Chapter 161: The Most Miserable BOSS in History (Warmly celebrating Ignorant Confusion for becoming a Alliance Leader)

"Watch out!" Chen Mo's fire-lightning formed instantly in his palm, requiring no magic chanting time whatsoever.

Boom!

A bolt of fire-lightning shot from Chen Mo's palm, blasting directly into the giant boulder crashing down right above Moon Fox's head.

"Let's move!"

Chen Mo grabbed Moon Fox's hand, leaping continuously across the shattering fissures and anticipating the landing spots of falling rocks to evade them ahead of time.

Finally, the two of them reached a collapsed yet safe zone.

Moon Fox looked at Chen Mo as if seeing him for the first time, studying him earnestly. "Chen Mo, has your strength really grown this powerful?"

Chen Mo chuckled softly. "Just good luck, really. I managed to acquire two A-grade pieces of equipment in the PUBG instance, and I also awakened other elemental magics that can be fused together. Plus, my meditation during evening self-study every night has yielded quite a bit of progress."

Moon Fox looked deeply gratified. "This isn't just luck; it's the result of your own hard work. To see you make such progress makes me very happy as your instructor."

For Moon Fox, Chen Mo had always held a special kind of emotion. She exuded a maternal warmth and care that filled the void for Chen Mo, who had never experienced maternal love since childhood, making him feel a unique attachment toward her.

Moon Fox suddenly remembered something important and asked, "Chen Mo, have you been to the royal crypt?"

Chen Mo's brain worked at lightning speed. "Ah, yes, I have! When I got there, I found the students from the Normal University Affiliated High School attacking the Skeleton King boss, so I joined the battle too. Right when the Skeleton King was about to die, who would have thought their squad would suddenly turn on each other to snatch the loot, and they even tried to kill me? I was forced to kill two of them. Right at that moment, the Skeleton King suddenly went berserk, fusing with the Orb of Destruction, and its power skyrocketed, slaughtering all the students from the Affiliated High School. Realizing the situation was dire, I fled north, and the Skeleton King pursued me all the way. In that life-or-death moment, I gathered all my magic to release a Concentrated Blast, targeting the Orb of Destruction inside the Skeleton King's body. Who knew that Orb of Destruction was so fragile and blew up instantly!"

Blending half-truths with a hefty dose of exaggeration, Chen Mo spun his tale.

To Chen Mo's surprise, Moon Fox didn't doubt the authenticity of his story at all. She was merely astonished. Even if she weren't an instructor at the Affiliated High School, she had heard of the Poppy Squad, especially since their captain, Mu Xiaoyi, was a genius spotted by higher-ups at the headquarters! For such a powerful squad to have two of its members killed in counterattacks by Chen Mo—one could only imagine just how powerful Chen Mo's strength had become.

The most incredible part of all was that Chen Mo was the one who had destroyed the Orb of Destruction!

"Chen Mo, did the Skeleton King drop any equipment?" Moon Fox stared intently into Chen Mo's face.

Chen Mo replied honestly, "Yes, it did. Instructor, take a look!"

With that, Chen Mo directly donned Leoric's S-grade crown. It shone with a golden light, making Chen Mo look like the very king of this grand cathedral, radiating a completely different aura.

"Good! Excellent! Hahaha! As expected of a student I taught! Chen Mo, don't worry, I will definitely recommend you to the White Cloud Pale Dog headquarters. Your future prospects are boundless!" Moon Fox said with great excitement, genuinely happy for Chen Mo.

"However!" Moon Fox's tone shifted abruptly. "This is an S-grade piece of equipment. Top powerhouses from all over the world gathered in Egypt, resulting in countless deaths and injuries, and yet rumor has it only a single S-grade equipment was dropped. A treasure in one's bosom becomes a crime; Chen Mo, apart from me, you must not tell a single soul about this. Especially Wei Zheng—Instructor Wei Zheng is rather rigid in his ways, and he will definitely force you to hand over the S-grade piece of equipment. Therefore, unless it is absolutely necessary, never use this S-grade equipment! Do you hear me?"

Eh?

