Chapter 532 - 254: This Is a True Genius
Chapter 532: Chapter 254: This Is a True Genius
The powerful Flame Long Spear pierced the Crystalized Spider without any suspense. The scorching heat incinerated its internal organs in an instant. Within two seconds, the Crystalized Spider stopped moving.
Eve’s eyes instantly widened.
Without a doubt, Lin Mo had struck faster than both her and Deke, and he had killed it with far more ease.
’His power is truly greater than Deke’s... and even my own!’
’But he looks to be only eighteen or nineteen. How is that possible?’
Eve remembered it clearly. At eighteen or nineteen, she hadn’t even reached Level 5... Even Teacher Flora had only just managed to reach Level 5 when she was nineteen.
’Could what Teacher Flora said be true? Is the genius she mentioned—the one who surpassed her own talent—this young man right in front of me?’
For a moment, Eve was lost in a daze, while Lin Mo continued to relentlessly hurl Flaming Long Spears.
Nearby, Mi Lan was already dumbstruck. ’Seriously, dude? You just spam magic like that?’
’Is your Magic Power infinite? Doesn’t it put any strain on your Spirit? How can you continuously cast an Excellent Level spell like that?!’
This was so far beyond Mi Lan’s imagination, so completely different from everything she had learned in school, that it felt as if her worldview was being violently torn to shreds.
"The big one is coming!"
Unlike the stunned Eve, Mi Lan, and the other students, Deke and his fellow Adventurers were long accustomed to Lin Mo’s outrageous power, allowing them to focus better on the battle at hand.
It was Deke who had shouted the warning, his ears picking up the sound of heavy footsteps.
Lin Mo grew excited at the news. ’The Skill Level gained from a Big Monster like this is much higher than what I get from these scattered Demons.’
’The only problem is, given the monster’s size, while my Flaming Spear can definitely inflict decent damage, actually killing it will be another matter.’
’Killing a Demon this huge isn’t just about a skill’s raw power; you also need to be able to inflict damage over a wide enough area.’
’After all, a piercing wound of the same size has a completely different effect on a person than it does on an elephant, let alone a blue whale.’
’And a spell like Frost Storm, which could inflict enough damage, is impossible to cast in this terrain without hitting our own people.’
’Oh well. I’ll stop worrying about promoting to Elite Level for now. As long as I get the Skill Level, it’s fine. I’ll just use Phantom Sword Dance and Demon Light Piercing Kill—skills that aren’t going to level up anytime soon—to finish this.’
Having made his decision, Lin Mo charged straight for the cave entrance.
Eve froze, stunned. ’Isn’t he a Mage? A Mage is a Profession that’s supposed to deal damage by casting spells from a safe distance. Why is he charging out?’
Her confusion quickly deepened.
Because Lin Mo had suddenly produced a sword from out of nowhere.
’And it was a sword of an extremely high level!’
Even from a great distance, Eve could clearly see the faint blue glow emanating from the blade.
As the top student of the Kingdom Warrior Academy, Eve’s own sword was already quite good—it was an Upper Excellent Level weapon.
For someone at her Level, obtaining a weapon of that grade was already considered well above the norm.
After all, most Elite Level experts were still only using Middle Level Excellent weapons.
Some Extraordinary Level experts were even still using Upper Excellent Level weapons.
’But the sword he’s holding... if my eyes aren’t deceiving me, is that an Epic weapon?’
’But that wasn’t even the main point...’
’The point is, why would a Mage pull out an Epic sword? Don’t tell me he plans to go into melee and slash at the monster?’
From a normal person’s perspective, this was insane, like he was deliberately trying to get himself killed.
But judging by the expressions on his companions’ faces, that clearly wasn’t the case.
’Don’t tell me... he’s a Warrior in addition to being a Level 10 Mage Professional?’
Overcome with shock and confusion, Eve even forgot to step in and help fight the Crystalized Spider Queen as it charged into their cavern.
By the time she came to her senses, it seemed the situation no longer required her involvement at all.
Phantom Sword Dance!
Unleashing the skill he hadn’t used in some time, he sent a continuous flurry of brilliant sword light slashing toward the behemoth. Each flash of light that landed on the Crystalized Spider Queen left a deep gash.
Within the confines of the cave, the Crystalized Spider Queen had no room to dodge. It could only shriek as it repeatedly lunged at Lin Mo.
Yet its attacks couldn’t even graze the hem of Lin Mo’s clothes. Lin Mo effortlessly dodged its lunges while continuing to perform Phantom Sword Dance, his motions for swinging out Sword Qi completely unaffected.
In just a short while, the Crystalized Spider Queen’s body was covered in injuries.
Finally, the last wave of Sword Qi, imbued with the cumulative force of the previous strikes, shot toward the Crystalized Spider Queen’s head.
The Crystalized Spider Queen lived up to its reputation as one of the strongest among Low Tier Lord Level Demons. Even now, it managed to react, raising two thick spider legs to block the final wave of Sword Qi.
However, against Lin Mo’s Sword Qi, its incredibly hard crystalline shell might as well have not existed. The attack met almost no resistance as it cleanly severed both legs.
The remaining force of the Sword Qi struck the Crystalized Spider Queen’s head, shearing off half of it.
The Crystalized Spider Queen’s aura immediately withered, and its enormous body lost the oppressive presence it had when it first appeared.
But even so, it didn’t die instantly. Its life force was truly incredible.
A smaller Demon, even a Level 11 or 12 Middle Tier Lord Level Demon, probably would not have survived that.
However, in its current state, it was as good as dead.
Lin Mo immediately formed another Flame Long Spear and shot it at the Demon before him.
The Crystalized Spider Queen had long since lost the ability to resist. The Flame Long Spear pierced its remaining half-head without any suspense, and the enormous body—four to five meters tall and ten meters long—finally went completely still.
’He finished it just like that?’
Deke and his group were, of course, used to it, but the academy students weren’t nearly as calm.
After all, they had previously seen their own captain, the top Warrior from the Kingdom National Academy, battle this very Demon.
Although it had been a brief fight, it was clear that while their captain could gain a certain advantage, actually killing the Demon would have been an exhausting ordeal requiring a great deal of time.
Yet this young Adventurer, who had appeared out of nowhere, had done it in only two moves... or more accurately, just one. The second was merely the finishing blow.
In a single move, he had beaten the terrifying Demon to the point that it lost all ability to resist.
’That kind of power... even an Elite Level expert couldn’t do much more than that, right?’
Eve took a deep breath and slowly let it out...
She wasn’t an arrogant person by nature. Even so, as one of the most brilliant individuals in the Kingdom, her objective talent had long accustomed her to leaving all her peers far behind.
Her eyes were typically only drawn to the few geniuses on her own level, such as Flora, who had already become an academy teacher.
Yet in Eve’s eyes, even Flora and the few other geniuses weren’t that much stronger than her. At least their talents were all still in the same league.
But Lin Mo’s performance just now had given her a real, tangible sense of awe-inspiring dread.
It was a feeling of helplessness... the realization that no matter how hard she tried, no matter how many miraculous opportunities she encountered, and no matter how brilliant her instructors were, she could never surpass him.
This, she realized, was a true genius.
He was the dazzling youth from the annals of history, the legendary protagonist from the Minstrels’ most beloved tales.
And people like her were merely stepping stones before such geniuses—notable, perhaps, with just enough presence to make the genius’s ascent all the more remarkable.