Special Warfare Camp's Attention (Part 1)

Yale and the others, who had been watching from the sidelines, immediately turned around when Fengyun said he was going to unleash his ultimate move. After all, they were friends and already knew Fengyun quite well. They knew exactly what his so-called ultimate move was.

Naturally, not wanting their eyes to suffer, they turned away at once. Only Lin Lei controlled earth elements to form a blindfold over his eyes and continued watching Fengyun and Beibei fight!

Although the earth-element blindfold only allowed him to see the general outline, and was far less effective than the sunglasses-like blindfold Beibei had formed with Dark Element, he had a second kind of vision—the Soul Contract he shared with Beibei.

Through the Soul Contract, Beibei could transmit what he saw directly into Lin Lei's mind, allowing Lin Lei to observe the battle clearly!

As Lin Lei watched, he discovered that Fengyun was now going all out. Taking advantage of the visual interference, he fired small Battle Qi Slashes at Beibei from every possible angle.

Those Battle Qi Slashes formed a large net riddled with apparent gaps.

But Lin Lei, who had fought Fengyun several times, knew those were not gaps but traps. Invisible Light Shadow Slashes lurked in every one of those places.

Beibei's mouth twitched as well. If it had been before, it would not have mattered. Invisible or not, he could simply charge straight through. With his defense, these little things were nothing more than scratches.

But after exchanging blows with Fengyun earlier, Beibei had gained the most direct understanding of Fengyun's current attacks. They still could not break through his defense, but those Battle Qi Slashes condensed to the extreme were now enough to hurt him.

Just as Beibei hesitated over where to break through in order to suffer the least pain, the Battle Qi Slashes—which seemed to be moving at roughly the same speed as before—sealed off all his escape routes, then suddenly accelerated.

Though Beibei reacted quickly and picked a direction at random to break through, he still took the brunt of the Battle Qi Slashes.

Although the pained Beibei bore no wounds, his grimacing expression made Lin Lei and the others burst into laughter.

The battle became dull afterward. Aside from his realm and techniques, Beibei surpassed Fengyun in every other respect. In truth, the outcome of this battle had been decided from the very beginning.

The only thing Fengyun could do was make Beibei hurt twice more with sweeping attacks formed from Battle Qi Slashes before his Battle Qi and stamina ran out and he was defeated.

After the battle ended, Fengyun, drenched in sweat, reminded Lin Lei that he should probably get a weapon better suited for combat before parting ways with everyone. After all, he still had not returned to report to the Special Warfare Camp. As a trainee there, that was somewhat improper!

Inside the Special Warfare Camp, Fengyun's direct instructor, Ladi, looked at him with a face full of smiles.

In truth, as Fengyun's direct instructor, Ladi was essentially his teacher and possessed a certain degree of authority to instruct and punish him. Although he normally appreciated Fengyun greatly, he had always been serious and solemn with him in order to maintain a teacher's dignity.

If Fengyun returned from the Monster Trial and then disappeared for three straight days like this, Ladi would normally at least put on a stern face and lecture him a little, then assign him some training exercises with a mildly punitive nature as punishment.

There was no way he would be smiling so warmly as he was now, much less refrain entirely from lecturing or punishing him!

Fengyun did not understand it at first, but after Instructor Ladi told him that Division Commander Imanol wanted to see him, he began to form a guess about what was happening.

As the reserve training ground for ace knight orders, the Special Warfare Camp's instructors were all experienced retired warriors and officers. Naturally, the camp commander also came from an ace knight order, usually with one of the Darkness Church's Eight Ace Knight Orders taking turns assigning one of its division commanders or deputy division commanders to the position.

Whichever knight order held the camp commander position, qualified trainees of the Special Warfare Camp would join that ace knight order after graduation.

The current camp commander was Imanol, Deputy Division Commander of the Glory Knight Order's Second Division. Of course, everyone addressed him as Division Commander Imanol. No one would be foolish enough to add the word "deputy."

For such an important figure as Division Commander Imanol to summon a mere trainee like him, combined with the kindly smile on Instructor Ladi's normally unsmiling face, Fengyun would be failing his identity as an undercover agent if he still could not guess why!

Looks like the people assigned by the camp to secretly protect me reported my breakthrough in realm!

The moment he thought of it, an inexplicable gloom rose in Fengyun's heart.

The Special Warfare Camp assigned Shadow Guards to certain outstanding trainees to prevent them from dying inexplicably during the Monster Trial. Naturally, they would not tell the trainees about such arrangements.

But as an undercover agent of the Darkness Church, Fengyun might accidentally let something slip during the Monster Trial if he believed no one was nearby, so the Darkness Church had naturally informed him of this.

This was the fundamental reason he had dared to save people in the Monster Mountain Range over the years without fearing danger. He knew that if he truly fell into danger, those people would certainly intervene to help him.

It was also why he had remained stuck in the Bottleneck Period for so many years. With his safety guaranteed, it was far too difficult for his spirit to erupt under the stimulation of crisis, allowing him to unite and Control Over Self in order to deal with the danger!

Only when his weapon had been bitten in half by the Alpha Wolf had he truly felt the threat of death. And only because he had long trained his control over his own strength to the utmost precision was he able to break through the realm of Lifting the Light as if Heavy. Otherwise, he might not have succeeded at all.

After being brought before Division Commander Imanol, Imanol, who had a scar across his face, did not waste any words. He glanced at the Light Shadow Blade in Fengyun's hand and said directly, "Make your move, kid. Use your strongest attack."

"Let me see what you're capable of!"

"Yes!" With a loud shout, Fengyun understood Imanol's meaning and did not hesitate in the slightest. He drew the Light Shadow Blade, gathered all the Battle Qi in his body, and launched a massive Battle Qi Slash formed from several combined Light Shadow Slashes at Imanol.

Sensing the might of Fengyun's attack, a yellowish-brown Battle Qi barrier emerged around Imanol. Seeing the ripples spreading across the barrier under Fengyun's attack, he laughed happily. "Good kid! You actually comprehended the realm of Lifting the Light as if Heavy at such a young age. There is even a trace of Lifting the Heavy as if Light mixed within it. What astonishing talent!"

As he spoke, faint envy and jealousy flashed in Imanol's eyes. After all, even he, Imanol, a Level Eight Warrior who had survived countless battles, had merely cultivated his fundamentals to perfection and had yet to grasp the second realm of Control Over Self.

But that envy and jealousy vanished in an instant, replaced mostly by joy. Having a genius trainee under his command who had mastered Lifting the Light as if Heavy was like gaining a great merit for nothing, no less significant than a resounding victory in battle.