Skyward Over God

Fei Lei laughed as put her down, they started to walk along the streets and when he saw all the goodies lined up he had to admit, "This place isn't called the city of merchants for nothing."

Fei Lei eventually spotted something that caught his eye, he didn't have any idea what it was, but he couldn't help but feel a sense of deep familiarity, the object was a strange cog shaped stone that had cracks running along the surface, and as Fei Lei looked closer, he noticed that it had words written in English."

Fei Lei looked at the other things and saw a few things that interested him as well, a few rare metals such as titanium, and flawless diamonds, there wasn't a single blemish or scratch in them.

"Perfect lens material for my electron Microscope," Fei Lei thought as he picked up the three items and said, "How much for these three?"

The Merchant looked at him and smiled, "1.8 million."

Fei Lei almost fell over, and said, "For what? None of these have any Mana in them, what's with the ridiculous price?!"

"Hey if you don't want to buy them, don't buy them." The merchant replied.

Fei Lei pulled out twenty 1 Star Cores from his ring, and said, "You're a crude businessman, but since there would be some money left over how about you throw in that stone thingy there?"

The Merchant smiled and took the Core from him, "Very nice a perfectly intact Wind Cores. Deal!"

Fei Lei stored his items, and walked off happily, "What was so good about that?" Yan Mei asked looked at him.

"I have a piece for my microscope now! I just need electricity to make a powerful enough light," Fei Lei responded as he looked around the shops, for other materials, "Hey it's that Silicon?" Yan Mei pointed out, Fei Lei walked over and saw that it was indeed a large chunk of Silicon.

"Excuse me, do you mind if I ask where you found this weak metal! Fei Lei came up to him looking furious." The Shopkeeper looked at him and frowned.

"Why are you asking?" He shot out.

"Because someone actually dared to make a pass it off as silver, and sold it for real currency. I want to know the location of the ore, so I can ban its use with the guild!"

Fei Lei bluffed, however, it seemed to pay off, "Look, man, I found it in an underground cavern, it looked like silver so I thought it could have some use, but I've never sold it as Silver." The Merchant's eyes darted to the distance, it was only a microsecond, but he might as well just have told him where the mine was located at."

"How far away is this mine, 10 miles, 20, 30, 40 , 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 110!" Suddenly the merchant's eyes dilated, "Look if you're not going to tell me..."

"You'll what...Why are you asking so many questions?" The Merchant finally caught on.

"Tsk!" "I told you, Yan Mei, he'd figured it out. I was hoping to buy the ore and make something out of it for my lady here, but fine, I'll buy the weird metal at store price. How much?" Yan Mei looked at him baffled by what he was doing.

"Trying to cut my prices, get out of here kid!" Fei Lei frowned, "Ah screw you old man."

He grabbed Yan Mei's hand and stormed off like he was mad, Yan Mei's face was still beet red when Fei Lei started to laugh and let go.

"Now what did you do?" Yan Mei asked in surprise.

"I found out where he found the ore, if I'm lucky, we can find a Silicon deposit." Fei Lei laughed again and explained how he managed to trick the merchant.

"Tricky Devil!" Tan Mei said, laughing as she held Fei Lei's hand.

Fei Lei laughed and walked around he spotted a few more items that he wanted to buy, stocking up on regular ores, Fei Lei saw something he thought would look nice on Yan Mei, it was a magic Mortal Ranked Item called the Circlet of Focus, It had a mild mind calming effect that would allow one to study easier.

After spending 10 More 1 Star Cores he walked over and placed it on her head, she smiled and gave him a kiss on the cheek, when she suddenly spotted something they were both interested in, "Fei Lei, look!" Yan Mei grabbed his hand and pulled him over to a weapons stall, she picked up a bladeless hilt and said, "This is one of J. Tuners works! From the looks of it, this work is a Moderate Earthy Ranked treasure."

She waved the blade as a burst of heat appeared and a long fiery Katana like sword appeared, it turned her mana into a solid state, Fei Lei placed his hand near the blade and felt the heat coming off of it.

"This guy is obsessed with making Magic Items that can be used by all mages, it often results in him making inferior products, not to mention he specializes in close range equipment, other than wind and earth Mages, the rest usually rely on long-range attacks," Yan Mei explained.

Fei Lei held his hand out, "Can I try?"

"Sure, I wonder what a Non-Elementalist's effects will have on his work."

Fei Lei grabbed the weapon by the hilt and the fire disappeared, he channeled his Mana into the hilt, nothing happened, he sighed before trying one last thing, he focused his telekinesis into the blade when something started to happen.

A long clear katana appeared it was twice as thick as a regular katana, and around the size of a Ōdachi, every time he waved it, the transparent surface of the blade glimmered against the sunlight. Fei Lei felt that it was incredibly easier to use his telekinesis through the sword, as it lessened the strain greatly.

"Whoa, it worked! Odd I don't sense any Mana coming from it, I don't see a name for the weapon either." Yan Mei said with a smile on her face.

"I'll buy this, it's new name is Clear Mist, see anything else you like?" Fei Lei asked looking at the weapons on the rack.

Yan Mei stared around and said, "That one!" she pointed her finger at a red bow that looked like it was made from a Phoenix feather, "Ahh, you have good eyes young miss, that's a Flawless Earthly Treasure, altogether that comes up to 15 million Gold Bills."

