26: Team Establishment

After discussion, the two decided to recruit a defender, a support, and a magic attacker.

For defense, they chose Colossus Wang Meng. Wang Meng's ranking wasn't outstanding, but that was because he encountered Lin Ye. Without encountering Lin Ye, he would definitely have been a top ten contender.

His talent was exceptional, and although he still had some weaknesses due to an incomplete setup, he was definitely a stock with potential.

Colossus was too reassuring; no team would refuse to have a Colossus tank.

There weren't many people in the Colossus Academy, only over thirty, and Wang Meng was the only third-tier among them.

For support, Ma Junjie recommended his cousin, Ilene Ye.

Lin Ye had no impression of her; support roles found it difficult to go far in the grand competition, so their results were not prominent.

To compensate support roles, the academy generally offered high basic rewards for the support academy.

Ilene Ye was the daughter of Ma Junjie's mother's younger brother, a Saintess.

The Saintess profession template was also a rare template, with extremely prominent and comprehensive support abilities, including healing, shields, dispelling abnormal statuses, blessings to enhance team capabilities, and high-tier Saintess could even cast the divine skill of resurrection.

Ilene Ye came from a medical family and was also third-tier, with astonishing talent, mastering various support spells with ease.

If it weren't for the Saintess's combat power being almost zero, a rare full-time support with little attack power even among supports, she wouldn't have been in the fifties.

Lin Ye watched Ilene Ye's battles; she basically used various shields to wear down her opponents until they were exhausted, but she was helpless against third-tier opponents and would fail and exit.

And after seeing Ilene Ye, he was full of approval for her abilities: a loli face with big breasts, astonishing milk volume! This was definitely a good healer.

For the magic side, they found Soul Master Lin Yao.

Ma Junjie deeply understood the strangeness of a Soul Master; without Soul-side defensive capabilities, one could only grope in the dark.

Soul Masters were adept at manipulating Souls, easily employing various Soul-targeting methods. Soul attacks were merely the least prominent of a Soul Master's techniques; they excelled most at various stuns, mental enthrallment, slumber, memory reading, Soul imprisonment, and so on.

However, these methods required too much preparation time and were difficult to cast without teammates, but even relying solely on Soul attacks, Lin Yao managed to break into the top three.

Moreover, the team did not lack conventional elemental abilities, with the Colossus's earth elemental attacks and the Dragon-man's fire elemental attacks, making the magic side's strength prominent.

So, the two chose Lin Yao, a rare Soul attack mage.

After the discussion, Ma Junjie began to make contact. His cousin was out of the question, already an internal decision.

Wang Meng also met no resistance; his super great shield was indeed particularly sought after. Many teams invited him, but Ma Junjie's money ability was outstanding, and Wang Meng easily agreed.

Lin Yao's side was a bit difficult, mainly because she had her own intention to form a team. A Soul Master with strong control naturally wouldn't allow herself to be dependent on others.

But Ma Junjie not only had money ability but also used various connections to lobby her and displayed his shameless persistence, clinging to her relentlessly.

One doesn't hit a smiling face, and besides, Ma Junjie wasn't annoying; he was very good at discerning people's thoughts, with various small surprises and gifts, pursuing her like a girlfriend, which made Lin Yao feel very good about him, and her words also showed signs of loosening.

Moreover, Ma Junjie's team configuration was more than just a little stronger than her own self-formed team, and she finally agreed under Ma Junjie's persuasion.

Lin Ye couldn't help but marvel at Ma Junjie's ability; not only was he strong, but his capabilities were also so outstanding.

If he had to deal with Lin Yao, he would definitely be helpless. She was proud and very opinionated, and she also wanted to form her own team, making the conquest difficulty max, but she was ultimately won over by Ma Junjie's various methods.

After the team was configured and approved by the school, the few of them also began to meet privately.

The gathering was quite lively; with Ma Junjie, the social butterfly, it was hard not to be lively.

He took them to a top entertainment venue in the Magic City, where they played for a day, and with the help of some small games, everyone got to know each other.

Their respective personalities also became apparent.

Ma Junjie was enthusiastic, naturally sociable, not pretentious, from a top family with top strength, and handsome, truly a top-tier normie; Lin Yao paid the most attention to him.

Lin Yao was proud and had strong control, but getting along with her wasn't difficult; as long as her bottom line wasn't touched, she was generally not hard to deal with.

Lin Ye was a cultivation fanatic, not very talkative, and had an ordinary appearance, belonging to the kind of passerby character easily overlooked, but his terrifying talent and combat power made everyone dare not underestimate him; even the proud Lin Yao had a very good attitude towards him.

Wang Meng was boisterous, straightforward, and loyal. His two-and-a-half-meter height made everyone look up when talking to him, but he was very considerate, usually squatting when communicating to avoid appearing disrespectful.

Ilene Ye belonged to the quiet type, even less talkative than Lin Ye, basically doing her own thing, but her outstanding beauty also made Lin Ye and Wang Meng pay the most attention to her.

Lin Ye had indeed never seen a beauty of Ilene Ye's caliber: clear and bright pupils, curved willow eyebrows, long eyelashes trembling slightly, fair and flawless skin revealing a faint blush, and thin lips as delicate and luscious as rose petals.

He had only seen Jiang Xiaoyu with this level of beauty.

Although Ilene Ye had the wicked figure of a loli face with big breasts, she possessed the temperament of a Saintess, a combination of angel and demon, making even Lin Yao, who was a woman, feel ashamed of herself in comparison.

Lin Yao was also a beauty, but compared to Ilene Ye, she was far inferior.

However, Lin Ye had no wicked thoughts or intentions of pursuing her; he was a workaholic in both his past and present lives, but that didn't stop him from appreciating beauty.

Team building was very successful; so far, there seemed to be no conflicts, and several practice sessions with sparring partners also went well.

They added each other's QQ and WeChat accounts and created a group. Ma Junjie directly topped up each person's account with one million, as it was his family's industry, just a word away.

He also guaranteed that they could use any Tencent virtual product as they pleased, and Young Master Ma would pay the bill.

Everyone naturally complied.

With the team successfully formed, Lin Ye began to cultivate with single-minded devotion. Before going to the Star Realm, he finally mastered all his skills and even cultivated Vacuum Wave and three silver skills to the proficient level.

This was because his Qi Control had reached minor accomplishment, which allowed him to progress rapidly, beyond expectations, and with the support of the minor accomplishment proficiency of silver skills, the three advanced skills were easy to cultivate.

This was the advantage of continuity; with the support of low-tier skills, the difficulty of high-tier skills would be greatly reduced.

The two advanced skills still had the same names. Serpent Body transformed into Hidden Dragon Body, with even more prominent defensive force redirection. Unfortunately, it still couldn't defend against magic attacks and required absorbing Star Force Body Armor to defend against magic attacks.

However, Lin Ye's Star Force was greatly accomplished, allowing him to exert a small amount of Star Force Body Armor's power, which had already been demonstrated during his battle with Ma Junjie.