Picking Up Attributes From Today

by Stayrr

In Heaven’s Vault Continent, Colossal Dragons, Titans, Beast People, Fairies, Magical Beasts, and other races reign supreme! Humans are treated like s*aves and lowlifes, while Dragon People act all high and mighty and consider themselves nobility! However, a new addition will rock the boat and overturn the status quo! His name is Meng Lei, and he is a human from Earth that trans

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Chapter 65: Gouging Out Dragon Cores Picking Up Dragon Sh*t

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Shock!

Confusion!

Disbelief!

Meng Lei was feeling a complex mix of emotions!

A Saint Domain Fire Dragon was already a strong and powerful existence that stood far above all other lifeforms. Creatures that could match up to it... were far and few, yet even it had been killed!

What did this bit of strength he possessed even count as?

"There are too many big fishes in Heaven's Vault Continent! Sigh, I'd better just cultivate properly instead!"

Meng Lei readjusted his frame of mind. Then, as he gazed at the Fire Dragon carcass on the little island, an indistinct look flashed across his eyes. The value that a Saint Domain Fire Dragon's carcass held was hard to imagine.

It was no exaggeration to say that even a single dragon scale scraped off from its body or a pile of dragon sh*t could fetch an exorbitant sum of money. After all, they were a Saint Domain dragon scale and a pile of Saint Domain dragon sh*t!

Its dragon core, in particular, was absolutely priceless and a most valuable treasure. Even a Ninth-Grade Magical Beast's magic core could go for up to 10,000,000 gold coins, much less a Saint Domain dragon core?

"Also, it's said that the Dragon race adores shiny and glittering things very much and loves to sleep in dens built with gold coins and jewels. As such, every dragon is a moving treasure vault."

The moment he thought of that, Meng Lei became worked up at once. A moving treasure vault! If that was really true, then he'd be rich for sure.

"I have to go down there! I absolutely have to!"

The more Meng Lei thought about it, the more agitated he became. How he wished he could jump into the pit, walk right up to the Saint Domain Fire Dragon carcass, pluck off its dragon scales, and pick up its dragon sh*t...

Now, here was the problem—how was he supposed to get down there?

Meng Lei tossed a rock into the pit. An invisible "wall" blocked the rock, and it couldn't drop into the pit at all. Come to think of it, the same "wall" must have also blocked the water from the pool.

"A magic barrier?"

Meng Lei's brows drew together at once. Magic barriers were a type of defensive magic spell. They basically worked on the same principle as magic shields and possessed defensive and isolation effects.

The difference laid only in the size of their effective range.

"With this magic barrier here, how am I supposed to get down there?"

Meng Lei was rather anxious. To pass through a magic barrier, one must either get the spellcaster's permission or break it using sheer brute force!

Apart from that, there were no other solutions!

"It's highly likely that the Saint Domain Fire Dragon put up the magic barrier. How can I possibly break it apart when I'm so weak?"

Despite thinking so, Meng Lei still attempted to launch an attack anyway.

What if... It broke, right?

The earth in the surroundings grouped together and swiftly transformed into a ten-meters-tall earth giant. This was the Sixth-Grade Earth Spell, Swamp Giant!

Boom!

The giant drew back its fist and smashed it hard against the magic barrier. Following a deafening explosion, the magic barrier remained as intact as ever, whereas the recoil's impact shattered the earth giant.

"As expected, the magic barrier is rock-solid, indeed!"

Meng Lei's heart sank. Then, he launched the strongest earth-elemental spell that he could cast as of now—Giant Boulder. Earth Elements started gathering in the sky and, under Meng Lei's deliberate manipulation, condensed into an enormous rock shaped like an electric drill.

"Giant Boulder... Land!"

Meng Lei let out a low shout. The rock boulder plummeted from the sky and instantly got past the pool water before crashing violently against the magic barrier!

Boom!

Amid the shocking collision sounds, a fearsome rebounding force erupted and spread into the surroundings. The rock boulder was smashed directly into smithereens, and along with it, the mud at the bottom of the pool splashed everywhere from the impact.

Meng Lei was also thrown out, of course.

"Ugh!"

With a tuck and roll, Meng Lei landed in the distance. A sense of helplessness welled up in him as he gazed at the magic barrier that had now revealed a large part of itself. Even the Seventh-Grade Spell Giant Boulder hadn't been able to leave even a scratch on the magic barrier. What must he do in order to break the magic barrier?

Thunder spells?

Fire spells?

Or brute force?

"There's water here, so all spells' effect, be it thunder-elemental or fire-elemental, will be drastically reduced. At this point, I can only give brute force a try!"

The moment he thought of that, Meng Lei promptly transformed into a Dragon Person. He built an earthen wall around himself to block out the pool water in the surroundings. Then, he leaped high into the air and smashed his fist down.

"C'mon, break apart!!!"

Meng Lei had a body that was comparable to a Seventh-Grade Warrior's. After he transformed into a Dragon Person, his strength was also enhanced severalfold. By further borrowing the force from the downward momentum, this punch of his now contained an absolutely astounding amount of power.

Even an Eighth-Grade Magical Beast would find the punch hard to stomach if it took the hit. This was also the strongest attack that Meng Lei could currently deliver.

"If this fails too, then there's totally nothing I can do about it anymore!"

Meng Lei had a look of determination in his eyes as he crashed heavily into the magic barrier. However, something completely out of his expectations happened. In the instant that his fist connected with the magic barrier, a slight tremor went through the magic barrier, as though hard, solid ice melting into tepid water or refined steel melting into molten metal...

Whoosh!

Meng Lei's fist passed right through and went straight past the magic barrier!

Along with his fist, Meng Lei himself also passed through the magic barrier!

It was much like how a sharp arrow passed through a sheet of paper—no obstruction whatsoever!

"What the heck!?"

Meng Lei looked absolutely stupefied.

I'd come smashing down with such an aggressive momentum, yet in the end, I didn't even touch anything at all and passed right through?

What the heck are they up to?!

As if a meteor, Meng Lei crashed toward the lava lake at extremely high speed. Scorching heatwaves rushed toward his face, and Meng Lei turned pale from fear at once. The lava's temperature went as high as over 1,000C. Should he fall into the lava lake, could his weak and tiny arms and legs even take it?

Even the Fire Dragon bloodline and the Fire Demon bloodline wouldn't be able to take it. The temperature was too high!

"Earth Orbs!"

At the eleventh hour, Meng Lei cast Earth Orbs, one of the lowest-grade spells, in succession. Several basketball-sized earthen balls formed instantly and blocked him underneath his body to reduce his speed. Just as Meng Lei was about to fall into the lava lake, he finally came to a stop.

"Phew!"

When he sensed that his body was no longer falling anymore, at last, Meng Lei involuntarily let out a long breath of air. That was seriously too dangerous just now. Had he fallen into the lava lake, the consequences would have been unthinkable.

After that, Meng Lei manipulated the earthen balls to pull himself up to the little island in the lake center. The moment he got near the island, a terrifying wave of pressure rushed toward him, and Meng Lei was almost flattened to the ground. Even breathing had become difficult!

"How terrifying!

"How absolutely terrifying!

"Even a carcass can give off such terrifying pressure. Just how powerful must it have been when it was still alive?"

Meng Lei wiped the cold sweat off his brow and slowly straightened his back. He examined the behemoth lying prostrate in front of him, with an aghast look all over his face!

It was massive, and even a scale was as big as a bamboo dustpan!

When one stood underneath it, it was as if they were standing at the bottom of city walls!

Its crimson-red body was incomparably hard and tough. Filled with a metallic texture, it felt like one was touching steel when they touched the body surface. Light knocks against it produced dull thuds, and it didn't seem like a body made out of flesh and blood at all.

"Tough, massive, and boiling hot! Is that what a Fire Dragon is?"

Meng Lei clicked his tongue in wonder and admiration as he circled around the Fire Dragon and examined it closely. In the past, he had only been able to see creatures like this as statues, on walls, and in magic-related books. He'd never had the opportunity to see it in the flesh like what he was doing now before.

After a round of observation, Meng Lei now had a deeper understanding of a Fire Dragon's strength and power. He also somewhat understood why a creature like it was able to stand far above the other lifeforms now.

"With such a fearsome body, it's hard to be weak even if it'd wanted to!

"But... With such a hard and tough body, what must I do in order to dig its dragon core out and pluck off its scales? Am I really going to have to pick up its... dragon sh*t?"

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Chapter 66: Saint Domain Magician, This Is A Divine Weapon

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In the boiling hot lava lake, smoke coiled and drifted around while the lake surface bubbled.

The air in the surroundings was hot and dry. Adding to this the low oxygen content, there was no way ordinary creatures could survive here at all. This was a forbidden area, a place of doom, and even more so a true hell on earth!

"What should I do?

"What exactly should I do?"

Meng Lei was in such a panic that he was going around in circles. The Fire Dragon carcass was too massive. The storage space in his spatial magic devices was nowhere even near enough, which meant that he didn't have any means of bringing it away with him wholesale for now!

To avoid falling to the extent of leaving empty-handed, he had to think of a way to pluck at least a little something off its body. Dragon scales, dragon core, dragon horns... These were all wonderful things that could sell for good prices!

"The problem now is, how do I pluck them off?"

Meng Lei's eyes landed on the black spear. The murder weapon had pierced all the way through the Saint Domain Fire Dragon's head and protruded from its throat.

It... had impaled the Saint Domain Fire Dragon to death!

"The hardest and toughest part of a Fire Dragon's body is its head, yet it could even pierce right through its head. This spear..."

An indistinct look flashed across Meng Lei's eyes. He sprung off the ground and leaped onto the Fire Dragon's head, and made close contact with the peerless murder weapon!

It was pitch-black like ink throughout, as thick as an adult's forearm, covered in magic pattern markings all over, and forged from an unknown material.

"It looks simple and unadorned, while its might muted and subtle!

"But since it could pierce through the Fire Dragon's head, then it must be very sharp, right? I should be able to gouge out some stuff with it?"

Meng Lei gripped the black spear in his hand and pulled forcefully.

(o)

"Uh..."

It didn't budge at all!

He pulled forcefully again. However, it still didn't budge. Even when he gritted his teeth and applied force again, it still didn't even goddamn budge a little.

"I... F*ck!"

Meng Lei fell onto his bottom on top of the Fire Dragon's head. He was close to cursing. "What kind of goddamn spear is that, exactly? It's actually that heavy?

"But this shouldn't be happening!

"With my Seventh-Grade Warrior strength, what kind of spear can't I pull out? Or is it stuck in the Fire Dragon's skull?

"No, I can't give up!

"That's my only hope in taking apart this dragon carcass!"

Meng Lei gritted his teeth and tried again.

Yet during the next few minutes, even after Meng Lei had put in every ounce of strength he had in him, it was as if the black spear had become part of the dragon carcass, and it didn't even shift at all.

"I'm so tired!"

Meng Lei panted heavily. He had the impulse to pick up a hammer and smash everything to smithereens at the moment.

This is so goddamn infuriating! I've already wasted half a day doing this, so why don't you just goddamn move a little?!

"You're not going to be able to pull out the Gods-Slaying Spear like that!"

At this moment, an old, aged voice suddenly rang out by Meng Lei's ear.

"Who's there?!"

Meng Lei jerked violently. He sprung off the ground and took a huge, sudden stride forward. His eyes were full of shock and wariness as he looked around everywhere. Someone else was actually here in an obscure place like this, yet he hadn't detected their presence at all.

He'd been too careless!!

If the other party had harbored ill intentions, he would've been...

Meng Lei couldn't help but shiver.

"Relax, I don't have any ill intentions."

A wisp of green smoke emerged from the black spear and rose into the air before converging into the shape of a human... No, to be more accurate, it was... A Dragon Person!

Dressed in a long fiery-red robe, he had a head of long fiery-red hair and a long fiery-red beard. He looked kindly and amicable, and there were two fiery-red horns at the top of his head.

"W-who are you?" asked Meng Lei as he stuttered in a trembling voice.

Astounded and horrified, he stared hard at the red-haired elderly man floating above the Fire Dragon's head.

"Who am I?"

The red-haired elderly man chuckled and stroked his beard. "I'm the Fire Dragon Magic Academy's president, and the chief court Saint Domain Magician of Fire Dragon Kingdom. My name is Amos Kroc. Little fellow, you should've heard of this old man's name before, right?"

"The president of Fire Dragon Magic Academy?"

Meng Lei was a little stunned. He murmured softly, "The president of our academy is Fred Flit. I've seen what he looks like before, but he doesn't look like you... Wait!

"Amos Kroc!!!"

Meng Lei exclaimed in surprise, "Did you say you're Amos Kroc?!"

"Haha, looks like you've heard of me!"

The red-haired elderly man smiled in gratification. "I'm very comforted to hear that!"

Meng Lei's eyes were fixed on the old man, however. He said, "Amos Kroc is the second president of our Fire Dragon Magic Academy, but he has already been dead for more than 20,000 years. Yet you're saying that you're Amos Kroc. Are you just teasing me?"

Amos Kroc—the second president of Fire Dragon Magic Academy, a strong and powerful Saint Domain Dragon Person, and a Saint Domain Magician skilled in both water-elemental and fire-elemental magic.

He was the first Dragon Person to master Dragon-Language Magic and was skilled in the research of magic. He had invented a total of 189 water-elemental and fire-elemental magic spells and made an outstanding contribution to water-elemental and fire-elemental magic research!

Meng Lei had seen these achievements at the group of statues in Fire Dragon Square. All the glorious achievements of Amos Kroc, the second president, had been engraved on the statue. They were still fresh in Meng Lei's memories even now, and he also looked up to him very much.

However, the problem was that President Amos Kroc had mysteriously disappeared after he had stepped down. There had been no news of him ever since, and everyone thought that he had already passed away.

As of now, more than 20,000 years had already passed!

"I've been dead for more than 20,000 years?"

The old man was mildly stunned for a moment. Then, he sighed and remarked, "I didn't expect that more than 20,000 years have already gone by. How times have changed... Time passes by too easily!"

Meng Lei stared at the old man, not daring to relax even a little.

"Little fellow, relax. I am indeed Amos Kroc!"

Ol' Amos chuckled and said, "Back then, I was stuck at the pinnacle of Saint Domain for many years without any improvement, so I resigned from my position as academy president to wander around the continent and travel to every corner of it.

"In the end, my efforts were rewarded, and I found an opportunity to break through. Thus, I found this volcanic crater in the Magical Beast Forest.

"Unexpectedly, at the final stages when I was about to break through, this black spear came flying here from some unknown place. It killed me on the spot, devoured my soul, and sealed me within it!"

There was neither hatred nor fury in the old man when he related all these. He spoke in a calm and tranquil voice, and his disposition was cheerful as if he was narrating something trivial and unimportant.

His state of mind moved Meng Lei emotionally.

Despite being killed by someone, he was still able to stay so calm and tranquil. What an unbeatable state of mind he possessed!

Of course, he didn't eliminate the possibility that Ol' Amos was lying and deceiving him, either.

With regard to that, Meng Lei had no way of telling. He could only go along with the old man and ask, "So, you don't know who had killed you, either?"

"That's right!"

Ol' Amos nodded slightly, somewhat frustrated. "Being sealed in this black spear and unable to see the light of day, and becoming something neither human nor ghost, this old man has resented, hated, and had become aggrieved before...

"But after such a long time, everything has already been worn away. It's just that I was killed so absurdly, yet I don't even know who my foe was. This old man is certainly more or less rather frustrated!"

"Anyone would be frustrated." Meng Lei shook his head and went on. "But the owner of this spear could kill even you, so their battle capabilities must have reached unfathomable depths. Perhaps not knowing who they are might be something positive instead!"

"I've also considered that." Ol' Amos smiled and said, "The material that this spear is made out of isn't something that can be found in Heaven's Vault Continent. The magic circle engraved on it also contains endless profoundness and has surpassed the Saint Domain stage.

"Thus, my bold conjecture is that this black spear's owner must be a terrifying existence far above the Saint Domain level for sure. I can only count myself unlucky to be killed by him."

"In that case... This spear is a treasure?"

"It's far more than just a treasure. This is a divine weapon!"

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Chapter 67: Dripping Blood To Claim Ownership, An Unfilial Descendant

"A divine weapon? Is it that impressive?" Meng Lei exclaimed.

"Impressive?" Ol' Amos was a little taken aback. He said, "A divine weapon is a weapon that only the deities high up above can use. It has incomparable might and divine power that reaches all the way to the heavens and is capable of destroying heaven and earth!

"Back then, I'd already achieved great mastery for my Fire Dragon body, and my physical body didn't lose out to a pure-blooded Fire Dragon King in the slightest. I was only a step short of breaking through to the Dragon King realm.

"Even so, I was still killed by this spear that had come flying out of nowhere anyway. You can imagine just how sharp this spear is!"

Ol' Amos sighed softly. "To slay a Saint Domain at their pinnacle as if they're just slaughtering livestock, even if we survey the entire Heaven's Vault Continent, only divine weapons are capable of possessing such might. Therefore, I named it the Gods-Slaying Spear."

"So, it really is a divine weapon!"

Meng Lei stroked the black spear, excitement flashing across his eyes. Right after that, however, he became frustrated again. "So what even if it's a divine weapon? I can't use it anyway!"

Ol' Amos stroked his beard and smiled. "Divine weapons are sentient, so you can't use it when it hasn't acknowledged your capabilities, of course! Try dripping a drop of blood on it and see if you can subdue it."

"Dripping blood to claim ownership?"

Meng Lei looked at the old man. "This thing shouldn't already belong to someone, right? What if it already has a master? I don't want to die in my prime!"

"No, it doesn't!"

Ol' Amos shook his head with a smile. "If it had a master, it wouldn't have been abandoned here for over 20,000 years. My guess is that its master has either already died or abandoned it.

"No matter what it is, you can rest assured and give it a go. Even if you fail to claim it as yours, there won't be any negative consequences!"

"Is that so?!"

Meng Lei was dubious. He didn't really believe the old man's words that much. However, the divine weapon was simply too tempting and irresistible!

"If I die, the worst that can happen is that I'll just lose my life. But if I survive, I'll gain eternal repute! Riches are gained from danger! Let's go all out!"

Meng Lei gritted his teeth and squeezed out a drop of blood.

Bzzz!

The blood dripped onto the black spear's surface and was absorbed into the spear-like water that had dripped onto a sponge. As that happened, the black spear also suddenly began to shake.

Crackle, crackle!

A dazzling purple electric current surged out of the spear and shot toward Meng Lei. Before he could duck, the purple electric current had already engulfed him!

Crackle, crackle!

As if he had been struck by lightning, Meng Lei's hair instantly frizzed up, and violent spasms began to go through him as though he had consumed five kilograms of Ecstasy pills.

"This... Why is this happening?!"

The old man's countenance changed drastically. "I'd clearly sensed that the spiritual mark that the Gods-Slaying Spear's master had left inside the spear had already dissipated 14,000 years ago. This shows that the spear had already become a masterless artifact a long time ago, so why is this happening?"

A divine weapon's master was definitely a deity for sure!

There was no doubt about that!

Something that belonged to a deity...

How would a mere mortal... even dare to covet it?

If he hadn't sensed that the spiritual mark in the Gods-Slaying Spear had already dissipated a long time ago, Ol' Amos wouldn't have dared to allow Meng Lei to attempt subduing the divine weapon at all.

If its master found out by any chance, not only would Meng Lei be a goner, but even he would also suffer a calamity along with him. He'd already died once and didn't want to die a second time.

Therefore, this situation was something that Ol' Amos had never expected. He didn't know whether this was something that one must go through during the Gods-Slaying Spear's ownership claim process or if Meng Lei had triggered some kind of restriction in the Gods-Slaying Spear and was just being unlucky right now.

The old man didn't know any of these, so the only thing he could do now was to pray!

"Oh Dragon God, please watch over him!"

Crackle, crackle!

The purple electric current was still lashing at Meng Lei, while he was spasming nonstop. The only thing that slightly reassured the old man was that Meng Lei's life force was still very strong...

"Oh Dragon God, please watch over him!

"That kid is a descendant of mine, please don't let him die..."

It seemed fated that the Dragon God would hear the old man's prayers. As time slowly passed, the purple electric current surging out of the black spear finally weakened.

Gradually, like a swallow returning to its nest, the purple electric current enveloping Meng Lei shrank back into the black spear, and his spasms and convulsions also stopped.

Burp~

As Meng Lei gave a belch, a wisp of black smoke emerged from his mouth. He was honestly sporting a very pathetic appearance at the moment. Every strand of his hair stood vertically on end, and he was charred charcoal-black all over, just like a black version of Ne Zha, the demon child[1].

"Little fellow, how are you feeling?" asked Ol' Amos anxiously, his countenance nervous.

Meng Lei turned to look at him. As his body was still numb, his movements appeared very mechanical. He grinned and revealed a mouthful of pearly-white teeth. "It seems like... I've succeeded!"

"Seems like? Succeeded?"

The old man was dumbfounded. "So did you succeed or not, exactly?"

Meng Lei didn't answer. Instead, he looked at the black spear and hooked his finger slightly. Then, something strange happened...

The black spear that Meng Lei hadn't been able to budge even a millimeter even after he exerted every ounce of strength he had... moved. It pulled itself out of the dragon carcass' head, rose into the air, and flew right up to Meng Lei.

"Go!"

As Meng Lei took in the sensation of the mysterious connection between him and the black spear, he pointed in the air and gave an order.

Whoosh!

At once, the black spear turned into a purple lightning bolt and instantly shot toward the rock wall. With a crisp and clear crack, a hole formed immediately in the rock wall that even the boiling lava couldn't melt, and the spear sank deep into it.

"Come!"

Meng Lei waved, and the black spear flew back again. It stayed quiet and still as it floated in front of Meng Lei, incredibly obedient.

"A divine weapon! That's exactly what a divine weapon is!"

The old man's eyes lit up brightly, and he burst into carefree laughter. "This old man has forged countless weapons and was once known as the empire's greatest artifact-refining master. However, I've never forged a magic device that's controllable by will and moves according to one's will like that before!

"It certainly lives up to the two words 'divine weapon'!"

"It's a great treasure, indeed!" Meng Lei stroked the black shaft as if he was stroking the woman he loved. "And it's even a thunder-elemental weapon, so it just so happens to match my elemental affinity. What a great treasure!"

Meng Lei was truly elated. Among all the thunder-elemental spells available, the one he loved using the most was Thunderbolt Spear. This particular spell was very domineering and was the most astounding in terms of single-target offensive power.

A strike from the spear could stab the enemy dead!

How domineering was that?

Thus, the Gods-Slaying Spear was very much to Meng Lei's liking. It could be said to be perfect!

"There are so many great existences that couldn't obtain even a single divine weapon after risking their lives and desperately fighting each other for their whole lives!"

With a chuckle, Ol' Amos went on and said, "Whereas you're only 20 years old, yet you've gotten one without even working for it. An opportunity like that is truly enviable! However, you must remember to use it appropriately and not show it to others easily."

"The idea that one does not openly show their wealth... is something I understand!"

Meng Lei nodded repeatedly and continued to stroke his beloved spear.

"I'm glad you understand that."

As Ol' Amos stroked his beard, a look of gratification appeared on his face. However, what Meng Lei said next caused his expression to darken completely. Meng Lei wondered aloud, "I wonder if the Gods-Slaying Spear is capable of taking apart this dragon carcass?

"Tsk, tsk, this is a Saint Domain Colossal Dragon carcass, you know! If I can gouge out its dragon core, I can definitely sell that for a crazy sum of money!"

The veins at the old man's forehead bulged from his skin, and his expression was as dark and sullen as the bottom of a charred pot. He glared viciously at Meng Lei and broke into a huge scolding. "You unfilial descendant!"

[1] Refers to the 2019 animation film Ne Zha

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Chapter 68: Bloodline Barrier, Leaving The Underground

'Unfilial descendant'?

(Sweat drop!)

It was only then that Meng Lei remembered that the Saint Domain Fire Dragon carcass here was the old man's remains in front of him right now. Well, mumbling about taking apart his body and selling his dragon core in front of him was certainly going a little overboard!

"Hehe! I'm just saying it casually, so don't take me seriously!" replied Meng Lei as he scratched his head and blushed in shame.

"Hmph! Don't you dare think that I have no idea what you're thinking!"

Ol' Amos wasn't that easy to fool. He glared at Meng Lei and said, "My blood flows through your veins, and you're my, Amos Kroc's, blood kin and descendant. Others can clamor about splitting up and claiming my body, but... You can't!"

Meng Lei was stupefied upon hearing what he said. "O-ol' President, what are you talking about? How come I don't understand what you're saying?"

Ol' Amos pointed at the magic barrier above the lava lake and barked, "I'm the one that had set up that magic barrier. With the dragon core inside my body as the core and the surging fire-elemental magic power inside the lava lake as the power source, it can withstand and isolate even a Saint Domain expert's attacks. How do you think a tiny little Seventh-Grade Warrior like you had managed to come in?"

"This..."

Meng Lei had nothing to say to that.

How had I come in?

How the heck would I know?!

Meng Lei was indeed very puzzled about that. He only remembered that he had somehow managed to pass through the magic barrier into this place after he had transformed into a Dragon Person. As for the actual reason why...

Your humble consort[1] has no idea, either!

"Hmph! Let me tell you the truth!" Ol' Amos snorted and said, "Ever since this old man here perished in this place, I've taken this place as my final resting ground. I didn't want to be disturbed by anyone, so I'd set up that magic barrier."

"And then?"

Meng Lei blinked.

"Anyone would be tired of a place after staying there for a very long time. Although this old man's frame of mind has already transcended the secular world, even I cannot be exempted from such conventions. After more than 20,000 years, even I'm tired of this place!"

Ol' Amos let out a small sigh and went on. "I'd like to go out and take a look at the scenery outside. Unfortunately, the Gods-Slaying Spear had firmly bound me here such that I couldn't go beyond 10 meters of it.

"Thus, I could only pin my hopes on outsiders and hope that someone could take the Gods-Slaying Spear away with them and bring me out of this place!

"But I know very well that a person's inner thoughts are the hardest thing to predict.

"This place contains my remains, my entire life's worth of wealth and assets, and even a peerless divine weapon like the Gods-Slaying Spear. Should I meet someone harboring ill intentions, I'd be in danger!

"Thus, I'd modified the magic barrier to allow only my blood kin and descendants—in addition, the battle capabilities of the ones from the younger generation mustn't go beyond ninth-grade—to pass through the magic barrier and reach this place!"

Ol' Amos let out a wry chuckle. "It's just a shame that after such a long time, the ones that had managed to reach this place were mostly Magical Beasts. Even when the occasional human came, none of them had met the criterion. In these 20,000-odd years, you... are the first!"

Meng Lei didn't quite know what to say anymore. This place was located in the depths of Magical Beast Forest and was extremely remote. Apart from Magical Beasts and a handful of adventurers that took their lives lightly, who would come here?

Besides, even if they did, not only did they need to be his descendants, but their battle capabilities also mustn't surpass ninth-grade. These conditions were too demanding!

Only finding one after 20,000 years is something you deserve, old man! Come to think of it, though, when did I become that old geezer's descendant?

That shouldn't be!

Is it because of the Fire Dragon bloodline in my body?

Meng Lei's mind ran lightning-quick.

The Fire Dragon bloodline that I've assimilated came from the newly-promoted King of Fighters this year, Oden Flit. Could he be the real descendant of that old man instead?

That's highly likely the case.

Meng Lei's eyes swiveled left and right sneakily. He believed that his conjecture was close to the mark, but he wasn't going to tell Ol' Amos.

Didn't you hear what the old man said? His entire lifetime's worth of wealth and assets are here!

That's a Saint Domain expert's entire lifetime's worth of wealth and assets, you know!

Tsk, tsk. If I can get my hands on them... Hehehe!

"Ol' President, am I really your descendant?" Meng Lei blinked at him and asked with an expression full of "disbelief".

He had to think of a way to get on better terms with the old man, and then... inherit his assets!

"The bloodline barrier will never make a mistake!"

Ol' Amos glared at Meng Lei and said indignantly, "But you aren't anyone honest, either, kid. To actually dare to set your sights on my remains and even harbor thoughts of selling my dragon core... Aren't you afraid of being struck by lightning[2] and suffering retribution?"

"Cough, cough! You can't blame me for that, Ol' President!"

Meng Lei blushed and said, "Every part of a Dragon's body is a piece of treasure, much less when we're talking about a Saint Domain Colossal Dragon here. How can I possibly not be tempted?

"Besides, I didn't know that you're my ancestor. If I'd known, would I even dare to harbor such thoughts?"

Upon hearing what he said, Ol' Amos' expression mellowed slightly. "On account of the fact that you were unaware, I'll let this pass! But if you ever dare covet my remains again, see if I don't break your goddamn legs!"

"Not at all, not at all! How would I possibly have the guts to... Hehehe!" Meng Lei reassured him repeatedly like a huge wuss!

"Hmph! At least you know what's good for you!"

Ol' Amos snorted lightly and waved his arm. The enormous Fire Dragon carcass actually rose into the air, and then, it plunged right into the boiling hot lava lake. In the blink of an eye, it had vanished from sight.

Then, the ripples faded, and the lava lake returned to a state of tranquility, as though nothing had ever happened.

"Rest in peace, my remains!"

Ol' Amos stared at the lake surface that was now tranquil again in a daze, his eyes rather forlorn. That body had accompanied him all the way till this moment; now that he was leaving, it was inevitable that he would have complex feelings about it.

It's gone! My dragon core, dragon scales, and dragon sh*t are all gone!

Meng Lei's heart was bleeding, but there was nothing he could do except to watch helplessly. He even had to console the old man at the same time. "Ol' President, cheer up. You can still come back here and take a look in the future!"

"Yeah!"

Ol' Amos gave a small sigh. His eyes swept across the surroundings as if he wanted to imprint everything here deeply in his heart. It was only after a brief moment that he adjusted his frame of mind and said, "Let's go!"

"Alright!"

After Meng Lei responded, he looked at Ol' Amos and began to speak but then hesitated.

"If there's something you want to say, then just spit it out. There's no need to hum and haw," said Ol' Amos dryly as he glared at Meng Lei.

"Cough, cough! Ol' President, are you leaving just like that?" asked Meng Lei meaningfully as he glanced about.

Ol' Amos had a ghost of a smile on his face. "How else am I supposed to leave if not like this? This old man here is all alone in the world. Apart from this remnant soul, I have nothing else. If you're hoping to gain some kind of benefit from me, I'm afraid I'm going to have to disappoint you!"

Disappoint me?

Didn't you say just now that your entire lifetime's worth of wealth and assets are in this place? Yet you're "all alone in the world" now?

Meng Lei almost wanted to flip a table, but he could only give up obediently when he considered the gap in their battle capabilities. "What are you saying, Ol' President? I was just giving you a friendly reminder!"

After he spoke, Meng Lei picked up the Gods-Slaying Spear. A stone platform rose from underneath his feet, and he slowly flew toward the magic barrier.

After they left through the magic barrier, Ol' Amos got Meng Lei to cast an earth-elemental spell and bury the exposed magic barrier in order to prevent anyone from discovering it.

"I'm finally out!"

Ol' Amos floated above the water surface. As he gazed at the pitch-black canyon, a hint of agitation flashed across his eyes. After being trapped underground for over 20,000 years, he had finally broken the seal and emerged today.

One could easily imagine how agitated he was!

Meng Lei could understand how Ol' Amos must feel, so he didn't bother him. Instead, he dragged that Crocodile-Backed Ox Python's carcass to the shore and took out his dagger, condiments, and roasting rack, intending to make something to eat.

After a day of rushing about in the forest and suffering for so long underground, his stomach was already growling by now. He was so hungry that his chest was practically connected to his back now, and he desperately needed to eat something.

Meat cut!

Meat cleaned!

Meat arranged!

And then, he cast Fireball Technique to roast the meat!

"Little fellow, you have both earth-elemental and fire-elemental magic talent?"

[1] The term jokingly used here is a third-person term of address that royal consorts use to refer to themselves when replying to the Emperor

[2] Refers to the common saying among the Chinese that people will be struck by lightning as a form of divine punishment if they are unfilial to their parents and elders in the family

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Chapter 69: The Astonished Ol' Amos, An Eliminated Clan

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The luminous moon hung in the sky while the stars twinkled brightly.

The canyon bathed in moonlight in the night looked as if a black veil was draped over it. The cries of Magical Beasts occasionally rang out, making the canyon seem even quieter and tranquil.

Water vapor rose into the air, and campfires blazed!

Beside the pool, golden, glistening Magical Beast meat gave off an aroma that assailed the senses. Big, fat drops of grease dripped into the campfire and produced loud sizzling sounds, whetting Meng Lei's appetite and making him swallow his saliva.