Yan Mei shook her head, "Why did I only take a few million! I should have just taken daddy's wallet."

Fei Lei pulled out 150 One Star Wind Cores, "Here you go!" The shopkeeper looked stunned as he quickly hid the cores and said, "Pleasure doing business with you."

Fei Lei and Yan Mei placed their new equipment in their rings and walked off, as they got closer to Guild, they didn't really see anything that they were interested in, when all of the sudden, people started to rush through the streets in a frenzy.

"The World Dungeon has respawned, the competition to decide the party that gets to enter is beginning."

"Hurry we're going to miss the queue up! I heard that this year something special is going to appear."

Everyone was shouting and chatting alongside them when Yan Mei said, "Come on let's go sign up, we'll register with the Guild after!"

"That's odd, it's a week early" Yan Mei said scratching her head.

Fei Lei started to run beside her as they appeared over a large tournament stage that had several hundred painted circular rings surrounding the grounds.

A large lineup of people was standing next to a few mages behind a wooden table, there was a crystal ball on it, and a stone pillar only a few feet away from them.

The words "Next, and fail!" Were repeatedly heard throughout the area.

Dozens of Mages were being tossed out the competition while only small handfuls were being accepted.

It took a while for it to be their turn, Fei Lei was started to lose his patience when Yan Mei went up first, she placed her hand on the orb and it glowed brighter than any previous contestant. It felt like they were standing next to the sun gentle warmth, when the testers suddenly shouted, "Fire God Roots! This Child has Fire God Roots! And her Mana Levels are just as crazy as one would expect!"

The crowd burst into chatter as many of them stared at her cloaked figure.

"Pass! Please demonstrate your magic." The person in charge of running the test shouted.

Yan Mei pulled out her new bow, the 'Vermillion Feather' and charged up her mana, as she cast a level zero spell, 'Flaming Arrow' an arrow entirely made of green flames shot out and caused the stone pillar to explode, the chunks fell over leaving a 5-foot crater in its surface, suddenly the pillar started to repair itself.

"Holy crap, did you see that? I hope I don't get put in the same elimination circle as her!" One of the contestants said with fear in her voice.

"Pass, next!" The testers shouted.

Fei Lei stepped up to the crystal and placed his hand on the orb, suddenly the orb grew clear and gave off a radiant energy that engulfed the area, the hosts were shocked at the levels of his mana, even now it was rapidly engulfing the area, when all of the sudden, before they could take a look at his roots the crystal ball shattered.

"What the hell kind of monster is that?" One of the people in line shouted.

"Did you see the color? He's a Non-Elemental user, how can he have that much mana?!"

"It must've been broken by the Fire God Root girl, retry!"

More and wilder accusations of cheating were being thrown out, to shut them up, even before they passed him, Fei Lei walked over to the repaired pillar, pulling out his new sword to his waist, Fei Lei swung the transparent blade as fast as he could.

A huge gust of wind was pulled along with his swing, he sheathed the weapon after he cut through the object and started to walk towards the grouping of people that passed, suddenly the crowd started up again.

"What are you doing moron! Dancing?"

"You didn't pass, loser!"

"Get off the stage, ya dumb ass!"

Fei Lei smiled and pointed to the pillar, suddenly it began to fall over as it was cut diagonally, a loud crash echoed throughout the area, which made many people gasp.

"Pass!" One of the testers shouted in disbelief before another said, "Please wait, while we replace the testing orb."

Yan Mei stared at Fei Lei in shock, "Just how strong is my man?" She thought as she moved closer to him.

After a while, the testing resumed, most of it was pretty boring, nothing too interesting happened, when all of the sudden, a bright blue light covered the area, it was like ocean had appeared and washed over everyone in a calming embrace.

"Sea God Roots! Another one! What the hell is going on today?!" One of the contestants shouted.

"Isn't the Northern Goddess, Hina Umi!"

"The Blue Edan School surely has its beauties."

Fei Lei looked over to see a young woman around the same age as them, she was almost six feet, tan skin, and wore a breastplate and a blue and white wave patterned battle skirt. She had sapphire blue eyes and fiery red straight short hair, that hanged just below pointed ears and a long braided ponytail that had a red ribbon tying it off. Her breasts were around a D cup and her body was extremely fit, like she had been trained by an expert fighter.

She carried a long whip made of some kind of flexible purple metal, she carried herself with the grave of a finely honed warrior, when she spotted Fei Lei in the crowd she waved at him as she knew him.

Yan Mei gave Fei Lei a suspicious stare, "You know her?"

Fei Lei shook his head, "No, never seen her before in my life."

She walked up to the statue and pulled out her whip and suddenly her body turned a light shade of red, "That's!" Fei Lei was shocked, "Non-Elemental Spell Boost! How does she know it!?"

The whip was surrounded in a great blur of violently rotating water, and it pierced a hole through it as the sonic boom created a large crater around the whip surface.

"Pass, the girl ran up to him and said, "So you're Teacher's newest student, I'm Hina, a pleasure to meet you."

Fei Lei's jaw dropped, he shook her hand, and said, "Teacher never said anything like having a fellow pupil. I'm Fei Lei, this is my special companion, Yan Mei."

She shook Yan Mei's hand as well, "Hi, I'm master's eighth student, the youngest next to Fei Lei."

"How many students does the Mage Slayer have?" Yan Mei questioned in shock.

"Nine, including Fei Lei," Hina answered.