"No. 1, Long Dangdang. No. 2, Hu Ruiqiao. Enter the arena." The announcement from the referee, who stood at the center of the Magic Temple, marked the official start of the Internal Great Impartation Contest within the Magic Temple.
Long Dangdang was representing his teacher, Zi Tianwu. The person who walked out opposite him was a petite female mage.
The female mage wore a cloak-style, bright red mage's robe. Its hood hid her head entirely, and she wore a mask over her face. Only her lively pink eyes were visible. In her hand was a dark red magic staff that was nearly half a meter taller than her. Inset at the top of the staff was an irregularly shaped gemstone that sporadically emitted a golden-red light.
Her attire seemed to declare that she was a mage specializing in fire—the purest form of it, at that.