Versatile Mage: Summon eight demons at the beginning

Chapter 168: Siren Battlefield
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“What’s wrong?” Mo Fan looked at Zhao Manyan’s strange gaze in confusion.

"Do you know the story of the ugly duckling?" Zhao Manyan asked.

"I'm afraid you've witnessed a fairy tale."

He felt something was wrong from the beginning. Lu Cheng's special talent was really excessive. It was impossible for him to appear in a civilian magician family.

Human mages are actually the same as demons. The more powerful the ancestors are, the higher the talent of their descendants will be. This is because when a mage practices, his soul and body are getting stronger, and even evolving to a certain extent.

Some large families will have some "hereditary" natural talents. In fact, that is because their ancestors have reached the super level or even forbidden spells, and their own power will occasionally be partially inherited to their descendants through blood.

Special control, transcendental power, absorbed spirit seeds, soul seeds, and some forbidden spell abilities will all be passed on to future generations to a certain extent.

Like father, like son, this is exactly the genetic phenomenon.

The era of magic of mankind has developed for thousands of years. During this time, powerful wizards would gather together on their own initiative to form organizations and families, and during this period they absorbed a large number of civilian talents. Gradually, these families developed into the ancient clans they know today.

He could understand a single special talent, even someone like Mo Fan who was born with two special talents. However, Lu Cheng's single-talent special talents could only be because his ancestors had mastered some special supernatural powers or absorbed special soul seeds.

There is no such thing as talent that comes out of thin air, just like a wizard needs to absorb spirit seeds and soul seeds to enhance his own magical power and increase special effects. Those innate talents are also something that the ancestors of the person concerned have once obtained.

Therefore, it is highly likely that Lu Cheng came from an ancient magic clan that had fallen into decline!
About twenty years ago, in the Holy City, something happened to the magic clan...

Zhao Manyan looked strange.

Oh my god, could this be related to the Parthenon case?
The Parthenon incident back then implicated many magic clans, and even the Zhao family’s business was affected a lot!
Although he was still young when the Parthenon incident happened, he heard his father scold him a lot because the incident seemed to have a big impact on the family business.

What a stupid Inquisition, what a moronic Parthenon, they could make such a reserved person like his father burst into a swear. I guess that incident caused the family to lose a lot of money!

"What's wrong?" Mo Fan asked puzzledly.

“Nothing… nothing.” Zhao Manyan laughed dryly.

He decided not to ask about anything related to the Parthenon, as it would be embarrassing if he got into trouble.

"By the way, let me inform you of the next training process." Ai Jiangtu stood up and said.

The captain, Lu Cheng, is almost just a figurehead and will not interfere with the team's actions at all. The captain's work is basically done by Ai Jiangtu.

Even Lu Cheng himself admitted that under normal circumstances, please just pretend he doesn't exist.

"No resources for substitutes?"

Mo Fan and Zhao Manyan felt uncomfortable after hearing this rule.

The resources needed to advance to a higher level were worth at least hundreds of millions.

Although Zhao Manyan was a rich young man, the Zhao family's money did not come from the wind. If Zhao Manyan was really not ambitious, his family would not waste so much money on him just to make him happy. Just like Mu Nujiao said, if the investment could not get the expected return, there would be no further investment.

Every big family has strict rules and regulations, and the rule of clear rewards and punishments is placed first. There is no such thing as giving anyone as much as you want.

If you are too partial, internal strife may occur at any time.

"Come to think of it, we still have four substitutes now, right?" Jiang Yu said.

Before, when we were in the imperial capital, only two people were eliminated, and they happened to be two regular team members. There was no mention later that two of the four substitutes would be promoted to regular team members.

"There are ten regular team members, and resources are allocated according to ten people. The instructors said that the performance in the next training in the Sea Battle City will determine the replacement of regular team members and substitutes." Ai Jiangtu said.

"Those who don't perform well, whether they are regular players or substitutes, will be eliminated. Everyone should be mentally prepared."

"In other words, if the substitutes perform well, they can also get resources?" Mo Fan said. Ai Jiangtu nodded, "There are still two vacancies for regular team members. The mentors will decide who will be promoted based on everyone's performance. All four of you must work hard. After this experience, those who fail to reach a high level will most likely be eliminated."

