Chapter 151: I Was Speaking Too Loudly—The Lightning Element Shard Should Go to Lin Mo!

The top floor of the observation platform.

Zhang Daoyuan stared quietly at the enormous skin hovering above the plaza, the muscles of his face twitching faintly.

What the hell?

An advanced skill?

Lightning element?

"Old Xu…"

After a long pause, Zhang Daoyuan finally turned his head. "What's going on with this kid, Lin Mo?"

Hearing Zhang Daoyuan's question.

Xu Wenchang chuckled. "Didn't I tell you long ago? This kid Lin Mo—his lightning-element attainment is in no way inferior to his fire-element."

"I told you to stop popping your eyeballs out, but you just wouldn't believe me."

"Bullshit!"

Zhang Daoyuan finally couldn't hold back and let loose a curse.

"And you call that 'in no way inferior to fire'?! That's a damn advanced skill! A pure, bona fide advanced lightning-element skill—【Heaven's Punishment · Lightning Cloud Purgatory】!"

"A freshman under level thirty comprehending a fire-element special skill is one thing, but he actually went and comprehended an advanced skill in another element system too?"

"Don't tell me you knew all along he'd pull this move?"

Zhang Daoyuan stared at Xu Wenchang, waiting for his reply.

Xu Wenchang's hand trembled slightly.

Though his surface was calm, the stream of "holy shit" inside him was no smaller than Zhang Daoyuan's.

He knew jack shit!

The day before yesterday, this kid Lin Mo could only use mid-level lightning-element skills.

How did an advanced skill pop out today?

He wakes up from sleep and suddenly gains a mid-level fire skill and an advanced lightning skill?

Does this kid comprehend skills through dreams?

"Heh heh, Old Zhang, to tell the truth, I didn't know he had an advanced skill up his sleeve either, but…"

"On this kid Lin Mo, it's pretty normal."

"Normal?"

"Normal my ass!"

Zhang Daoyuan's eyes went wide. "That's an advanced skill! Without hitting level seventy or eighty, who could comprehend one? Can you?"

"Of course I can't, but Lin Mo can."

Xu Wenchang gave a light laugh and said blandly, "You just haven't gotten used to it. This kid Lin Mo loves giving people surprises when he's got nothing better to do. You'll get used to it eventually, you'll get used to it."

"…"

Zhang Daoyuan was left speechless.

Get used to it?

How does one get used to that?

A person under level 30 comprehending so many mid-level skills is one thing, but he also has an Elemental Body, and now he's even pulled out an advanced skill.

He didn't dare think about it, but he figured in a month, an Elemental Clone would pop out, right?

Just as Zhang Daoyuan felt his worldview teetering on the brink of collapse.

"Enough. What are you, a grown man, still jumping at every little thing here?"

Principal Guhe spoke slowly, cutting off the conversation between the two.

He slowly turned his head, his deep gaze falling on Zhang Daoyuan.

"Old Zhang."

"Now, do you think this 【Lightning Element Shard】, as a trial reward…"

Principal Guhe's lips curved up slightly. "Does he, Lin Mo, have the qualifications to take it?"

Once this question was thrown out, the observation room fell silent for a moment.

Zhang Daoyuan looked at the big screen.

He recalled how, barely ten minutes ago, he had been firmly convinced that Lin Mo was sure to lose.

Thinking about it now.

He only felt his old face burning hot.

Zhang Daoyuan took a deep breath and gave a bitter laugh:

"Principal."

"I admit it—I was speaking too loudly earlier."

"With the potential Lin Mo has shown, that kind of comprehension and talent—you could search the wholeure whole world and not find a second one."

Zhang Daoyuan paused, his tone turning unusually firm:

"If this Lightning Element Shard isn't used on him, that would be… a waste of a heavenly treasure!"

Hearing Zhang Daoyuan's wholehearted admission, Xu Wenchang immediately beamed.

"That's more like it!"

Xu Wenchang stepped forward and patted Zhang Daoyuan on the shoulder. "Old Zhang, broaden your horizons. As teachers, our vision needs to be a bit more long-term."

"Believe me, once this kid steps onto the Ten Thousand Nations battlefield, he'll definitely send those foreign devils packing without a single one left standing."

