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[February 5, 2020]
... "Senior Brother Luis said Senior Sister Elena is a tomboy with super strength, so I believe in senior sister," said Feng Wu. He had also said all the boys at school had to give way to Elena or risk being crushed. So naturally in Feng Wu"s eyes, Elena was a powerful tomboy with indomitable strength under the heavens - even if she didn"t know what tomboy meant.
Elena had no idea her image had been so utterly destroyed by her pig teammate. She cursed Luis out in her head after hearing Feng Wu"s words. She would beat that scoundrel to bits later.
In another world Luis sneezed as he wondered why it felt so cold all of a sudden.
"Xiao Wu, don"t listen to that guy"s nonsense. This older senior sister is a very respectable young lady. How can I possibly be a tomboy?" There was no way she was going to admit that she was a tomboy in front of Feng Wu.
Feng Wu looked up confused, unsure who to believe.
"Who is this kid? Why are you with Xiao Wu?" Elena asked looking at the oafish boy standing next to Feng Wu.
Drew gave a big, silly smile, completely unaware he"d been viewed as an oaf. He didn"t know who the woman was, but it was obvious she had a good relationship with Feng Wu, so he tried to put his best foot forward. He went with a straightforward account. "h.e.l.lo ladies, my name is Drew. Feng Wu is my savior." He commenced to tell them about how Feng Wu ended up saving him.
Elena listened with a smile but Yifu didn"t seem to care. She was a young miss from n.o.bility who had no interest in a poor swordmaster from the lower cla.s.s, never mind any actual sympathy.
"So that"s what happened? Next time you see those guys that deserted you, you show them what"s what!" Elena said fiercely. She hated those who abandoned their comrades. Worse yet they even deceived him to do it. She really hated these kinds of people!
"How stupid to be tricked so easily." Yifu was rather disdainful.
Drew rubbed his head in embarra.s.sment. He knew he wasn"t clever or smart, in fact his father had called him stupid before. He was used to people talking to him this way.
Elena frowned. "We haven"t done introductions. I"m Xiao Wu"s senior sister and this is Yifu. The two of them are from the same freshman cla.s.s, and we"re all students from Xingguang Holy Academy." She was a properly educated young lady, so she wasn"t used to Yifu"s arrogant manner of speech. She was a carefree person normally, but even she didn"t like Yifu"s att.i.tude. Hopefully she wouldn"t have to see Yifu again once they returned to campus.
"Are you all students from Xingguang Holy Academy? That"s awesome. I wanted to go there, but the admission rates were low and my abilities were too poor, so I couldn"t pa.s.s the exams." It turned out the three were from the top school. He admired them even more after learning their ident.i.ties.
He wasn"t the kind of person to waste time being jealous of other people, instead he admired them and tried to work harder to improve himself.
Drew was a kind and easy to understand person. It was probably because he was like this that Feng Wu let him follow her. Otherwise she would have left him after asking her questions.
Drew"s lack of jealousy also raised Elena"s opinion of him.
"Senior Sister Elena, why are so many people gathered here?" Feng Wu looked around puzzled. They were at the entrance to the second floor, but no one was moving. They were just standing around and chatting.
"We"re waiting for someone to make the first move. The entrance to the second floor is at the bottom of the pool but a powerful water magical beast is guarding it. Unless all of us work together, it"ll be impossible to fight it.
But even if we join forces, many people will still die, so no one wants to take the initiative. The first one to act is going to be unlucky and will undoubtedly draw the attention of the beast." Elena furrowed her brows. She didn"t want to be the first either.
Everyone was thinking the same thing - none of them wanted to die. It was better to wait and examine the situation first.
"Oh." Feng Wu nodded, understanding.
"We"ve been trapped here for a while. We should work together and break out of here. It"s useless to wait any longer. Let"s just all fight the monster and leave this level," said a middle-aged man wearing a cape and carrying a long sword. He stood elegantly on a big rock as he spoke.
"Isn"t that Wolf"s fourth captain, Captain Ando? Man so distinguished looking, really worthy of being a high-ranking sword master. He can give off such an imposing air just by standing."
"Right? I worked hard for twenty years and I"m only at the intermediate level."
"Yeah, that"s him all right. With the excellent Ando taking charge, we"ll definitely be able to make it."
No one was going to argue against such a high-ranking sword master leading. There were almost a hundred people gathered, but no one had been willing to take the lead other than Ando.
Although the Realm Battlegrounds was famous for being dangerous, it wasn"t an appropriate place for higher division sword masters to train. So there were few great sword masters there. The only ones present were the ones leading their juniors for combat experience.
Because of this many people were pleased at Ando"s appearance.
He wasn"t the only great sword master in the crowd though. There were others, however they didn"t have the same backing and reputation. Many were from small families or were in the tomb as solo adventurers. Ando was a better choice.
Everyone was united with him there. Those from the sword division would mount close combat attack while those in the magic division would mount a long-range attack, with light and wood magicians responsible for healing.