Translator: ryuxenji Editor: H2dH2mr
"Shut up." How could Qiao Ting understand Ling Lan's meaning? He was thoroughly enraged by these seemingly contemptuous words. Pointing his beam saber angrily at Ling Lan, he laughed in spite of his anger and said, "Hahaha … if you want me to die, just your Lingtian is not qualified."
"Not qualified?" Ling Lan did not care if she was being looked down upon, but she would not allow her companions and teammates to be looked down upon. Hearing Qiao Ting's words, she could not help but sneer. She slowly drew out the weapon on her back, and just like that, a sword-shaped cold weapon even heavier and larger than Zilong's appeared before everyone's eyes.
Holding the sword with one hand, Ling Lan swung the large sword in her hand effortlessly. With that one swing, a strong gust of wind actually appeared out of thin air. This scene caused the spectating cadets to be stunned, and it also caused Qiao Ting's gaze to narrow abruptly, his expression turning even colder.
Ling Lan gripped this large cold weapon, her expression indifferent. She said slowly, "Who exactly is not qualified? Let's see who's better. "
"Just what I wanted." Qiao Ting gripped the beam saber in his hand tightly, replying coldly. For his dreams, for his ambitions, he absolutely could not lose here.
After saying this, Qiao Ting and Ling Lan faced off against each other from a distance. Neither of them moved, hanging in mid-air like two statues.
The spectating cadets all knew that the two of them were looking for an opening in the other's defense. As long as they found an opening, the great battle would begin …
5 seconds, 10 seconds, 30 seconds, 1 minute, 3 minutes, 5 minutes … time passed bit by bit, but the two of them still did not move. Just as everyone was about to lose their patience, the two of them finally moved.
Almost at the same time, the two mecha leapt towards each other. Perhaps they were extremely well-prepared, for their speed was like two streaks of light, suddenly intersecting and then suddenly separating. The spectating cadets actually did not manage to see the two's movements clearly. They only saw a cold light and a white light reflecting off each other, and then instantly disappearing … by the time they could see the two mecha clearly, the two of them had already crossed each other, swapping positions.
The only change was that from their initial confrontation, they were now back to back. The two mecha still maintained their attacking postures, each holding a weapon …
"Is it a draw?" The spectators couldn't understand what was going on. They all asked the people around them what the result of that exchange was. Unfortunately, the people around him didn't see it clearly either. They were confused and couldn't find the real answer.
"Ah, it's moving!" Someone shouted, drawing everyone's attention back to the battlefield.
Ling Lan slowly placed the giant sword in her hand back into the slot on the back of the mecha. With a click, the giant sword officially returned to its original position.
Following this sound, Qiao Ting's mecha, which had been suspended motionless in the air, suddenly split apart … only then did everyone see clearly that Qiao Ting's mecha had actually been forcefully split apart, and at the same time, Qiao Ting's cockpit had also been split apart.
It turned out that when the two mecha had been attacking each other and brushing past each other, Ling Lan had immediately split open Qiao Ting's mecha and its cockpit to defeat Qiao Ting, not giving Qiao Ting any chance to retaliate at all.
"Thunder King Qiao Ting is nothing more than this!" Ling Lan turned her head to look calmly at Qiao Ting's mecha, which had split apart and fallen to the ground, and threw down these words coldly.
Everyone remembered this scene. A black mecha hung in the air with its back facing everyone. The head of the mecha was slightly turned, and the eyes of the mecha were flashing with a blue light. It was as if it was looking down on everyone, announcing the arrival of a new king.
"Beep!" All the spectating students received the mainframe's notification, officially announcing the result of this battle. The number of people remaining in Leiting had dropped from 1 to 0.
The entire arena exploded. This fact made the entire academy go crazy — that number one person of the academy, the only ace operator, Qiao Ting, had really been defeated. And the one who had defeated him was actually a freshman who had just entered the second year.
The mainframe quickly announced that the Lingtian Mecha Clan had obtained victory in this match. When the members of the Lingtian Mecha Clan saw this result, they all jumped up in excitement, some of them even shedding tears. Before the great battle, no one had thought that they would really be able to win. The only reason they had not been willing to withdraw was because they did not want to submit to the old faction. Just like back at the Scout Academy, they would rather start a grand armed melee than submit to the 10th years.
"Your juniors performed very well …" In another viewing room, someone was saying to another person, "Too bad they've established a new mecha clan. If they had joined the Dwotong faction, the number one faction would have been within reach." They were Zhang Jing-an's group from the fourth faction of the academy, the Dwotong Mecha Clan.
Hearing this, Zhang Jing-an sneered and said, "Don't be delusional. That person Ling Lan is someone no one can subdue." Back then, he had wanted to subdue Qiao Ting, but had been beaten so badly by the other that he had been too ashamed to stay at the Doha Central Scout Academy, and could only come to the First Men's Military Academy with his tail between his legs. Now, the number one of the military academy, Qiao Ting, had wanted to subdue Qiao Ting, but had similarly been beaten to a pulp …
"Instant kill! Qiao Ting has lost a lot of face this time. " Recalling the past, Zhang Jing-an did indeed feel very embarrassed, but compared to the current Qiao Ting, he felt that his own incident was really nothing, and so his mood improved.
