Chapter 149: Advanced Skill, A True Dimensional Strike!

"This... what is this?"

In the formation, someone swallowed hard, their voice trembling.

Massive, heavy black clouds appeared directly above everyone.

The black clouds were too low.

A terrifying pressure gripped every single person's heart.

"Why did the sky suddenly go dark? Is it Lin Mo's skill?"

"Wait! Look inside the clouds!"

Boom boom boom—!

Within those churning black clouds, threads of blinding lightning were leaping wildly.

"Lightning..."

"Holy shit... is this Lin Mo's lightning-type skill?"

"How is this possible... his fire-type is already strong enough to activate Elemental Body, how could his lightning-type also have such an exaggerated presence?"

In the crowd, people exchanged uneasy glances.

"Is this also an intermediate skill?"

"This pressure... no, that's not right..."

"I've seen a senior from the fourth year cast an intermediate lightning skill, and it didn't have this world-destroying pressure at all..."

"This... this level of exaggeration, it can't be an advanced skill, can it?"

"Advanced?!"

The moment those two words came out, the people around them immediately felt their minds reel.

"Impossible... an advanced skill requires at least a top-tier mage at level seventy or eighty to comprehend it, but Lin Mo isn't even level 30 yet..."

"But... damn it, if this isn't advanced, then what else could it be?!"

"Besides, Lin Mo's level is under 30, and he's already comprehended an intermediate skill and Elemental Body, so comprehending one more advanced skill doesn't seem that strange, does it?"

"All of you shut up! What's there to panic about!"

Just then,

Wang Gang let out a great roar.

Although cold sweat was pouring down his forehead at this moment, as the temporary commander of this five-hundred-person squad, he knew he absolutely could not lose his composure!

"All earth-type mages, advance! Cast 【Earth Flow Wall】 together!"

"Earth counters lightning! Just now we successfully used water-type to counter his fire-type, so now we can do the same!"

Hearing Wang Gang's furious roar,

the students who had been somewhat panicked quickly came back to their senses.

That's right!

Earth counters lightning!

"Brother Wang is right! Earth counters lightning! We still have our earth mages!"

"Earth mages, get up there!"

Crash crash—

The crowd surged once again.

A hundred earth-type mages pushed through the ranks to the very front.

"Form up!"

The leading earth mage bellowed.

Their staffs all slammed heavily against the ground at the same time.

"Hum—"

Dense earth elements were wildly drawn upon at that moment.

The earth trembled.

One after another, immensely thick walls of rock rose from the ground.

The instant these rock walls rose, they rapidly closed together and thickened under the earth mages' control.

"Keep going! Thicken it!"

The leading earth mage's eyes were bloodshot as he roared hysterically.

In less than three seconds, a semicircular rock fortress had firmly sheltered the five hundred people beneath it.

This was highly compressed, hardened rock, its thickness reaching a staggering two meters!

Only with this thick shell did the people inside the formation finally breathe a slight sigh of relief.

"With a wall this thick, plus elemental countering, logically speaking, it shouldn't be pierced through... right?"

They were praying.

Praying that the thundercloud above their heads was merely an intermediate skill that Lin Mo was using to bluff.

If it was intermediate, then they could absolutely withstand it.

But if it was advanced...

Then even if a few hundred more earth mages came, they wouldn't be able to withstand it.

From intermediate to advanced was a qualitative leap!

"Heaven protect us... please don't let it be advanced..."

Wang Gang gripped his long blade tightly, staring at the rock above their heads.

High above.

Lin Mo hovered silently beneath the churning thunderclouds.

"Water counters fire, earth counters lightning—quick reflexes, I'll give them that."

"But a high-tier skill isn't something your level can fend off with elemental counters."

"Little Lei, show them what you've got."

The words had barely fallen.

Lin Mo's right hand slammed downward.

【Heaven's Judgment · Lei Yun Purgatory】!

BOOM——!!!!

The oppressive cloud layer, in that single instant, completely exploded apart!

Hundreds upon hundreds of thick bolts of lightning tore straight through the clouds and crashed down viciously.

Between heaven and earth, nothing remained but that eye-searing, blindingly white daylight.

This was pure electric discharge—this was violent energy unleashed!

The already battered 【Water Shield】, the instant it touched this raging lightning, was pierced straight through.

The terrifying force of the lightning tore apart and evaporated the massive curtain of water.

Immediately after,

the lightning, carrying an unstoppable momentum of destruction, slammed into the rock fortress.

In the face of a high-tier skill.

What elemental counters, what numerical superiority—all became empty clouds.

The hard rock spikes held out for less than half a second.

CRASH!

The massive rock fortress split into pieces and utterly collapsed!

The pillar of lightning pierced through the rock layer and struck into the crowd.

"No!!!"

Wang Gang below only had time to let out a desperate howl before his vision was completely swallowed by endless Lei Guang.

The lightning poured down like a torrential storm, baptizing the earth.

Every bolt that struck blasted a bottomless crater into the ground.

The accompanying 【Paralysis】 and 【Shock】 effects.

caused those five hundred people, the instant they touched the Lei Guang, to completely lose control of their bodies—not even able to make a move to flee.

ZZZZZT——!!

Along with the thunderous bombardment, five hundred dazzling beams of Bai Guang shot skyward at the same instant!

The Bai Guang gathered together, like a meteor shower flowing in reverse—spectacular, tragic, and utterly hopeless.

Instant kill.

A true instant kill!

The entire party of five hundred, under the coverage of the high-tier skill 【Heaven's Judgment · Lei Yun Purgatory】, not a single person survived!

This was the terror of a high-tier skill!

A skill's tier has never been a simple stacking of damage numbers.

Beginner and intermediate skills, at their core, are still a mage channeling the surrounding elements, arranging and combining them to form an attack.

But a high-tier skill—its very nature has undergone a qualitative change.

It is spiritual power beginning to touch the edge of this world's "Laws"—a deep resonance with the essence of the elements!

Only when one's level reaches seventy or eighty, and one's understanding of a certain element reaches a certain depth, can one possibly comprehend a high-tier skill.

And on this trial ground where the average level is only in the 30s.

Lin Mo pulling out a high-tier skill is the equivalent of a nuclear bomb exploding on a cold-weapon battlefield.

A thorough, top-to-bottom dimensional reduction strike!

No matter how many people, no matter what formation they set up, no matter what elemental counters—everything was reduced to dust.