Versatile Mage c1-2021, page 80
“Teacher, how about…” At this time, Zheng Bingxiao looked at Jiang Yunming, but was stopped in his speech.
Jiang Yunming shook his head, “The students who have left the stage can no longer go back on. Mo Fan, are you able to summon your Summoned beast? If not, then this will be it for today.”
“So what if he can do it?” Wang Liting exclaimed, his eyes red. “Teacher, could we ask the school to be lenient? My family spent a large amount of money to help me summon a good Summoned beast. If the school doesn’t give me some resources, then I’m afraid most of us won’t be able to reach the Intermediate level.”
“It’s impossible for them to be lenient, if you want to obtain resources then you have to rely on yourself… Alright, let’s go back everyone, this will be it for the competition today. Although you were completely annihilated by an Intermediate Magician, I am thoroughly satisfied with your performances. The Beast Refinement Blood will be given to Zheng Bingxiao.” Jiang Yunming didn’t talk too much about their feelings, he was clear on the positive and negatives.
After hearing this, the Summoner students all began to cry.
There were no resources from school, and they’d be losing a teacher as well. This made the wonder what they’re going to do in the future!
“Mr. Jiang, it seems like my Summoned beast has woken up!” Mo Fan spoke up abruptly.
“Oh? Then you can go ahead. If you perform well, then the second Beast Refinement Blood will be given to you,” Jiang Yunming raised his eyebrow.
“I just happen to want the Beast Refinement Blood,” Mo Fan said.
“Alright, you can go and take back some face for us in the Summoning School,” Jiang Yunming said.
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Mo Fan slowly walked onto the Beast Battle arena while he communicated with his Spirit Wolf.
“Our objective today is to defeat sixteen people,” Mo Fan said to the Spirit Wolf.
Zheng Bingxiao won against twenty-five people, and Hai Dafu got rid of fifteen. Wang Liting was supposed to have the highest numbers, but he was completely annihilated by Luo Song after his sixth person.
Thus, if he wanted to obtain the Beast Refinement Blood, then he just had to surpass Hai Dafu’s number.
“Awoooo~~~!!” The Spirit Wolf let out an fearless and energetic howl in reply to Mo Fan.
After hearing the energetic and vigorous howl, Mo Fan was astonished.
Along with the Spirit Wolf’s howl was a wild and savage aura, and this aura...
It seems like sixteen people wouldn’t be too hard!!
Chapter 157 - Evolving Spirit Wolf (1)
“Come, call your Summoned beast,” Li Junwei represented the team of challengers, his face was filled with a sense of pride.
“As long as your Summoned beast isn’t a Bone Corpse Demon, I will definitely let you have a taste of my abilities!”
“This guy seems to be the only person we don’t have any intel on, we don’t know what kind of Summoned beast he has.”
Mo Fan looked at the team of five who seemed to be prepared, his face displaying a lazy smile.
Although he was also a guy who enjoyed fighting, this was not the time for him. This was the time for the Spirit Wolf to display its prowess!
“Fight for me!”
The moonlight Star Path emerged in front of Mo Fan and turned into a space crack. A dimensional bridge summoned forth a creature from the unknown plane!
From within the dimensional crack, a deep blue head stretched out.
Soon after, a robust and mighty body stepped out. The fur-covered body was fluttering in the space crack, following a bestial aura pervading the whole arena. The Spirit Wolf instantly became the focal point of the whole chamber!
“It’s a Spirit Wolf!”
“What a feral aura! This is like a completely different creature compared to the tiny Spirit Wolf from before!”
“It feels like it’s not easy to deal with that. I never thought the last Summoner student’s Summoned beast would be a fully grown, robust Spirit Wolf. I’m not sure if Li Junwei and his team can possibly contest that.”
In the backstage, the six Summoner students mouths had dropped open, they displaying their astonishment.
“It looks… It looks like it has gotten stronger since the last time,” Jiang Yunming murmured to himself.
