The Villain Only Wants To Live a Buddhist Life

"A 5, a 3, and a 6?" Dark thought for a moment, and then he understood the judges' scoring criteria.

Professor Jones's scoring was a bit subjective. Professor Fox was more strict, and the only student judge was formulaic and the most standard.

Emma did lose the duel, but that was because her opponent was too strong, and it wasn't her fault.

In these short thirty seconds, she had done everything she could.

The calmness before the match started, the stable mentality when facing a third-year student, and the speed of summoning that was faster compared to most first-year students were all areas that could help gain points.

So the student judge gave her a passing score of 6.

Generally speaking, if the average score could reach 6 points, then the approval would be a sure thing.

Professor Jones' score of 5 was not bad, but Professor Fox's score of 3 was not very good.

If Emma wanted to pass steadily, she must perform well in the next two duels.

…

On the red player's platform.

Emma silently noted down the points she got, but she was slightly relieved.

When she was determined to lose the battle earlier, she had thought about the worst possibility, such as 0 points or some other extremely low scores...

Fortunately, it was not.

"To think that I didn't make it through even one round. This is very humiliating." Patting her red cheeks, the little girl with brown curly hair held back the bitterness in her heart.

Failure was a common thing, and she had experienced it several times already.

Every failure would make her stronger.

She would learn from failure to make herself more and more perfect.

This time, of course, she would also learn from her defeat.

Close her eyes, she took a deep breath.

All the negative feelings disappeared in an instant!

"The next game, I must do my best!"

Unknowingly, Emma had stepped off the platform. Susan and Lucy immediately approached her and held her hand, one on each side.

Susan complained on the spot: "What's the matter with this broken game? Getting a third-year student to bully a lower-year student? Emma, ​​don't be upset about it. You can just fight back in the next game!" ŕἈΝȱBЁş

Lucy also echoed: "Yes, our Emma will definitely be able to do it!"

The corners of Emma's eyes reddened, but she held back: "What are you worrying about? Do I look like such a vulnerable person?"

Susan quickly said: "Of course not, Emma is very strong."

Lucy: "Strong as a hard balloon."

Emma: "Pfft! Who would use that kind of analogy?"

Lucy: "Haha, let's go. Let's go to the side and talk, so we won't affect the next game."

Emma: "Okay."

While walking outside, she carefully glanced at the bench, and then immediately turned her head and walked away quickly.

But before taking a few steps, two people greeted her directly opposite.

"Little Emma." Helena waved at Emma.

Emma was dazed for a moment, then said something to her two friends and walked in the direction of Helena.

As soon as she approached, she noticed Winnie next to Helena. She was the senior who danced with the eldest princess at the Halloween ball. It left quite a deep impression on her.

But before she could ask a question, Helena hugged her by the shoulders, waved her fist, and said indignantly: "Don't be sad, when I go back, I'll knock Angelia's head off for you!"

"Angelia…" Emma suddenly realized who she was talking about, "Is it that female senior just now?"

Helena smiled and nodded: "Angelia Hudson, a third-year Fool House student, a member of our Literature Club."

Emma frowned slightly: "She's actually a Fool House student?"

Helena said: "Reserved and low-key, accumulated strength secretly, Fool House is just like this."

Then she introduced Winnie to Emma: "This is also a third-year senior, but she is from Magister House, Winnie Skadi."

Emma nodded: "Mhm, I know, hello, senior."

Winnie stretched out her hand to shake Emma's hand, showing the intention of wanting to befriend her.

Immediately afterward, Helena said: "We just watched your game. Your basic skills are not bad. If your performance in the next two games is also not bad, we can make a place for you in the Literature Club."

"Literature Club?" Emma asked in surprise, "Don't students have to wait until the second year to join other clubs?"

Helena smiled cheerfully: "This is called pre-purchasing tickets. The first year is a time period for laying the foundation. Only by laying the foundation can you fly high in the sky, so the academy has this rule. After the second year, you will understand how important it is to have a good club, and our Literature Club is definitely second to none in the entire castle. You must know that we only recruit four students every year!"

