Versatile Mage c1-2021, page 85
The Forest of Kun possessed no offensive capabilities, so Mu Nujiao would have to get close enough to ask Mo Fan to surrender.
If Mo Fan was stubborn, she would not mind giving him a tornado and letting him have a taste of the excitement of jumping down from a tall building without any safety measures!
Through the tiny gaps in the plants, she started searching for the trapped Mo Fan.
To her dismay, just when she was about to say something, she shockingly discovered that there was no sign of Mo Fan at all!
"How…?" Shock immediately replaced Mu Nujiao's confidence.
Be it any type of position-shifting skills, no one would be easily escape from the imprisonment of the Forest of Kun. These plants tracked the target person by sensing the person's life force as they grew…
Thus, even if it was Wind Trail, Earth Burrow, or other magic equipment, no one would be able to escape easily!
This was also why Mu Nujiao was confident that Mo Fan could not escape, which led her to walk up to where she was now standing confidently. She had not expected that Mo Fan could not be found within the Gaol made up countless plants.
Impossible!
Absolutely impossible!!
"You lost," said a voice with a very serious tone from the forest on the other side of her.
Extremely shocked, Mu Nujiao turned slowly around to look that way, only to find Mo Fan walking out from the shadows of the plants…
He did not walk out from the forest, but from the shadows of the plants. Even with her incredibly strong senses, Mo Fan had still managed to walk up on her unscathed by moving within the shadows!
In truth, no one would be able to escape from the imprisonment of the Forest of Kun… except when it came to Shadow Element magic!
With all the tall trees, thick vines, and large amount of leaves, shadows were everywhere around the Forest of Kun. This provided a huge area for Shadow Element mages to roam around freely. Be it the plentiful vines or branches, none of them would be able to trap a shadow that could move around freely in their shadows!
"Shadow Element... How is it possible that you possess magicks of the Shadow Element?!" exclaimed Mu Nujiao, nearly falling down as she stared at him in disbelief.
Right now, she dared not move at all, not to mention casting any more spells. Mo Fan was dangerously close to her, and he even had a slithering lightning serpent in his hand!
At this range, there would be no time for her to react, or even use any magic equipment!
"That has nothing to do with you. Anyhow, you have already lost this battle," stated Mo Fan, as the lightning serpent in his hand grew more and more ferocious, and seemed like it would strike anytime.
Anger rose in Mu Nujiao's eyes.
Shadow Element!!
Is he trying to defy everything I know about magic??
This man clearly displayed both Summoning and Lightning Element magic!
So why is there a third Element's power!?
Is he an Advanced Mage??
Impossible, definitely impossible, no one could reach the Advanced level at such a young age, not even those from the Magic Court!
With no options left, Mu Nujiao stood there as she bit her lips.
Before she gave up, she briefly thought of continuing to fight this guy with her magic equipment, but in the end discarded the foolish idea.
"I've lost!"
As soon as she said this, the entire arena went quiet.
After a few moments, the entire arena exploded in chaos!
She lost, Mu Nujiao actually lost!
Her losing signified that Mo Fan alone would be sitting on all the public resources that were supposed to be distributed to the new students!
Oh Heaven! Their last hope, their goddess, had also lost to this demon king!
"How… Just how?"
"He must have cheated!"
"Just kill us! We went through so much just to get into this institution for the extra resources, but now, everything is gone, all gone!"
As a result of being unable to accept that what was done was done, cries could be heard all over the arena.
And when Mu Nujiao heard the cries, her cheeks were burning hot.
She had never seen her defeat coming, and she blamed herself for being so careless.
Mu Nu Jiao clearly knew that not everyone among the five thousand plus new students were the same as her, being able to completely ignore the resources provided by the institution. In truth, there was a girl in the same hostel with her who was relying on those resources to break through the barrier and enter the Intermediate mage level.
If she was purely looking for a fight, she would've been in the same position as Mo Fan, challenging the entire school. But she had stood up because she did not want the resources distributed to the students that came from average families to be raided by Mo Fan alone!
Chapter 169 - Overdosing On Resources!
A nightmare fell upon the new students from the other Schools.
They had no time to pay attention to how Mo Fan had escaped from the Forest of Kun's imprisonment…
"Dean Xiao, what… what do we do now?!" asked the other deans. "Can't you see that chaos has overwhelmed the crowd?"
Although they had not figured out exactly how Mo Fan escaped, what had happened right before them was something that had not occured in the past ten years. It was obvious that this scene was going to be even more difficult to handle! "Why don't we convince Mo Fan to give up? This is getting out of hand…" said Zhong Zhenghua.
Previously, they did not think that this would be possible, so they listened to Dean Xiao obediently. Who would have thought that rather than just being a competent Summoner mage, Mo Fan was also a mage that was able to manipulate Intermediate-tier Lightning Element magic…
Apart from that, this guy must have hidden a portion of his true strength away, or his winning streak would have been terminated by Mu Nujiao, as she was basically invincible among the new students!
