Chapter 148

With thousands of monsters, even he would need to kite them to kill them if he didn't use Blue Bird's [Glacier Storm].

And using [Glacier Storm] would mean indiscriminate attacks; those examinees entangled by the flying insects would have no time to escape the skill's range.

"I suppose that's why Senior Xue hasn't made a move until now."

Pondering this, Li Yao summoned the Dark-Winged Black Dragon and leaped onto its back.

The Dark-Winged Black Dragon received the order and swooped fiercely toward the direction of the flying insects.

Li Yao didn't consider himself a good person.

But to let him watch those examinees have their lives devoured by monsters—

he asked himself, he couldn't do it.

What's more, Senior Xue should be troubled by this matter as well; Senior Xue had helped him a lot, and he would not stand idly by.

To take a step back,

that behemoth was a "loot gift package" he had set his sights on early on.

Both for personal and logical reasons,

Li Yao needed to speed up and rush toward that side.

At this time, in the central area,

Ji Nie Yuan, Mishaluo, and other top examinees,

upon seeing examinees being dragged by flying insects toward the larva,

completely threw the idea of "ensuring their own survival" to the back of their minds.

With red eyes, they fought their way back into the battlefield.

They might not be able to deal with the larva, but their efficiency in killing these flying insects was far superior to the other examinees.

To let other examinees suffer for the disaster they caused—

how could the proud Ji Nie Yuan bear such a sin?

If he were to die, he would die at the front.

Ji Nie Yuan held his dual hammers and leaped out; a gale whistled, and in the blink of an eye, he appeared in front of the larva.

"Symphony Hammer!"

The dual hammers collided fiercely.

A piercing sonic wave rippled out, and the few flying insects in the air holding examinees instantly lost their balance and fell to the ground.

Ji Nie Yuan, with a cold face, blocked several insect monsters speeding down.

"Leave this place; the rescue troops should be coming over."

Beside him, Mishaluo transformed directly into a golden-bodied Arhat several meters tall.

While chanting "Amitabha," he unleashed a sonic boom with every punch,

continuously bombarding the flying insects.

He was cautious,

but his caution told him:

if he cowered on the sidelines and didn't make a move now,

the outcome afterward would be absolutely terrifying!

"Is this the level of the Dragon Kingdom's number one prodigy?"

Kujo Mise crossed her arms, a trace of disdain hanging on her cold face.

In a sense, Qin Qin Xuejun was indeed the prodigy with the highest professional rank in the contemporary Dragon Kingdom.

Yet, the other party's temperament left her extremely disappointed.

Just a bit of filth had left her unable to recover even now.

Even Hunting Hunting Xixia, who had been seriously injured, had rushed to the battlefield immediately after being healed.

"There's a term in the Dragon Kingdom that suits you quite well."

Kujo Mise looked at Qin Qin Xuejun, who was sitting on the ground, and said coldly without any regard for face:

"Trash."

This word "trash" seemed to wake Qin Qin Xuejun up; she stood up and said angrily:

"What did you say?"

She pointed to her own body.

"Here, here, and here! There's this sticky saliva everywhere!"

"You didn't encounter it, so what right do you have to stand on the sidelines and make sarcastic remarks?"

"I just want to find a place to wash right now."

Before she could finish speaking, Qin Qin Xuejun felt a fragrant breeze approach; Kujo Mise had actually hugged her directly?!

Kujo Mise let go and looked disdainfully at the sticky liquid that had stained her own body.

As a princess of the Kujo family, the education she had received since childhood was to temper herself in dungeon secret realms.

Sometimes she would even stay in a dungeon for a month; she had encountered monsters even more disgusting than this.

She did have mysophobia,

but when facing monsters, this kind of thing didn't have the qualifications to stop her footsteps.

"Do I have the qualifications now?"

Kujo Mise said calmly: "I originally found you because I thought you were the strongest prodigy in the competition; now it seems..."

She looked toward the examinees who were fighting the flying insects.

"...the weakest, more like it."

"You!"

Qin Qin Xuejun couldn't imagine why this impossibly beautiful Sakura Country woman would be willing to let such things appear on her own body.

However, the words "the weakest" stung her deeply.

With a thought, seven magic puppets instantly appeared behind her.

"Hmph, saying so much, isn't it just to get me to make a move against these bugs?"

Qin Qin Xuejun's face flushed slightly, and a strange smile, the one from the past, hung on the corners of her mouth without her realizing it.

"Let me show you, this Sakura Country woman, what the Dragon Kingdom's strongest prodigy is!"

"I hope so," Kujo Mise said lightly,

and then applied several buff skills to Qin Qin Xuejun's magic puppets.

The magic puppets' attribute capabilities surged by a notch.

Under Qin Qin Xuejun's command,

the seven magic puppets of various shapes each sought out a leader-level monster among the flying insects.

A level-30 or 40 leader would require several top examinees to join forces to deal with it.

But under Kujo Mise's buffs, these magic puppets could handle them one-on-one without any effort.

Seeing this scene, Kujo Mise couldn't help but ponder.

As expected of an SSS-rank Professional; the reputation is well-deserved.

Even without her buffs, each magic puppet she controlled could match an S-rank Professional.

Moreover, according to what this girl said, the magic puppets she controlled theoretically had no upper limit; as long as there were enough resources, she could create countless magic puppets.

Qin Qin Xuejun only had the ability to control seven right now, far from exerting the true strength of the profession.

It's just that I don't know how she compares to Li Yao.

In her eyes, with that dragon in existence, Li Yao would not be weaker than any profession.

But now that she had witnessed the strength of an SSS-rank Professional with her own eyes, Kujo Mise was a bit unsure in her heart.

However,

with such a big commotion here, Li Yao should be on his way, right?

When the time comes, let me take a good look:

the first man I, Kujo Mise, have taken a fancy to—what kind of skills does he really have!

With Qin Qin Xuejun's participation, the situation on the scene improved quite a bit.

But the number of flying insects was simply too high.