One-Sided Domination!
The teachers stared at Yi Yuquan, head of the Summoning Element department, in bewilderment — none of them could fathom what business he had joining this conversation.
"Well... as far as I can recall, among the incoming freshmen there's one named Mo Fan who enrolled in our Summoning Element department. In fact, I just received his transfer paperwork today." Yi Yuquan said.
White-browed Teacher, Wei Rong, and Qian Kun all burst out laughing, certain that Yi Yuquan was joking.
"By that logic, wouldn't this kid already be a High-Level Mage? Three elements?" Wei Rong said with a grin.
White-browed Teacher nodded in agreement. Virtually every Main Campus student who had reached the High-Level rank had long since graduated — there was no reason for Mo Fan to have already climbed to such heights.
"See for yourselves. I have the message that just came in right here." Yi Yuquan flipped his phone around for the others to read.
The transfer document was crystal clear: student Mo Fan was officially transferring from the Summoning Element to the Fire Element, the timestamp dated from just a short while ago.
Having read through the document, the teachers began exchanging glances — staring with barely-believing eyes at Mo Fan, who was still up on the stage, still ready to fight.
"A student as arrogant and socially inept as you will have a very hard time surviving in the Main Campus." Liu Qian's goodwill toward Mo Fan had evaporated entirely.
"People with mediocre strength like yours need to go around currying favor with everyone. For someone like me — if anyone doesn't respect me, I just beat them until they do." Even as Mo Fan spoke, pale moonlight Star Motes began materializing around him.
These Star Motes were peculiar things. The light they gave off differed subtly from the vivid luminescence of elemental magic — it was contained, restrained within a defined space, as though standing guard over a territory that was entirely its own. Solitary, and strangely enigmatic.
The pale moonlight Star Motes linked together, seven of them, rapidly tracing out a curved arc in the air.
The arc was like a moonlit blade drawn lightly across the fabric of the world before him — and what it opened was not a wound but a passage to another world. A rift gate had formed.
Up in the stands, the audience watched with puzzled expressions as Mo Fan cast what was clearly a completely different category of magic. For many of the students, the rare Summoning Element was entirely alien territory.
Just as people were wondering what trick Mo Fan could possibly have left to keep himself in the fight, a howl erupted from within the rift — a sound that sent a tremor through every heart that heard it.
A wild wind swept across the center of the arena, and the primal, bestial aura that rode that howl spread through the air around everyone.
Aura was something no Barrier could contain. Fear broke across the students' faces. Anyone with even a shred of experience would know exactly what this meant — the crushing pressure of a Battle-General-class creature!!
"S-Summoning Element!!!" Wei Rong cried out, all color draining from his face.
From the spatial rift, a magnificent wolf creature leapt forth, its body covered in glittering star patterns.
Its frame was not the towering, hulking kind — but its silhouette was long-limbed and powerfully built, lean without losing an ounce of raw strength.
Long fur streamed freely in the wind. Razor-sharp claws drove into the ground beneath it. Its proud, striking head tilted slightly upward.
It was studying its opponent — Liu Qian — with an air that suggested Liu Qian barely warranted its full attention.
"Damn it, this kid really does have three elements!!!" Wei Rong swore outright, shock written all over his face.
"Could this Mo Fan be the one ranked fifth on the talent rankings — the one born with Dual Elements???" Qian Kun, the Lightning Element teacher, shouted.
"That must be it — wasn't there a rumor that he'd already died on the exchange student Field Expedition?!"
The teachers were left speechless.
They had all assumed that Mo Fan — Lightning and Fire both spent — would surely be finished off by Liu Qian. But now, looking at the Swift Star Wolf standing there in commanding silence, they had no choice but to reassess the entire fight.
Up in the spectator stands, everyone who had been sitting was now on their feet, their wide eyes the only testament to the turmoil inside them.
What in the world was happening?!
It suddenly felt like their arithmetic had simply stopped working!!
A — a *third* element???
"Is this person a High-Level Mage?!" Huang Xingli cried out.
"I think I just remembered why that name felt so familiar." Ding Yumian's gaze stayed fixed on Mo Fan.
"Who is he, exactly?" Huang Xingli asked.
"He's ranked fifth on the talent rankings — born with Dual Elements. He was already something of a legend in the Blue District of our Mingzhu Academy. He used the Summoning Element to challenge every student across the entire department, and earned himself the title of Mingzhu's Great Demon Lord." Ding Yumian said, something unreadable flickering in her eyes.
As a Main Campus student, Ding Yumian would never normally have given a second thought to Blue District affairs. But her younger sister had once been swept up in a horrifying incident at the gymnasium — and when her sister later recounted what had happened, she mentioned that the person who had saved her was Mo Fan. That was how Ding Yumian had come to know anything about him at all.
More recently, word had gone around that this person — who had only just exposed his Dual Elements talent to the world — had died. Nobody expected him to resurface, alive as ever, and just as recklessly, provocatively troublesome as always!!
On the competition stage, every trace of calm certainty that Liu Qian had worn was gone without a trace. His expression had changed completely.
What the hell was this?!
The man was clearly burning his last fumes — and somehow he'd pulled out a whole extra element!!
If he had summoned some run-of-the-mill creature, that would have been one thing. Liu Qian wasn't the type to go weak at the knees at the sight of any Demon-Beast. But a Swift Star Wolf — a wolf-bloodline creature of considerable pedigree — was a different matter entirely. Against a Mage with no defensive skills, a summoned creature of this speed was nothing short of an executioner.
**"ROOAARRR——!!!"**
The Swift Star Wolf wasted no pleasantries on Liu Qian. It erupted with staggering speed, becoming a blur of streaming fur as it lunged directly at him.
Its claw-blades wove into a lethal net as it closed in, ready to tear apart everything in its path!
Liu Qian was caught completely off guard. He scrambled to call out his Shield Enchanted Gear.
A circular shield materialized in front of him. Claw strike after claw strike hammered into the metal in rapid succession, filling the air with a harsh, grating screech.
Liu Qian seethed. A Shield Enchanted Gear was the kind of thing one kept buried away as a trump card — and here, in the very first exchange, he'd already been forced to use it. From this point on, a single moment's carelessness would earn him grievous wounds from this ferocious wolf.
As it turned out, Liu Qian had underestimated the Swift Star Wolf far too badly. There was no "continued battle" to speak of on his end. The Swift Star Wolf used its speed to circle him relentlessly, attacking from constantly shifting angles; his heavy shield simply couldn't react fast enough to keep up.
Liu Qian tried to go on the offensive — but his magic couldn't even graze a single strand of the Swift Star Wolf's fur, let alone wound it.
In that moment, Liu Qian was utterly, completely outclassed!!
His strength was enough to handle several ordinary Intermediate-Level Mages without trouble — but facing a Swift Star Wolf one-on-one, one of the most notoriously difficult Battle-General-class creatures to deal with, was simply asking the impossible of him.
The entire battle was a complete, one-sided domination!!