In the arena, 22 magicians, plus the host Mysterious Pumpkin Jam, stood together.

Kira and Laxus stood in the middle, their eyes facing each other, and the air seemed to be filled with blazing electric sparks.

"What are the two of them doing?" asked Suduo, an innocent girl from "Heart of the Dragon".

"This is a very dangerous magic competition, and it is also a competition of concentration and endurance!"

Someone spoke nonsense seriously in the girl's ear, pointed at the two people facing each other, and said, "Did you see it? If the magic is powerful enough, you can be like them, and you can live for thousands of years just by looking at it.

trick……"

The girl glanced at Urrutia who was leaning against her ear, rolled her eyes speechlessly, and complained: "Sister, I'm not a child anymore, so I won't believe the plot that only appears in this kind of story.

.”

Another girl, Cora Yin, echoed: "That's right, that's right... It's impossible to use magic to fight mentally in this world! Have you seen too much magic?"

Urrutia smiled coquettishly and thought: The little girls nowadays are not cute at all! Our Melty is much easier to deceive!

The two girls, one black and one white, looked at each other, and their eyes conveyed: Strange, I heard that she is Nadia-san's true form, why are their personalities so different?

Mysterious Pumpkin Sauce walked up to Kira and Laxus on short legs: "Now you need to select team members. I will help you record them one by one and convey them to everyone, Pumpkin~"

"By the way, tomorrow's duel will consist of three one-on-one games and four two-on-two games, a total of seven games. The team that wins four or more games will receive a grand ceremony hosted by the Fiore royal family tomorrow night.

Dinner invitation."

"Nani?! A grand dinner hosted by the royal family?!"

As soon as Pumpkin Jam said these words, all the magicians who were originally not that concerned about the competition instantly became energetic, their eyes glowed, and their mouths started to water.

Kira confirmed again: "You just said that the team was invited. Does that mean that even if an individual fails, as long as the team wins, you can also attend the dinner?"

"That's right~" Pumpkin Jam danced and seemed to be in a good mood.

"In this case, we have to win..."

Kira sighed and looked around at the group of wolf-like guys, "In order to eat the feast prepared by the royal family, you know what to do, right?"

"Hmm...you must use your full strength!"

"Choose me, choose me!

I'm willing to hang out with you, Kira!

"

"You're right, with Kira here, it's like winning a match!

"

"No, but now it's not our turn to choose, right?"

"That's right!" All the magicians suddenly realized, and then they felt regretful, "Only the captain can choose the team members, and no team members can choose the captain!"

Pumpkin Jam was very satisfied with the reaction of the magicians.

As a king who likes magic but has no magical talent, he loves the profession of magicians very much. In addition, the "Eclipse Project" he secretly planned requires a lot of magic power, so these magicians in front of him need a lot of magic power.

The more he plays and the longer he plays, the happier he will be.

"So, are you two ready? If so, let's start selecting teammates now?"

"Can!"

"Let's get started!"

Kira and Laxus nodded.

"Then let's start with Laxus-san, who has a lower personal score. Please choose one of your team members first!" Pumpkin Jam made a "please" gesture, then took out a pen and paper and started recording.

"Jura!"

Without any hesitation, Laxus first chose the trump card of the famous "Snake Scales", Jura, who ranked among the "Top Ten Holy Mage".

The audience smiled and nodded. In their opinion, if they were in Laxus's position, they would make the same choice.

Pumpkin Jam nodded, lightly ticked Jula's name on the record board, and then looked at

Kira: "Then, Kira-san, please choose your two team members!"

Kira smiled slightly, not caring about Laxus' behavior of snatching Jura: "I choose Timaria and Racade from the "Emperor's Shield"!"

Timaria and Racade?

Pumpkin Jam blinked her confused eyes, and the audience was also puzzled.

So far, they can't understand Timaria's fighting style at all, or they can't see it. In the competitive mode "Hunting", she shot Brian dozens of times in one moment, and was instantly killed by Kira in the next moment.

; The subsequent two-person battle also saw Hibiki and Yin Fan instantly killing the "Blue Pegasus". It can be said that her strength was not shown at all.

But compared to Lacade, Timaria has shown enough.

You know, Lakaide has never played in a game so far, so his strength and the magic he uses are unknown. Is such a person really worthy of Kira adding to the team at this time??