"Setting up a fire by the lake and eating in the wilderness!" Ol' Amos floated in mid-air and gazed at the scene before him. He couldn't help but sigh emotionally. "Campfire, roasted meat, and ale... Tsk, tsk. What a nostalgic scene!"

"Haha!"

Meng Lei let out a laugh. He could understand how Ol' Amos felt. After being trapped in the same place for over 20,000 years, anyone would find every little thing in the outside world novel upon their release.

"Hehe, the meat's done!" Meng Lei's knife rose and fell. He cut off a piece of shank meat and passed it to Ol' Amos before saying, "Ol' President, you haven't had meat for a very long time, right? Here, try my cooking!"

"Brat, are you out to aggravate me?" Ol' Amos glared at him. "Can't you see that this old man is in soul-state now?"

"Uh..."

A sweat droplet formed on Meng Lei's forehead as he replied in embarrassment, "Sorry, I forgot about that! Hehe, I won't hold back anymore, then!"

After he spoke, he picked up the fragrant roasted meat and tucked in happily. The saying that anything would taste wonderful when one was hungry made a lot of sense. At the very least, Meng Lei was certainly eating very happily!

In addition, the Seventh-Grade Crocodile-Backed Ox Python meat itself contained an abundant amount of magic elements. And since it lived in a hot spring like this, the meat texture naturally tasted even more delicious.

"This feels great! Absolutely great!"

Meng Lei gorged himself on the food, salivating as he did.

"Hmph!"

As Ol' Amos stared at Meng Lei, whose mouth was covered in grease, he couldn't help but lick his own lips. How he wished he could throw himself forward and take a few big bites himself!

Unfortunately, he was in soul-state, so there was no way he could keep the food in him at all.

Sob, what a hard life I lead...

Oh well, I can only distract myself now!

"Brat, you have both earth-elemental and fire-elemental magic talent?"

"Three elements!"

"Three elements?"

"Yes, I have magic talent for three elements—earth, fire, and thunder!"

"You also have thunder-elemental magic talent? Not bad! That's pretty adequate!"

"Adequate? I guess so!"

"What about your elemental affinities? Any that are high-grade? A high-grade elemental affinity is the minimum requirement for breaking through to Saint Domain. If you don't have even that, your future achievements will be limited."

"It's so-so! Only my thunder and fire elemental affinities are of superior-grade, while my earth-elemental affinity is only high-grade. I can't compare to you at all, Ol' President!"

(_) "What?" (_)

Ol' Amos gasped in surprise. Although he suspected that Meng Lei was posturing, he was still astonished by his exaggerated posturing, nonetheless. "Superior-grade for both thunder and fire elemental affinities? High-grade earth-elemental affinity? Kid, are you pulling my ear?"

"Why would I pull your ear?"

Meng Lei's mouth was covered in grease from eating. "I have the best magic talent among all the freshmen that enrolled in Fire Dragon Magic Academy this year, you know! And I even get a scholarship grant of 5,000 gold coins per year!"

Ol' Amos didn't know what he should say anymore. It was only after a long while that he said sulkily, "Superior-grade elemental affinity in itself is already extremely rare, not to mention having superior-grade elemental affinities for two elements. It's practically sheer dumb luck that a kid like you can actually have magic talent like that!"

Sheer dumb luck?

What's with that choice of words?

I'd picked those up with my own strength!

If you're that capable, then go pick up one yourself and show me!

Meng Lei curled his lip indignantly. He didn't want to pay any more attention to that old man who didn't know how to properly choose his words.

"By the way, I've noticed that your spiritual power is pretty strong, kid. Your speed of cultivation must be very fast, right? Which stage of cultivation have you reached?" asked Ol' Amos.

"It's so-so, I guess. I'm only at the Seventh-Grade Great Magician realm."

"You're only at the Great Magician realm when you have such wonderful magic talent?" Ol' Amos snorted and asked in dissatisfaction, "Brat, have you been slacking instead of properly cultivating?"

"O-only Seventh-Grade?"

Meng Lei became displeased at once. "Ol' President, you're right. I'm already 15 years old, after all, and it has already been more than half a year since I've been introduced to magic, yet I'm only a Seventh-Grade Magician. My progress is indeed too slow!"

"What? 15 years old? More than half a year since you've been introduced to magic!?"

Ol' Amos was so shocked that his jaw nearly dropped onto the floor. He couldn't help suspecting whether or not he'd misheard. "It's only been half a year since you've been introduced to magic? Oh my Dragon God! How can that be? I had taken a whole four and a half years to reach the Seventh-Grade Magician stage back then!"

It's impossible for others, but I've got a frickin' cheating device, after all. Can others compare themselves with me?

Meng Lei kept quiet and ate instead. He continued digging into the delicious Crocodile-Backed Ox Python meat, the very picture of someone low-profile that kept his strength and achievements deeply hidden.

Ol' Amos didn't believe Meng Lei's claims, however. He stared at Meng Lei and barked, "Brat, are you bluffing this old man here? If you're 15 years old this year, how can you possibly have only been introduced to magic less than a year ago?"

"Uh..."

Meng Lei was mildly taken aback.

"As a member of the Kroc clan, one is initiated into magic at 5, officially studies magic at 10, enrolls in a magic academy at 14, and is required to graduate at 20!"

Ol' Amos had a ferocious look in his eyes as he roared furiously, "Yet you're telling me that you've only been introduced to magic less than a year ago?! What's that, if not a bluff? You unfilial descendant, how dare you deceive me? How infuriating!"

"Wait, wait! The Kroc clan?" Meng Lei hastily interrupted Ol' Amos' shouts. "Ol' President, you must be mistaken. I'm not a member of the Kroc clan! Which clan is that, by the way? It doesn't seem like there's a clan like that in Fire Dragon Kingdom?!"

Meng Lei wasn't very sure because he wasn't very familiar with the clans in Fire Dragon Kingdom.

"Still trying to bluff me?!" Ol' Amos sneered. "The Krocs is a clan that I've single-handedly built. There are a great number of talents and countless geniuses in the clan, and it's ranked top among the three great clans of Fire Dragon Kingdom... Yet you're saying that this clan doesn't exist? Are you asking for a beating?"

"Alright, I get it now!"

Meng Lei figured out what was going on now. He didn't bother speaking anymore—instead, he took out his magic communication device and dialed Fatty Hart's magic code.

"What are you doing?" asked Ol' Amos with a glare.

"Keep calm and wait for a while, Ol' President!"

After a short while, Fatty Hart's round face appeared in the magic communication device. He was repeatedly yawning and looked sleepy-eyed and groggy. Evidently, he'd been woken up from his beauty sleep.

"Old bro, what's the big idea at a late hour like this?" A yawning Fatty Hart grumbled. "Don't you know that disturbing someone's rest is very impolite?"

"Sorry about that! I'll treat you to a good meal when we're back in the academy!"

After Meng Lei apologized, he went straight to the point and asked, "Fatty, let me ask you something. Have you heard of a clan called Kroc?"

"The Kroc clan?" Fatty Hart shook his head. "Nope!"

Meng Lei glanced at Ol' Amos and tried to jog Hart's memory. He said, "Think about it carefully again. I heard that this clan is ranked top among Fire Dragon Kingdom's three great clans and is founded by Amos Kroc, the second president of Fire Dragon Magic Academy..."

"The clan founded by the second academy president?" Fatty Hart rubbed his eyes and said dryly, "Old bro, are you joking with me? That's old history from tens of thousands of years ago. How can it possibly exist all the way till now? It's long been eliminated!"

"Eliminated?"

"Eliminated for sure. In any case, that clan doesn't exist in the Fire Dragon Kingdom, much less ranked top among the three great clans!"

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Chapter 70: Ninth-Grade Magical Beast, Titanic Dragon-Ape

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How times had changed, and the stars had shifted!

No matter in which world, nothing stayed eternally unchanging. This was a natural law of order that nobody could change.

Ol' Amos naturally understood this, but when he heard that the clan he had single-handedly built had already disappeared over the long course of history, he couldn't help but be overcome by grief, nevertheless.

"To be honest, I should've realized this a long time ago. When I was killed back then, the Krocs had lost their pillar. Being destroyed is something almost inevitable."

Ol' Amos sighed softly, his grief unconcealable.

Saint Domain experts were lofty and stood high above. They were capable of building and supporting a clan, but at the point of their deaths, in the situation that they hadn't yet groomed a successor, any clan would die out, no matter how powerful they were.

Their success was dependent on the Saint Domain. But their destruction was also dependent on the Saint Domain!

The list of such cases was endless.

"Fortunately, an excellent descendant like you has emerged from the clan, so there's still hope of making a comeback!

"Yes! A comeback!"

A jolt went through Ol' Amos, and an intense gleam burst forth from his eyes. "Brat, from now on, you must shoulder the heavy responsibility of rebuilding the Kroc clan! You must cultivate diligently and refrain from slacking!

"This old man will put in everything he has to teach, supervise, and aid you. We'll strive to rebuild the clan as soon as possible, and let the glory of the Kroc clan make a comeback in Heaven's Vault Continent!"

Meng Lei was rather speechless.

Rebuild the Kroc clan? What's that got anything to do with me?! I'm not a member of the Kroc clan!

However, these words weren't to be uttered so carelessly. Meng Lei deliberated over his tone, and then he said seriously, "Ol' President, regarding the heavy responsibility of rebuilding the Kroc clan, I must apologize, but I was born a commoner and have never had any concept of the Kroc clan.

"Even if I accomplish much in my cultivation in the future and have intentions of founding a clan, I'd only build a clan that belongs to me, such as a Meng clan or something, and not some Kroc clan. I hope you can understand that!"

"You—"

Ol' Amos was so furious that he was fuming. He glared viciously at Meng Lei, but Meng Lei didn't wuss out this time. Instead, he refused to back down and glared back at him!

Ol' Amos could only reply resignedly, "Fine! We'll do as you've said. In any case, you're a descendant of my Kroc clan, and the blood of the Kroc clan flows within you—this is something that'll never change. The clan that you build is also a continuation of the Kroc clan. We're just putting old wine in new bottles!"

"Ol' President is understanding indeed!"

Meng Lei burst into sneaky laughter.

"Brat, I'll have you know that this old man is very strict. If you dare to slack even the slightest bit, see if I don't skin you!"

The night passed peacefully.

The next morning, Meng Lei left the canyon after having breakfast and embarked on the conquest of continuing his Magical Beast hunt. He was currently in the Seventh-Grade Magical Beasts' zone of activity, and all Seventh-Grade Magical Beasts had their own territories.

Thus, it was usually very difficult to encounter even a single Magical Beast even for a distance of several kilometers. There was nothing that Meng Lei could do about this. The only thing he could do was to continue to ride on the magic carpet and search for Magical Beasts. That was the fastest way to go about it!

Even so, he had killed only a couple of Seventh-Grade Magical Beasts in the whole morning. His efficiency in hunting had become much lower than when he was in the outer boundaries, and Meng Lei was very dissatisfied with this.

I earned only 310,000 gold coins after a whole morning. That's too inefficient! I have to think of a way to speed up my money-making!

Meng Lei mused silently inwardly. At this moment, faint sounds of battle could be heard coming from in front. Ol' Amos, who was seated on the magic carpet, also noticed the commotion. He said, "There's something going on over there. Let's go over and watch the show!"

"Yeah!"

Meng Lei didn't have any objections. He controlled the magic carpet and flew in the direction of the sounds. Now that the old man had regained freedom after being trapped underground for over 20,000 years, he wished very much to see all the sights there were to see and watch all the shows there were to watch.

Thus, he had behaved like he was sightseeing the entire way. He looked at this and that, just like a country bumpkin who had entered the city!

Roar!

Howl!

"Team One, block it!

"Team Two, follow up with magic attacks!

"Team Three, launch an ambush!"

Before they had even gotten near, they could already hear intense sounds of battle from a far distance away. Trees were breaking, the ground was exploding, Magical Beasts were roaring, and people were constantly shouting. The battle was unusually intense!

"Hahaha, from the look of it, some people are besieging Magical Beasts!" Ol' Amos stroked his beard and, with an enthusiastic expression on his face, asked, "Brat, based on the sound, can you tell what kind of Magical Beast the unlucky fellow currently under siege is?"

Meng Lei rolled his eyes. "How am I supposed to tell from the sound?!"

"You actually have the cheek to call yourself a Magician when you can't even tell something like that based on the sound?"

Ol' Amos side-eyed Meng Lei. Then, as he twisted his beard, he said with a smile, "A qualified Magician needs to be knowledgeable and multi-talented. Not only must they master their spells, but they must also be versed in other kinds of knowledge!

"Listen closely to the sound—it resembles a dragon's roar, yet it's also like an ape's cry. It sounds like a drumstick banging against a large drum, yet it also carries a rich and heavy whizzing of something hurtling through the air. Evidently, this is a Magical Beast from the Dragon-Ape family!

"Now, look at the scale of the tremors in the ground and how rich and loud the beast cries are. This should be one of the physically-largest species of Dragon-Ape Magical Beasts. If I'm not wrong, the unlucky fellow currently under siege is probably the strongest and most valiant Magical Beast from the ape family on the continent—the Titanic Dragon-Ape!"

"The Titanic Dragon-Ape?" Meng Lei frowned and asked, "What grade of Magical Beast is that?"

"What? You don't even know about the Titanic Dragon-Ape?"

Ol' Amos turned dissatisfied at once. He chastised him and said, "As a student of my Fire Dragon Magic Academy, foundational subjects like Comprehensive Continental History, Complete Collection of Magical Beasts, etc. are compulsory classes!

"You actually don't even know about a high-grade Magical Beast as famous as the Titanic Dragon-Ape? How did you pass the Complete Collection of Magical Beasts class?"

Complete Collection of Magical Beasts? I've never taken that class before, alright?!

"Ol' President, Complete Collection of Magical Beasts is an elective now. It's a subject meant to give away credits to those poor-performing students that can't accumulate enough credits. I've never taken that class before at all!"

Meng Lei shrugged as he replied with a helpless expression.

"An elective?"

Ol' Amos was a little stunned. Then, he flew into a rage. "Preposterous! How preposterous! An important foundational subject like Complete Collection of Magical Beasts has actually become an elective now? Is there something wrong with the brain of the current leader of the academy?!"

Meng Lei shook his head inwardly. However, he lowered the altitude at which the magic carpet was flying at and entered the dense and dimly-lit forest. Then, he crept over carefully!

A cliff several hundred meters tall appeared in front of him. A white veil-like waterfall crashed down from the top of the cliff, producing a deafening boom. It seriously had the elegance and grace of the poem "Straight down three thousand feet the white torrents run; descending from the Nine Heavens like the Milky Way1"!

At the bottom of the waterfall was an enormous pool of water. The pool water flowed rapidly, and mists circled and drifted around it. Together with the verdant trees and shrubbery in the surroundings, the scenery was exceptionally alluring!

Yet Meng Lei didn't have the luxury of admiring the scenery at the moment because a hair-raising scene was currently taking place on the sandy shore right before the pool—dozens of fully-armed adventurers were currently besieging a gigantic beast!

The behemoth had a King Kong-like body. Its muscles intertwined around each other and were incredibly strong and sturdy. Yet it had the head, sharp claws, as well as wings of a Colossal Dragon!

It was completely the fusion of a Colossal Dragon and King Kong!

"That's the Titanic Dragon-Ape?"

Meng Lei gazed at the behemoth in front of him that was over ten-meters-tall and emanating a horrifying aura. Fear and trepidation welled up in him. The aura of the monster in front of him was simply too horrifying. It was in a completely different class from a Seventh-Grade Magical Beast!

"How strange! The Titanic Dragon-Ape is a Ninth-Grade Magical Beast. Why would it show up in a place like this? Oh, I get it now, so that's the reason why. No wonder!"

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Chapter 71: Rapport In Coordination, Dragon-Ape Infant

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Roar!

The four to five-stories-tall Titanic Dragon-Ape let out roar after roar. Its arms that contained Herculean strength delivered punch after punch as it launched frenzied attacks on the human adventurers.

Its razor-like claws were capable of cleaving mountains and severing rocks and were exceptionally sharp. Its roars produced roiling soundwaves as they shook the heavens and earth. It gave off an extremely horrifying and fearsome might throughout its being, as though a savage beast from primitive times.

Compared to it, ferocious tigers and lions were practically cute, little babies.

It was currently in an extremely perilous situation, however.

Dozens of adventurers had it surrounded on all sides. More than a dozen Warriors had formed a sturdy wall of defense and were holding off the Titanic Dragon-Ape's attacks head-on. Each and every one of them was strong and valiant. They moved like lightning and leaped as high as birds in flight, jumping up and down and moving about incredibly swiftly.

Judging from their speed and intensity of attacks, they were at least Sixth-Grade or Seventh-Grade Warriors!

Behind these Warriors were five to six Magicians dressed in magician robes. With magic staffs in their hands, they chanted spell incantations and cast an unending stream of spells.

Swamp Rock Bullets, Meteor Rain of Fire, Vine Lances...

A barrage of spells bombarded the Titanic Dragon-Ape one after another as though they were free of charge to use. The attacks split its skin and flesh, drenching it in blood.

At the same time, a group of assassins fully wrapped in black robes weaved back and forth about the Titanic Dragon-Ape. They came and went like shadows, waiting for opportunities to launch ambushes to curb its movements from the sides.

Warriors!

Magicians!

Assassins!

As the three groups of people acted as one body and coordinated their movements with great rapport, they were actually overpowering the Titanic Dragon-Ape, despite the odds. As the Titanic Dragon-Ape faced attacks coming from all directions, despite being strong and powerful, the pitiful Ninth-Grade Magical Beast could only rely on its solid, robust body to passively endure the attacks, ending up completely at a disadvantage,

"That group of adventurers has such great rapport in their coordination!"

This was Meng Lei's very first time witnessing a large-scale team battle like that, and his heart couldn't help but be set afire with passion as he watched. A thrilling grand scene like this was much more exciting than any Hollywood visual effects blockbuster. It was simply so intense.

Warriors that met the enemy head-on!

Assassins that came and went like phantoms!

Magicians that fervently dealt damage!

Three parties as one body!

Total rapport in their coordination!

"A good man is hardly a match for multiple enemies, and a ferocious tiger fears the pack of wolves!"

Meng Lei let out an emotional sigh. "Even a Ninth-Grade Magical Beast has to yield when it's up against a siege with so many people! As expected, there's strength in numbers, and many hands make light work, indeed!"

"What nonsense!" Upon hearing Meng Lei's comments, Ol' Amos scoffed and said, "Brat, open your eyes wide and take a good look at what the true situation really is!"

"Uh..."

Meng Lei was taken aback. "Was I wrong to say that?"

"What you've noticed is just what's on the surface!"

Ol' Amos shook his head and said in contempt, "Most of the people in that group of adventurers only have sixth-grade to seventh-grade battle capabilities, and even the strongest among them is no more powerful than eighth-grade. Even if they have high numbers, they can still forget about killing a Titanic Dragon-Ape!

"You must understand that contained within the Titanic Dragon-Ape is the blood of our Dragon race, and it's an outstanding presence among the Ninth-Grade Magical Beasts. It has incredible physical strength, peerless defenses, and can even fly. How can adventurers with that extent of ability rival it?"

Meng Lei frowned and argued, "That's true, but the adventurers are clearly overpowering the Titanic Dragon-Ape by a lot!"

"No, wait! Doesn't the Titanic Dragon-Ape have wings? Why isn't it flying?

"If it flies into the sky and gains an aerial advantage, not only can it avoid the assassins' ambushes, but it can also avoid some of the magic attacks. The adventurers' advantage in numbers will be greatly reduced.

"Dammit, it's so stupid that I can't even bring myself to watch anymore.

"Why don't you just goddamn fly..."

"Have you gotten an inkling of what's wrong now?"

After he side-eyed Meng Lei, Ol' Amos twisted his beard and explained with a smile, "It's not that the Titanic Dragon-Ape isn't feeling it today or that it's stupid. Rather, it's because... It can't retreat."

"It can't retreat?"

Meng Lei stared blankly at him. "Ol' President, why's that?"

"Look carefully at its crotch."

Ol' Amos pointed at the area in between the Titanic Dragon-Ape's legs.

Its crotch?

Puzzlement appeared on Meng Lei's face. When he looked at the Titanic Dragon-Ape, he saw that the area between its legs was stained full of blood. Blood dripped from between its legs and almost dyed the ground red!

"You see it now?" asked Ol' Amos as he stroked his beard with a smile.

"Ol' President, has the Titanic Dragon-Ape's butthole been violated?" Meng Lei was bewildered.

"Your butthole's the one that's been violated!"

Black lines filled Ol' Amos' face as he berated him furiously, "What the heck are you thinking about? Can you be more serious here?!"

"Uhh? Or maybe its balls have been cut off?" Meng Lei made another guess.

"Goddammit, you retard! That's a female Dragon-Ape! How would it have any balls?!"

Ol' Amos was fuming mad. He glared viciously at Meng Lei and snapped. "Open your eyes and take a good look behind the Titanic Dragon-Ape!"

"Behind it? Isn't that a cave behind it?"

Meng Lei scratched his head. "That's probably the Titanic Dragon-Ape's den, right? What's the deal about the den? Isn't this very normal?"

"Your IQ is too low. I can't communicate with you!"

Ol' Amos was pretty mad, and he couldn't be bothered to keep Meng Lei in suspense anymore. "That Titanic Dragon-Ape's combat power has obviously dropped by a lot, and it's weaker than even an ordinary Eighth-Grade Magical Beast now. Moreover, there's blood at its crotch, and it's also desperately guarding its den. The truth is already very clear and obvious by now—it has just given birth to its offspring..."

"Given birth?"

Meng Lei was dumbfounded for a moment. Then, he exclaimed in a low voice, "Ol' President, are you saying that the Titanic Dragon-Ape's combat power has dropped only because it has just given birth to its infant? That's why it's desperately guarding its den and keeping the adventurers from entering?"

"Yes!"

The old academy president nodded lightly and sighed as he fingered his beard. "A Titanic Dragon-Ape that's in its usual state is strong enough to fight on equal grounds with an adult Dragon. How would those adventurers dare to encroach upon it?

"It's only when it has just given birth and is in a weakened state that it would attract covetous attention from these adventurers. After all, this is a Ninth-Grade Magical Beast, as well as a Ninth-Grade Magical Beast's infant. The temptation is too strong."

"So that's what it is."

A huge jolt went through Meng Lei, and a look of realization flashed across his eyes. A Ninth-Grade Magical Beast's value didn't need further explanation; just its magic core alone could already fetch a whopping dozen of millions of gold coins, not to mention a Ninth-Grade Magical Beast's carcass.

In addition, it was highly probable that there was also a newborn infant here.

They could target both simultaneously because both held a fatal attraction toward adventurers!

Even Meng Lei's heart was beating fast from temptation, much less the adventurers.

"A Ninth-Grade Magical Beast's carcass! And a Ninth-Grade Magical Beast's infant!"

Meng Lei's eyes lit up with a greenish glow, and his breathing gradually turned heavy. He muttered, "If I can wrest it from them and get my hands on it, I'll definitely strike it rich..."

"What? Tempted?"

Ol' Amos side-eyed Meng Lei and put a damper on his spirits. "Benefiting from a fight between two other parties is naturally a good idea, but you must be able to swallow the profits down first."

Ol' Amos pointed at a muscular man behind the adventurers and said with a smile, "That group of adventurers aside, just that guy alone is already someone whom you can't compete with. He's at least an Eighth-Grade Warrior."

"Eighth-Grade..."

Meng Lei grimaced and looked at the man.

Behind all the adventurers stood a muscular man that wore silver armor and held a broadsword. He stood on the hillside and directed the adventurers from a high position, giving out commands.

It was evident that he was the leader of the group of adventurers.

"You see it now?" Ol' Amos reminded him, "With that leader and that group of fairly strong high-grade adventurers, you won't be able to swallow it."

"I guess so."

Meng Lei smiled and said no more. Then, he began to watch the battle seriously.

Just like what Ol' Amos had said, the Titanic Dragon-Ape had indeed likely just given birth. Not only did it not have even 1/10 of its usual combat power, but it was also anxious about its infant in the cave behind it. As such, it could only take the attacks passively, totally at the mercy of the adventurers bombarding it with frenzied attacks.

In the beginning, it could still withstand the attacks by relying on its powerful defenses, but as time passed, the Titanic Dragon-Ape's injuries became more and more serious, and it gradually exhausted its stamina...

The Titanic Dragon-Ape was rather close to falling now.

"Time for me to move!"

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Chapter 72: Dragon-Ape Dies, Extreme Stupidity

Roar!

Its badly mangled body was drenched with dripping blood!

On the ground, blood converged into a stream!

The Titanic Dragon-Ape let out roar after roar, the aura around it as violent and ferocious as ever. However, its roars had already weakened to less than half of what they had initially been. Its arms swung about madly, but its movements had also slowed down by half a beat compared to before.

It was already riddled with injuries and utterly exhausted.

"Time for me to move!"

At this point, the adventurers' calm and steady leader moved. As he raised his enormous sword, a dazzling red light rose around him and manifested into a suit of armor.

"Battle Aura Armor!"

Meng Lei's eyes lit up. When Warriors cultivated Battle Aura, their Battle Aura could only circulate within their bodies in the beginning, and its might didn't explicitly show. Only high-grade Warriors could bring out the true might of Battle Aura!

At seventh-grade, Battle Aura liquefied to bring enduring stamina.

At eighth-grade, Battle Aura manifested into armor to greatly improve one's defenses.

At ninth-grade, Battle Aura manifested into wings to allow short periods of flight.

Different grades brought about different changes. The combat power levels were in completely different leagues!

The fact that the muscular man in front of them could exhibit Battle Aura Armor was enough to show his eighth-grade Warrior status. As for whether or not he was a Ninth-Grade Warrior, that was something that remained to be seen.

But no matter what, he was a strong enemy, regardless.

Battle Aura Armor... Now, that's what a real Eighth-Grade Warrior is!

Meng Lei licked his lips, an unusual look flashing across his eyes. He could redeem Stat Attribute Points anytime to upgrade his body to the eighth-grade level so that it would become comparable to an Eighth-Grade Warrior's.

However, he wasn't a real Eighth-Grade Warrior!

This was because his Battle Aura cultivation was still too lacking, and his Fire Dragon Manual was still not up to standard yet. He could neither achieve Battle Aura liquefaction nor Battle Aura armor manifestation.

With just an eighth-grade body, he could only be considered a pseudo-Eighth-Grade Warrior at best.

But it's alright! I'll be able to do that one day, too!

Just as Meng Lei was lost in thought, Ol' Amos beside him exclaimed softly, "Look! That guy's about to make the kill!"

Meng Lei was quickly brought back to reality. He saw the adventurers' leader transform into a red light streak that shot toward the Titanic Dragon-Ape. He moved lighting-quick and reached in a split second.

"Die, damned beast!"

As though a divine laser sword, dazzling red light suffused the huge sword in his hand. It slashed across the Titanic Dragon-Ape's throat, and then, as a clear "splurt" rang out...

Warm blood sprayed everywhere, and the furious roars came to a stop!

The Titanic Dragon-Ape instantly froze where it stood!

After achieving his objective with one strike, the adventurers' leader swiftly shot backward and retreated. In just an instant, he'd returned to where he'd been standing at earlier. He gazed at the Titanic Dragon-Ape from above, a hint of excitement flashing across his eyes.

"Stop attacking!"

Whoosh!

The adventurers on the battlefield simultaneously halted their movements. Each and every one of them stared excitedly at the Titanic Dragon-Ape, whose throat had been slit with one sword slash. They wore agitated expressions and were delirious with joy!

"Hahaha!"

"We've succeeded! We've succeeded!"

"After so much trouble, we've finally done it!"

"Tsk, tsk, a Titanic Dragon-Ape! That's the Ninth-Grade Magical Beast, Titanic Dragon-Ape, you know! We're gonna be rich! Haha, we're gonna be rich now!"

In contrast to the cheering adventurers, the Titanic Dragon-Ape had a look of grief on its face instead. It held its hand over its throat as best as it could, yet it simply couldn't stop the blood gushing madly from its wound.

It turned to look at the den behind it, but it couldn't utter even a mournful cry. All its cries turned into bloody bubbles mixed with blood that gushed out of its wound when they reached its throat.

"Ugh... ugh..."

The Titanic Dragon-Ape stretched its arms out and grabbed at its den from afar. Yet its arms, which had ripped apart tigers and leopards alive and cleaved mountains and severed rocks in the past, fell back down with a crash before it could even raise them.

Giving birth had exhausted too much of its strength, while the fierce battle had depleted all of its remaining energy. A single slash of the sword had also severed its very last bit of life force.

Drip, drip...

Tears filled the Titanic Dragon-Ape's eyes, and it cried out mournfully a couple of times in the direction of its den. Then, it crashed onto the ground and lost all signs of life.

It had died and completely left this world! Even though it was clearly worried about its newborn child!

Now that it was dead, how was its child going to survive?

"The Titanic Dragon-Ape has died just like that?"

Upon seeing this, Meng Lei felt rather sad without any rhyme or reason. In the past, he'd felt absolutely nothing when he hunted Magical Beasts.

But at this moment, when he saw the Titanic Dragon-Ape's various actions during its last moments, Meng Lei felt like something had moved his heart, and he felt rather sorrowful.

"When it comes to a parent's deep love for their young, humans aren't comparable to beasts." Ol' Amos sighed. "In this respect, all living things are equal."

"That's right."

Meng Lei nodded silently.

At the other side...

When the adventurers saw the Titanic Dragon-Ape collapse and die, they cheered even harder and louder. With a big wave, the muscular leader declared, "My brothers, today, we have successfully killed the Titanic Dragon-Ape without suffering any casualties! This is a joyous occasion to be celebrated!

"However, we mustn't forget that we're in the depths of the Magical Beast Forest where high-grade Magical Beasts run amok, and other adventurers have their covetous eyes on us. This place can be said to be incredibly dangerous!

"This is especially true when we'd created a huge commotion with our battle just now and very likely attracted other adventurers here! Therefore, we must take absolute care to avoid being careless and indifferent to our surroundings!"

All the adventurers' expressions sobered up, and they looked around warily. Just like what their captain had said, it wasn't time to rejoice yet. Should they celebrate too soon and end up letting other adventurers reap the rewards of their efforts, that would be a tragedy.

"Heed my orders!" The muscular leader shouted, "The assassin team is in charge of keeping a lookout in the surroundings! Closely monitor every bit of activity in the surroundings within a radius of a few kilometers of where we are. Report to me at once if there's any abnormal activity!"

"Understood!"

"The Warrior team is in charge of taking apart the Titanic Dragon-Ape! Ensure that you take it apart in the shortest amount of time while making sure that you do not damage any of the internal organs, especially its magic core! Ensure that you preserve it properly after digging it out!"

"Understood!"

"The few Magicians are to follow me. Everyone else, hurry and get to work!"

After the leader dismissed them with a wave, all the adventurers began to busy themselves with their respective tasks. Five to six Magicians walked up to the leader and followed him to the cave next to the waterfall.

"They're going for the Titanic Dragon-Ape infant now." Ol' Amos looked at Meng Lei and asked mirthfully, "What are you going to do?

"A Ninth-Grade Magical Beast's infant will grow up into a Ninth-Grade Magical Beast, you know. In fact, there's a certain chance that it'll evolve into a Saint Domain Magical Beast."

Meng Lei's eyes twinkled as he replied, "On top of that, this is even the infant of a flying Magical Beast known for its defenses and physical strength. It's practically the perfect mount for Magicians like us. How can I miss out on this?"

"Oh? You intend to make a move on it?" Ol' Amos raised his eyebrows. "Brat, you'd better not become dizzy with temptation. Do only what's within your means. If you ask me, you really won't be able to take down those adventurers."

"Ol' President, then you'd better open your eyes wide and watch!"

The corners of Meng Lei's lips quirked upward slightly, and he controlled the magic carpet and flew straight out. Without any intention of ambushing them from the shadows or playing any schemes or tricks, he simply jumped out openly just like that.

"Dumbass, are you out of your mind?!" Ol' Amos was shocked by Meng Lei's rash actions. "What kind of person would do that? Can't you secretly cast a few spells and launch a sneak attack or two first?"

"Uh..."

Meng Lei smacked the back of his head. Chagrined, he said, "I forgot all about sneak attacks!"

"Dumbass! Your stupidity is beyond hope!"

Ol' Amos didn't know what he should say anymore. With his finger pointed right at Meng Lei's nose, he berated him furiously, "With that IQ of yours, where did you even find the guts to come and hang around Magical Beast Forest? It's practically a miracle that you're still alive!"

