969 More Monstrous Than A Monster (2/2)
However, it did not matter what they felt. The initial plan only asked the three national teams to weaken the Red Ornaments Guild by taking out some of their members. They never thought the students would be able to uproot the entire organization, since that involved taking down their leader, Casso! The Magic Associations were well aware of how tough the guy was.
To their surprise, they ended up arresting Casso and helping the Sacred Hall Mages to accomplish their mission, returning peace to the Caribbean Sea. It was obviously a lot better than what they had hoped for. How could the Chinese team not grab the limelight among the national teams?
The Dark Noble Mantle arrived when the team reached Mexico. Mo Fan was fairly excited about it.
It was said that a Forbidden Mage used the piece of magic equipment when he was younger. It must be something precious...
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After crossing the Caribbean Sea, the vast land of North America opened up to the team. Their view extended to a gradually sinking arc to the horizon, like they were looking at completely flat waters. The only difference was, the majority of the land in South America was dark brown.
”Mo Fan, why were you interested in Sweetgrass Village back then? Did you realize something was strange about Oni?” Jiang Shaoxu asked when the thought suddenly crossed her mind.
”I initially thought I could find something I'm looking for there, but I realized that it wasn't,” answered Mo Fan.
Mo Fan only went to the village because the Essence Orb was glowing. In the end, the Essence Orb was reacting because of an old tree in the village, but it did not contain any absorbable energy. Mo Fan got all excited for nothing.
”How mysterious! Speaking of which, now that we've completed the mission, it means that someone in the team will be disqualified. Zhao Manyan, are you the one?” Jiang Shaoxu looked at Zhao Manyan curiously.
”Are you kidding me? I'm definitely not the weakest on the team!” Zhao Manyan straightened his chest and said.
”Mmm, that wooden clapper did make you a lot stronger. I barely survived thanks to it,” Mo Fan agreed.
The wooden clapper was extremely powerful. Its most intuitive use as the yellow runes that were able to double the strength of Zhao Manyan's defensive spells. Not many Advanced Spells were able to penetrate Zhao Manyan's defense without outstanding damage.
”If you aren't the one being disqualified, who's it going to be then?” Jiang Shaoxu pondered.
”See, someone is panicking more than me,” Zhao Manyan said, smiling and looking at Li Kaifeng not far ahead of them.
”Him? But I thought he's fine still?”
”He's in a similar spot to Guan Yu, but Guan Yu has an outstanding weapon. Li Kaifeng doesn't have that advantage, so I think he's most likely the one that will be disqualified. I heard Li Kaifeng has a powerful background, but his own strength is important, too,” Zhao Manyan judged.
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After arriving in Mexico, the team rested at Bangersha City. As they made their way to Mexico's Training Hall, the advisors would meet with the team with a new member, and they would disqualify a member on the current team.
No one knew who the person would be.
Mo Fan was not worried at all. He had the least chance of being disqualified from the team. He was the greatest contributor in the competition between the three national teams, and he was a lot stronger than the average members on the team.
He was fairly excited, mainly because he would be seeing Mu Ningxue soon.
After arriving in Bangersha City, Mu Ningxue sent him a text telling him that she was on the plane flying to North America with the advisors. When Mo Fan remembered Mu Ningxue's cold, unapproachable face, elegant as a painting; her outstanding bust, her alluring legs under sexy stockings, he immediately 'stiffened'.
His days without his first wife had been rather lonely!
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”Duels?”
”The advisors want us to fight one another?”
The members of the national team received the news when they were resting at the inn.
Since the members were equivalently strong this time, it was quite difficult to make the decision, so the advisors simply came up with the easiest way possible, by letting the members duel one another.
However, only six members needed to take part in the duels. Mo Fan was not on the list, so it was none of his business.
Besides, even if he was on the list, anyone that drew Mo Fan as their opponent would immediately forfeit the duel. There were two people that the members of the team were unwilling to stumble into as their opponent: the first one was Ai Jiangtu, and the other one was Mo Fan. There was no way they could beat them, especially after how Mo Fan had fought against Casso. The only comment everyone had for him was that he was more monstrous than a monster!