Chapter 82: Temple Instance?

【【Earth Shield】 trembled all over with excitement: Holy shit! Holy shit! So cool! That was seriously so cool!】

【【Earth Shield】 transformed into a top-tier fanboy: It really has to be Third Brother! That world-shattering momentum, that sovereign-over-all-the-earth pressure… I could watch it a billion more times and it still wouldn't be enough!】

【【Fireball】 snorted sourly: Hmph, it was only because this sovereign brought the HP down to the execute threshold, a kill-stealing dog, that's all. If this sovereign had landed that final blow, it would only have been even more spectacular! Even more artistic!】

【【Lightning Strike】 replied with only two words: Heh heh.】

【【Fireball】 instantly bristled: What do you mean "heh heh"? Explain yourself to this sovereign! Don't think that just because you got to show off this round, you can…】

Lin Mo landed slowly, retracting his twin wings.

"Hoo…"

Every member of the escort squad let out a long sigh of relief.

The BOSS was finally taken down.

Shen Yifeng walked over to Lin Mo's side, drew in a deep breath, and said, "Lin Mo… I never expected you to actually be a tri-element mage."

"And one of those elements is lightning."

Lin Mo nodded and replied casually:

"Oh, I heard the single-target burst damage of the lightning element is insane, and I happened to be a bit lacking in that area, so I picked it up."

"…"

The corner of Shen Yifeng's mouth twitched slightly.

What do you mean, you just picked it up?

That is lightning element!

Among all the elements available to the mage class, apart from light and dark, lightning is widely recognized as the hardest attribute to master!

This kid is only around level 20, picked it up for a bit… and successfully comprehended 【Thunder Chain Prison】, a core lightning-element technique, as well as 【Thunder Qilin Descends】, which has an extremely high comprehension difficulty.

And that bearing of invoking heavenly thunder with every gesture just now…

That proficiency, that control—probably even a lightning-specialist mage of this level would have to kneel down and admit utter defeat.

……

Not far away.

Three girls were huddled together, their eyes never leaving Lin Mo.

"Wow… so handsome, that Thunder Qilin, that presence…"

Han Mengqing's eyes were full of little stars as she sighed, "Sure enough, the top-ranked big brother is the top-ranked big brother, way too impressive."

"Hey sis, could you block that Thunder Qilin?"

Han Mengqing turned her head, blinking her big eyes as she looked at her older sister.

Han Mengyao turned her head to meet her younger sister's gaze, her expression turning strange.

She pointed at herself.

"Me? You mean me?"

"Are you trying to turn your big sis into ash so you can inherit my Huabei?"

"Ah, well…"

Han Mengqing shrank her neck.

Chu Lingxuan, standing beside them, timidly chimed in:

"Can't block it… absolutely can't block it."

"Even if I activate 【Holy Light Bastion】, against that strike I'd probably be as fragile as paper…"

"Tsk tsk tsk…"

Han Mengqing shook her head.

You have to understand, Chu Lingxuan is a 【Dawn Adjudicator】, an SSS-rank light-element class, reputed to be invincible in defense among those of the same tier.

Even a human fortress like her feels she's like a sheet of paper…

"Too broken, seriously too broken."

Suddenly,

Han Mengqing seemed to think of something, stretched out her finger and started counting:

"Hiss… let this young lady count them."

"From the most basic Fireball, to that Spiral Dragon Bullet, plus Fire Pillar, Fire Tornado, Flame Wings…"

"Then Quicksand, Electric Net, and the big Qilin…"

The more Han Mengqing counted, the wider her eyes grew. "Oh my, just how many skills is that?"

Han Mengqing looked at her own hands, her face full of defeat:

"Although this young lady is a genius support, I've only learned six skills, and only one of them is mid-tier."

After saying that, she looked at Han Mengyao:

"Sis, how many do you know?"

Han Mengyao pressed her lips together and said truthfully:

"I know five. Among them, 【Extreme Cold Domain】 and 【Ice Thorn Spear】 are mid-tier."

Han Mengqing looked at Chu Lingxuan again.

Chu Lingxuan grew even more embarrassed and said softly:

"I… I know four. Only 【Holy Light Bastion】 is mid-tier."

"We're done for, done for."

Han Mengqing slapped her forehead, her face full of despair:

"The total number of skills we know combined still isn't as many as the mid-tier skills that guy has mastered…"

"Is this really someone of the same age? Does this leave any room for others to live?"

At this moment, Chu Lingxuan weakly added:

"Um... Classmate Lin Mo seems to know a combination technique as well, that one, the Magma Armor..."

"Ah! Right!"

Han Mengqing suddenly realized, "I almost forgot that! That's a combination technique of the Fire and Earth elements! That thing is even harder!"

The three fell silent once more.

After a long while, Han Mengyao took a deep breath, looked at the boy's back in the distance, and sighed:

"No wonder he's number one on the leaderboard..."

Just then.

In the distance, Xiao Liu suddenly let out a cry of shock.

"Holy crap! Captain! It dropped! A big drop!"

Everyone present turned their gaze toward Xiao Liu's direction.

Xiao Liu held a scroll emitting a strange light, ran quickly toward Shen Yifeng, and handed the item to the captain.

Shen Yifeng took it, glanced at it, and his pupils suddenly contracted.

"This... this is... such good luck? It actually dropped this thing?!"

Lin Mo looked at that scroll with some curiosity.

In one glance, he recognized it as a Team Fuben scroll.

But just a Team Fuben scroll, is it worth getting this excited?

Lin Mo couldn't help but ask:

"What's wrong, Captain Shen? Isn't this just a Team Fuben scroll?"

Shen Yifeng forcibly calmed his mood, glanced at Lin Mo, and said:

"Classmate Lin Mo, this is not an ordinary Team Fuben scroll."

"This is the 【Thunder Fire Temple Scroll】!"

"Temple?"

Lin Mo was stunned.

Shen Yifeng nodded and explained:

"Team Fuben scrolls of the Temple series drop extremely special items; they are specifically for producing materials needed to comprehend 'Combination Techniques'."

"Combination Technique?"

The moment these two words were spoken, Lin Mo's heart skipped a beat.

Previously, he was lucky; only in the wild could he drop Combination Technique materials, allowing him to comprehend the 【Magma Battle Armor】.

But one must know, the probability of a wild BOSS directly dropping Combination Technique materials can be said to be infinitely close to zero.

"Exactly."

Shen Yifeng nodded, "And judging by the scroll's name, it is highly likely to drop materials for a Thunder and Fire combination technique."

"Thunder and fire interwoven, the ultimate destruction."

"If one could comprehend a combination technique of both Thunder and Fire elements..."

Shen Yifeng swallowed, "The power would be simply unimaginable."

Swish!

Everyone's gaze turned squarely toward Lin Mo.

Thunder element, Fire element.

Isn't that a coincidence? Isn't that exactly Lin Mo's signature move?

Lin Mo stared at that scroll, his own interest extremely high.

The high single-target burst of the Thunder element, plus the large-area damage of the Fire element...

Combining these two, just thinking about it makes one's blood boil.

In this world, no one would refuse to become stronger.

Often, people stop moving forward not because they don't want to, but because they can't.

Talent, resources, opportunities, and effort—none can be missing.

Many people exerted their utmost strength and only awakened a C-rank profession.

Some struggled their whole lives, yet only circled within beginner skills.

"Hah..."

Lin Mo let out a breath.

Good.

Good that my family has money and influence, and my skills are also quite hardworking.

He looked flatly at Shen Yifeng: "Captain Shen, how does your guard team usually handle such things?"