Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
When the last Tauren on the battlefield had died, Alice turned around and sat down on the ground with the other two members of Daphne’s team.
“Senior Alice, Li Jiye is so powerful!” John gasped and pointed to Li Jiye, who was still on the battlefield.
No Tauren was still alive in there now. Li Jiye was busy distributing healing potions to the wounded frontier mercenary members.
Alice nodded in agreement.
“This might be evidence of the gap in actual combat experience. Li Jiye submitted an application to Teacher Daphne for a trial in the Demonic Beast Mountain Range some time ago. His strength only reached such a level after his return.”
Alice and the others had killed two Taurens in total. Even as Tier 2 warriors, they had difficulty facing Taurens of Tier 2 inferior-class. It was hard to imagine how they had moved like lightning on the battlefield just now when they were also part of Daphne’s class.
Now that the Taurens in each battle zone had been beheaded, the teachers of Polar Star Academy assisted the City Defense Team and drove the rest to Falling Maple City’s border.
The Tauren tribe must have known that they couldn’t win this battle and had already disappeared into the borders of Demonic Beast Mountain Range by now.
As the Tauren army retreated into the mountains, bursts of cheers broke out in Falling Maple City.
Under the crowd’s exhortation, Molde, the general of the City Defense Team, led the warriors back and then replaced the City Lord who had already fled the city.
This young general wasn’t afraid of risking his life in the face of an enemy and hadn’t given up even in the most desperate moments.
After taking office, Molde immediately made arrangements for the victims in Falling Maple City. He also personally led a group of craftsmen to repair the damaged city wall.
This all came to an end two days later.
On that day, the group of students and teachers from Polar Star Academy were then summoned to the deserted City Lord’s mansion. The role that Polar Star Academy and the border mercenaries played in the city defenders’ survival of the Orc attack was rather huge. The celebration banquet for the rebirth of the city after the disastrous war thus began.
The teachers and students of Polar Star Academy were now gathered in the City Lord’s mansion under Molde’s arrangements. The only thing inadequate about this celebration banquet was that several of the border mercenaries had left early.
Li Jiye secretly felt a little disappointed.
He had been greedy for the border mercenaries’ specialized combat skills for a long time and could only wait until his replication skill cooled down. However, his replication skill only cooled down after he had already lost the chance to use it!
It was really Murphy’s Law now that this mercenary group had left without saying goodbye.
“Everyone from Polar Star Academy! Falling Maple City was able to revive from such a desperate situation because of your contributions! On behalf of the people of Falling Maple City, I’ll thank you again!”
Molde solemnly stood up and bowed to the teachers and students of Polar Star Academy. His posture was extremely low, and he didn’t put on the airs of a City Lord.
After thanking them, he went to converse with the teachers.
At this time, Alice, who was sitting in a corner, stared at Li Jiye very curiously, as if trying to stare a hole through him.
“Li Jiye, what on earth is your strength?”
Li Jiye sighed inwardly when he heard this. Looking around, he found that beside Alice, John and the somewhat silent Zoltan were also looking at him with scorchingly curious eyes.
“I’m really just a Tier 2 intermediate-level student… If you don’t believe me, you can ask Teacher Daphne…”
Daphne also stared suspiciously at Li Jiye before nodding slightly.
“His strength is indeed rare for a Tier 2 intermediate-level…”
After receiving Daphne, a Tier 4 martial artist’s confirmation, Alice and the other three students immediately looked at Li Jiye with slightly suspicious expressions.
Daphne was also curious about Li Jiye.
“I heard about the situation on that day from many students afterward. I heard that you defeated a line of more than a dozen Taurens by yourself. You then rescued another four mercenaries and students before fainting from exhaustion. Is that true?”
Li Jiye secretly felt fortunate that he had purposely fainted under his fellow students’ shocked expressions. Otherwise, they would be asking how he still had strength after supporting the four battle zones…
He cursed inwardly and then pretended to answer very sincerely. “It’s true, Teacher Daphne. I was able to burst out with such strength because of the use of a high-level potion that day.”
Everyone was stunned after hearing this.
“It was a Tier 3 Elemental Affinity potion. It was precisely because of its support that the elemental energy in my body was able to flow continuously. It was also why I fainted as soon as its effect disappeared.”
He had already thought of this excuse a long time ago. After all, his replication skill was his greatest trump card now, and he had to conceal the fact that he possessed dual elements in his body.
The celebration banquet lasted for nearly four hours before the crowd withdrew amidst laughter and cheers.
Now that the replication skill had cooled down, he couldn’t just let it go to waste. He thought about it, and his eyes suddenly lit up at the thought of the new City Lord, Molde.
He had discovered a new use of replication skills after so many uses.
If the same type of skill was duplicated several times, then this skill was likely to experience some special changes.
He now possessed a C-level Storm Element skill at this time, but before attaining this skill, he had to replicate many D- and E-level versions of this skill type. Even though these skills were of very low levels, they had experienced some changes after repeated replications.
Thinking of this, he smiled slightly and got up from his seat. Then, he walked slowly to the already drunk Molde.
“City Lord Molde, you’ve made a great contribution to the defense of Falling Maple City this time. I wonder if I might have the honor of shaking your hand?”
Molde naturally didn’t refuse.
While shaking hands, a system prompt was heard in Li Jiye’s mind.
“Ding! Congratulations on your successful replication of the C-level skill, Knife Proficiency.”
Li Jiye was extremely happy to achieve his goal.
Once the celebration was over, he returned to Polar Star Academy with the group.
He wasn’t idle either after returning to Polar Star City.
Now that the college ranking battle was about to begin, he naturally had to make adequate preparations and strive for mastery!