The S-Class’s Wrath

A green ocean formed by various mutated plants, boundless and endless, continuously surged down the slope.

Almost in the blink of an eye, over sixty Specials were engulfed in this green sea.

Now, whether willing or not, everyone was forced into this war!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

On the left flank of the battlefield, explosions erupted one after another.

Jiao Le, wearing black physical training clothes, fought barehanded against the mutated plants around him.

He had no weapons.

Or rather, his fists and feet—his very body—were the greatest weapon.

His ability [Explosion] allowed him to generate extremely powerful explosions anywhere on his body.

As Jiao Le punched out, his fist made contact with a mutated bramble’s face. A violent explosion occurred at the point of contact.

With a loud bang, the mutated bramble was blasted with a huge gap.

Then Jiao Le ripped it apart with sheer force.

Of course, Jiao Le wasn’t the only one performing brilliantly on the battlefield.

In this combined team of over sixty Specials, gathered from two major institutions, there were four A-ranks alone.

Besides Jiao Le, there were three others from the Special Higher Academy, all now exerting their strength.

In the center of the battlefield, Ge Haocang let out a furious roar. His body suddenly expanded to three meters tall.

His standard military uniform was instantly torn apart into strips, leaving only his specially made super-elastic underwear.

[Giant Form]

This ability allowed him to multiply his body size while greatly enhancing his strength and physical constitution.

Like a small giant, he looked down on the battlefield.

His large, fan-like hands swung left and right, instantly sending nearby mutated plants flying.

For a time, he overshadowed everyone on the battlefield.

Even Huang Xiu, who was secretly controlling the plant army, had to allocate more forces to deal with him.

On the other side.

A black-haired short-haired girl, holding a skyward halberd, swept across the battlefield wantonly.

This halberd seemed quite heavy, but in the girl’s hands, it was wielded with ease.

At the same time, if one observed closely, they would notice the halberd’s length was not fixed; sometimes it extended three or four meters, other times it was less than two.

This was Qiao Ruoruo’s ability [Myriad Weapon Transformation], allowing her to arbitrarily change the weapon in her hand based on her understanding.

As a member of an ancient martial arts family, she had a unique advantage in using this ability.

That was why she had made a name for herself in the retest.

The last A-rank on the battlefield was a boy holding two knives; he was the one who had initially caught the grass.

He wielded twin daggers, his speed extremely fast, almost ghostly, flickering across the battlefield.

With each flash of blade light, a mutated plant would fall.

[Swift Steed], Rong Zhi’s ability, allowed him to convert his strength into speed.

The giant hammered left and right, the halberd traced agile circles, and the ghostly figure flickered continuously.

The three A-ranks rampaged across the battlefield, with few mutated plants able to restrain them.

After all, for A-rank Specials, the individual strength of these mutated plants was still too low.

Only their numbers posed a slight threat.

Now, combined with the joint attacks of nearby B-ranks and other Specials, every second saw mutated plants falling.

The green ocean was visibly drying up.

“Is S-rank just this?”

Seeing the mutated plant army on the verge of collapse, many couldn’t help but think this.

Soon, some secretly laughed.

Perhaps S-rank really was only at that level.

Another girl.

They had over sixty people on their side!

Even if each threw one punch, they could give S-rank a swollen head!

Haha! I thought S-rank was so strong! Everyone charge! Today, I’ll give S-rank a good punch and see how sweet her cries are!

Xiang Shan, a B-rank Special from the Special Higher Academy, laughed as he charged up the slope.

Before awakening, he had already been quite arrogant; after awakening, he became even more belligerent.

Earlier, his companion had choked him up, which had already made him quite unhappy.

Now that S-rank seemed to be showing signs of decline, he couldn’t wait to lead the charge and claim the glory.

He swung his large knife, and wherever he passed, not a single blade of grass remained. He easily broke through the siege of the mutated plant army.

S-rank, where are you? I’m coming for you!

Stepping onto the steep plain slope, resting his knife on his shoulder, Xiang Shan laughed as he gazed into the distance, searching for S-rank’s trace.

But on the flat land, he saw no trace of the beautiful girl he had been thinking about.

Instead, another dozen or so people were charging forward with a new batch of mutated plants.

Among these dozen were both men and women, led by another short-haired girl, but not Huang Xiu.

She wielded a large knife, full of excitement.

“Charge! Follow me!” Wang Xiaotao shouted, a white light flashing in her eyes.

