Chapter 577: Chapter 270: Thunderous Shocking Fist (2)

Another Gale Tiger King?!

And it was a male—clearly fiercer and stronger than the last one.

Eve’s pupils contracted, and panic welled in her heart. After what happened last time, they had been extremely careful during this training expedition. They hadn’t recklessly ventured deep into Area 15, staying only on the outskirts.

Who would have thought they would run into a Gale Tiger King here? Encountering one was already an incredibly unlucky, low-probability event, but now there were two?

’Is my luck really this bad? Do I not have what it takes to make a name for myself at the Hunting Competition?’

Eve gritted her teeth, but she could only react quickly, shouting a warning, "Fall back!"

Without a second thought, the students abandoned their opponents and began to retreat.

But of course, the Gale Tiger King wasn’t about to let the humans who had harmed its cub get away so easily. With a furious roar, it charged toward the students.

Eve had anticipated this. She thrust her sword, striking its flank with pinpoint accuracy.

The sharp sword tip sank into the Gale Tiger King’s fur, and a hint of crimson appeared, but that was as far as it went. It failed to penetrate any deeper.

Eve’s expression changed. She quickly pulled back, but as a Demon known for its speed, the Gale Tiger’s counterattack was just as fast. It swatted its paw down on her rapier.

Although the blow didn’t hit her body, the force of the impact struck her like a heavy blow, sending her flying backward. The sword was nearly knocked from her grasp.

’So powerful!’

Her expression grave, she stared at the Demon before her. It was on a completely different level from the Gale Tiger King she had just been fighting.

A fine sheen of sweat broke out on Eve’s forehead. ’This Gale Tiger King... it has to be Level 11, a Middle Lord Level Demon!’

’This is trouble.’

Eve’s brow furrowed. She gripped her sword tightly with a trembling, numb arm.

She was a genius, true—at Level 9, she could handle a Level 10 Demon. But the gap between Level 10 and Level 11 was an enormous chasm. No matter how much of a genius one was, not even someone at Teacher Flora’s level could possibly bridge it.

’Unless...’

’Unless it was *that* boy.’

An image of a figure flashed through her mind. They hadn’t spent much time together, and several days had already passed, yet his face was still seared into her memory, perfectly clear.

The shock he had given her was simply too immense.

Eve had always scoffed at the stories told by Minstrels, which she saw as nothing more than far-fetched fabrications. She thought anyone who believed them was naive and delusional.

Then someone like that appeared in reality—someone even more exaggerated than the heroes depicted in the stories!

Like most geniuses, Eve was an incredibly proud person. She never thought she would lose to anyone. Even against geniuses like Teacher Flora, or the top talents of the Empire, she felt that with equal resources, she stood a chance of matching or even surpassing them.

But Lin Mo was different. That boy, who looked so friendly and harmless, like a good-natured pushover—he didn’t have a single shred of a genius’s typical arrogance. Yet he displayed a terrifying talent that would make Eve, and every other genius she could conceive of, feel utterly inadequate.

These stray thoughts lasted only for an instant, because the Gale Tiger King before her quickly launched another attack.

The ferocious momentum of the charge made Eve’s blood run cold for a second, but she quickly gritted her teeth and pulled herself together. Focusing with all her might, she watched its form, finally discerning its movements within the blur of its afterimage. She dodged the strike at an incredibly perilous angle.

Her own speed, of course, was slower than her opponent’s.

The only reason she could dodge the blow was entirely due to her innately superior vision, combined with a precise judgment and calculation of both her own speed and her opponent’s, allowing her to predict its trajectory in advance.

And all of this was accomplished in the brief instant it took for her to see its movement.

It had to be said—she truly was a genius.

Even the spectating Lin Mo and Shaya were surprised.

The Gale Tiger King was even more stunned, having never expected its opponent to dodge the attack. Caught off guard, its rhythm was broken for a moment, and Eve seized the opportunity to counterattack, stabbing its body once more.

However, in her haste, Eve didn’t have time to use any powerful Skills, so the damage she inflicted was very limited.

The lightning-fast moment passed. Eve came down from that mysterious, adrenaline-fueled state, and her brain finally registered that there wasn’t just one Gale Tiger King on the field.

But the other one—the one she had been fighting earlier—was nowhere to be seen. ’Could it be, the other students...’

She anxiously looked in the direction the students had retreated, only to find the Gale Tiger King she had been battling for so long was now lying on the ground. Its body was still twitching, but it was silent and still.

And a familiar figure was standing on its back, watching her with great interest.

’It’s him...’

Eve never would have imagined that the boy who had just flashed through her mind would suddenly appear right before her eyes in the next instant.

She spun around quickly, blocking the enraged Gale Tiger King’s counter-lunge with her rapier. Her body flew back like a kite with a snapped string, landing right beside Lin Mo.

"Thanks..."

She steadied her breathing and managed to force out a word of thanks, then looked up again at the opponent before her.

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