Zhao Manyan

Zhao Man Yan is the main male deuteragonist in "Versatile Mage"

Zhao Man Yan is one of Mo Fan's best friends. They met at Pearl Institute and were roommates. He is known as a womanizer and always has a different woman on his arm. His family owns auction houses that Mo Fan has used to sell magic items. Along with Mo Fan, he was also a member of the National Team. Given that all of the Elements that he has awakened are defensive or supportive elements, Mo Fan often refers to him as a "turtle mage". His non-Summon Contract Beast is a unique Silver Shark.

Appearance
He has fashionably styled long hair, a face like a fairy tale prince.

Personality
He was Initially shown as flamboyant and laid back due to his wealth, Jiang Shao Xu hypothesized that he and Mo Fan bonded through their mutual interests in perverse activities. Through this bonding he was involved in more dangerous and life threatening situations than he would have liked. Regardless he subconsciously agreed that his past behavior would be too boring for him now that he has gone through trials with Mo Fan.

"He might say no with his mouth, but he could not stop himself from diving into dangerous and exciting situations" - Zhang Xiao hou.

He has showed to be cowardly but in reality he is courageous and has helped Mo Fan and his friends many times. He admits that he wanted to become an offensive based Mage but somehow ended up becoming a specialized Defensive Mage earning him the nickname of Turtle Mage. He insists on not awakening his 4th Element until he is sure that he can awaken an offensive Magic Element.

Plot
Pearl institute:

He first appears in Pearl University's dorm meeting Mo Fan for the first time telling him to finish brushing while he tidy up some things, they discussed a little before he leave for his appointment with a senior sister. He informed Mo Fan about the welcoming program which is a beast combat competition using the summoned beasts of summoners freshmen, when he hear Mo Fan cursing he told him he could only blame himself for having the most unique element and was quite envious of him displaying the strength of his summoned beast in front of the entire school, when he was asked about the fire student by Mo Fan he indifferently told him he was probably applying for a change of room.

After the incident at Jinlin city, he watch Mo Fan causing ruckus and slap his fellow Zhao clan disciple who just lost to Mo Fan in the fire element campus stadium.

Later on the beginning of world college tournament story arc, he made his way to the national team as substitute, to undergo training for a year alongside Mo Fan and Mu Ningxue who was also substitute.

On a certain big match in world college tournament, he endures the damage by attacks from Germany national team to allow Mo Fan finishing the match for Chinese team's victory. Later, he managed to recover and participated in final match of the tournament versus Egypt.

He follows Mo Fan to travel around the world after the tournament for the purpose of reaching Super Level, also avoiding his older brother whom become the new Zhao Clan's Head after their father passed away.

Cultivation
Zhao Manyan's cultivation is not that impressive as he was the last one to reach Super Level in his group. But his special point is not his cultivation but his Absolute Perverted Defence like that of a thousand year old Turtle shell.

He was pretty average when he was an Intermediate mage as he did nothing but slack off on cultivation and magic training, but he was above the mobs as he defeated 20-25 servant class creatures while being in Intermediate Level 1.

But as he went on these impossible adventures with Mo Fan and saw him becoming stronger and stronger before leaving him in his dust, he decided to quickly catch up to him before it was too late. Later on in the series he becomes a mage who is absolutely focused on defence, when he becomes an Advanced mage and starts to take things seriously he stumbles upon a Wooden Clapper which was coincidently Baxia's Totem Vessel and becomes his guardian. He slowly but steadily unlocks the Totemic powers of vessel, which gives his defensive spells a ×2 boost, making his defence more obsolete. He was even able to control his Advance Spells enough to modify them into defensive type of spells even without a Soul Grade Seed/Core. Not only that but his Spells were able to stop or knock back Monarch Level creature's attacks once or twice while he was still an Advanced Mage.

The Multiplier of the Totem Seal later on increases as he evolves the tool to reach its peak. It now gives a ×4 boost to all his defensive spells and after reaching Super Level he has an Earth Spell which is both used for defence and for offense so the ×4 boost makes his attack power op as well not losing to Mo Fan when he was in Super Level.

He was also the only person who was filled with a variety of Magic Equipment's from head to toe. His Death Strike Magic Weapon was as strong as Mo Fan's Soul Powered 4th Level Advanced Lightning Spell.

He also has a Contract Beast, A Little Blue Kun who can fly and can also devour multiple Commander Class Creatures with a single bite and can become a Ruler Level creature within two days after just hatching. The Silver Shark now might be a Lesser Emperor or even a True Bonafide Emperor, now that Zhao Manyan had become truly the richest person in the world.

Quotes
"Damn it, with I, Zhao Man Yan here, how could I let you take the hit for us? If even a single spout of flame lands on your head, my surname won’t be Zhao anymore!"

- Zhao Manyan to Mo Fan

"F**k your cousin’s sister, why didn’t you tell me earlier? Only a psycho would go inside a Pyramid with you if it wasn’t for your trump card, and now you’re telling me you don’t even have your trump card? I’ll kill you and kill myself!"

- Zhao Manyan to Mo Fan

"Mo Fan, if we can survive this, can we just break off with one another?"

- Zhao Manyan to Mo Fan

"I believe there wouldn’t be a last time or this time if I wasn’t with you. Mo Fan, we are just Advanced Mages. The others might even think we are f**king Forbidden Mages if they knew what we’ve been through!"

- Zhao Manyan to Mo Fan

"Good news my ass! I was able to bully him with a single hand before we visited the Pyramid, but I’m still stuck at the Advanced Level while he’s already becoming a f**king legend!… We are leaving tomorrow. If you don’t, I’ll be holding a knife against your throat and force you to go with me!"

- Zhao Manyan to Mo Fan

"Say, how much do you think a totem beast would be worth? if we kidnap the moon moth phoenix, can we get ourselves a nest of flying Dragons?"

- Zhao Manyan to Mo Fan

"Your ambition is becoming the strongest Mage in the world, but my ambition is to spread my love to beauties of all the different countries"

- Zhao Manyan to Mo Fan

""Oh my, that thing can really heal bones! Mu Bai, I didn’t know you could mix stuff other than the aphrodisiac, well done!"

- Zhao Manyan to Mu Bai