152: Chapter 152 What's the girl's name?
Their adoration for him grew even stronger.
Their eyes shimmered with ecstatic light.
High above the arena, the woman looked at the Fifth-Order Mage with confusion.
"But the child is right; Tier 1 Telekinesis Control does indeed have a range limit. How is this Space Mage able to reach so far?"
"This only goes to show that he is a Genius in terms of elemental talent. The control range varies from person to person; thirty to fifty meters is merely the upper limit discovered so far."
The Fifth-Order Mage's interest intensified, and he even considered taking him as a Personal Disciple.
Inside the arena, the controlled Lightning Mage finally realized that he could not break free with brute force.
He was completely bewildered.
According to his teacher, a Tier 1 Space Mage should not only have a limited range, but his power shouldn't be this strong either.
Yet, right now, he felt as if he were being crushed between two mountains.
Why is this First-Order Mage completely different from the legends?
Fortunately, he wasn't the type to be stubborn to the bitter end, nor did he want to end up like the contestant from Heishan.
Realizing he could no longer fight, the Lightning Mage immediately conceded.
Lin Fan had no intention of hurting anyone, so as soon as his opponent surrendered, he released the force field.
The referee announced the end of the match, and Longwei Magic Academy was victorious.
The arena erupted in cheers, and the academy's name hung high in the air.
After defeating progressively stronger opponents, many people had come to view Lin Fan as the dark horse of this tournament.
His Space Element had become the most coveted talent for all ordinary people who had yet to undergo Awakening.
They all wanted to be like this handsome youth, using the Space Element to win against stronger opponents.
Even if his opponents knew what he was going to do, there was nothing they could do about it.
How does one defend against an invisible attack?
At the seats for Longwei Magic Academy.
Even though Lin Fan had returned to his seat, the students were still cheering and celebrating.
Quite a few wanted to come forward to congratulate him, but were forced back by a single look from him; however, this did not affect their celebration in the slightest.
After all, this victory had securely sent the academy into the next round.
Feng Zheng, Luo Zhongheng, Qiao Liya, and Liu Yingjun wore complex expressions.
They were certainly happy that the academy had advanced.
But when they thought about how they had contributed almost nothing and had only won a single match, their hearts were filled with frustration.
A flame of determination ignited within their hearts.
They swore.
In the next round, they would definitely put on a better performance and would no longer let Lin Fan carry the entire team alone.
After Lin Fan's match ended, other academies took the stage one after another.
Regardless of the outcome, the arena was always filled with cheers, as every side had its own supporters.
By evening, all matches had concluded, and the first round of the tournament officially came to an end.
Jiang Tianhai stepped onto the stage once again to deliver a speech.
He reviewed the matches of the first round.
He also encouraged the academies that performed poorly to go back and train diligently, striving for better results in the next tournament.
Subsequently, a brand-new ranking was projected in the air.
This ranking was calculated based on the points from the first round, with the twenty-seven academies arranged by score.
The list clearly indicated which academies had advanced to the second round and which were to be eliminated and leave today.
Although everyone could roughly guess the results.
However, the official list still needed to provide the audience with a clear account.
Everyone stared at the list.
They discovered that a total of twenty-two academies had reached the thirty-point advancement threshold.
Five academies were unfortunately eliminated due to a gap of a few or even dozens of points.
Longwei Magic Academy was ranked twenty-first with exactly thirty points.
If they lost one more match, they would become one of the five eliminated.
And among the top-tier academies.
A few had achieved a perfect score of fifty points... which meant they had won all their matches.
The others all had forty points, or thirty points like Longwei.
After leaving the audience a moment to view it.
The floating light orb extinguished the projection, and Jiang Tianhai announced that the session was over for the day.
The second round of the tournament will begin next Monday!
...
Around nine o'clock the next morning.
Lin Fan arrived at the squad's base; they were going to carry out another Demonic Beast extermination mission today.
By the time he arrived, the armored vehicle they used last time was already parked outside the base.
Walking into the building, everyone was already prepared, just waiting for him.
As soon as the team members saw Lin Fan.
They immediately surrounded him, offering congratulations all at once, praising his performance in the tournament, and congratulating the academy on advancing to the second round.
Lin Fan smiled and waved his hand, saying it was nothing.
Yao Dong and several other team members chimed in.
Saying that with the strength he had previously demonstrated, this was to be expected, and other students could simply not be his opponents.
Then, they brought up a topic that Lin Fan thought they had long forgotten.
The girl he had snuck out to see on the night of the auction!
Lin Fan looked speechlessly at the group of men and women before him, who were eyes gleaming and eager to hear gossip.
Since he couldn't explain it clearly.
He simply went with the flow, admitting that he had indeed gone out to meet a girl, but had been rejected.
Upon hearing that Lin Fan had been dumped, the team members all looked incredulous.
Everyone rushed to defend him.
Saying that the girl was blind to miss such a handsome and promising young adventurer; it was simply her loss.
Someone even joked that if they were a few years younger, they would definitely pursue Lin Fan.
"Hehe, I bet that if she watched the tournament and saw your performance, she must be crying with regret these past few days."
Fang Lu covered her mouth and chuckled, thinking that the girl thoroughly deserved it.
"I was just about to say the same thing."
"Why are young girls these days so foolish?"
"By the way, what is her name? To be able to reject you, she must look exceptionally beautiful, right?"
A rough-looking team member also leaned in to ask.
Lin Fan replied that he couldn't remember.
Everyone: "..."
Can't even remember her name?
Perhaps you weren't that interested to begin with, and she saw through it, which is why she rejected you.
Sigh, poor girl, she probably thought Lin Fan was just looking for a fling.
But even so, she shouldn't have rejected him outright; she should have kept him on the hook slowly until he truly fell for her.
The team members imagined all sorts of things in their heads, but didn't say them out loud.
Just then.
Aunt Mi Xue and Ge Ying walked into the living room, and the group immediately set off.
The armored vehicle drove onto the main road and soon left Baiyun City.
This time, they were not acting in conjunction with other adventurer squads, so they didn't go too far after leaving the city.
They stopped in a forest just a few miles from Baiyun City and began the extermination mission.
As time passed, the squad searched for and hunted Demonic Beasts together.
Most of the Demonic Beasts in this forest were common grade, with only a few mutant grade.
Every time they encountered a mutant grade Demonic Beast.
Aunt Mi Xue would have Fang Lu and a few others keep an eye on Lin Fan, while the rest of the team joined her to slay it.
Although they knew Lin Fan was very strong.
His experience as an adventurer was, after all, lacking, so it was better to be cautious.
And when they encountered common Demonic Beasts.
Aunt Mi Xue, Ge Ying, and Jiang Tianhai would stand to the side and let the others take action, and Lin Fan was no exception.
By evening.
They had already hunted over a hundred Demonic Beasts, and Lin Fan had slain quite a few as well.
The team members were collecting the Demonic Beast carcasses into their storage equipment.
Lin Fan was also packing up.