bioinnovel Chapter 40 E-rank Lightning Elementalist Prepares to Break Through to Tier 1, Level 8
Chapter 40 E-rank Lightning Elementalist Prepares to Break Through to Tier 1, Level 8
Zhao Feng's lips were trembling, it was hard to tell whether it was from anger or fear.
Lin Yuan smiled, turned around and left.
After taking a few steps, he stopped again and turned his head to the side.
"Zhao Feng, right? I'll acknowledge you as my son now, hahahaha."
Then, carrying Zidian, he disappeared into the depths of the dense forest, leaving Zhao Feng and the others lying helplessly on the ground, groaning in pain.
About seven minutes later, when two people in proctor uniforms arrived at the scene, this was what they saw: nine people sitting haphazardly under a big tree, some clutching their backs, some rubbing their legs, and some holding their wrists.
The distress bracelets for all nine people shattered on the ground, with fragments scattered everywhere.
The examiner leading the group was a woman in her forties, surnamed Zhou, a fifth-order wind-type.
She looked down at the mess on the ground and remained silent for several seconds.
"Who did it?"
Zhao Feng looked up, his face contorted with excitement: "An F-rank lightning user... He said his name is Lin Yuan."
Examiner Zhou was taken aback.
"Rank F? One person taking on nine of you?"
Zhao Feng remained silent. The blond-haired man behind him, clutching his back, managed to speak with difficulty: "Examiner, he attacked us..."
"A sneak attack could shatter all nine of your distress signals?" Examiner Zhou interrupted him, his tone filled with undisguised disbelief.
"The nine of you, the highest being at the fifth level of the first tier, were beaten like this by a mere F-rank lightning elementalist?"
No one answered.
Examiner Zhou took a deep breath and squatted down to examine the fragments of the distress signal device on the ground.
The fragments were evenly distributed; each of the nine bracelets was precisely shattered at the wrist position.
It wasn't smashed, it was struck with the tip of a gun. Nine shots, nine hits in the same spot.
She stood up and dusted off her hands.
"You nine, come with me. You've lost your qualification for actual combat."
The faces of all nine people turned green at the same time.
As Examiner Zhou turned to leave, the younger examiner beside her leaned over and asked in a low voice, "Sister Zhou, that Lin Yuan... is he really an F-rank?"
Examiner Zhou did not turn around.
"F-rank? To shatter all nine people's distress signals with such precision, without causing even the slightest unnecessary damage, and you call him F-rank?"
The young examiner opened his mouth.
"Check his kill record," Examiner Zhou said.
The young examiner took out a tablet and pulled up Lin Yuan's locator data.
The numbers on the screen made his eyes widen.
"Since entering the examination hall, the monsters killed are: two Tier 2 Level 2 monsters, one Tier 2 Level 1 monster, two Tier 1 Level 9 monsters, four Tier 1 Level 8 monsters, and six Tier 1 Level 7 monsters. Total score: 143 points. Current ranking..."
He swallowed hard.
"First."
......
At the same time, Lin Yuan had already appeared one kilometer away.
But what Lin Yuan didn't know was that, high above him in the sky, the moon was getting fuller every day.
Three days later, on the night of the full moon, the seal of the Abyss Demon Cave will experience a weakening moment, a moment that occurs only once every few centuries.
The Shadow Abyss Wolf King had waited for this opportunity for over a hundred years; the Blood Eye Cult had been plotting for who knows how long; and thirty thousand demons had gathered a hundred miles outside Hangzhou...
Everyone was waiting for that night.
Meanwhile, on the ninth level of the Abyss Demon Cave.
In the very center of the cave, a huge, transparent red stone stands silently.
The stone is three meters tall and is a translucent dark red color.
Inside the stone, a blurry shadow can be vaguely seen, curled up, as if asleep or waiting.
A Shadowwolf stood before a red boulder.
Unlike the fifth-tier Shadow Abyss Wolves on the fifth floor, this Shadow Abyss Wolf was almost unrecognizable as a wolf.
She stood like a human, with both feet on the ground and her back straight.
It has a slender body and is covered with a layer of very short, silvery-white hair.
Her face was somewhere between a wolf and a human, with clearly defined features and deep, dark red pupils.
Shadow Abyss Wolf King.
The supreme being of the Abyss Demon Cave, a ninth-tier demon.
Suppressed underground by the sealing formation of Hangzhou for hundreds of years, its true form is unable to leave the ninth level.
For hundreds of years, she has tried countless methods to break the seal.
Send lower-ranking clansmen to slip out through the gaps in the sealing array to find the seal's weaknesses.
Establish contact with the monster tribes outside and wait for the right opportunity.
Until a few months ago, the Blood Eye Cult found her.
The human with the inverted eye pattern in his left eye proposed a deal.
The Shadow Wolf King extended its forepaws—no, it should be called hands. Although the tips of its fingers still retained sharp claws, the shape of its fingers was completely indistinguishable from that of a human.
The hand pressed against the surface of the red boulder, its dark red pupils reflecting the blurry shadow inside the stone.
"Wait a little longer." Her voice was soft and slightly hoarse, as if she hadn't spoken in a long time.
"It'll be soon! This time we're sure to succeed!"
Inside the red megalith, the shadow moved slightly.
The Shadow Wolf King's pupils suddenly contracted.
She had been waiting for this commotion for far too long.
......
After the robbery incident, Lin Yuan wandered around the depths of the forest for most of the day, encountering nothing but monsters.
He tried to trace the source of the monsters' unusual movements, starting from the open area where Jiang Ran and the others were surrounded, following the tracks left by the monsters westward, until the trail finally ended in front of a gravel slope.
The traces spread out in all directions, as if something had given the order to disperse, and then vanished into thin air.
There were no footprints, no trace of breath, and no signs of human activity.
Lin Yuan squatted on the gravel slope for a while, ate a tea egg, and then stood up and clapped his hands.
"Alright."
He didn't have high expectations to begin with.
If a force capable of driving away demons right under the noses of Hangzhou could be tracked down so easily by a mere first-tier examinee, that would be incredibly unprofessional.
Whatever the reason behind it is, it's not something he can worry about for now.
If the sky falls, the examiners will hold it up; if the examiners can't hold it up, Hangzhou will hold it up; if Hangzhou can't hold it up, then there's no use in him worrying.
So he put the matter aside for the time being and focused on his own important business.
Hunt monsters.
The harvest on the second day was even greater than that on the first day.
He ventured deep into the westernmost part of the Class D danger zone, right next to the edge of the red diagonal area marked "Entry is strictly prohibited for those above Level 3".
The density of monsters here is much higher than in the outer area, and their quality is also much higher. Moreover, there are almost no other candidates competing with this place. There is not a single candidate in the entire city of Hangzhou who can reach this level.
The Shadow Leopard is at Tier 2, Level 3; the Rock Armor Giant Lizard is at Tier 2, Level 4; and the Windwing Python is at Tier 2, Level 3.
The creature that could wipe out an entire team of examinees when placed on the outskirts was knocked to the ground by him, shot by shot.
The superpower points flowed in like water.
The Shadow Leopard is extremely fast and can dash short distances in the shadows; an ordinary Tier 1 ability user wouldn't even be able to touch its shadow.
However, the sand in the forest sometimes slows down the speed by 10% to 30% within a three-meter radius.
The Shadow Leopard's speed dropped drastically the moment it pounced in, as the tip of Purple Lightning's spear was already waiting at its throat.