Newbie Guardians

Chapter 19 Using a borrowed knife to kill

After receiving treatment, Huang Xin recovered completely. No matter how serious the injury he suffered in this competition, it could be completely healed. Therefore, the weapons used in the competition were real swords and guns, and all skills were unrestricted.

Back in her dorm, Huang Xin began to review the four-day competition, gaining a more intuitive understanding of each profession and listing their strengths and weaknesses on paper.

The lightning-based survival skill is teleportation, which allows the user to instantly move seven or eight meters away, making their movement trajectory impossible to track. The control skill is Five Thunderbolts, which inflicts paralysis and is almost instantaneous, uninterruptible; its drawback is low damage.

The wind-based survival skill is Wind Wings, which allows for rapid movement in one direction and tracks the opponent's movement. However, Wind Wings also provides a shield effect, preventing direct damage even if an assassin rushes in. The Storm skill can push opponents 20-30 meters away, but it requires a one-second casting time and can be interrupted.

Although the Fire element is a physical melee class, it can also teleport using fireballs it creates, a skill called Flame Leap. While the teleportation distance is only seven or eight meters, it still poses a significant threat to magic-based classes. Furthermore, fire attacks inflict a burning effect, requiring continuous healing from a healer to counter them. Its weakness lies in its relatively poor defense.

Wood-type archers have a long attack range and a strong suppressive effect on magic-type archers. Their weakness is poor survivability; once they are caught in close combat or controlled by lightning-type archers, it is difficult for them to escape.

Earth element is a tank class, capable of both offense and defense. It can pull opponents close, causing a brief stun. This class is very difficult to defeat, but its weakness is its extremely poor damage output, making it basically no threat to any other class.

The Metal element is a weapon master, proficient in various weapons. In defensive mode, they can act as a semi-tank, and in combat mode, with the support of long weapons, they are a powerful group attack class. However, their weaknesses are also obvious: poor output in defensive mode and poor survivability in combat mode.

Water-based classes are support-type classes, mostly playing the role of healers, and are the core of ensuring the team's sustainability. Their weaknesses include relatively low damage output, long skill casting times, susceptibility to interruption, and the need for teammate protection. Mu Lingshan is an extremely special water-based genius, exceptionally intelligent, and independently comprehended the advanced water-based ability—ice-based, making her essentially a prodigy prodigy in both water and ice elements.

Just as Huang Xin was engrossed in devising tactics, in the girls' dormitory of the academy, Lin Yuxi drew a strange six-pointed star array on the floor. An invisible force isolated the entire dormitory into an independent space, cutting off all sound transmission. A dozen seconds later, a figure slowly emerged within the array, like a holographic projection. A clear and melodious female voice rang out…

"You've grown even more beautiful since I last saw you in a few months!"

"Let's get down to business," Lin Yuxi said coldly. "The finals are tomorrow. Does the leader have any instructions?"

"Oh dear! This girl is still so impatient. If she doesn't change, she'll never be able to get married."

"Spit it out!"

"Alright, alright! The cult leader performed a divination, and the ancient realm indicates that an ice-type girl and a sharpshooter will hinder our grand plan and must be eliminated as soon as possible."

"Mu Lingshan's team doesn't have an archer class, so how can we be sure that the ice-type character is her?"

"The cult leader said, 'Better to kill the innocent than let the guilty go free!'"

"Okay, is there anything else?"

"That's all."

The figure slowly faded away. Lin Yuxi wiped away the traces, carefully mopped the floor twice more, and then lay down on the bed, murmuring to herself.

"Bewitchment of wood and lightning types should be enough to eliminate them, right? Ugh, so annoying!"

The next day was the third-place match. Jin Jun went to watch the match, while Huang Xin went to the Scarecrow Training Ground alone. After meditating for five consecutive nights, Huang Xin's sense of Qi in his Dantian became stronger, but he could not control it. He wanted to stimulate his potential through intensive training and see if he could make his body automatically draw on the true Qi in his Dantian.

Huang Shen stood fifteen meters away from the scarecrow and first imagined it to be the person he hated most in his life. However, in reality, he had never hated anyone. He tried dozens of times, but to no avail; it seemed that psychological suggestion was completely useless.

Huang Xin tried to imagine that the attack was to protect the most important people to her. In reality, besides her grandfather, the only people who were good to her were Jin Jun. However, neither of them needed her protection; on the contrary, they had always taken care of her. She tried dozens more times, but to no avail.

In this way, Huang Xin kept giving himself different psychological suggestions and trying to stimulate his potential. Until it got dark, Jin Jun called him to eat, but he still failed every time. He was full of frustration and followed Jin Jun blankly.

After the meal, Jin Jun patiently comforted him.

"Huang Xin, don't put too much pressure on yourself. The road ahead is long and arduous. The worst thing in spiritual practice is a restless mind. Haste makes waste, so don't be impatient for quick results!"

"But...I don't want to hide behind you forever..."

"Do you think about how many days you've been training? Less than a hundred days at most. I persisted for a full ten years to achieve this level of skill. Everyone progresses step by step like this."

