Strongest Mage with the Lust system

Chapter 869: Beast-Man Synergy

Rima wasn’t the first one from the newly recruited batch of disciples who challenged the Silver Rankings. There were two before her.

Because this triangular-eyed man, Midas Burrow, was ranked last on the ranking, he had to accept the challenges of every newbie.

While every win gave him 50 Merit Points, for him, this tiny amount wasn’t worth the trouble. Not to mention, every challenge was a sign that the newbies thought they could defeat him. This underestimation was a humiliation for him who dreamt of rising on the rankings and making the entire Inner Hall respect him.

This was why he never went easy on the challengers and always made sure they had to lie in bed for a few weeks at least. If not for the rules, he would have liked to kill them to make a statement and cow the future challengers.

There was silence around him for a few moments before the man who had asked the question shook his head and mockingly said, ”These newbies really overestimate themselves. Do they really think they could become Silver rankers so easily? How truly delusional!”

”It seems this one didn’t see how the senior brother almost crippled the previous two challengers, otherwise he wouldn’t have dared to issue the challenge.” Someone else chimed in.

The woman sitting beside him also laughed, ”Hehe, ignorant are truly fearless! But I think this challenge is an opportunity for us.”

”Oh? How so?” Someone asked.

The woman leaned against Midas’ hands and blinked her long eyelashes at him before saying, ”Aren’t we all curious to see the new spell senior brother has been practicing. Maybe senior brother can show a hint of it to us in the battle?”

The triangular-eyed man looked at her and slapped her ass, ”You little vixen, I haven’t mastered it yet, but even if I had, I wouldn’t have revealed it so easily. It’s one of my trump cards to defeat that bastard Marcus.”

The woman showed a disappointed look and others also felt that it was a pity. Smirking slightly, Midas dripped a drop of his blood onto the badge, accepting the challenge.

[The challenge has been accepted. The battle will begin in two hours.]

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On the other side, Rima and Nia had just found their seats in the almost packed coliseum when Rima’s badge vibrated.

[100th Silver Ranker, Midas Burrow, has accepted your challenge. The battle will begin in two hours. Be prepared.]

Rima heard the message and put away the badge before focusing her gaze on the ongoing battle.

In the arena, two women and their companion beasts were engaged in an intense battle. One of the women was flying around on her scarlet winged eagle, constantly casting spells while also directing the eagle to attack.

Facing her, the woman was standing on top of a green turtle, standing in place on the ground.

Given the situation, one would expect the woman on the scarlet winged eagle to have the upper hand since she had the advantage of flying, but here, the woman on ground was dominating the fight because while the eagle and its companion were supporting several wounds, the woman and her turtle didn’t even have a scratch.

After watching for a while, Rima realized the woman on the eagle was a fire elemental mage and her eagle was also a fire elemental beast. Alone, both were comparable to a high-stage Five Star mage but when working together, they could display the strength of a peak Five Star mage.

As for the woman and her turtle, their prowess was similar to their opponents’, only their elements were different—they were Earth Element users.

But while they had elemental advantage as fire wasn’t as effective against the Earth, it shouldn’t make them invincible like they were now.

Rima raised her brows and muttered, ”It seems her synergy with her companion beast is higher than her opponent’s.”

Before coming to the Beast Emperor City, she had collected whatever information she could about the Beast Emperor Hall.

So, she knew the reason the Beast Emperor Hall was stronger than its fellow peak Emperor forces was mostly thanks to its core secret technique which could strengthen the bond between the human and magic beast and over the time and through practice, it could increase their synergy.

Then somehow it leveraged their synergy through some mystical law and made it so that the higher their synergy, the stronger the human and beast would become when fighting together.

Seeing how despite them being similar in their overall strength, this technique could make the party with higher synergy so much stronger, Rima was in awe.

Then a thought crossed her mind and her brows furrowed. Looking to her left side, she saw a woman in white dress. From the identity badge hanging by her waist, Rima knew she was also an Inner Hall disciple even though she wasn’t dressed in Inner Hall’s robes—other than some official occasions, it wasn’t mandatory to wear the disciple robes.

”Excuse me, Miss?” She called out.

”Hm?” The white clothed woman looked over and asked in a voice that was neither friendly, nor unfriendly, ”Yes?”

”Sorry to disturb you, but if you don’t mind, can you tell me what their rankings are?” Rima politely asked.

The white-clothed woman gave her another look before she nodded and told her, ”The one on the Scarlet Wing Eagle, Miyuri, is ranked 57th and that turtle woman is ranked 55th.”

”Thank you, Miss.” Rima thanked her and her slightly tense heart relaxed.

Before she knew their rankings, she was worried that they might be ranked near the 100 which would mean most of the rankers were peak Five Star mages, which in turn meant she wouldn’t be able to climb too high this time.

But after realizing they were ranked near the upper half of the rankings, she believed she wouldn’t have a hard time entering the top fifties.

As a challenger, if she won the first battle and was ranked 100th, she would get 100 Merit Points. Then each successive battle would give her a bit more Merit Points. If she could fight everyone from rank 100th to rank 50th, she could easily earn over 20,000 Merit Points.

Adding the Merit Points she already had, she would have more than half the points required to enter the Minor Realm.

Moreover, the Beast Emperor Hall gave the ranker more generous monthly resources. If the resources of the person ranked 100th on the Silver Ranking were to be compared to a normal Inner Hall disciple, the difference would be astronomical.

This was also the reason why it was extremely difficult for someone to replace someone on the rankings.

Anyways, after she was ranked in the Silver Rankings, she could use the privilege of a ranker to withdraw up to 6 month’s monthly resources in advance which she would use to increase her strength rapidly.

The stronger she became, the faster she could climb the ranking. Then, with her talent, it would be just a matter of time before she could break through to the King Realm, enter the Golden Rankings and become eligible to enter the Minor Realm where she could find Max.

As she thought all this, her breathing rate increased and she unconsciously clenched her fists, a determined and impatient glint flashing in her eyes.

Sitting next to her, the white-clothed woman’s eyes flashed with surprise when she saw this... unusual response. She then asked, ”You are a newbie, right? Here to challenge the rankings?”