A: Magic Forest

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The voice suddenly stopped and left silence. What an awkward silence. Lila and her group looked at each other and tried to guess what was going on. None of them opened their voices.

No wind without rain, Lila began to feel the oddity. His right hand that was holding a broomstick suddenly felt hot. He glanced at his other comrades, including Miss Peony, and their faces were as confused as Lila's. Although the heat energy he felt was not too great, it was still strange.

Soon, the broom Lila was holding suddenly shook violently. The tremors grew stronger and stronger, causing Lila to be forced to throw the broom to the ground. Her other groupmates followed what Lila was doing and took a few steps away from their broom. No one knows what will happen next.

Lila's flying broom .. suddenly disappeared. After shaking violently, his flying broomstick and the others disappeared and turned into dust. Miss Peony panicked while running around in an uncertain direction and of course it did not fix things. Aliga kept quiet and tried to digest what was going on at the moment. But before long, the static sound that had stopped was now heard again.

"At this race, we have eliminated all mobility-related objects. To be more fair, we have confiscated everything that will help you move, including brooms, flying carpets, to spirit carriers. Continue the game on foot and good luck!"

The voice stopped and quietly mastered. Lila looked at Cia then said, "This is the rule they have prepared apparently."

Cia nodded small. "Yes, and I think this is fair enough. Not all villages carry broomsticks or anything like that. So, yeah, we're just walking."

Aliga suddenly opened her voice. "But, shouldn't they have first announced that to the participants a few days earlier? In this case, it's useless for me to bring the broom," he said.

Miss Peony who was near them raised a hand hesitantly. "Hehe, actually Peony had been given information about this a few days earlier but Peony forgot to tell you."

Aliga tried to restrain her emotions from exploding. Lila exhaled her tired breath. "Miss Peony, if you've found out about this, why are you still freaking out?" ask Lila slowly.

Lila, Cia, let alone Aliga was too tired to deal with Miss Peony's magical behavior. There were already too many things they had to think about and Miss Peony's stupid demeanor was one of the things they least wanted to think about.

Because it had been too long to see his group walking on the spot, Aliga as the chairman began to invite other colleagues to discuss. He drew a map of Azvara Forest on the ground and said, "So, which place should we go first?"

Cia pointed at one of the points. "here. This is the most likely place to get those manuscripts."

"Ah, no," argued Lila, "The other participants will definitely be heading to that place at this time and we should avoid them as much as possible. Our magic power is still weak."

Aliga's forehead shriveled. He then cleared his throat and pointed to a point closest to their current position. "It seems, we should go to the goblins' territory. That place is the closest place from here. How's it?"

He looked at Lila and Cia for reassurance. The two girls nodded steadily and agreed to Aliga's suggestion. "Alright, it has been decided that we will go to the goblin area first. Let's walk!"

"Wait on! We'll walk, Peony's still tired, hehe."

"Stupid."