Heroes Return

"Really? Then let me introduce the testing method I've come up with these past few days." Lin Jie said, taking out a bell: "Today's training is to snatch the bell."

"I'm telling you, you're obviously copying the tactics of some ninja village!" Ye Daoshen couldn't help but say. "You're basically plagiarizing someone else's tactics!"

"Who said I plagiarized?" Lin Jie said with dissatisfaction. "Look carefully, others have two bells, while I only have one! Some of them will be tied to a stake, but we are different! I will hang the losers among you on that crooked tree in the distance! By the way, I have already named that tree Southeast Branch."

"Isn't this the same as what you're doing? It's all the same trick!" Ye Daoshen said.

"You don't know anything." Lin Jie glanced at him: "In my training, people succeed when they finally reach a cooperation or develop a sense of companionship! But it's different here. In this training, everyone except the person who holds the bell at the end will be hung on the southeast branch! That means after you team up to grab the bell, you will have to abandon all cooperation and friendship and start killing each other! Only the person who is standing at the end can be exempted from punishment."

"Hey, hey, hey! Teacher, these rules don't look like training at all!" Ye Daoshen couldn't help but look at Lin Jie: "Teacher, these are the kinds of rules that villains usually set!"

“I actually think the rules they set up are quite practical in a way,” Lin Jie said, looking at everyone. “In a sense, apart from the person who survives to the end, everyone else is nothing.”

“Teacher…you’re so annoying,” Felicia said to Lin Jie. “Making students fight each other is the worst thing ever.”

"Do you hate it?" Lin Jie raised an eyebrow. "Maybe one day you'll have to attack your own classmates. Besides, this is just training. I set this rule so you'll all bring out your strongest abilities. But of course, we'll talk about that after you successfully snatch this bell from me."

In fact, there was something Lin Jie didn't say: If only one of you can survive, what will you do?

Of course, Lin Jie couldn't say this kind of hint directly to everyone.

"So, we have to snatch this bell from you, teacher, first, right?" Tifa asked Lin Jie. "In that case, let's get started!"

"Hehe! First, we need to team up to defeat the teacher!" Akarin chimed in.

"Since you've set such an annoying rule, then we have no choice but to team up and give you a good beating! Prepare yourself, teacher!"

"It's time to avenge this humiliation!" Obsession jumped out and said, "I'm going to make you pay today, you idiot!"

"Huh? Are we going to fight the teacher?" Justin involuntarily took a step back. "The teacher is too scary! I don't want to fight the teacher anymore!"

"Huh? What are you being a coward for? There are twelve of us, and the teacher is only one person! What are you afraid of?" the fire soldier said to Justin with dissatisfaction.

"Of course, I'm not the one fighting you," Lin Jie said to the crowd.

"What do you mean?" Everyone looked at Lin Jie in confusion.

Immediately afterwards, a little girl carrying a huge spiked club that didn't match the image they had been warned about appeared before everyone's eyes.

"Let Bangling be your opponent," Lin Jie said to the crowd. "After all, if I were your opponent, I doubt you would have any chance of getting the bell."

"Teacher, are you fucking looking down on us?" Zhi Nian said unhappily, "Even though this little girl seems really strong, we're basically ganging up on her! Do you really think that if you personally confront us, we can't snatch the bell from you?"

"Hmph! What a foolish human." Qige said to Zhinian, "It seems you have no idea how powerful the teacher is! With our current strength, how could we possibly snatch the bell from the teacher? That's simply impossible."

"I said you've only been gone for a few days, why do you seem to have been brainwashed by this bastard teacher?" Ye Daoshen looked at Qige with some confusion.

“I’m just stating the facts,” Chig said.

"Wait until you've dealt with my underlings before you decide to challenge me!" Lin Jie said to the crowd in a slightly provocative tone.

"Tch, do you think this little girl of unknown origin can put any pressure on us?" Obsession walked up to the spirit and said, "I only need to do this once..."

But before he could finish speaking, a huge spiked club swept towards him.

The spiked club gave Obsession no time to react; it was swept away and hung on a southeast branch. Only then did the spirit of the club place the spiked club back on its back.

Obsession, however, foamed at the mouth and hung from a southeast branch.

