Chapter 721 HallwaysNing looked at her weirdly. "You can?" he asked. He thought she was joking, but without answering, the girl closed her eyes and started summoning.

Ning fully expected her to fail. There was no reason for her to be able to summon the giant octopus after all.

However, to his surprise, a summoning circle formed right in front of him as a beast emerged from it.

Ning looked at the beast with a blank look on his face. "Occy!" the princess shouted and the beast answered.

In front of him was in fact an octopus. However, it was not the octopus that he thought she was talking about.

"This is not Occy," Ning said while pointing to the small octopus that was climbing the side of the princess's bed.

"It is!" the princess said. "I named him Occy yesterday."

"Yesterday?" Ning asked when he realized the first beast she had bonded. It was in fact this very octopus. To think she had given it the same name as the one that Ning had summoned.

"I summoned Occy. Can I go drink now?" the princess asked.

"Huh? No! You cheated. You didn't tell me you named this one Occy too," Ning said.

"What?" The princess exclaimed. "But you just said I could if I summoned Occy."

"Listen here, missy. You don't get to cheat the system here. If you can summon the giant Occy, then you can go drink."

"But I can't do that," the princess started throwing a tantrum again.

"Then wait and keep training. If you train, you will be able to do it very soon," Ning said.

The princess continued throwing a tantrum, but Ning simply ignored her and she was forced to go back to studying. If not, there was no chance of her obtaining anything she could ask for.

After she had calmed down by a considerable amount, Ning finally decided to tell her something.

"I talked to your uncle today," he said.

"My uncle? But he's at the Arena," she said.

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"Yes, and I live there too," Ning told her.

The princess's eyes went wide. "You live in the arena, teacher?" she asked.

"Yes, I am one of the fighters there," Ning said.

"Ooh, can I go fight sometime, now that I am a summoner too?" she asked.

Ning thought for a bit. He was about to refuse, obviously, but there wasn't much reason to refuse, at least not after a little while.

After all, most of the novice fighters were all Rank 2 or 3. If she reached that rank soon, she could very well try and fight there.

And so Ning told her. "You can once you reach Rank 2," he said.

"Oh, that's much easier than Occy, right?" she asked.

"Very much easier," Ning said.

"Yes! I can do that then," she said.

"Anyway," Ning returned back on topic from the tangent he was just forced to go on. "Your uncle is going to come to celebrate your first summon very soon. Just like for your mother today, he will celebrate for you too."

"Honestly, I'm just surprised your parents didn't celebrate you becoming a Rank 1 summoner. I would think that was a big deal for most," Ning said.

"Oh no, we already celebrated," the princess said. "We had a big party last night."

"What?" Ning looked at her with a dumbfounded expression. "Then why the hell were you angry earlier?"

"Because my parents won't let me continue partying," the princess said.

Ning slapped his own face in frustration. He hoped that if he ever mistakenly had children in the future, they were more understanding than her.

"Sigh, so you have nothing really to be angry about. Just continue learning please," Ning said.

"Okay," the princess said and continued playing with the octopus. He asked her to make the octopus do something to see her level of control with the beast.

After about an hour into the training, the princess was just about to run out of things she wanted the octopus to do. Aside from that, the octopus itself had trouble being on land.

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While a spiritual beast, it was only Rank 1, so it was just slightly better than a regular beast one would find in the wild.

"Unsummon it," Ning told her.

"Okay," the princess said. "Go back, Occy. I will call you later if I need you."

The weak octopus, that had been out of water for a long time, happily agreed to being unsummoned.

As the summoning circle appeared and disappeared, the beast was gone as well.

"Good," Ning said. "Now go sit by some pearls so that you can regain your spiritual energy. It shouldn't take more than an hour for you."

"Okay," Janice said and went up to Joann to get some pearls. Once she did, she placed them on the bed and sat beside it.

Since she had nothing to do, Ning gave her a book to read instead.

Just then, there was a knock on the door. A servant walked in and bowed before Ning. "Her highness wants to see you," she said.

"The queen? Where?" Ning asked.

"Please follow me," the servant said and left the room.

