Victory!

After a thunderous boom, cracks appeared all over the Magic Tool armor on Ouyang Yuan.

However, thanks to the armor, Ouyang Yuan still hadn't suffered much damage.

"Thud!"

Watching Ouyang Yuan hit the ground, Tang Miao couldn't help sneering inwardly. As expected, pay-to-win players are the best!

"Cough, cough... Kid, you're strong, I'll give you that. But now it's my turn!"

Ouyang Yuan looked at the damaged Magic Tool armor and felt a pang of regret... He'd never expected his opponent to have the Space Element, too! No wonder he'd dared to challenge him...

At that moment, all his earlier thoughts had vanished.

"Scorching Thunder! Thunderbolt! Frenzied Dance!"

A Lightning Constellation formed beneath Ouyang Yuan's feet, and an extremely violent surge of lightning gathered above Tang Miao's head.

A huge thundercloud hung overhead, with flashes of lightning writhing through it like giant serpents. At Ouyang Yuan's command, purplish-red lightning tore through the air and slammed down hard on Tang Miao.

"Boom!"

"Purple Firmament Domain!"

"Dimensional Summon!"

The instant the lightning struck, Tang Miao summoned Little White. Little White had emerged looking rather pleased, but the moment it saw the bolt of lightning, it froze in shock!

???

Had it seriously been summoned just to take a beating?

The Thunderbolt crashed down, and thunderclaps exploded throughout the area!

Watching the dust billow where Tang Miao had been, Ouyang Yuan froze, baffled. Why weren't the two teachers stepping in to save him? At his current strength, a full-power strike against an early Intermediate Mage could very well kill him outright!

Ouyang Yuan only wanted to win. He hadn't meant to kill anyone!

Even if it had been an accident, the people from the Hangzhou Judgment Society wouldn't overlook it. Tang Miao wasn't part of the Judgment Society, but he'd heard enough to know that this guy had an unusually close relationship with them...

Qian Kun and Sun Yuan had been about to rush in and help, but just as they were about to act, Dean Xiao stopped them. He'd sensed another kind of magical energy!

The audience was utterly stunned.

"Genius" wasn't enough to describe Tang Miao. He was a monster... After all, he was only at the first level of the Intermediate Level, yet he'd fought a Dual Element Intermediate Perfection Mage like Ouyang Yuan until his Magic Tool armor was almost shattered...

But this sudden reversal? It was hard to take in.

Even if that blast hadn't killed him, surely it had left him half-dead, right?

Just as the crowd wondered what had happened, a tiger's roar rang out from within the dust cloud.

"W-What is that!?"

"A General Level white tiger!?"

"..."

"Isn't he a Lightning Mage and a Space Mage!?"

"..."

When they saw the enormous white tiger emerge, everyone was dumbfounded!

Qian Kun and Sun Yuan, standing beside Dean Xiao, were equally stunned.

"H-How does this kid have three Elements!?"

"Didn't he only just become an Intermediate Mage!?"

Dean Xiao shook his head at their questions, then said, "I'm not sure, either... But this kid is full of surprises. Also, that white tiger's strength seems to be suppressed. In other words, his Summoning Element is at the Primary Level, but the white tiger he summoned is Intermediate Level."

While everyone was still reeling, Tang Miao looked at Little White and said, "Go back. I'll heal you later. Once this competition is over, I'll focus on improving my Summoning Element and help you get your strength back."

Little White did feel a little cheated, but it had indeed lost the ability to fight. A Dimensional Gate opened, and it left.

Tang Miao hadn't suffered a scratch from that powerful attack. As a Servant Level white tiger, Little White wouldn't have been able to withstand the full-power strike on its own. But inside Tang Miao's domain, the power of Ouyang Yuan's lightning had been cut nearly in half.

On top of that, the white tiger was originally a General Level magical beast, so it had managed to tough it out.

"H-How do you have three Elements!?" Ouyang Yuan stared at Tang Miao in shock.

"Three Elements?"

Tang Miao's lips curled into a cold smile. "Sorry, wrong guess. And your performance is over."

As his voice fell, the lightning around them faded. Then a thick layer of ice suddenly formed across the ground!

"Zero Degree! Ice Vine! Spread!"

As Tang Miao finished speaking, a surge of icy power instantly bound Ouyang Yuan. Then a push from his Space Magic slammed hard into Ouyang Yuan's body.

"Thud!"

The blow sent Ouyang Yuan flying several meters back. His Magic Tool armor protected him, but the attack, infused with Space Magic, still left him badly hurt...

Even so, Ouyang Yuan wasn't about to admit defeat just like that. He'd held the championship spot at Lightning Academy for two years—how could he go down so easily?

"Damn it!"

Ouyang Yuan roared and pointed skyward.

"Scorching Thunder! Thunderbolt! Overhead Strike!"

The moment the lightning came crashing down, thick layers of Ice Wall appeared above Tang Miao. His Ice Element wasn't strong enough to cast Intermediate Magic, but his control of it was better than most people's with a whole Element!

"Rumble..."

"Crash..."

The lightning kept breaking through the ice, but it couldn't punch a hole all the way through. And every time it came close, the ice thickened again!

Even after completely stopping Ouyang Yuan's lightning, the ice didn't melt away.

"Scorching Thunder! Thunderbolt! Yaksha!"

While Tang Miao had been defending, Ouyang Yuan had completed his second-order Lightning Magic. Although it was an area attack, the lightning spread across the ground below, making it no less powerful than a single-target spell.

Tang Miao was tightly enclosed in ice. When the lightning struck, the thick ice shattered and re-formed... shattered and re-formed. It seemed to be holding on by the narrowest margin!

"Rumble..."

After the lightning had been spent once more, Tang Miao's Ice Element energy was completely depleted. But Ouyang Yuan had no chance to fight back now, because his Lightning Magic had cooled down!

He'd only just dismissed his Purple Firmament Domain to conserve his magical energy. Otherwise, how could he land a decisive strike?

"Purple Firmament! Thunderbolt! Overhead Strike!"

The familiar deep-purple lightning came crashing down, carrying the force of destruction.

Ouyang Yuan used Rock Magic to try to block it, but what could his ordinary earth possibly do inside the Purple Firmament Domain?

With a "Boom!", the Rock Barrier shattered. The next moment, lightning coursed over his body.

After a sharp crack, the Magic Tool armor broke apart in an instant, shattering into pieces with a series of cracks...

Tang Miao glanced at Ouyang Yuan and said coolly, "Are you going to surrender, or should I hit you with one more bolt of lightning?"

Ouyang Yuan was still conscious, but the lightning had left his body completely numb.

If Tang Miao hit him with another bolt, he might well end up dead or crippled...

"I... I surrender!"