Chương 43: War God — Chapter 43 - Overlord Blade Intent, Ten Wolves Slain in an Instant!

Wang Xian pointed at the contract.

"I'm not signing this. Can I leave it for the other students in our class?" Zheng Changhong froze, wondering if he'd misheard.

"Principal Xia and Grandmaster Bai secured this contract for me, right?" Wang Xian said.

"If I leave it for the other students in class, and they meet the requirements, they can sign it too. No problem with that?"

"It's possible, yes..." Zheng Changhong was stunned.

"But you don't mean—""I didn't say I'm not signing a contract." Wang Xian smiled. Zheng Changhong frowned.

"But there's only one contract." Securing even one had been difficult enough. The Divine Sword Club might not be able to produce one, no matter how highly they regarded First High. Issuing two contracts? Headquarters would never approve. The risk was too great. What if the person who signed didn't even awaken their martial talent? What then? Three years of investment down the drain. The Martial Arts Class students were all top performers. It was basically impossible for them not to awaken.

But there were exceptions. Dragon Nation was vast. Examples abounded. At that moment, staff member Xiao Bai brought in a sumptuous lunch from outside. Wang Xian stood, took the tray, and wolfed it down while talking.

"There's another way to sign the contract, isn't there?" The words landed. Zheng Changhong stiffened. He understood instantly. He drew a deep breath.

"You want to fight ten consecutive holographic intelligent beasts?" Exactly. The other way to sign a D-rank contract was to directly meet the club's requirements. Before the Martial Exam, a student could attempt ten consecutive challenges and achieve a ten-win streak.

"Impossible!" Zheng Changhong shot to his feet.

"This is impossible!" He couldn't be blamed for thinking so. In Rong City over the past decade, only two people had ever managed it. And those two had only done it right before the Martial Exam. Who knew how many failures they'd gone through along the way. For a senior-year student to defeat every single holographic intelligent beast in ten consecutive matches was no less than challenging two real F-rank beasts in a row.

You could throw dozens of senior-year students at a single F-rank beast, and they still might not defeat it. Let alone defeat two in a row. If someone awakened their talent early, maybe they could defeat one. But they absolutely couldn't beat a second. Ten challenges were even harder. Because the physical toll was too great. Wang Xian shoveled a huge mouthful of rice and mumbled through it:"Try it and we'll see."

"Trying is fine, isn't it?" Trying was of course fine. Failing a holographic challenge at most only caused some mental fatigue.

"Student Wang, you don't understand how hard this is!" Zheng Changhong said grimly.

"First of all, your body can't handle the strain. You can defeat one, two, three, even four, but by the fifth, you absolutely won't be able to draw your blade anymore!" Wang Xian nodded. What he said was correct. That was the crux of it. Otherwise, it wouldn't be this difficult.

"Your life force is only just over 3. Your body can't withstand the drain." Zheng Changhong shook his head. At this stage, for a student, this was absolutely an impossible challenge. In a few months, with the brilliance of that blade strike of his, if his life force rose to 8 or 9 by the time the Martial Exam approached, then Zheng Changhong believed Wang Xian would absolutely have a huge chance of succeeding. The genuine version of this novel can be found on another site. Support the author by reading it there.

"So, can the challenge rules be relaxed a bit?" Wang Xian narrowed his eyes in a smile.

"No need to fight ten in a row."

"Change it how?"

"Change it to fighting ten at once."

"?" Zheng Changhong's mouth fell open. Wait, student. Are you stacking buffs to make it harder for yourself? That's not called relaxing. That's purely cranking up the difficulty. Ten together, from a pure combat power standpoint, was already fully equivalent to nearly three real F-rank beasts. In practice, it might not be that exaggerated. But facing two at once... for a high schooler, it was still nearly completely impossible. Even if the two who had signed contracts before came, they couldn't do it.

Setting everything else aside. Ten saber-toothed wolves charging all at once, unless you had three heads and six arms... Otherwise, anyone would be brought to their knees.

"Difficulty is relative. Sometimes, switching the angle of combat actually makes it simpler." Wang Xian finished eating and let out a satisfied burp.

"Minister Zheng, just let me give it a try." Seeing this, Zheng Changhong said nothing more.

"Xiao Bai, go prepare."

"Uh... alright." The staff member was trembling. How many years had it been since a student dared challenge this...

"Rest a bit. I'll talk to Old Zhou." Zheng Changhong thought for a moment. Not long after.

"Wang Xian, you brat, have you gone mad?" Zhou Dahai charged into the office. Seeing the youth leisurely sipping tea, he was dumbfounded. Confidence was a good thing. But this was no longer just confidence.

"Teacher, don't make such a fuss..." Wang Xian said.

"Just a challenge. If I fail, no big deal, I'll just go back and rest a bit."

"Isn't that right?" That's what he said.

"If I succeed..." Wang Xian said, "then that contract goes to the other students in the class. If I fail, then I'll sign it."

"You want to give it to Ye Miyue?"

"I didn't say that. As long as they meet the contract requirements, anyone can have it." Wang Xian smiled.

"If I fail the challenge, then forget it, or I'll just try again sometime later."

"This way, if there are two contracts, isn't that even better?"