"Don't get mad, Ol' President! Anger is bad for your liver!" Meng Lei responded as he chuckled sneakily.

Then, he looked at the highly vigilant adventurers and shouted in a strong and loud voice, "That Magical Beast is mine! You'd better hurry and scram, or else... Die!"

"What a goddamn retard!"

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Chapter 73: The Ultimate Threat, A Fake Saint Domain

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Boom, boom, boom!

Deafening booms resounded from the waterfall, and water in the pool flowed rapidly.

The trees were dense and luxuriant, while the vegetation was thick and lush.

As the adventurers stared at Meng Lei, who had suddenly come charging out, every one of their countenances changed drastically, and their vigilance reached extreme heights.

"Damn! We've attracted other adventurers here after all!"

The muscular leader's countenance, who had just walked over to the front of the Titanic Dragon-Ape's den, also changed. He quickly dashed over and scowled furiously at Meng Lei, who was seated on the magic carpet.

Meng Lei was dressed in black magician robes and wore a golden mask on his face. Thus, they couldn't see what he really looked like or get a clear idea of his background.

However, the fact that he could reach this part of the forest already signified fairly impressive battle capabilities in itself. On top of that, he even had the guts to wrest food from a tiger's jaws—this showed that Meng Lei was very confident in his own abilities.

In a situation where they couldn't get a clear idea of Meng Lei's background, no one dared to take him lightly. However, there was absolutely no way that they'd surrender the Titanic Dragon-Ape.

Out of all those who had the guts to come to Magical Beast Forest to make a name for themselves, which one among them wasn't putting their lives on the line when they did so? How would a mere few words possibly scare them off?

"Lord Magician, this Titanic Dragon-Ape is the prey that we, the Fire Cloud Mercenaries, only successfully slew after much painstaking trouble. We'll never hand it over to anyone!" The leader stepped forward. "As long as you leave now, we can pretend that we didn't hear what you said earlier."

He was neither haughty nor obsequious. In fact, there was even a mild threat in his demeanor.

The Fire Cloud Mercenaries!

They were the biggest mercenary unit in the Fire Dragon Kingdom border provinces. They were strong and powerful. They enjoyed great fame in the mercenary circle and were a force that ordinary people didn't dare to easily offend.

Once they identified themselves as the Fire Cloud Mercenaries, the leader believed that it would definitely frighten away most of the eyesore-like adventurers. The prey might be attractive, but one's little life was more important, wasn't it?

However, Meng Lei sneered instead. "My mind is set on the Titanic Dragon-Ape. If you know what's good for you, scram at once!"

"You're pushing it!"

The leader's countenance changed mildly, and he shouted, "Be on your guard!"

Swoosh!

The Fire Cloud Mercenaries proved themselves to be a first-rate mercenary unit, indeed. All the members were well-trained, and at the leader's command, all the assassins instantly vanished without a trace from where they were!

Over a dozen Warriors swiftly dashed to where the Magicians were. They surrounded the five to six Magicians and the leader on all sides to protect them, forming a firm and sturdy barrier around them.

At the same time as that, the Magicians quickly began to chant spell incantations!

"O' Snow Goddess in the faraway lands of supreme ice and frost, please heed my call. With your pure and untainted hands... Snow Screen!"

"O' crimson lotus flames buried deep in the dark shadows underground, I summon you in my name! Be my sword of magic and crush all that stands in my way... God of Fire's Fire Blast!"

"Well-trained and highly coordinated movements! Pretty impressive!"

As Ol' Amos watched the Fire Cloud Mercenaries' members form into a battle formation in just a few short seconds, he couldn't help but rub his palms in admiration, full of praises for them.

"These guys are only average in strength, but they've gone through bloody and fiery battles to temper themselves. They're very experienced and have great coordination among themselves, so they produce a favorable chemical reaction when they come together.

"To put it simply, 111 equates to more than 3! This is something that genius students living in ivory towers like all of you cannot match up to!"

Ol' Amos looked at Meng Lei and said with a laugh, "The academy can teach you magic knowledge and lead you through the grand doors of magic, but it cannot make you a real Magician. All of you still have a long way to go!"

"Ol' President, I'll admit that what you said makes a lot of sense." Meng Lei didn't rebut him. "But some people cannot be measured by conventional methods."

"Oh?"

Ol' Amos raised his eyebrows, remaining somewhat noncommittal. "This old man would like to see just what is so special about you."

"You'll see."

Meng Lei gave him a small smile. Then, he slowly raised his right hand. As Thunder Elements gathered in his palm and the light of electricity flashed, a spear formed from surging Thunder Elements quietly took shape.

"Third-Grade Spell, Lightning Spear!"

Ol' Amos shook his head and smiled. "Any Seventh-Grade Magician can achieve instant release of third-grade spells. There's nothing special about that."

"What about this?"

Meng Lei smiled, and the lightning spear in his palm suddenly began to spin rapidly. Its tip became thin and narrow, while the rear end thickened. Hoops of lightning wound all around it, and it gave off a blinding arc of light!

"Fourth-Grade Spell, Spinning Lightning Drill!"

Ol' Amos was rather astonished. "You can actually instantly release fourth-grade spells?"

"That's the Fourth-Grade Thunder-Elemental Spell, Spinning Lightning Drill!"

A thunder-elemental Magician from the Fire Cloud Mercenaries also exclaimed loudly, "Instant release of fourth-grade spells! Captain, he's an Eighth-Grade Magician!"

"What? An Eighth-Grade Magician?!"

The leader... No, the captain's countenance changed slightly. "Are you sure?"

"No... Not very, but according to the laws of magic, only Magicians that are eighth-grade and above can achieve instant release of fourth-grade spells," replied the thunder-elemental Magician solemnly.

The other few Magicians also nodded heavily. Magicians could only instantly release spells that were four grades lower than their own Magician grades.

To achieve instant release for fourth-grade spells, one needs to be at least an Eighth-Grade Magician!

"An Eighth-Grade Magician... Things have become rather troublesome."

The captain's expression turned rather awful-looking. "However, Eighth-Grade Magicians aren't that difficult to deal with. That guy's all alone, and he doesn't have a magical pet mount to protect him. With the Fire Cloud Mercenaries' strength, we can defeat him for sure. What's troublesome are the forces backing him up..."

With sloppy execution came consequences!

An Eighth-Grade Magician was a noble and exalted existence, and they were usually involved with a whole lot of other people.

This was what the captain was the most troubled over!

However, just as the captain was secretly making plans, the Spinning Lightning Drill in Meng Lei's hand transformed again. The spinning spear suddenly enlarged, and its diameter expanded to two meters wide in an instant.

Boom, boom, boom!

What would happen when a two-meter wide round pillar spun at high speed?

The answer was... A tornado!

Over here, it should be known as "Thun-nado"!

The Thun-nado spun at high speed, and everything that it went near to was crushed to bits. It was as if it possessed a mighty force that could devour everything and destroy anything. The sight of it made one's heart palpitate in fear and turned their breathing quick and ragged.

"The Fifth-Grade Spell, Violent Thunderstorm!"

Ol' Amos exclaimed in astonishment, "You actually took only a short second to cast Spinning Lightning Drill and Violent Thunderstorm in succession! That's also considered instant release! Aren't you a Seventh-Grade Magician? How come you're able to achieve instant release for fifth-grade spells?"

"T-that's the Fifth-Grade Spell, Violent Thunderstorm!"

"Instant release! He actually insta-cast Violent Thunderstorm!"

"Captain, he can do an instant release of fifth-grade spells!"

"H-he... He's a great N-ninth-Grade Magician!"

"A great Ninth-Grade Magician?!"

The captain's heart began to convulse intensely, and a hint of hopelessness welled up within him. He had the confidence to defeat an Eighth-Grade Magician, but if the one they'd run into was a great Ninth-Grade Magician...

How the heck were they supposed to fight him?

There was no way they could beat him!

Have they already wussed out with just these?

Meng Lei smiled and stayed quiet. With a casual wave, Violent Thunderstorm suddenly dispersed as if it had never been there before. Just as looks of puzzlement appeared on everyone's faces...

Roar!

An earth-shattering roar abruptly reached them from above. A savage-looking dragon head suddenly emerged from the dark clouds, followed by its mighty and imposing body!

It was the Seventh-Grade Spell, Thunder Dragon Descends!

"I-instant release of a seventh-grade spell!"

"A S-saint Domain Magician! He's a Saint Domain Magician!"

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Chapter 74: The Dragon-Ape Infant, An Equal Contract

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Dark clouds billowed, and the dragon's armored scales gave off a savage feel!

The thunder dragon gave off a majestic aura as it soared into the sky!

A surging wave of pressure emanated from the thunder dragon, so oppressive that everyone's scalps were tingling, and they couldn't quite catch their breath.

In Heaven's Vault Continent, seventh-grade spells were already considered high-grade spells capable of causing massive destruction and containing a fearsome level of destructiveness.

The moment a seventh-grade spell fully struck an Eighth-Grade Warrior, they would suffer serious injuries even if they survived. This was the reason why every single person present there was so fearful of the thunder dragon above.

However, the most fearsome thing here was that...

The casting of Thunder Dragon Descends had been completed in just two to three breaths. This meant that it was an instant release of... a seventh-grade spell!

"A Saint Domain Magician!"

"He's a Saint Domain Magician!"

"C-captain, he's a Saint Domain Magician! He's... a Saint Domain!"

The Magicians' legs trembled while their countenances filled with shock and fear. A Saint Domain, a lofty Saint Domain high up above... A Saint Domain was actually standing right in front of them!

"S-saint Domain!!"

Fear appeared on the faces of the captain and everyone else from the Fire Cloud Mercenaries. There was none of the self-confidence and courage from earlier anymore.

They could fight an Eighth-Grade Magician, but if the one they'd run into was a Ninth-Grade Magician, then they would have to flee, much less when it was a Saint Domain?!

"S-sir, we were too full of ourselves and ignorant and ended up affronting you. We're willing to offer up this Titanic Dragon-Ape, so I hope you can forgive our sins, sir!"

The captain reacted very quickly. He dropped onto his knees with a loud thud, and hurriedly began to beg for mercy. One by one, the other members of Fire Cloud Mercenaries also knelt down and begged for mercy.

Even though they were extremely unwilling and reluctant to part with their kill, they didn't possess even a shred of desire to fight back at all when facing a Saint Domain. What they had was just the desire to survive.

In Heaven's Vault Continent, one could offend anybody, with the sole exception of Saint Domains. Otherwise, even their deaths would be in vain.

So what even if that was a Ninth-Grade Magical Beast? When placed in front of their lives, it could be discarded all the same.

"You may live, but dismember the Titanic Dragon-Ape first!"

Meng Lei's voice was aloof and distant. He'd initially wanted to kill them, but the moment he saw the towering Titanic Dragon-Ape, he changed his mind at once.

That was such a massive lump of meat. How long would it take if he were to handle it all by himself? So, he'd better make them stay and help out instead,

"Yes, yes! Glad to offer my services!"

The captain didn't dare to be remiss. He hastily ordered his subordinates to dismember the Titanic Dragon-Ape, lest Meng Lei found them too slow and changed his mind.

For a while there, the sound of flesh being cut and bones being cleaved rang out in the surroundings.

"Not bad."

Meng Lei was very pleased with their performances. With their help, it'd be much faster than him doing it all by himself. If nothing went wrong, they should be able to finish dismembering the Titanic Dragon-Ape before night fell.

"How did you manage to instantly release a seventh-grade spell?" At that moment, Ol' Amos' voice, which was filled with puzzlement and astonishment, rang out. "Are you actually a Saint Domain? But that doesn't make sense. Your spiritual power is clearly only seventh-grade!"

"It's a secret."

Meng Lei gave him a smug smile and didn't pay any more attention to the furious old man. Instead, he turned and walked toward the Titanic Dragon-Ape's den. He wasn't afraid that the Fire Cloud Mercenaries would play any no-good tricks!

The cave was very big. It reached over a dozen meters high, but on top of the 100-meter high cliff, it was no more than a small scar at best.

The cave was very deep, and it twisted and turned such that one couldn't see right to the end. Inside were jagged, strangely-shaped rocks and hanging stalactites, and it looked like a whole different world.

After walking for about 300 to 400 meters, the cave interior suddenly brightened—there were glittering jewels embedded on the walls.

There were pure, transparent diamonds, colorful, glittering jewels, warm and mild jade, agate the size of a dog's head, as well as bright and colorful crystals...

"Damn! What a huge diamond! That's as big as a pig's head, isn't it?

"The green of this jade is so rich! Like a green hat1!

"Is this agate...?"

There was a greenish glow in Meng Lei's eyes. Looking at this place through the eyes of a human from Earth, every single jewel here was a piece of treasure worth millions and would definitely sell for exorbitant sums of money!

Everything else aside, the worth of just the diamonds alone was already immeasurable. Even the smallest was as big as an infant's fist, while the biggest was no smaller than a pig's head.

All of these highly valuable treasures had been embedded so casually in the moist and gloomy earthen walls? To act as illumination? How aggravating and frustrating!

"They're actually using such treasures as illumination! That's just treasures covered by dust and a waste of God's gifts!"

Meng Lei shook his head and sighed. He'd already made up his mind—he was going to take all the jewels with him and leave not even a single one here when he left later. That bunch of fat, old geezers from the nobility loved glittery things like these the most. He'd definitely be able to sell them for a good price.

As he went all the way into the depths of the den, the light suddenly dimmed. However, Meng Lei's eyes lit up instead. Compared to when he'd seen the jewels earlier, the light in his eyes was much brighter by severalfold!

He was looking at... a nest?

Meng Lei's breathing turned quick and ragged as he crept over stealthily. A small nest piled full of weeds, tree branches, and beast furs appeared before his eyes—there was a young beast sleeping soundly inside.

Under a layer of wet, sticky fluid was soft, supple armor. A pair of bloodstained wings wrapped tightly around its body, while its nose and lips were soft and tender...

"Is this thing really the Titanic Dragon-Ape's infant?"

After he got a good look at the little beast's true appearance, Meng Lei now held a rather distrustful attitude toward life. Wet and wrinkly, this was clearly a soft and tender naked gorilla with wings!

The kind that had just been born, no less!

Which part of it had even a shadow of the Titanic Dragon-Ape's mighty aura?

Weak, helpless, and pitiful!

Weren't these just describing that thing over here?

"This is the Titanic Dragon-Ape's infant, no doubt about that." Ol' Amos floated in mid-air, twisting his beard with a smile as he said, "Don't look down on it. Once it gets past its weak stage that lasts two days, it'll be on par with a Fifth-Grade Magical Beast. Ripping apart tigers and leopards with its bare hands and devouring jackals and wolves will be a cinch."

"Is this thing really that powerful?"

Meng Lei curled his lip, a million doubts in his mind. He wasn't judging a book by its cover. It was just that this miniature version of the Titanic Dragon-Ape in front of him now was honestly a little too big of a wuss. It looked just like a newborn kitten, the kind that even a chopstick could suppress.

"Stop being so goddamn pretentious and set up a contractual magic circle to contract it at once!" urged Ol' Amos in dry amusement. "Remember, sign an equal contract, not a master-servant one!"

"Why should I sign an equal contract?"

Meng Lei frowned, somewhat reluctant. "Isn't a master-servant contract better? Getting it to become my servant and bow to me completely, commanding it with ease so that it'll do whatever I say, isn't that a better idea?"

"Meng Lei, you must understand this." Ol' Amos shook his head. "A magical pet is the trusted right-hand man of us Magicians and is also the closest partner of us Magicians. It's even more so a friend and support that's worth our utmost trust!

"While getting it to become your servant can certainly give you great assistance when its master completely controls a Magical Beast's mind and consciousness, it's no different from a puppet during battle. The rapport between the two is too poor.

"The chemical reaction is terrible, and 11 equates to less than 2.

"But an equal contract is different.

"After you enter into an equal contract, the Magical Beast and its master are on equal terms. They rise to glory together and fall to disgrace together. When a Magical Beast has its own mind and consciousness, and its heart is closely linked to its master's, they can coordinate with each other with great rapport and achieve an effect where 11 equates to more than 2!"

"Oh, I see!"

Meng Lei nodded slightly, as if deep in thought.

"There's also something else that you must understand—when one enters into a master-servant contract, they are usually forcibly subduing a Magical Beast. This is a contract that the Magical Beast signs in a situation where it's resentful and unreconciled to its fate. But now?"

Ol' Amos sighed and said, "The Titanic Dragon-Ape infant is still young and is oblivious and ignorant of the outside world. If you raise it, it'll see you as its one and only kin.

"In a situation like that, unless you're suffering from brain damage, why would you enter into a master-servant contract that'll turn it into a puppet?"

"Ol' President, you're right. That makes a lot of sense!" Meng Lei agreed wholeheartedly. Then, he scratched his head and said in embarrassment, "But I have a problem... I don't know how to set up the contractual magic circle for an equal contract!"

"I'm gonna faint!"

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Chapter 75: Besieged By Magical Beasts, A Great Army Invades

"You don't even know how to set up a contractual magic circle for an equal contract? Who taught you your magic basics? Even someone like you can become the top freshman?" Ol' Amos was very dissatisfied with Meng Lei, and he criticized him sternly. "A qualified Magician... Not only must he... but he must also..."

"Ol' President, can we leave all that for later and deal with this Titanic Dragon-Ape infant first?"

Meng Lei was rendered rather speechless. Was this old geezer once a Department Head of the Moral Education Department? Hence the terrible work habit of being fond of criticizing and lecturing others?

"Hmph!"

Ol' Amos snorted, greatly dissatisfied with Meng Lei's attitude. Regardless, he still taught him how to set up the contractual magic circle for an equal contract anyway. Meng Lei got the hang of it right away and mastered it after just one round of explanation from Ol' Amos.

He successfully set up the contractual magic circle after that.

Bzzz!

A dreamy, colorful glow enveloped the Titanic Dragon-Ape infant in the little nest, and the little fellow, which was sound asleep, slowly opened its eyes. There was a confused, lost, naive, and adorably silly look within them!

Meng Lei squeezed out a drop of blood and successfully signed the contract. The way the little fellow looked at Meng Lei instantly became a lot more affectionate. It leaned over and rubbed its head against Meng Lei's hand affectionately as it called out in a babyish voice.

"Wah~ Wah~"

"Haha, it already sees you as its closest companion!"

Ol' Amos twisted his beard and broke into a smile, a hint of gratification coming over his face.

"Ol' President, how do I take care of it when it's so young?"

Meng Lei also broke into a smile, raising the question as he stroked the little Dragon-Ape's head. The little fellow wasn't actually that small. It was about the same size as an adult gorilla. It just seemed small and inconsequential relative to an adult Titanic Dragon-Ape, that was all.

"Magical Beasts are tough and ferocious by nature. They'll grow to become strong and robust in an extremely short time after they're born. In this respect, we humans have no hope of even competing with them."

A smiling Ol' Amos stroked his beard and explained, "You need only to wait for it to pull through its two-days-long weak stage. After that, it'll become just like any other Magical Beast and feed on raw meat and mature on its own."

"I see!" Meng Lei clicked his tongue in wonder. "To think that Magical Beast infants don't actually feed on milk. This particular characteristic of theirs is very similar to non-mammalian animals. How amazing!"

"Non-mammalian animals?" The old academy president stared blankly at him for a moment.

At that moment, a series of chaotic footsteps suddenly rang out. Meng Lei looked over to see a Fire Cloud Mercenaries member running in. "S-sir! T-this is terrible, Magical Beasts have come attacking!"

"Magical Beasts?"

Meng Lei's pupils contracted, and he ran out of the cave in a flash.

Hiss!

Rustle, rustle!

Thump, thump, thump!

Strange, peculiar sounds rang out in the thick, dense forest. Trees shook and weeds broke. The whole forest within five kilometers ahead of them was shaking!

This unusual activity added a hint of creepiness to the usually quiet and dead silent forest. The Fire Cloud Mercenaries members gripped their weapons tightly, their countenances were awfully somber.

The assassins standing guard on the periphery had reported an invading wave of Magical Beasts. Their numbers were unknown, and the targets were making a straight line for this area!

This situation was exceedingly abnormal and completely strayed from the usual workings, but this was what made it even more terrifying instead. One must know that they were currently in the far depths of Magical Beast Forest—even a random old Magical Beast around here was a high-grade one!

Besieged by high-grade Magical Beasts? Just the thought of it alone made one's scalp tingle!

"Captain, what do we do?" a member asked nervously as he gripped his weapon.

Their leader was calm and rational and stayed composed even in the face of danger. He replied, "No need to fear! With Lord Saint Domain around, what can a mere few Magical Beasts amount to?"

"That's true!"

The mercenaries nodded one by one, their fear lessening slightly. A Saint Domain expert could destroy the heavens and earth. How would typical Magical Beasts possibly be a match for them?

"Where are the Magical Beasts?"

Meng Lei walked out of the cave at this point.

The captain hastily answered respectfully, "Sir, they are currently closing in on us!"

He'd only just spoken when a Magical Beast dashed out of the forest.

It was a wolf species of Magical Beast. Its body was ten meters long and fully covered in steel needle-like fur. Its contours were well-proportioned, its muscles sharply defined, and it was full of a physical strength kind of aesthetic.

The strange thing was that this particular wolf-type Magical Beast had two heads—one white and one black—and this color division continued throughout its whole body, which was also half-white and half-black. The color division was clear and distinct, just like the national treasure[1]!

"That's the Seventh-Grade Magical Beast, Sun-Moon Double-Headed Wolf!" A mercenary called out its name.

"A Seventh-Grade Magical Beast has actually scared all of you this badly?"

Meng Lei stared at the Sun-Moon Double-Headed Wolf, rendered somewhat speechless.

"Sir, there are more!"

The captain let out a wry laugh.

At this point, a second Magical Beast dashed out of the forest. It was as large as a truck container and had eight legs. This was a spider species of Magical Beast that was fully blood red in color, but it had a human head and looked incredibly horrifying.

It was the Seventh-Grade Magical Beast, Man-Visage Demon Spider!

Then, it was followed by the third, fourth, fifth...

As the trees shook, Magical Beasts dived out of the forest one after another like mushrooms sprouting after rain. They came in a variety of sizes and species, carrying with them an astounding might and cold and vicious looks in their eyes.

"Seventh-Grade Magical Beast, Tri-Eyed Poisonous Toad!"

"Sixth-Grade Magical Beast, Iron-Armored Crocodile!"

"Seventh-Grade Magical Beast, Raptor!"

"Seventh-Grade Magical Beast..."

"Oh my Dragon God!"

"Why are there so many high-grade Magical Beasts?!"

The sight of so many high-grade Magical Beasts caused every Fire Cloud Mercenaries member's legs to shake, and fear and panic came over their countenances.

Too many!

Too many high-grade Magical Beasts were showing up!

Were there 50 of them? Or 100?

But what made them despair the most was that an endless stream of high-grade Magical Beasts was still arriving one by one. How were they supposed to fight them all?!

"S-sir, what should we do?"

Blood drained from the captain's face. He gazed at Meng Lei, having already placed all his hopes on him. A ferocious tiger was hardly a match for a pack of wolves, much less a group of high-grade Magical Beasts?

Besieged by this many Magical Beasts, even if the Fire Cloud Mercenaries was strong and had wonderful coordination, they still didn't have even a shred of hope!

They'd be ripped apart and become food in those Magical Beasts' bellies!

Everyone else from the Fire Cloud Mercenaries also stared hard at Meng Lei, their despairing and fearful faces full of hope.

Now that things had come to this point, Meng Lei was the only one they could rely on!

"Ol' President, why are there so many Sixth-Grade and Seventh-Grade Magical Beasts congregating here when everything's perfectly alright?"

Meng Lei didn't pay any heed to the Fire Cloud Mercenaries members. Instead, he frowned and raised a question. Every high-grade Magical Beast had their own territory, and they usually fought and went at one another's throats. Why would they show up here together?

"It's probably because of the Titanic Dragon-Ape."

A glint flashed across Ol' Amos' eyes as he pointed at the Titanic Dragon-Ape carcass. "A high-grade Magical Beast's flesh and magic core hold lethal attraction to Magical Beasts of lower grades. If they can devour and feed on it, it'll boost their strength and might even help them to level up.

"When they were battling and dismembering the Titanic Dragon-Ape earlier, its vital energy dissipated into the air and drifted out. This ended up attracting the Magical Beasts here."

"So that's what happened!"

Meng Lei nodded slowly. "Those guys' noses sure are sharp! But this is just as well. Saves me the trouble of going around like a headless chicken to look for them."

"What do you intend to do?" Ol' Amos raised his eyebrows. "I have to remind you, dealing with this many Magical Beasts won't be easy. If you really can't handle it, then you'd better run. You aren't their target anyway."

"Run? That word doesn't exist in my dictionary!"

[1] Refers to the panda, China's national treasure

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Chapter 76: Flame Inferno, Annihilation

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A Magical Beast could already be considered a high-grade one at seventh-grade.

Not only were they astonishingly intelligent, but they also possessed strong, domineering combat power.

It was very tough for a human to defeat a Magical Beast of the same grade, especially when their numbers increased to form a beast tide. Their level of destructiveness could be said to be terrifying at that point.

Everywhere they passed through, lands turned barren, and nothing would be left alive.

That was why the Fire Cloud Mercenaries were scared witless when facing a siege by so many Sixth- and Seventh-Grade Magical Beasts. If it weren't for the fact a "Saint Domain" was standing right next to them, they'd have fled for their lives a long time ago.

Man-Visage Demon Spider, Golden Lightning Python, Iron-Armored Crocodile, Sun-Moon Double-Headed Wolf... The Magical Beasts were savage, bloodthirsty, and vicious. As they stared at the Titanic Dragon-Ape carcass lying on the ground, their snouts constantly twitched, and drool dripped from their jaws, their eyes brimming with greed.

Devour it!

Devour the Titanic Dragon-Ape!

Once they devoured the Titanic Dragon-Ape, they'd benefit tremendously! The day where they'd level up and break through... wasn't far off anymore!

All the Magical Beasts became restless and agitated for a while there. They pounced toward the Titanic Dragon-Ape one after another, for fear that other Magical Beasts would get there earlier than them should they be a step too slow.

In this instant, all of them had gone berserk!

"S... Sir, w-what do we do?!"

The mercenaries screamed and shouted in fear as they trembled like leaves in the wind.

"What are you panicking for? Step back!" Meng Lei snorted, displeasure coming over his features.

"Yes, yes!"

The mercenaries hastily hid behind Meng Lei. To their backs were the cliff and precipitous rock walls, as well as the waterfall. The Magical Beasts couldn't launch attacks from there. Thus, the area behind them was safe.

"You just had to seek your own ruin, didn't you?" Meng Lei's voice was loud and sonorous. "Just as well that I round up all of you in one go and turn you into money in my pocket, then!"

Meng Lei moved in the very next instant!

Boom!

The ground suddenly began to shake. It was as if a magnitude 9.0 earthquake had broken out. The ground shook, and the mountains trembled, while trees swayed from side to side. Fissures appeared out of nowhere in the ground, and earth spikes abruptly emerged!

Splurt!

Splurt!

The sudden attack caught the frenzied Magical Beasts off-guard. Some fell into the fissures, while the earth spikes impaled some. For a moment there, they looked somewhat in a pathetic state.

However, they were Sixth- and Seventh-Grade Magical Beasts, after all. A magic attack of this scale evidently couldn't take their lives. After leaping out of the fissures and crushing the earth spikes, the Magical Beasts charged forward once more.

The nearer they got to the Titanic Dragon-Ape, the stronger the stench of blood became, and the Magical Beasts became increasingly restless, frenzied, and bloodthirsty!

Yet, just as they reached the point ten meters away from the Titanic Dragon-Ape, a mighty and imposing fire dragon suddenly descended from the sky and came crashing toward them. It exploded with a thunderous boom...

Roar!

Howl!

Sparks flew everywhere, and shrieks and cries rose and fell in succession.

"Great!"

"Fantastic!"

The mercenaries were overjoyed upon the sight of this, and they raised their arms in cheers.

"Sixth-Grade Spell, Fire Dragon Meteor!"

Ol' Amos twisted his beard and broke into a smile. "Pretty impressive might it has! That attack can already cause some damage to Sixth- and Seventh-Grade Magical Beasts. A large-scale spell like this is exceptionally taxing on one's magic power, though. You'd better take it easy!"

"I know that!"

Meng Lei didn't say much about that. Instead, he drew out all the magic power inside him in a furor and gathered it above him. Upon being summoned, all the Fire Elements within a radius of 100 meters came converging toward him.

In a split second, a gigantic fireball of diameter over 60 meters soundlessly formed. Like the scorching sun, it gave off astonishingly high heat.

"That's..."

When the mercenaries felt the scorching heat above them, they all raised their heads and looked up one by one. Astoundment surfaced in their eyes. The mighty aura of a fireball over 60 meters wide was simply too astounding. However, the even more fearsome thing was that an endless stream of Fire Elements was still converging toward it and strengthening it!

Expand, expand, and expand!

Like the hero of a certain anime rolling something into a ball1, the fireball expanded at an astonishing speed. In just a few short breaths, its diameter had already exceeded 100 meters!

"That's..." Ol' Amos' lip corners were twitching. "Brat, aren't you afraid of exhausting all your magic power if you cast large-scale spells one after the other?"

"Haha! We'll think about it again when I've exhausted it!"

Meng Lei burst into laughter. Then, he shouted, "Flame Inferno... Land!"

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

Like a meteor plummeting from outer space, the gigantic fireball crashed forcefully into the horde of Magical Beasts. As a huge, earth-shattering explosion rang out, the area in front of everyone turned into a sea of fire.

Flames raged and blazed, setting everything on fire without any reservations.

Amid shrill and tragic cries, the Magical Beasts turned into fiery beasts. They ran and jumped about in a frenzy in the sea of fire, completely enveloped within the flames.

"Retreat! Hurry, retreat!"

The mercenaries, who also found the blazing heat unbearable, retreated one by one. They retreated all the way until they were right in front of the waterfall. Only then did they feel slightly better.

"I can make the kill now!"

Meng Lei's eyes glinted sharply as he brought out the Gods-Slaying Spear. A seventh-grade spell was certainly astonishing in terms of might and could burn Sixth- and Seventh-Grade Magical Beasts to death, but time was necessary in order to achieve that.

Would the Magical Beasts stay obediently in the sea of fire and let the flames burn them to death?

Of course not!

They would flee! They would run! And they would move!

Some of the Magical Beasts would escape for sure.

Meng Lei knew this very well, so he wanted to deal an additional blow. Under these circumstances, the Gods-Slaying Spear was undoubtedly the best weapon for that.

As for whether or not he could use the Gods-Slaying Spear in front of others, Meng Lei had already consulted Ol' Amos beforehand. The old man had a very simple answer to that, which was, "Rest assured and use it!"

The reason for that was even simpler—even an experienced and knowledgeable top-tier Saint Domain like him didn't recognize that thing, so how would others possibly be able to? Much less recognize its status as a divine weapon?

Therefore, he could rest assured and use it openly as much as he wanted.

"Go!"

Meng Lei flung his arm out casually, and the Gods-Slaying Spear shot into the sea of fire. What followed closely was the sound of bone and flesh being pierced right through, as well as shrill cries.

It didn't take long before the cries softened and then disappeared. All the Magical Beasts in the sea of fire had been slew by the Gods-Slaying Spear!

"What a great treasure!"

A satisfied Meng Lei nodded as the Gods-Slaying Spear returned to his hand. His eyes then landed outside the sea of fire on the Magical Beasts that had just emerged from the forest.

These Magical Beasts were a step too late, but on the contrary, they were fortunate enough to avoid being struck by Flame Inferno. Currently, their eyes were filled with fear and horror as they stood outside the sea of fire, hesitant to step forward.

The smell of blood from the Titanic Dragon-Ape made them restless, but the sea of fire before their eyes frightened them. What exactly should they do? Should they follow their instincts and continue to rampage, or leave with their tails in between their legs and safeguard their lives?

This was an important question!

The Magical Beasts sank into indecision.

"Not leaving yet? That's great!"

Meng Lei licked his lips. He rode the magic carpet to the area above the Magical Beasts and cast another round of Flame Inferno.

Boom, boom, boom!

A fireball started floating in mid-air, and a sea of fire began to spread. Then, these Magical Beasts also met with tragedy!

The sea of fire engulfed them. As the great fire set them ablaze, their visibility range also became hindered, and they couldn't escape for a while there. Then, one by one, the Gods-Slaying Spear impaled them to death, and their souls returned to hell.

With that, the Magical Beasts in the farther distance became badly frightened. Each and every one of them was terrified out of their wits, and they didn't dare to hesitate or harbor any hope of lucking out anymore. Every single one of them fled with their tails in between their legs!

