adbindia Chapter 70 : Astonishing the Entire Audience! The Value of the Thunder Lizard!
Chapter 70 : Astonishing the Entire Audience! The Value of the Thunder Lizard!
Chapter 70: Astonishing the Entire Audience! The Value of the Thunder Lizard!
No one had expected such an outcome.
After several seconds, Anthony finally came back to his senses. “He… actually killed a Level 3 Thunder Lizard.”
Even the usually composed Anthony stuttered for once.
One had to know, their original plan had been to scare these Knight’s Squires a little, and then let Ross finish off the Thunder Lizard at the end.
To ensure safety, Lady Manta had administered a hallucinogenic potion, and Ross had even removed its eyes in advance.
But even so, a Level 3 Thunder Lizard—renowned for its defensive power—was absolutely not something a Knight’s Squire could handle.
Even a Quasi-Knight, fighting alone, would have no chance of victory.
Just breaking through its scale armor was already extremely difficult, let alone splitting open its steel-like skull.
This was no longer merely a question of courage.
Because even under the effects of the hallucinogenic potion, the Thunder Lizard would still instinctively counterattack and evade.
Yet just now, Leo had killed it as casually as slaughtering a chicken.
Clearly, the key lay in that arrow just now.
“That kid used the sedative potion I gave him.” Lady Manta saw through it.
Last time, when she had Leo clean manure, she had given him a bottle of sedative potion.
He had kept a bit of the residue at the bottom of the bottle.
“So, he first used an arrow to apply the sedative, then made his move.” Anthony stroked his chin, a trace of admiration appearing on his face.
“That kid has been taking care of those Beastkin in the dungeon all this time, which is why he could do this,” Clarsen seemed to find an explanation.
“Then look at the students you taught—who among them even dared to get within ten meters of that beast? Look! A few of them nearly ran out of the castle.” Eve Sova’s students had outperformed Clarsen’s, and she appeared somewhat smug.
Clarsen, rebutted by Eve, pressed his lips together tightly and said no more.
Among the students he had taught, aside from that reckless and headstrong Fidis,
no one had displayed any courage. Even Rog, whom he had previously valued, greatly disappointed him.
“Eve, that move he used just now—it was your sword technique, Stacked Waves, right?” Ross now looked at Eve, who was wearing a proud expression.
Eve seemed to recall something and nodded. “Mm.”
But in the next moment, as if she had realized something, her eyes suddenly widened.
“When did he learn that move!?” Eve clearly remembered that she had only taught him this technique not long ago.
After that, she had been busy with her own training and had barely seen Leo.
Yet after just a few days of not seeing him, he had actually… mastered it!
And not only that.
The Power of Stacked Waves, although extremely powerful, consumed a tremendous amount of stamina.
At her current limit, she could at most unleash five consecutive slashes.
But Leo just now had executed six strikes.
She replayed the scene in her mind and confirmed it again—yes, six strikes!
She looked at Leo. Although he was panting heavily, he was still able to stand.
In other words, his stamina had not been completely depleted. He might even be able to unleash a seventh strike.
“Damn it.” Eve felt somewhat dazed.
How should she describe her current feelings?
She was very happy that her student was a rare genius.
But when she thought that her student might soon surpass her, she found it somewhat hard to accept.
Laforin glanced at Eve, who was muttering to herself at the side, and finally spoke, “Alright, the assessment is over. Let’s hurry over.”
……
At this moment, the knights and Lady Manta stood before all the Knight’s Squires.
A deathly silence filled the scene.
The Knight’s Squires all lowered their heads, standing in formation.
They already knew what had just happened.
Clearly, in this special assessment, not a single one of them had performed satisfactorily.
At the front of the crowd, Laforin wore a stern expression.
On the other side, Lei did a kip-up, trying to liven the atmosphere.
“Hahaha, were you all scared by me?”
Lei pulled off the bloody half prosthetic limb from his shoulder, then drew out the arm hidden inside his clothes.
He was very satisfied with his acting tonight.
“I am very dissatisfied with your performance. To put it bluntly, you are bringing shame upon the word ‘knight.’” Laforin looked at the Knight’s Squires before him, speaking bluntly without holding back.
He had already identified their weakness—courage.
During the previous Beast Calamity, this weakness had been completely exposed.
Born into privilege, once they encountered danger, they were even more afraid of death than ordinary commoners.
No matter how they trained normally, when danger arrived, the instinctive fear would still shatter their psychological defenses.
Even if they originally had ten parts of strength, once terrified, they could not even display one.
Even among the noble faction within the Quasi-Knights, this situation existed.
In contrast, those from the battlefield faction were much better.
However, the battlefield faction had its own problems. Most of them had fought their way up from the bottom.
Without formal education since childhood, they had always followed the law of survival of the fittest. Military merit and resources had to be earned through risking their lives.
This gave them more ferocity than the noble faction, but without external restraint, that ferocity could be infinitely amplified, even pushing them toward another extreme.
Realizing all this, Laforin had already begun considering change. His voice deepened as he continued his lecture:
“As knights, we will inevitably face all kinds of dangers, but often we do not have the right to retreat.
Just like tonight—when encountering a beast we cannot defeat, we can think of ways to delay it, lure it away, or even seek help.
But tonight, none of you did any of that. You didn’t even try to think of a solution. I am very disappointed.”
The Knight’s Squires all lowered their heads, not daring to breathe loudly under Laforin’s reprimand.
Meanwhile, Leo leaned back on a reclining chair, surrounded by Ross, Eve, and Lady Manta, looking somewhat uneasy.
Ross admired Leo’s well-built muscles—his performance just now had been truly exhilarating.
Eve looked at Leo, still pondering the matter of the Tide Cross Sword.
Lady Manta personally checked his body. “Leo, you’re fine—just muscle fatigue. This activation potion will help you recover.”
She handed Leo a bottle of potion somewhat resembling medicinal oil.
Being stared at by three women at once made Leo rather uncomfortable.
He pretended to gaze at the moon while his mind began to wander.
On his panel:
【Hunting Level 2 95/100 (Insight into prey weaknesses, obtain information on hunted species) (Special Effect: Hunting Moment Level 1)】
Just now, Leo had noticed that when he killed that Level 3 Beastkin, the numbers on his panel had surged wildly.
A single Level 3 Beastkin had given him over ninety points of experience.
It had nearly raised him an entire level.
He was now only five experience points away from advancing to Level 3 【Hunting】.
Moreover, his panel now displayed information about the Thunder Lizard.
【Thunder Lizard: A sub-draconic species, inhabiting the thunderstorm regions of the Thunder Mountain Range. Its body is covered with silicified scales, granting powerful defense. Its eyes can store and release lightning-element energy. It has a violent temperament and extremely strong aggression.
Traits: Hard bones, silicified scale armor, powerful sense of smell, releases electric currents through its eyes causing intense paralysis damage
Weaknesses: Slow turning speed, blind spots at the sides, irritable temperament】
What attracted Leo the most was the final section below—
【Special Value】