Chapter 82: Temple Dungeon?

【『Earth Shield Spell』 trembled with excitement: Holy shit! Holy shit! So cool! So fucking cool!】

【『Earth Shield Spell』 became a top-level fangirl: Only Third Brother could pull this off! That aura of annihilation, that overwhelming dominance over heaven and earth… I could watch it a thousand more times and never get enough!】

【『Fireball Spell』 sneered bitterly: Hmph! You only got this far because I lowered the boss’s HP to the kill threshold—just a glory-stealer! If I’d landed the final blow, it would’ve been even more spectacular! More artistic!】

【『Lightning Strike Spell』 replied with just two words: Heh.】

【『Fireball Spell』 instantly bristled: What do you mean by “heh”? Explain yourself! Don’t think just because you got lucky this time you…】

Lin Mo landed slowly and retracted his wings.

“Phew…”

Every member of the guard unit exhaled in relief.

Finally, the boss was down.

Shen Yifeng walked over to Lin Mo, took a deep breath, and said, “Lin Mo… I never expected you to be a tri-element mage.”

“And one of those elements is Lightning.”

Lin Mo nodded and replied casually:

“Oh, I heard Lightning element has insane single-target burst damage, and I was weak in that area, so I just learned it.”

“… ”

Shen Yifeng’s lips twitched slightly.

What do you mean “just learned it”?

That’s the Lightning element!

Among all elemental mage disciplines, aside from Light and Dark, Lightning is universally recognized as the most difficult attribute!

This kid’s only around level 20, “just learned it”… and still managed to master 【Thunder Chain Prison】, a core Lightning technique, plus 【Thunder Scale Descent】, one of the hardest-to-learn skills imaginable.

And just now—the way he summoned thunder with a mere gesture…

That mastery, that control—even a Lightning-specialist mage at this level would have to kneel and admit defeat.

…

A short distance away,

three girls huddled together, their eyes never leaving Lin Mo.

“Wow… so cool, that Thunder Qilin, that aura…”

Han Mengqing’s eyes sparkled as she sighed, “Of course—the top donor is the top donor. Total class.”

“Hey sis, could you block that Thunder Qilin?”

Han Mengqing turned her head, big eyes blinking up at her sister.

Han Mengyao met her gaze, her expression turning strange.

She pointed at herself.

“Me? You mean me?”

“You want your big sister turned to ash so you can inherit my Huabei balance?”

“Ah… uh…”

Han Mengqing shrank back.

Beside them, Chu Lingxuan whispered timidly:

“Can’t block it… absolutely can’t block it.”

“Even if I activated 【Sacred Light Barrier】, I’d still be as fragile as paper against that strike…”

“Tsk tsk tsk…”

Han Mengqing shook her head.

Remember, Chu Lingxuan was a 【Dawn Arbiter】—an SSS-rank Light-element class, famed as the unbeatable tank in her tier.

Even someone like her, a walking fortress, felt like paper…

"So perverted... really so perverted."

Suddenly,

Han Mengqing seemed to realize something and began counting on her fingers:

“Huh… let me count.”

“From basic Fireball, to that spiral dragon projectile, fire pillars, fire tornadoes, flame wings…”

“Then sandflow, electric nets, and the giant Qilin…”

As Han Mengqing counted, her eyes widened further, “My god, how many skills is that?”

She stared at her fingers, utterly defeated:

“I’m a genius support, sure—but I’ve only learned six skills, and only one of them is mid-tier.”

She turned to Han Mengyao:

“Sis, how many do you know?”

Han Mengyao pursed her lips and answered honestly:

“I know five. 【Absolute Cold Domain】 and 【Ice Spike Spear】 are mid-tier.”

Han Mengqing turned to Chu Lingxuan.

Chu Lingxuan looked even more embarrassed, whispering:

“I… I know four. Only 【Sacred Light Barrier】 is mid-tier.”

“We’re done. We’re done.”

Han Mengqing slapped her forehead, face filled with despair:

“Our total number of skills is less than the number of mid-tier skills he’s mastered…”

“Is this even a person his age? Is this even fair?”

At that moment, Chu Lingxuan added softly:

“Um… Lin Mo also knows a combo skill—the Lava Armor one…”

“Oh! Right!”

Han Mengqing suddenly remembered, “I almost forgot that one! That’s a Fire and Earth combo skill—way harder!”

The three fell silent again.

After a long while, Han Mengyao took a deep breath, gazing at the boy’s distant back, and sighed:

“No wonder he’s number one…”

Just then,

far away, Xiao Liu let out a startled cry.

“Holy shit! Captain! Loot! Big loot!”

Everyone turned toward Xiao Liu.

Xiao Liu held a scroll glowing with strange light, sprinting toward Shen Yifeng and handing it to the captain.

Shen Yifeng took it, glanced at it, and his pupils shrank sharply.

“This… this… are we that lucky? It dropped this?!”

Lin Mo glanced curiously at the scroll.

He recognized it at once—it was a dungeon scroll.

But a dungeon scroll? Why get this excited?

Lin Mo couldn’t help asking:

“What’s the matter, Captain Shen? Isn’t this just a dungeon scroll?”

Shen Yifeng forced himself to calm down and looked at Lin Mo:

“Lin Mo, this isn’t an ordinary dungeon scroll.”

“This is the 【Thunder-Fire Temple Scroll】!”

“Temple?”

Lin Mo froze.

Shen Yifeng nodded and explained:

“Temple-series dungeon scrolls drop extremely rare items—specifically materials needed to master combo skills.”

“Combo skills?”

At those two words, Lin Mo’s heart skipped a beat.

Previously, he’d gotten lucky—wild boss drops had granted him combo skill materials, letting him master 【Lava Armor】.

But wild boss drops of combo skill materials were practically zero probability.

“Exactly.”

Shen Yifeng nodded, “And judging by the scroll’s name, it’s almost certainly dropping materials for a Lightning and Fire combo skill.”

“Thunder and Fire intertwined—ultimate destruction.”

“If you could master a Lightning-Fire combo skill…”

Shen Yifeng swallowed hard, “The power… is unimaginable.”

Swish!

Every eye snapped to Lin Mo.

Lightning. Fire.

Isn’t that his specialty?

Lin Mo stared at the scroll, his interest deeply piqued.

Thunder’s high single-target burst, combined with Fire’s wide-area damage…

Put together, just imagining it made his blood boil.

In this world, no one refuses to grow stronger.

Often, people stall not because they don’t want to, but because they can’t.

Talent, resources, opportunity, effort — none can be missing.

Many push themselves to the limit yet awaken only a C-rank profession.

Some strive their whole lives yet remain stuck in beginner-level skills.

“Phew…”

Lin Mo exhaled.

Good.

Good that my family has wealth and influence, and that the skills have worked hard too.

He looked straight at Shen Jun: “Captain Shen, how does your guard unit usually handle this?”