These words were actually mainly meant for Zhao Manyan and Zhou Xu to hear. Everyone had already witnessed the strength of Mu Ningxue and Mo Fan when they were in Feiniao City. One of them had already mastered the constellations and could cast high-level magic in actual combat, and the other could even kill a commander with one arrow. Even among the regular team members, the strength of these two people was above average. Therefore, unless there were no accidents, Mo Fan and Mu Ningxue would be the ones promoted to regular team members.

Zhao Manyan didn’t really need to worry. After all, the Zhao family had nothing but money. It was rare for a family to have someone with a talent for magic and an interest in cultivation. As long as Zhao Manyan wasn’t too useless, the elders of the Zhao family would support him.

In other words, the most nervous person now is Zhou Xu.

Of course, the official team members Li Kaifeng, Jiang Yu, Mu Tingying and Nan Rongni were also very nervous. They had not yet been promoted to higher levels. If they did not perform well in the next training, the forces behind them would not continue to invest money in them.

The World University Competition is essentially a battle for resources, and the members of the National University team are actually the investment targets of the forces behind them.

Once these forces feel that the investment and income are not proportional, there is a risk of loss, or the person has lost more value from the investment, they will give up immediately and stop the loss in time.

Just like the Mu family could abandon Mu Ningxue without hesitation, anyone can be abandoned as long as they lose enough value.

"Acheng, we are all high-level. We don't need to train anymore after we arrive in Tokyo, right?" Jiang Shaoxu has never been interested in fighting or killing sirens. After all, she majored in mental magic, which is not designed to fight monsters head-on.

"I've never seen a siren land, and I want to go and see. If you're not interested, you can go and have fun." Lu Cheng said.

Jiang Shaoxu himself has no shortage of resources. For the Jiang family, Jiang Shaoxu's status is similar to that of Ai Tutu in the Ai family. These military families have always had unified plans for their children.

Men, like Ai Jiangtu, basically receive the most rigorous training from a young age and become the backbone of the family in the future.

Girls are basically like Ai Tutu and Jiang Shaoxu. As long as the children like it, cultivation is a small matter. As long as they are happy, it is fine. In such a big family, it is not necessary for a little girl to take the lead.

The training of a mage is very difficult. Not only is it boring meditation training day after day, but fighting monsters is also life-threatening at any time. The life of a mage is not a game, nor is it as glamorous as it seems.

What most of the children of aristocratic families envy most is not young geniuses like Ai Jiangtu, but people like Ai Tutu, who can freely choose their own lives and enjoy life as they please.

"What the hell am I supposed to do by myself?" Jiang Shaoxu curled his lips.

How can anyone go shopping?
"Then go out and see the world. At least you'll be mentally prepared so that you won't be unable to react when the mermaids rush onto the land in the future," said Lu Cheng.

“A sea monster rushed onto the land? So exaggerated?” Mo Fan was a little unconvinced.

"This is not an exaggeration at all." Jiang Yu said.

"The number of ocean monsters is dozens or even hundreds of times that of land monsters and humans. If the sea monsters were not uninterested in the land, the land would have been occupied by the sea monsters long ago."

"Whether in terms of combat power or sheer numbers, the ocean demons absolutely crush the land creatures on land, including the Demon Empire."

"Not really, right? Didn't the newspapers and news say that someone won another naval battle, destroyed a certain brutal demon tribe, and made the ocean more peaceful?" Mu Tingying said.

"You guys believe this kind of nonsense? It's pure deception." Jiang Yu complained mercilessly.

"How can humans maintain the order of the ocean? Do you know how many terrifying demon empires there are in the depths of the ocean? They have their own order. Even the so-called ocean battlefield is actually just a tool used by the ocean demons to maintain the density of demons."

There are no less than ten ocean demon empires that humans have discovered!
The ocean is so vast, who knows how many hidden demon empires there are?

And maintain order in the ocean? They can!

Monarch-level demons that can dominate the land can be found everywhere in the deep sea!

Even the emperor-level beings at the top of life can be found in the sea!
At most, humans can deal with the monsters on the coastline. In a sense, humans are actually the garbage disposal workers of ocean monsters.

The world of demons is much more cruel than that of humans. As long as their population becomes large, they will choose to start a war to reduce their numbers.

The so-called ocean battlefield is actually a garbage disposal plant for those powerful sirens.

(End of this chapter)