92: Chapter 91 The Mad Su Xiaoli
Another half month passed.
Lin Mo comfortably advanced to the 158th floor of the Trial Tower.
His Technician Group had now reached 21 people.
The Dance Troupe had reached 12.
The Technician Group was split evenly between males and females.
The Dance Troupe, however, consisted only of Dragon Maidens.
It couldn't be helped.
Hardly any Dragon Sons had ever specialized in any artistic talents.
Consequently, their performances were truly an eyesore.
Occasionally, a Dragon Son would claim to have talent and then howl a few notes at the top of his lungs, infuriating Lin Mo so much that he personally slaughtered him.
If they mastered high-frequency damage skills, they were at least qualified to enter Lin Mo's Technician Group.
But as for the Dragon Maidens... you'd be surprised.
There were plenty who were gifted in song and dance!
Many Dragon Maidens were proficient in all sorts of instruments and singing.
Lin Mo reclined on a red sandalwood lounge chair, with three Dragon Maidens kneading his shoulders on the left, two massaging his legs on the right, and another two beside him feeding him grapes.
Diagonally in front of him, a Dragon Maiden held a pipa, playing a cheerful tune.
Lin Mo couldn't help but reveal a comfortable smile.
With such joy in this tower, one wouldn't even think of the Alliance!
Furthermore, Lin Mo's greatest gain wasn't his Technician Group or dance troupe.
It was the changes in his Domain.
As the number of Domains increased...
The Domains directly produced many indescribable changes and connections.
The most direct change was power.
When he had 4 Domains, although he directly crushed that Dragon Maiden's Domain...
The opponent hadn't been completely powerless to resist.
She had even lasted a full 10 seconds before being completely defeated.
When he had 10 Domains...
It had already reached the level of total domination, but the opponent had also proactively given up the fight.
By the time he had 50 Domains, Lin Mo's overlapping Domains began to undergo a special transformation.
When he deployed his Domain, even the surrounding air became viscous and heavy!
By the time he broke the 100-Domain threshold, the aesthetic had gone completely eldritch.
A hundred Domains crushed and intertwined with each other, generating an indescribable field of distorted laws.
Whenever Lin Mo activated his power, the surrounding light was instantly swallowed and refracted.
In the eyes of others, his entire being warped into a mass of pitch-black, indescribable mosaic shadows.
He once happened upon an arrogant Dragon Son guarding a floor.
Lin Mo only accidentally leaked a sliver of the Hundred-Fold Domain's aura, and the guy didn't even get a word out before being crushed into molecular-level ash on the spot, physically evaporated.
This horrifying scene scared the accompanying Technician Group and dance troupe so much they collectively fell to their knees, nearly wetting themselves.
...
Time flew by.
In the blink of an eye, another two months passed.
Lin Mo reached the 500th floor.
Now, he was even too lazy to walk.
He sat in a wheelchair... not the kind used by the disabled.
It was a specially made reclining chair...
Two Dragon Maidens pushed from behind.
Other Dragon Maidens massaged Lin Mo's shoulders.
"Degenerate..."
Lin Mo sighed inwardly, opening his mouth to bite into a grape.
"Too degenerate... Tomorrow, I must work hard to climb the tower! But for today, forget it."
Rumble!
The stone door to the 505th floor was pushed open.
Lin Mo yawned, intending to casually test the power of these 505 overlapping Domains.
Domain! Open! Open! Open!
Wring—!!!
The trial space erupted with a terrifying, eardrum-shattering wail!
Law energy, viscous to the extreme, swept out like a bursting black flood.
This was the result of Lin Mo tightly controlling it to prevent it from leaking outward; after all, even a leak from the 100-fold Domain could insta-kill a Dragon Son. He still wanted to expand his Technician Group and didn't intend to kill them outright.
However, a Dragon Maiden who had just appeared ahead merely looked up at him, let out an incredibly shrill scream, and a mist of blood exploded from both her eyes—she was blinded!
Lin Mo sucked in a breath of cold air and quickly retracted all his Domains.
Even he felt a bit dazed.
What the hell? Blinded just by a glance?
Am I turning into some Great Old One that cannot be looked upon?!
