Chapter 218 - 191: Clash of Two Armies, the Centaur Cavalry Legion’s Mobility
Chapter 218: Chapter 191: Clash of Two Armies, the Centaur Cavalry Legion’s Mobility
This scene caught the attention of the people nearby.
"Seeing this, Old Li must be thinking about his own past."
Seeing Li Qiongtian pause as if lost in thought, another equally burly man in a crimson military uniform crossed his arms and joked.
He was an instructor from Beihuang Province.
Seeing that Li Qiongtian hadn’t snapped out of his reminiscence, the man continued:
"Of the two promising talents you mentioned, I’m more interested in that little girl from the Lu Family who plays with fire. She’s got something!"
"Her Initial Clan is a Fire Attribute Sunbird, which might even have a chance to undergo Evolution into an Undying Phoenix Bird in the future!"
"That Clan, whether it’s destructive power or Recovery Power, is seriously impressive!"
At the words of Lei Lie, the instructor from Beihuang Province, Li Qiongtian—who had already snapped back to his senses after Lei Lie’s first sentence—felt compelled to retort.
"I wasn’t even finished talking. Why are you making decisions for me?"
"Besides those two outstanding prospects, and the others who are still quite good even if they can’t compare, there’s one more student. He’s the one with the most powerful background of them all!"
"Hmph!"
"What’s the use of just having a powerful background?"
"Even if he used his family’s connections and threw a ton of resources around to get a spot in the University Alliance Training Camp..."
"...once he’s in, if he doesn’t have enough Talent, he’ll be eliminated eventually!"
Lei Lie, the instructor from Beihuang Province, seemed to look down on students who relied on powerful backgrounds and vast resources to get in.
"I don’t think Brother Li is the kind of instructor who only looks at background and not ability."
"If Brother Li is mentioning him, it must mean this student has something special about him!"
"Right, Brother Li?"
Listening to Nangong Yue’Er and Lei Lie, Li Qiongtian nodded with a strange expression on his face and said,
"Why don’t you two stop arguing for a moment?"
Li Qiongtian’s sudden interjection cut off the tense conversation between Nangong Yue’Er and Lei Lie.
Both Nangong Yue’Er and Lei Lie turned to look at him, as if demanding a reasonable explanation.
Li Qiongtian pulled his gaze away from them and turned back to the screen.
"Why don’t we watch his first arena match first? It won’t be too late to pass our Evaluation then."
"After that, I can tell you about his background."
Hearing this, Lei Lie followed Li Qiongtian’s gaze to the screen, but he couldn’t hold back his impatience.
"I’m telling you, Old Li, if he has some background, just spit it out!"
"This dilly-dallying isn’t like you."
Before Li Qiongtian could reply,
"Okay, okay!"
Nangong Yue’Er, who clearly had a soft spot for Li Qiongtian, readily agreed with delight.
Glancing at the smiling Li Qiongtian, who clearly didn’t want to reveal anything, then at the beaming Nangong Yue’Er, who was backing him up,
Lei Lie threw up his hands in surrender.
"Alright, alright, it’s two against one. I give up."
"Let’s see how he performs then!"
"If his performance is bad,"
Lei Lie crossed his arms, his gaze returning to the projection screen of the combat room, filled with a mix of scrutiny and anticipation.
Or rather, the moment the student Li Qiongtian had singled out performed poorly, he would immediately start mocking him.
"Even if he’s the son of the Heavenly King himself, if he does poorly, I, Old Lei, will still laugh at him!"
Nangong Yue’Er’s smile also faded as her eyes focused intently on the screen.
She was also very curious.
’Just what kind of ability, what kind of background, does this student that Li Qiongtian keeps mentioning possess!’
Hearing their words and seeing their reactions, Li Qiongtian simply let an inscrutable smile play on his lips.
Then, he too turned his attention back to the screen, focusing on the contents of the first arena.
Meanwhile,
the one-hour preparation time had passed.