"I'll be back soon. Keep reading," Ning said and left the room as well. He followed the servant through the many hallways of the palace, almost making Ning think that they were made for the sole reason of getting someone lost in it.

He was then led down a flight of stairs and then through another dozen hallways with twists and turns.

Finally, at the end of the hallway, he saw two women standing next to a glowing, white room.

He tried to look inside, but suddenly he saw someone jump at him from behind with a dagger in their hand.

Ning quickly turned and grabbed the attacker's wrist before pushing it aside to punch at them.

The attacker vanished from his arm and arrived a few meters behind him. "Not bad. I was certain you had the reflexes in you," a familiar voice said.

"Your highness?" Ning asked.

The queen undid her hood and looked at him. "Come, we have a lot to talk about."

Chapter 722 Queen's PropositionThe queen walked over to the brightly lit room and entered. Ning walked behind her and arrived there a moment later.

When he looked around the room, he was shocked. "So many pearls," he said as he looked at them. "Why are they used as decorations?"

"They are not decorations," the queen said. "They are here to gather spiritual energy from the ocean above and give it to me. I had my leg broken, so I had to bond with a beast that needed an incredible amount of energy before it could heal me. As a result, I had this place made for me alone."

"I see," Ning said as he looked around. "This is a good meditation cave, I'm not gonna lie."

He sat on one of the chairs that didn't seem to fit the room while the queen sat on the massive bed in the middle of the room.

"So, what did you want to talk about?" Ning asked.

"I had a few questions," the queen said. "First of all, have you killed anyone before?"

Ning was surprised to be asked such a serious question right off the bat. "Umm, why do you ask?" he decided not to answer immediately.

"Outside, when I ambushed you. Your first reaction was to kill me, wasn't it?" the queen asked. "If I hadn't dodged in time, you would've killed me for sure."

Ning gave an awkward smile. "Well, you did ambush me. I didn't know what else to do but fight back," he said. "I'm sorry."

"Oh, don't worry. I don't mind you fighting back if that's what you're worried about. In fact, that's what made me certain that you were the one I needed," the queen said.

Ning's eyes narrowed. "You need someone that can kill?" he asked.

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The queen shook her head. "That's a great bonus, but I really just need someone that can fight back at a moment's notice."

Ning's eyes narrowed. "What is it that you really want, your highness?" he asked.

The queen's eyes flashed anger when she heard that. "I want revenge. I want revenge against those who betrayed me. Against those who betrayed us. I want to kill the woman that poisoned me and left me to rot in the ocean."

"I want to gouge the eyes of the man I once thought as my father figure. I want to kill all those that I once called my family. I want vengeance. I want Justice," the queen said.

"The people you called your family tried to kill you?" Ning asked with a serious look.

"And you want to kill them back?" he asked.

"Yes, that's why I am planning to start an organization of my own. So that I can take my revenge. Will you help me?" she asked.

Ning fell silent, not saying anything. "Can you tell me about this organization? Is it going to exist for the sole purpose of killing these former family members of yours?" Ning asked.

"No," the queen said. "The main goal is to empower the weak girls that are either orphaned or left behind by others, just like I was first saved by my mentor."

"And I'm joining just because of my strength huh?" Ning asked.

"Honestly, strength like yours is hard to come by even in the west. People like you are prominent figures of power in the west. I'm surprised you are fine with working for the summoning circle in such a backwater country as this."

"Well, I enjoy what I enjoy. I don't find being a prominent figure that much fun. You are instead plagued with a responsibility that I would just very much like to avoid," Ning said.

"It's fine if you want to avoid them. I can see how being unfettered is an advantage to some too. I would assume many people that are tied down by such positions would want to be unfettered," the queen said. "I just ask you that you use your power for this one time to help me defeat those that are clearly evil."

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Ning sighed. "I will have to learn more about them. What did they do exactly? How did they betray you?" he asked.

"They," the queen sighed as well. "My mentor was the head of the group. He was the one that initially formed the group with his friends, but they had died along the way, leaving him as the sole leader."

"He did his job the best he could, gathering more and more people to his own cause," she said. "After a while, however, the rest of the people didn't see his vision. They hadn't suffered as he had."

