The instant casting of a Mid-level battle skill—shouldn’t that only be possible in the teenage division?
Moreover, it was something only the cream of the crop among those teenagers could potentially master.
A 10-year-old girl instantly casting a sword light to kill her opponent in a single blow truly shocked the family high-ranking officials and guests sitting on the high platform.
Instant casting?
When did Lu Mo manage to do that?
‘How did I not know?’
The Master of the Kalis Family felt his head buzzing at this moment.
Lu Mo had never mentioned this to him.
“And judging by the aura of the realm Lady Lu Mo just unleashed, she has reached at least the middle-stage of the Mid-level,” a guest remarked.
Mid-level, middle-stage—even among peers who had awakened Holy Power, this was absolutely at the forefront.
What was more, Lu Mo had not awakened even a shred of Holy Power talent back then.
“A genius.”
After many years, a high-ranking member of the Kalis Family uttered those two words again.
These two words had accompanied Lu Mo for many years, right up until the year she turned seven, before she participated in the God-given ceremony.
Until today, as Lu Mo killed an opponent who had awakened Holy Power with a single strike, those two words were raised once more.
“It is a pity… she is a genius who hasn’t awakened Holy Power,” someone else lamented.
With such talent, if she had even the most ordinary Holy Power, forget becoming a Hero; it would have been entirely possible for her to become an Executor of the Holy Sanctuary or a Holy Dragon Knight.
“Therefore, Lady Lu Mo’s participation in this competition was not an act of impulse. She is fully qualified. With the strength of the middle-stage Mid-level and the mastery of instant-casting battle skills, if she works hard, there is a high probability she will enter the top ten.”
The guest from the Holy Sanctuary gave his judgment. “Going further might be difficult, as the realms of those individuals are not inferior to Lady Lu Mo’s. Furthermore, they have all mastered Mid-level battle skills with Holy Power attributes. In terms of power, those battle skills are not at all weaker than High-level battle skills of normal attributes.”
Because she lacked Holy Power talent, Lu Mo remained a genius only within the mortal realm.
Meanwhile, the others had already stepped into the holy realm.
Whether in the eyes of the family high-ranking officials or the guests from the Holy Sanctuary, Holy Power was not something that could be caught up to through mortal talent and effort.
In the end, this would be the gap between the mortal and the holy.
It was like an eternal chasm that could never be crossed.
But at this moment, the audience below didn’t think that far ahead.
They still hadn’t recovered from the previous shock.
They had originally thought that Chelsy was lucky to have the chance to give Lu Mo a good thrashing.
The result?
Chelsy really was “lucky”—he was sent flying directly into a corner and knocked unconscious.
They did not think highly of this bad child, this “madwoman” below the stage.
They were also unwilling to admit the fact that a possessor of Holy Power could be defeated by an ordinary girl.
Therefore, even when the referee announced Lu Mo’s victory, few people were willing to cheer.
But Lu Mo didn’t care about any of that.
She sheathed her sword and prepared to leave.
Just then, she heard a faint shout.
“Lady Lu Mo is the best!”
When she looked up, she saw the girl with long golden hair standing by the railing in the Helovit Family’s guest area, cupping her hands like a megaphone and shouting toward her.
The girl’s face was flushed red, and the stray hair on her head vaguely bent into the shape of a heart.
Lu Mo smiled at Cecilia.
Cecilia froze for a moment, then quickly revealed a shy and joyful smile.
She looked a bit silly, yet indescribably cute.
After that, Lu Mo left the arena.
As they watched the unconscious Chelsy being carried away, the boys and girls who had originally wanted to take revenge on Lu Mo felt their hearts tremble.
Three years later, that terror and dread once again began to spread in the depths of their hearts.
The nightmare of their childhood… had returned.
***
The matches continued.
In the subsequent battles of the lower-age division, everyone’s eyes were almost entirely focused on Lu Mo.
The girl was cold and quiet, exquisitely beautiful and ethereal.
Yet, when she lowered her sword, she made her opponents feel fear, making them lose the will to compete.
The second match.
The opponent excelled in speed. At the very beginning, they erupted with Holy Power and slashed toward Lu Mo.
However, Lu Mo was faster.
The opponent didn’t even touch the corner of her clothes before being struck down by her sword and eliminated immediately.
Although she hadn’t awakened Holy Power, Lu Mo had achieved perfection in combat techniques, speed, and judgment.
Even the observing teenagers felt inferior.
The third match.
Lu Mo faced a boy wielding a greatsword.
The opponent had a burly build; even at 10 years old, he was nearly 1.8 meters tall.
He was once considered a candidate who would enter the top three in this competition.
The opponent’s defense and attack power were both formidable. Under the protection of Holy Power, he actually endured one of Lu Mo’s Mid-level battle skills without falling.
Seeing Lu Mo striking again, he actually chose to clash swords directly with her!
The greatsword flowing with Holy Power and the longsword erupting with Battle Qi collided.
Energy rampaged, and the surrounding air let out the sound of explosions.
