Project: Mage - The Frugal Mage

Xiao Mei didn't get too close to avoid being detected by the plants in front of her.

The group of plants were the size of a power pole and wide as a large water tank. The two roots were their legs so that they can move, the side stems were like hands curling around their fangs while at the top there was a large mouth full of sharp teeth, around the mouth were seven giant petals.

The giant tree was twice the size of the plants, but it was already dry and weak. Its shell was slowly cracking with each movement. The giant tree looked like a large golem with legs and arms, but the head was like the crown of a tree and had three holes that look like two eyes and a mouth.

The plants were curling around the tree's legs to try to climb its giant body. Some were biting and tearing off parts of the trees and eating. While the giant tree defended itself by swinging the large wooden arms to hit the plants, but its energies were already at an end and it was not enough to push the plants away.

(This is not right ... This Demon Tree shouldn't be so weak, it's a rank 4 creature. Besides, these plants are not wanting the tree, they are wanting something inside the tree. A treasure, the tree to have some rare treasure that attracted the plants.) Xiao Mei came to that conclusion. But it wasn't just her, her chaser thought the same thing too.

(It looks like I will have to deal with these plants before they reach their goal. These plants appear to be a rank 2 creatures, but there are at least thirty plants. I need to be quick !!!) Xiao Mei kept her concentration around while she ran.

"Piercing Spear !!!" Xiao Mei conjured the intermediate magic of the wind element.

A green light shone in her hand before the wind started to gather and take the shape of a transparent spear.

Shuoooo !!!!

Xiao Mei hurled the spear at the giant plants and pierced dozens of plants at once.

"Explode!!!" Xiao Mei screamed when the spear stopped in the middle of the plants.

Shuooooooo… Shuooooooo… Shuooooooo…

The spear was broken into dozens of blades of wind and spread across the surrounding plants, they were cut into dozens of pieces and were killed quickly.

Of the fifty plants, twenty were defeated quickly by Xiao Mei. The plants that were in the ground started to charge towards her while the plants that managed to climb the giant tree were still climbing.

"Windstorm!!!" Xiao Mei began to conjure the advanced magic of the wind element. She carried towards the giant plants.

A bright green light covered her body before a windstorm blew through the place and gathered around Xiao Mei's body. The wind began to spin and spin until it formed a hurricane with Xiao Mei in the center.

Wherever she passed, everything was cut by the biting wind. The plants became leaf bran.

Now, only the five plants were left climbing the body of the giant tree.

"Wind Blades!!!" Xiao Mei conjured up five more blades of wind and cut the five plants.

Defeating rank 2 creatures using the power of a Great Mage was a piece of cake. The slaughter was unilateral.

(It looks like they finally acted !!!) Xiao Mei's face went solemn. She felt that there were two more people around. One more than her chaser.

"Stormwind!!!" Xiao Mei conjured the hurricane again. But this time, the hurricane covered her along with the giant tree. So no one could see what was going on inside.

The two participants who were looking at this scene were anxious, they knew that the tree had a rare treasure. But they had no chance of fighting Xiao Mei, they were just Advanced Mages.

A fight between an Advanced Mage and a Great Mage, the second had a big advantage over the first. Not just about the amount of magical energy, but also the quality of magical energy.

The purity of magical energy within the two bodies was totally different. This gave the Grand Mage a great advantage.

(I need to wait and watch her leave before I act. She must have spent a good deal of magical energy after using two advanced spells in succession.) The two hidden participants thought.

Inside the hurricane ...

Xiao Mei saw the giant tree on its knees while its life was slowly declining. It seemed that the vital energy of the giant tree was being absorbed by something else within its body.

(It seems like I need to hold on longer until the tree completes what it is doing) Xiao Mei thought. As a Great Mage, the amount of magical energy she has is very large, but it was not unlimited.

If the giant tree doesn't finish what it was doing, Xiao Mei would run out and everything would be lost. Fortunately, the tree finished its work in two minutes.

Before falling, it looked at Xiao Mei with the two holes on the top of its head and hit it chest with an wooden arm and take something out of it. It looked like it was able to have some emotions and saw that Xiao Mei could be trusted.

A brown wooden sphere with a black glow.

"What is it??" Xiao Mei was curious when she saw the sphere in front of her. She didn't know what that was. But before she could know more, the giant tree fell to the ground. It was already dead after taking a heart away.

"I need to get out of here first" Xiao Mei kept the wooden sphere in her nanotechnology bag.

Xiao Mei closed her eyes and started to focus. A brown light covered her body before sinking into the ground.

Xiao Mei's third element was earth, she used her power to dig a hole in the ground to escape. Xiao Mei's body disappeared into the ground after a few seconds and the hole was covered again.

The giant tree's body began to turn to dust and blown by the hurricane wind, which was slowly being diminished until it disappeared.

When the two participants saw this scene. They had ugly faces because Xiao Mei escaped with the treasure.

(She ran away !!!!) The two screamed in their minds before charging to the location.

(Enemy!!!!) The two saw each other and exclaimed in their minds.

(He must have helped that girl to escape !!!) One thought about the other.

The two participants who appeared were young people of similar ages, 23 or 24 years old.

One of them had short golden hair with green eyes, his body had few muscles. He appeared to be Western.

The participant who was chasing Xiao Mei had an oriental appearance with sharp eyes and a slim body, but his skin was a little dark because of the sun. He seems to be from some oriental country with a lot of sun.

(Sharp eyes!!! He must be a member of that Asian girl's team.) The blond young man imagined after seeing the other young man's face. He managed to see Xiao Mei's face, when he saw her eyes, he already imagined that she was oriental country. And when he saw the young man with the same types of eyes, he thought that Xiao Mei and he were on the same team. Although I have no proof to prove it.

That was the Western stereotype for those living in the East, even after more than a hundred years, that stereotype still exists in the world.

Each team had a uniform representing their country, but this was something very obvious and can alert others about their respective countries. So when the participants arrived in the mystical realm, they used the nanotechnology device to change their clothes. This makes things a little more difficult to discover.

One example is China, Japan and Korea, the members of the three teams can be easily confused by Western countries if they do not know the difference between physicists in the three countries.

So, a participant from China can steal a western country and they thought it was Japan or Korea.

The situation was the same if a western country steals China, they would think that it is some other country that may not be responsible for the theft.

Changing appearance was one of the great tactics to confuse the enemy.

As Xiao Mei's stalker hadn't seen her face, he just thought he was a black-haired girl, who could belong to any country in the competition.

"Attivazione !!" The blond young man shouted in Italian and charged towards the other young man. White light shone and covered his hand like armor. The light disappeared and an iron glove appeared.

"It won't be that easy !!! Stone Armor !!! " The other young man spoke in English.

One spoke Italian while the other spoke English.

Pang !!!

The young man stepped on the ground, the ground broke and pieces of earth began to fly around the young man's body. Armor made of stone was made.

Pang !!!

Stepping heavily on the floor, he also charged towards the young blonde.

Pang !!!!!

A great sound of two heavy things clashing was heard. The stone hand and the metal glove clashed face to face.

"Explosion!!!" The blond young man shouted again. His glove started to shine again. Before a big explosion was heard.

Boooooooom !!!!!!