"

Alice's eyebrows that had been furrowed did not loosen, and she said to everyone who looked over:

"Did you hear a voice?"

Dolores paused while eating durian potato chips and listened carefully. However, except for the whistling wind, no other sound reached her ears, and the same was true for the other three.

Dolores swallowed the chewed potato chips in her mouth, stretched out her hand to wipe the food residue on her mouth, and said to Alice:

"No, there is no other sound except the wind."

Seeing Alice's serious expression, Yingyuan felt a bad premonition in her heart, like a shark lurking under the surging sea water, which made people feel uneasy. Yingyuan couldn't help but ask:
To be continued...