"Failure costs nothing, success is pure gain!" Zhou Dahai looked deeply at Wang Xian. He didn't believe Wang Xian had such deep camaraderie with the other students in the class. Eight or nine chances out of ten, he wanted to leave it for Ye Miyue. Because judging by current performance, Ye Miyue had the highest likelihood of being the first to meet the contract requirements. Her progress was simply too fast.

"Fine." The teacher had agreed. Zheng Changhong also nodded slightly and sighed.

"Then give it a try. But I advise you, don't get your hopes up..."

"You have no idea what a despair-inducing scene facing ten saber-toothed wolf models is..." Wang Xian thought about it and nodded. Indeed, he didn't know. Because he'd never had the chance. But I do know what it's like to face a flood tide of thousands upon thousands of S-rank beasts alone. Afternoon. On the seventh floor, Wang Xian entered a special holographic beast simulation chamber. The eighth floor had no students, only the club's martial artists training.

The holographic intelligent beast challenges here were all F-rank beasts, just with higher difficulty. Random challenges started at 7 or 8 beasts, even reaching double digits. Because they were all first-realm and above martial artists. Though they'd just eaten, most were now resting.

"Turn off the big screen." Zheng Changhong glanced at staff member Xiao Bai.

"Conduct a closed holographic challenge."

"Understood." A moment later, everything was ready. In the observation room, there were only two people: Zheng Changhong and Zhou Dahai. Even staff member Xiao Bai wasn't present.

"No need to be this cautious..." Zhou Dahai more or less understood Zheng Changhong's intent.

"Wang Xian couldn't possibly succeed. Just treat it as a tempering experience." He knew Zheng Changhong feared what would happen if Wang Xian actually succeeded. If anyone else saw it, and the news spread, other clubs would learn of it and immediately rush over with better terms to poach him. There was a real chance Wang Xian wouldn't sign with the Heavenly Blade Club after all. As the club's vice minister, one had to maintain a certain commercial vigilance.

"It's just habit..." Zheng Changhong shook his head helplessly, then looked toward Wang Xian in the holographic simulation chamber. Waiting for him to finish preparing. Inside the simulation chamber, Wang Xian gave a slight nod. The next second, the surrounding light shifted in an instant. The battlefield was a forest, because this was the terrain saber-toothed wolves frequented. In the dim forest, ten gazes instantly converged on him from ten different directions.

The sound of rushing attacks tearing through the air mixed with wolf howls echoing through the forest, deeply unsettling to the heart. Two saber-toothed wolves suddenly leaped out from the forest. Wang Xian didn't draw his blade. He merely sidestepped with casual ease. The next second, three more wolves charged at him. These saber-toothed wolves were massive in size, yet their charging speed was remarkably nimble. Their body structure completely defied normal beast physiology.

Only an AI that had collected countless data points could present them in model form. With one swipe of their claws, the claw marks could tear through towering trees over ten meters away through the air. Yet Wang Xian did not attack, only dodged. One, two, three... In the observation room, Zhou Dahai and Zheng Changhong watched intently.

"Using footwork, you can indeed evade one, two, three for a short while..."

"But these saber-toothed wolves are intelligent models with real beast behavioral logic..."

"If this continues, sooner or later they'll swarm all at once, leaving you no room to dodge..." That was the most terrifying part, and the most unsolvable. Beasts weren't stupid. F-rank beasts might not have high intelligence, but their combat IQ was extremely high. Just as expected. Before long, after being evaded multiple times, the ten saber-toothed wolves let out a unified roar. The next second, from above, below, left, right, front, back, from every position, they charged at Wang Xian in perfect unison.

Completely sealing off all of Wang Xian's evasion space.

"Unless he has third-stage Cunjin-level footwork..."

"But Cunjin-level footwork requires at least 100 life force to execute..." Otherwise, simultaneously evading this many saber-toothed wolf attacks was impossible. The two men watched, their breathing slowing. Until the ten wolf silhouettes were no more than ten paces from Wang Xian. At this distance, for a saber-toothed wolf, all it took was one pounce.

"He's about to fail!" The next second, they saw Wang Xian instantly draw his blade and leap up sharply, turning into an afterimage. In that instant, blade shadows filled the sky. Mighty blade waves, like a tsunami, built momentum from every position.

"Overlord Blade Intent, Surging Waves Shake the World!" Four consecutive blade strikes, without the slightest interval, layered and surged like ocean waves. In the blink of an eye, blade waves several zhang high rose up, submerging everything around. At the same time, blade force like an abyss and mountain poured forth. Like an overlord wielding his blade, under the tsunami-like blade wave's empowerment, the force bound like ropes.

In an instant, the ten charging, leaping saber-toothed wolves froze mid-motion, and even in their bloodthirsty, frenzied eyes, a trace of fear appeared. BANG BANG BANG! The ten saber-toothed wolves, no more than ten paces from Wang Xian, were all instantly swallowed beneath the mighty blade waves. Wang Xian slowly descended, sheathed his blade, and walked out of the room. After enraging them, he had gathered all the saber-toothed wolves and ended it in one decisive strike.

That was the optimal solution to this challenge.

"That was... Overlord Blade Intent..." At this moment, the two in the observation room were already watching in complete stupefaction. ➤ Next: Wang Xian: Gave It His All, Barely Triumphed