Emma turned her mind and asked: "Four houses, one form each?"

Helena: "Mostly."

Emma immediately understood what was going on and said: "Understood. I'll think about it when I'm in the second year."

Helena: "..."

Winnie couldn't help but chuckle a bit when she saw the defeated look of Helena, "Actually, we are here to give you an olive branch. It was Helena who recommended you, so no matter what your performance later on is, this placement will be reserved for you. Of course, the premise is that you are willing to join us. But Helena is right. It is very important to have a good club, and our Literature Club is definitely one of those good clubs."

Helena said helplessly: "Anyway, I have passed the message to you. But you don't need to be distracted by this now, you can give me an answer later."

Emma nodded.

Of course, she would think about it carefully.

She wouldn't promise anything until she understood what kind of club the Literature Club was.

But thinking back now, she suddenly understood what Angelia meant by "We can talk next time."

"So that was what she meant."

This made her feel less upset about the failure just now.

At the same time, she also became interested in the Literature Club.

...

"She seems to have recovered from her defeat." Dark glanced at the Literature Club sign Helena was carrying, then turned his head.

Dianna pulled down the corners of her eyes with two fingers and muttered, "If it were me, I would have been like this by now."

Rose mercilessly exposed: "Who are you trying to fool? With a piece of toffee in your mouth, you will forget everything."

Dianna said with a smile: "That can't be helped. Toffee is very delicious after all."

The three then continued to look at the arena.

The second game, which kicked off quickly, was a matchup between two second-year students.

The first-year students also saw the normal strength of the second-year students at this time.

Their normal summon speed was somewhere between 5 and 10 seconds.

Their tribute summoning speed was more than 10 seconds.

In terms of summoning speed alone, they were even slightly inferior to Dark.

But the foundation of learning one more year was also revealed in their magic cards.

Their magic cards were significantly more diverse, with both sides having their own specialties, and at least one second-tier magical spirit card.

Why was it at least one? You may ask.

Because they only summoned one during the duel.

Dark preferred to think that they had multiple second-tier magical spirit cards, but the game ended before they were able to summon more cards.

The two second-year students didn't score high, despite each showing the magical spirit of the second tier.

Professor Jones and the senior student judge only gave them passing scores.

Professor Fox was even lower.

"Probably because of their summoning speed; they haven't reached the second-year assessment standard. Plus their other performances are not outstanding." Dark thought for a while, and roughly guessed the reason.

Dianna, who was beside him, looked at the elderly Professor Fox and whispered, "That white-haired grandpa looks very strict. I have a feeling that he doesn't like bears?"

Dark didn't understand how she came to that conclusion. But in the end, he simply stopped thinking about it and tried to comfort her, "Don't worry, he won't give you a low score just because he doesn't like bears."

"Okay." Dianna jumped off the bench and shook her hand, "It's my turn now!"

Rose said, "Hopefully, it will not be a third-year student."

Dianna: "It's the same, the score doesn't depend on the outcome of the match anyway."

After speaking, she ran to the red player platform, looking full of confidence.

...

After a duel interval, the first-year students finally recovered from the shock, and the Noble House students picked themselves up, ready to cheer for Dianna when she gained the upper hand.

But as Dianna stepped into the arena, her opponent also came out of the crowd. It was actually a second-year student!

A first-year student vs a second-year student!

This was not uncommon in recruiting competitions.

Because the gap was not big, the two sides could generally fight back and forth.

Of course, the second-year student's winning rate was definitely much higher.

The first-year students of Noble House had learned from the previous experience of first-year Knight House students, and they all restrained a lot when they cheered.

On the contrary, the friend of the second-year student was full of confidence, and they looked at the first-year students of Noble House with contempt in their eyes.

Yes, they were apparently from Knight House!

Those two houses weren't on good terms with each other since a long time ago, and even if some students from the two houses had a good personal relationship with each other, once it involved a dispute between the two houses, they would immediately turn against each other.

All friendships could only be considered after the outcome of the dispute was determined.