No way! I don't want to be that much of a freak!
I just want to be a good person!
As for the Dragon Sons and Maidens of the Technician Group and dance troupe...
Behind him, the Dragon Sons and Maidens had already huddled into a trembling ball.
That terrifying, distorted shadow was already deeply branded into the depths of their souls; it would likely be an inescapable ultimate nightmare every time they closed their eyes for the rest of their lives.
As for the blinded Dragon Maiden in front, she was clutching her bloody eyes, kneeling on the ground and kowtowing frantically, crying for mercy:
"I know not which supreme taboo has descended..."
"This lowly one was blind and offended Your Lordship. I beg Your Lordship for mercy, spare my life!"
Lin Mo sighed with regret and shook his head.
"What use can you be if your eyes are blind?"
"I am a kind-hearted person by nature; I should probably help release you from your suffering."
Having said that, Lin Mo was about to strike.
The blind Dragon Maiden was instantly scared out of her wits and screamed out:
"No, no, no! My Lord, I'm not blind! I can still be saved!"
"This lowly one is a Royal Dragon Maiden with extremely strong self-healing abilities. Soon! My eyes will grow back soon!"
Hearing this, Lin Mo stopped.
"Do you have a Sealing Card?"
"Yes, yes, yes! My Lord, I have one!!"
"Fine, consider the first test passed. Next is the talent assessment."
Lin Mo said with a faint smile.
"Talent assessment." Lin Mo leaned back against the lounge chair. "Now, show me your specialty. Singing, dancing, or RAP, anything goes."
The Dragon Maiden swallowed a mouthful of bloody saliva, messily wiped the blood from her face, and cleared her throat while enduring the intense pain.
An ethereal and mournful Dragon folk song echoed in the dead space; the melody was surprisingly pleasant.
"Barely passing. I'll take you."
Dance Troupe +1.
...
It had been six months since Lin Mo entered the Trial Tower.
Su Xiaoli had also completed her First Class Advancement and was about to reach the level 90 threshold for her Second Class Advancement.
However, her life was not peaceful!
Because now, the flames of war had been ignited on all sides of the Alliance.
And she... was tightly biting her cute little canine teeth, swinging a giant sword the size of a door panel with a whoosh!
No one on the battlefield could block a single strike from her sword.
Whether they were Second Class or Third-Rank.
Perhaps even a Fourth Class Advancement might not be able to stop her, though the Fourth Class battlefield wasn't here.
"Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill!!!!"
"It's all your fault."
"Ugh... my Lin Mo, when exactly are you coming back..."
She tilted her head and suddenly let out a string of chilling chuckles.
"I know... it must be you damn flies who are forcing Lin Mo to stay hidden from me!"
"In that case... then you, and this filthy world, have no reason to exist anymore, do you?"
The people on the battlefield were completely stunned seeing this frenzied girl.
How could this person swat someone, along with their shield and equipment, into ash with a single sword strike?
Wait, bro... is this even right?
The person secretly protecting Su Xiaoli wiped the sweat from their forehead.
In fact, when Lin Mo first left, Su Xiaoli had been fine.
But as the time Lin Mo was away grew longer, Su Xiaoli's mental state became increasingly unstable...
According to the Alliance Leader...
The power inside Su Xiaoli's body was simply too immense, so strong that she could hardly control it, to the point it even affected her mind.
And it would only get stronger as time passed!
As her emotional pillar, as long as Lin Mo was by her side, her condition could be mitigated.
But once Lin Mo was gone for too long... the consequences would be unimaginable!
Just like now...
The one watching over Su Xiaoli was a Fifth Class Advancement expert from the Alliance, but even she didn't dare to step in and stop Su Xiaoli.
Because the King-tier energy on Su Xiaoli was special and powerful enough to wound even her, a Fifth Class expert.
Yet she couldn't use too much force, for she also feared hurting Su Xiaoli.
So she could only watch Su Xiaoli vent her rage.
Fortunately, it was wartime, and there was no shortage of enemies.
However, she remained worried.
Because too many people were keeping an eye on Su Xiaoli...
Su Xiaoli's weakness was too obvious; she could easily be exploited by those with ulterior motives.