"Wow, that was amazing!" Miyamoto Spicy Strips exclaimed, looking at the staff in amazement. "That strike was no less powerful than the ultimate technique of the sword-drawing slash!"

"Teacher! If we defeat the Spirit, can I take her back and study her for one night?" Tifa asked Lin Jie, drooling as she looked at the Spirit. "Just one night is fine! I'm very curious about its physiological structure!"

“Sure,” Lin Jie said, sitting down to the side. “If you can snatch the bell from the spirit, I’ll let you take the spirit to study it.”

"Really? Teacher?" Tifa looked at Lin Jie with surprise.

“Of course, I always keep my word,” Lin Jie replied to Tifa.

"Then let's get started quickly! I can't wait!" Tifa said, activating her backpack and instantly flying into the air. "Teacher! We're ready!"

"Is everyone ready?" Lin Jie asked the group. "If everyone is ready, let's begin now."

Chapter 35

Another battle has begun on the beach.

However, the battle was not as intense as expected, as it was essentially a one-sided massacre.

As soon as the battle began, Bangling rushed to the side of the three henchmen brothers. He easily blocked the three attacks of three different attributes from the three men with his spiked club, and then with a single blow, he knocked the three henchmen brothers onto a southeast branch.

The entire sequence of movements was fluid and seamless, taking no more than three seconds. Bangling secured a triple kill with incredible speed, and once again swung his spiked club at Miyamoto Latiao, who was charging towards him.

"The ultimate technique of the Draw Sword Style - Spicy Strip Slash!" Miyamoto Spicy Strip's speed suddenly increased, and the two spicy strip knives in his hands instantly turned into two beams of red light.

According to Miyamoto Spicy Strips, the two people should pass each other at this point, and then one of them will fall down when they are back to back.

But the reality was this: as soon as Miyamoto Spicy Strip got close, he was hit in the stomach with a spiked club and then flew towards the southeast branch.

Just as Miyamoto Spicy Strips was angrily giving away his life, Ye Daoshen and Qige attacked Bangling from the left and right.

After the three had been fighting for a few minutes, Qige was the first to be hit in the leg by Bangling. Taking advantage of the opening when Qige was hit, Bangling knocked Qige away with a single blow, sending him flying and landing precisely on a southeast branch.

Just as he knocked Qige away, Ye Daoshen's palm struck towards Bangling.

Ye Daoshen's palm strike appeared weak and powerless, but it contained the principles of Baguazhang, and contained hundreds of variations within a single strike.

In Ye Daoshen's view, even if Bangling took this blow from him, he would definitely not be in a good mood.

In terms of combat skills, Ye Daoshen had never been afraid of anyone in the entire academy. After all, in his view, the ancient martial arts of District C were extremely profound techniques in the world of combat.

But this time he overestimated himself, because just as his palm was about to strike the spirit, the spirit suddenly vanished from everyone's sight. Only a floating spiked club and the bell hanging from it remained.

"Damn, she's serious! Did her casual research earlier provoke her?" Lin Jie looked at the spiked club floating in the air and said, "Oh well, it's not like I'm fighting her anyway."

The disappearance of the spirit caused Ye Daoshen's palm strike to miss, and also caused Tifa to lose her target for the floating cannon she had been aiming at for so long.

Just as everyone was wondering what was going on, Bangling reappeared and slapped the unsuspecting Ye Daoshen with his staff.

However, this time, the group of soldiers failed to hit Ye Daoshen. The staff passed right through Ye Daoshen's body.

"Hehe, luckily I arrived in time." Akarin's voice echoed in the air: "Attack freely! I'll protect you!"

The next second, Ye Daoshen appeared beside Bangling and raised his hand to strike Bangling with a palm. But Bangling raised his stick and swung it horizontally to the other side.

Then Ye Daoshen grunted and flew towards the southeast branch in the distance.

"Ah!! Watch out!" Justin's shout reached Bangling's ears at the same time Ye Daoshen was knocked away, and Bangling disappeared from everyone's sight once again.

At the same time, Justin suddenly appeared where the spirit had just been, and punched the air.

"Not good!" Harry shouted from afar, and the magic circle in his hand lit up instantly. A magic shield immediately appeared next to Justin, and at the same time, the club spirit reappeared, slamming its spiked club hard into the magic shield.

