651 Hang In There (1/2)
The attractive field medics that accompanied Wang Tong everywhere had attracted many soldiers' attention. The way they stared at Wang Tong and fluttered their lashes convinced everyone that all four medics had something for him.
There were the attractive four medics, and there was Heidi. Her beauty was not for the mortals' eyes. Luckily, she was with Karl and Flash on the X-6 mission, so the human soldiers wouldn't have to stomach the envy of watching Wang Tong and the goddess' interactions.
All the space warriors worshiped Wang Tong as their hero; however, the officers didn't share the soldiers' admiration. The commanding officers were all full of themselves and snobby toward the METAL warriors on their ships, much less an outsider such as Wang Tong.
There were even rumors about something fishy going on between Wang Tong and Samantha. The two generals were very pleased by the spreading of these rumors; their smear tactics had worked well.
Samantha had kept her silence before the rumors, and Wang Tong didn't seem to care a wee bit about it either. As they said, one must be doing sometime right when one became the target of jealousy.
”Have you got a handle on it?” Wang Tong asked, and the six casters nodded their heads.
”Wang Tong, you have given me so much grief. I suck at pretty much everything except for the fire element.” Guan Dongyang smiled wryly.
”You are more powerful than you think. There is something else you could try, called…”
Guan Dongyang cut Wang Tong short with a wave of the hand. ”No, don't try to lure me into another one of your plots! Try it on Michaux…He is much stronger than me.”
”Be a man, do the right thing! When the war is over, you will be responsible for passing down the torch of mastery to the next generation. Don't you want to learn any other techniques other than BBQing your enemy?” Wang Tong jested.
”Touché! You need to raise your bar. Otherwise, I will be bored to death before the Zergs claim me.” Michaux chimed in. He liked to hang out with Wang Tong and his friends since he didn't have to don the mask of the Divine Master; it was much relieving that way. The less than one month's time he had spent with Wang Tong's crew was the happiest time he had enjoyed in a long while. There was no paperwork or politics to slow him down as he engrossed himself in cultivation.
”Are you on my side or not, Michaux? What you four cupcakes think about this? All of us employees have to stand together.” The girls looked at Wang Tong and Guan Dongyang, then giggled without replying.
”Wang Tong, why do you ask me to learn the earth element? If we are going to fight in space, where the heck am I going to find the earth element?”
”Just wait. You will see what I mean after you have learned what I am going to show you guys.”
”Oh? Another new spell? What is the level?” Guan Dongyang's face was lit up with glee at the promise of learning a new spell. Unlike Michaux who was obsessed with the divine path, Guan Dongyang was addicted to learning new spells.
”Even the forbidden power is nothing compared to this new spell.”
Everyone was shocked by Wang Tong's claim as they wondered what kind of spell it could be.
”Hehe, the spell itself seems ordinary, but when used under certain circumstances, it could be extremely deadly.” Wang Tong started to explain the theory behind the spell. It was a spell that strengthened elemental resonance. However, Wang Tong had tweaked the spell and added some extra elemental attributes.
When Wang Tong finished explaining, everyone mauled over the spell for a while and conceded that the spell by itself was not powerful at all.
”I don't understand what it the purpose of this…unless!” Suddenly, Wang Tong's friends had a moment of epiphany.
”Are you sure it will work?”
”Oh my gosh! It's insane!”
Wang Tong stood up and stretched as he looked out of the window. ”How did the GN force allow us to survive extremely hostile environments? And what is mastery except for the manifestation of human intelligence? We need to look at the universe from a much higher point of view. ”
”Humans' exploration of the universe was within the spatial dimension, while the endeavors in the world of mastery are on an entirely different one.” Michaux put in.
”Are you sure only the few of us will do?” Guan Dongyang asked with concern in his voice.
”It will be enough. There will be another hurdle, but we will deal with it then. No point to fuss about it now.”
”It's almost cruelty.”
”So? After all, we are only human.” Wang Tong smirked.
…
Two days later, a small ship took off quietly from one of the mother ships. However, this didn't escape Li Hong and Xiao Se, as they had been watching Wang Tong and his crew closely. They knew it was about time for Wang Tong to do something.
”What about the rest? Did they leave with him?”
”Yes, general! All six mastery casters are gone.”
”Did they bring any weapon with them?”