Chapter 33 : Chapter 33
Chapter 33: You All Know This—Ye Ze Has Always Been My Idol!
Ye Ze could not help feeling a little emotional. What a familiar scene.
When he was Level 1, it had been Panda using Grasp the Sparrow’s Tail against a Stonearmored Beast.
Now that he was Level 7, it was still Panda using Grasp the Sparrow’s Tail against a Stonearmored Beast...
“When is Panda ever going to learn a few more skills?”
Ye Ze grumbled.
What he did not notice was that, at this very moment, every single person inside and outside the carriage was staring at him as though he were a monster.
The students from War Academy were all frozen in place as they muttered blankly, “Th-that absurdly powerful Iron-Eater Beast... whose summoned beast is that?”
“Let me guess...”
“There is no need to guess. Out of everyone here, Ye Ze is the only Summoner!”
Xia Qing’s beautiful eyes had begun to tremble as she looked at Ye Ze as though she were looking at some immortal.
“Ye... Ye Ze... you?”
This was the senior-year student from the class next door?
What kind of joke was this?
Even many university graduates she had met did not possess the strength to instantly kill two Level 25 Elite-grade Stonearmored Beasts!
And someone like that had actually been sleeping so quietly beside her just moments ago?
Off to the side, the Priest girl Lin Ke’s eyes lit up at once, a trace of admiration appearing on her face.
She showed off to Liu Qi and the others beside her. “Look! I told you Ye Ze had to be stronger!”
Zhou Huahua stood there in a daze. “You...”
Ye Ze looked at her seriously. “Can I join the battle now?”
Although the beasts and magical beasts here did not give as much experience as Fiends, it would still be enough to let him level up.
Who could refuse gaining another level before a massive group dungeon?
Unexpectedly, however, Zhou Huahua refused him outright. “No!”
“You are still only a senior-year high school student. It is not your turn to go onto the battlefield and risk your life!”
“Besides, you are already strong now, and you will definitely be even stronger in the future! You should live. There is no need for you to take this risk here!”
Although Zhou Huahua and the others were only members of the Guard Unit, their duty was to protect the students!
Ye Ze let out a helpless sigh.
He really wanted to complain: at this level, there was no need for him to risk his life at all!
But Zhou Huahua continued, “Since you are this capable, then do your best to protect yourself...”
Though her words showed that she acknowledged Ye Ze’s strength, she still did not think he was enough to turn the tide of battle.
There was no point saying more.
Ye Ze had already realized that. He rummaged through his backpack, but the only thing inside was an Investigation Division ID...
Ah, right. The other thing was in his pocket.
He called out to Zhou Huahua and held up a Bronze Medal in his hand.
At that moment, Zhou Huahua’s expression turned incomparably shocked.
The same went for Xia Qing, Lin Ke, and the other students in the carriage. The ones with the most dramatic reactions were Liu Qi and the others.
Ye Ze pinned the medal to his chest and said, “I do not need to explain any further, do I?”
Where did a Bronze Medal awarded by the military carry the greatest privilege?
Naturally, in the army and on the battlefield!
It represented the military’s recognition of the holder’s ability and strength. On the battlefield, it could stand in for rank and even grant a certain degree of temporary command authority.
Of course, Bronze-level authority was not especially great.
But when it came to the Guard Unit, it was already more than enough!
Still in shock, Zhou Huahua immediately gave him a perfectly standard military salute.
“Understood!”
That Bronze Medal proved that, on the battlefield, Ye Ze was a soldier acknowledged by the Demon Suppression Army as combat-capable and of the same standing.
In terms of status alone, he was even half a rank above the people in the Guard Unit.
Ye Ze smiled, returned the salute, and said, “Stay here and keep watch. I will go deal with the beast tide.”
With that, he left the carriage directly and joined the battle.
At that moment, the entire carriage fell silent.
Dozens of students looked at one another, nearly all of them wearing blank, stunned expressions.
Xia Qing, Lin Ke, and especially Liu Qi and the others looked utterly dazed, their expressions exaggerated beyond words.