Then the magic shield shattered suddenly, and Justin was sent flying towards the southeast branch in the distance by the blow from the spirit.

Immediately afterwards, the staff spirit swung out a staff out of thin air, which just happened to block the beam of light that was shooting towards it from the sky.

As the staff struck the beam of light in the sky, the staff spirit vanished once more. A rootless metal spear suddenly appeared where she had just stood.

"Hey hey hey hey? It's that ability again!" Felicia's panicked voice rang out in the air.

"Don't talk, Felicia! You'll get found by her if you do!" Tifa said into the communicator on her equipment while in mid-air, but the next moment, the spectral appeared in front of her.

"Watch out!" Harry and Felicia shouted at the same time.

A powerful protective magic circle appeared before Tifa, and at the same time, Felicia quickly used her mental power to try to pull the staff spirit.

Grade B mental power has the ability to easily suspend objects weighing several tons in the air, but such power cannot stop the actions of the staff spirit.

However, even this pulling force could not stop the attack from the staff spirit.

The staff almost completely ignored Felicia's mental pressure and still slammed the staff at Tifa.

The spiked club shattered Tifa's magic shield and defensive field, striking her directly. Then, the smoking robot girl flew towards a distant southeast branch.

At the same time, after landing, the staff rushed off in another direction at an extremely fast speed.

"Ahhh! Don't come any closer! Don't come any closer!" Felicia's scream rang out out of nowhere, and then a large number of metal energy spears and energy cannons bombarded the spirit.

However, these attacks did not pose a threat to the spirit or hinder its progress.

After sweeping away numerous attacks, the Stick Spirit finally found itself face-to-face with the massive armor worn by Felicia.

After a brief silence, Bangling raised his spiked club and slammed it against the three-meter-tall suit of armor.

"Meow! Oh no..." Felicia was easily subdued just like that.

Then everyone saw a little girl dragging a gigantic humanoid mecha, a size vastly different from her own, onto the southeastern branch. Most surprisingly, the mecha was actually able to hang onto that branch.

"Have you finished or not?!" Akalin's voice echoed in the air: "She's already found us."

“They did spot us, but don’t worry! I’ve got it all figured out! Now you can remove my cover,” Harry said excitedly.

Then, a mage-level being radiating various powers appeared out of thin air not far away: "Watch closely! I've successfully completed a multi-buff stacking array during this time! I've now been buffed with over a hundred different enhancement spells! I'd like to see just how this little girl..."

He was only halfway through his sentence when he was slammed away by a spiked club.

"I shouldn't have trusted him!" Akarin said, looking at Harry who was instantly defeated by the spirit.

Then she saw the spirit rushing towards her.

"Wait! I'll go up myself!" Akarin shouted to the spirit immediately, and then she ran towards the southeast branch.

After Akarin climbed up the southeast branch, Lin Jie slowly walked over: "Sigh! Your combat power has indeed improved, but you guys have absolutely no teamwork! It's really embarrassing! Let's do it again in a bit, this time I'll be your opponent!"

As Lin Jie spoke, he took the spiked club from the spirit's hand. At the same time, the spirit disappeared from the spot the moment Lin Jie picked up the club.

And so the one-sided torment began once again.

……

The next day finally arrived, the day for the new hero's unveiling.

All the hero classes gathered in the huge stadium of the artificial island academy.

The audience seats were filled with reporters and many people of certain status; in fact, those without considerable influence simply couldn't obtain tickets for this event. The exhibition would also be broadcast worldwide.

Meanwhile, this year's new hero showcase also welcomed two special guests: Captain Justice and a monk.

However, the group that undoubtedly drew everyone's attention this time was Class S, led by Lin Jie. After all, Class S's situation was no secret among all the students. Basically, no one expected that Class S would attend this new hero showcase, especially since each member was wearing a special hero costume.

Of course, Lin Jie also became the focus of attention for many students, and many were curious about how he had managed to bring the disorganized Class S together. Only Lin Jie knew the answer: he had used force.

After living here for a while, Lin Jie has become increasingly convinced that taking action is much easier than talking.

There were quite a few people standing on the stage, and one of them was Captain Justice. However, what was puzzling was that a monk was standing next to Captain Justice.