“You’re going to lose,” the opponent said, further swinging his greatsword.
At this moment, Lu Mo finally understood why the Holy Sanctuary always emphasized the power of Holy Power.
The suppression of the Holy Power before her against her high-grade Battle Qi attribute was far greater than it had been back then.
The attribute energy flowing in the air actually retreated at this moment.
While the Holy Power granted his greatsword’s Mid-level battle skill the power of a High-level one, it was also dismantling her strength step by step.
The Battle Qi on her longsword was slowly dissolving.
‘Is this… the limit of the mortal realm?’ a high-ranking Kalis Family member remarked on the platform.
But facing the slowly descending greatsword, Lu Mo did not dodge, nor did she fear.
She only slowly raised her left hand.
Her spatial ring flashed, and a second sword appeared in her hand.
“That’s—”
“A second sword?”
“Could it be that, under these circumstances, she still has the mental capacity to use a second sword?!”
Some were confused, some were skeptical, and some exclaimed in shock.
The boy was equally confused.
But when he looked at Lu Mo again, he was suddenly dazed.
He saw the girl’s eyes.
Clear, cold, and carrying an incomparable chill.
It was like the cold wind blowing during the Lindong season, as if it could freeze the entire world!
In the next moment, the girl’s wind attribute power and will erupted together.
Invisibly, Lu Mo’s will actually broke through the suppression of the Holy Power.
the wind attribute power that had previously retreated now madly gathered toward her other sword.
Complex patterns were etched into the air.
A terrifying aura of energy erupted, instantly surpassing the Initial-level and jumping to the Mid-level.
Then… it climbed toward the High-level!
Lu Mo’s realm aura became clearer and clearer.
“Mid-level High-stage!”
On the high platform, someone suddenly stood up, staring fixedly at Lu Mo’s back with a face full of disbelief. “And the aura of that battle skill—”
There was no doubt about it; that was a High-level battle skill!
The gale completely submitted to Lu Mo at this moment, transforming into a violent, savage blade.
The moment he sensed the savage blade, the opponent’s expression instantly changed.
He felt a very clear sense of life-and-death crisis.
If he took this sword strike directly, he would be severely injured even with the protection of Holy Power and the arena’s formations.
‘Are you… are you a monster?’
He really wanted to ask Lu Mo that.
But he no longer had the chance.
As the wind’s savage blade fell upon the greatsword, the power of the dual swords stacked and erupted. He felt that he could no longer control the greatsword in his hand.
*Bang!*
The Holy Power suddenly shattered, and the greatsword vibrated as it flew into the air.
At the same time, the webbing between his thumb and forefinger split, and blood flowed.
The last thing he saw was the gale and Battle Qi whistling toward him, swallowing him whole.
The burly boy’s figure finally collapsed in front of Lu Mo.
A contestant considered highly likely to enter the top three was easily defeated by Lu Mo just like that.
The eyes of the high-ranking officials were filled with shock.
And after the shock came a deep sense of regret.
Lu Mo won match after match.
The boys and girls who had originally clamored to give Lu Mo a “lesson” during the competition gradually stopped showing their faces.
Some who faced Lu Mo in later matches couldn’t even stand steadily; they fell to the ground on the spot, wailed loudly, and raised their hands to surrender.
After three years, the shadow Lu Mo left on them had not faded but had deepened instead.
At this moment, they were terrified of Lu Mo to the extreme.
A girl without Holy Power talent was continuously crushing opponents with powerful Holy Power talent.
This scene was simply too bizarre.
Most of the time, when Lu Mo won, the arena would fall into silence.
Only Cecilia would cheer for her after every match.
The girl jumped and shouted in the stands. Even if her voice alone was insignificant among the crowd and grew weaker in the wind, it was eventually heard by Lu Mo.
By the end, Cecilia’s voice had become somewhat hoarse from shouting.
“Actually, you don’t need to cheer every time I fight,” Lu Mo said to Cecilia inside the wooden house.
“No!” Cecilia replied with extreme determination. “If I don’t, then won’t there be no one to cheer for Lady Lu Mo? Other people get cheers when they win, so Lady Lu Mo must have them too!”
‘This sounds like “if other kids have it, Lu Mo also has to have it,”‘ Lu Mo thought. Seeing Cecilia’s childish yet serious expression, she smiled slightly.
She couldn’t help but tease Cecilia. “Then what if I lose a match in the end?”
However, the expected scene of Cecilia’s stray hair trembling and her eyes becoming flustered did not occur.
Cecilia just smiled sillily. “Cecilia thinks that Lady Lu Mo will keep winning forever.”
She never thought that Lu Mo would lose.
That girl was always omnipotent in her eyes.
She had taken her over the walls.
She had driven away all the bad people who bullied her.
She had taught her how to laugh and cry freely.
She had held her hand and run through the market with her, humming beautiful nursery rhymes.
That girl would never lose.
That girl would always be okay.
That girl would always hold her hand and lead her to farther places.
They would be together forever.