However, the Noble House's first-year students were obvious in a more inferior position. They were gnashing their teeth, but they were not sure that they could win, so they could only endure.

"Would both players please enter the arena as soon as possible!"

Under the urging of the referee, the second-year student from Knight House finally got onto the Blue Player’s platform.

He activated the card table casually, and said through the loudspeaker: "How can a little kid like you also participate in this game?"

Dianna was originally very happy. But when she heard this question, she suddenly fell into a daze, looking very confused: "What does my age have anything to do with this game?"

The second-year student scratched his head and asked back, "How can you compete with other people if you can't even reach the table?"

Dianna put her hand on the card table and asked in a seriously confused voice, "But I can reach it."

“Pfft." Dark on the side almost burst out laughing.

Rose asked curiously, "Is this the trash talk Professor Jones mentioned?"

Dark shrugged, "Maybe."

Rose said with a sense of realization, "Professor said that the communication during the preparation phase can affect the other party's mentality. It's a tactic. But it's the first time I've seen real trash talk. Isn't he afraid of being disliked by others?"

Dark: "Maybe people already disliked him?"

Rose: "Oh, that makes sense."

…

The second-year student was actually quite restrained. After all, under the watch of the two professors, he dared not go too far.

But just such a small amount of trash talk was completely innocuous to Dianna - she didn’t take it seriously at all!

After putting the card deck in the card slot, Dianna also took the initiative to ask: "By the way, what's your name?"

The second-year student said, "Marjorie Gresham, how about you?"

Dianna shook her head: "I’m not going to tell you."

Marjorie was dazed: "Then why did you ask for my name?"

Dianna shook her head and said, "I, Dianna, don't like to defeat nameless people."

Marjorie was reduced to silence for a long time, and suddenly realized that his opponent was called Dianna!

"Beep—"

The referee's whistle interrupted the odd communication between the two.

The game entered the second half of the preparation phase.

...

[Preparation Phase] [30s]

...

Dianna in high spirits drew five cards from the top of the shuffled deck.

Immediately afterward, her eyes lit up and she discovered [Bear Spirit] from the cards in her hand!

As a special light-type undead magical spirit card, whose attack power exceeded the 3-star standard, this Bear Spirit could be said to be the ace of Dianna's trump cards.

Without any hesitation, she grabbed the corner of this [Bear Spirit].

"Tick!" The 30-second countdown ended quickly.

The duel then entered the [Battle Phase].

Dianna immediately began to summon [Bear Spirit].

Her Normal Summoning Spell speed was just under ten seconds, so she couldn't compare to Dark and Emma. But Marjorie, the second-year student on the opposite side, wasn't a particularly outstanding student, so the gap between the two sides wouldn't be too big.

Sure enough, it took Marjorie a full eight seconds to summon the first magical spirit.

The Normal Summoning Spell on both sides was done almost simultaneously.

"Come out, Macrauchenia!"

"I’ve chosen you, Bear Spirit!"

The light from the magic card fell on the summoning areas on both sides.

Then two large beasts appeared in the light.

Dianna's Bear Spirit was three meters high even when it was crawling on the ground, its body exuded a blazing white light, and its eyes revealed the profound vicissitudes of life and the kindness of the twilight years.

And Marjorie's Macrauchenia looked like a camel without a hump, but with a long neck - and a short trunk!

Before the birth of magic technology, this ancient animal existed only in ancient documents and fossils.

But now it was known to the world as a magical spirit.

Among the 3-star magical spirits, Macrauchenia was a powerful creature that was not inferior to [Troll] in terms of size and stats.

If anything, its agility was not as good as the Troll.

Marjorie was very confident in his Macrauchenia. With up to 1500 points of attack and 1400 points of defense, it hardly had any rivals amongst the 3-star magical spirits.

"Heavy-armed Charge! Crash it!" Under Marjorie's order, Macrauchenia stepped forward with four hooves, suddenly accelerated, and charged towards the Bear Spirit like a reloaded chariot!

Its huge size made the earth shake with every step.

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