"They're pretty quick at fleeing, huh?"

Meng Lei licked his lips, not quite having had his fill of fun yet.

Ol' Amos reemerged, somewhat dissatisfied. "Don't use the Gods-Slaying Spear so often in the future. Otherwise, there won't be any more meaning to your training."

"Understood!"

Meng Lei nodded lightly, the picture of someone that had learned his lesson. However, he secretly disagreed.

My purpose in coming to Magical Beast Forest isn't just for training. Earning gold coins is my number one key task instead!

Of course I'll have to hunt as many Magical Beasts as I can!

Although the sea of fire had engulfed the Magical Beasts just now, there was no way all of them would be annihilated. In a situation like that, was he supposed to just watch as they escaped?

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Chapter 77: Divine Beast Teddy, Half A Month Goes By Quietly

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Ahead was a blazing sea of fire!

To the back was a gushing waterfall!

A sight as unusual as that appearing in the same place was honestly a wondrous spectacle. However, the Fire Cloud Mercenaries were in no mood to admire the scenery because they were currently busy with dismembering the Titanic Dragon-Ape.

Every one of them worked conscientiously and diligently, lest they accidentally showed even the slightest bit of disrespect.

What? Resentment?

They didn't dare to!

Just how terrifyingly powerful must one be in order to wipe out almost 100 high-grade Magical Beasts in under five minutes? Who'd dare to harbor any resentment?

They longed only to finish dismembering the Titanic Dragon-Ape as soon as possible and send Meng Lei away after that. They didn't have the leisure to think about anything else.

In the cave elsewhere, Meng Lei was currently playing with the baby Titanic Dragon-Ape. After the contract was formed, a mysterious connection had appeared between Meng Lei and the little fellow. Just like that, it had taken Meng Lei as its closest companion.

Meng Lei rubbed the little fellow's head and remarked with a laugh, "Seeing how you're pitch-black all over, how about I name you Mastiff1?"

The little fellow looked completely lost as it blinked in an adorably silly manner. Black lines filled Ol' Amos' forehead, however, and he remarked, "Mastiff? Can't you give it a nicer-sounding name?"

"How about Husky1?"

"What's a Husky?"

"It's also a type of dog!"

Ol' Amos was rendered totally speechless. "What sort of names are those? Your taste in names is terrible. It's always either a cat or a dog. Can't you be a little less of a good-for-nothing?"

"Names are just a way of referring to things, isn't it? Is there a need to be so serious about it?" Meng Lei was none too bothered. He tilted his head to the side and suggested, "How about Teddy1? What do you think of that name?"

"Teddy? Teddy! Yeah, sounds pretty good!" Ol' Amos thought for a moment and nodded. Then, he asked, "What's the meaning behind the name?"

"Teddy is also a kind of... Cough, divine beast! The kind that can destroy the heavens and earth. Its destructiveness and all that are comparable to a Colossal Dragon!" replied Meng Lei as he held back his laughter.

"A divine beast? Is there a divine beast like that?"

Ol' Amos was rather dubious. It just felt rather strange, somehow.

"Teddy is a kind of divine beast from my hometown. Not a lot of people know of it, so it's normal for you to not have heard of it before!"

Meng Lei laughed and settled on the name. "Alright, let's call it Teddy. It just so happens that the name of this little fellow's species starts with 'T' too, so Teddy is a very appropriate choice of name."

"Something feels rather off..."

At this point, the captain walked in and interrupted their idle chat. "Sir, the Titanic Dragon-Ape has been fully dismembered. May I know what we should do with it?"

"What to do with it? Bring it away, of course!"

Meng Lei left the cave and started to store the dismembered Titanic Dragon-Ape part by part into his spatial magic devices. However, they ran out of space as he was halfway through.

Meng Lei had six spatial magic devices of various sizes in total, and all of them were now stored full to the brim. Yet there was still half of the Titanic Dragon-Ape left!

"Ol' President, my spatial magic devices can't fit anything else inside them. What should I do?"

Meng Lei didn't want to give up the Titanic Dragon-Ape. That was a Ninth-Grade Magical Beast; even a single strand of hair mustn't be left behind! Every part of it was money itself!

"No problem!"

The old academy president smiled calmly. Then, with a wave, every bit of the remaining half of the Titanic Dragon-Ape vanished from where they were!

Upon the sight of this, Meng Lei exclaimed at once, "Ol' President, do you also carry spatial magic devices everywhere with you?"

"Duh! This old man is a high and mighty Saint Domain, after all. If I don't even have something like a spatial magic device, wouldn't I be a laughingstock?" Ol' Amos replied haughtily with a snort.

"That's true!"

Meng Lei's eyes swiveled shiftily as sneaky little ideas occurred to him. That old geezer had previously said that he was all alone in the world and didn't carry any worldly possessions on him. But from the look of it now, it seemed like that was a complete lie!

After all, he was already carrying spatial magic devices everywhere with him...

"Sir, how should we handle these Magical Beasts?"

The captain's lip corners started twitching when he saw all the dismembered Titanic Dragon-Ape parts disappear. Although the loss pained him terribly, he didn't dare to let it show. As such, he'd pointed at the charred Magical Beast carcasses and raised the question.

By now, the sea of fire had already extinguished, with only a few sparks still burning here and there, to reveal several "charcoal" mounds—in other words, the unlucky Sixth- and Seventh-Grade Magical Beasts!

"Gouge out their magic cores. You can discard the carcasses after that," replied Meng Lei detachedly after casting a sweeping glance at the carcasses.

"Discard them? Sir, why are you discarding them?"

The captain was taken aback. He hastily tried to persuade him otherwise. "Even though these Magical Beast carcasses are burnt, their bodies haven't suffered much damage on the inside, so you can still sell them for money!"

"You can have them if you want!" Meng Lei said as he shook his head lightly.

He had no intention of taking those Magical Beast carcasses with him. Disregarding the fact that his spatial magic devices were already full, even if they weren't, he wouldn't have taken them anyway. They wouldn't bring much money, after all.

"Thank you for bestowing them to us, Sir!"

The captain was overjoyed, and he thanked him repeatedly. These were high-grade Magical Beast carcasses! Even though they were burnt, their internal organs were still fully intact and undamaged, so all of them could be sold for money.

The key here, though, was that there were so many of them! If they were to sell them all, they'd definitely earn a hefty sum!

"Go!" Meng Lei waved him off.

"Yes, Sir!"

The Fire Cloud Mercenaries were very quick in their actions. In just half an hour's time, they'd already dug out all the magic cores. After Meng Lei took the magic cores, he left in satisfaction.

The mercenaries heaved a big sigh of relief as they gazed at Meng Lei from the back, and some even fell directly onto their bottoms!

"Phew! He's finally gone!"

"There's too much pressure being in the same place as him!"

"Hurry! Clean up these Magical Beast carcasses at once. We're leaving once we're done, too. It's not safe here!"

"Yes, Captain!"

Ripples went through the lake surface, and the water sparkled under the sun.

As the saying went, "If the breeze doesn't come, the water doesn't ripple".

The water in the large and vast lake was clean and clear, and the water weeds were fertile and healthy. As the breeze blew across the lake, a series of ripples went through the mirror-like lake surface.

Croak!

Croak!

A Green-Eyed Frog, the size of a millstone, floated on the water surface. Its lower jaw swelled and deflated as it croaked joyfully, singing the mating song unique to the Green-Eyed Frogs as it attempted to attract the attention of the opposite sex.

Splash!

The sound of something emerging from the water suddenly rang out. An enormous opened wide mouth sprung out from the bottom of the lake and swallowed the partner-seeking Green-Eyed Frog in one gulp. Then, it started to chew happily on it.

Bloody water churned as bones snapped and sinews were severed.

The poor Green-Eyed Frog! Not only did it fail to find a partner, but it even attracted a fatal disaster instead. How utterly miserable!

Bam!

A shadow descended from above at this exact moment. It grabbed the Magical Beast chewing on the Green-Eyed Frog in one swift motion and dragged it out of the water.

The Magical Beast that had been caught was the Fourth-Grade Golden-Light Fish. Its body was a glittering gold throughout, and it had an extremely exaggerated mouth. It was bathed in the sunlight and looked as if it was made out of gold!

With the Golden-Light Fish in its grip, the shadow flitted the whole way across the lake surface. Then, it entered the forest beside the lake and threw the fish onto the grass. The struggling Golden-Light Fish jumped up and down against the ground, which started to shake from the impact.

"You're back, Teddy!"

Next to a campfire, a topless young man smiled and greeted the shadow as he fiddled with a few bottles and cans.

Three meters tall and shaped like an ape, the shadow had black dragon scales all over its body, a pair of black dragon wings on its back, and a strong, muscular body with bulging muscles. Yes, it was Meng Lei's Magical Contract Pet, Teddy, the little Titanic Dragon-Ape!

"Grooo!"

Teddy poked its head over and rubbed against Meng Lei with a look of affection in its eyes, and he patted its head in response. Then, he walked over to the Golden-Light Fish and began to clean it.

That was their lunch for the day.

Half a month had gone by since the day he and Teddy had entered into a contract. The little fellow's stage of frailty had already passed. It was now comparable to a Fifth-Grade Magical Beast, and even ripping apart ferocious beasts with its bare hands was nothing difficult for it.

Meng Lei was very satisfied with Teddy's growth rate. Not only did the little fellow take only three days to get past its stage of frailty, but in the days that followed, it even improved by leaps and bounds daily and showed astounding improvements in its strength.

In Ol' Amos' words, Titanic Dragon-Ape infants that had Ninth-Grade Magical Beast blood in them like Teddy grew at exceedingly alarming rates. They were capable of reaching heights that other Magical Beasts could never achieve in their entire lives in just a dozen years or so and could be said to be kings among Magical Beasts!

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Chapter 78: Golden Colossal Dragons And Thunder Titans

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After Meng Lei removed the scales and gutted the fish, he sliced the flesh into strips and cleaned them. Then he started to roast them.

It didn't take long before an aroma began to pervade the air. As Teddy, the little Dragon-Ape, sniffed about hard, it became restless and fidgety, eagerness filling its eyes.

"Meat... Wanna eat meat!"

Thanks to the power of the contract, Meng Lei and Teddy were able to communicate with each other spiritually. Unfortunately, as Teddy was still an infant, its speech was very disjointed and choppy, so it could only express simple thoughts.

Even so, this was still something completely new to Meng Lei. Hearing animals speak and communicating with animals were things that he'd never experienced before in his past life. He found the experiences very novel.

"Be patient! It's not cooked yet!"

Meng Lei gave Teddy a rub on the head. Then, he continued to slice the flesh into strips and roast them. Little Teddy had initially been eating raw meat, but after its first taste of roasted meat, it never went back to eating it raw anymore.

At mealtimes every day, it would personally catch a Magical Beast and get Meng Lei to roast it. A complete glutton through and through, it had clearly taken Meng Lei for a chef!

It didn't take long for fish to cook. Before long, an aroma pervaded the air. Meng Lei scattered some condiments onto the fish and tossed Teddy a piece.

Nom!

The heat didn't bother Teddy at all as it swallowed the meat whole in one gulp. Then, it blinked its big black eyes and stared expectantly at Meng Lei, saliva dripping from its mouth...

Is there even any difference between Teddy and the poodle back at home?

...Is this really a Titanic Dragon-Ape?

Can I return it to the store?

"Slow down, no one's fighting with you over the food!"

Meng Lei rolled his eyes at Teddy as he took a piece for himself. Then, he pointed at the rest of the roasted fish and said, "They are all yours. Go ahead and dig in!"

"Wau!" Teddy let out a cheer and dived forward.

Nom!

Nom!

After spending a while to gobble down the food, half the roast fish had disappeared.

"Did you die of starvation in your past life or what?!"

Meng Lei also picked up the roasted fish and dug in happily. Golden-Light Fishes were known as the most delicious Fifth-Grade Magical Beasts, and they certainly tasted pretty great, indeed. It could totally give the Garlic Roasted Sun-Moon Divine Frog a run for its money.

The woods were lush and luxuriant, and the lake clean and clear.

Birds sang amid the fragrant flowers as the campfire blazed.

The aromatic fragrance greeting the senses and the blazing campfire came together to form an unusual, though harmonious, picture in this forest full of life, yet also full of danger!

After lunch, Meng Lei continued on his journey.

It had been half a month since he had come to Magical Beast Forest. He'd traversed the mountain ridges, battled constantly, and left footprints in almost half of the Magical Beast Forest. Even he himself wasn't sure how far he'd traveled, how many Magical Beasts he'd killed, or where he was.

In fact, due to the brambles all over the ground and countless thorny vines in the forest, Meng Lei had found his clothes rather in the way and taken off his top, choosing to walk about topless in the forest. Together with his long hair wrapped around on top of his head, he looked just like an uncivilized caveman!

"It's been 16 days since I've come to Magical Beast Forest. I should leave after staying for another week!"

Boom!

At that moment, a series of barely audible explosions suddenly traveled over from the front. They sounded like things colliding against each other, and the explosions were constantly ringing out. A smile appeared on Meng Lei's face as he cocked his ears.

"There are dumbasses fighting again. Well, that certainly saves me a lot of trouble!"

Meng Lei had already heard similar commotions umpteen times, and he'd long since gotten used to it. He followed where the sounds were coming from and dashed over, his speed lightning-quick. Compared to half a month ago, he was moving at more than double his original speed.

Oh, the magic carpet?

This area was close to the Magical Beast Forest's central region, and the magic carpet was very eye-catching, which made it very easy for them to be attacked by fearsome creatures. Meng Lei had no wish to be attacked by powerful Magical Beasts for no reason.

He was here to hunt Magical Beasts. He didn't want to be killed by Magical Beasts instead!

As he got nearer and nearer, the commotion also became bigger and bigger.

At last...

Boom!

A towering tree broke into two, and the gigantic tree crown came smashing toward Meng Lei, who secretly bemoaned his bad luck. A fissure appeared beneath his feet, and he hastily jumped in!

The fissure quickly closed up, and the tree crown came crashing down right on the heels of it.

Boom!

Tree branches broke, and fallen leaves flew everywhere. Everything within a radius of several hundred meters became collateral damage, and the surroundings turned into a complete mess.

A hole appeared in the ground, and Meng Lei poked his head out of it. As he looked at the broken trees and messy branches all over the ground, he realized that he wasn't going to be able to get out anymore. He cast Earth Split at once and started to dig his way out several hundred meters away.

At a magic cultivation level like his, casting low-level spells could be said to be something right at their fingertips. To them, digging a tunnel underground was no different from drinking a glass of water.

Boom, boom, boom!

Meng Lei darted out from underground and continued to advance toward the battleground. However, what entered his sight surprised him. As it turned out, it wasn't Magical Beasts that were fighting but humanoids!

In addition, both parties in the battle came from illustrious backgrounds!

One of them was covered throughout in a layer of thick, golden scales. Golden dragon horns protruded from his forehead, a pair of golden dragon wings extended from his back, and there was a golden dragon tail at his hip.

As though he was made out of gold, he shone a bright, resplendent gold that was dazzling and eye-catching.

He was a Dragon Person, and one with pure Golden Colossal Dragon bloodline, no less.

The Golden Colossal Dragons! They were kings among the Dragons!

On top of that, they were the royal family of the Dragon God Empire, too!

Not only were they terrifyingly strong, but they also enjoyed a venerable status!

This resulted in Drakes with Golden Colossal Dragon blood in them also enjoying a fairly lofty status in the whole of Dragon God Empire. Just take a look at Hart's father.

Hart's father had average battle capabilities and could barely match up to an Eighth-Grade Warrior. It didn't count as much in the Fire Dragon Kingdom, yet because of his status as a Golden Colossal Dragon Person, the Fire Dragon Kingdom royalty had conferred upon him the title of a Duke anyway.

An Eighth-Grade Warrior as a Duke of the kingdom? Would anyone even believe that?

But that wasn't even the worst yet, because even Fatty Hart, a Golden Colossal Dragon Person that was as good as "crippled" and whose bloodline awakening was in total shambles, had been conferred the title of a Viscount the moment he was born, and owned his own land!

Who were they supposed to go to and reason things out with?

No one!

One could only admit that he was blessed with a good life.

Of course, Golden Colossal Dragons with average battle capabilities like Fatty Hart's father were ultimately a minority. Golden Colossal Dragons were terrifyingly powerful, and Dragon People that inherited the Golden Colossal Dragon bloodline were also very strong.

As long as the bloodline in their bodies wasn't so thin that it was impossible to awaken, their bodies would naturally become on par with at least a Seventh-Grade Warrior after they matured into adults. With a bit of effort, they would reach the Eighth-Grade Warrior level.

One could see from this just how powerful the Golden Colossal Dragon bloodline was.

Of course, while it was certainly powerful, there weren't many Dragon People that had the Golden Colossal Dragon bloodline. In the entire Fire Dragon Kingdom, Fatty Hart and his father were the only ones that did.

That was the reason why Meng Lei was so surprised when he saw the Golden Colossal Dragon Person in front of him. Why was there a Golden Colossal Dragon Person here? And who was he?

The other party currently engaged in a fierce battle with the Golden Colossal Dragon Person similarly came from a notable background. There were a total of six people, and every single one of them was seven to eight meters tall. The muscles on their bodies intertwined like rocks piled on top of each other, and they were a burnished bronze color throughout as if they were made out of bronze.

They had humanoid characteristics, but they were seven to eight meters tall!

"Could they possibly be the famed Titans?"

Meng Lei's eyes were filled with curious novelty and surprise as he watched the six giants that were as tall as two-story buildings. This was his first time seeing a giant, so it delivered quite the impact.

"No, they aren't Titans, but Demigiants."

Ol' Amos flew out of the spatial ring at this point. As he also watched the six giants, he explained, "Demigiants have a mix of Titan and human blood in them. Those guys are bronze in color throughout, so they are evidently descendants of the Earth Titans."

"The Earth Titans?" A light jolt went through Meng Lei.

"Surely you know of the Earth Titans, right?" Ol' Amos frowned and added in a criticizing manner, "It's about time you fill yourself in on the continent's history!"

"Oh man, why are you bringing that up again?" Meng Lei was rather sheepish. Then, he asked, "Ol' President, what are the Earth Titans?"

"Like us Dragons, the Titans are also categorized into quite a few types." Ol' Amos snorted but continued to explain, "For example, the Thunder Titans who are also the royal family of the Titan Empire, the Ocean Titans that control the oceans, the Storm Titans that dominate the typhoons, the Lava Titans that bathe in lava, and so on... The Earth Titans are also one of them!"

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Chapter 79: Absolute Overpowering, Meeting Abbe Again

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These were five different types of Titans—Thunder Titans, Ocean Titans, Storm Titans, Lava Titans, Earth Titans!

"Pure-blooded Titans can grow as tall as over 20 meters after they mature into adults and are as strong as Ninth-Grade Warriors at their pinnacle. They can challenge some of the weaker Saint Domains and are by no means inferior to us pure-blooded Dragons."

Ol' Amos sighed emotionally and went on. "The Titans are a race with low numbers in Heaven's Vault Continent and have many things in common with us Dragons. We are both powerful and come from a noble bloodline.

"Our reproductive rates are also just as low, of course. This has resulted in an extremely low number of pure-blooded Titans, while there are a large number of Demigiants that possess Titan bloodlines instead!"

Meng Lei couldn't help but remark, "In that aspect, they're certainly very similar to the Dragon God Empire, where there are few Colossal Dragons but a great number of Drakes!"

"Yes, very similar, indeed!" Ol' Amos nodded slightly.

Meng Lei didn't ask any further. Instead, he placed his full attention on the battle taking place at the front. Not only was the Golden Colossal Dragon Person's might beyond comparison and his battle capabilities fearsome, but he was also a dual cultivator of magic and martial arts!

Unfortunately, he was at a complete disadvantage against the six Demigiants. Not only did they possess domineering, great strength, but they could also control the earth.

With their feet planted on the ground, the Demigiants completely overpowered the Golden Colossal Dragon Person. To be more accurate, they were beating him into a pulp.

"The Golden Colossal Dragon Person is close to his limit!" Ol' Amos shook his head lightly. "Brat, get ready to save him!"

"Save him? Why are we saving him?" Meng Lei was rather reluctant. "If I take out the Demigiants in the name of avenging him only after they kill him, not only will I be able to monopolize the six Demigiants' assets, but I can also inherit his. Isn't that wonderful?"

Ol' Amos, who was rather appalled by his words, berated him furiously, "He's one of us Dragon People after all. Can you bear to leave him in the lurch?!"

"Absolutely!" Meng Lei chuckled sneakily and added, "It's not like we know each other anyway."

"How can you do that?!" Ol' Amos was fuming mad. "I know you're a commoner by birth and don't have any sense of belonging toward the empire and fellow Dragon People, but in your body ultimately flows the..."

"Alright, alright! Stop nagging, Ol' President!" Meng Lei shrugged and said, "I just need to save him, right?"

However, despite saying that, Meng Lei remained where he was without any indication that he was going to do anything. This greatly displeased Ol' Amos, and he snapped. "What are you waiting for? If you dawdle any longer, he's going to croak!"

"You're not getting it, Ol' President." A chuckling Meng Lei explained, "I'll wait for the Demigiants to push him so far into a corner that he becomes utterly hopeless and knows that he's doomed for sure before I make a move. That way, I can earn his utmost gratitude and maximize my profits!"

Just listen to what he's saying!

Is that something a Dragon Person should be saying?!

Ol' Amos' eyelids uncontrollably twitched as he tried his darnedest to suppress his urge to beat him up. He chastised him furiously, "An immature little brat like you shouldn't be having that many nonsensical thoughts in your head! Cut the crap and save him!"

"Ahhh!"

At that moment, one of the Demigiants struck the Golden Colossal Dragon Person, who didn't manage to dodge in time, right in the chest, causing a great deal of blood to spurt from his mouth.

Upon seeing this, the six Demigiants' fists, which were as large as brass hammers, smashed toward him like raindrops falling from the sky, their attacks especially violent and ferocious.

"It's all over!!"

The Golden Colossal Dragon Person fell to the ground, hopelessness filling his eyes. His breastbone was crushed and broken, and he was utterly powerless to dodge the attack. Should the attacks land, he'd be smashed into a bloody pulp for sure.

At the sight of this, a furious Ol' Amos urged Meng Lei, "What are you still waiting for, brat?! He's going to die!"

"Haha, I was waiting for this exact moment!"

Meng Lei burst into laughter. Then, he smacked his palms against the ground.

Boom!

The ground began to shake all of a sudden. Caught off-guard, the six Demigiants almost fell flat on their faces. Due to their massive sizes, it was very easy for them to lose their balance.

"What's going on?"

As a jolt went through the Golden Colossal Dragon Person, he noticed someone descending from the sky and standing in front of him. His hair was unkempt and disheveled, and he had his back to him, which prevented him from getting a good look at his face.

"Who are you?"

The six Demigiants steadied themselves after stumbling. Raging fury and savagery brimmed in their huge, brass bell-like eyes as they glared furiously at Meng Lei, who had suddenly butted into their battle out of nowhere. They roared, "How dare a cheap, lowly human like you ruin our plans? Die!"

"A cheap, lowly human? Very well!"

An icy smile formed on Meng Lei's face, and he instantly vanished from where he was. By the time he reappeared, he'd already charged all the way up to the Demigiant. As the Demigiant stared at him in stunned astonishment, Meng Lei's fist rammed right into his abdomen.

Boom!

A tremendous power erupted with a thunderous boom. Amid the crisp and clear crack of bones snapping, the Demigiant was unsurprisingly thrown out. He flew through the air and broke a large, towering tree so thick that one could barely circle their arms around it right into two.

"Gisley!"

Greatly astonished, the other Demigiants stared at Meng Lei as though they couldn't believe what they'd just seen. Never would they ever have thought that Meng Lei, who didn't reach even their knees, would actually possess such terrifying strength!

He'd actually sent Gisley flying with a punch!

Just how powerful was that?!

"Five of them left."

Meng Lei licked his lips and vanished from where he was again.

"Look out!"

Alarm bells went off in the Demigiants' heads, and they became even more on guard, but it was to no avail.

Meng Lei abruptly appeared in front of another Demigiant. His right leg swung through the air and kicked a demi-giant right in his jaw. With a crisp snap, a cry escaped him, and he was flung out as well.

"Four left."

He landed on the ground and vanished again.

Boom!

"Three left."

"Just two now."

"Last one."

In the blink of an eye, all six Demigiants had been sent flying. Without waiting for them to get back up, six thunder spears shining with a blinding light descended from the heavens and pierced through their throats!

Splurt!

All six Demigiants' outraged eyes were widened big and round, filled with resentment and chagrin, unable to rest in peace!

"Game over!"

Meng Lei showed himself and gazed at the six Demigiants. He wasn't even out of breath, and he carried himself with a calm and cool composure as if he hadn't lifted a finger at all.

"H-how strong!"

Totally astounded, the Golden Colossal Dragon Person stared at Meng Lei from the back. In his eyes, Meng Lei's back view was so big and tall, stalwart, and beyond one's reach...

"Are you alright?"

Meng Lei turned around and faced the Golden Colossal Dragon Person with a warm smile, just like a morally upright gentleman.

It was then that the Golden Colossal Dragon Person finally got a good look at Meng Lei. His eyes turned big and round at once, and he stammered, "How... How come it's you?"

"Huh? Do we know each other?"

Meng Lei looked greatly taken aback. He looked the Golden Colossal Dragon Person up and down but found him a total stranger.

I've never seen him before! Why does he recognize me?

The Golden Colossal Dragon Person kept silent and gazed straight at Meng Lei for a brief moment. Then, his golden dragon scales slowly faded to reveal a familiar and ordinary-looking face.

Meng Lei jerked fiercely, and he exclaimed, "Abbe?!"

"Yes, it's me!"

Abbe nodded slowly and got up from the ground with his hand held over his chest. Then, with a flip of his hand, he brought out a test tube filled with blue liquid, threw his head back, and downed it in a gulp.

Abbe's complexion improved significantly after the liquid entered his system. He looked at Meng Lei, his eyes full of complex emotions, and remarked, "I'd never imagined that you'd become this strong after just a separation of half a month."

"It really is you, Abbe!"

Meng Lei shook his head, not quite knowing what to say. How did he even bump into Abbe at a place like this? What a coincidence!

"Why are you here, though? Weren't you supposed to return to the capital when the winter break started?"

Although they were housemates, because they'd rarely interacted, the only thing Meng Lei knew about Abbe was that he was from the capital and nothing else. He'd assumed that Abbe had returned to his hometown during the winter break. Little did he think that he'd actually come to Magical Beast Forest, too!

"I don't want to go back!"

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Chapter 80: The Meteor Plains, The Ice Age

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The Demigiant corpses laid quietly on the grass. As their blood dried, it attracted countless flies and mosquitoes.

Meng Lei frowned and said, "You don't have to go back if you don't want to, but you shouldn't have come to the Magical Beast Forest depths and loitered about here. It's too dangerous!"

Abbe had nothing to say to that.

Meng Lei then asked, "What are your plans now? I'd suggest that you should either leave or go to the forest's outer boundaries. That way, your life won't be at risk!"

"I understand!"

Abbe nodded silently. Then, as he held his chest, he turned around and left. "Thank you for saving my life. I will repay the favor for sure!"

Meng Lei became somewhat worried instead when he saw how Abbe was behaving. He couldn't help but ask, "Where are you going?"

"I don't know. Wherever my legs take me, I guess!" Abbe replied coolly.

Then, without even looking back, he left and, in no time, disappeared into the depths of the forest.

"That fellow..."

Meng Lei was rendered rather speechless.

"Forget it, just do whatever you want. Why should I bother that much about him if even he himself doesn't cherish his own life?"

Meng Lei shook his head and began to examine the Demigiant corpses instead. These guys were pretty strong, and their bodies were on par with Sixth-Grade Warriors.

If the six of them joined hands with one another, together with their earth-controlling ability, they would have a fighting chance even if they encountered Seventh-Grade Warriors.

Surely there'll be quite a lot of good stuff on them, right?

"Ding! Dropped item detected. Will you pick it up?"

"Yes, pick it up!"

"Ding! Assimilation successful. Host's Physical Body Constitution 91!"

After some rummaging, Meng Lei indeed found a spatial magic device on them. It was a brass ring that looked simple, classy, and unadorned, yet bold and unconstrained, and was very characteristic of a giant's style.

"Let's see what's inside of it..."

He released some spiritual power, which slowly spread into the spatial ring.

"That's all there is inside?"

Meng Lei's brows drew together at once. The space inside the ring wasn't big, only about ten cubic meters at best. Apart from a small pile of magic cores, there were only a few pieces of clothing, armor, maces, roasted meat, and other things like that.

There was nothing else other than these!

"Can you even call yourselves Demigiants when you're even poorer than me?!"

Meng Lei was sorely disappointed. He swore and grumbled incessantly as he flung all the clothes, armor, maces, and whatnot out of the ring. Only Demigiants could use those things; to him, they were nothing but rubbish. Naturally, rubbish should be discarded.

"Hmm? What's this?"

At that moment, something resembling a parchment manuscript fell out of a piece of armor and caught Meng Lei's attention.

Parchments were something considered very primitive. Apart from the poor that lived in far, remote mountainous regions, nobody would usually use something like it.

Those six Demigiants evidently weren't poor, so why would they carry a parchment manuscript on them?

Puzzled, Meng Lei picked up the parchment manuscript and took a look at the contents. Crooked, twisted lines covered the manuscript, forming a simple map that looked somewhat similar to military tactical maps used in olden times.

Apart from that, there were no text, symbols, or references on it at all. Meng Lei couldn't tell what kind of place the map was depicting, either.

"Who was the one that drew this map? I promise not to kill you if you come forward now!"

Meng Lei curled his lip in despise. Just as he was about to toss it aside without further thought, Ol' Amos unexpectedly popped up and said, "Don't discard it yet! Let me take a look at it first."

"It's just a useless picture. What's so interesting about it?"

Meng Lei grumbled in response but passed him the map anyway. A frowning Ol' Amos began to examine the map, and the more he did, the deeper he frowned. After a long while, he finally said, "This thing... It looks rather familiar!"

"Eh?"

Meng Lei raised his eyebrows and asked in puzzlement, "Ol' President, isn't this just an ordinary parchment map?"

"It is indeed an ordinary parchment map," Ol' Amos replied with a small nod. "But the terrain depicted on it—six mountains surrounding a lake—is no ordinary place. That's the terrain unique to the Meteor Plains!"

"The Meteor Plains?" Meng Lei's brows furrowed slightly.

"What? You've never heard of even the Meteor Plains?"

As Ol' Amos' expression turned sour as though he was about to launch into a reproachful lecture again, Meng Lei hurriedly replied, "I've heard of the Meteor Plains, of course. It's located in the great wastelands in the far north and inside the Beast People Empire!

"It's said that a long, long time ago, a star from beyond the horizon had fallen and landed in the far northern wastelands. Over the course of time, people started to refer to that area as the Meteor Plains, meaning 'the land where the stars fell'!"

"That's not a legend but something that had really happened."

Ol' Amos gave a slow nod. A hint of nostalgia came over his features, and he said, "It happened during my childhood. I can still remember it as clear as day. That night was just like any other night. My family and I had just had our dinner, and I was playing with my younger sister in the courtyard.

"All of a sudden, a shooting star came falling from beyond the heavens. With a long trail of fire dragging at its end, it streaked across the sky and lit up the entire night sky!

"That shooting star had first appeared in the skies above the Fairy Empire. As it traveled from the south to the north, it streaked all the way across the Fairy Empire and Magical Beast Ridge before it finally landed in the great far northern wastelands.

"In the instant it landed, even the Fire Dragon Kingdom countless kilometers away in the distance could feel the intense tremors caused by its landing. A gray, dusky mushroom cloud rose from the ground and rushed tens of thousands of kilometers up into the sky, so high that it was several times higher than even Mount Almighty Theodore's Tomb, the tallest mountain in Heaven's Vault Continent!

"The earth continued to shake, and a great number of buildings caved in. The night sky became as bright as day, and this brightness lasted as long as several minutes in the entire sky before it gradually dimmed!"

Ol' Amos' eyes glistened, a look of astoundment still contained within them. "It was a sleepless night that night, and we waited all the way until daybreak, only to find out that the sky had been completely blocked out by dust!

"As far as the eye could see, dust blocked out the sun and also obstructed our sight. Just like a great fog in winter, we could only see as far as five meters from where we stood. Beyond that, nothing was visible because the meteor's fall had set off too much dust into the air."

Meng Lei gave a slow nod and said, "I can see why it would blot out the sky and cover the sun, but the scale of the aftermath is a little too big."

