NOVEL NEXT WORLD Chapter 169 - Training Exercise 17
Taking advantage of the moment when Mai Dongzi and Wang Zhelan were talking, Wei Bangdi launched a sneak attack on her with a fire dragon. However, the fire dragon was quickly “returned” to him by Mai Dongzi with even greater speed.
Wei Bangdi was engulfed in flames, and the members of the Ability Team initially thought that the fire dragon was his own ability being activated, so they expected him to extinguish it soon and did not intervene.
However, after more than ten seconds had passed and the fire dragon was still not extinguished, the members of the Ability Team began to realize that something was wrong. Just as they were about to act to put out the fire, the dragon disappeared, revealing a disheveled Wei Bangdi.
Although Wei Bangdi was trapped by the fire dragon for a while, being a fire-type ability user, he wasn’t seriously injured. However, his hair…
The members of the Ability Team shifted their attention away, subtly preparing for Wei Bangdi to attack the captain of the Phantom Team again, which could bring trouble upon them.
Wei Bangdi was a rather rough boy, not particularly concerned about his appearance. However, no matter how rugged he was, it was difficult for him to accept that his hair had been singed. With his bad temper, he might have been ready to clash with the captain of the Phantom Team.
To the surprise of the Ability Team, Wei Bangdi simply ran his fingers through his singed hair in irritation but showed no intention of retaliating.
“I can’t beat you; I admit defeat,” he said loudly.
The members of the Ability Team were initially taken aback, but then they understood.
Wei Bangdi shouldn’t have taken so long to “extinguish” the fire dragon; someone must have interfered with his actions, causing him to take over ten seconds to withdraw his ability.
The captain of the Phantom Team was able to counterattack with the fire dragon triggered by Wei Bangdi, thanks to her level as a martial artist.
However, what had affected Wei Bangdi was preventing him from extinguishing the fire dragon he had unleashed. If the captain of the Phantom Team had been an enemy, Wei Bangdi could have easily found himself burned alive by his own fire dragon.
This ability was not that of a martial artist but rather that of a psychic ability user. It was no wonder that Wei Bangdi conceded defeat.
However, with the captain of the Phantom Team making her move, it was clear that she was not a friendly presence.
The members of the Ability Team knew that the captain of the Phantom Team was very strong, but they didn’t realize just how strong she truly was. They assessed that their own combat abilities were not superior to Wei Bangdi’s, and after his concession, the atmosphere on site grew tense.
Wang Zhelan’s expression was heavy. On the battlefield of the individual competition, she had only witnessed Mai Dongzi’s martial prowess, and the ability Mai Dongzi had just demonstrated appeared to be psychic in nature.
Even if Mai Dongzi had come alone, after seeing the psychic attack she had just unleashed, Wang Zhelan felt that even with the eight of them together, they wouldn’t stand a chance against her.
“You didn’t come here to eliminate us, did you? Just tell me what you want,” Wang Zhelan asked directly.
If it had been to eliminate them, the captain of the Phantom Team wouldn’t have let Wei Bangdi off so easily.
“I’m here to find you; I hope to borrow your metals,” Mai Dongzi replied without hesitation, naming the cookware outright.
This request left the members of the Ability Team exchanging strange glances, all looking at their captain, waiting for her decision.
Wang Zhelan took a few deep breaths before gritting her teeth and saying, “We’re here for training, not for a picnic.”
If Mai Dongzi had asked her for weapons, she wouldn’t have found it hard to accept, but what she was asking for was quite absurd.
“Then how about adding a few big knives?” Mai Dongzi suggested with an accommodating demeanor.
Wang Zhelan felt frustrated, but in order to avoid elimination, she had no choice but to agree to Mai Dongzi’s request.
However, Mai Dongzi’s demands were simply too numerous. Even after exhausting more than half of her psychic energy, she still couldn’t fulfill all of Mai Dongzi’s requests and ultimately had to bring out some finished products from the team to make up the difference.
The members of the Ability Team, fearing that any dissatisfaction from her might lead to their elimination, collectively breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the captain of the Phantom Team finally leave, satisfied.
Wang Zhelan looked at the two Level 6 beast carcasses that Mai Dongzi had provided as compensation and felt a mix of emotions.
They had encountered Level 6 beasts on their journey, but all they could do was escape with their lives. Now, with this Level 6 beast meat to replenish their energy, they would be able to cover more ground.
Clearly, this junior could have eliminated all of them, allowing the Phantom Team to earn a significant number of points and improve their chances of making it into the top sixteen.
After all, while the junior had a cultivation level far superior to any of theirs, the other members of the Phantom Team were not formidable enough to pose a real threat to them.
Yet she not only spared the life of any one of them but also, after taking what she wanted, gave them the much-needed supplies in return.
In comparison, the items Wang Zhelan had given her were worth far less than the two Level 6 beasts.
“This junior really is different from what the rumors say,” Meng Pu sighed.
“Junior Xi has a great reputation in other departments; it’s just our Ability Department that tends to demonize her. I didn’t expect you seniors to be fooled by a freshman,” Li Nanxi scoffed.
Li Nanxi’s words were pointedly obvious, especially as she looked directly at Wei Bangdi.
The Phantom Team’s Zhuang Huaiya, as a late-stage Level 4 warrior, defeated the Ability Department’s top genius, Erica, in less than a minute during the individual competition. This turned Erica into a joke and put the fire-type ability users from the Ability Department in a very awkward position.
Wei Bangdi, who usually prided himself on being a fire-type ability user, also found himself affected. In the individual competition, his opponent from the Combat Department used Zhuang Huaiya’s tactic to defeat Wei Bangdi, who was originally the stronger of the two.
As a result, Wei Bangdi was extremely angry; he felt that Zhuang Huaiya had exploited loopholes in the competition rules to win rather than defeating him through legitimate strength.
This was also a major reason why Wei Bangdi was furious enough to launch a sneak attack on Classmate Xi.
“I just refuse to accept it; when was I ever fooled?” Wei Bangdi refused to acknowledge that accusation.
Robbing the Ability Team was a spur-of-the-moment decision that came to Mai Dongzi after she “saw” them.
With her experience of cooking beast soup in the survival game on Water Blue Star, she discovered that consuming freshly cooked beast soup retained more of the energy from the beasts compared to just eating grilled meat.
The Phantom Team had been pushing themselves to their limits over the past ten days, but it still wasn’t fast enough.
Even if they could reach the desert area tomorrow, traversing the desert wouldn’t be easy, and in order to make up for the time they had lost, they would need to continue working hard on their journey.
If they could supplement their energy with energy potions, this kind of travel would be very beneficial for their cultivation growth under such circumstances.
Without the option of energy potions, they could only rely on rest and food to replenish the energy they had expended. Otherwise, remaining in a state of exhaustion without timely recovery would undoubtedly cause their cultivation to stagnate.
Mai Dongzi was determined to help the Phantom Team increase their travel time by using food to replenish their energy.
She had quite a few Level 6 beast carcasses in her spatial device, and with a metal pot, she could cook a rich beast meat soup for everyone, allowing them to recover their physical strength more quickly.