Chapter 41: A Super Mage

"Haha... Of course someone as talented as me had to break through at some point"

Cao Guang felt like he had eaten a pile of sh*t after Fei Jiao's shameless reply. It seemed more than one good thing had happened to the man.

"It seems more than one good thing has happened?" 

"You have a good eye, naturally my primary is Fire. I had already unlocked the bottleneck it had from Advanced to the Super level but my Secondary is Wind. After witnessing your demonstration with the Incendiary Fire technique, I loosened the bottleneck of the Wind Galaxy and broke through it as well.

My Quartenary element is Space, so why wouldn't I be happy".

"And I thought I had a great year" Cao Guang sighed.

"Enough trash talk, on to important business. Since military had extra manpower they want to undertake an expedition I'll be in charge of this one. But before that one more thing".

Trash talk, you disappearing for a year and return as a two element Super Mage is trash talk! You even awakened the Space element. Everyone knows the Super level is the easiest level to develop the Space element. Any other level and you have spend countless hours to improve you control and mental strength. In the Super level you already have a pretty high Mental Strength. Besides you awakened after you broke through in one element.

Maybe that was eleven months ago, it should already be at the Advanced level right? With two Super elements of Wind and Fire, one peak Advanced element and an advanced Space element your combat prowess is miles above last year.

Additional manpower? Stop fibbing, you are just talking about yourself aren't you. Military didn't have that much growth in manpower. They probably didn't expect you to break through that easily did they?. And now they want you handle a task so that your services aren't being wasted. I read you loud and clear Combat Instructor.

Cao Guang finished his internal monologue and focused on Fei Jiao's words.

"Great job on figuring out Ash Garlic, many mages would have missed that detail. Now the military can travel at night through the battlefield as long they don't provoke Great commanders or above. Yeah Ash Garlic doesn't work at that level, we checked 

Either way you will be promoted to Lieutenant early next year. Your friends have also been nominated for the military competition couple of years later."

 I went away to break through in peace. My gut was right this kid is trouble. He has as many elements as me, I am a f*****g Super Mage, a Super MAGE! , Then he goes building an Incendiary Fire and now Ash Garlic. He cannot wait to become part of the HQ Command can he, liitle prick.

Fei Jiao finished his monologue before moving on 

" You do know the military competition will allow you guys to participate in the World College tournament. Are you familiar with the rules?" Fei Jiao asked him.

"Basically a competition for young mages and their factions. Only national colleges and militaries. Age limit of 25 and No tamed beasts, usually no Hunters. Other than that rules vary from year to year".

"Correct, but there is something more at play here. You know how there are international organisations among mages right like the Magic Associations, Shoreline alliance and so on.

This is also a way for them to distribute the resource for the next year. Of course not all resources just the disputed ones. Don't underestimate the amount at play just because I said disputed resources. The money could add up to few trillion yuan in total for every country in top thirty two.

Yes the thirty two qualifying countries each get a share, but how much of it we get depends on the final ranking. We haven't won first in quite some time. We are hoping to end that streak the next time. Mind you one such tournament is happening right now, but we have been eliminated yesterday. You missed it because you guys were out.

Like I said, we are hoping to win or atleast go deep into the competition next time. A senior in the army is ver optimistic about you, so you are already a partially seeded candidate. Seeded Candidate are sure to make the team or the substitutes for sure. One would need four important votes to reach that.

The military is an exception, we have a competition and one representative for the North and South each is to be elected."