They could hear the sound of the wind.
A ferocious wind was rolling around, the Spirit Wolf in its center. The dust had turned into a golden wave as it washed out, sweeping along the colossal Beast Battle Arena and blowing into the faces of the five challengers.
For some reason, their legs began to shake. The man in the lead with a big head turned around to look at his leader, Li Junwei...
“What’s there to be afraid of? It’s just a Spirit Wolf, not a Bone Corpse Demon!” Li Junwei cursed while feeling dissatisfied.
“I just keep feeling this isn’t your average Spirit Wolf.”
“Feelings my a.s.s, go kill it!”
The five people were clearly very coordinated with each other. Facing Mo Fan’s Spirit Wolf, they quickly got into formation.
The Wind users were in the front, Water in the back, Lightning and Fire by the Earth user in the center.
With all five Elements in one team, Wind, Water, Lightning, Fire and Earth formed a very well coordinated team. Lightning users in the Pearl Institute were not rare, so forming a five elementteam wasn’t too difficult.
It was obvious that Li Junwei’s team was prepared. If it wasn’t for the appearance of Luo Song, they would’ve attacked one of the Summoned beasts by themselves.
Now, there was only the very last Summoner student, Mo Fan. They naturally would not continue waiting!
“Big head, restrict it. Remember, the Spirit Wolf’s burst damage is relatively strong, so you need to be quick when you use Flash Steps or else it’ll be able to slice you in two once you get to the other side,” Li Junwei said with a solemn expression.
“Yeah, I’ll just use Wind Trails, Floating Shadow!” the big headed guy in the very front said.
“Pimples, just because the Spirit Wolf is far from us doesn’t mean it can’t attack us. The Spirit Wolf has a breath attack.”
The girl with pimples on her face nodded quickly.
“Alright, let’s start. How could a little Spirit Wolf possibly stop the five of us from becoming famous. Let’s show those previously unorganized and useless people our coordinated battle strategy!” Li Junwei’s face displayed a great smile.
Those who treated a battle as a 1v1 conflict could only be deemed to be unsuitable with others.
During the Primary level, most of the people would only have a single spell, and so they would have to form a team. Being the chief of the Classical Elements, the Primary Lightning spells were indeed very strong, but they definitely did not have the ability to deal with a Magical Beast by themselves. The Water element did not have any attack prowess, but it was the only Primary ranked element that had a protective spell, making it one of the most crucial parts of a battle. In Li Junwei’s eyes, there was no Element that was trash from the start, only a group of retards who didn’t understand how to cooperate!
Mo Fan saw the opponents formation and a smile formed on his face.
Interesting. The five people’s battle experience was in no way inferior to the Hunter Squad he was a part of it back then.
“Be careful, they should be very knowledgable…”
“Awooooo~~!”
Mo Fan didn’t say another word. The Spirit Wolf let out a domineering howl.
The warlike Spirit Wolf began to attack without a response from Mo Fan. The amount of time it took for the Spirit Wolf to go from complete stillness to as fast as a cheetah was only a second. This bursting power afoot was not something a One-eyed Magic Wolf could compare to.
The Spirit Wolf was charging violently. Its objective was precisely the Wind member standing at the very front of Li Junwei’s team.
Although the big-headed Wind member of the group seemed relatively nervous, his steps were still nimble.
The third level of Wind Trails created several Wind Tunnels in the caster’s surroundings, creating a bunch of high speed Wind passages that belonged only to himself. With them in place, he was as lithe as a swallow.
Floating Shadow had a much bigger range than Flash Steps. It looked as though there were Wind Trails everywhere. It made the Magician seem like wind, impossible to catch and impossible to pursue.
The Spirit Wolves first attack caught only an empty Wind Shadow. The big-headed guy had already floated to a location twenty meters away when the Spirit Wolf had attacked with its claw.
The sound of the wind was heard again...
