Jiang Yuan was incredibly familiar with the Giant-Eyed Blood Rat; to him, it was just a troublesome rat.
Thanks to his powerful calm state, the Giant-Eyed Blood Rat couldn't even touch him, only letting out roars of frustration.
In short, it was impotent rage.
Even the crimson light it shot out couldn't threaten Jiang Yuan.
Instead, in the gaps of dodging, Jiang Yuan used ice spears to leave deep wounds on the Giant-Eyed Blood Rat.
"Jiang Yuan, I'll help you!"
"Beast, take my Mo Fan's Great Thunder Seal!"
A bolt of Thunder whistled through the air. After seeing Jiang Yuan easily deal with the Giant-Eyed Blood Rat, Mo Fan felt he was capable again. Having successfully connected his Star Path, he unleashed his magic and charged forward.
Mo Fan, at this point, had no real combat experience; he was simply adding to the Giant-Eyed Blood Rat's meal.
But Jiang Yuan was too late to stop him. Mo Fan had already slammed his Thunder Seal hard onto the Giant-Eyed Blood Rat's back.
Thunder light scattered, and the Giant-Eyed Blood Rat was sent flying backward with a "boom."
"How was that, Jiang Yuan?" Mo Fan came up to Jiang Yuan, striking what he thought was a cool pose: "Wasn't that move of mine just now really cool?"
"Let's discuss whether you're cool later; the Giant-Eyed Blood Rat isn't dead yet."
Jiang Yuan told Mo Fan to look back.
Mo Fan turned his head, and the Giant-Eyed Blood Rat slowly stood up. After only a brief pause, it lunged at Mo Fan again, faster and with more ferocity than before.
"Holy cow, it's fine after that?!"
Mo Fan felt a slight chill.
"Hey, I have a good idea," Jiang Yuan said.
"What good idea?"
Jiang Yuan pushed Mo Fan forward: "You go attract its attention, and I'll give it the fatal blow."
"Me attract its attention? Are you serious, buddy?" Mo Fan's eyes widened.
"No time, go Mo Fan!" Jiang Yuan pushed again with force, while he himself pulled away from Mo Fan.
"Jiang Yuan, you dog! If I lose an arm or a leg, I'm not done with you!" Mo Fan cursed loudly as he ran.
Jiang Yuan ignored him, pretending not to hear.
He focused on waiting for the chance to kill the Giant-Eyed Blood Rat with one blow.
The opportunity came when the Giant-Eyed Blood Rat leaped into the air.
"Triple Ice Spear!" Jiang Yuan shouted in a low voice.
As he shouted, the surrounding Water System elements quickly converged. Three streams of water, like three agile water snakes, swirled and intertwined in the air, instantly condensing into a single, shimmering ice spear.
A cold light, like iron, cut through the air!
The transparent, crystal-like ice spear left a perfect arc in the air, piercing through the Giant-Eyed Blood Rat's back!
The powerful impact directly pinned it to the wall. The Giant-Eyed Blood Rat struggled a few times, then went still. Blood mixed with ice crystals gurgled from the wound, pooling on the ground into a foul-smelling puddle.
"Jiang Yuan, I almost thought I was going to die!" Mo Fan slumped to the ground, gasping for breath, his finger trembling as he pointed at Jiang Yuan: "Next time, you be the bait, or I'm not done with you!"
Jiang Yuan smiled apologetically, pulled Mo Fan up, and comforted him: "You've already seen the Giant-Eyed Blood Rat just now. I don't need to tell you how strong it is, right?"
"Ordinary students would just be chopped up in front of it, wouldn't they?"
"So what? I almost went to heaven just now!" Mo Fan's emotions were still highly volatile.
"It's like this," Jiang Yuan took out his phone, preparing to contact Xu Dahuang: "We can have the captain send a commendation banner to our school, saying that you bravely faced the demon, fought to the death to kill it, and protected the lives of the workers."
"Then everyone will know how amazing you are, and Mu Bai, Xu Zhaoting, and those people will look at you with new respect, right? Won't the school have a bunch of little fangirls for you?"
The more Mo Fan listened, the brighter his eyes got, his attention entirely on the last sentence: "That's possible?"
Fighting a demon, facing death fearlessly, and killing the demon.
And being commended throughout the entire school.
Then a bunch of little fangirls shouting "Mo Fan, handsome guy!"
Mo Fan got excited just thinking about it, instantly forgetting what had just happened, and urged Jiang Yuan to explain the situation to Xu Dahuang.
At this point, Jiang Yuan had already connected the call and said to Xu Dahuang: "Captain, the situation at the factory has been clarified. It was the Giant-Eyed Blood Rat causing trouble. Mo Fan and I have already resolved it. Yes, only one."
"Captain, I have something to discuss with you. Captain, you're so busy, I'll write this commendation..."
"..."
"OK, the commendation is settled!" Jiang Yuan hung up the phone and confidently told Mo Fan.
"As expected of my good brother, remember to praise my wisdom and might in the commendation." Mo Fan immediately beamed, his face overflowing with a brilliant smile, completely losing the aggressive stance he had just moments ago, ready to fight Jiang Yuan.
"Oh, right, what's with your Ice System magic? Did you also awaken two magic systems?" Mo Fan suddenly remembered and asked.
"That's not Ice System magic," Jiang Yuan shook his head and explained: "This is my innate talent. I can control the temperature of Water System magic, so it's not a true Ice System magic."
"No wonder!"
Mo Fan suddenly understood: "I was just thinking that Ice System magic was completely different from Mu Bai's. His is Ice Spikes, and yours is Ice Spear."
"Hiss, your Water System can defend and attack. Isn't that invincible?"
He was just short of healing to become an all-rounder.
Mo Fan immediately thought of Water System mages in games who also had healing magic.
However, in this world, the Water System does not have healing magic.
"Actually, I still prefer your Thunder and Fire Systems, one destructive magic in each hand," Jiang Yuan said truthfully.
Not to mention those difficult-to-awaken dimensional magics.
There's no need to elaborate on how valuable destructive magic is in the early stages.
"Although destructive magic is strong and cool, why was I being chased by the demon just now, and you were so relaxed?"
Mo Fan fell into deep doubt about his own strength.
Jiang Yuan patted him on the shoulder: "No need to doubt, it's just because your strength is too weak."
"I..." Mo Fan was about to retort but was held back by Jiang Yuan, who said earnestly: "There are ten lotus flowers in the pond. I only pick one, and you pick nine. Do you know why?"
"Why?"
"If you're weak, train more!"
"Holy cow! Jiang Yuan, you're too arrogant. No, I want to duel you and see who needs to train more!"
"No thanks, I'm going to find the captain to get the reward for this mission."
"Reward? How much?"
"About seventy or eighty thousand."
"Let's go, let's go, let's quickly find the captain!"
...
The total reward for this mission was eighty-seven thousand.
Since Jiang Yuan and Mo Fan completed the mission together, Xu Dahuang didn't take a single penny, dividing it all between the two of them.
Forty-three thousand five hundred each.
After getting the money, Mo Fan again clamored about who was the weakest, shamelessly demanding a duel with Jiang Yuan using both of his systems.
The result was a crushing defeat.
Jiang Yuan's speed in connecting his Star Particles was several times that of Mo Fan. Mo Fan hadn't even used his magic before an ice spear was already at his throat.
It could be said that the two of them were completely on different levels now.
Afterward, Jiang Yuan returned to his monotonous life of studying, meditating, and doing missions.