Elite Mages’ Academy (Web Novel)

Chapter 219: Landfall (3)

Xiao Lin’s current attribute scores amounted to more than 50. With Miracle converting half of his other attributes into Strength, his sudden burst of power was around 30 points in Strength.

Xiao Lin let out a breath, redistributing his attributes before walking toward the corpse of that merfolk since his sword was still stuck to its body. On the way, four merfolk tried to attack Xiao Lin, but Xiao Lin did not even give them a chance.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Xiao Lin unsheathed his Peakfire Staff from his waist, sending a few Flame Bullets at them. Flame Bullets did not need to charge for long, and had the lowest requirements in terms of gathering the elements. Within such a close distance, on top of Xiao Lin diverting his attributes toward his intelligence, he could hit the merfolk even if he shut his eyes.

All six of the Flame Bullets hit their targets, and the defensive capabilities of their scales came into play. The Flame Bullets were not too powerful, and even two bullets hitting the same target would not be able to kill them, but they did not continue pursuing Xiao Lin, as they were two busy trying to keep themselves from burning.

The Peakfire Staff’s passive burning ability suddenly activated, causing the Flame Bullets to continuously burn at the merfolk.

The merfolk felt pain, just like any human from Earth, and thanks to their amphibious nature, they hated fire to an extreme degree. He pulled out his Holy Soul Sword and began slashing at them. Thanks to the sword, his Basic Swordsmanship managed to reach LV9, which was the maximum.

The feeling was extremely strange. As he attacked with his sword, he seemed to feel like something possessed his body. His consciousness was still obviously his own, but that strange feeling caused all his strikes to be ever more skillful, and even the power behind his strikes increased.

Xiao Lin was actually curious where his skills stood at that moment. Even though he had defeated Cheng Ming in the simulated battle, he still had his suspicions, not sure if he could really handle an actual war.

That was why he held nothing back the moment the assault began, using every single skill and technique he had learned in his three months at the academy.

The end result was the admiration of everyone around him. Xiao Lin’s blade seemed to slice through merfolk like the grim reaper, claiming countless lives as their scales could absolutely not stand up to Xiao Lin’s strength. When Basic Swordsmanship reached the maximum level, the wielder could start learning how to attack a target’s weak points.

Even if he met any foes who were more skilled, Xiao Lin would just start using his Slashing skill. The merfolk were not intelligent, so they never thought to hide away or stop the skill from charging. They instead continued charging wildly, and when Xiao Lin’s blade fell, he would convert his attributes into Strength, cleaving the merfolk in half.

Phantom Steps was also used to great effect by Xiao Lin. Fully utilized, Phantom Steps would create afterimages, and these afterimages were different from those produced by magic. The images did not hold any offensive abilities, and could only be used to trick opponents, but that was more than enough to deal with the stupid merfolk.

The merfolk were actually quite agile; if it was not for his Phantom Steps, Xiao Lin could have had some difficulty avoiding their attacks, especially from their barbed staves. Just a glancing hit was enough to flay flesh.

Phantom Steps allowed Xiao Lin to avoid being hit for the entire battle, outside of the first hit when the merfolk lunged at him.

Xiao Lin actually did not need to use his Flame Bullets at all, but he still occasionally took out his Peakfire Staff and shot out a few at the merfolks that other people were fighting when he was not occupied. The effects were quite good, with the burning effect kicking in quite often, allowing the others to seize the initiative.

They did not say anything during the battle, but he gained a few appreciative looks from his actions. After a while, Xiao Lin decided to just hold his staff in his left hand and his sword in his right. His armor had already been dyed in red and green from the merfolk, and he looked like a death god, slaughtering all the merfolk in sight.

Xiao Lin had deliberately made sure that all his weapons were single-handed weapons in preparation of dual-wielding. In truth, most swordsmen opted for large or heavy swords, but one-handed swords tended to be lighter and unable to deal as much damage.

With his help, Class Seven started to have an easier time fighting. The merfolk were still sentient beings in the end, and all sentient beings knew fear.

They had started to fear Xiao Lin, so a lot of the merfolk started to turn their attention to the other classes. Once everyone the other members of Class Seven reached the shore, Xiao Lin started to take it easy.

The Miracle skill had ended, and thanks to repeated usage, Xiao Lin started to feel dizzy. After the short but intense battle, the sky had already started to brighten. Even without the effects of the scroll, Xiao Lin could clearly see the situation on the shore.

The merfolk numbered much more than what the reports indicated. By Xiao Lin’s rough estimate, there were several thousands of them. It looked like an endless sea of merfolk, which was quite terrifying, but in truth they had been separated into several waves. Thanks to each class reaching land at a different location, they managed to stagger the merfolk, leading to them not having to deal with as many enemies.

Xiao Lin’s abilities had allowed Class Seven’s battle to end quickly. The remaining merfolk on their side had already begun to retreat, and under the gazes of admiration from his classmates, Xiao Lin started to divert his attention to the other classes.

A few other classes had also finished off the merfolk attacking them. The merfolks’ combat abilities were actually much lower than what they had anticipated, and the rest of the classes were not weak either, so they did not lag too far behind. Those fish-people were quite weak in resolve as well; the moment the first wave of attacks failed, the merfolk behind them started to retreat.

However, Xiao Lin quickly furrowed his eyebrows when he noticed a few classes had already started to charge toward the hills, even though the merfolk on the beach had not been completely eliminated yet. Each class did differ in ability, and the class monitors alone were not to make up for every possible flaw. A few classes even looked like they were struggling.

“Those idiots are way too impatient! There’s no special reward for the first class that takes over the supply depot!” Xiao Lin muttered to himself unhappily. He had actually planned on helping the other classes completely eliminate their enemies on the beach before preparing to attack the hill. After all, the enemies on the hill had already been thoroughly suppressed by their warships.