Chapter 13: Let’s have a duel~
It was now the year end Spring Holidays of 2months~
Mo Fan was thoroughly cultivating his fire and lightning element simultaneously for the whole past month!
Similarly Tang Yue had also went into seclusion for the past month after finishing her duties at school. She seemed to be making a breakthrough to intermediate level for her mental strength! And she was also studying the Magic Formations for the Magically Enhanced Camera!
And for Mu Ningxue, after that night he completely lost contact with her. She even blocked his number because he kept trying flirt with her.
But he got a confirmation through Ye Xinxia that Mu Ningxue went to Tianshan Mountain 10days after their meet.
It seems she got permission from Dean Song of the Imperial Institute of Magic to train at Tianshan Mountain for 4years!
At first, he didn't allow her but after she showed him her bow and problems which accompanied with it, he immediately allowed her and even wrote a letter of recommendation to the local institute to Help her with anything she required!
As for her father who was sooo against the idea of her going anywhere on her own, she still went even if it meant disobeying him.
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Last day of holidays.
Mo Fan sitting under the tree in the park, was surrounded by small purple sparks all over his body~
His Lightning Element was in the process of making a breakthrough!
A small frown appeared at Mo Fan's forehead! It was quite difficult to breakthrough the barrier without the help of Little Loach!
Crack! BOOM!!
A wave of Sparks quickly spread into the surroundings from Mo Fan's position!
Phew... "It was a success! My Mental Strength also increased quite a lot!"
His mental strength did increase over the holidays because of his intense practice of playing with 10huge stone boulders!
His mental strength went from Lv 1.4 to Lv 1.8 and now it increased again and Became Lv 1.9!
"I think, my mental strength might rank up to Lv.2 if I make a breakthrough in my fire element..." Mo Fan deduced!
His strength was quite extraordinary among Basic Mage's and he might already be the strongest Basic Mage in the whole world even though he has yet to reach the peak of Basic level cultivation!
"Tomorrow is the start of the new term~ Hmm... At this point a Stardust tool is simply meaningless to me... When is Little Loach going to evolve... Just for how long is it going to continue absorbing the energy of that ruler class soul essence..." Mo Fan sighed in disappointment...
Little Loach literally ghosted him for 6months now. Ever since it was busy absorbing the energy it basically ignored Mo Fan and acted just like a normal cultivation tool.
...
Two months ago after Mu Ningxue reached Snow City of Tianshan... The moment she exited the airport. A cold wave suddenly rustled her hair.
But for some reason she didn't feel cold at all! Instead she felt refreshing! As if she was home!!
"If I remember correctly, Dean Song arranged accommodation in this area" Mu Ningxue looked at the map in her hand.
She took a taxi and went to the Tianshan Magic Institute's dorm. She went inside the institute's gate. She felt that this institute no matter how beautiful it was, still lacked the flair which the Imperial Institute of Magic has.
She was guided to her dorms room by a student in charge of showing her around! Mu Ningxue was after all an exchange student there!
As she walked through the campus, she hooked everyone's soul with otherworldly beauty, but no one dared to approach her... She gave off an extremely cold and icy aura to everyone.
...
Mu Ningxue was currently resting in her room.
She was eating cup ramen as she watched outside the window.
The view was basically snow white with snow everywhere!
The city of Tianshan snowed all the time around the year! But it was still beautiful here!
She also noticed a fact that she was no longer suffering that much from her Ice Element.
"Phu~ Mo Fan was right about the things he said to me that night, but..."
She investigated and poked around here and there in the Mu Clan and found out quite a lot of things but she couldn't find out everything.
Apparently the Ice Crystal Bow was divided into 10 parts, which were given to 10 different people originally...
But she had already received two of the crystals from the 'Mister' who was overlooking her in the Mu Clan. That means she now possessed three crystals!
Every time she received a crystal, her cultivation increased by leaps and bounds! But she still didn't understand what happened to the people who were in possession of the crystals previously...
She herself didn't completely believed Mo Fan's words, but it seems he didn't lied to her.
But great power never really came without a price, she was not that naive to think that everything was easy in this world...
There are people who can cultivate and bear the pain while there were people who cannot cultivate nor bear the pain of the bow... So their crystals were simply extracted and given to another candidate who was more proficient at cultivating them~ it was maybe that simple...
If I cultivate here then maybe I won't have to suffer anymore... Mu Ningxue thought...
Her Ice Crystal Bow fragments were constantly being nourished by the ice element present in the surroundings.
"I don't want to waste even a second anymore!" Mu Ningxue said, she quickly slurped the noodles and packed her things up!