Electric arcs appeared on her body surface, crackling, and then her speed increased by a notch, taking the lead.

Her ability was similar to Li Xiushi’s.

But the difference was that she could only store electricity for her own use, not generate it.

However, she had stronger control over electricity.

“Electricity Storage” was the name she gave her ability.

“Good, good! Can’t find S-rank? Then I’ll make do with you!”

Xiang Shan ignored everything and charged forward with his knife.

But before they could make contact, a violent rumbling sound came from afar.

Boom!

The earth trembled and shook as if an earthquake had occurred.

Xiang Shan was momentarily stunned because he saw a black shadow ten meters tall behind the girl in the distance, bouncing toward him.

The huge tremor was the sound of that shadow landing!

Boom!

With another powerful leap, the poplar tree giant leaped over Wang Xiaotao and charged toward Xiang Shan.

Its body was different from ordinary tree giants.

Its arms were long, and its fists were as big as sandbags—no, as big as old man’s massagers!

Tree giant: Heavy Hammer Type!

“Your opponent is me!” the poplar tree giant said with a buzzing voice.

“What a joke! We’re not even in the same weight class!”

Though Xiang Shan was a bit of a coward, he wasn’t stupid.

If it were a normal-sized fight, he wouldn’t fear even an A-rank or S-rank with his ability.

But this was clearly not the same size!

Xiang Shan turned and ran back, but a 1.8-meter tall man’s legs could never match a ten-meter tree giant’s.

The giant easily caught up to Xiang Shan and then punched down with force.

A huge shadow fell from the sky, carrying a fierce wind that covered Xiang Shan, almost making him think it had turned dark.

His eyelashes fluttered in the wind.

Seeing no escape, Xiang Shan gritted his teeth, stopped, and gripped his knife with both hands.

With a furious roar, he slashed upward.

The knife met the fist, and with a creak, it sank three inches into the wood, but that was it.

After all, the fist was a full meter thick!

The fist and knife wrestled for a second, and Xiang Shan could no longer hold on.

With one punch, he fell to the ground.

As the fist approached, Xiang Shan’s eyes were filled with despair. He instinctively curled up on the ground, hugging his head.

Whoosh!

The fist stopped less than half a meter in front of Xiang Shan, the fierce wind bending the grass beside him.

He looked up in confusion, only to hear the tree giant say with a buzzing voice, “Wasn’t it you who wanted to beat me until I cried?”

This… was also S-rank’s creation?

Though he had anticipated it, Xiang Shan found it hard to accept the truth now that it was cruelly revealed.

Where had he gotten the courage to say those harsh words just now?!

“B-big shot, j-just kidding!” Xiang Shan’s lips trembled.

“Heh! I wouldn’t be so sure!”

Huang Xiu sneered, then controlled the tree giant to grab Xiang Shan and lift him.

“You won’t get a chance to hear how good my crying sounds, but today I can learn a thing or two about how good yours is!”

With that, the tree giant held Xiang Shan and began to swing him around like a windmill.

At that time, Wang Xiaotao, wielding her large knife, quickly ran to the tree giant’s side.

She looked at Xiang Shan, who had already been swung into a blur, his screams intermittent.

A cold sweat broke out in her heart.

“So pitiful. So the big shot holds grudges like this? Good thing I didn’t offend the S-rank boss!”

“You continue advancing; I’ll be right there!” the tree giant said, looking down at Wang Xiaotao.

She nodded and led a group of mutated plants to charge down the slope.

Zhong Zimei and the others followed closely.

Now, with the help of the A-ranks and everyone’s efforts, the foot of the slope had almost completely cleared the mutated plants.

Seeing new mutated plants surging down, they felt bitterness in their hearts.

Why are there more?!

And this time, there were huge tree giants and the expert team from Tiandu University.

It felt like… there was no hope of victory!

Many felt this pessimism, but they didn’t show it during the fight.

Undoubtedly, morale dropped instantly.

Jiao Le noticed this. Though their main combat power was the four A-ranks and other B-ranks, the cumulative contribution of the others was still significant.

Without them, they would have almost no hope of resisting S-rank and her team!

Jiao Le’s mind raced. He suddenly turned to look at Rong Zhi.

“Rong Zhi, you can’t stay here. Do what you need to do!”

Considering that S-rank could use her creations to observe the battlefield, he spoke in a roundabout way.

