Versatile Mage

w more of the truth than students who only lived in ivory towers.

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Mo Fan could feel his heart sinking.

The words had completely toppled their values.
It was almost like a brainwashing script given by the Black Vatican, if it were a little bit more extreme.

If the calamity of Bo City was only a small depiction of what a real war looked like, Lu Nian was most likely speaking the truth.

However, Mo Fan never thought humans were as petty as Lu Nian had described, especially how he mentioned that the demon beasts were only letting the humans survive to guarantee their food supply!

In other words, humans surviving until now was not because of how well the Magicians were protecting them.
It was only a conspiracy set up by the demon beasts so they could continue to feast on them.

Was it real? Mo Fan could not tell.

“Humans have the ability to live on, invent, and reproduce.
It doesn’t mean we are great.
It only means that we are more suitable to be raised as livestock.
They don’t even need to worry about feeding us,” Lu Nian laughed grimly.

As a matter of fact, he enjoyed delivering the speech.

When he first joined the army, he also thought the Magicians were the guardians of mankind, stopping the invasion of the demon beasts.
In the end… he realized how insignificant humans were when facing a pack, a horde, or even a kingdom of demon beasts!

His view of the world was crushed in the battles.
As such, he felt an indescribable pleasure when it was his turn to destroy the students’ view of the world too.

“What you’ve said is tied to the whole of mankind, but what does it have anything to do with us?” Mo Fan redirected their attention back to the topic.

He was not interested in discussing the big picture.
He only wanted to know why Lu Nian would not spare his life.

He had never met him in his life.
He had never heard of this experiment, either.

“The experiment is about…” Lu Nian paused for a moment.
It would not be much of a secret soon.
Having this thought, he continued, “A new Element!”

“What did you just say?” Mu Nujiao and Zhao Manting exclaimed.

Lu Nian’s lips curled upward as he repeated, “A new Element.
If it succeeds, we will be the inventor of a new Element!”

“When Magic was first discovered, it gave us the power to challenge the demon beasts.
The problem was, after tens of thousands of years, the Elements we have awakened are nowhere enough.
We did get a glimpse of hope when the latest Element, the Light Element, was awakened.
However, that’s clearly not enough.
We need stronger Elements.”

Lu Nian’s eyes flickered with excitement.

If he were a calm, decisive killing devil before, he was more like a lunatic obsessed with his passion now.

His insane, zealous behavior was something that Lu Zhenghe had never seen before.
His madness was thoroughly concealed by his calm exterior appearance.

“Are you telling us that you guys are planning to invent a new Element?” Zhao Manting blurted out in disbelief.

“That’s right.
Do you really think I’m actually out of my mind?” Lu Nian smirked.

“But…how…” Zhao Manting had no idea what to say.

“You, Mo Fam, are the best test subject for the new Element!” Lu Nian pointed at Mo Fan as if he were looking at a perfect specimen with an extreme passion.

“Me?!” Mo Fan pointed at himself.

“Yes, you, because of your Double Innate Elements!”