"I was still young at that time. In the beginning, I'd found it interesting, and I had a lot of fun playing hide-and-seek with my buddies, but it wasn't long before disaster fell upon us!"

Ol' Amos took a deep breath and went on. "The temperature began to drop sharply and rapidly, and a snowstorm actually broke out in the Fire Dragon Kingdom during June and July!"

"A snowstorm?!"

A huge jolt went through Meng Lei. Fire Dragon Kingdom was right next to Magical Beast Forest and had a tropical rainforest climate. Temperatures were high all year round, and June and July were even the hottest periods of the year.

Snowing during a season like that? How inconceivable!

"This sudden abnormality didn't garner much attention. Instead, everyone found it rather novel, except that the dust covering the sky didn't show any signs of dispersing even as time passed, and the temperature continued to drop.

"Ever since then, the Fire Dragon Kingdom has turned into a nation of frost. Commoners freeze to death every day, and livestock and wild beasts die in even larger numbers."

Ol' Amos sighed and said, "You can imagine what it's like in the other kingdoms when even Fire Dragon Kingdom has it this bad, not to mention the Beast People Empire far away in the great northern wastelands."

The Ice Age!

These three words involuntarily surfaced in Meng Lei's mind.

Temperature imbalance, layers of ice covering the land, extremely cold climates, a drop in sea levels, a great number of animals dying out... That was exactly what the Ice Age was!

Moreover, the Ice Age often signified the extinction of living things. What a striking similarity there was between the scene Ol' Amos was describing and the Ice Age...

"What happened after that, Ol' President?"

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Chapter 81: The Missing Meteor, The Golden Leaf

"After that..."

Ol' Amos' eyes were deep and bottomless. As he sank into far, distant memories, his voice also turned aged like that of someone who'd lived through a great many changes.

"In the 10-odd years that followed, the whole continent turned into a nation of frost. Countless living things died, and all the major empires and every single race suffered heavy losses.

"Among which, the Beast People Empire had the highest death toll. According to the post-event statistics, 3/4 of Beast People Empire's commoners had died, and 1/5 of their nobles were implicated.

"The Beast People Empire was awfully powerful back then. The power that their empire held firmly outstripped the Dragon God Empire's and the Titan Empire's. However, this event dealt the Beast People Empire a heavy blow that shook their very foundation, and they ended up becoming the weakest power among the four great empires."

"3/4 of the commoners... How merciless!"

Meng Lei was incredibly blown away. No matter where commoners were always the social strata with the highest population count. According to statistics, there were currently more than 200 billion commoners in the Beast People Empire!

A death toll that reached 3/4 of the commoner population...

Hiss!

That was a whole 150 billion people!

If all the other commoners that'd died in the whole continent were to be included, this number would probably be multiplied several times. One could see from this just how merciless that disaster had been!

"It was very merciless, indeed. We Magicians study the intrinsic nature of the heavens and earth, hoping to get a glimpse of the true essence of nature. Yet in front of the universe, we are simply so insignificant..."

Ol' Amos shook his head lightly. "Even a powerful Saint Domain wouldn't count as much in the presence of the universe. They are nothing but a drop of water in the vast sea, a speck of dust in the universe."

"And then? What happened after that, Ol' President?" Meng Lei asked eagerly.

"After that, in order to improve the situation, the four great empires started to cooperate with one another. They assembled all the earth-elemental, water-elemental, and ice-elemental Magicians in the whole continent to lay down the dust and make it settle. The Magicians then gathered the moisture in the air and began a grand, spectacular dust-clearing operation.

"Something worth mentioning here is that our Fire Dragon Magic Academy, as well as many other magic academies, were precisely established during that period of time, with the objective of grooming Magicians, especially earth-elemental ones."

Ol' Amos continued to go down memory lane, and he said, "Thanks to generations of predecessors' consistent and persistent efforts, sunlight began to shine upon the earth again. The sun rose in the east once again, the ice and snow melted, and the temperatures turned warm and mild.

"Everything finally returned to what it was like in the past.

"We had succeeded, succeeded in chasing away the ice and frost!

"It was just a pity that the lives that have already disappeared would stay forever buried in the ice and snow, never to return again."

"How horrifying and heartrending!"

Meng Lei heaved a small sigh, his emotions rather complex.

"Ever since then, all the races in the continent busied themselves with licking their wounds and recovering their strength, and Heaven's Vault Continent instead welcomed a rare era of peace. It was exactly during that period that I'd broken through to Saint Domain."

Ol' Amos said with a sigh, "After I achieved Saint Domain level, I headed to the Meteor Plains right away. I wanted to see for myself just what exactly the star from beyond the heavens that'd caused such a huge ruckus was."

"The star from beyond the heavens?"

Meng Lei's eyes lit up.

"Yet when I arrived at the Meteor Plains, the star from beyond the heavens had already long since vanished, leaving behind only a massive impact crater!"

Ol' Amos shook his head and said with a smile, "At that time, there were many other people with the same thoughts as me. In fact, a lot of people believed that the meteor capable of causing such a disaster must surely be some kind of impressive treasure.

"This resulted in experts from every nook and cranny of the continent constantly making their way to the Meteor Plains to survey the place and search for fallen treasures in the following several hundred years. However, despite searching everywhere, they returned empty-handed."

"Why didn't they find anything?" Puzzlement filled Meng Lei's eyes. "A gigantic meteor like that couldn't have possibly been fully destroyed upon landing, right? Who could've taken it?"

"That's hard to say." Ol' Amos shook his head with a laugh. "There'll always be someone stronger out there, and there is no limit to how high one can go. In the whole of Heaven's Vault Continent, there are certainly people who were capable of taking the fallen meteor. At the very least, I was capable of taking the meteor during my pinnacle!"

"Fine!"

Meng Lei curled his lip in response. It was only then that he remembered that he was currently in Heaven's Vault Continent, a powerful advanced martial arts world where individuals' offensive abilities could reach terrifying heights.

Meng Lei asked again, "What happened after that?"

"After that, over the course of time, the treasure-seeking trend gradually died down, and no one paid any more attention to the Meteor Plains," answered Ol' Amos.

"So, that's the history of Meteor Plains," muttered Meng Lei to himself.

Then, he looked at the parchment in his hand again. "So, this parchment manuscript is a map of Meteor Plains?"

"Yes! During my time, exploring Meteor Plains was something very trendy. How did that saying go again... 'You can't call yourself an expert if you've never been to the Meteor Plains'?"

Ol' Amos nodded and said with a smile, "It was exactly because of that that maps of Meteor Plains were everywhere. Even a Meteor Plains map bought from a roadside peddler would be way more detailed than the one depicted on that parchment manuscript in front of you."

"Sigh! So, after all has been said and done, this is just an ordinary map. And here I'd thought that I'd gotten some kind of impressive treasure!"

Meng Lei was greatly disappointed. A bout of flames burst forth from his palm, and he promptly burned the parchment. Ol' Amos didn't stop him, either. He'd explained so much only because he'd found the map familiar to the eye earlier, and not because there really was something unusual about the map.

Burned? So be it, then. No biggie!

As the parchment burned into ashes, a golden sheet of unknown substance dropped out of the parchment and fell onto the ground.

"What's this?"

When Meng Lei picked it up, he discovered that it was actually a leaf about the size of an infant's palm. It looked like an elm tree leaf, except golden-yellow throughout. It was full of dense, packed veined patterns and seemed as if it was forged from gold.

"Let me take a look at that!"

Ol' Amos took the golden leaf from Meng Lei. He held it in his hand and began to inspect it closely, but the more he did, the more astonished he became. "How strange! This thing can actually shut out my spiritual power!?

"This is really weird. I still can't get through it!

"But that shouldn't be the case..."

For a brief moment, Ol' Amos mumbled to himself, failing to make any discovery even after half a day. This greatly surprised him, and he remarked, "This golden leaf looks ordinary, but it's a unified entity and can completely shut out my spiritual power. I can't tell what it's really made out of at all. Even this old man here has no idea what it is!"

"Even you can't tell what it is, Ol' President?"

Meng Lei examined the golden leaf closely, his eyes glittering brightly. "Might this be some kind of treasure? Hehe, let's give it a go right away!"

Meng Lei bit on his finger and broke the skin surface. Then, he dripped a drop of blood onto it.

"What are you doing?" Ol' Amos was bewildered by Meng Lei's actions.

"Dripping blood to claim ownership, of course!" Meng Lei smilingly explained, "There is a group of well-read and knowledgeable amazing people in my hometown. After much painstaking efforts and observing innumerable predecessors and almighty masters, they've concluded this bit of wisdom—when one is dealing with things they are unfamiliar with or things that are difficult to make an accurate judgment of, dripping blood to claim ownership is the way to go. If you can really successfully claim ownership of it, you'll strike it big. Even if you can't, you don't lose out at all!"

Ol' Amos was rather dumbfounded. He criticized, "What kind of weird theory is that? Dripping blood to claim ownership? Do you think this is a divine weap—"

Yet before he could even finish, the blood that had dripped onto the golden leaf was actually absorbed into the leaf, and it vanished without a trace!

"Hahaha! Didn't I tell you?" Meng Lei was overjoyed. "My hometown kids me not! Kids me not, I say!"

"I'll be damned..."

Ol' Amos was dumbstruck!

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Chapter 82: The Soul Realm, A White Elephant Divine Weapon

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Ol' Amos' eyes almost fell out of their sockets as he stared at the drop of blood seeping so strangely into the golden leaf. "I'll be damned... It really worked?"

In that instant, Ol' Amos felt as if his entire world had been upturned. Only divine weapons could go through the process of dripping blood to claim ownership, and those that could go through this same process were divine weapons for sure!

But were divine weapons something that easy to come by?

"To think that I, Amos Kroc, have traversed the world unhindered throughout my life. I'd started from humble beginnings, improved by leaps and bounds the whole way, and broke through the Saint Domain realm's shackles at 58 years old to become the top expert of my time!"

Indignation filled Ol' Amos' eyes as he went on. "After that, I even used only a short 1,000 years to attain the Saint Domain realm's pinnacle and enter the ranks of ultimate top experts in the continent!

"Yet I've only ever encountered a single divine weapon in my illustrious lifetime, and that is the Gods-Slaying Spear that killed me. Even so, I'm proud to share in its glory!

"How fortunate am I to be killed by a divine weapon?

"But what about you?"

Ol' Amos glared at Meng Lei and shouted furiously, "An immature little brat like you has actually encountered divine weapons one after another! Are the gods up there blind?!"

"Admit it, Ol' President, this is fate!"

Meng Lei snickered and tossed his soft and silky long hair back in a showy manner. "Some people simply aren't even as blessed as a sheet of paper. Even if they are born with a silver spoon in their mouths, they may still die a tragic death in the middle of the night without the luck to enjoy their good fortune. Whereas some people are just like cockroaches—even if they experience numerous difficulties and dangers, they have numerous chance encounters, and the longer they live, the more exciting their lives become.

"I'm clearly the latter!"

There was something else he didn't mention—if Ol' Amos knew that Meng Lei even had a software bug-like cheating device, wouldn't he become so jealous that he'd kill himself by eating sh*t?

"To hell with your goddamn fate! I simply won't accept it!"

Ol' Amos was fuming mad. He grumbled indignantly, "Why do you get to have a divine weapon just by picking up any old parchment manuscript? Yet I've never even seen a hint of a divine weapon's shadow after living for several thousand years?!"

"Look, look! Something's happening to the leaf!"

At that moment, the golden leaf abruptly gave off an incredibly dazzling and brilliant golden light as if it was a miniature sun.

Right on the heels of it, an odd scene unfolded—everywhere the golden light reached, all the trees, grass, and vines started to grow at an alarming rate as if they'd been injected with highly concentrated growth hormones!

One meter, two meters, three meters, four meters, five meters...

In just a few short breaths, with the golden leaf as the center, all the plants within a radius of five meters had turned into "towering trees reaching the skies"!

Meng Lei was straight up... swallowed by the plants!

"What the heck? What exactly is going on?!"

Meng Lei stared at all this in stupefaction, totally dumbfounded, while Ol' Amos looked absolutely flabbergasted as well.

At that moment, the cause of all these—in other words, the golden leaf—slowly flew into the air and spun a full round in mid-air before suddenly shooting right toward Meng Lei's forehead.

"W-what are you doing?!"

Meng Lei received a huge shock. The forehead was a person's vital weakness. Should the golden leaf impale him, wouldn't he die?

As such, he instinctively blocked his forehead with his hand. However, in the instant that the golden leaf made contact with his hand, it passed right through bizarrely and continued shooting into Meng Lei's forehead before vanishing without a trace.

"F*ck!"

Meng Lei hastily touched his forehead. When he realized that it wasn't bleeding, nor was there any sign of injury, he couldn't help but become a little relieved. However, the problem was that... The golden leaf had clearly wormed its way in!

There was no way he would be fine!

"Brat, are you alright?" Ol' Amos asked anxiously.

"Seems like... I'm fine?"

As Meng Lei rubbed his forehead, he asked, "Ol' President, the golden leaf has wormed its way into my head. Will I be alright?"

"Probably... yes?" Ol' Amos wasn't very sure, either. "My understanding of divine weapons is limited, so I can't comment much. But since you've claimed ownership of it, I should think that it wouldn't hurt you... probably?"

"Really?"

Meng Lei blinked in response.

"Pay close attention and try to sense where it has gone," suggested Ol' Amos.

"Okay!"

Meng Lei nodded repeatedly. Then, he shut his eyes and started to carefully sense its location. His spiritual power was very strong now, and he was entirely capable of scanning his own body and doing an inner view of his internal organs. There was no way any abnormality in the body could escape the eyes of a spiritual power scan.

"It has actually gone all the way into my sea of consciousness?!" Meng Lei exclaimed loudly.

A person's sea of consciousness, also known as their spiritual realm or soul realm, was the place that harbored their spirit and contained their soul.

Every single person, or rather, every single living thing, had their own sea of consciousness. The difference laid in the fact that some could "see" their own sea of consciousness, while others were unable to detect the presence of their spiritual realm.

Typically, once one attained the Seventh-Grade Magician level, they would be able to achieve inner viewing of their own spirit and return to their spiritual realm.

Of course, as it was common for Warriors' spiritual power to be a tad weaker than Magicians', and they needed to attain Ninth-Grade level before they could achieve this.

The sea of consciousness was like the universe, vast and boundless, limitless and infinite, yet incredibly wide and spacious. Within the endless void floated a single, lone silvery-white flame.

Chilly, wild and arrogant, and solitary! It strengthened and weakened unsteadily, as though a candle flame hanging in the Moon Palace1.

That was exactly what the soul flame was—a person's very core and essence!

No matter how beautiful one's outer appearance was, it would never overcome the passage of time's corrosion, and an exquisite body might not necessarily be capable of holding a soul.

The "soul" referred to here was precisely the soul flame.

The soul flame hung suspended in the void, surrounded by gray, dusky fog. Chilly, deep, and remote, it was the one and only source of light in one's boundless realm of consciousness.

That was what it was like in everyone's sea of consciousness.

Yet Meng Lei's sea of consciousness wasn't the same because there was actually something else above his soul flame—the golden leaf!

Yes, that golden leaf from just now!

It floated above the soul flame, swaying lightly like light decorations above candle flames. It followed the soul flame's unsteady fluctuations and spun slowly in a very rhythmic manner, emanating a vast and mysterious aura as it did so.

"What exactly is that?"

Meng Lei was anxious and doubtful. He found this particular "divine weapon" simply too odd. When he had claimed ownership of the Gods-Slaying Spear previously, a strong connection had been established between the Gods-Slaying Spear and him. Through this connection, he was able to easily mobilize the Gods-Slaying Spear, but this wasn't the case for the golden leaf.

After he had dripped his blood onto it and claimed ownership of it, no connection of any sort had been established between the golden leaf and him at all. Despite it entering his sea of consciousness, Meng Lei still couldn't sense any connection with it.

The golden leaf... was just like an inanimate object. It was as if he'd never claimed ownership of it.

He could clearly see it idling there, yet he couldn't sense it, much less direct or command it. It felt extremely frustrating!

"Who can tell me just what the heck that thing is?!"

Meng Lei attempted to touch the gold leaf with his spiritual power, but the golden leaf stayed still and motionless.

He applied a bit more force... But it still stayed motionless.

He then struck at it forcefully, but it simply didn't budge.

Even when he smashed madly at it, it stood its ground steadfastly and remained unmoving.

"Are you a goddamn inanimate object?!"

Meng Lei was going crazy. He finally knew a tiger's pain when eating a hedgehog—wanting to eat it yet unable to, and wanting to discard it yet couldn't bear to part with it. He could only stare at it helplessly, unable to do anything about it!

"Get lost, get lost! What a weirdo! You sh*tty divine weapon!"

Meng Lei was fairly incensed, and he withdrew from his sea of consciousness indignantly.

Ol' Amos gazed at Meng Lei anxiously and asked with a face full of concern, "How is it? Did you find it?"

"I did, but..."

Meng Lei told him what had taken place inside his sea of consciousness with a shake of his head.

"What?! Really?"

Ol' Amos frowned deeply. After musing for a long while, he finally said, "This situation is honestly surprising, but it's nothing more than two possibilities."

"What does that mean?"

Meng Lei perked up.

"The first possibility is that this divine weapon is damaged, or maybe it's defective from the get-go and is a spare part of another divine weapon."

Ol' Amos twisted his beard as he mused with an intelligent gleam in his eyes. "Although a divine weapon's ingenuity is indeterminable, in essence, it's still a magic device. When a magic device cannot be used, there's a high chance that it's because it's damaged.

"Reasons like damaged internal parts, depletion of energy inside its magic core, its magic circle breaking down, and so on. All these can cause a magic device to become unable to function properly."

"What about the second possibility?"

"Now, the second possibility is a complicated one!" A sharp glint flashed across Ol' Amos' eyes. "The golden leaf itself is a divine weapon of extremely high quality, but you are too weak, so you're not qualified to use it at all!"

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Chapter 83: Wood-Elemental Magic Talent, Pummeling A Gigantic Python

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The Milky Way dazzled as it hung suspended in the sky. Sparkling and brilliant, it was vast and boundless.

Meng Lei sat cross-legged on a large tree fork as he did his daily meditation. Cultivation was a process akin to rowing against the tide—one must constantly forge ahead, or else they would be driven back. One must be diligent and relentless with their cultivation.

The forest in the night wasn't a quiet and peaceful place, and beast roars distracted one's mind every once in a while. Meng Lei had already gotten used to it by now, though, and he concentrated on refining his magic power and improving his spiritual power.

Little Teddy lay sprawled on the tree branch beside him, deep asleep. Its snores thundered all the way up to the skies, but in spite of this, its sense of vigilance was exceedingly high. Not even the slightest bit of activity escaped its ears and nose, proving itself to be even more useful than an actual poodle. As a result, Meng Lei could meditate at ease.

"How strange!" Meng Lei suddenly opened his eyes. "Why am I able to sense Wood Elements all of a sudden? This shouldn't be happening. Are the Wood Elements especially rich and abundant here?"

Countless magic elements floated in the air around him. Dense and packed as if stars in the night sky, they sparkled brilliantly and spread everywhere in a vast and boundless manner.

There were fiery red Fire Elements, silvery-white Thunder Elements, and ocher-yellow Earth Elements. The three different types of magic elements added radiance and beauty to each other, and they looked as if they were fairies.

Prior to this day, Meng Lei had only been able to detect these three types of magic elements, and he'd also been meditating and refining these same three types of magic elements. But now, it'd actually increased by another type!

Green magic elements!

They were obviously Wood Elements!

Now, mixed among the Fire, Thunder, and Earth Elements were countless Wood Elements. Much like a myriad of green fireflies, they circled around Meng Lei as they danced.

Even if Meng Lei didn't actively try to absorb them, they made their way wave upon wave into his body anyway. He was just like a magnet or a whirlpool that was continuously attracting them.

This scene practically couldn't get any weirder because Meng Lei didn't have any wood-elemental magic talent at all!

Besides, he had never been able to attract Thunder Elements and Fire Elements in the same way as this, despite his superior-grade thunder-elemental affinity and fire-elemental affinity!

"When did I gain wood-elemental magic talent?" Meng Lei looked absolutely stupefied. "And the magic talent is so crazy, no less. It's even more terrifying than my thunder-elemental and fire-elemental affinity?!

"But this shouldn't be happening...

"This didn't happen at all when I was meditating last night!

"Could it be because of that golden leaf?"

Meng Lei suddenly thought of the golden leaf that had forcibly taken up residence in his sea of consciousness. Thinking back to the events from the day before and today, the biggest change that had taken place was that there was now an additional golden leaf in his sea of consciousness.

"That golden leaf is the cause for me suddenly gaining wood-elemental magic talent? Isn't that kinda ridiculous?"

A corner of Meng Lei's mouth was spasming, his mood somewhat complicated. He had initially thought that the golden leaf was an inanimate object because the moment it had entered his sea of consciousness, it had behaved like a grand overlord, indifferent to everything and obeying nothing!

Little did he think that it would actually "bestow" upon him wood-elemental magic talent!

This was honestly too...

"Could it be that it really is like what Ol' President mentioned? That the golden leaf is a divine weapon of exceptionally high quality, but I'm not qualified to use it yet?" Meng Lei's eyes were gleaming awfully bright. "I'm gonna strike it rich so bad if that's really the case!"

"Hehe! Never mind, I'll just refine some wood-elemental magic power for now. Since I have wood-elemental magic talent now, how can I let it go to waste?"

The night passed peacefully as Meng Lei entered a cultivation frenzy.

Meng Lei was roused from his sleep the next morning.

Roar!

Teddy squatted on the tree as he glowered at a Magical Beast. It snarled at the Magical Beast as it pounded its chest and stamped its feet, its senses on high alert.

This was a huge red python over 30 meters long and as thick as a water barrel. A fiery red color throughout, it had a crimson chicken comb at its crown and a pair of black wings on its back and was as tall as a ten-story building.

"The Eighth-Grade Magical Beast, Black-Winged Comb Python!"

A hint of a smile appeared at Meng Lei's lip corners when he recognized the Magical Beast. After the last half a month spent exploring the Magical Beast Forest, he loved seeing Magical Beasts sending themselves up to death's door the most now.

All of these were money, after all.

"Hiss, hiss!"

The Black-Winged Comb Python hissed loudly as it flicked its tongue. A hint of greed flashed across its brown eyes as it watched Teddy and Meng Lei, who were perched on the tree.

"Is it treating us as its food?"

The corners of Meng Lei's lips quirked upward, and he asked cheerfully, "How about having this Black-Winged Comb Python for breakfast today, Teddy?"

"Good... Good!"

Teddy bounced up and down a couple of times as he responded happily.

"Hiss!"

The Black-Winged Comb Python watched them for a brief moment before the wings at its back gave a powerful flap. Its body rose into the air along with the action, and its thick, muscular tail swept abruptly toward Meng Lei.

Its tail moved swiftly and forcefully, the friction from it whipping through the air producing a crisp and clear explosion. In just an instant, it had already reached right in front of Meng Lei. It could sense the threat that Meng Lei posed toward it, so it wanted to get rid of him first before taking care of Teddy.

"To capture the bandits, first seize the ringleader? You have it all planned out, don't you?" Meng Lei shook his head with a laugh. "What a shame that you've picked the wrong target!"

Meng Lei raised his right arm in response to the gigantic tail sweeping toward him. He caught the huge tail that could easily cleave mountains, shatter rocks, and crush tall, towering trees in his hand, and just like that, the tail simply couldn't cause much of an upheaval.

"Hiss?"

The Black-Winged Comb Python was alarmed and horrified upon feeling the surging great strength coming from its tail, and it realized that it'd run into a brick wall. However, before it could retract its tail, Meng Lei applied force in his hand, and all five of his fingers easily broke through the python's scales to pierce deep into its flesh.

Blood seeped out of the wounds and splattered onto the ground.

The Black-Winged Comb Python let out a hissing cry and tried to forcefully retract its tail, but Meng Lei's fingers were just like pliers firmly shackling it down, and it simply couldn't move at all.

"Rise!"

Meng Lei's arm muscles flexed with a light shout, and great, boundless power erupted with a boom. To the python's horror, it realized that its body had uncontrollably flown into the air.

It crashed heavily against a huge, towering tree over 40 meters tall. With a crisp snap, the tree, together with its roots, broke at the base and its thick, solid trunk came crashing toward Meng Lei.

"Go!"

At the sight of this, Meng Lei waved his arm. The Black-Winged Comb Python immediately transformed into an iron chain that struck brutally against the tree trunk.

Crack!

The tree trunk broke into two in the middle!

"Again!"

Meng Lei waved about and began to slam the Black-Winged Comb Python against the tree trunk in a series of frenzied attacks. Amidst crisp cracking sounds, the tree trunk splintered into several pieces and turned into broken wood fragments in the end.

"Hahaha! Great!"

Meng Lei laughed loudly and chucked the Black-Winged Comb Python aside casually. It flew outward and crashed heavily onto the ground.

"Hiss!"

As an Eighth-Grade Magical Beast, the Black-Winged Comb Python evidently wasn't going to fall to its death so easily. It shook its head forcefully to clear its mind. Then, it hastily tried to make a run for it, clearly intending to flee.

"Thinking of fleeing?"

Meng Lei snapped his fingers. A three-meter-long thunder spear shot down from the heavens and instantly pierced through the Black-Winged Comb Python's head, pinning it to the ground.

"Hiss, hiss!"

The Black-Winged Comb Python had extremely strong vitality, and it managed to survive this time, too. Its body convulsed all over as it hissed, again and again, terrified and uneasy.

"I've already said that I'm going to eat you. Do you think I'll let you go?" Meng Lei casually took out a dagger and instructed with a smile, "Teddy, gouge out its magic core!"

"Howl, howl!"

Teddy let out a few howls. With the dagger in its grip, it flew toward the Black-Winged Comb Python and happily went to gouge out its magic core.

Gouging magic cores was one of Teddy's life pleasures!

Meng Lei had realized that whenever he killed a Magical Beast, Teddy loved to gouge out its magic core before he had a chance to do it. In the beginning, he'd thought that Teddy wanted to eat the magic core to increase its strength, only to find out in the end that Teddy simply just liked to... dig them out.

Eventually, Meng Lei entrusted this glorious but arduous task to Teddy. Since it liked to gouge them out that much, then it could feel free to go ahead. It was just as well that it could also allow Teddy to give play to its specialty and nurture its feral nature.

Killing two birds with one stone? Why not, right?

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Chapter 84: Terrifying Roars, A Magical Beast Riot

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"Ding! 1 Black-Winged Comb Python killed. 1,190,000 million gold coins gained!"

Meng Lei was in a fantastic mood as he listened to the system notification in his mind. He had earned more than a million gold coins early in the morning the moment he woke up. It couldn't get any better than this!

"What's the use of this iron stick1..."

Meng Lei hummed a tune as he cleaned the Black-Winged Comb Python carcass. The morning sun weaved through the overlapping layers of tree branches to shine upon Meng Lei, outlining the contours of a beautiful scene.

Little Teddy squatted at the side as it watched Meng Lei eagerly. Saliva was already overflowing from its mouth, and it could barely wait any further. Roasted meat was its favorite food, especially high-grade Magical Beast roasted meat.

That taste...

Wauuu!

Just the thought of it alone was enough to make Teddy lose control of itself.

Roar!

However, an earth-shaking roar suddenly rang out in the depths of the forest at that moment. It exploded with a deafening boom, as though sudden claps of rolling thunder!

"What's that sound?"

Meng Lei looked in the direction from which the sound had come from, anxious and doubtful. The sound had actually filled him with fear and trepidation?

Roar!

An even more violent and raging roar rang out. Meng Lei felt his scalp go numb, and his heart involuntarily began to pound faster. He took a look at Little Teddy to see that it'd actually huddled into a quivering ball and was using its wings to cover its head, its eyes full of alarm and fear!

"That sound had come from the Magical Beast Forest's depths!

"Could it be a Ninth-Grade Magical Beast? Or even... a Saint Domain one?"

Meng Lei was bewildered and anxious.

Ol' Amos emerged from the spatial ring at that moment, stretching and yawning as he did so. "Good morning, brat."

Roar!

Little didn't Ol' Amos expect an explosive roar to go off in his ears, shocking him so much that he jumped in fright. His expression changed, and he asked, "Brat... What's that sound?"

Meng Lei shook his head to express that he had no idea what was going on, either. Then, he pointed at Teddy that was all huddled up on the ground.

"Teddy may be an infant, but it has Ninth-Grade Magical Beast blood in it, nevertheless, and is fearless even in the face of an Eighth-Grade Magical Beast. Why is it so frightened?"

Ol' Amos' countenance was serious and solemn. He shouted in a low voice, "Get ready to run, brat! Things aren't looking too good!"

A chill ran down Meng Lei's spine.

Even Ol' Amos is saying that things aren't looking good?

Roar!

Yet another furious roar rang out at that moment.

Right on the heels of it, another roar after roar rang out in the depths of the forest. The roars rose and fell in succession continuously, interlacing with each other to form an enraged song of roars in the skies above the Magical Beast Forest.

Every single roar made Meng Lei's scalp tingle. They sounded just like the ferocious roars of fierce, primitive beasts, causing chills to run down one's spine as they shuddered in fear.

"That was the voice of a Saint Domain Magical Beast, the Six-Winged Heavens-Swallowing Beast, just now!" Ol' Amos exclaimed in a low voice.

Howl!

"That's the voice of the Saint Domain Magical Beast, the Moon-Howling Heavenly Wolf King!"

Moo!

"That's the cry of the Saint Domain Magical Beast, the Golden-Backed Ox Scorpion!

"Damn! Why are there so many Saint Domain Magical Beasts?! What exactly has happened in Magical Beast Forest's central region?!"

A horrified Ol' Amos barked, "Something must have gone wrong there, Meng Lei. Hurry and get out of Magical Beast Forest!"

"What exactly has happened, Ol' President?!"

Meng Lei followed with another question and asked, "Are there Saint Domain Magical Beasts fighting with each other? Are we able to sneak in there to take advantage of the crisis and reap some benefits as a bystander?"

"You fool! Are Saint Domain Magical Beasts that easy to take advantage of?! Even if they are, that chance isn't going to go to you!" Ol' Amos barked, "Cut the crap and get out of here!"

"Fine!"

Meng Lei could only bring out the magic carpet as he curled his lip in response. Then, he grabbed the terribly wussy Teddy and rushed up into the sky.

The magic carpet flew at high speed above the forest, causing the wind to howl in their ears. Ol' Amos suddenly shouted, "Look over there, brat!"

Meng Lei quickly turned to see the shaking and violently swaying forest a far distance away. A large expanse of trees collapsed, and countless bushes and shrubs broke to reveal a massive behemoth with two pairs of wings on its back. It was a dazzling silver color throughout as if it was forged from silver.

Despite being a great distance away from the behemoth, Meng Lei could still feel a terrifying aura of savagery coming from the monster. It overwhelmed him so badly that he couldn't even catch his breath!

"Hiss!"

Meng Lei sucked in a breath of air. "What a huge Magical Beast! It must be at least 60 to 70 meters long?!"

"That's the Saint Domain Magical Beast, Moon-Howling Heavenly Wolf King!"

Ol' Amos said solemnly in a deep voice, "Moon-Howling Heavenly Wolves become Eighth-Grade Magical Beasts the moment they mature into adults. The outstanding ones can even grow to become Ninth-Grade Magical Beasts, whereas all the rulers of this species are Saint Domains!"

"The Moon-Howling Heavenly Wolf King!" Meng Lei was astounded. "It's so handsome and so domineering! Compared to it, my seniors' mounts are practically defenseless babies!"

Many of the seniors in the magic academy had their own mounts. Mounts were a status symbol, as well as a symbol of one's strength. However, there was ultimately a limit to students' strength, so how strong could their mounts possibly go?

Most of them were Third- or Fourth-Grade Magical Beasts, with only a rare few Fifth-Grade Magical Beasts. For example, the Iron-Armored Rhinoceros, Gale Wolf, Flaming Lion... All of them were low-grade Magical Beasts that weren't fit to be seen.

However, these were enough to fill the freshmen with envy. Meng Lei had exactly been one of those envious freshmen back then. At that time, he had already been fantasizing about how he'd also subdue a powerful Magical Beast as his mount one day, just like those seniors.

How awe-inspiring!

How impressive!

But now that he had become stronger, his expectations had also risen. Meng Lei was no longer satisfied with those mounts. In his opinion, only handsome Magical Beasts like the Moon-Howling Heavenly Wolf King could match his status now.

"Are you really comparing those trashy Magical Beasts to the Moon-Howling Heavenly Wolf King?" Ol' Amos' lip corners were twitching as he scoffed. "If the Moon-Howling Heavenly Wolf King knew what you were thinking, it'd probably be so furious that it'd smack you to death with its paw!"