A warm sensation washed over Chen Mo, and his eyes even grew slightly moist. Never in his wildest dreams had he expected Instructor Moon Fox to be so good to him. Not only did she not demand that he hand over the S-grade equipment, but she even told him to conceal its existence, purely looking out for his best interests.

"Yes! Instructor, you are so good to me!!" Chen Mo forced back his surging emotions.

"Hah!" Moon Fox said. "You're my student; if I'm not good to you, who would I be good to?"

Whether his brain had short-circuited or he simply spoke in a moment of impulse, Chen Mo blurted out, "Instructor, how old are you this year?"

Beneath her mask, Moon Fox's face flushed inexplicably. "What, what are you asking that for? I'm already quite old, old enough to be your aunt! You mustn't have wild thoughts!"

Chen Mo wanted nothing more than to slap himself across the face. What a mental handicap he had been, asking such an awkward question! He hurriedly changed the subject. "I wonder whose luck is so good that they actually triggered the hidden quest."

Moon Fox replied, "I've seen Gongzi Wei and Zhang Shengmo before; it shouldn't be them. It could be someone from another school, or perhaps your sister!"

"What?! My sister?!" Chen Mo's expression changed drastically! "My sister came in too?!"

Moon Fox nodded. "Yes. After you entered the spatial rift, your sister suddenly changed like a person possessed, injured Ding Yan, and forced her way in."

***

Outside the spatial rift, at the exact instant the Orb of Destruction shattered.

Hundreds of skeletons within the Menluo mountain stronghold collapsed with a crisp clatter into heaps of white bones.

Jiang Ye was wild with joy. "It worked? They succeeded! Hahahaha!"

The warriors outside had had it terribly hard; of the one thousand Shadow Warriors, only three hundred remained alive! One of Jiang Ye's arms had already been hacked off by a skeleton, exposing blood-muddied flesh and white bone. Yet, Jiang Ye had merely tied a knot in his torn clothing and, enduring excruciating pain, had kept commanding the battle.

As for the four hundred students from the four schools, fifteen instructors and thirty students had entered the spatial rift, while the remaining students and instructors fought side by side with the Shadow Warriors outside. Students and Shadow Warriors who once despised each other had become comrades-in-arms through life and death!

Just when Jiang Ye thought everything was over, suddenly—Boom!!

The entire ground tore apart, and several Shadow Warriors fell into the splitting earth before they even had time to react.

Jiang Ye roared, "Quick! Scatter! Move to both sides!"

Rumble, rumble!!

Right where the spatial rift had been, the ground cracked open into a bottomless black hole!

An electronic tone rang out in the quantum brains of everyone present: The S-grade Evolution Orb will open in two hours. Please locate it as soon as possible. If no one enters within half an hour after the S-grade Evolution Orb opens, it will automatically vanish!!

An S-grade Evolution Orb?!!

Jiang Ye was shaken to the core. The S-grade Evolution Orb must be hidden deep beneath this bottomless abyss!

Yet, how monumental was the importance of an S-grade Evolution Orb? According to intelligence from headquarters, an S-grade Evolution Orb could generally accommodate a maximum of only ten people. If people like them went down there, they would likely just be marching to their deaths and wasting slots. Furthermore, the S-grade Evolution Orb was the world's most vital resource and inevitably had to be reserved for the nation's absolute top elites.

Jiang Ye immediately transmitted the intelligence to the headquarters of the Shadow Legion.

Word came back from headquarters instantly: "General Nian Zhanyao has already led tens of thousands of elite troops in taking off by military aircraft and is expected to arrive within two hours. Order Jiang Ye to guard the entrance of the S-grade Evolution Orb at all costs, and allow no one to enter under any circumstances!!"

Jiang Ye gazed at the shocking, gaping abyss before him, then glanced back at the battlefield. Soldiers were weeping bitterly over their fallen comrades; some students were crying out for their instructors, others for their classmates. The entire scene radiated a profound and magnificent tragedy and sorrow.

Forcing back his tears and suppressing the agony in his heart, Jiang Ye shouted at the top of his lungs, "The battle is not over yet! All soldiers and students, listen up! Until reinforcements arrive, swallow all your tears! Guard that cave entrance for me! No one is allowed to enter!"

"Yes, sir!" The warriors wiped away their tears, stood up instantly, and formed a defensive array.