Huang Shen thought it made a lot of sense, but she was still very frustrated inside, so she could only force a relaxed smile.

"Brother Jin, I understand, thank you!"

That night, Huang Xin, as usual, meditated in a state between sleep and wakefulness until dawn.

Today is the finals, and the arena is packed with people. The Class 1 team for the second year consists of Sun Hengsheng (Earth element), Liu Qiqi (Water element), Wang Wei (Wood element), Hu Jie (Lightning element), and Lin Yuxi (Wind element). Huang Shen's group is from Class 3. Outside the arena, some students have started betting. Currently, Class 1's odds are 1.21, while Class 3's are 5.83. The reason is simple: Lin Yuxi from Class 1, with her Wind element, is on par with Mu Lingshan in both appearance and cultivation, while her other attributes far surpass those of Class 3. Therefore, the vast majority of students favor Class 1.

The match began, and Sun Hengsheng struck first, dragging Jin Jun to his side with a pull. Jin Jun had anticipated this, using the force of the pull to simultaneously activate his combat state and rage mode. In combat state, his defense was reduced by 15% and his attack power increased by 15%. In rage mode, his damage increased by 20% for 30 seconds. He launched a charge, his spear aimed straight at Jin Jun's throat. The earthen shield instantly collapsed. Sun Hengsheng was shocked, not expecting Jin Jun to have such a trick up his sleeve. His mediocre performance in the previous matches was just a show of weakness. Now, activating his rock shield was too late. Instinctively, he leaned back to dodge the fatal blow. The spear tip pierced through the healer Liu Qiqi behind him, resulting in a loss of one player right at the start of the match.

Lin Yuxi glanced at Jin Jun, a hint of tenderness flashing in her eyes. She scoffed, "Useless teammate!" and unleashed a whirlwind attack, sending over a dozen small whirlwinds towards Huang Xin's group, forcing back Jin Jun's offensive and rescuing Sun Hengsheng. Having learned his lesson, Sun Hengsheng no longer held back, unleashing all his skills and quickly becoming one with Jin Jun.

Wang Wei seized the opportunity created by Lin Yuxi and launched a rapid-fire skill. The arrows clung to Cheng Ziyu like maggots. Hu Jie kept interfering with Liu Hanqin with the Five Thunder Spell, preventing him from unleashing his ultimate move. Lin Yuxi and Mu Lingshan fought back and forth, making it difficult to determine who was the best.

Cheng Ziyu seized an opening, teleported close to Wang Wei, and cast the Five Thunder Spell, trying to regain the initiative. However, Wang Wei was prepared and activated the Arrow Rain skill in advance. As the lightning struck, dozens of arrows enveloped Cheng Ziyu, instantly turning her into a pincushion.

As Cheng Ziyu was eliminated, Wang Wei was also paralyzed by the Five Thunderbolts Curse. Taking advantage of this, Mu Lingshan unleashed her Ice Cone skill, creating a shadow seven or eight meters long around Wang Wei. Lin Yuxi then unleashed a whirlwind attack, sending Wang Wei flying over twenty meters, crashing heavily to the ground, bruised and battered, his longbow flying out of his hand and off the field. He had utterly lost face! It was all her fault! She had made him so pathetic! He had been humiliated in front of everyone!

Seeing Cheng Ziyu eliminated, Liu Hanqin flew into a rage, willing to be struck by the Five Thunder Curse to avenge his teammate. As Hu Jie used his teleportation ability, Liu Hanqin activated Wind Wings, hoping to use its shield to withstand the Five Thunder Curse and unleash his ultimate move, Hurricane, which required a 3.5-second cast time. Hu Jie secretly rejoiced, thinking, "Is this wind-type guy stupid? You have an ultimate move, but I don't? Let's see who's faster!" He also activated his ultimate move, Thunderous Fury, with a 3-second cast time.

Mu Lingshan snorted coldly, unleashing a water ball that sent Hu Jie flying two or three meters, interrupting his chanting and inflicting an ice-type slow effect. At this moment, Liu Hanqin's Hurricane was complete, a hurricane with a radius exceeding twenty meters sweeping in. His teleportation skill was still on cooldown, making evasion impossible. Lin Yuxi glanced at him, her eyes filled with disappointment. Another storm sent him flying twenty or thirty meters, landing with a bloodied head, looking utterly disheveled and furious. When had he, always so arrogant, ever suffered such a loss! It was all this woman's fault! She made me look bad in front of my goddess! I'm not finished with her!

The game is still four against four. Two players from Class 1 are injured, and Huang Xin from Class 3 is completely out of the game. The students betting on the sidelines are all extremely anxious. Someone uttered a curse first.

"Wang Wei, Hu Jie, you two are trash! I always thought highly of you, but you've completely disgraced Class 1 of Grade 2!"

Immediately afterwards, as if a domino effect had been triggered, a chorus of insults rose and fell, each one clearly reaching the ears of Wang Wei and Hu Jie. Their faces turned extremely ugly, their eyes gradually became bloodshot, and the fire of hatred burned ever brighter.