"Hahaha! It's just a casual remark!" Meng Lei burst into laughter and said, "You never know, with my current strength, I might just be able to really subdue a Saint Domain Magical Beast as my mount someday!"

Although Ol' Amos curled his lip upon his words, he didn't rebut him. After all, he'd never seen magic talent as wonderful as Meng Lei's nor a speed of improvement as fast as Meng Lei's. The Saint Domain realm wasn't just a dream for him.

At the other side, another Magical Beast emerged from the forest as it roared. It was a massive creature reddish-gold in color throughout and had an ox body and scorpion legs. It trampled on the forest as it advanced.

In front of it, tall, towering trees a few dozen meters tall were no different from green foxtail grasses. With just a light push from the creature, all of them broke at their bases, or broke in the middle, or were completely uprooted...

How ferocious!

How violent!

"That's the Saint Domain Magical Beast, Golden-Backed Ox Scorpion!"

Ol' Amos explained, "Extremely strong mutated Magical Beasts don't live in packs. They are rare hermaphrodites and will only produce one offspring in their whole lives."

"Hermaphroditic Magical Beasts..."

Meng Lei was a little dumbfounded. He didn't quite know what to say anymore.

There are actually Magical Beasts that fornicate with themselves? Fact is really stranger than fiction in this boundless universe sometimes.

"That's the Saint Domain Magical Beast, Titanic Long-Horned Beetle, an insect Magical Beast species. It possesses Herculean strength and has peerless defenses. In terms of physical strength, it doesn't lose out to the Great Earth Bear in the least!"

"What about that one, Ol' President?"

"That's the Great King Kong Crocodile, a water-elemental Saint Domain Magical Beast. It's the overlord in rivers and lakes. When it's in the water, even a pinnacle-level Saint Domain would have great difficulties killing it!"

Fearsome Magical Beasts emerged one after another like mushrooms after rain. Everywhere they passed by, the earth shook, the mountains trembled, and trees broke in halves. There was no way of knowing just how many ancient, towering trees were out of luck.

This scene truly frightened all the adventurers in the forest. Innumerable adventurers fled in a panic and ran about in a frenzy, wishing they had been born with more than two legs. Among them, some unlucky fellows that were too close to the Saint Domain Magical Beasts ended up being smacked to death along the way.

In conclusion, the entire Magical Beast Forest was in a total mess.

"Six of them!

"There are as many as six Saint Domain Magical Beasts!

"What exactly happened to these guys?"

Worry filled Ol' Amos' eyes as he gazed at the restless and roaring Saint Domain Magical Beasts. "All of them are overlords occupying their own territories in Magical Beast Ridge's southeast region. They usually stay at their dens sleeping all the time and rarely leave to move about. Why are all of them moving at the same time today?

"What exactly has provoked them?

"Please, don't form a beast tide and attack the borders. Otherwise, who knows how many people are going to die..."

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Chapter 85: The King of Magical Beasts, An Exceptionally Huge Ant Tide

In the forest where vines interwove, several hundred armored mercenaries with large swords on their backs cut through thistles and thorns as they ran madly for their lives.

Well-trained and armed with excellent equipment, their lineup was several times stronger than the Fire Cloud Mercenaries. They were the Fire Dragon Kingdom's famed Lucivia Mercenaries.

The Lucivia Mercenaries!

They were a unit under the Lucivia Chamber of Commerce's command in Fire Dragon Kingdom. Rich, powerful, and strong, they enjoyed a very high status in Fire Dragon Kingdom's mercenary circle, and innumerable adventurers dreamed of becoming one of them.

However, every one of these enviable mercenaries was filled with terror and anxiety at the moment. Even Luxican, their Ninth-Grade Warrior captain, was no exception. All of his usual calmness and composure had left him, leaving him in total panic.

"Hurry! Hurry up, everyone!

"Those at the back, keep up with the ones in front and don't fall behind!"

Bam!

A series of rustling sounds suddenly rang out from an area ahead of them at that moment. The mercenaries hastily stopped in their tracks and watched in worry and trepidation the area in front of them.

Captain Luxican shouted in a low voice, "Wesley, go and take a look at what has happened in front!"

"Yes... Captain!"

A small, skinny mercenary dressed in black robes responded especially unwillingly and went to investigate what had happened at the front. However, a brief moment later, they heard a shrill scream coming from the front.

"T-that's Wesley's voice!"

"What happened to Wesley? What has happened?"

"Is he..."

His scream sounded as if an owl's cry. The mercenaries, who were already fearful and tense, to begin with, were scared even more out of their wits and incredibly frightened.

Captain Luxican hastily shouted, "There's danger at the front! Hurry, switch to a different direction!"

After he spoke, he led the way and rushed toward another direction.

"Yes, Captain!"

The mercenaries followed after him one by one.

However, before they could go far, all of them doubled back to the same spot. They then switched to another direction and began to flee in that direction instead. It was just a shame that, just like before, they ended up returning to where they'd originally been again before they'd gone far.

Then, they switched directions once more, only to return again.

The rustling sounds coming from every direction were like terrifying, dreadful obstacles blocking the mercenaries' way.

Rustle, rustle!

As trees swayed and shrubs shook, the culprits blocking their way started to emerge one after another. It was a group of Magical Beast ants that were as large as calves and blood-red in color throughout.

They had razor-sharp, sickle-shaped teeth and tough, solid hard exoskeletons.

Barbed thorns covered their legs and their heads were terrifying and savage-looking.

They were the Sixth-Grade Magical Beasts, Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants!

"W-why are there so many Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants?!"

"We're surrounded!"

"We've been surrounded by Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants!"

"Captain! Hurry and think of something!"

The mercenaries' faces were ghastly pale as they drew back fearfully.

"I... What can I do?!"

Captain Luxican was as pale as a sheet as he gazed at the endless stream of Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants surging toward them like tidal waves. There wasn't even the slightest bit of rosiness in his complexion!

Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants were just Sixth-Grade Magical Beasts and weren't much to be afraid of, however, what made them fearsome were their terrifying numbers!

,000 Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants could bulldoze through everything when they moved out together. Even a large majority of Magical Beasts would have to make a detour upon the sight of them.

Once their numbers went beyond 100,000, they were no different from a catastrophe. Everywhere they went through, lands turned barren, no lives were spared, and nothing was left behind!

How many Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants were there in front of them at this moment?

,000? 100,000? Or... Even more than that?

Captain Luxican didn't know. All he could see was a densely packed multitude of Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants that formed an infinite, boundless ant tide surrounding them on all sides.

"Aren't Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants underground Magical Beasts? Why are there so many of them here?"

Luxican couldn't understand why. However, whether or not he understood was already no longer something of importance because the densely packed ant tide was already surging toward them. They pounced onto them, brandishing their sharp teeth as they did so.

"Get lost!"

"Leave me alone, you ugly freaks!"

"Ahhh!"

Against the raging, torrential ant tide, the Lucivia Mercenaries were as if an isolated island in the vast ocean. They didn't last long before all of them disappeared without a trace, drowned by the waves.

Rustle, rustle!

The Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants were expressionless, as though what they had done was merely something trivial and inconsequential. They continued to surge forward while waving their sharp teeth.

Not a single person knew that the famed Lucivia Mercenaries had been annihilated just like that. The incident didn't create even a ripple in the sea.

Meng Lei didn't know about the Lucivia Mercenaries' tragic fate. He steered the magic carpet and continued flying toward the outside of the forest. Now that they'd gone a far ways off, the Saint Domain Magical Beasts' roars were no longer audible. It was only then that his heart settled a little.

"Ol' President, why exactly are those Saint Domain Magical Beasts rampaging?" Meng Lei couldn't figure it out. "It's impossible to even catch a glimpse of them usually, so why did all of them suddenly come to life today?"

Ol' Amos shook his head lightly. "There's no smoke without fire. I can't be sure what exactly has happened in the forest's central region, but it's probably nothing good.

"Saint Domain Magical Beasts are existences that already stand at the pinnacle of Magical Beast Forest. What else is there that's capable of mass-inciting them?"

Meng Lei's eyes swiveled as he asked, "Could some kind of treasure have emerged in the forest's central region? Thereby causing all of them to make a move for it?"

"Not impossible, but it's not very likely." Ol' Amos shook his head and said, "A king exists in Magical Beast Forest, and all the Saint Domain Magical Beasts are its subjects. Even if a treasure has really emerged, they don't have a chance of getting it at all."

"The king of Magical Beast Forest?" Meng Lei was taken aback. He hastily asked, "Ol' President, Magical Beast Forest has a king?"

"Humans have kings, too. Why can't Magical Beasts have one?" Ol' Amos cast a glance at Meng Lei and said, "Seventh-Grade Magical Beasts possess intelligence comparable to humans, while Ninth-Grade Magical Beasts can even speak the human language. It wouldn't be surprising even if Magical Beasts were to establish their own kingdom, much less just a king!"

"Fine!"

Meng Lei nodded quietly. He then asked, "Ol' President, what kind of Magical Beast is the king of Magical Beast Forest? How strong is it? Have you ever seen it?"

A complex look flashed across Ol' Amos' eyes upon Meng Lei's questions. "I was fortunate enough to have seen it once. That was when I had just broken through to Ninth-Grade Magician and became Fire Dragon Kingdom's court magician."

"What does it look like? What kind of Magical Beast is it?" asked Meng Lei with a curious expression.

Buzz, buzz!

Meng Lei's magic communication device suddenly rang at this point. Meng Lei's brows furrowed slightly, and he looked at it with great dissatisfaction, only to see that it was actually Abbe that was calling.

Abbe?

Meng Lei was rather bewildered. Abbe had never called him before, so why was he calling him now?

A puzzled Meng Lei chose to pick up the call.

The fellow had a distant and aloof expression on his face, and he uttered only a line before he hung up—"Something has gone wrong in Magical Beast Forest. Leave at once, otherwise, your life will be in danger!"

"Uh..."

A mildly dumbstruck Meng Lei stared at the communication device that was now disconnected. "That cold, icy fellow is actually giving me words of caution? How unexpected!"

Ol' Amos laughed and replied, "Golden Colossal Dragon People may be haughty by nature, but they also make a clear distinction between kindness and grudges. You saved his life once, so it's understandable that he'd warn you."

"I guess so."

Meng Lei shook his head lightly. Just as he was about to put away the magic communication device, it rang again unexpectedly. This time, the caller was Fatty Hart.

"Old bro, are you in Magical Beast Forest?"

The moment the call connected, Fatty Hart began to question him right away.

"Yes, what's the matter?"

Meng Lei was rather bewildered.

Fatty Hart replied anxiously, "Something has gone wrong in Magical Beast Forest. A large-scale ant tide has erupted! You'd better run! Any longer, and you're gonna die!"

"An ant tide? How did you know that?"

Meng Lei looked stupefied.

I'm in Magical Beast Forest, and I don't even know what has happened, yet a little fatty like you in the capital city miles away does?

Are you kidding me?

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Chapter 86: The Fearsome Ant Tide, Returning To The Village

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It was hard to tell what Fatty Hart was currently doing. His arms were bare, and his chest was revealed. Two huge 36D-sized lumps of fat swayed left and right, almost blinding Meng Lei.

"The news has already spread throughout the capital!

"His Majesty has just convened all the royalty, nobles, and officials for an emergency meeting and has also issued a special-class beast tide warning!

"At the same time, His Majesty has deployed the kingdom's top elite Flying Dragon Troops to the borders. They're probably on the way there now!"

Something seemed to occur to Fatty Hart, and he added, "By the way, the academy is also gathering seniors fourth-year and above in preparation against the beast tide.

"The Mercenary Guild, Magician Guild, and the church have also begun to mobilize their manpower in preparation for the ant tide that's very likely going to break out!"

"Is it that bad?"

Meng Lei looked astonished. It hasn't even been that long since the commotion had broken out in the Magical Beast Forest, yet the kingdom already knew all about it?

A special-class beast tide warning—that was the Fire Dragon Kingdom's highest-class beast tide warning!

One must understand that as a result of Fire Dragon Kingdom being situated close to the Magical Beast Forest, it suffered badly from beast tide attacks. In order to defend against beast tides more efficiently, the capital was set in a location nearby Magical Beast Ridge, and they didn't think much of normal beast tides at all.

Yet they had actually issued a special-class beast tide warning now. It seemed like things were really serious this time!

"An ant tide?"

Ol' Amos' brows drew together slightly. "There aren't many powerful Magical Beast ant species in the Magical Beast Forest, though. Why would it set off such a huge commotion?"

Then, something seemed to come to Ol' Amos' mind, and his expression changed. "Hurry, ask him which Magical Beast ant species is the main unit for the ant tide this time?"

Meng Lei didn't dare to be tardy, and he quickly asked Hart.

"I heard that it's the Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants!" Hart answered at once.

"In addition, it's a very large-scale Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ant tide. The eagle scouts have detected that extraordinarily large-scale Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ant invasions have simultaneously appeared in several regions of the Magical Beast Forest.

"These savage Sixth-Grade Magical Beasts have formed overwhelmingly large tidal waves that swept through every part of Magical Beast Forest. All the Magical Beasts there are desperately fleeing, and I heard that even the Saint Domain Magical Beasts were alarmed by this, causing them to flee in a panic!"

"Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants!!" Ol' Amos' expression changed drastically, and he sucked in a breath of air. "To think it's actually the Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants! This is terrible!"

Meng Lei's heart gave an uneasy thump upon the sight of Ol' Amos' expression. "Ol' President, is a Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ant tide very scary?"

"How can the word 'scary' even cut it?"

Ol' Amos heaved a sigh. "Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants are a type of dark-elemental Magical Beast that live underground. They rarely leave their habitat to move about elsewhere.

"Even if they did occasionally emerge aboveground, they were but just individual Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants that had lost their way. They are just Sixth-Grade Magical Beasts and don't pose any threat at all.

"But..."

Ol' Amos' words took a turn in another direction. "When Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants emerge from underground at the same time on a grand scale, they will come together to form an exceptionally fearsome catastrophe. You can never imagine the sight of several million red ants congregating into a red torrent.

"Not even skeletal remains are left behind, and nothing is left alive in the barren lands!

"Every single living thing gets wiped out!"

"Is it that scary?!" Meng Lei gasped.

"Scary?" Ol' Amos chuckled and asked, "Do you know why the six Saint Domain Magical Beasts, like the Moon-Howling Heavenly Wolf King, for example, suddenly ran out of their lairs roaring as they rushed toward the forest's central region?"

"No, I don't!" Meng Lei shook his head.

"It's because they've gone to seek protection!"

Ol' Amos gazed into the distance. "The king of the Magical Beast Forest lives in the forest's central region. Only the king is capable of protecting those Saint Domain Magical Beasts. Otherwise, when the ant tide comes sweeping toward them, even Saint Domain Magical Beasts... would die a terrible death!"

"Even Saint Domain Magical Beasts would die?" Meng Lei gasped.

"Magical Beast insects such as ants and so on are different from other Magical Beasts. They don't fear death, and they launch wave upon wave of attacks. Their numbers are inexhaustible, too. Even deities would find them a pain to deal with should they encounter them, much less Saint Domain Magical Beasts?"

Ol' Amos shook his head.

"What should we do, then? If the ant tide attacks the kingdom's borders, how are they going to fight them?" asked Meng Lei.

"It'll have to depend on the situation!" With a shake of his head, Ol' Amos went on. "The ant tide moves at a ferocious momentum with only one motive in mind—to seize food. All the Magical Beasts, trees, and weeds are their targets of plunder! Once they seize enough food in the Magical Beast Forest, they'll automatically withdraw."

"What if they can't get enough food in the Magical Beast Forest?" Meng Lei balled his hands into fists. "Are they going to charge out of the forest and surge toward the borders?"

"Yes, that's right!"

Ol' Amos nodded. "Similar incidents had taken place several times before, among which, quite a few of them were false alarms. The ant tide had stayed only in the Magical Beast Forest to seize food and hadn't attacked the borders.

"However, there were also a few times where they had invaded and caused great disaster upon the kingdom. People's lives were plunged into great misery and suffering, and countless lives were lost!"

"So, nobody can guarantee whether or not they'll attack the borders, right?" Meng Lei asked with a grave expression on his face.

"That's right!"

"I understand now!"

Meng Lei let out a breath. He sped up and flew toward Magical Beast Village right away. While it was true that he didn't harbor many sentimental feelings toward the village, he couldn't just watch as the villagers perished in the ant tide, either.

He wasn't capable of something like that.

Thanks to the magic carpet flying full speed ahead, Meng Lei managed to return to the village by noon. The adults busied themselves with their chores while the children frolicked and played. Smoke from cooking rose into the air, and the aroma of meat assailed the senses.

Magical Beast Village was still immersed in peace and quiet. None of them knew that a disaster was imminent!

Bong!

Meng Lei landed on the village walls at the village entrance and rang the old brass bell there. The deep, dull bong of the bell resounded in the sky above the Magical Beast Village, startling all the villagers. The adults' countenances froze, and the children stopped where they were, and all of them looked in the village entrance's direction.

"The old brass bell is ringing!"

"The beast tide is here again?"

Captain Hudders was having his lunch in his wooden hut when the bell rang. His countenance changed, and he tossed aside the bone he was holding. Then, he picked up his huge sword and exited the hut in a flash. He was in such a hurry that he couldn't even be bothered to clean off the grease on his hands.

Swoosh!

All the adult men stopped their chores and walked out of their homes. They picked up their shovels and hoes, swords and rakes, and various other weapons and ran straight to the village entrance.

The women called out loudly for their children as they got ready to enter the underground shelter any moment.

For a moment there, a disturbance went through close to a hundred villagers of the entire Magical Beast Village!

"Meng Lei!"

Hudders, who was the first to reach the village walls, was overjoyed to see Meng Lei upon arrival. He said, "Meng Lei, when did you come back? Haha, with you around, I can rest assured!"

Contrary to his expectations, however, Meng Lei shook his head and replied, "Captain Hudders, I'm afraid I'm going to have to disappoint you. The scale of the beast tide this time is too big. I... can't stop them!"

Hudders' expression changed at once. "But you're a Sixth-Grade Warrior and even a Fifth-Grade Magician, too. What kind of beast tide is it that even someone like you cannot fight against it?"

"We'll talk when everyone's here!"

Meng Lei waved him off.

"Meng Lei!"

"Captain!"

Before long, all the guards and adult men arrived one by one. Old Peter, the village chief, also hurried over to the village entrance while using his walking stick for support, stumbling as he did so.

When everyone had more or less arrived, Meng Lei recounted the details of the ant tide to them. Upon hearing his words, everyone was scared witless, and they felt chills coming all over them.

Blood drained from Captain Hudders' face. He asked, "Meng Lei, is what you said really true? The ant tide is really coming?"

"It's hard to say for sure whether or not they'll come, but a large-scale Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ant tide has indeed occurred in the Magical Beast Forest. My friend in the capital has also told me that the king has specially issued a special-class beast tide warning because of this."

Meng Lei looked grave as he continued speaking in a deep and low voice. "I heard that even the Flying Dragon Troops have been mobilized. The reason for me hurrying back here is precisely to inform all of you to make preparations in advance.

"You can only be safe if you take precautions. If the Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants really surge out of the Magical Beast Forest, it'll be the end for villages like ours. The kingdom's troops will never leave the frontier defense stronghold to save commoners like us!"

A special-class beast tide warning and mobilization of the Flying Dragon Troops!

Blood drained from everyone's faces.

"Meng Lei is right! It's better to be safe than sorry!"

Old Peter was the first to make a decision. He instructed, "Tell every household to prepare rations and drinking water at once. The moment we discover traces of the ant tide, everyone is to enter the underground shelter immediately!"

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Chapter 87: The Great Dragon Blood Wall, Making Arrangements For The Villagers

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"Grandpa Village Chief, I'm afraid the underground shelter won't do!" Meng Lei vetoed Old Peter's suggestion at once. "The underground shelter can only defend against normal beast tides. It won't be able to stop the Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants!"

"Why is that?

Old Peter's brows drew together into a frown.

"Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants are a type of dark-elemental Magical Beast that live underground. The moment they catch a whiff of their prey, they'll start to dig tunnels!" Meng Lei explained solemnly, "You can try imagining how fast Sixth-Grade Magical Beasts are at digging tunnels. The shelter won't be able to stop them at all."

"What should we do, then?"

Old Peter's countenance changed at once. The village sat at the Magical Beast Forest's fringes—the shelter was their last hope. What were the villagers supposed to do when even the shelter couldn't serve its purpose?

"Retreat into The Great Dragon Blood Wall!" Meng Lei said slowly, "It's the safest in the Great Dragon Blood Wall. Our safety can only be guaranteed over there!"

"The Great Dragon Blood Wall?"

Everyone looked at one another.

"Yes, the Great Dragon Blood Wall!"

Meng Lei gave a heavy nod.

As a kingdom situated at the borders, the purpose of the Fire Dragon Kingdom's existence was precisely to protect the empire and guard the borders. For generations, every single person in the Fire Dragon Kingdom had shouldered this responsibility.

To better accomplish this task, the Fire Dragon Kingdom's first Fire Dragon King had especially established the capital at a place near the Magical Beast Ridge, such that it was but a day's journey from the capital to the Magical Beast Forest.

A day!

This meant that once a beast tide broke out, under the circumstances where they weren't hindered, the Magical Beast army would need only a day to reach the capital and threaten the safety of the whole kingdom.

How could one possibly allow others to intrude into their territories?

This short distance caused the whole of Fire Dragon Kingdom to feel as if they were sitting on pins and needles. As a result, not only did Fire Dragon Kingdom station eagle scouts in the Magical Beast Forest all year round to monitor all activities in Magical Beast Forest, but they had also built a defensive fortress stretching several thousand kilometers between the Magical Beast Forest and the kingdom.

This firm and sturdy, long wall that measured 50 meters tall and 20 meters thick on average was a big and tall, and tough and solid frontier stronghold that stretched on endlessly.

That was the Great Dragon Blood Wall famed throughout the entire empire!

For several tens of thousands of years, the Great Dragon Blood Wall had seen countless Magical Beasts buried at its feet, an indeterminable amount of Magical Beast blood splashed across its walls, and stood against innumerable beast tide attacks...

It stood firm and erect for an everlasting period of time!

It could be said that the Great Dragon Blood Wall was a protective amulet-like fortress. It was the most important, as well as the final wall of defense protecting the Fire Dragon Kingdom. In the whole of Fire Dragon Kingdom, not a single person would allow anything to happen to the Great Dragon Blood Wall!

Thus, not only were elite troops garrisoned at the Great Dragon Blood Wall all year round, but the moment war broke out, the kingdom would also deploy troops from other regions to head over as reinforcements. It was the safest over there!

"The Great Dragon Blood Wall may be safe, but it's a great distance from the village. How are over a hundred villagers going to make their way there?"

Old Peter let out a troubled laugh. "Not to mention that there are also the old, infirm, women, and children. With their entire families in tow, many of them won't be able to last till they reach the Great Dragon Blood Wall at all!"

Hudders and the others also nodded in silence. The Great Dragon Blood Wall was safe for sure, but it was too far from the village.

Otherwise, they'd have moved to the Great Dragon Blood Wall a long time ago when beast tides had broken out in the past. Why would they still stay here so miserably, letting their blood flow and sacrificing their own lives?

"That isn't a problem!" Meng Lei smiled. "There are only 100 people in the village, so we just need to rent a few large magic cars. Magic cars are very fast. It won't take them long to send people back and forth!"

"Rent magic cars?"

Everyone was taken aback.

"Yes, magic cars!" Meng Lei said with a smile, "Just leave the issue of renting the magic cars to me. All of you can go back home and pack your things. When I return with the cars, we'll set off right away."

After he spoke, Meng Lei jumped onto his magic carpet and disappeared straight into the horizon.

"But Meng Lei..."

Everyone looked at each other as they stared at his back view.

"Won't it be very expensive to rent magic cars?"

"It'll be a huge sum of money for sure!"

"How is the village going to be able to afford that?"

Everyone's face took on a troubled expression.

"Let's just act according to what he said and not concern yourselves with other problems!"

Hudders shook his head as he gave a wry smile. Some things weren't too convenient for him to mention, so he hadn't bothered bringing them up. He'd just keep Meng Lei's kindness in mind and repay him when he had a chance to in the future.

"Brat, you're pretty nice to those villagers, aren't you?"

Ol' Amos floated in mid-air. No matter how fast the magic carpet went, he simply continued to float closely above the carpet. It was awfully peculiar.

"Those are my fellow villagers. I can't just watch them die like that," replied Meng Lei calmly. "Besides, helping them is no different from just lifting a finger to me."

"That's true!"

Ol' Amos smiled as he twisted his beard. "With your current capabilities..."

The young and the old chatted as the magic carpet flew at breakneck speed. Before long, they'd arrived at the city nearest to the Magical Beast Village—Magical Beast Town.

Situated near the Magical Beast Forest, Magical Beast Town was a place where innumerable adventurers stocked up on their supplies, sold their prey, and rested. It was also where merchants acquired magic cores and beast furs or hides. It was an exceptionally bustling and prosperous place where people constantly streamed about to and fro.

Meng Lei relaxed a little as he walked down the lively streets and listened to the shouts and calls around him. Then, he made a beeline for the magic car depot.

When he reached the magic car depot, an attendant came forward and asked, "Esteemed Lord Magician, how may I serve you?"

"I'd like to rent some cars." Meng Lei asked calmly, "How many passengers can the biggest magic car you have seat?"

"50 people!" The attendant replied with a smile.

"50? Great, I'd like to rent two!" Meng Lei held up two fingers. Then, he asked, "How much would it cost to rent two magic cars that can seat 50 people?"

"Lord Magician, we charge by the hour. The rental fee for a large magic car is 88 gold coins per hour, so that'd be 176 gold coins for two cars." The smiling attendant asked, "May I know how long you'll be renting them for?"

"Around 15 hours, I guess," replied Meng Lei as he did a silent calculation.

"The total cost for two large magic cars for a period of 15 hours would be 2,640 gold coins." The attendant asked with a smile, "May I know whether you'll be paying by cash or card?"

Meng Lei casually tossed out a pile of gold coins. After sorting and counting them, the attendant wrote him an invoice, and Meng Lei headed to the car park with the invoice in hand.

Before long, two large magic cars whistled as they drove out of Magical Beast Town, and they successfully arrived at Magical Beast Village seven hours later. The villagers, who were all set and ready to move, boarded the cars in an orderly manner.

For a great majority of the villagers, this was their very first time riding on a magic car, and they were terribly excited. A few children were even laughing and clowning around in the aisle, incredibly delighted.

Gratitude filled Hudders' eyes as he watched the scene in front of him. "Meng Lei, I must really thank you this time. If not for you, who knows what would happen!"

"You're standing too much on ceremony. I'm also a member of the village. This is something I should do."

Meng Lei waved him off with a smile and added, "By the way, I found some things that aren't of much use to me in Magical Beast Ridge. Why don't you take a look and see if they are of any use to the villagers?"

Meng Lei took out a few scrolls as he spoke. A puzzled Hudders opened one of them, and his eyes widened big and round at once.

"Fire Smelting Art?!

"Meng Lei, t-this is a Battle Aura technique?

"This... This is too valuable! We can't accept it!"

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Chapter 88: Closure of City Gates, A Grand Path

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Meng Lei hadn't just been hunting Magical Beasts during these few days spent exploring Magical Beast Forest. He had also encountered quite a few attacks from other humans. Despicable adventurers like them were often involved in contemptible dirty dealings like this, so apart from being fairly wealthy, they also carried other things on them.

Battle Aura technique manuals were one of such things.

After a few successful counterattacks where he had killed the attackers, Meng Lei had obtained quite a number of Battle Aura technique manuals. Among them were both ordinary run-of-the-mill manuals, as well as exceptionally rare and precious high-grade manuals. His rewards were pretty bountiful.

It was just a shame that these were useless to Meng Lei. The Fire Dragon Manual alone was already enough for him to cultivate. All the other manuals, no matter how many they were, were nothing but just white elephants.

Since they were white elephants, he might take a few out and let the villagers cultivate them instead. That way, not only would it raise the villagers' combat strength, but the manuals could also be put to their fullest use.

However, Hudders declined his offer. "Meng Lei, these Battle Aura technique manuals are too valuable. We can't take them! You've already done so much for the village..."

"Captain Hudders, these are just things that I found in Magical Beast Forest. They aren't of much use to me, so just take them." Meng Lei said with a smile, "You can impart these techniques to everyone, especially the children. When everyone's combat strength is higher, I'll also be able to go about outside without worrying about other things."

"This..."

After hesitating for a moment, Hudders agreed to it in the end.

Seven hours later, Meng Lei and the others safely arrived at the Great Dragon Blood Wall. However, none of them had expected that all the city gates leading in and out of Great Dragon Blood Wall were actually closed, and entry and exit had been prohibited!

The people inside couldn't come out, and the people outside couldn't go in.

A soldier suited up in armor and holding a spear stood ramrod straight on top of the city walls, on standby and ready for battle.

At the bottom was an assembly of several adventurers, merchants, and commoners. All of them had been denied entry into the city and were now shouting angrily at the soldiers above the city walls.

"Open the gates!"

"Open the city gates!"

"The ant tide is coming! Let me in!"

"Goddamn it, you bastards! Open your damned eyes and take a good look! I'm Baron Skyles of the foothills! Hurry and open the gates for this Baron here!"

"O' dragon god, have you abandoned your people..."

As though they were statues, the soldiers on top of the city walls were completely indifferent to the people cursing and swearing fiercely at them. They didn't even pay them any attention, much less harbor any intention of opening the city gates!

This enraged the people even further, and all sorts of expletives and curses were thrown at them without even a moment's pause, forming a scene that looked terribly out of place with the stern, imposing Great Dragon Blood Wall.

The magic cars came to a stop in front of the crowd. Meng Lei alighted and couldn't help but frown as he watched the scene in front of him. Hudders followed behind Meng Lei and asked anxiously, "Meng Lei, the city gates have closed. What are we gonna do?"

"Don't panic."

Meng Lei waved him off and walked to the front of the crowd.

A chubby middle-aged man dressed in nobility fashion spat furiously, "You goddamn bastards! I'm a noble, you can't keep me out here!"

"My lord, hurry and think of something!"

Beside him, a noblewoman with a baby in her arms wept as she said anxiously, "Our child is only one year old. I don't want... Sob!"

The fat man took a look at the swaddled baby. The fats on his face quivered a little, and he began to curse even more furiously. "You bastards, open your goddamn eyes, and take a good look! I'm a Baron! A noble..."

In the midst of the fat man's cursing and swearing, a shadow suddenly shot toward them from a distance away, and he arrived at the bottom of the city walls in an instant. Then, after he leaped high into the air, the tips of his feet tapped lightly in succession against the city walls, and he climbed up to the top like a spider.

Upon seeing this, the fat man hurriedly raised his voice and shouted, "Expert! Esteemed expert, I'm willing to offer you 10,000 gold coins. Please bring us up there!"

However, the expert vanished into the depths of the city walls without even looking back at him, as though he didn't hear what he'd said at all.

"That bastard!"

Baron Skyles was so mad that he couldn't stop stamping his foot.

"Mr. Baron here, do they allow people to jump up the city walls like that?" asked Meng Lei as he pointed at the soldiers stationed on top of the city walls.

Baron Skyles turned around and glared at Meng Lei in annoyance. "Why wouldn't they? As long as you have the ability to jump up there, it's not like they can chase you back down, right?"

"Exactly! The Great Dragon Blood Wall is a fortress meant to defend against beast tides, not to keep us out here. Those goddamn bastards shouldn't be keeping us out here!"

"Those capable of jumping up there have already done so. Only weak, innocent commoners like us are left now. They clearly intend to let us die outside the city walls!"

"The city walls are over 50 meters tall, and only people that are Third-Grade Warriors and higher are able to jump up there. We..."

At the side, the enraged crowd rallied together, furious yet helpless. Hudders also said, "The moment beast tides come invading, the Great Dragon Blood Wall will close their gates in advance and will only open them again when the beast tide recedes. Those that can't enter the city in time can only resign themselves to their fate. It's something that cannot be helped."

Ol' Amos floated out at this point and said in a low voice, "The city gates are made out of obsidian rocks, the most solid, sturdiest, and heaviest rocks in Heaven's Vault Continent, and they weigh as heavy as half a million kilograms the moment they are closed! An eighth-grade magic core is used up every time they open the gates, and you should know how valuable an eighth-grade magic core is!"

Ol' Amos sighed and went on. "In the eyes of the soldiers in charge of guarding the Great Dragon Blood Wall, perhaps ordinary people that can't even climb up the walls aren't even worth as much as an eighth-grade magic core."

