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“The battle has started!”
Francis’ opponent was a bald, uni-horned, muscular man holding a giant axe. His body was as strongly-built as an ox, and it brimmed with explosive strength.
Then, with just a single move of his sword, Francis slashed open the man’s throat and ended the battle.
“That ended so quickly!”
“How impressive!”
“What great icy and sharp momentum!”
“There’s hardly anyone that can match him among the ninth-grade experts!”
“The Saint Domain is within sight for him!”
Everyone in the private room couldn’t help but rub their palms and sigh in admiration.
The laymen watched the show, but what specialists focused on was the skill.
With their experience, they were naturally able to tell that Francis’ move hadn’t just been an overlay of his physique, physical strength, and Battle Aura. It had also... carried momentum!
Momentum—moving along with the flow, as well as the accumulation of momentum!
The momentum here referred to the universe’s momentum!
When one carried the universe’s momentum and released it along with the flow, their combat power would go through an explosive increase.
The bald, uni-horned, muscular man was also a ninth-grade expert. In terms of pure physical strength and agility, he wasn’t that far off from Francis in his human form, yet his throat had been slashed by Francis, nevertheless.
The difference laid exactly in their comprehension of the universe’s momentum. Francis’ comprehension of the Ice momentum had already reached a fairly astounding degree. By carrying the universe’s momentum and releasing it along with the flow, he had slain the bald, uni-horned man with just a slash of his sword.
“The young fellows nowadays are truly becoming more and more impressive!” One of the academy presidents sighed emotionally.
“Indeed!” Everyone else nodded in agreement.
“Eh? Isn’t that the little fellow named Meng Lei? Why has he gone into the ring, too?”
The muscular elderly man suddenly let out a soft exclamation and remarked in a slightly surprised tone of voice. Everyone looked over one by one—true enough, they noticed Meng Lei going up into the fighting ring.
“Is it already that little fellow’s turn?”
Flit the 66th remarked with great interest, “Everyone has been singing high praises of that little fellow during this recent period of time. I sure would like to take a good look at what he has to offer today.”
“His talent might take the top spot in history, but it’s a shame that he’s still too young.” The muscular elderly man shook his head and went on. “He’s stunning enough when compared to peers of his age, but it’s going to be really tough if he wants to achieve much in the exchange competition.”
“That makes sense. That little fellow’s biggest flaw is that he’s too young and too inexperienced. The amount of time he has spent on cultivation is too short!”
“Fred, if I were you, I’d have let him participate in the next exchange competition instead of putting him out there this year...”
All the other academy presidents spoke up one by one, their words causing President Fred’s expression to turn rather awful—yet he couldn’t rebut them at all.
Meng Lei was certainly very stunning, while his cultivation speed took the top spot in history. However, he was ultimately too young, the amount of time he had spent in cultivation was too short, and his experience when confronting enemies too little.
Disregarding the exchange competition where experts were abound and solely focusing on the contestants today, even the weakest one was someone at eighth-grade pinnacle-level. Could the young Meng Lei really stand on the same stage as them and compete with them?
“He’s rather good-looking, though, and he’s about the same age as our Little Ninth!” remarked Queen Diana as she watched Meng Lei with her beautiful eyes, before subsequently looking at a delicate young teenage girl behind her with allusion in her actions.
Flit the 66th burst into laughter. He couldn’t resist glancing at the delicate teenage girl, and he said teasingly, “Little Ninth has to inherit the throne in the future. If she really does take a fancy to that little fellow, there’s no harm in marrying him and taking him as a royal consort.”
“Father!”
The delicate teenage girl blushed furiously at once. A crimson hue also came over her pair of delicate, exquisite dragon horns as her cheeks turned rosy red.
“Hahaha!” Everyone burst into uproarious laughter.
Meng Lei’s opponent had also shown up in the ring. He had green dragon scales all over his body, a pair of green horns at the top of his head, a pair of green wings on his back, and a long, green tail at his bottom...
“Haha! To think it’s actually Chester!”
At the sight of the green Dragon Person in the ring, a blond elderly man wearing a magic robe rubbed his palms in glee right away. “Fred, the top genius of your Fire Dragon Magic Academy is going to embarrass himself soon!”
“Oh?”
Everyone looked at the blond elderly man, puzzlement in their eyes.
“Chester was the top genius of our Dragon People Magic Academy in the past. 29 years old this year and a dual cultivator of both magic and martial arts, his Warrior combat abilities are at ninth-grade elementary-level while his magic abilities are at eighth-grade mid-level!”
The blond elderly man side-eyed President Fred and went on smugly. “Because he has Green Dragon blood in him, not only is Chester familiar with wood-elemental Dragon-Language Magic, but he also knows poison magic.
“That’s poison magic, you know! Something that specializes in restraining Magicians that have weak, frail bodies! Now that he has encountered him, that little fellow named Meng Lei is going to be out of luck!”
Everyone nodded in agreement as poison magic was terrifying.
This type of rare, special magic that only Green Dragons could master was totally different from ordinary magic and could kill without warning.
