Chapter 158: Irregular License Exam (38)
Long Shui Ling didn't go down right away even though it was announced that it was her turn to fight.
Instead, she took her time to make sure that I was alright before making her way down.
Her opponent had gone down right away, but she didn't care at all.
When he saw her finally come down, he couldn't help revealing a dark look.
The way that she acted, it was as if she was looking down on him.
Even though she was second place, her opponent didn't think that she had achieved this on her own.
After all, no matter how he looked at it, this was a frail little girl.
He believed that if he intimated her a bit, he would be able to get her to back down.
So he said in an aggressive voice, "Little girl, if you surrender now, it'll be much easier for you. If you fight, I won't hold back."
But to his surprise, he found that Long Shui Ling didn't react at all to his threat.
In fact, she didn't even look at him once during this entire time.
She had been looking at the stands, looking at the top ranker that she had been with before.
This hurt his pride…
So he said, "Fine, since you won't take the cup offered, then don't expect any mercy."
With that, he pulled out his sword and revealed a fierce look.
It seemed like he really was planning on going all out against Long Shui Ling.
Seeing that they were done talking, the examiner simply said, "Begin."
The moment that the examiner said this, the opponent started charging at Long Shui Ling with his sword. As he ran at her, there were beads of water that formed on the edge of his sword.
These beads of water gathered together until they formed a single blade that flew out when he slashed his sword at Long Shui Ling.
Long Shui Ling didn't move out of the way at all when that blade of water flew at her.
Then to everyone's shock, she was cut down by that blade of water.
It even cut right through her, splitting her in half.
The opponent didn't know what to say when he saw this.
He had figured that she was weak, but he never thought that she was so weak that she wouldn't even be able to dodge this simple blow. This was the weakest attack that he had, but she still was cut down that easily…
Would he be charged for murder like this?
No, they had signed the death waiver, so he wouldn't be punished for this.
As he was just standing there wondering what had happened, he didn't notice many things.
He didn't notice that the examiners didn't stop the fight and declare him the winner, he didn't notice that there was no blood coming from Long Shui Ling's 'corpse', he didn't notice that no one in the crowd was shocked to see that he had cut Long Shui Ling down.
There were just too many clues that he didn't notice.
"What is he doing? Why is just standing there staring into space?"
"Doesn't he know that she's already moving towards him?"
"How is this a fight? He just did one thing and then froze."
As he stood there in a daze, Long Shui Ling had already made her way up in front of him.
Then in front of everyone, she started to transform.
She took the form of the grim reaper that she had taken when she took the first exam.
At the same time, her opponent suddenly started to scream.
"Ah! Don't come over here! I didn't mean it!"
Everyone was confused when they saw this, but no one was able to stop him from suddenly slashing out around him.
He was slashing out in every direction, sending out blades of water.
Everyone immediately knitted their brows and were about to stop it, but before they could, there was a barrier that appeared that stopped all of these blades of water before they could reach anyone.
The examiner who had acted shook his head in disappointment when he saw this as he said, "Can't even see through a simple illusion. What an idiot."
At this, everyone realized what was happening.
Long Shui Ling had trapped her opponent in an illusion.
So that was her power.
What her opponent was seeing now was her corpse standing up again and multiplying before surrounding him, just like a vengeful ghost.
No matter how he slashed at this vengeful ghost, he wasn't able to get rid of her at all.
These vengeful ghosts surrounded him and he was so scared that he was on the brink of collapse.
This was what Long Shui Ling had learned after talking about her powers with Lin Fan.
She had learned to use smaller illusions to trap the enemy while preparing her final attack.
This might seem like a very simple thing, but in truth, that was just how much fighting experience she lacked. She was someone who didn't have any fighting experience at all which was evident by how panicked she had been in the dungeon.
But after discussing it with Lin Fan, Long Shui Ling's abilities had gone up a level.
After letting her opponent waste his energy for a bit, she finally took a step forward.
When she did, that opponent finally saw her and revealed an even more terrified look.
That was because he was seeing the same thing as everyone else, he saw her as a terrifying grim reaper with a large scythe.
"No! No! Don't come over here!" That young man shouted as he raised his sword and gathered a bunch of water around it.
It was clear that he was preparing for a final attack.
But Long Shui Ling wouldn't give him that chance since she had already also prepared her final attack.
With one swing of the scythe, the young man fell forward like a kite with its strings cut.