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The final results of the annual assessment were finally posted on a board on the ground floor, where a large number of people rubbed their eyes, looking at them, not believing what had happened. The first place was naturally taken by Mo Fan, then came Mu Bai, in third place was Xu Zhao Tin. I took seventh place, I didn't worry much about it, yet the resources that the school could provide me were useless, thanks to my tooth. Zhou Ming showed an excellent result, taking the fourth place, while Xiao Hou entered the top ten. A couple of days later, the holidays began. Mo Fan went deep into cultivation in my aunt's house, but I got out into nature, on the border of the city and the safe zone. Yes, it may be dangerous, but right now there can only be weak servants here, and I have already released wind magic, so I can always escape.
I came here for two things. Firstly, for cultivation, in the city I had a feeling that something was holding me back here, I could breathe freely. Secondly, it was the wind stars, I felt some strange response from them, they seemed to want to show something, but I, fearing the consequences, did not give them the will.
Going out into an open, quiet clearing, I began to connect the stars of the wind element. Driven by the energy flows from the stardust, they quickly, even faster than usual, formed into a star trek. Wind energy flowed down my arm, it was unusual, when I usually release magic, the wind envelops me, and I can move faster, this is the wind step. However, now all the power of the spell has accumulated in my hand, after a couple of seconds, all the energy has dissipated without any effect.
Deciding to try again, I created the same star trek again, and the energy filled my right hand again. Only this time I didn't wait for her to disperse, but waved her in the direction of the nearest tree. An air stream, similar to the trace of a sword in the air, quickly flew out of the hand, it literally cut the tree in half! It was unusual, something told me that it was the effect of my innate spiritual seed, and I couldn't think of any other explanation.
Then, for about a month and a half, I quietly cultivated every day in that clearing, training in the control of the wind stars and finally subjugating all the lightning stars. True, there was no additional lightning effect, perhaps it is necessary to continue to improve control and something will happen, or maybe it will just open at another stage or level of magic.
About a week before the start of the new semester, I was cultivating in a clearing as usual, expanding my spiritual paths, when an unexpected sound brought me out of concentration, namely, a champing sound was heard in the bushes nearby! This made me very scared, but remembering that I am a magician and possess as many as two innate seeds, I calmed down a little, and excitement and curiosity took the place of fear.
Getting up, I carefully headed to the place, looking out from behind the bushes, I saw a healthy rat that was eating a dog. The sight of the dog's guts and the bloody face of the rat made me feel sick, but I was able to overcome myself and regain clarity of mind. The rat was an ordinary one-eyed, inferior servant, next to others, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't find it, and she had almost finished the dog, but still hadn't noticed me.
Of course, it would have been possible to escape, but the desire to try his hand at fighting against the rat took over. I was wondering what I was capable of now and a fight against one rat, the weakest of all the lower servants, was a great opportunity to do it. First of all, I created a lightning seal in my hand and launched it at the rat, which made it jump, and its muscles were almost paralyzed. No matter how, but my magic of the initial level of the first stage, enhanced by the secondary spiritual seed, was almost equal to the magic of the second stage. The next spell was the wind blade, which cut off the rat's arm, although I aimed at the head, I need to train more in its application, but it's not bad.
At that moment, the rat jumped on me with the last of its strength from pain, so I barely dodged, but it left a pretty deep scratch on my arm. Quickly using the wind step, I jumped away from her, simultaneously starting to build a lightning star trek. The rat was rushing at me again, limping and almost falling due to the lack of a hand, while I, out of fear and awareness of the danger of the rat, almost lost my way on the seventh star, but at the last moment released my spell into it. She was paralyzed again, falling a couple of meters away from me.
Using the moment, as well as taking a lot of risks, instead of retreating with the help of the wind step, I created a wind blade and sent it into the rat's face. I barely made it in time, as her eye had already started to fill with light and was preparing for a shot of energy, but in the end it was cut in half by my spell. Sighing, I looked at the rat's corpse, a white light hovered over it, it was obvious that it was a soul. She went to my chest, where my talisman in the form of a fang hung, with which I found myself in this world. That's right, he's like a developing magic item, and I completely forgot about him. It's a good thing I always wear it, otherwise I would miss the whole soul of this pathetic rat.
