Luden had never seen this kind of fire-type battle aura before; it was scorching, mysterious, and possessed a hint of advanced attributes.
Normally, Fire-type attacks will gain a 50% power boost against Grass-type and Wood-type attacks, but advanced Fire-type attacks can gain up to 70% or even 100%.
It can be called a killer of plant-type monsters.
If Leah could convert all of her ordinary fighting spirit into that kind, her potential rating might even surpass Linda's, reaching the extremely rare nine stars.
The higher their potential rating, the more benefits they will receive after joining the Ice Abyss Training Camp.
Luden rubbed his chin, his eyes fixed intently on the stage.
...
The sun was setting in the west, and the square was silent.
But as the signal flare soared into the sky, the silence was abruptly shattered.
"Flaming Dragon Slash!"
With a roar, Lia unleashed a swirling current of energy that transformed into towering flames on her 1.5-meter-long, palm-width Firebird Feather Sword.
The shape of the flames vaguely resembled a giant dragon.
The greatsword slashed upwards, and the fire dragon collided with Linda's wooden dragon.
In an instant, the wooden dragon's branches and leaves turned to ashes, which the fire dragon swallowed whole.
Linda felt an intense heat in front of her, and her eyebrows curled up from the heat.
'The combined power of charging up energy and the Fiery Dragon Slash is indeed considerable.'
Linda was injured and did not intend to fight back. Black Hawk gently flapped its wings and flew dozens of meters into the air.
The Flaming Dragon Slash slammed into the ground with a deafening boom, transforming into a spreading sea of fire.
"All you ever do is run away, huh? You always do the same thing!"
Leah's eyebrows shot up, and she said angrily:
"Xueyan's team never comes to team building activities. She's either in the library or making plans... We're not so stupid that we need you to tell us which foot to take. Why can't you trust us a little more? What else can you do besides running away?"
With a heavy slam of the Firebird Feather Sword into the ground, Lia used the recoil and the burst of battle aura to shoot into the sky like a rocket.
She gritted her teeth in anger and slashed her sword at the astonished Linda: "Trust us a little more! You haven't even once, how do you know we can't do it!"
Lia firmly believed that as long as the members of Xueyan worked together, they could overcome any danger.
This sword strike carried a hint of personal grudge. Although Leah didn't possess Dragon's Might, she used her verbal sparring, causing Linda to lose focus for a moment. When she came to her senses, she saw Leah's greatsword slashing horizontally towards her.
Wherever the greatsword passed, it created an arc like a whirlwind.
It is indeed [Flame Dance]!
Linda's pale green life barrier trembled violently, and the source core in her spiritual world, the adventurer's second heart, was shaken to its core like a passenger in a carriage passing through a large pit.
Linda stopped moving after waving the black eagle's wings and drawing several S's in the sky.
He stood in the sky, lost in thought, and was truly stumped by Lia's question.
Just as Lia said, he never truly trusted any of Xueyan's members, always feeling that something was bound to go wrong.
Especially after the failure on the third floor, Lia was almost killed by the snake-man soldiers and tearfully begged him to lead the entire Xueyan group to the summit safely.
After this incident, Linda strived to create a strategy guide that could perfectly handle all kinds of situations.
Each level of the secret realm contains at least three "maps," and the strategy for each "map" is different. During Linda Xueyan's time, creating strategy guides was too slow. Firstly, she tried to make sure there were no omissions, and secondly, she had to make three strategy guides at once.
After founding the Phoenix Flower team, Linda had a high level of trust with Monica and other team members whom he had used in the game, and with the useless goddess Kaphni as a cheat, creating strategy guides became much easier.
Looking back now, I realize that Leah was right.
He never truly trusted Xueyan's team members.
"Shall we go to the shopping street for cake?"
Why haven't you bought the yukata for the fireworks festival yet?
'The campaign is over, shall we take a day off?'
Those scenes that I hadn't paid much attention to over the past three years, like unimportant scenes used to transition the plot in a comic book, suddenly flashed before Linda's eyes.
He was startled; it seemed he had rejected all of Leah's invitations. He had focused all his attention on creating guides and learning about this world.
After being repeatedly rejected, Lia stopped inviting him. As the levels of the game progressed and the monsters became stronger, the leisurely life was gone forever. Lia spent most of her time practicing her sword, and communication among the team members became less and less, with only a few words exchanged during meals and adventures.
If someone had made a concession then, Linda would probably have stayed in Xueyan, and Luanweihua and Xueyan would have become one.
With Lia's fire-type, Eko's light-type, and Chrona's incredibly strong front-line ability, this team will undoubtedly become the strongest in White Dove City.
"So you mean it was my fault for not trusting you when we were in Xueyan?"
Linda stared blankly down at Lia, who was clutching a wound on her side on the arena.
The bandage gradually turned red, clearly indicating that the jump had been too forceful, causing Leah's wound to reopen.
"Isn't that right? That day, during the battle on the ninth floor of the World Tree, as long as you were willing to come, you could have passed it even without a strategy guide, but you just wouldn't trust us!"
Lia's face turned pale. She gritted her teeth and tightened the bandages, using her greatsword as a crutch to support herself and stand up straight.
Linda wanted to laugh, and pointed at Leah with disdain:
"Why should I trust you? A captain who just yells and charges forward, a kid who gets carried away playing around and completely forgets the strategy, and a lazy mage who only yawns and has 100% of his strength but can only use 60% at most..."
If we're talking about trust, the only people I can trust are Oru and Kaine.
What makes you three so trustworthy that I can trust you?
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