Both Zhang Yi’s Elf Corps and Zhao Tianlai’s Centaur Corps had finished assembling.
The moment the Teleportation Gates appeared at their chosen locations,
the horns of War had sounded!
Neither of them wanted to be a step behind the other.
Whether it was advancing into the plains to perform early Reconnaissance on the enemy,
or being the first to set up their battle formation,
every advantage would increase their odds of winning!
Therefore,
upon seeing the Teleportation Gate open,
Elf Legion Commander Feiyana drew her sword without hesitation, its blade glinting in the sunlight.
Her voice carried clearly to the ears of the nearly one-thousand-strong corps behind her.
"Move out!"
As Zhang Yi’s Elf Corps set out from their Teleportation Gate,
on the other side, Zhao Tianlai, who knew his own strength was likely inferior to his opponent’s,
immediately used Saint’s Descent to take control of the Centaur leader.
The early-game advantage of a Centaur army lay in its mobility.
So, without a moment’s hesitation, he issued the order to advance:
"For the Horde!"
"For the great Centaur god!"
"Warriors of the Centaur Clan, crush the long-eared Clan opposite us!"
Having already seen the battlefield was a grassy plain and that his Clan was the Centaurs,
Zhao Tianlai’s confidence soared. It felt like he was back in a familiar match against his schoolmates, whose abilities he knew inside and out.
’Who cares if he’s a student from Golden City No.1 Middle School?’
’As long as I defeat him fair and square in this arena match, even a student from Golden City No.1 Middle School will be just another loser I’ve beaten!’
’By then, the instructors will have to see me in a new light!’
’I will prove that a student from Baili City Third Middle School is in no way weaker than one from Golden City No.1 Middle School!’
Fueled by this do-or-die, all-or-nothing mentality,
Zhao Tianlai, now in control of the Centaur Chief’s body,
immediately dispatched all his Centaur scouts to the other side of the small continent.
Ten minutes later, when the Centaur scouts spotted the Elf Corps, which had already exited its Teleportation Gate and was prepared for battle,
they returned without hesitation to report this information to the Centaur Chief.
But if the Centaur scouts could find the Elf Corps’ location,
then the Elf Corps’ scouts could naturally spot the Centaur scouts as well.
The battle between the two corps was taking place on a grassy plain.
It was a vast expanse with no cover.
The moment you spotted the enemy, they had often spotted you too.
This would be a test of raw strength!
And so, when the Centaur scouts reported their discovery of the Elf Corps to the Centaur Chief,
under the command of Zhao Tianlai, who was still in control of the Chief’s body,
the one thousand Centaur cavalry converged and charged toward the Elf Corps’ location like a bursting dam!
The grass was trampled, and the ground trembled.
The momentum of the Centaur charge was immense!
In the main control room, seeing the Centaurs leverage their mobility in the early stages to be the first to find the Elf Corps and immediately charge their discovered position,
Instructor Lei Lie from Beihuang Province couldn’t help but nod slightly.
"Not bad. A mass Centaur charge has some serious momentum. Let’s see how the kid on the other side handles it."
Nangong Yue’Er also stared intently at the screen, wanting to see how the student Li Qiongtian had mentioned so many times would handle the situation.
Faced with the Centaur cavalry corps that would reach her location in mere minutes,
Elf Legion Commander Feiyana, having received the report from her Elf Scouts, did not choose to retreat.
Instead, Elf Legion Commander Feiyana acted decisively. With the battle formation already set,
she began to arrange the Elf Mages.
The Elf Corps led by Elf Legion Commander Feiyana was a standard configuration from the Zhang Yi Divine Realm,
composed of four hundred Elf Warriors, three hundred Elf Archers, and three hundred Elf Mages.
Petty traps wouldn’t be able to stop the Centaur cavalry corps, who could traverse most terrain as if it were flat ground.
Therefore, following Elf Legion Commander Feiyana’s command, the Elf Mages directly cast the Sixth Level Spell "Thorn Jungle!" on the grassy area outside their formation.