"Rules are rules! They are not to be broken!" replied Dean Xiao with a cold humph as he rejected Zhou Zhenghua's suggestion.
With a frown, Dean Xiao looked at the messy situation and let out a loud shout.
His shout echoed throughout the arena and forced everyone to shut up!
"Enough, this marks the end of the competition! The resources for this current batch of newcomers will be placed under the Summoning Element!" announced Dean Xiao with no hesitation.
"Dean Xiao!…"
Without giving any chances for the others to speak, Dean Xiao said coldly, "In truth, the resources given to you this semester are more than enough for all of you. Right now, what all of you couldn't accept is not that your resources are gone, you just couldn't accept that the resources are being given to one person!
"Why didn't a single one of you jump out and repute the suggestion about the resources of the Summoning Element being distributed to the others if they defeated less than a hundred students? Was it because of the mere seven students of the Summoning Element? Was it because they couldn't protest like uncivilized barbarians like all of you are because of their small numbers?
"Have you all forgotten what I said during the opening ceremony? Have you all forgotten how the rules of how our school cultivate mages?? This has never happened throughout the years, and this has proved that we have always been the same for so long without any changes, especially among the new students! Today, I am more than happy that someone finally broke this previously unchanged situation! He might not be able to change the world yet, but this is a good start!"
Dean Xiao's angry and disappointed words struck everyone like raging thunder!
Upon hearing his words, those older students who were cultivating in the Pearl Institution all lowered their heads and dared not mutter any more words, let alone the newcomers!
If they had disagreed with this before everything started, Dean Xiao would have disregarded the idea of letting Mo Fan getting all the resources right now.
Why did they wait until Mo Fan triumphed against all odds and only started to protest after all of their own profits were taken away by someone else?
If the Pearl Institution only took in students like those guys, then Dean Xiao would be even more willing to donate these resources to those with greater ambitions and willpower who had failed to enter the association, in order to fully utilize them! At least, those mages out there now knew that the resources were hard to get!
At this time, a man with determination and pride stood up and questioned Dean Xiao loudly. "Dean Xiao, what you said is right, but have you ever considered… people like us who come from a poor family? We greatly depend on the resources given by the school to cultivate! We have to compete with those rich students that possess a greater amount of resources, and they only paid a tiny bit of effort for the resources they have! Each and every portion of resources means a lot to poor students like me!"
Facing this question, Dean Xiao took down his glasses and glanced at this young man in the audience.
Dean Xiao was not irritated at all as he answered, "Because this is a school, you had the chance to ask a foolish question like this. You think Mo Fan was born with a golden spoon in his mouth, you think he came from a rich and noble family, which is why he reached the Intermediate level much earlier than you all, correct?"
"Yes!" replied the young student.
"Fine! I did not want to bring this up, but since you have questioned me about this on behalf on the many mages that come from average families, then I will tell you… this student that plundered all of your resources came from Bo City!" replied Dean Xiao angrily.
Bo City???
That Bo City that was in the news about a year ago??
The tragedy that happened in Bo City would never be forgotten. According to the statistics, there were more than a hundred thousand casualties!
That day was a day where the blood shed was enough to form rivers!
"He came from an average family, with average resources and whatever he had at that time, were probably even worse than the majority of you! I think I've said enough," replied Dean Xiao as he sighed.
Everyone went quiet immediately upon Dean Xiao's reply.
That student looked at Mo Fan, who was at the center of the arena, in disbelief.
How was it even possible that someone at his age without any resources could advance into the Intermediate level? How was that possible??
Mu Nu Jiao also looked at the man who defeated her, shocked.
In truth, she had taken Mo Fan as one of the strongest disciples of a large faction out there, but who would've thought that he was actually just a nobody from Bo City! No wonder he didn't use any magic equipment, he probably don't even own one!
In the battles between the disciples of the rich and noble families, the use of magic equipment was even more frequent than magic casting. Mu Nu Jiao had thought that her opponent did not use any because he did not want to show off his wealth, just like her.
"Dean Xiao, this is all unnecessary attention…. Is it really alright for you to expose my information just like that? How am I supposed to chase after the beautiful ladies of the rich after this?" asked a speechless Mo Fan.
"Hahahahaha, I was very angry and since a great example like you come by very handily, I took this chance."
Speechless, Mo Fan shut his mouth.
It is very easy to garner hostile attention after becoming the brilliant kid next door that outperformed everyone!
Sigh, fine, so be it! Since I robbed everyone of their resources, no one from the new students will like me anymore!
Mo Fan believed that the students who were admitted to Pearl Institute were all people with good morals. However, he would carry a silver needle whenever he went to the cafeteria, just in case...
Still, after the competition ended, Mo Fan couldn't stop feeling great!!
Although the resources were not the core resources given to the students by the institution, just with this amount, he was still happily overwhelmed!!
In the space of one second, he had gone from being one of the poor to one of the rich!
Chapter 170 - Strategy
The remaining six people from the Summoning School already regarded Mo Fan as a god. They knew their capabilities and obediently let Mo Fan claim all that he had obtained while they only took what belonged to them.