She was going to go towards the area which was marked by Mo Fan!
Mo Fan knew how dangerous Tianshan Mountain was and How low Mu Ningxue' cultivation was, so the area he marked was relatively peaceful with low frequency of monsters even if it was outside the safe zone and filled with moderate amount of Ice Element!
She can decide for herself once her cultivation was at a high enough level~
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The new term had started.
The homeroom teacher, Xue Musheng was standing in the Elite class and coughed, signalling everyone to control their excitement.
Why were the students so excited today?
Today was the day where the school distributed the Stardust Magic Tools to the Elite class. There was naturally another benefit to being students of the Elite class other than having the best teachers.
The reason behind why those large Magic Associations and ancient Magic families were so much more ahead of them, excluding the fact they had abundant knowledge, secrets, and experience, the most important reason would be due to the Stardust Magic Tool.
Let's put it like this: Experience, knowledge, secrets, and teachings would be the software, whereas the Stardust Magic Tool would be the most important hardware!
Other large ancient families had all sorts of software, and their technology was first-rate. Even if an average Mage could learn everything from school, they still wouldn't have the hardware that could be compared to the ancient families.
That is to say, this Stardust Magic Tool was quite qualitative. It was capable of nurturing the soul and cultivation, and it would relieve the fatigue the Mage would experience after meditation, allowing them to continue practising. To put it in a way that made more sense, it was like a cooler, decreasing the cool down of meditation.
"The usage time for the Stardust Magic Tool will be based on the rankings of your annual examination. The higher you are placed, the longer you will be allowed to use it. Naturally, our school is very fair, and thus we will conduct an examination every quarter of the year and rearrange the rankings. The Stardust Magic Tool usage will then change according to the new ranking..
"The other thing to take note of is that you are currently the students of the Elite class, and you possess an advantage a Common class doesn't have. However, don't believe for a second that your position is safe. During the quarter year examination, the last ten people will directly be downgraded to the Common class, and the top ten of the Common class will be upgraded to the Elite class. Thus, the pressure of the competition is increasingly big!" Xue Musheng said.
There were a lot of people who didn't like school, and even more who didn't like high school exams. However, there was one phrase that wasn't wrong: How are you going to stand on equal ground with a wealthy second generation if you don't have an education, nor tests?
The school's cultivation resources were not necessarily worse than the large ancestral families, the only difference was that the schools had gold and sand.
You'd also have to agree to one phrase: Only gold is able to shine!
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"Mo Fan, as the number one in class, you ought to be the first to use the Stardust Magic Tool, and also have it for the longest duration. However, due to your disrespect toward your elders during the annual examination, the time you are allowed to use it has been changed to ten days, down from a month. This is your penalty!" Xue Musheng said with a solemn face.
"Ah, from a month to ten days, that penalty is way too high. If he could hold himself back from being so impudent, then the one month worth of time would be enough to pull him apart from many others by a lot." Some students started to discuss these words.
"If he were to bluntly lower his head and agree to joining the Mu Family, then he'd most likely receive even more!"
"Yeah, why is he so stubborn."
Xue Musheng glared, causing the students to quiet down.
"Mo Fan, do you have any objections regarding this penalty?" Xue Musheng said.
"I do not," Mo Fan replied.
"Green Tea Man," Mo Fan approached the table of Mu Bai next to him with a solemn expression.
"What the hell did you just call me?" Mu Bai's violent temperament immediately appeared.
"Ugh, Mu Bai."
"If you have something to say then say it!!" Mu Bai was getting annoyed at Mo Fan.
"Meet me after school at the mountain behind the school! You said you wanted to duel me that day, didn't you? Then let's have a duel~" Mo Fan said with a confident smile.
"Huh?! What are you talking about?? Why would I have an illegal duel with you?!" Mu Bai in turn asked.
"Oh! You don't want to? Then I guess I'll have to make this photo public huh~" Mo Fan casually took out a photo of Mu Bai placing a Shadow Stone under the Appraisal stone~
Mu Bai's eyes almost popped out of his sockets when he looked at the photo! He started trembling and sweating.
"Hmm~ what should I do, I wonder~~" Mo Fan said in a playful tone~
"I'll be there so d-delete that photo!!!" Mu Bai said while pleading Mo Fan.
"Well~ maybe if you actually show up, then I'll think about it~" Mo Fan went away.
Mu Bai on the other hand was scared shitless!!! Should I talk to uncle? No... It's better not to involve him in this matter...
I need to settle this once and for all! This Bastard will definitely pay!