A Bronze Medal!
That high school student from the rumors who had been decorated by the military...
That Scout Camp “Rookie King” with his unbelievable record... was actually Ye Ze!
Xia Qing was completely dumbfounded. She did not even know how to describe it anymore... clearing Hell difficulty on the very first day after Advancement, then being decorated by the military on the second day!
Were these really the achievements of a student from an ordinary class?
Lin Ke, Liu Qi, and the others all felt their scalps go numb. Just moments ago, they had been comparing Ye Ze to himself?
Who in the world did something like that?
After a brief silence, Liu Qi suddenly burst out in excitement.
“That is utterly incredible!”
“You all know this—Ye Ze has always been my idol!”
...
After charging onto the battlefield, Ye Ze immediately found four Elite-grade magical beasts rushing straight at him.
They seemed to have come specifically for him.
But there was no need to hesitate. Ye Ze sent Panda charging forward at high speed.
Taiji - Cloud Hands. Punch.
Relying on attack power far beyond what its grade should have allowed, Panda blew apart the four Elite-grade magical beasts around it in an instant.
“I need to get Qin Cheng out first.”
With that thought, Ye Ze sent out the Shadow Squirrel as support as well, rescuing the surrounded Lancer Qin Cheng.
“It is you?”
Qin Cheng recognized Ye Ze from the cloak. He was the student from the compartment just now.
But after seeing the Bronze Medal on his chest, Qin Cheng suddenly felt as though he no longer recognized the person before him.
“You really are a high school student?”
Before Ye Ze could answer...
Two vast and powerful presences surged onto the battlefield. They were two Level 30 elite beast kings!
Compared with the ones before, the pressure they gave off was far greater!
Qin Cheng frowned tightly. “Damn it! Does this ever end?”
Even as the captain of Qingfeng City’s Guard Unit, he could not help finding the situation difficult to handle.
If this kept going, then without question, it would develop into a large-scale beast tide!
But golden light flashed in Ye Ze’s eyes, and what he said immediately filled Qin Cheng with excitement.
“Do not panic. I have found the source of the problem.”
Through Eye of Insight, he could clearly see that every beast and magical beast charging toward them had the same special status on them:
【Compelled】!
A method of forcibly controlling beasts...
The mastermind behind the scenes was using that ability to hide in the dark while surrounding and hunting all of them.
Qin Cheng asked impatiently, “What should we do?”
What he trusted was not Ye Ze as a high school student, but that Bronze Medal!
Ye Ze did not waste words and immediately began arranging things. “Go back and hold off the beast kings. I alone am enough.”
Qin Cheng froze, then said awkwardly, “I cannot hold off two beast kings by myself...”
He could deal with two beast kings if that were all, but having to protect the train at the same time made it much harder.
Ye Ze naturally understood. “I will send Panda with you.”
“Then what about you?” Qin Cheng did not understand. “Without your summoned beast, what are you going to use?”
In his eyes, that panda draped in a white Daoist robe was unquestionably the strongest summoned beast!
And Ye Ze was planning to deal with the source of the beast tide without even bringing along his strongest summoned beast?
Ye Ze smiled faintly. “Do not worry...”
At the moment, the strongest one had not even had a chance to take the field yet!
Hearing that, Qin Cheng did not argue any further and immediately returned to hold off the Level 30 beast kings.
As for Ye Ze, he finally summoned his third summoned beast, the Void Hunter!
“Mantis, find the leader of the beast tide around us!”
As soon as he spoke, the Crimson-Eyed Mantis suddenly emerged from the air beside him, as though it had materialized out of thin air.
Those crimson compound eyes, as though they had been holding themselves back for a long time, rapidly swept across the entire battlefield...
As an apex hunter in its current state, and with the mantis’s unique compound eyes, its judgment of prey was exceptionally precise.
A moment later, that bloodthirsty gaze locked onto a figure deep within the dark forest in the distance.
【Nightshade Jackal (lv.30)】
Type: Rare-grade magical beast
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“Found you!”