Meng Lei was silent in response to that. When he'd first transmigrated to this world, perhaps he hadn't been able to understand such actions that totally disregarded human lives. After all, no matter how important everything else might be, human lives were the most important.

However, as the amount of time he stayed in Heaven's Vault Continent became longer, and he was exposed to more and more things, it was easy to see why that was the case now.

In Dragon God Empire, the Four-Classes Stratification System was very clear-cut. In the eyes of the nobility and people with power and status, ordinary humans were just cheap, lowly people.

Were the lives of cheap, lowly people valuable? Not at all!

If they die, then so be it.

How could they possibly compare to an eighth-grade magic core?

"What a frustrating world this is!"

Meng Lei took a deep breath and suppressed the messy thoughts in his mind. He walked step by step to the bottom of the city walls and murmured, "Since they won't open the gates, then I can only go up there myself!"

He'd only just spoken when the ground in the far distance suddenly began to shake. An earthen dragon suddenly broke out of the ground surface, bellowing and roaring furiously as it charged ferociously toward the bottom of the city walls with its fangs bared and claws brandishing.

Then, it crashed right into the bottom of the city walls.

Boom!

Dirt and earth flew everywhere as a booming explosion rang out from the ground.

A massive amount of dirt and earth piled up, and in less than the amount of time it took to take a few breaths, a grand path leading up to the top of the city walls had formed!

"Oh my dragon god!"

"This..."

Everyone at the bottom of the city walls was astounded by the sight of this. All of them forgot to even react as they gazed at the slope leading straight to the top of the city walls.

"A path!"

"It's a path!"

Someone let out a shout. A great furor went through the crowd instantly, and tears of joy formed in everyone's eyes as they began to cheer madly.

"A Magician!"

"It's a Lord Magician!"

"He created that path!"

Everyone looked one by one at Meng Lei, who stood at the top of the slope, their feelings of gratitude obvious. Meng Lei gave them a slight smile and said, "Hurry and come up here, everyone! Time waits for no one!"

"Yes, yes!"

No one dared to be tardy. They hastily carried their things and climbed along the slope up the city walls. The fat Baron Skyles walked over to Meng Lei, embarrassed and grateful at the same time, yet not forgetting to give him a standard nobility salute.

"Esteemed Lord Magician, thank you very much. I, Skyles Borunga, am eternally grateful for your kindness in saving our lives!"

"You're welcome!"

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Chapter 89: Forcibly Recruiting Meng Lei, "I'm only 15 years old."

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In the grand city gate tower of Great Dragon Blood Wall...

A muscular Dragon Person with a pair of horns on his head and dressed in golden armor sat on a high chair. An intimidating aura emanated from him, his dignified and imposing self evident to all.

He was Marquis Gould, a powerful Ninth-Grade Warrior, and a pure-blooded Fire Dragon Person. A member of Fire Dragon Kingdom's royalty and the highest commander of the troops garrisoned at Great Dragon Blood Wall.

As a Fire Dragon Person born into royalty and enjoying high status and authority, like the vast majority of Dragon People nobility, Marquis Gould despised human commoners from the core of his being.

As a result, when he had received news of the special-class beast tide warning issued by the kingdom, Marquis Gould had immediately ordered the closure of all the city gates serving as entry and exit points from Great Dragon Blood Wall.

,314 city gates... All of them had closed!

Innumerable people were blocked outside the towering city walls!

Marquis Gould knew very well the consequences brought about by his order. He knew that countless lives would perish under the beast tide's rampage, that people would be thrown into great suffering and misery, and that there would be a great many casualties, but he didn't care.

Heaven's Vault Continent was a place where the strong lived while the weak perished!

People incapable of even climbing up the city walls... Their deaths were of no consequence!

As for the people's cursing and swearing, Gould could hardly be bothered. Those were just the mad barking of the weak. Would a Colossal Dragon concern itself with an ant's pitiful cries?

Of course not!

However, all of a sudden...

The cursing and swearing came to a sudden stop. Right after, they turned into astonishingly loud cheers instead. Marquis Gould's brows drew together slightly, a hint of puzzlement arising in him.

What's going on outside? Why aren't they swearing anymore?

"Is anyone there?" Gould shouted.

"My lord, what is the matter?"

An armored guard ran in.

"What's going on outside?" asked Marquis Gould aloofly.

"My lord, this is what happened..."

The armored guard quickly recounted what had happened at the city walls. Marquis Gould raised his eyebrows and asked, "An earth-elemental Magician? Is he a human or a Dragon Person?"

"He's a human!"

"Is he nobility?"

"Judging from his age and what he's wearing, he doesn't look like one."

"Neither a Dragon Person nor a noble, yet he's such a busybody and so ignorant."

Marquis Gould said aloofly, "Just as well. Since he's such a busybody, then we'll fulfill his wishes. Tell him that he's been recruited by the frontier troops, and get him to stay at the city walls obediently and wait for further orders."

"Yes, my lord!"

The guard turned and left the city gate tower. Before long, he appeared in front of Meng Lei, who just so happened to have arrived at the top of the city gates after leading the villagers up the slope.

When looking out from such a high place, one's field of vision stretched far and wide.

The Great Dragon Blood Wall was just like a grand, handsome long dragon. It crossed the mountains and went past precipices, cut through grass plains, and spanned across deserts, undulating at the top of towering mountains and precipitous ridges.

All sorts of marks and dried bloodstains were left behind on the firm, solid black walls. A sense of austerity and ancientness from having gone through many changes in life came rushing forward, involuntarily reminding people of the scenes that took place during beast tide attacks.

"The Great Dragon Blood Wall was built by 49 Earth Saint Domain Magicians using more than 100 years. It's constructed using tough, solid black granite throughout the whole structure, with a large number of obsidians mixed inside."

Ol' Amos twisted his beard and let out a sigh. "Even the strongest and toughest Ninth-Grade Magical Beast, the Great Earth Bear, can give up on the thought of destroying even a bit of the wall. It can be said to be indestructible."

Arrow turrets, crossbow turrets, and cannon turrets were set up every few steps at the top of the city walls. Archers, arbalists, and gunners were stationed at the respective turrets, ready to enter war anytime.

Apart from these, there were also mage towers.

"So, this is a mage tower?"

Meng Lei walked over to a tower a few dozen meters tall and touched the walls, which were engraved with magic circles, his eyes brimming with extraordinary splendor.

To Magicians, mage towers were of vital importance. Many Magicians longed for a mage tower of their own.

Through the use of a mage tower, not only could they greatly speed up their spellcasting, but the might of their spells would also increase dramatically. Some mage towers could even combine dozens of Magicians' magic power to cast ultimate spells—their might was comparable to first-class spells!

"The mage towers are Great Dragon Blood Wall's strongest and most powerful weapons of defense."

Revisiting a once familiar place had put Ol' Amos in a very good mood, and he had taken on the stance of someone talking about state affairs. He said, "It can reduce spellcasting time, increase a spell's might, and also help to conserve magic power. It's of vital importance to us Magicians."

Meng Lei asked curiously, "I've heard that mage towers are built using gold coins?"

"You're right!"

Ol' Amos twisted his beard and said with a smile, "Back then, I pretty much invested a good half of my wealth and assets for the sake of building a mage tower. It isn't something that typical Magicians can mess around with."

"Forget it, forget it. It's destined that I won't be fated with the mage towers."

Meng Lei shook his head repeatedly, completely giving up on the idea of constructing a mage tower. If he had that kind of money, he might as well redeem Stat Attribute Points with them and improve his own actual combat strength instead.

"Look at how it has scared you off." An amused Ol' Amos ribbed him. "You're simply too much of a money-grubber. What's the point of earning that much money if you're not going to use it to improve your skills? Decorative purposes?"

"Saving them and letting them accumulate zeros in the cards is also a fantastic idea," Meng Lei replied with a laugh.

At that moment, a soldier walked over and said expressionlessly, "Mr. Magician, you've been recruited by our frontier troops. Please come with me!"

"Uh..."

Meng Lei was stupefied for a moment. He pointed at himself and asked, "Are you talking about me?"

"That's right!" replied the soldier coldly.

Meng Lei shook his head repeatedly. "Sorry, but I have other things to do, so I can't go with you for now. Sorry about that!"

"How dare you defy the frontier troops' recruitment orders?"

The soldier's countenance turned icy cold at once. "With the invading beast tide, the frontier troops are authorized to recruit soldiers to help in the defense against the beast tide. This is a privilege that the kingdom's law has given us!

"Now that an ant tide is imminent, everyone in the Fire Dragon Kingdom is on standby to defend against it. Do you mean to challenge the kingdom's laws?"

"The kingdom's laws? I'm afraid I'm going to have to disappoint you." Meng Lei chuckled and said, "I'm only 15 and a half years old this year and haven't reached the age to enlist in the army, so I'm not part of the recruitment pool."

"What did you say? You're only 15 years old?"

The soldier looked startled. "You'd clearly cast the Fifth-Grade Spell, Earth Dragon, just now, yet you're telling me you're only 15 years old? Who are you trying to fool?!"

"Ha, I can even cast the Sixth-Grade Spell, Earth's Wrath, but it still doesn't change the fact that I'm only 15 years old!"

Meng Lei scoffed and brought out a magic badge with a flick of his wrist. "I'm also a first-year newbie of Fire Dragon Magic Academy and am under the protection of the kingdom's laws. You have no right to forcibly recruit a weak, powerless student like me!"

A first-year newbie?

A weak, powerless student?

The soldier felt the urge to beat someone up.

You're at least a goddamn Fourth-Grade Magician! Even compared to me, you're not too far off! 'Weak and powerless'? Goddamn it!

The soldier had an awful expression on his face. He examined the magic badge in Meng Lei's hand closely and discovered, to his surprise, that it was indeed the symbol of Fire Dragon Magic Academy's existing students. There was a Fire Dragon scale on it, indicating that Meng Lei was a first-year student.

Even third-year students were protected by the kingdom's laws, much less first-year students. They really couldn't frickin' recruit Meng Lei.

"If there's nothing else, I'll make a move first!"

Meng Lei waved him off and then swaggered off with the villagers!

"A Great Fifth-Grade Magician, yet he's still a first-year student?" The soldier had an awful look on his face. "Are you kidding me?"

Elsewhere, after Meng Lei led the villagers down the city walls, he went straight to Magical Beast Town. However, when he arrived, he discovered that the town that had still been lively and bustling slightly over a dozen hours ago had actually become exceptionally quiet and deserted.

The adventurers lingering about in the town had vanished without a trace.

The merchants acquiring magic cores and beast furs had also left the town, and even the stores doing business had closed.

The enormous town had become a ghost town!

"Looks like news of the ant tide invasion has reached this place!" Hudders shook his head and sighed. "The ant tide has scared everyone off!"

"No, I think they've been scared off by the frontier troops instead."

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Chapter 90: The World Changed, The Beast Tide Ended

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The cruelty of the Kingdom's laws toward ordinary civilians was most vividly reflected at the outbreak of wars or beast tides.

If the soldiers died out, the civilians would become reserve troops. If the situation was even graver, even experts without titles would be included in the conscription.

If the army ran out of food, they had the right to collect army rations from civilians.

This meant that once war broke out, civilians had to not only serve as reserve troops and prepare to go onto the battlefield any time, but they also had to provide food for the army!

In comparison, nobles, who were powerful and wealthier, were neither listed for troops nor required to provide army rations. Nevertheless, they were protected by the law and the army.

The inequality in the treatment of different social groups was cruel.

This was a mixed society with severely twisted social systems, formed by the coupling of feudalism and slavery. The working masses, who accounted for 99% of the population, enjoyed less than 1% of society's resources yet had to bear 100% of the social responsibilities.

Twisted was too mild of a word to describe this society—brutal was its true description!

Meng Lei felt a fire burning in his chest. He didn't think of himself as any kind of savior, much less the kind of benevolent, selfless person that worried for the whole world but took no part in its joys.

He only had one goal from the beginning: to live better, freely, splendidly, and liberally!

But now, Meng Lei felt very unhappy.

Why is this world ruled by a group of Colossal Dragons that enjoy vast amounts of resources yet do no work? Why can the human race only be appendages to be stepped upon!?

This f*cked-up world, wait for it! One day, I will turn this world upside down!

If not, then I will... Break this sky and smash this earth! Give this world back its cleanliness!

"Boy, what are you thinking?" Ol' Amos' voice suddenly sounded by his ears, waking Meng Lei from his contemplation.

Meng Lei looked at the deserted town and said quietly, "When all these prosper, the people suffer. When all these are in ruin, the people still suffer! I've finally understood this point!"

"When all these prosper, the people suffer. When all these are in ruin, the people still suffer!" the old man mumbled and then immediately fell silent, with shock and contemplation in his eyes.

After a long time, he finally sighed and said, "You can see this point? It's rare!"

"Ol' President, you can understand?" Meng Lei raised his eyebrows. "You are a Saint Domain of a noble background, you can relate to such like us..."

"Meng Lei, you are wrong!" The old man shook his head slightly. "It's true that I came from nobility, but that doesn't mean I'm not aware of the masses' suffering. Did you know that my father was a human and a slave?"

(o)

Meng Lei was stunned as he knew nothing about this.

"Back then, my father was allocated to my mother as a slave. But, my father was very lucky because he met my kind Mother."

The old man's eyes were gentle as he recalled distant memories. "Although Mother was a noble lady, she was very kind to Father. She not only treated him as family, but she also taught him to cultivate."

"And then?" asked Meng Lei.

"Haha, my father was a natural talent!" Ol' Amos said proudly, "In just a few years, he finished cultivating Battle Aura and became the kingdom's youngest Ninth-Grade Warrior. He also successfully reached Saint Domain!"

"So talented?" Meng Lei blinked.

"Naturally! Father's talent in cultivating Battle Aura was rare in the world. My younger sister inherited his talent in cultivating Battle Aura and broke into Saint Domain at the age of 70. Of course, I'm not bad, either!"

The old man snorted softly. "I'm telling you all these to let you know that the blood of humans, slaves, also runs through my body. I understand the underclass masses' suffering better than you!"

"Ol' President, it seems that I know too little about you." Meng Lei shook his head and smiled bitterly. "In the future, maybe you can tell me more about your heroic past, haha. Three Saint Domains in one family... It's amazing, Ol' President!"

"Alright, enough! Stop flattering me here." The old man shook his hand. "If you have so much free time, you may as well cultivate hard, achieve Saint Domain soon, and restore the glory of our Kroc clan!"

Kroc clan? I'm afraid you may never see that happen. In the future, there would only be Meng Clan, Meng Kingdom, Meng Empire... Haha!

Meng Lei laughed loudly and then led the villagers out of the town.

"Meng Lei, where are we going now?"

"Magical Beast Town isn't safe. In case all the soldiers die fighting, the villagers can easily become conscription targets. We need to find a hiding place."

Meng Lei controlled the magic flying carpet and soon found a remote canyon. It was inaccessible for people, and the water source was abundant. It was very suitable for resettling the villagers.

"Everyone, you may settle here for now."

"Captain Hudders, Village Chief, here are the 50 tents I just bought, and staples and meat enough for everyone to eat for three days."

"Everyone, you may rest here with peace of mind. With Teddy on guard, safety isn't a problem. When the ant tide subsides, I will come back again to send you guys home."

"Thank you, Meng Lei!"

After settling the villagers, Meng Lei left the canyon and flew toward the Great Dragon Blood Wall. He wasn't there to contribute to the defense forces but to find the ant tide!

Others feared the ant tide, but Meng Lei didn't. It may be an all-destructive ant in others' eyes, but to Meng Lei, it was a good opportunity to make a fortune.

Just think about it—an ocean of Magical Beasts was no different than moving mountains of gold with an ocean of dropped items awaiting to be picked up!

Where else could he go to find such a golden opportunity to simultaneously get rich and strong?

"The ant tide is coming!"

"Hurry up and meet the enemy!"

"The ant tide is coming!"

At the moment Meng Lei ascended the watchtower, a piercing alarm and exclamations of panic reverberated throughout the Great Dragon Blood Wall.

The crowd moved hastily as groups of armored, well-equipped soldiers climbed up the city wall and flooded the wall.

Magicians, archers, arbalists, and cannon shooters rapidly got into position and waited intently. They were ready to attack at any time!

"The ant tide is here?"

Meng Lei came to the space above the city wall and looked far in the Magical Beast Forest's direction. He saw that the distant horizon was already covered by lifted yellow dust.

He couldn't see a single ant nor a single Magical Beast, only flying dust.

"An ant tide?" Meng Lei's eyes widened.

"It's an ant tide!" Ol' Amos had a solemn expression. "They rushed out of the Magical Beast Forest in less than one day. The Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants Tide this time is historically unprecedented!"

"That serious?" Meng Lei's whole body shriveled.

"Uncommonly serious!" The old man said in a deep voice, "Among the few historical ant tides, they had spent at least three days to get out of the Magical Beast Forest. But this time, it took them less than one day. You can imagine it!"

"Which means the Magical Beasts in the Magical Beast Forest have pretty much been devoured already?" Meng Lei drew a cold breath. "Given this ant tide's scale, can the Great Dragon Blood Wall hold?"

"It has to be held regardless."

The old man said with a decisive voice, "The Great Dragon Blood Wall is the last line of defense. If the ant tide crosses the Great Dragon Blood Wall, the entire Fire Dragon Kingdom will suffer.

"Nobles with rich family backgrounds have the ability to escape, so only the civilians will suffer. They have no time to escape at all!"

"I understand now!" Meng Lei nodded silently.

The cloud of yellow sand is getting near. It is approaching at breakneck speed.

Gradually... the ground started shaking as though thousands of horses were galloping their way there.

Boom, boom, boom!

The ground shook faster and faster while the booming sounds filled the sky.

The ferocious red ants were finally visible through the cloud of yellow sand!

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Chapter 91: Dragon-Language Magic, A Sea of Fire Burns the Sky

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As thick waves of Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants charged with great momentum, yellow sand filled the air, and dust and soil flew everywhere.

The Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants had bodies the size of calves with blood-red armor, teeth sharp as sickles, and six terrible-looking legs.

These were terrible monsters that made people fearful upon hearing their names.

"It's here!"

"The ant tide is coming!"

"Hurry up and meet the enemy!"

The horn resounded across the sky.

The soldiers clenched their giant swords, the Magicians clenched their magic wands, and archers clenched their magic bows, and they all shared solemn expressions.

Everyone was so nervous they were suffocating. This was their first time encountering an ant tide, could they resist it?

Marquis Gould looked at the approaching ant wave on a tower more than ten meters tall and its unstoppable momentum with a gloomy expression.

"How long before the Flying Dragon Troops arrive?"

"Three hours, Lord Marquis!"

"Three hours is enough!" Marquis Gould drew his sword. "Send my order. All weapons are to be readied, listen to my orders!"

"Yes, sir!"

At the other side...

Meng Lei was also waiting intently. He licked his lips, and a glimmer of light flashed in his eyes.

Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants are Sixth-Grade Magical Beasts. They are as hard as iron, so only seventh-grade magic can instakill them. However, seventh-grade magic greatly consumes magical power, so I'll be unable to constantly cast seventh-grade spells. In which case, this is the only way!

With this thought, Meng Lei rode the magic carpet to a place several hundred meters before the Great Dragon Blood Wall and stopped.

"What's up with that guy? Why did he run out?"

Meng Lei's actions appeared very jarring in the neatly lined-up troops. Everyone was a little confounded.

"Who is that bastard? Why is he acting by himself without following orders?" Marquis Gould was infuriated and demanded to know that person's identity.

"I... I don't know him, Lord Marquis!" the soldier stuttered. "There's no such person in the defense army at all. He's likely a Magician who came to assist the battle out of his own free will!"

"Here to assist the battle out of his own free will?" Marquis Gould's face was ugly. "Call him back. Without my orders, nobody acts on their own!"

"Yes, Lord Marquis!"

The soldiers replied, took the magical-transmitting horn, and prepared to call him when the ground in front of them suddenly started shaking.

The next moment...

A crack suddenly opened up on the earth, and then it started expanding rapidly. Amidst the rumbling and exploding sounds, a canyon hundreds of meters wide appeared in front of the Great Dragon Blood Wall!

"This... This is..."

"Eighth-Grade Spell, Earth Force!"

"Holy my, he's an Eight-Grade Magician!"

All the Magicians in the tower started gasping in shock. Magicians were rare, to begin with, and eighth-grade ones even more so. There weren't many in the entire defense army, but there's one there?

"This guy is an Eighth-Grade Magician?"

Naturally, as a Ninth-Grade Warrior, Marquis Gould's judgment was very good. He looked at the canyon Meng Lei had created, and surprise showed on his face before he felt confused. "What's the point of making such a canyon? Does he think that a mere canyon can stop the ant tide? A fantasy!"

Whether it was a fantasy or not, Meng Lei still continued with his digging operation. He continued to chant the Eighth-Grade Spell, Earth Force to extend the canyon.

Soon, a canyon several kilometers long and hundreds of meters wide appeared. It was like a small snake lying at the foot of the Great Dragon Blood Wall, looking completely insignificant, yet fully demonstrating the might of an Eighth-Grade Magician.

"Pfft..." Meng Lei breathed out a mouthful of dusty air. "Eighth-grade spells really consume too much magic power, an entire 10,000 units of magic power. I've got to replenish them from the ant tide later."

Boom, boom, boom!

At that moment, the ant tide's vanguard finally arrived at the edge of the canyon. They jumped in without the least bit of hesitation!

Countless Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants let out strange cracking sounds and rushed into the canyon.

If it continued like this, the canyon that Meng Lei had worked hard to make would be filled in a matter of a few minutes. Thus, everything he had done would be in vain.

"Childish tricks, good for nothing!" Marquis Gould couldn't help but snort upon seeing that. "Good strength, but stupid! This kind of canyon is nothing for a massive ant tide. They will pass through it effortlessly!"

The Magicians also shook their heads and sighed.

At this time, Meng Lei, who was hovering in the sky, moved again. His lips opened slightly, chanting in an ancient and difficult language.

His voice wasn't loud, but like some kind of ancient Buddhist chant, it passed clearly and powerfully into everyone's ears.

"That's..."

Marquis Gould's whole body suddenly shivered in shock.

Boom, boom, boom!

Fire Elements gathered wildly within several hundred square meters, and a big fireball shining with white light appeared in the sky.

As the immense amount of Fire Elements gathered rapidly, the big fireball expanded at a terrible speed. Within a few breaths, a "small sun" with a radius of dozens of meters appeared.

"That's..."

Everyone's eyes widened!

"Fire Inferno... Drop!" Meng Lei shouted ferociously.

Boom!

The huge sun suddenly dropped from the sky and right into the canyon. Following an earth-shaking explosion, bright tongues of fire suddenly splashed out of the several-kilometer-long canyon!

Boom!

A huge fire started burning everything in the canyon, and its intense flame rose up dozens of meters into the sky. Like beans being fried in a pan, cracking sounds echoed as the countless Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants that had jumped into the canyon died painfully. The white flames incinerated the ants!

In but a moment, the hundreds-of-meters-wide canyon turned into a sea of fire. The fire wall was several dozens of meters high, blocking out the ant tide like a line of blockade.

Any ant that approached... got blown up and turned into dust. The Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants were momentarily stopped right where they were, and some were hesitating to move forward!

"Is this the Seventh-Grade Spell, Fire Inferno?"

Inside the mage tower, all the fire-elemental Magicians somewhat doubted life. Judging from the huge fireball's surface appearance, it was indeed the Seventh-Grade Spell, Fire Inferno. However, wasn't it a bit... too powerful?

It had a diameter of a hundred meters and exuded white flames... Was this really Fire Inferno!?

"A Magician that's versed in Earth and Fire magic!" Marquis Gould's eyes narrowed. "Besides, if I didn't hear wrongly, the magic spell just now... was chanted in Dragon Language. He actually knows Dragon-Language Magic! How can he possibly know Dragon-Language Magic?"

Meng Lei didn't know how shocked the others were. He felt a bit annoyed right now because of the system's non-stop notification sounds that kept ringing in his mind.

"Ding! 1 Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ant killed. 10,380 gold coins gained!"

"Ding! 1 Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ant killed. 11,029 gold coins gained!"

"Ding! 1 Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ant killed. 10,853 gold coins gained!"

"Ding..."

"System, can I block the notification sounds?"

Meng Lei swung his head, feeling a bit exhausted.

"Okay, host!"

The notification sounds disappeared immediately.

"Finally, quiet!"

Meng Lei heaved a sigh of relief before his gaze fell on the Stats interface—his "Wealth" column was changing wildly!

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Chapter 92: A One-Man Suppression? How Can This Be

Host: Meng Lei

Race: Human (Contains Fire Dragon bloodline and Fire Demon bloodline)

Wealth: 16,729,428 gold coins

Physical Body Constitution: Eighth-Grade Warrior (361,456/1,000,000)

Spirit: Eighth-Grade Magician (249,518/100,0000)

Magic Power: Eighth-Grade Magician (20,648/100,0000)

"Sweet!"

When looking at his stats, especially the constantly changing Wealth value, Meng Lei felt agitated. A Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants was worth about 10,000 gold coins, and in just an instant, he had killed a couple hundred.

The way I obtained a few million gold coins feels almost like robbing.

Fortunately, the ant tide still keeps charging ahead, without the slightest sign of disappearing.

These are all moving mountains of gold. If I kill them all, how rich will I be?

Meng Lei's eyes were so bright they felt heated.

Kill them! Kill all of them! They're all money!

System, replenish Magic Power to full!

Meng Lei waved a hand triumphantly. He was indeed a bit stingy on a daily basis, and he used money carefully, but this wasn't the time to be stingy. If he was still stingy, others might finish off the ant tide!

Why would he be stingy?

"Okay, host!"

Whoosh!

The Wealth value instantly reduced by almost 10,000,000, and the Magic Power value rose to 1,000,000, almost breaking the chart!

Meng Lei took a deep breath, sensing the endless magic power in his body, and felt like he was pumped up and full of energy.

"Gold mountains, I am coming, hahaha!"

Meng Lei looked up toward the running ant tide, only to find that these monsters actually turned direction and spread out to the two sides.

The Great Dragon Blood Wall was several thousands of kilometers long, but the canyon and the fire wall were only several kilometers long.

The ant tide didn't move aimlessly but evaded to the two sides and moved in a zig-zag manner.

"You still know how to evade, not bad!"

Meng Lei steered the magic carpet to one side, and the Eighth-Grade Spell, Earth Force was activated. Another canyon stopped the ant tide's march in its tracks.

Crack...

Upon realizing that there were no flames, the ant tide jumped into the canyon without hesitation. When Meng Lei saw that, he once again started chanting the ancient and mysterious magic spell.

The powerful Dragon-Language Magic filled up the space. Marquis Gould's eyes narrowed as he muttered in a low voice, "It's really Dragon-Language Magic! This guy really knows Dragon-Language Magic!"

"It's coming again!"

"Another fireball this big!"

"Who can tell me if this is Seventh-Grade Spell, Fire Inferno?"

Boom!

The fireball, with a diameter of 100 meters and entirely milk-white, dropped from the sky again. Accompanied by an extremely loud rumbling, the flames sprayed into the horizon. Countless Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants died a violent death again.

"Ding!"

"Ding!"

"Ding!"

"Ding!"

"Ding!"

His Wealth value started rising rapidly again!

Haha! This is the way! Rise! Rise as much as you like!

Meng Lei looked up at the sky and laughed, his mouth cracking like a chimpanzee.

The soldiers on the wall were looking at him, utterly stunned.

"What's that guy laughing foolishly for? He looks like a gargoyle!"

"Maybe he's secretly happy for killing so many Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants?"

"How secret..."

"He's got pretty good strength, just his brain is a bit..."

"Go on!"

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

The following period of time became Meng Lei's showtime. He sent out many Earth Force and Fire Inferno spells like they didn't cost affect his magic power to blast in wild explosions in front of the Great Dragon Blood Wall.

Whenever canyons appeared, fireballs would drop, and large parts of the ant tide would get bombarded and incinerated. As such, innumerable ants died violently right on scene!

What was disappearing in a split second? That was!

What was the art of explosion? That was!

Wherever the ant tide went, Meng Lei chased, and he really stopped the ant tide out of the Great Dragon Blood Wall on his own.

A 100-meter-wide sea of fire became a natural barrier between the Great Dragon Blood Wall and the ant tide. However wild the ant tide was, they couldn't break through the sea of fire's blockade.

Such a wild scene stunned everyone on top of the Great Dragon Blood Wall. Everyone watched Meng Lei, who was active on the battlefield, with only one thought left mind:

Is this guy still human? He actually stopped the ant tide army on his own!?

Honestly, Eighth-Grade Magicians were indeed powerful. They could split mountains and the earth with the wave of a hand or cut forests down within an instant. However, Eighth-Grade Magicians were still people. They would still get tired, would still exhaust their magic power, their spirits would still tire out, and their bodies would still reach their limits!

But Meng Lei?

How many times had he released Earth Force and Fire Inferno already?

Why didn't his magic power get exhausted, but instead, he got more and more spirited as he fought and killed? The more he consumed, the more he had?

Did logic still exist?

"Although Dragon-Language Magic saves magic power and is more powerful, there isn't a Dragon-Language Magician like him, right?"

Marquis Gould also doubted life a little. "Such rich magical power reserves, even a Colossal Dragon probably can't match him..."

In fact, not only them, even Ol' Amos, who knew Meng Lei the best, was stunned. He knew that Meng Lei's magic power reserves were rich, as well as that Meng Lei liked to use big actions to overpower others, but his magic power reserve was abnormally rich!

Ol' Amos couldn't help but tease him. "You've only gotten promoted to Eighth-Grade Magician for less than a week. Why can you release so many eighth-grade spells? How do you do it?"

Meng Lei was in a very good mood, so he said half-jokingly, "Ol' President, I have a magical instrument specially for storing magic power. Do you believe me?"

"I do! Why not?" The old man's mouth twitched. "You, boy, already have two divine items on your person. It's not impossible even if you are to have a few more! Sigh, I'm really envious!

"If I still had a flesh body!

"If I could leave the Gods-Slaying Spear!

"Even if you are my descendant, I would kill you to rob you of your treasures without hesitation. I would open up your body to see what secrets you have!"

"Hahaha! A pity there's no chance!" Meng Lei smiled proudly. "But, if it is possible in the future, I will definitely find a way to let you out and give you back a free and clean body."

The old man rolled his eyes and said, displeased, "Pfft! Why does it sound so strange coming out of your mouth? When was I ever unclean?"

"Hahaha!"

Meng Lei laughed out loud and continued killing. Suddenly, he realized that the ant tide actually stopped moving to the two sides but stayed right where it was.

Then, they withdrew to the back like a tide, all moving orderly like one, without the slightest hesitation.

"What's going on?" Meng Lei was stunned. "They want to retreat?"

"Undoubtedly! Your killing spree has scared them!" The old man laughed happily. "Or, your killing spree scared the ant monarch. Seeing that the deed cannot be done, it must have decided to retreat, recover, and come back again."

"The ant monarch?" Meng Lei seemed contemplative.

"Magical Beasts of the ant kind are a very special type of gregarious Magical Beasts. They have clear hierarchies and job scopes, and maintain a very efficient situation amongst themselves."

The old man explained, "And at the very top of the Ant Magical Beasts is the ant monarch. It is the monarch and also the order center, controlling the movement of the entire ant group.

"Given how many of its subordinates you slaughtered in such a short time, the ant monarch must have a pinch in its heart, right?"

"I see!" Meng Lei understood. "Will they come back, then?"

"That's hard to say! Maybe they will, or maybe they won't!"

"Hard to say? How can this be?"

Meng Lei was anxious.

System! Hurry! Hurry and exchange for me! 1,000,000 points for Magic Power and Spiritual Power, respectively!

Whoosh!

In but an instant, 20,000,000 gold coins disappeared into thin air!

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Chapter 93: Ninth-Grade Spell, Heavenly Fire Meteor

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1 Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ant 10,000 gold coins!

10 Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants 100,000 gold coins!

100 Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants 1,000,000 gold coins!

,000 Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants 10,000,000 gold coins!

After setting them on fire just now, Meng Lei's wealth had increased tremendously. After deducting the amount spent to replenish the magic power that he had expended, his wealth had already broken through the 40 million mark!

,000,000 gold coins!

Even those wealthy overlords didn't have assets as impressive as that. One could easily imagine just how rich Meng Lei was right now.

Yet in that split second just now, 20,000,000 gold coins... instantly poofed into thin air.

Boom!

At the same time as that, a wave of incomparably terrifying aura burst forth from Meng Lei and produced series after series of ferocious, surging waves of impact that swept away everything around him in an unbridled manner.

It was a majestic presence whose robes fluttered in the air!

