Spring of Life

For now, Linley Bart didn't care about Alice. All he wanted was to get the treasure chest.

"Open the Silver Treasure Chest!"

"Congratulations to the host for obtaining a Grade B spell, Shadow Clone Technique!"

The Shadow Clone Technique could make the user's shadow become a clone that looked similar to the user.

The user would temporarily lose his shadow. When the shadow clone suffered a certain amount of damage, it would turn back into a shadow and return to the host.

The shadow clone and the main body were independent. No matter which of them was injured, it would not affect the other party.

The main body could completely control the shadow clone.

This was a good spell.

Linley Bart nodded, feeling very satisfied.

Just as he was about to leave.

A voice suddenly stopped him.

"Hey—"

Linley Bart turned his head awkwardly.

Alice had woken up. The first thing she saw when she woke up was Linley Bart.

"You woke up?" Linley Bart sincerely expressed his concern. "Since you are fine, I'll leave now."

"Why are you in my ward?"

After Alice woke up, she had realized that she was in the hospital. The first thing that caught her eye after she woke up was Linley Bart.

"Do you believe that I just happened to pass by?" Linley Bart said.

"Have you been here all night?"

Alice looked suspiciously at Linley Bart. A thought suddenly occurred to her.

"Do you like me?"

Linley Bart was extremely surprised, not knowing why Alice would think this way.

Seeing the look on Linley Bart's face, Alice was certain.

"Why else would you come to my room? And why are you at the hospital only when I am here? You've always wanted to be by my side, right?"

"It's just a coincidence."

"You're lying."

Alice had her own speculations.

"You want to attract my attention, right? Be it sneaking into my room or losing to me in the competition, you just want to attract my attention…"

"I really did not want to do that."

"Then why did you admit defeat when you were clearly going to win?"

"I didn't want you to die."

"You still care about me."

Alice could sense and thought that Linley Bart definitely liked her.

Otherwise, he would not appear in front of her so many times.

Moreover, when she woke up, she only saw him and no one else.

Did he accompany her here for a long time?

Alice blushed at the thought.

"You're amazing, but I don't like you right now, so stop sneaking around," Alice said.

Linley Bart felt that there must be some sort of misunderstanding between them, but it was hard for him to explain his way out.

He was also someone who did not like to explain too much.

"Forget it, you can think whatever you want. I'm leaving."

"Wait"

"Is there anything else?"

"We could be friends."

"What?"

"Friends. In other words, I acknowledge you as my friend… In the future, we might even become lovers."

Alice said the last sentence very quietly.

"I don't mind being friends, but let's not be lovers."

"Hmph!"

Alice seemed to be looking at the window angrily.

After a moment of silence, Alice suddenly said, "I might not be able to go to the competition this time…"

"Didn't you win? We're all in the top ten. We should all be able to go compete there."

"But as you can see, my situation is pretty bad now. In order to use that magic, I had overused my magic. In the following matches, I would have a hard time defeating my opponent. To defeat you, I've already used everything I have."

"Are you giving up?"

Linley Bart was a little surprised. This was different from Alice's powerful will in the arena.

She had a very strong will to fight in the arena and didn't want to give up. She only wanted to win. She wanted to defeat all the enemies in front of her.

It was also due to her strong fighting spirit that she recklessly used magic beyond her current level.

Although Linley Bart had admitted defeat in order to prevent Alice from continuing to use the forbidden magic spell, it could be said that Alice's fighting spirit was also the one that caused Linley Bart to admit defeat.

But now, this girl said that she was not going to participate in the following matches?

Didn't this mean that she was prepared to admit defeat?

"You can do it. Don't admit defeat so easily."

Linley Bart felt that Alice's current state was perhaps also due to him.

He felt more or less guilty. In the competition, the spells that Alice had used were her hard efforts that she had put in throughout the years.

Linley Bart had merely relied on the treasure chest to acquire magic spells and had easily surpassed her.

She did not do anything wrong. She was only fighting with all her might.

Linley Balt then took out the water from the Spring of Life.

"Forget it, let's just treat this as me doing something good. This is for you."

Linley Bart placed the spring water from the Spring of Life in front of Alice.

This could help her recover her vitality and make up for the damage she had suffered due to overusing her magic power.

"This is?"

"It's just water."

"But why do I feel magic power coming from the water?"

Alice was a water magic sorcerer. She could feel that there was a very powerful magic power in this bottle of water.

This type of magic was very gentle and would be very helpful to her.

"You can recover if you drink it."

"This is precious, isn't it?"

As a sorcerer, Alice knew that magic medicines that could quickly restore magic power were very expensive.

"It's alright, aren't we friends?"

Linley Bart said.

He didn't know how long it had been since he last said the word 'friend'.

Alice stared at Linley Bart for a long time before she drank the bottle of Spring of Life.

After she drank it, the vitality from the spring water started repairing the damage in her body she had suffered from overusing magic.

The Spring of Life was known as the source of all life. Thus, it could naturally repair all damage.

Alice had originally thought that it was just an ordinary healing potion. However, after drinking the spring water and feeling the changes in her body, she realized that almost all her magic was restored in an instant!

The effect was too amazing!