95: Chapter 95 First Cooperation
Ye Qing clicked her tongue.
"Lucky, is that your catchphrase?"
Lin Fan smiled and was about to reply, but Ye Wushuang had already spoken.
"Stop messing around. Let's try some actual combat."
He walked to the console in the corner of the training ground and tapped a few times on the rune panel.
The ground in the center of the training ground suddenly lit up with a circle of light blue patterns, which intertwined into a circular magic array with a diameter of ten meters, with six translucent crystal pillars standing at the edges.
"Simulation device."
Ye Qing explained.
"It can generate Armor Beasts of various Ranks for practicing coordination. It's a specialty of the Association; you won't find this at school."
Lin Fan looked at the crystal pillars curiously.
Ye Wushuang entered a few values on the panel and then walked back to the center of the arena.
The six crystal pillars shot out beams of light simultaneously, converging in the center of the array.
The beams intertwined, underwent Fusion, and solidified, and a huge bear-shaped Armor Beast stood up from the light.
The bear was fully three meters tall, its body covered in grayish-brown rock armor. Each piece of armor looked like it was pieced together from irregular stones, with dark red light flowing between the gaps.
Its limbs were as thick as tree trunks, and its claws were like hooks cast from pig iron, leaving deep scratches on the ground.
The Iron-Spine Violent Bear let out a low roar, and the entire training ground shook.
Lin Fan's left eye felt slightly warm, and information appeared.
[Race]: Iron-Spine Violent Bear
[Rank]: Rank 40
[Aptitude]: Low-tier Heaven Spirit
[Attribute]: Earth
[Status]: Simulation, highly aggressive
[Skills]: Earth Pulse Absorption, Earth-Splitting Stomp, Rock Armor Protection, Earth Cage, Rock-Shattering Waterfall
Rank 40, equivalent to the Armor King Rank, was the strongest opponent Lin Fan had encountered so far.
"Armorization." Ye Wushuang's voice was calm.
The three of them moved simultaneously.
Ye Wushuang raised his right hand, and the Extreme Ice Phoenix turned into an ice-blue stream of light that submerged into his back.
When the light dissipated, a pair of wings formed from countless hexagonal ice crystals appeared on his back.
When the wings folded, they fitted tightly together, forming a thick Ice Armor that covered his entire back, like a shield engraved with Phoenix feather patterns.
The Moon-Glitter Mirror Spirit turned into a silvery-white light and submerged into his left arm.
The silver light spread from his wrist to his shoulder, and a translucent light shield formed on his left forearm.
The shield was about a foot square, silvery-white all over, with a surface like water, occasionally rippling as if something were moving beneath the mirror surface.
His entire appearance looked noble and elegant, possessing a dignified and inviolable majesty.
Ye Qing was not to be outdone.
The Forest Whisper Velvet Deer turned into a bright green light and submerged into her head.
A translucent bright green headband condensed in front of her forehead, with a teardrop-shaped bright green crystal embedded in the center, and two slender bright green antennae extending from both sides of the headband.
The Rift Jellyfish turned into a deep blue light and submerged into her right leg.
A layer of translucent deep blue armor wrapped from her ankle to her knee, with a protruding deep blue crystal at the knee.
Several slender deep blue tentacles extended from below the calf, and each swing left a brief ripple in space in the air.
Finally, there was the Shadow Moss.
Dark green moss spread from her fingertips to her wrists. After being wrapped in moss, her five fingers became slender, and hair-thin dark green tentacles extended from her fingertips, which could stretch freely like living things.
Although not as magnificent as Ye Wushuang's, it had a bit more agility and eeriness.
Finally, it was Lin Fan's turn.
He raised his left hand, and Xiao Zhuang turned into a cyan-black light and submerged into his left hand.
Cyan-black scales spread from his fingertips to his wrist, covering his entire left hand.
His five fingers became slender and sharp, his nails turned into pitch-black claws, and dark purple light faintly flowed at his fingertips.
Tongtong then submerged into his left eye.
Golden crystals spread from the center of his forehead to his cheekbone, extending from the inner corner of his left eye to his temple, covering a quarter of the left side of his face.
The pupil of his left eye turned pale gold, and deep within the pupil, dense hexagonal colorful patterns were slowly rotating.
The three finished their Armorization and stood in a triangular formation.
The Iron-Spine Violent Bear let out a low roar, its dark red eyes scanning the three of them back and forth, as if evaluating its prey.
It did not rush to attack, but slowly raised its front paw and stomped heavily on the ground — Earth-Splitting Stomp!
"Boom!"
The ground seemed to be torn open, with spiderweb-like cracks spreading from beneath its feet in all directions, and gravel and dust were sent flying.
The cracks spread extremely fast, reaching the feet of the three in the blink of an eye.
"Scatter!" Lin Fan shouted.
The deep blue tentacles on Ye Qing's right leg gave a slight flick, and she instantly disappeared from where she was — Spatial Jump.
She appeared in mid-air five meters away, flipped her body lightly, and landed steadily.
The Ice Crystal Wings on Ye Wushuang's back suddenly spread, and he shot up from the ground, hovering three meters in the air.
The cracks swept past beneath his feet, and the resulting airflow only ruffled the hem of his clothes.
Lin Fan was not that graceful.
He did not have the ability to fly, nor did he have the knack for Spatial Jump.
But his left eye had already captured the trajectory of the cracks — there was a piece of intact ground two meters to his left.
He rolled sideways, barely avoiding the cracked ground beneath his feet, and landed on that intact piece of ground.
Gravel hit the snake scales on his left hand, making a crisp sound.
The Iron-Spine Violent Bear did not give them a chance to catch their breath. It raised its front paws again, and this time, both paws landed simultaneously — Rock-Shattering Waterfall!
The gravel on the ground was swept up by an invisible force, shooting towards the three like a rainstorm.
The edges of those gravel stones had been polished sharp by some force, and the sound of them breaking through the air was sharp and piercing.
Ye Wushuang was the first to meet it.
The light shield on his left arm suddenly expanded, and a silvery-white light screen with a diameter of two meters blocked in front of him. The gravel hit the light screen, stirring up countless ripples, but none penetrated through.
At the edges of the light screen, the gravel that was deflected changed direction, shooting towards the walls of the training ground and striking sparks of light against the rune array.
"Ye Qing!" Lin Fan shouted.
Ye Qing's voice came from the air.
"I know!"
The tentacles on her right leg swung continuously, and she flashed continuously in the air, appearing in a different position each time; the gravel couldn't even touch her.
Her figure left streaks of deep blue afterimages above the training ground, as if someone had drawn trails of light in the night sky.
The vortex in Lin Fan's left eye began to rotate at high speed.
The trajectories of the gravel in his field of vision were broken down into countless thin lines, and the landing point, speed, and angle of each one were clearly visible.
He waved the snake-scaled claws on his left arm, shattering several pieces of gravel flying towards his face, while simultaneously moving his feet, weaving through the rain of gravel.