Is it a bold move? Or is it already known?

Everyone couldn't help but be suspicious, and even Lacade didn't know why Kira would choose him.

Among the people present, there were only a few people who were familiar with Kira, such as Erza, Laxus, and Urrutia. They knew the reason why Kira did this, and it must be that he had relevant information about the opponent.

Speaking of which, before they left for the Western Continent, Kira had already brought out the information about the Twelve Shields, but he didn't go into detail about Lacade at that time.

【In view of the general environment,

After hearing Kira's choice, Laxus was silent for a moment, and then continued to select two powerful team members: "Erza, Mira!"

The two female devils of the guild have grown up together, and their strength and tacit understanding are needless to say.

"Discerning!" Erza and Mira gave Laxus a thumbs up at the same time.

"The next two...Urudia, Natsu!"

Perhaps due to the influence of Kira, Urrutia is no longer the infinitely weakened support in the comics, but a real and powerful person who is strong enough to serve as the "Holy Ten".

According to Gray, every time Urrudia uses ice modeling magic, Urru's grace can be vaguely seen in her.

"I knew it would be like this...but you shouldn't be at a disadvantage. Even if we lose in the end, you will treat us to a big meal, right?"

Kira's expression changed. He felt that Urrutia was smiling sinisterly, very sinisterly, so he immediately waved his hand and shouted: "Don't say such words that are not good for morale!"

After taking Urrutia, Kira reached out to Natsu. Compared to the two weak shields of ice and sand that were left at the end of the twelve shields, Natsu was undoubtedly stronger now.

, as long as he doesn’t encounter bug-type magic, basically no one can beat him!

After all, he is the protagonist of the original comic, so he still has some strength.

Hearing his name being called, Natsu suddenly became more motivated to fight: "Are you going to be a rival with Erza and Laxus?? Oh oh oh!

I'm on fire!

!」

"Imber, Agil!"

Sure enough, after Kira captured Natsu, Laxus reached out to the last two shields. He was not a fool, and it was obvious that the strength of these two people was much stronger than the remaining idiots.

After grabbing the powerful magicians, now you have to choose between the medium magicians. This time it was Kira's turn to choose first. Of course, he took away the two strongest ones directly.

"Richard, Kana!"

As one of the former "Six Demon Generals", Richard's strength is definitely not weak. You know, he can be on par with Jura in a short time.

Soft earth magic is similar to Jura's rock magic. If the magic power wasn't slightly different, he would still be able to enter the Holy Ten echelon.

As for Kana, although she was suspected of being picked up at first, her S-class title is real. Now she has gotten rid of the shackles of the past and created new cards, and her strength has been even higher.

As a witness to the birth of "Kana Card", Kira knows her current strength best.

"You didn't choose me until now, right? Keep this in mind, you two!" Kanapi smiled, suppressing the anger in his heart.

Obviously I am also an S-class mage in the guild! Why was I selected as the 11th one? I really think my strength is poor, right? I will show you tomorrow!

Thinking of this, Kana unconsciously touched her right forearm. No one noticed that a black magic pattern was tightly covered in the long sleeve of the white open-chested shirt.

Kira was extremely speechless at this guy's stress reaction: "Idiot! Being called out late already shows that your strength is poor. The angrier you are at this time, the more embarrassing you will be..."

After this selection, Laxus hesitated for a moment, because he was not familiar with the remaining people at all, and their scores were all 10 points, so there were basically no good parameters to consider.

He doesn't have Kira's perception and intelligence, so it's not that simple to choose a stronger one from a group of novices.

"Those two little girls!"

After some consideration, Laxus pointed to Su Duo and Cora Yin at the "Heart of the Dragon".

Laxus is a straight man, so he definitely doesn't remember their names. He chose these two simply because they are second-generation dragon slayers like him, and they are white and shadow attributes that he is more familiar with.

This familiarity naturally comes from Stinger and Rogge who have just joined the guild.

Laxus knew that the two boys who joined the guild at the centenary celebration had a tacit understanding that was far beyond ordinary people. Their attribute matching was also very strong and they could even perform combination magic. The two girls in front of him were twins, so their tacit understanding must be even higher.

, putting it on two versus two should have better results.

"Twins... Laxus, you are very good..."
To be continued...