The Spirit Wolf quickly retracted its claws. His body slid through the ground for a small distance before he once again stood up with his four limbs. He had actually changed the course of his tracks in a single second toward the big-headed Wind Magician!
“Second attack!” Li Junwei’s face revealed amazement.
Normally speaking, when the Spirit Wolf used its full strength to attack, it would take a while to stop. It was just like when a person has used a frantic charge, they would need some time to catch their breath.
However, this Spirit Wolf had actually been able to regain its energy right after its first burst attack. Additionally, its speed even remained the same as it began its ferocious attack the second time.
“Pimple, protect him! Quick!” Li Junwei commanded.
Spirit Wolf’s second attack was definitely going to cause an enormous threat to the Wind Magician. After all, the big-headed guy believed he was in a safe zone after only moving around twenty meters away.
Numerous water droplets coalesced out of nowhere. They were all in motion, and quickly combined in front of the Wind element student to form a Water barrier defense!
Yet another howl of the wind was heard.
The Spirit Wolf saw these Water beads as he was halfway there, and his eyes showed a hint of disdain. His heavy claws ferociously smashed towards the Wind Magician once more!
Chapter 158 - Evolving Spirit Wolf (2)
Woosh!!
The ferocious claws split open the shield formed by numerous water droplets. The sharp claws streaked right through the body of the Wind elemental student.
An incredible blood scar emerged on the c.h.e.s.t of the Wind elemental student.
“Oh...”
The Wind member of the group fell backwards, and the overflowing blood from his body mixed with the dust as it flowed into the distance.
“How… how could this be!” The eyes of pimpled girl went wide as they were filled with astonishment and fear.
Her Water Barrier had clearly reached the third level already, why was it unable to defend against the attack of the Spirit Wolf?
She had also been through numerous fights, and she had always been able to defend against all kinds of Magical Beasts’ attacks.
“You were too slow. You should know how to protect in situations like this next time without me telling you!” Li Junwei said with a gloomy face as he excoriated her.
Indeed, the Water elemental girl had cast it a bit slow. The Spirit Wolf’s claw had already slashed through the Wind student’s body before the Water Barrier had been formed. The Water Barrier that looked as though it was formed in time had only blocked the attack power that came afterwards!
“You bastard, taste my Lightning Strike!”
The purple Lightning was crackling furiously as they ferociously bombarded the location of the Spirit Wolf.
The Lightning dazzled their eyes. As the snake-like Lightning began to lash across the area, it looked like it had completely surrounded the Spirit Wolf.
The Spirit Wolf could smell the ozone in the air.
It stomped heavily with its back legs, and its body smoothly jumped to the side...
In the next second, the place where the Spirit Wolf had been standing was completely covered by Lightning Strikes. A patched of burned ground appeared immediately thereafter.
Small bits of static were jumping around the Spirit Wolf’s deep blue fur, but they didn’t pose any threat to it. The Spirit Wolf turned around, its verdant eyes locking onto the person who had unleashed the Lightning Strike.
“Awuuuu~!”
With its head loftily raised, and with its throat that seemed as deep as a cavern, a demonic wind suddenly came forth!
The demonic wind began to wantonly sweep across the sands on the surface of the ground, which rose into the air in thick clouds.
“Shit, is this still Flying Stones!?” As Mo Fan saw this scene, he couldn’t help but feel shocked.
The very first time Mo Fan had seen Flying Stones, the grains of sand were like a wide spread of bullets as they shot toward him. For a normal person, this would leave behind numerous holes in their bodies.
However now, the Flying Stones were being spat by his very own Spirit Wolf…
The area of this was more than double the size he had seen it before. It was like the Spirit Wolf had howled out a sandstorm...
“Hurry up and scatter!” Li Junwei’s complexion immediately changed.
For something like the Flying Stones, they could easily evade it by just quickly rolling around. Furthermore, the Spirit Wolf had used it from a distance.