Meng Lei stood proudly in the air, his eyes sparkling like the Milky Way and bottomless like a black hole. As if brimming with a light of boundless intelligence, his eyes dazzled and stunned others, causing them to involuntarily drown within.

"He... He has..."

At the sight of this, the soldiers on top of the city walls looked as if they had just seen a ghost. "Broken through? Has he broken through!?"

"A Great N-ninth-Grade Magician! Oh my dragon god, I've actually witnessed the birth of a Great Ninth-Grade Magician with my own eyes?"

"Brat, how come you've broken through again?" Ol' Amos was astonished, too. "It hasn't even been a week since you broke through to Eighth-Grade Magician, yet you've broken through again?"

"Yes! I've broken through again!" Meng Lei murmured to himself, the look in his eyes somewhat indistinct.

At that moment, he discovered that the world in front of him had completely changed. It wasn't just a diverse and colorful world anymore. Rather... some additional blurry, indistinct things had now appeared—the drifting clouds, the caress of the breeze, the thick, heavy ground, and the swaying grass!

Everything was completely different from what he had seen in the past. Even the magic elements drifting about in the universe weren't just drifting about haphazardly without a fixed orbit anymore, but moving rhythmically according to some kind of cadence.

"Is what you're seeing now different from before?"

Ol' Amos' voice drifted over to him softly. Despite his astonishment at Meng Lei's speed of breakthrough, he had already attained a transcendental frame of mind, so he had recovered his composure by now.

"Yes," Meng Lei replied honestly.

"That's correct, then!" Ol' Amos' emotions were rather complex. "When one's spiritual power reaches the ninth-grade stage, they are able to see beyond the surface to look at the way how things run and operate. In other words, the universe's momentum!"

"The universe's momentum?"

A huge jolt went through Meng Lei.

"In nature's laws exists the rhythm that everything in the world follows. That is the universe's momentum, nature's momentum, and the power of the universe."

Ol' Amos sighed and went on. "Let's put it this way. After one crosses over into this stage, they are no longer just rigidly chanting spell incantations and carrying out a simple manipulation of magic elements. Rather, one must understand the magic elements' rhythm and act in tune with how they're moving, and then guide and control them.

"How to control the most magic elements using the least amount of spiritual power;

"How to act in accordance with how the magic elements run and operate, and bring out their might to the largest extent;

"How to break away from the magic framework left behind by predecessors and create spells that belong only to you. These are what you need to do from now on.

"In other words, controlling the universe's momentum!"

"Controlling the universe's momentum?" asked Meng Lei pensively.

"When your understanding of the universe's momentum reaches a certain level that you can feel the laws on a deeper level, the road to Saint Domain will naturally form." Ol' Amos sighed faintly and said, "Work hard brat. You're even more outstanding than I've thought. Sigh, outstanding people always make me feel like I've spent my life in vain."

Ol' Amos was in a complex mood. He had initially thought that Meng Lei would need to train for a few years before he could attain Ninth-Grade Magician level. Little did he imagine that Meng Lei would actually achieve it so quickly.

Going from eighth-grade to ninth-grade in just a week... Was he really human?

No, he wasn't... He was a mutant, a monster!

Becoming a great Ninth-Grade Magician before he'd even reached 16 years of age... What was that, if not a monster?

To be honest, Ol' Amos had indeed taken a blow. He whined and grumbled, "Brat, give me a heads-up the next time you break through so that this old man can do some mental preparation. Otherwise, you're going to give me a heart attack someday."

"You're in soul form now, Ol' President. How would you even get a heart attack? Hehehe," Meng Lei replied with a laugh.

His eyes couldn't help but fall on the stats interface, and then, he was dumbstruck.

Host: Meng Lei

Race: Human (Contains Fire Dragon bloodline and Fire Demon bloodline)

Physical Body Constitution: Eighth-Grade Warrior (361,456/1,000,000)

Spirit: Great Ninth-Grade Magician (1,250,162/1,000,000,000)

Magic Power: Great Ninth-Grade Magician (1,031,539/1,000,000,000)

Spiritual Power: 250,000 1,000,000 = 1,250,000

Yes, no mistakes there!

Magic Power: 30,000 1,000,000 = 1,030,000!

No mistakes there, either!

But what was the deal with the '1,000,000,000' at the back?

One, ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand... Hundred million!

1 billion!

Meng Lei's eyes widened big and round at once.

1 billion? A great Ninth-Grade Magician's stats upper limit is 1 billion? Are you kidding me?!

Meng Lei held his chest, suddenly feeling great pain in his chest area. He had initially thought that by leveraging the advantages that the system brought and killing Magical Beasts without restraint, the day he would attain Saint Domain level was well within sight.

One to two months if the progress was fast, or half a year to a year if it was slow.

But in his instant, he suddenly found the Saint Domain realm so far away from him. It was far, far away, as far as a few galaxies away from him.

He couldn't see any hope at all!

Having an upper limit of 1 billion for his stats meant that he needed to accumulate 10 billion gold coins before breaking through the limit and attaining Saint Domain level!

"That's 10 billion! 10 billion, you know! I probably won't be able to earn that much, even in my entire lifetime!" Meng Lei wanted to cry.

He had scarcely been able to earn a huge windfall through the ant tide this time and take advantage of the opportunity to break through to Great Ninth-Grade Magician. He hadn't even rejoiced for that long before the harsh reality dealt him a head-on blow.

Why?

Why did I need only 10 million gold coins to break through to ninth-grade, but breaking through to Saint Domain has actually increased by a whole 1,000 times?!

Why the hell is that?!

"What's the matter, brat? Why are you crying?" Ol' Amos was rather perplexed when he noticed that Meng Lei's expression didn't look right. "Isn't it just breaking through to Great Ninth-Grade Magician level? Do you need to be that worked up about it? Even this old man wasn't as ridiculously agitated as you when I broke through to Saint Domain level back then!"

"Me? Agitated? Why the hell would I be agitated?!" Meng Lei couldn't help but break into a rant. "Do you know how badly I've been freaking duped?! I've been fired from my job, and my wife has run away, too! Who the hell am I supposed to go to for justification?!"

"(o)"

Ol' Amos was dumbfounded. "What kind of crazy talk are you saying, brat?"

"I'm not crazy! I'm just petrified by how poor I am!" Meng Lei was on the brink of tears. "I need money! I need a huge sum of money now!"

1 billion?

Where am I going to get that kind of money?

Meng Lei looked up and suddenly glanced at the currently receding ant tide. Without another word, he charged over like a lunatic and arrived right above the ant tide.

"My life is too difficult! Don't hold it against me!"

Meng Lei raised his arms high. A terrifying might that went through the heavens and deep into the ground emanated from him, and the Fire Elements within a radius of a few kilometers of where he was converged madly toward him.

Boom, boom, boom!

One!

Two!

Three!

As innumerable soldiers watched on in astoundment, ten brilliant suns appeared in the sky out of the blue. They were incredibly huge, blinding, and scorching hot. They gave off astonishing heat, causing even the blazing sun hanging high above in the sky to pale in comparison.

"A n-ninth-grade spell!"

"That's the Ninth-Grade Spell, Heavenly Fire Meteor!"

"Hiss!"

All the soldiers on top of the city walls sucked in a breath of air. Then, they watched powerlessly as the ten blazing suns plummeted from the skies, as though meteors blazing across the night sky, and crashed brutally onto the ground.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

Amid the shocking explosions, ten mushroom clouds surged into the sky before converging to form an even bigger mushroom cloud.

Flames blazed furiously on the ground in front of the city, while the entire area within a radius of a few kilometers turned into a sea of fire.

Crackle, crackle!

All the Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants in the area were burned straight into ashes, not leaving behind even a bit of themselves.

"Nobody can escape today! Eighth-Grade Spell, Toppling Mountains And Quaking Earth!"

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Chapter 94: Making An Escape, Double-Legged Flying Dragons

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After a round of Heavenly Fire Meteor, the area within a radius of a few kilometers turned into a sea of fire, and all the Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants in the area were reduced to ashes.

"Ding!"

"Ding!"

"Ding!"

Meng Lei's wealth value jumped furiously. In a short instant, it had already increased dramatically by 10 million gold coins! However, Meng Lei wasn't satisfied with this. His gaze swept across the ants outside the sea of fire as he continued to cast spells.

"Eighth-Grade Spell, Toppling Mountains And Quaking Earth!"

Boom!

To the east of the sea of fire, the ground suddenly rose into the air. One end of it rose higher while the other end dipped, forming a 90-degrees steep slope that sent all the Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants on it into the sea of fire, which burned them into ashes.

Meng Lei then appeared in the north. With another round of Toppling Mountains And Quaking Earth, countless Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants were burned to death again.

After that, he went to the west, the south...

Meng Lei went a full circle around the sea of fire and sent all the ants in the surroundings into the sea of fire, causing the area within a radius of 10 kilometers to become a totally ant-free zone.

"Oh my dragon god!"

"T-that's the power of a Great Ninth-Grade Magician?"

"How terrifying! How terrifying, indeed!"

All the soldiers on top of the city walls were so astounded that they could hardly speak. They watched in stupefaction the figure in the sky and the ants running about in disorder as they fled for their lives, unable to speak for a long period of time.

"Is a Great Ninth-Grade Magician supposed to be that terrifying?"

Marquis Gould's grip on the large sword in his hand tightened, and the light in his eyes flashed a little. The look in his eyes was rather turbulent. As a powerful Ninth-Grade Warrior, he knew very well how fearsome a Great Ninth-Grade Magician was.

An erupting Great Ninth-Grade Magician's might was something that Warriors of the same grade, like him, could never compare to. In particular, when Great Ninth-Grade Magicians cast first-class spells, it could be said to be capable of destroying the earth.

However... Was there any other Great Ninth-Grade Magician like Meng Lei?

Hw possessed unbelievably quick spellcasting, rich and abundant magic power reserves, and plentiful spiritual power. Even Great Magicians versed in Dragon-Language Magic shouldn't be as much of a mutant as him!

"That's straight up a goddamn freak!"

Marquis Gould couldn't help but shake his head. However, what perplexed him the most was how Meng Lei didn't stop even after he had driven back the ant tide. Instead, he followed after them relentlessly, the picture of someone ruthlessly pursuing those down on their luck, and even looked as though he was terribly afraid that the downtrodden ants would escape.

What was he trying to do? Annihilate the entire ant tide?

That was also something that the other soldiers didn't understand. It was just a pity that they would never receive the answer to their questions.

"Fire Meteor Shower!"

"Exploding Fireball!"

"Flame Inferno!"

"Overturning Heaven And Earth!"

Meng Lei continued to blast spells wantonly and indiscriminately. Amidst the endless explosions, countless Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants died tragically.

Toward the end, even the ants were close to tears from his pursuit. They actually started to dig tunnels, intending to head underground and escape, which threw Meng Lei into a panic.

Are you fleeing? If I let you flee, where am I supposed to find 1 billion gold coins?!

"Earth's Wra—"

"That's enough, brat!" Ol' Amos honestly couldn't bring himself to watch any further. "The ant tide is already starting to recede. There's no need to continue slaughtering them."

"This isn't enough yet! Far from it!"

Meng Lei shook his head repeatedly and blasted another round of Earthquake down at them. The ground within a radius of a few kilometers was as though a pot of congee, squeezing together, colliding against each other, deforming, and compressing together...

Amid waves of tragic cries, another large number of Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants that had just crawled underground died. Spurts of blood sprayed out from underground, forming an incredibly bloody scene.

"Even I'm somewhat sympathizing with those Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants now." A corner of Ol' Amos' lips spasmed as he said, "They really can't get any unluckier than this to have run into a freak like you. Look at how many Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants you alone have killed."

Meng Lei didn't have the leisure to pay any attention to the old man. He continued to pursue the ants, but the area that the ant tide covered was simply too big, and they burrowed underground in large batches. How many could a lone person like him kill?

Even after hurrying the whole way, a large number of Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants still managed to burrow underground, vanishing without leaving a trace of themselves behind. For a moment there, the ground was as bare as it could get, leaving behind only a place in total mess and disorder.

"They fled pretty quickly, huh?"

Meng Lei finally stopped. He fell onto his bottom on the magic carpet and panted heavily. The system could replenish his magic power and spiritual power, but it couldn't replenish his expended energy.

He was terribly worn out!

"What a brutal fellow you are!"

Ol' Amos shook his head, not quite knowing what to say anymore. The great ant tide army made up of countless ants had been defeated and routed by Meng Lei just like that. On top of suffering countless casualties, they hadn't been able to even reach the Great Dragon Blood Wall's edges. Just how freaking unlucky were they?

In the history of beast tides, when had they ever been in such a sorry state?

"Ol' President," said Meng Lei, who hadn't had enough yet. He looked in the direction of Magical Beast Forest and asked, "Do you think the ant tide will return?"

"Yes, they will!"

Ol' Amos nodded slowly. "The ant tide had taken only a day to surge out of Magical Beast Forest this time. They are moving on a grand, unprecedented scale.

"I believe they'll make a comeback for sure.

"By that time, it won't be as simple as these few Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants anymore. The scale will definitely become even bigger, and they'll engulf an even wider area!"

"The scale will become even bigger?"

Meng Lei's eyes lit up.

"Of course!" Ol' Amos said solemnly, "The ant tide just now didn't even cover 25 kilometers. It's evidently just a small wave of stragglers and wandering soldiers that doesn't even make up 1% of the total count in the ant tide."

"These are just stragglers and wandering soldiers?"

Meng Lei's eyes shone even brighter.

"Which of those large-scale ant tides in history didn't overrun the heavens and earth and stretched for several thousand kilometers?" Ol' Amos' voice was deep and grave. "Endless and boundless, and engulfing the mountains and wilderness, just like the great ocean. Even the sight could throw one into absolute despair."

"They'll be even more of them on an even bigger scale that's even more fearsome?"

Meng Lei's eyes were burning hot.

"Yes!" Ol' Amos nodded slightly. Then, he suddenly felt like something wasn't quite right, and he yelled furiously, "You brat, do you wish for the ant tide to return that much?!"

"Yes, of course... Cough, no, of course!" Meng Lei shook his head incessantly and vigorously. "The ant tide is bloody and cruel. They take away countless lives and are the nightmare of all living things. Of course I don't wish for them to return."

Ol' Amos snorted. "Hmph! At least you still have a bit of conscience in you."

At that moment, a clear and loud cry suddenly traveled over from the far distance. It sounded like a dragon roar or a lion's roar, yet also like an eagle's cry...

It was crystal clear, loud, and sonorous, and traveled right into one's spirit!

"Huh?"

Meng Lei turned and looked over to see a large, dark mass of clouds that shrouded an area of several hundred kilometers coming toward them in the sky a far distance away.

However, just how sharp was Meng Lei's sight? That was no dark cloud—they were clearly numerous... big birds!

Well, they could tentatively be called big birds for now because they had Colossal Dragon wings, a vulture's body, and a lion's head. They had razor-sharp claws and teeth and looked like a combination of a Colossal Dragon, a vulture, and a lion.

Each of them was more than 10 meters tall, their wings spanned over 20 meters, and there were more than 100,000 of them.

Their momentum was even more fearsome than the ant tide just now!

"That's..."

Meng Lei was stunned.

"That's the Flying Dragon Troops!" Ol' Amos twisted his beard and said with a smile, "The Flying Dragon Troops are Fire Dragon Kingdom's top elite troops. They have 100,000 Double-Legged Flying Dragons and are usually garrisoned at Flying Dragon Valley. They are only mobilized during wartimes."

"100,000... Double-Legged Flying Dragons?"

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Chapter 95: The Flying Dragon Troops, Fighting For Magic Cores

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"Double-Legged Flying Dragons possess two types of bloodlines, the Colossal Dragon's and a griffin's. When they mature into adults, they are comparable to Seventh-Grade Magical Beasts.

"As they are smaller and more compact than Colossal Dragons, their speed is lightning-quick. Adding to these claws and teeth as sharp as razors, they are an outstanding existence even among Seventh-Grade Magical Beasts.

"However, these aren't the only reasons why Double-Legged Flying Dragons can firmly suppress other Drakes to become Fire Dragon Kingdom's top elite troops. They have three more advantages over the others—high reproductive rate, short growth cycles, and high intelligence!"

Ol' Amos explained with a smile, "A female Double-Legged Flying Dragon can produce 10 infants, and an infant needs only 30 years to mature into an adult. An adult Double-Legged Flying Dragon's level of intelligence is comparable to a human's!"

"No wonder."

Realization dawned upon Meng Lei.

There were many types of Drakes—Raptors, Ground Dragons, Dragon-Hawks, Triceratops, Dragon-Rhinos, Dragon-Wolves, Dragon-Turtles, Wind Flying Dragons, Crimson-Armored Earthworms1, and so on... All of them were Drakes, but only the Double-Legged Flying Dragons possessed all three of those characteristics.

Some Drakes were strong and powerful but awfully stupid, while some Drakes were highly intelligent but grew too slowly. A few Drakes had both characteristics but didn't reproduce.

Therefore, even if these Drakes had dragon blood in them, they'd hardly be placed in important positions by the Dragon race. In fact, the Dragon race saw some Drakes as a disgrace and drove them out of the kingdom, e.g., the Sillies.

Sillies were a very kooky species of Drakes. They clearly had Golden Colossal Dragon blood in them, yet they were astonishingly weak and weren't even a match for ordinary wild beasts in battle. Additionally, they looked very adorable and were mischievous and silly in nature. They were totally people's number one choice when choosing pets.

However, the Dragon race saw these fellows as a disgrace and had tried many times to exterminate them. It was just a shame for them that the Sillies reproduced at a rate faster than even pigs, and they couldn't wipe them out completely. In the end, they could only banish them. One could pretty much consider them weirdos among Drakes.

As he gazed at the Flying Dragon Troops on the horizon, Meng Lei sighed emotionally. "Double-Legged Flying Dragons are the most successful Drakes for sure!"

"You're wrong in saying that!" Ol' Amos shook his head and said with a smile, "The most successful Drakes are us Dragon People instead!"

"Uh... That's true!" Meng Lei burst into laughter. "Would you believe that? How could I have forgotten about the Dragon People?"

"That's normal."

Roar!

Roar!

Roar!

As the Flying Dragon Troops got nearer and nearer, waves of dragon might converged to form a single majestic wave that spread throughout the sky and earth as it came crushing toward them.

"The Flying Dragon Troops!"

"It's the Flying Dragon Troops!"

"They're finally here!"

"But the problem is..."

Had it been any other time, the sight of the Flying Dragon Troops' arrival would definitely have sent all the soldiers into loud, deafening cheers and the whole place into a furor. However, everyone's countenances looked somewhat... strange today.

"The ant tide has already receded by now, though."

"Shows how much they really care..."

In spite of that, no one dared to really comment much. The Flying Dragon Troops were elites; be it their overall strength or their status, they were much more powerful than frontier troops.

Who would dare to criticize them?

With a wave of his arm, Marquis Gould gave an order. "Sound the drums and blow the horns to welcome the Flying Dragon Troops!"

Bong, bong, bong!

Hoooonk!

At once, drumbeats that sounded like dull thunderclaps and the long, loud, and clear blasts from the bugle-horn rang out from the top of the Great Dragon Blood Wall. The sounds reverberated throughout the sky and continued endlessly.

Roar!!

Upon hearing the bugle-horn blasts, 100,000 Double-Legged Flying Dragon let out roars and howls one after another. The sounds merged into roiling thunderclaps that bore down heavily on the Great Dragon Blood Wall.

They were putting them in their place!

This was something that the Flying Dragon Troops often did, not only to display their might but also to upstage the host.

And true enough, when the regular soldiers heard the fearsome roars, their hearing failed, stars appeared in their vision, their faces turned ghastly pale, and looks of fear surfaced in their eyes.

"Those bastards!"

Marquis Gould was infuriated. Yet he could do nothing to stop them and could only watch helplessly as his soldiers dropped their weapons and clapped their hands over their ears as they let out agonized moans.

"That's enough!"

An awe-inspiring voice rang out. The Flying Dragon Troops stopped their roars and stepped aside to open up a path. A Super-Double-Legged Flying Dragon, whose wings spanned over 50 meters and was twice the size of an ordinary Double-Legged Flying Dragon, flew out!

It had a fully ink-black body, plumes as sharp as steel needles, and a neck that looked much like a snake's. It exuded vast, surging dragon might!

It was the highest commander of the Flying Dragon Troops and the Double-Legged Flying Dragon King... Duke Nicolas Granger!

"Duke Nicolas!"

Marquis Gould stepped forward and bowed, giving him an ancient and standard nobility salute.

"Marquis Gould."

The Double-Legged Flying Dragon King transformed into a fierce and sinister-looking skinny, bony elderly man dressed in splendid long robes with a flap of its wings. He waved casually in a sort-of response.

Then, his eyes flitted across the Great Dragon Blood Wall and looked at the chaotic mess outside the city, awfully surprised. "Marquis Gould, your men have driven back the ant tide?"

Marquis Gould was dumbfounded for a moment there, not quite knowing how he should respond.

Had the ant tide receded?

Yes, it had!

But it had absolutely nothing to do with them, the frontier troops!

"Marquis Gould, were there unmentionable troubles?"

At the sight of how Marquis Gould seemed to find it hard to answer him, the Double-Legged Flying Dragon King frowned lightly, and a look of perplexity appeared on his countenance.

"The ant tide has indeed receded, but we—"

Marquis Gould was just about to explain when a Double-Legged Flying Dragon suddenly landed on the ground, picked up a fist-sized ball, and started to eat it...

"A magic core! It's a sixth-grade magic core! What delicious food!"

The Double-Legged Flying Dragon exclaimed as its eyes lit up brightly. Upon the sight of this, the other Double-Legged Flying Dragons also flew toward the ground.

The great fire outside the city had already been extinguished. Even the wall of fire in the canyon had also burned out due to exhaustion of fire elements.

With that, all the red crystals—the magic cores left behind by the Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants—strewn throughout the place had been revealed. As the essence of a Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ant's magic power, it was very hard for magic cores to be burned into ashes, and they were also the only things that the ants could leave behind.

"Magic cores!"

"So many magic cores!"

The Double-Legged Flying Dragons were overjoyed. Like old hens that'd just discovered rice grains, they made a mad scramble for them and started to peck at them!

They were usually garrisoned at the Double-Legged Flying Dragon Valley and could only eat bloody rams and dogs. How would they possibly have this many Sixth-Grade magic cores to eat?

Not only were they supreme delicacies, but they were also great sources of nourishment that could improve their strength. Thus, every one of them had gone into a frenzy.

"What a lot of magic cores!"

Upon the sight of this, the Double-Legged Flying Dragon King's eyes brightened. "My children are starving after hurrying all the way here. Marquis Gould, surely you don't mind letting them have a good meal first?"

"Of course not!"

Marquis Gould shook his head lightly. However, he was dissing them inwardly.

In the entirety of Fire Dragon Kingdom, is there even anyone that's greedier than you Double-Legged Flying Dragons?

Out of all the beast tides, when have you people not slaughtered, robbed, and eaten everything like aggrieved souls that had died of hunger in their past lives, leaving not even a single strand of hair for others? So why even bother asking such a redundant question at this point?

"I just knew that Marquis Gould wouldn't say no!"

The Double-Legged Flying Dragon King burst into laughter as he stroked his beard. Then, he announced loudly, "My children, these are Marquis Gould's welcoming gifts for you. Enjoy them to your hearts' content!"

Roar!

All the Double-Legged Flying Dragons roared as one!

"You damned dogs, how dare you steal my things!?"

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Chapter 96: The Triple-Everything Troops, Beating Up The Dragon King

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

During Meng Lei's mad bombardment of spells just now, the number of Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants that had perished in his hands had exceeded several tens of thousands, leaving behind approximately the same number of magic cores, too.

A single sixth-grade magic core was worth up to 10,000 gold coins. He could definitely sell them for tens of millions of gold coins with all of them put together!

Tens of millions of gold coins!

How could he let them off?

Meng Lei had just so been thinking about how he should collect those magic cores when he saw what had just happened—100,000 Double-Legged Flying Dragons scrambling for the magic cores on the ground like hungry ghosts, clearly treating them as theirs.

"You damned dogs, how dare you steal my magic cores!?"

Meng Lei flew into a rage, his eyes turning savage.

"Don't be reckless, brat!" Ol' Amos hastily stopped him. "Don't be fooled by how ugly these guys are; all of them are nobles. Killing them will bring you a lot of trouble!"

"Nobles?" Meng Lei was stupefied. "Those idiots?"

"Yes! Nobles!" Ol' Amos nodded heavily. "Not only are they nobles, but they also hold titles. They even have their own private territories."

"What the hell? Are the heavens blind?!" A corner of Meng Lei's lips spasmed as he let out an exclamation. He'd honestly been rendered somewhat speechless.

However, that was indeed the truth. Every single member of the Flying Dragon Troops was nobility. And because all of them were nobles, the Flying Dragon Troops were a special military unit, as well as the one and only unit completely made up of nobles in Fire Dragon Kingdom. They were a presence far beyond what other military units could compare with.

This led directly to the Flying Dragon Troops always behaving in a haughty and overbearing manner when making contact with other military units, and they always hogged all the war spoils as if it were right and justified.

They slaughtered everything, ate everything, and snatched everything!

The greediness of their nature, the awfulness of their table manners, the ugliness of their attitudes—they could be said to be notorious for all of these!

Yet, on the contrary, the Flying Dragon Troops weren't ashamed but proud of it instead. They promoted this tradition, developing the "slaughter everything, eat everything, snatch everything" into the "seize everything, eat everything, take everything" tradition!

Their behavior infuriated the other military units, and they hated them with a vengeance, yet they couldn't do anything about it.

It was the same this time, too.

After seeing the magic cores strewn all over the wide expanse of land, the Flying Dragon Troops had rushed straight toward them. Which part of them had stood on ceremony even the slightest?

They flew into the air and landed back down and then flew into the air again and landed back down again. They did this continuously, greedily snatching all the magic cores on the ground.

In this aspect, they had perfectly inherited the Colossal Dragons' avarice and the vultures' gluttony and even went far beyond.

"You damned dogs! You have a death wish, don't you!?"

Meng Lei was infuriated. He bellowed furiously, his roars exploding in the sky like roiling thunderclaps and reverberating throughout.

In the next instant, a dazzling thunder ball descended from above and crashed brutally onto the ground. As a deafening boom rang out, the thunder ball suddenly exploded and enveloped the area within a radius of several kilometers.

Crackle, crackle!

The raging electric currents flowed about freely as they pleased. Innumerable Double-Legged Flying Dragons fell victim to the electric currents and began to convulse violently as if they'd taken drugs, and their plumes also stood on end. Then, they collapsed onto the ground in large batches.

"What?!"

Everyone was stunned by this sudden turn of events. Disbelief filled everyone as they watched the Double-Legged Flying Dragons wrapped in electric currents mass-convulsing and mass-flailing.

"Who? Who did this?!"

The Double-Legged Flying Dragon King flew into a rage. His hawk-like eyes swept about everywhere, a chilly light flashing intensely in his eyes as he searched for the culprit that had attacked his subordinates.

Then, he noticed a magic carpet flying over, as well as someone standing proudly on it.

"How dare you actually attack my sons!? Die!"

The Double-Legged Flying Dragon King bristled with anger and rushed into the air with a loud boom. He transformed into a flying dragon and charged toward Meng Lei. He wanted to torture Meng Lei to death with cruel and heartless means so that everyone would know how people that had the audacity to attack the Flying Dragon Troops would end up.

"Duke Nicolas—"

Marquis Gould wanted to call out to him and stop him, but it was too late. By the time a shadow flashed past, leaving behind afterimages, the Double-Legged Flying Dragon King had already appeared in front of Meng Lei.

"Die, you lowly piece of trash!" The Double-Legged Flying Dragon King roared furiously.

His razor-sharp claws that flashed with a chilly glint swiped fiercely toward Meng Lei. His actions were quick, vicious, and accurate, and went straight for Meng Lei's head.

"Damn!"

Marquis Gould was terribly panicking. The Double-Legged Flying Dragon King was comparable to a Ninth-Grade Magical Beast. He moved lightning-quick, and his claws were incredibly sharp. Could Meng Lei hold himself against his sudden attack?

Yes, it was true that Meng Lei was a Great Ninth-Grade Magician, but everyone knew how fragile and frail a Magician's physical body was. Should he suffer a full swipe of the claws, wouldn't he be ripped straight into shreds?

If he dies here...

Marquis Gould shivered all over, not quite daring to continue that train of thought. Only people with Colossal Dragon blood in them could use Dragon-Language Magic. In other words, Meng Lei was a Great Ninth-Grade Dragon-Language Magician.

The significance behind this identity of his was too strong. Should Meng Lei perish here, who could bear the responsibility?

Boom!

Just as Marquis Gould was in an utter panic, the Double-Legged Flying Dragon King's sharp claws had already struck against Meng Lei's head. However, the scene he'd imagined didn't happen.

Meng Lei's head hadn't exploded from the blow. On the contrary, a layer of dazzling diamond-like crystalline substance materialized on the surface of his body and formed a protective shield around him, protecting him from external harm.

That was the Ninth-Grade Spell, Earth Guardian's Saintly Armor.

Bam!

The claws scraped across Meng Lei's forehead. That familiar sensation that he would get from ripping his prey alive in the past didn't appear. Instead, it felt as if he had just clawed against an obsidian rock, the resulting impact causing his paw to hurt.

"How can that be?!"

The Double-Legged Flying Dragon King retreated, his eyes full of shock. His ambush just now had reached in just a split second; where had that fellow found the time to cast a protective spell?

Was it an instant release?

"Well done! Well done, indeed!"

With a wave, Meng Lei withdrew the Earth Guardian's Saintly Armor. He glared furiously at the Double-Legged Flying Dragon King, his wrath almost driving him mad. When the Double-Legged Flying Dragon King had ambushed him just now, he had firmly and resolutely cast Earth Guardian's Saintly Armor.

This spell's defense power was astonishingly high, but it'd cost him a whole 800,000 Magic Power Points!

800,000!

A whole 800,000!

That was a freaking 8,000,000 gold coins!

,000,000 gold coins... All gone, just like that!

Meng Lei's heart ached so badly from the loss that his expression had pretty much become altered beyond recognition. "I'm going to use your inconsequential life to make up for this empty space freed up after you made me suffer a loss of 8,000,000 gold coins for nothing!"

Boom!

He had only just spoken when a crackling sound rang out. A lightning bolt as thick as a water barrel hurtled down from the heavens and viciously struck the Double-Legged Flying Dragon. His plumes frizzed up explosively at once, turning him into a "Double-Legged Hedgehog"!

Violent electric currents flowed about him freely and produced crackling sounds of explosions. The Double-Legged Flying Dragon King was also pretty tough and hardy. Not only did he not suffer any injuries, but he also became even angrier.

"Die!"

He flapped his wings, which produced a tornado that reached into the skies, and charged toward Meng Lei again. However, yet another lightning bolt struck him right in the head.

Crackle!

"Damn!"

The Double-Legged Flying Dragon King's eyes were blood red. He let out roar after roar, but the only thing that responded to him was still a lightning bolt as thick as a water barrel.

Crackle!

"That bastard!"

Crackle!

"You're driving me up the wall...!"

Crackle!

Like the rivers that flowed endlessly, yet also like the Yellow River beyond one's control in a flood, lightning bolts as thick as water barrels came one after the other. They came crashing down madly and endlessly.

No matter how strong the Double-Legged Flying Dragon King's body was, he wasn't going to be able to withstand these many hits. Gradually, his flesh began to split into bloody wounds from the lightning bolts, and he became charred black all over. Which part of him still retained even a little of his mighty momentum from just now?

"This..."

The mouths of all the soldiers on top of the city walls fell agape, and all of them turned into stone. Never would anyone have expected something like that to happen.

They had initially thought that even if Meng Lei survived the Double-Legged Flying Dragon King's attack, he would also suffer grave injuries.

They had also thought that the odds were definitely not in his favor, but it was the complete opposite now instead.

Not only was Meng Lei completely alright, but he was instead beating the Flying Dragon King into a pulp!

Had he really only broken through to the Great Ninth-Grade Magician level just a while ago?

He was already that ferocious when he had just broken through?

"Thunder-elemental! He's actually even a thunder-elemental Great Magician!"

Marquis Gould held a completely distrustful attitude toward his life now. It was already flabbergasting enough when Meng Lei had exhibited his double earth-elemental and fire-elemental magic talent just now.

Who would have thought that he actually had thunder-elemental magic talent, too?!

Earth, fire, and thunder! Three types of elements!

A triple-elemental Great Ninth-Grade Magician!

"Surely even the Dragon God's illegitimate child wouldn't be as much of a mutant as him, right?"

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