"Yeah, Qiao Ting has really failed miserably this time, throwing away all the glory and prestige he had painstakingly built up over the past four years." The person beside him agreed with his companion's words; his eyes did not hide his ambition at all. "Perhaps, this will be our chance …"
"Don't act rashly. Tianji and Wuji haven't even made a move yet, so our Dwotong shouldn't take the lead," warned Zhang Jing-an. Zhang Jing-an warned. He did not want to run into Ling Lan again. That fellow was really too unfathomable...
Unfortunately, the other did not seem to take Zhang Jing-an's words seriously. Seeing this, Zhang Jing-an's mouth could not help but twitch, but in the end, he held himself back and did not say anything to dissuade the other.
The reason Zhang Jing-an did not continue to dissuade the other was because he was about to apply for an army division, and had already officially stepped down as the regiment commander of the Dwotong Mecha Clan. The new regiment commander was not from the Doha Central Scout Academy, so he would not be clear about Ling Lan's background. Even if he told the other how powerful Ling Lan was, the other would not believe him. He might as well let the other personally experience Ling Lan's terror — that would be more convincing.
Everyone was excited about Lingtian's counterattack against Leiting, and they were especially envious and jealous of Lingtian's regiment commander Ling Lan … because he was the one who had unseated the undefeatable legend, and not only that, he had even killed Qiao Ting in a single blow. For all the cadets, this was an unattainable dream, but this dream had been achieved by Ling Lan.
"Is Lingtian's regiment commander really that strong?" The cadets all asked this question in their hearts. If he was not strong, how could he have killed the half-crippled Thunder King in a single second? Even if the Thunder King was half-crippled, he was still the Thunder King …
Right then, the VIP room was completely silent. Lingtian's successful counterattack made the faces of the administrators who had created this situation extremely ugly. If they had known this would happen, they would not have applied to the principal for some sort of open tournament. That way, they would still have been able to use their authority to declare this match null and void. Unfortunately, there was no turning back now.
After all, Qiao Ting's defeat had been before the eyes of all the cadets. The outcome could no longer be changed — their original plans had all fallen through. Not only that, Qiao Ting, whom they had painstakingly nurtured over the past four years, had lost all value because of this loss. What was even more worrying was that this loss had caused Leiting to lose their title as the number one faction, and three months later, the Federation would be holding the Mecha Wars of the Federation's military academies. If they really sent the Lingtian Mecha Clan who had won the title of number one faction by defeating Leiting, would the First Men's Military Academy become the bottom-ranked military academy, becoming the laughingstock of the entire Federation?
The administrators were burning with anxiety at the thought of this. They quickly gathered together again to discuss how to solve this problem. In the end, they decided to let the top three factions of Tianji and Wuji take turns to challenge the Lingtian Mecha Clan in these three months, striving to drag the Lingtian Mecha Clan down from their perch.
This battle had almost completely exposed the strength of the Lingtian Mecha Clan. If Qiao Ting had not been so overconfident and had sent a few more special-class operators, perhaps the outcome would have been different … at this thought, the administrators of the military academy were extremely vexed, becoming displeased with Qiao Ting's overconfident arrogance.
The only two who did not participate in this discussion were Tang Yu and the principal. At this moment, they were still in shock. Because at the last moment, they had discovered a secret. In that final battle between Ling Lan and Qiao Ting, everyone had been deceived by the outer appearance of Ling Lan's mecha. They had thought that Qiao Ting's mecha had been too damaged, which was why he had been insta-killed by Ling Lan operating a special-class mecha.
However, none of this could fool the two sharp-eyed people. The two of them exchanged a look, exchanging a look that only the two of them could understand. Everything that Ling Lan had displayed in insta-killing Qiao Ting proved that the mecha she was operating was not something a special-class mecha could match, whether in terms of explosive power or power.
A special-class mecha and an ace mecha seemed to be only one level apart, but in reality, the difference in the performance of the various abilities of the mecha was like heaven and earth. Honestly, no matter how damaged an ace mecha was, it was still not something a special-class mecha could insta-kill. If an ace mecha could be so easily defeated, it would not have become the king of the battlefield.
To be able to insta-kill an ace mecha, only another ace mecha could possibly do so. There was no doubt that the mecha operated by Ling Lan No.1 was definitely not some special-class mecha, but a true ace mecha.
The principal and Tang Yu had both discovered Ling Lan's secret, but they both chose to remain silent. They both knew the story of how the tallest tree in the forest would be destroyed by the wind. In order to protect this prodigy, they needed to bury this truth deep in their hearts.
"Tang Yu, I'll leave that brat Ling Lan to you," the principal said to Tang Yu seriously. The principal said sternly to Tang Yu. In the military academy, the only person he could be completely at ease with was Tang Yu.
Tang Yu nodded seriously and replied, "Understood, principal. I will definitely protect him well." Advancing to ace operator in his second year — Tang Yu knew very well that once this news got out, another enemy nation air raid would not be impossible. The Federation's mortal enemies would definitely not allow another Ling Xiao to appear in the Federation.
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