But Rong Zhi, who had discussed tactics with him, could undoubtedly understand.

What needed to be done… wasn’t that a decapitation strike?!

A sharp light flashed in Rong Zhi’s eyes. His role in this combined team had always been clear.

He was to use his strong close-combat ability to decapitate S-rank.

“Alright!” he nodded, and then white light appeared in his eyes, with a phantom of a white horse flashing on his legs.

[Steed] was instantly activated to its limit.

Whoosh!

A black shadow sped across the battlefield, instantly rushing out of this small battlefield and up the slope.

No one reacted in time, including the Tiandu team that had just come down the slope.

The shadow didn’t slow down. It merely passed by the tree giant, pausing slightly.

Then it followed the footprints left by Wang Xiaotao’s group, running in the opposite direction.

“Careful! Someone is coming for you!”

On the battlefield, Zhong Zimei shouted belatedly.

She had just converted her three-dimensional perception into speed to barely see the black shadow.

A few nearby mutated plants nodded upon hearing this.

Seeing this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and focused on fighting the two institutions on the battlefield.

Above the slope, the tree giant also released its grip.

The spun-out Xiang Shan, with tears and snot streaming, collapsed onto the ground as soon as he landed, vomiting heavily.

“Eliminate yourself. Don’t make things difficult for me!” Huang Xiu said, then controlled the tree giant to rush to the battlefield below.

Her own consciousness then detached from the tree giant and returned to her body.

“Someone wants to decapitate me? Interesting.”

A slight smile curled at the corner of Huang Xiu’s mouth. She gently pressed her right hand down.

The mutated poisonous flowers and other mutated plants hidden nearby silently lowered their presence.

The mutated pokeweed burrowed back into the ground, and the mutated oleander disguised itself as flowers in the forest…

“Xiu Xiu, I’ll protect you!”

From the shadows beside Huang Xiu came Wen Zhan’s voice.

She spoke seriously, with a firm attitude.

“Alright, then I’ll leave the protection to you, Ah Wen!” Huang Xiu smiled gently, then turned to look at the side of the forest.

“He’s here. He’s already entered the woods!”

This forest was small and the only one near the plain, which was why Rong Zhi had found her so quickly.

Huang Xiu took a step back. The mutated vines beside the tree wrapped her body inside.

A mutated succulent stepped out from the side.

Moments later, a silver light flashed, and a silver throwing knife was embedded in the head of the mutated succulent.

The knife mutated the succulent’s head.

It let out strange cries of “Ah, ah, ah!” and then collapsed to the ground.

“Aren’t you afraid you might have actually hit me?”

Seeing that the mutated succulent had fooled the other party, Huang Xiu came out holding her Senluo spear.

“Heh!”

A black shadow flickered, and the next second, Rong Zhi stood ten meters away from Huang Xiu in the open space.

“Do you think I’m blind? These greens, these fake ones without clothes—do you really think I’d fall for that?”

He felt a little insulted. With a flip of his hands, two daggers appeared in them.

“S-rank, you’re too confident!” Rong Zhi looked up. “You’re only ten meters away from me, yet you dare to face me directly.”

“Then why don’t you come at me?”

Huang Xiu smiled calmly, then shook her right hand, pointing the spear tip at Rong Zhi. “Come on!”

“Heh, you think I’m stupid?” Rong Zhi said irritably. “You must have a bunch of those green things waiting for me around you.”

“Indeed, I’m surrounded by them.” Huang Xiu didn’t deny it at all.

“It’s rare to find someone who fights with banter. It’s an interesting experience.”

She clapped her hands, and a group of mutated plants came out from beside her.

“So? Are you just going to stand here and watch while your teammates fall one by one?” Huang Xiu countered.

“Of course not…”

Before the words faded, a boy holding a dagger leaped out from a shadow behind Huang Xiu.

His eyes gleamed as he lunged at Huang Xiu.

At that moment, the short-haired girl holding the spear was looking at Rong Zhi, seemingly unaware.

“Got it!”

In that instant, both Rong Zhi and the boy who had leaped from the shadow couldn’t help but think.

There would definitely be many creations protecting Huang Xiu, so from the start, they had planned this.

Rong Zhi, who was very fast but lacked stealth abilities, would make a feint, while the other, who had stealth abilities, would take the opportunity to ambush.

A wolf in front and a sister behind? That was exactly the tactic to lure the enemy!