Chapter 99: No matter how many ants, they cannot kill a dragon!

"Melee ability users forward! Ranged ability users unleash attacks immediately! Support ability users enhance statuses!"

Seeing Xu Jingming begin to gather his attack, Shi Liao quickly commanded.

In reality, the best command method would be to divide these 100 people into five squads of twenty, based on ability synergies.

Then launch a continuous, wheeling assault against Xu Jingming.

But this was a team just newly assembled, incapable of such precise coordination.

They could only charge en masse according to ability categories.

"The chance to defeat an S-rank ability user!"

"Haha, charge, charge!"

"So what if he’s S-rank? Today is the day we drag him off his pedestal!"

"......"

Aside from the dozen or so ability users guarding Shi Liao, all others simultaneously attacked Xu Jingming!

Thus, an extremely rare scene unfolded on the arena.

Over eighty ability users launched diverse attacks against a single man!

BOOM!!

From behind, searing fireballs and wind blades sharp enough to split the air surged toward Xu Jingming.

Ahead, ability users wielding weapons and wielding enhancement abilities charged toward Xu Jingming, exhilarated.

Additionally, colorful lights flared across their bodies.

These were the buff states applied by support ability users!

"Hm?"

Xu Jingming, mid-gathering his thunder spear, suddenly felt his body grow heavy, his thoughts sluggish.

The speed of his thunder spear’s formation slowed accordingly.

"Are these negative states from support ability users?"

Looking at the crowd of ability users charging toward him, Xu Jingming narrowed his eyes:

"Too bad—they have little effect on me!!"

The thunder spear in his right hand finally fully formed.

Its surface shimmered like liquid lightning, crackling with terrifying power!

"It’s Xu Jingming’s A-rank technique—Thunder Spear! Form a defense immediately!"

Seeing Xu Jingming complete his thunder spear at a distance, Shi Liao roared.

The ability users guarding him swiftly formed a human wall before Shi Liao.

Leading them was a first-rank upper-tier ability user with an A-rank elemental earth ability.

He used his ability to summon a massive, thick earth wall, shielding them all!

"Xu Jingming, I advise you forget targeting me—deal with the enemies around you first!"

Protected within the wall, feeling utterly secure, Shi Liao shouted.

The new ability users were at least fifty meters away from Xu Jingming.

These mere first-rank melee ability users would need at least two or three seconds to reach him.

Yet Xu Jingming’s situation remained dangerous—the distance between the ability users and him kept shrinking.

In midair, various elemental energy attacks streaked through.

Under these conditions, Shi Liao did not believe Xu Jingming’s thunder spear would target him first.

Yet, facing Shi Liao’s threat, the tall, lean figure hundreds of meters away showed no hesitation.

Instantly, his powerful right hand gripped the thunder spear and thrust forward with all his strength!

BAM!!

With a piercing explosion, the thunder spear shot toward them like lightning!!

"Is that... a sonic boom?!"

Shi Liao froze, still not reacting.

BOOM!!

The thunder spear struck the massive wall!

The thick wall, which Shi Liao had trusted as harder than E-rank alloy,

shattered like paper under the spear’s immense impact!!

Shards of earth flung outward, striking nearby ability users—some were instantly bloodied and stunned.

But it wasn’t over!

ZZZZ—

The lightning on the spear suddenly surged violently, blazing brighter!

"No! It’s going to explode!!"

Shi Liao’s face paled—just the impact had been this terrifying.

If this thing detonated, they’d all die!

Just as he felt despair, transparent energy shields flickered into existence around each of them.

Simultaneously, the voice of the AI Eva echoed in their ears:

"Danger! Danger! Unstoppable energy impact detected. Life under threat. Energy defense net automatically activated!"

BOOM BOOM BOOM!!

At that moment, the thunder spear exploded!

With a terrifying energy surge, the ground trembled, and a thunderous mushroom cloud rose from the spot!

"What was that?!"

"Holy shit?! You won’t believe it—I just saw a mushroom cloud on the arena!"

"Did Shi Liao and the others die?!"

"......"

From Xu Jingming hurling the spear to its explosion, it all happened in an instant.

At this moment, the new ability users hadn’t even reached within twenty meters of Xu Jingming!

Sensing the disturbance, they instinctively turned back.

And saw a shocking sight.

Hundreds of meters away, beyond the energy shields protecting Shi Liao and his group,

the ground was pockmarked as if struck by a missile, riddled with craters.

Within them, residual lightning and arcs still flickered and danced!!

"We regret to inform you that you have been eliminated by Xu Jingming."

Hearing the voice in his ear, Shi Liao went numb.

He hadn’t expected just one technique to eliminate his entire group.

The power was simply too overwhelming!

Instinctively, Shi Liao felt regret.

If he hadn’t provoked Xu Jingming, his own strength would have secured advancement.

Now, eliminated without even defeating a single opponent, the second stage of the Newcomer Competition was already out of reach.

But it was too late to regret now!

"Forget me—keep attacking!" Shi Liao shouted.

Though his group was eliminated, over eighty new ability users still remained on the field!

They were still a force not to be ignored!

Moreover, after all this time, the ranged attacks from the ability users had finally arrived!

Shi Liao instinctively looked ahead.

BOOM BOOM BOOM!!

CRACKLE CRACKLE CRACKLE!!!

Fire, lightning, wind blades—various elemental attacks erupted violently.

Indeed, Xu Jingming’s figure had been completely swallowed by the elemental onslaught!!

"Even if I’m eliminated, I’ll take you down with me!" Shi Liao sneered.

A one-for-one exchange was still acceptable.

Yet at that moment, a low voice rang out from ahead:

"No matter how many ants there are, they cannot kill a dragon. Your efforts are utterly futile."

CRACKLE CRACKLE CRACKLE!!!

Amidst the roar of powerful thunder,

in the stunned gazes of Shi Liao and the surrounding new ability users, Xu Jingming’s tall, powerful figure stepped forward from the flames and lightning.

He held a dark-gold spear, surrounded by blue-purple lightning forming a dense electric net.

All fire, lightning, and wind blades were barred from reaching him!

Not a single scratch could touch him—instead, they merely accentuated his invincible aura.

"Can simple ability usage block all elemental attacks? How is that possible?"

Shi Liao’s pupils shrank abruptly to the size of needle points.

If Xu Jingming had used a powerful combat technique to block all attacks, he might have been able to accept it.

But this was clearly a basic application of elemental abilities, common to all elemental adepts!

Yet even so, it still evoked a sense of utter despair, impossible to break through.

“Is this what an S-rank ability is like...?”

A wave of helplessness rose in Shi Liao’s heart.

No matter how many adepts he united, in others’ eyes, he remained nothing but an ant...

Xu Jingming’s terrifying display also sparked a massive uproar among the teachers and spectators!