One would easily fall victim to it the moment they were careless, and once they did, they would be down with highly toxic poison. In lesser cases, they would suffer a great loss in combat strength, while in serious cases, they would lose their lives.
Perhaps Warriors could resist it slightly, but Magicians, whose bodies were weak and frail, wouldn’t be able to withstand it for long at all. Out of everyone, poison magic restrained Magicians the most.
“That little fellow named Meng Lei is so young. He probably doesn’t have any experience dealing with poison magic. He’s in for it this time!”
One of the academy presidents sighed softly with a shake of his head.
President Fred had an awful look on his face, and he began to grow uneasy and nervous.
In the ring, the battle started!
In a bid to forestall his opponent, Chester put on a show of strength right away and began to loudly chant profound and hard-to-understand Dragon-Language Magic spells. Several thorny vines appeared out of nowhere and transformed into dozens of poisonous snakes that rushed toward Meng Lei.
At the same time, numerous pink flowers started to grow around the ring, giving off a toxic pink mist that shrouded the entire ring.
“Eighth-Grade Wood-Elemental Dragon-Language Magic, Toxic Magic Vines!
“Eighth-Grade Poison Spell, Bone-Softening Toxic Mist!
“The outcome is clear!”
The blond old man chortled and said, “Fred, you’d better hurry and stop the two of them. Otherwise, your top genius in history is gonna croak!”
“Hmph!” Fred let out a cold snort in response. However, his heart had already gone all the way into his mouth, and he got ready to step in and stop the battle at any moment and save Meng Lei.
At that moment, up against the thorny vines shooting toward him and the pervasive toxic mist, Meng Lei instead flicked his fingers and launched a basketball-sized fire
ball that shot slowly and leisurely toward Chester.
“The First-Grade Fireball Technique isn’t even enough to tickle me!” sneered Chester, who couldn’t even be bothered to dodge the fireball.
However, in the instant it came within range of him, the human head-sized fireball expanded wildly without warning, swelling into a fire lotus, whose diameter reached as wide as 1,000 feet!
Boom!
The 1,000-feet-wide fire lotus engulfed Chester in a split second. It engulfed all the vines, as well as a large half of the fighting ring!
“What!?”
“Fireball Technique morphing into Fire Lotus Judgment in a second?”
“A first-grade spell turning into a ninth-grade spell?”
“How can this be?”
All the academy presidents in the private room got to their feet all of a sudden, astonishment written all over their faces!
Chapter 131: Choosing A Queen, Abandoning One’s Merits And Making Much of Their Shortcomings
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
To ordinary people, magic was just like tricks, yet also different from them. At the same time, while they were cool and dazzling, they also carried fearsome destructiveness.
However, all Magicians were well aware that magic actually wasn’t that amazing—there was a specific and particular way to cast every spell.
How to chant the spell incantation;
How much magic elements they must gather;
How the magic elements should be arranged;
All these aspects had their own specific patterns and rules. Making a mistake in any of them would cause the spellcasting to fail.
What this meant was that Fireball Technique had its own way of arranging magic elements while the Fire Lotus Judgment also had its own set of spellcasting steps. Once they had been cast, the spells would be set in stone, and there wouldn’t be any way to alter them anymore.
There was no way it could be Fireball Technique one moment, yet morph into Fire Lotus Judgment the next. If anyone could achieve something like that, then sorry, but that would definitely be tricks meant to deceive one and not strict, rigorous magic!
This was the most basic piece of general knowledge in magic and was also something acknowledged among all Magicians.
Yet under the watchful eyes of the public, Meng Lei had broken this very same piece of general knowledge in magic.
“Fireball Technique has turned into Fire Lotus Judgment?”
“A first-grade spell has turned into a ninth-grade spell?”
“Oh my dragon god! Am I seeing things?”
A huge uproar went through the whole arena. Some people’s mouths were wide agape, some were rubbing their eyes hard, and some had almost jumped out of their seats...
Everyone in the venue was astounded by what they had seen!
In the private room, King Flit the 66th, Queen Diana, President Fred, the blond elderly man, as well as the other academy presidents’ jaws had also dropped.
For others, their astoundment arose from the fact that they didn’t understand what had happened. In their case, however, it was because they understood the inner workings that they found it inconceivable.
Just like how there was no way a rock could turn into gold for no reason, it was impossible for the Fireball Technique that had already been cast to morph into Fire Lotus Judgment for no reason!.
However, this didn’t mean that it was unachievable.
It was actually possible for rocks to turn into gold.
Similarly, the Fireball Technique could also morph into Fire Lotus Judgment!.
By using the laws of nature, one could achieve this!
And it was precisely because they knew that this was achievable through the laws of nature that they found it so shocking and horrifying.
“President Fred, when did that little fellow comprehend the laws of nature?”
Flit the 66th looked at President Fred with astonishment in his eyes. He was a Fire Colossal Dragon, and his main field of cultivation was fire-elemental laws of nature. Thus, he had the strongest right to speak among everyone present.