Blood was still flowing from the wound on my arm, so after tearing my shirt, I made myself a tourniquet, after which I returned to the city and went to the hospital, where I said that the dog had injured me. It was clear from the doctor's face that he didn't really believe it, well, okay, so far it doesn't create any problems. At home I told the same story, it's good that they didn't see what the wound really looks like, otherwise they wouldn't have believed it either.
The remaining time before the start of classes, I continued to go to that clearing, yet I cultivate there noticeably faster than in the city. Everyone who was supposed to get into the elite class, and Xue Mu Sheng was appointed class teacher, Tang Yue remained a practice teacher, nothing unusual.
After a month of classes, magic tools were given out, Mo Fan received his for ten days, after which he must give it to the fourth, that is, to me. However, my tooth already gave me a twenty percent gain, or so, so I didn't really need this tool.
I focused my cultivation on the wind element, as I wanted to reach the second level as quickly as possible, but due to studying, I could no longer cultivate in nature and the speed dropped. Ten days later, I was given a magic tool to use. Although I do not know for sure, but it can be seen that Tang Yue still saved Mo Fan, but I did not use it, because when I tried to use my fang, I started trying to suck all the energy out of him, and I don't need it.
Time passed quickly, and soon the end of the semester came, and with it the beginning of the practical trip. There were many rumors about this, many were afraid of meeting with a demonic beast, but I was in anticipation, how fast would my cultivation be in the mountains? I've been feeling my wind stardust pulsing for a week now, preparing for a breakthrough, waiting for a push.
We rode on dedicated buses, of course, I sat down with Mo Fan, expecting him to break through in the element of fire. As soon as we left, he and I plunged into cultivation. I took up the lightning element, planning to make a breakthrough in the wind already in the mountains. With every kilometer that we drove away from the city, I felt my cultivation going faster and faster. At the end of the trip, I felt an enhanced fiery energy emanating from Mo Fan, everything is going according to plan. Although I thought that due to the fact that he was initially stronger, the breakthrough was made earlier.
As soon as we arrived, we were put up for the night in a local barracks, tomorrow the main activities of the practice should begin. When everyone went to bed, I quietly left the barracks and headed for the exit of the post. There I met a patrolman whom I recognized as Zhang Kong, we saw him as soon as we arrived.
- Oh, and what are you doing here, wasn't the command to hang up given? – He asked me as soon as he saw me. Zhang Kong is a good man, but his fate is no better than Xu Zhao Ting, maybe at least he can be saved? Although perhaps this is an extra hassle, I still didn't have enough to take care of all sorts of minor characters. He may be quite strong, but there will be much more problems with saving him than there will be benefits from him.
- Excuse me, I wanted to see the mountains. I replied, smiling.
- Be careful, it's even more dangerous here than on the border of the safe zone of the city. – He answered me, patting me on the head. - So be careful, and better go to bed.
- Okay, I'll go right now, because it's very cool here. Is it really the lord of the blizzard and got here? - I said and hurried away, there was no point in continuing to argue with him, and if you start teasing him with knowledge from the original, he might suspect something.
However, I did not go to sleep, but just climbed over the wall in another place. After moving away to a sufficient distance, I began to cultivate, the breakthrough in wind magic was closer than ever! By dawn I was able to do it, a fairly strong wind rose around me, and the stardust of the wind broke through to the second stage. To test his strength, he built the star trek of the wind blade and tried it on the nearest tree. It shattered into pieces as expected. After that, I applied the wind step of the second stage. The wind surrounded me and in a second I was already at a distance of twenty meters from where I was, a good speed.
But the sensations were such that my strength did not just reach the second stage, but was approximately equal to the third! It's all the effect of my innate seed. With such opportunities, even Mo Fan will have a hard time dealing with me, ha. Using wind magic, I quickly returned to the barracks, but they didn't let me sleep and dragged me to the formation.