Whether or not Jiang Yunming meant it, there was no reason for Mo Fan to share the resources with the six of them. He had poured in a considerable and desperate effort for the resources, despite knowing that he would make himself a public enemy of the entire school.
"Dean Xiao mentioned that he will convert all public resources into my own cultivation resources. I wonder how much they will be? Will I be able to obtain resources for the evolution of the Spirit Wolf??" said Mo Fan softly to himself.
Mo Fan had a strong feeling that if the Spirit Wolf was able to advance into the Warrior-class, he would be unstoppable among those at his level, and he might even be able to challenge those at a higher level!
Mo Fan still clearly remember the time where he saw a Warrior-class monster himself; he could still remember the impact and the awe brought by the Warrior-class Three-Eyed Demon Wolf when it pounced out from the building out of nowhere!
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After experiencing the huge incidents that happened in the competition, there was a rapid change in his daily life.
First of all, there only only three people left in his dormitory.
The other two roommate of Mo Fan who seemed to be afraid of being dragged into the chaos stirred up by Mo Fan, had quickly submitted an application requesting to move into another dormitory.
Thus, only Mo Fan, Zhang Pinggu, and Zhao Manyan remained in the same dormitory.
Zhang Pinggu now admired Mo Fan so much that he had turn into a fanboy, while Zhao Manyan, on the other hand, reacted much more normally. However, one of his favorite questions for Mo Fan was now, "Since you fought with Mu Nujiao before, can you tell if she is a C or D cup?"
Mo Fan was extremely speechless to his question for how could he be able to do precise measurement during a fight, not to mention such an intense contest with Mu Nujiao?.... But judging from what he saw, perhaps she has a D cup!
There would be quite some time until Mo Fan could access the resources granted to him because of some procedures but as someone who was not in a hurry, he patiently waited while he kept on training himself.
Time passed quickly and one month has passed ever since the competition.
The discussions about the competition were gradually replaced by some other fresh news but occasionally, Mo Fan could still hear Zhang Pinggu kept on talking about a few newly appeared strong competitors. One of them was said to be a student that enrolled at the school quite late but that student might possess strength greater than Mo Fan's.
This was inevitable; Mo Fan had made himself a public enemy to the entire school, thus, even though everyone knew that he was strong, they were all unwilling to acknowledge him as the strongest in the school. As a result, they were all naturally more fond of the other individuals who possess greater strength than those on the same levels and since none of them have had a fight with Mo Fan, everyone just assumed that they were stronger than Mo Fan.
"Hey! did you guys know that Mu Nujiao did something that caused the entire school to view her as a goddess." said Zhang Pinggu as he stormed into the dormitory while both Mo Fan and Zhao Manyan were meditating as they were lazy to attend classes.
Zhao Manyan has his eyes opened first when he heard the name of Mu Nujiao. He has great interest in Mu Nujiao and would literally stop anything he was doing or working on, even if it's in the midst of advancing into the next level.
Zhang Pinggu then continued to say : "Mu Nujiao took on the responsibilities for what happened in the competition and she donated an equivalent amount of resources won by Mo Fan to everyone in the school with the name of the Mu Family."
This time, Mo Fan opened his eyes.as well.
"Why is she doing this?" asked Mo Fan in surprise.
Isn't she being way too generous? The responsibility of losing the resources was not on her so why is she trying to compensate all of the new students for their own losses?
"Yeah I agree, it was unexpected. Not even the school expected her to do this. It's a total blessing from the goddess." replied Zhang Pinggu in great excitement.
Zhao Manyan thought for a while, and soon understood the reason of Mu Nujiao seemingly irrational move.
"It's just a kind of strategy." said Zhao Manyan.
"How so?" asked Mo Fan.
The public resources was a real great deal of amount that even a financially well-capitalized aristocratic family would not be able to afford spending just like that.
"Each year, every major aristocratic family will spend a great deal of resources to recruit graduated and undergraduate students from the prestigious schools. And for Mu's family, they were merely doing this earlier this year in an attempt gain the favour of the freshmen. Supposedly, the school normally does not allow this to happen, but after losing such a huge amount of public resources, the school only silently approved this and allowed Mu Nujiao to do as she pleased." explained Zhao Manyan.
"But it's still way too costly just for a good reputation! And I wonder if the people will still side with Mu' family when they are offered with a better prospect in the future." replied Zhang Pinggu.
"Gold can be nothing for a wealthy person with luxurious life. However, when you offer a bowl of rice for a person who is starving to death, he will never forget your generosity to him till the end of his life. Mu's family is being smart in the way that they are taking the overall situation into consideration to draw people to their side. Perhaps not everyone or only a minority of them will join Mu Family in the future but the Mu Family has earned themselves a good reputation among the entire school."Zhao Manyan pointed out bluntly.
Zhang Pinggu sniffles.
To be frank, if Zhao Manyan did not point this out, he would really think that Mu Nujiao was doing this out of her guiltiness., thus, accepting her as a goddess with a pure and kind heart.