For Fireball Technique to morph into Fire Lotus Judgment, there were definitely fire-elemental laws of nature involved here. Although the depth of his technique was very shallow and had touched only the tip of the iceberg that was fire-elemental laws of nature, there was no denying that it was indeed the laws of nature. Once laws of nature came into play, the result was a difference between heaven and earth!
“Your Majesty, to be honest, I don’t know, either!”
With a shake of his head, President Fred gave him a wry smile and replied, “I’ve always thought that he was just a Ninth-Grade Great Magician. I’ve never once imagined that he could comprehend laws of nature. He’s so young, after all!”
Flit the 66th nodded slowly and said, “Indeed. He’s certainly too young. Attaining the realm of a Ninth-Grade Great Magician at 16 years of age is already astounding enough, let alone comprehend the laws of nature?”
All the academy presidents nodded one after another with complex looks on their faces.
16 years old!
What a young and tender age!
At 16 years old, most people had only just enrolled in school and were in the midst of learning their magic basics. As for comprehending laws of nature... That was a notion too far away from them.
“He has already comprehended the laws of nature!”
A flash went past Flit the 66th’s eyes, and he said, “It’s only a matter of time until that little fellow advances to Saint Domain!”
“Your Majesty is right!”
Everyone agreed wholeheartedly with him. For a Ninth-Grade Great Magician to promote to Saint Domain, they mustn’t lack any of the three aspects of spiritual power, magic power reserves, and comprehension of the laws of nature.
Among the three, comprehending the laws of nature was the hardest to achieve. A vast majority of ninth-grade experts spent their whole lives comprehending the universe’s momentum, yet up till the point of their deaths, they couldn’t even see the laws of nature’s vague outlines.
This wasn’t the case for Meng Lei, however. He had already begun to comprehend fire-elemental laws of nature, so he only needed to improve his spiritual power and magic power reserves, and the road to promoting to Saint Domain... would naturally form for him.
In other words, Meng Lei was already a shoo-in for the Saint Domain realm. On top of that, it wasn’t that far off anymore.
“Someone as highly talented as that is certainly a worthy match for Little Ninth!”
Flit the 66th suddenly turned to the delicate teenage girl behind him. Then, he asked in a mild, gentle voice, “Little Ninth, how do you find Meng Lei?”
“Father...”
The teenage girl’s face turned red from embarrassment at once.
...
Boom!
As a great fire blazed away, as far as the fire lotus reached, the dozens of thorny vines were all reduced to ashes. All the pink flowers scattered in various corners around the ring were also turned into ashes!
Chester, the Green Dragon Person, surprisingly reacted pretty quickly. He jumped out of the sea of fire the instant Fire Lotus Judgment crashed into him. Aside from singeing a bit of his hair, he didn’t take much damage.
His powerful physical body constitution shone through without a doubt in this instant.
However, Chester was staring at Meng Lei with a horrified expression at the moment. “Your Fireball Technique has actually morphed into the Ninth-Grade Spell, Fire Lotus Judgment? How did you do that?”
Meng Lei let out a small laugh in response, even though he was actually secretly astounded inwardly. He had only randomly tugged at a few red threads in an attempt to boost the Fireball Technique’s might just now, and then the subsequent events had happened.
As expected of the laws of nature!
Its might... is practically terrifying!
Meng Lei couldn’t hel
p but hold a deeper level of comprehension toward the three words “laws of nature” now. No wonder everyone had to comprehend the laws of nature at the end of it all.
Everything that had happened just now was the best proof of that.
“Brat, when did you comprehend fire-elemental laws of nature?” Ol’ Amos’ voice surfaced in his mind, his voice filled with astonishment.
“We’ll talk about that later. I have to win this match first.”
Meng Lei looked at Chester. Several fire pythons appeared out of thin air and charged over from a few different directions with a wave of his arm.
Due to the lesson earlier, Chester didn’t dare to underestimate the fire pythons anymore. His form flashed as he moved about at high speed. At the same time as he dodged the fire pythons’ attacks, he also charged brazenly toward Meng Lei.
“You’re a Ninth-Grade Great Magician, so your body must be weak and frail for sure! Once I get near you, you’ll be dead meat!”
There was a chilly look in Chester’s eyes as he boosted his speed to the maximum it could go. In a split second, he had already arrived right in front of Meng Lei. In this instant, he exhibited the abilities of his powerful body to the fullest once more.
“Trying to engage in close-quarters combat with me?”
Meng Lei let out a chuckle in response. Then, he stopped casting magic and stood where he was quietly, allowing Chester to charge toward him at will.
“Huh?”
At the sight of this, Chester’s pupils constricted at once, and a foreboding feeling suddenly welled up within him. “What’s that guy doing, standing still over there?”
However, the arrow had already been notched, and there was no point of return anymore. With a furious roar, Chester leaped high into the air. Throughout his body, the muscles quivered as he poured all the strength in his body into his right fist.
As though cleaving Mount Hua1 apart, his fist slammed downward.
“Eat my fist, kid!”
His raging fist reached in a split second, carrying a momentum capable of blasting everything into smithereens as it smashed toward Meng Lei.