"This is"
Mu Yunji stared blankly at the two frozen figures, unable to make sense of it. She had just fought one of these things, and logically speaking, Grandpa Lu should not have stood a chance against them.
She was not looking down on Grandpa Lu. Although he was usually unreliable, his aptitude was astonishing. As a Phoenix, his Mental Strength grew even faster than Rain Woman's, and his elemental affinity nearly matched Little Cabbage's. In terms of aptitude, he was almost on par with Wang Gou Dan, and his talent was excellent as well. Unlike the lazy Little Cabbage, Grandpa Lu had been a poor student on D-Ball, but at Starfire Academy, he was practically a top scholar. In seven years, he had completed the Academy's one-hundred-year Rune curriculum, and in the remaining three years, he had even finished more than half of its graduate-level courses!
And it was not just Rune studies. In Arcane Transformation, Shaping, and Alchemy, aside from Illusion, which he was not very good at, he was nearly finished with almost every Arcane Master course. His overall combat strength was definitely among the top three of the First Batch Players!
Of course, that was only an assessment. Combat was not just about credentials; performance mattered too. In terms of aptitude, Wang Gou Dan was naturally the strongest, but when it came to performance, Grandpa Lu was truly hopeless, practically at the bottom. Among the First Batch Players, Wind Dou Dou, herself, and Leng Xing were probably the strongest in terms of directly displaying their abilities.
If preparation and performance were taken into account, Rain Woman could even wipe them all out if she prepared properly.
It could not be generalized. But in an encounter like this, against such bug-like existences, Grandpa Lu should have had