However, against something of this scale that covered a fourth of the entire Beast Cage, they simply had nowhere to run and could only receive the damage.
Li Junwei slammed both of his hands on the ground as he tried to overcome his shock.
“Earth Wave!” Where Li Junwei was standing, ripples of earth began to spread into the surroundings.
The ripple quickly carried Li Junwei and his Lightning and Fire comrades to the two sides of the cage.
“Pimples, get behind me!” Li Junwei shouted.
After pushing his two comrades away, Li Junwei knew that he couldn’t rely on the Water Element girl to cast the second level of Water Barrier in such a short amount of time.
The Water Elemental girl ran behind Li Junwei’s back. However at this moment, the Flying Stones had already charged over. His cheeks were painfully scratched by those little grains of sands.
“Vine Wall!”
Li Junwei moved his intent and activated his own special Defensive Magic Equipment.
An azure ray flashed, and multiple strange black rattan vines emerged in front of Li Junwei. The vines began to intertwine while giving birth to new, thin vines that also integrated into the existing ones.
The sandstorm finally came to an end, followed by an ear-piercing sound.
If there hadn’t beena vine wall in front of Pimples and Li Junwei, then their weak bodies would definitely have been utterly smashed by the mighty storm.
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“This student is not bad.” Dean Xiao watched the dust-filled arena as his face revealed a gratified smile.
The face of Zhou Zhenghua, the Dean of the Earth School, was also showing a bit of radiance.
Just moments before, Luo Song had given the Earth Element students a tremendous amount of face. Who would’ve thought that among the Elements, there’d also be someone like Li Junwei who knew how to cooperate amongst the different Elements.
Using the Earth Ripple to push the Fire and Lightning members who didn’t have any way of defending themselves to a safe area, and then use his own Magic Equipment to protect himself as well as the Water comrade behind him…
The Flying Stones from the Spirit Wolf were evidently strong enough to completely annihilate the four of them. However, that was completely prevented by an Earth Magician, Li Junwei!
There are too many Primary Earth Magicians who didn’t know what to do, nor their roles in a battle nowadays. Li Junwei’s display had essentially given a lesson to all the Earth Magician students who were still completely blank.
The Earth Element could be called the core of a squad. Their ability to move the surface of the ground meant they were the link between the squad members, and would also allow the squad to be much more flexible.
“Too bad they’ve lost,” Dean Xiao secretly added.
The Earth Element Dean, Zhou Zhenghua was slightly shocked as his gaze locked onto the cage filled with dust.
The dust came fast, and settled fast.
Li Junwei’s display was indeed very outstanding. However, in front of such a formidable power, their strategies and spells were completely useless.
Within the yellow mist, an eminent and ferocious silhouette was standing in front of Li Junwei. The dark green eyes were only meter away from him as it loomed over Li Junwei.
Li Junwei and Pimple both raised their heads. The two of them, who had just evaded the sweeping Sandstorm, felt like they had been soaked in cold water. Especially Pimples, she looked like though she was going to faint from the scene that greeted her eyes.
“Third stage Burst…” Li Junwei raised his head, his eyes filled with disbelief.
He originally didn’t want to believe this was an evolving Spirit Wolf. However, now he was not able to question it anymore.
A Spirit Wolf that could complete a third stage Burst was most definitely at the evolved stage. This was a vicious creature that was a half step into the Warrior level!
The five of them could deal with a normal Magical Beast without a problem. However, dealing with a creature that was in the evolving stage would only make them seem like children; they could easily get slaughtered!
Chapter 159 - I Want It All
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After the sand had thoroughly dispersed, the entire audience saw an incredibly stunning scene.
The Spirit Wolf that suddenly disappeared was standing right in front of Li Junwei. Its four limbs was stepping on the vine wall, and its head was only a meter away from Li Junwei.
It signified that if the Spirit Wolf had any slight d.e.s.i.r.e to kill, then it could easily snap Li Junwei’s head off with its fierce teeth.