Zhang Daoyuan rolled his eyes at Xu Wenchang in annoyance, but didn't argue back.

He knew that, judging from Lin Mo's current performance, what Xu Wenchang said was fact.

Just at this moment,

the door to the observation room was slowly pushed open from the outside.

Hearing the noise,

Zhang Daoyuan instinctively turned his head to look.

When he clearly saw the figure standing at the door, he was obviously stunned for a moment, then exclaimed in surprise:

"Han Laoshi?"

Hearing this title,

Principal Guhe and Xu Wenchang also turned their heads together to look toward the door.

It was an extremely tall woman.

She wore a deep blue trench coat, with a pure white turtleneck sweater underneath.

Her face was of ultimate beauty, her skin so white it seemed to glow.

Most striking of all was that head of snow-white long hair.

Looking at this familiar yet infinitely lifeless face, the smile on Xu Wenchang's face faded, and his expression became somewhat complex.

"Xiao Xue, you have emerged from seclusion?"

Principal Guhe looked at Han Xue at the door, his tone carrying a certain warmth of an elder.

Zhang Daoyuan also came to his senses at this moment, quickly straightening his clothes, "Han Laoshi, long time no see. How come you suddenly have time to come to the observation platform for the new student trial?"

Facing Zhang Daoyuan's pleasantries, Han Xue merely nodded slightly.

She stepped forward with her long legs, walking straight to the side of the group, her gaze falling on the large screen above the square.

On the screen, Lin Mo was flying rapidly toward the direction of the Heroic Capital, with twin wings of flame sprouting from his back.

After a long while,

Han Xue finally turned her head to look at Principal Guhe.

"Principal, I want Lin Mo to be my personal disciple."

Upon hearing these words, everyone was stunned for a moment.

The first to react was Xu Wenchang.

"No!"

Xu Wenchang's voice rang out with weight: "I do not agree!"

Han Xue raised her eyes slightly, looking quietly at Xu Wenchang.

"Xiao Xue, you cannot hide it from me."

Xu Wenchang's tone was heavy:

"Your desire to take him as your disciple is false; your true intent is to forge him into a blade to kill for you!"

Xu Wenchang ruthlessly exposed Han Xue's true purpose.

Looking at Han Xue's pale face, Xu Wenchang's heart was actually filled with powerlessness and sorrow.

Han Xue, the youngest and most talented Ice Mage in the Dragon Nation.

Born with an extremely terrifying affinity for the Ice Element, she had also, relying on her supreme comprehension, created multiple Ice-type skills herself, a genius of stunning brilliance.

However, ten years ago, her parents were ambushed and brutally killed in the High-Level International Battlefield by the elite squad of the "Adams Family," the absolute rulers of the Beautiful Nation.

Three years ago, her Thunder-type genius younger brother was tortured to death again in the Level 30 International Battlefield by a squad of the Adams Family.

Han Xue's hair turned white overnight.

But the Adams Family of the Beautiful Nation possessed extremely powerful strength.

And there were countless great terrors upon the sea.

The Dragon Nation could not go across the sea and declare war on the Beautiful Nation just for her sake.

After all, in the International Battlefield, one bears one's own life and death, a tacit rule jointly observed by multiple nations.

And although her strength was formidable, she could not cross the sea alone to seek revenge.

This had become a deadlock that was almost impossible to solve.

"Han Xue, be reasonable!"

Xu Wenchang took a deep breath and said in a low voice:

"Your enemies are the Adams Family of the Beautiful Nation!"

"That is a terrifying force that even nations must fear three parts!"

"Lin Mo is only eighteen years old! He has a bright future ahead! You want him to shoulder your impossible revenge mission, to face the Adams Family; this is not taking a disciple, this is pushing him into a pit of fire!"

Zhang Daoyuan, standing nearby, heard the words "Adams Family" and his face suddenly changed.

He finally understood why Xu Wenchang had such a strong reaction.

Zhang Daoyuan quickly chimed in:

"Han Laoshi, Old Xu is right."

"Setting aside how dangerous the Adams Family is."

"Let's just talk about the most realistic problem: Lin Mo is proficient in Fire, Earth, and Thunder. He does not have a single bit of Ice-type talent!"

"You, a top-tier Mage specializing in Ice, what do you have to teach a three-element Mage?"