The Brute Mage!
The wind of Mu Ningxue's Spirit Seed shimmered with a deep sapphire hue, its contained energy far surpassing that of ordinary cyan Wind Element. It propelled her to speeds that left every other Wind Element mage on the field trailing far behind.
Wind Element was generally considered one of the most common magical affinities, yet its possible variations were also the most diverse of any element. Mu Ningxue's Wind Track seemed to carry her entire body on an invisible current, light as a feather, graceful and impossible to predict.
The ferocious Earthstrike flames were sidestepped with elegant ease, and the fire tongues that erupted in every direction were smothered beneath a frost-ice veil she had already prepared in advance.
She had clearly predicted Mo Fan's spell before he even cast it.
"Wind Disk — Heavenly Net!"
The speed at which Mu Ningxue arranged her Star Motes was breathtaking. She hadn't allowed herself a single moment's pause.
The sapphire-tinged cyan wind slowly bore her aloft. Her elegant long boots lifted gracefully from the ground as she achieved a faint, hovering levitation.
Silver hair danced magnificently in the wind. The center-parted bangs that had fallen across her chest took flight as well, unveiling the near-perfect features of her face.
Her luminous eyes gradually took on the cyan of a wind spirit, and as they blazed with color, the naked eye could see a cyan-blue aura surrounding her graceful figure — a field that dominated a diameter of twenty full meters.
It was this wind aura that had produced the slight levitation. With her hands folded over her chest, Mu Ningxue transformed in an instant from an ice princess into a tempest queen, so regal that no one could bring themselves to harbor even a single disrespectful thought.
"A Spirit Grade Wind Seed!!"
"She actually had to bring out her second element — that guy called Mo Fan is finished!"
Within that aura, Mu Ningxue's wind had already overwhelmed every other Wind Element mage on the field. Even more terrifying was that the wind spirits she commanded through Mental Intent had received their queen's directive, and were now raging freely through the area where Mo Fan stood...
Unlike the Wind Disk—Dragon Cyclone, the Dragon Cyclone at least gave its targets time to react and flee — if you could outrun the cyclone, you had a chance of walking away unscathed.
But this second-tier Wind Disk—Heavenly Net erupted directly at the target's current location, forming a massive gyroscopic cyclone whose maximum diameter could reach twenty meters. The instant the skill was released, a high-speed rotating wall of wind formed around the target. Unless you could smash through that wind wall from the very first moment, your only option was to stand in the eye of the Heavenly Net and wait — wait for the entire formation to spin upward and drag you into the rotating wall, where wind demons would tear you apart with merciless ferocity.
And if by some miracle you survived the lacerations, the final fling, the hurl, the crash — those alone would deliver punishment no less devastating than being hurled from a cliff face and shattered against the rocks below.
The raw power of the Wind Disk—Heavenly Net was formidable enough on its own. Layered with Mu Ningxue's Spirit Grade Wind Seed, its destructive force doubled — and the resulting devastation surpassed anything the Intermediate-Level Mages scattered across the other battlefields could endure. They had long since retreated to a safe distance, as though this was no longer a fight that belonged to their tier at all.
And indeed it wasn't. Either a second-tier intermediate spell or a Spirit Grade elemental seed, taken alone, was enough to dominate any fight at this level. Stacked together, the destruction they generated was simply beyond what anyone here could withstand.
At some point, the battlefield had narrowed entirely to a duel between Mo Fan and Mu Ningxue. With her Dual Spirit Seeds, Mu Ningxue now held an absolute advantage. The unstoppable Heavenly Net had drawn Mo Fan completely inside it, and within that monstrous vortex, he looked pitifully small.
"Blazing Fist — Heavenstrike."
Inside the howling wind wall of the Heavenly Net, Mo Fan had no intention of surrendering to it.
If the only way out was through the wind wall holding him captive, then he had to shatter it before the eye of the storm contracted and closed around him.
The first-tier Fire Element intermediate spell was second nature to Mo Fan by now. A brief adjustment of his Magical Energy flow, and his fist was ready to fly.
The Rose Flame on his wrist surged with furious heat, and the Heavenstrike punch slammed into the high-speed rotating wind wall!
**WHOOOOSH!!**
The entire massive gyroscopic Wind Disk shuddered visibly, its shape momentarily warping out of alignment. But under Mu Ningxue's Mental Intent, fresh Wind Element poured in wave after wave, repairing the Heavenly Net's structure.
"Again."
"Blazing Fist!!"
Fist raised, flames erupting — that blaze-wrapped punch crashed into the contracting wind wall a second time.
The first strike had already thrown the wall's airflow into chaos. When the second landed, the high-speed wall spinning around Mo Fan visibly twisted and buckled.
"Break apart!"
Mo Fan's fighting spirit roared to the heavens. Where others needed to catch their breath after a single intermediate spell, he spent his Magical Energy without a second thought — his Fire Element Star Nebula kept feeding him a steady supply of power. His Blazing Fist struck the Heavenly Net a third time, and three successive waves of crushing impact finally shook it apart. The once-contracting formation convulsed under the extreme distortion and fractured into countless scattered mini-cyclones, hurling themselves aimlessly in every direction.
The wind dissipated. Sheets of sand and grit rained down, settling in a spiral pattern at Mo Fan's feet.
He stood at the center of the fading aura, a smear of crimson flame still burning on his right hand, not quite extinguished.
His gaze was blazing and fierce. He stood tall, and in that moment a commanding presence radiated from him that shook the entire arena.
A Spirit Grade Wind Disk—Heavenly Net — pulverized by sheer brute force from a single person?
No one had ever seen a mage more violently offensive than Mo Fan.
The vast majority of people held the firm belief that a powerful destructive spell had to be dismantled with a defensive technique. Even if Mo Fan had three elements, not one of them was defensive. Yet this man was utterly unreasonable — he had met force with force, and he had actually beaten Mu Ningxue's Wind Element intermediate spell to pieces.
"Pearl Academy's Great Demon — truly worthy of the name. I am completely floored." Peng Liang, the Shadow Element student, stood there with his jaw hanging open.
Zhao Manyan had already suspected Mo Fan possessed the Fire Element, but watching it up close like this, he finally grasped just how savage this guy truly was. No wonder he could solo a Scale-Skin Mother Demon.
Teacher Gu Han, Qiu Yuhua, and Teacher Ah Li Jing all needed a long moment to recover. Now they understood why Dean Xiao and Director Zhou Zhenghua had been so insistent on bringing Mo Fan along...
So much for coming to the Imperial Capital Magic Academy to learn some humility. So much for friendship first and competition second.
Mo Fan had shown up to kick the door down.
"Dual Spirit Seeds... I didn't make the trip to your Imperial Capital Academy for nothing. I've finally found someone who can at least give me a decent fight." Mo Fan had already revealed his Dual Elements — there was no point concealing anything further.
One thing had to be acknowledged: among Pearl Academy's new students, there truly weren't many opponents worth Mo Fan's full effort. Here at the Imperial Capital Magic Academy, Mu Ningxue's strength did carry a certain edge over the exchange students — enough to be genuinely imposing. But she wasn't the only one on this field with Dual Spirit Seeds.