Indeed, an E-rank Transcendent barking orders at a group of C-rank Transcendents was a somewhat awkward sight.
However, once the other students came to their senses, they tacitly accepted it.
After all, Jiang He was not only an S-rank Talent user and the top scorer in the initial test, but even Yun Yang and Du Lingwei, the two strongest students, had acknowledged his arrangements.
If anyone else were to command, they might not have been so readily convinced.
Most importantly—
A considerable amount of time had passed since the earthquake caused by the destruction of the breeding farm.
In such a long time, let alone B-rank exotic beasts, even D-rank exotic beasts would have been able to rush into the city!
Even if the students didn't fully understand the specific situation, they were acutely aware that they had no time to waste on arguments.
At this moment, they moved swiftly, gathering together in groups, their gazes fixed on Jiang He.
Jiang He said, "Yang Jin, I remember you have an eye-enhancing talent. Is it for reconnaissance?"
During the first test, all the students had battled in turns, showcasing their respective Talents.
Transcendents possessed excellent memory, and Jiang He had memorized the abilities displayed by each of his classmates, as well as their names.
In the crowd, Yang Jin nodded.
Jiang He said, "Please use your talent to scout along this road, heading southeast. The Xinyun Breeding Farm is in that direction."
"Since the instructor placed us here, they wouldn't let us be too far from the exotic beasts—"
Yang Jin nodded again, raising both hands.
One hand covered his own eyes, while the other pointed at Jiang He.
The next moment, a blood-red eye simultaneously opened on the back of his hand and on Jiang He's forehead.
As the blood-eye appeared, Jiang He's vision seemed to be veiled in a layer of crimson. The images in his mind split into two, one of which offered a high-altitude perspective, spanning a vast distance, revealing a scene far, far away.
He saw that the Xinyun Breeding Farm, which he had visited just days ago, had been utterly reduced to ruins, with only broken walls and remnants remaining.
The surrounding fields were completely trampled, and tens of thousands of exotic beasts of various appearances, either flying or running, were stampeding towards the city, kicking up rolling clouds of dust.
What was astonishing was that despite appearing to run incredibly fast, their progress was incredibly slow.
Even the flying beasts in the sky, which seemed to have flown thousands of meters, were judged by the high-altitude vision to have only moved a dozen meters.
This is—
Spatial ability?
Jiang He suddenly understood.
No wonder Zhong Honglian and the others weren't in a hurry to resolve the Beast Calamity, but instead pulled the students out for practical training.
It turned out that no matter how much these exotic beasts struggled, they couldn't escape You Chunsheng's "Five-Finger Mountain."
"As expected of a Spatial Talent, as rare as a Time-type Talent—"
Jiang He marveled internally, growing increasingly wary.
According to Old Bai's intelligence, You Chunsheng was essentially a ticking time bomb. The stronger he appeared, the more terrifying the damage would be when he eventually detonated.
Jiang He suppressed his apprehension about You Chunsheng, blinked, and the vision disappeared.
Yang Jin had already lowered his hands, canceling the visual sharing.
Jiang He said, "The exotic beast horde is restricted by the instructor's spatial ability, and is currently still very far from the city. But precisely because of this, they haven't separated due to different speeds and remain gathered. Shao Jun has Gas Control, he'll fly Chi Zhilei and me. Du Lingwei, Yun Yang, you two..."
"Once we arrive, proceed according to the plan—"
At the very beginning, Jiang He had truly been thrown into the deep end.
He hadn't interacted much with people before, let alone commanded them. How was he supposed to know what to do?
But once he truly started speaking, he became more and more fluent, and his thoughts grew clearer and clearer.
Team battle? Command?
No, no, no, it wasn't that complicated at all.
Jiang He had already memorized everyone's abilities; he simply needed to treat these students as a single entity and use the corresponding abilities at the right moment.
As for how to execute it, these students understood it better than he did. Following this line of thought, wasn't so-called team battle command just a large-scale "Word Spirit" ability?
Before Bai He left, Jiang He had stored hundreds of different Word Curses, which was incredibly similar to the nearly three hundred students with different abilities he now faced!
In his daily battles, he was actually already engaging in "team battles," merely commanding his own abilities and body to exert their strongest effects in the right places.
Old Jiang had also passed on his experience in these matters.
Now, putting that experience into practice, his arrangements seemed quite orderly.
Of course, Jiang He wasn't so overconfident as to plan every detail for everyone. Theoretical command was theoretical command; in actual combat, others were not his limbs or skills, and precise micro-management, like shifting a defensive line five centimeters to the left, was impossible.
He only broadly outlined the entry order, ensuring Yun Yang and Du Lingwei could maximize their effectiveness.
He added, "For the actual battle, everyone, adapt on the fly."
Subsequently, he rose into the air within the gale unleashed by Shao Jun, and together with Chi Zhilei and others, flew towards the beast horde.
Most of the others also followed his command, setting off in sequence behind them.
Jiang He and the others were not far from the beast horde to begin with.
Unaffected by the spatial ability, they arrived in front of the horde in a blink of an eye, witnessing the stampeding beasts firsthand.
The exotic beasts also saw them, and the emotions in their beastly eyes grew even more violent, eager to immediately charge forward and devour these humans, just as they had the breeding farm staff.
This raging emotion even transformed into transcendent power, forming a mental suppression.
Even the C-rank students felt their faces pale under this pressure, and those with insufficient energy levels had their minds overwhelmed by fear, their hands and feet trembling.
This was a Beast Calamity?
Low-level exotic beasts, when gathered, could unleash such terrifying power.
Just then.
A voice rang out.
"Calm."
Jiang He didn't infuse too much power into this Word Spirit, only briefly dispelling the crowd's panic.
This was enough for everyone to react, swiftly activating the students' Professional Specialty, "Focus," to counter the mental suppression. Their state improved significantly.
Jiang He, meanwhile, endured the pressure, mentally locking onto himself.
He saw his "Tarot."
The card face was "The World."
The orientation was "Upright."
"Huh? Did I forget to turn it off last time?"
At this moment, even Jiang He himself was stunned.
After learning [Tarot Divination], he had only used the skill twice, both times on himself, and both times he saw The World Upright.——
Is there something wrong with this skill? Do I only have one card in my deck?
However, Jiang He thought of the skill name and profession name, and a sudden realization dawned on him.
The effect of [Tarot Divination] appeared random, but its essence was not randomness; it was "divination."
It provided enhancement by divining the future.
This wasn't a fate skill; it was a time skill.
It merely appeared as random card draws because people's futures were ever-changing.
However—
Jiang He possessed all futures. Therefore, when he used Tarot Divination on himself, it would only yield one answer, provided no external factors influenced it.
He gently stroked his finger, drawing a card from time and displaying its face.
[The World, Upright]
This was the strongest Tarot card, representing possession of everything and dreams coming true, with the effect of greatly enhancing his talent, attributes, and all skills!
The card shattered, and coupled with "The High Priestess Lv2," a massive surge of power poured into his body.
Jiang He gazed at the raging beast horde in the distance, his eyes brimming with confidence.
He had already seen the script.
His future held only one possibility.
Victory, and an overwhelming victory at that!
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