"So, when they saw the chance to change the leadership, they took it. They assassinated my mentor in cold blood, while also trying to kill everyone that would follow him"

"A war broke out between the two of us. One that wanted change, and the other one that wanted to punish them for what they had done."

"Unfortunately for us, the ones seeking justice were vastly outnumbered. As a result, most of us died, and even I was killed, or at least they thought they did."

"That bitch poisoned my legs and tossed me overboard. Fortunately, I had an antidote for the poison with me. Unfortunately, I couldn't take it before it wrecked my legs," the queen said.

"I floated until I was found by a fishing boat. Then, through a few ships, I ended up here where I seduced a man to find shelter. Who would've thought the dumb, big man was actually the king of this country," the queen laughed to herself.

Ning nodded as he heard that. "This argument the people had with your mentor, what was it about?" he asked.

"Well, we were good at killing, so they wanted to go into the fields of assassins, but my mentor wanted to keep helping people in poor countries. He—"

"Wait, wait, wait," Ning quickly spoke up to stop the queen.

"What did you say this organization's name was again?" he asked.

"I didn't," The queen said. "But if you must know, it is known as the Shadow's Anarchy."1

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Chapter 723 Queen's FrustrationNing cringed a bit when he heard the name of the organization that had betrayed the queen.

"It was really the Shadow's Anarchy?" he asked.

"Yes," The queen said. "Those bastards dared go against my mentor's wish of bringing peace to people that needed it and instead started hurting people for money. I hate them with a burning passion."

"Umm… what would you do if there was no place to direct this passion of yours?" Ning asked.

"What?" the queen was confused.

"Say Shadow's Anarchy doesn't exist anymore, what would you do with this hate?" Ning asked.

"I… I don't know what you are asking," the queen said.

"Sigh, how do I say this…" Ning struggled to find the words.

"What is it? Just say it," the queen said.

"Well, here goes nothing then. The Shadow's Anarchy is gone. Or at least its head members are dead," Ning said.

"Wha… what?" the queen's face scrunched up in confusion at the words she had just heard. Shadow's Anarchy's head members, the people that she once thought were her family, and was now looking forward to killing were…dead?"

"If you don't want to join the organization, I understand," the queen said. "You don't have to blatantly lie about it."

"It's not a lie, they really are dead," Ning said. "Actually. They died earlier today."

To the queen's ears, the lies were getting worse. "Fine, you can go. You don't have to join the organization," the queen said with a sour face. If someone was going to make such an absurd lie to get out of the situation, then there was no point in having them join the organization.

They would instead just end up becoming a liability for them.

"Sigh, you don't believe me, do you?" Ning asked. "Let me show you."

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Ning suddenly stood up and grabbed the queen's hands. In the next moment, they teleported.

When they reappeared, the queen was assaulted with a heavy smell of blood and death, bringing her memories back to the day her friends and families were killed.

Not these ones, not the ones she had made later. But her real friends and families, back when she lived on the kingdom ruled by the dictator.

The place where one man stood and inspired others to stand up alongside them to go against the regiment and free themselves from the tyrant.

So many people had fought in the war to gain their freedom. So many people had died.

The queen started shaking with fear, wondering if she had arrived back in the same place. However, she quickly calmed and collected herself before forcing herself to look at the bloody room.

Bodies were scattered all over the floor and the table. She saw the head of the man who now had blue hair. He was the one responsible for killing her master.

She saw the woman whose lower body was missing. She had died with wide eyes full of pain and fear. That was how the queen had felt when this woman had poisoned her.

Now, she felt a sensation of happiness when she saw the same on the woman's face.

The rest of the people, the ones that opposed her master, their savior, turned the organization away from what it was originally established for.

To take the organization in the direction where only a few profited while everyone else suffered.

Changing the reason for the organization's existence didn't simply cause more tragedies to appear in the world, it cause the tragedies that could be avoided to continue existing.

Ning looked towards the door to find that it was still locked. Despite the death and destruction that had taken place inside, no one had come to check it.

Perhaps the crew was too scared to barge in on the meetings of the higher-ups.

"How long has it been?" the queen asked as she checked the bodies.

"About 4, maybe 5 hours I would say," Ning said.

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"Why did you kill them?" she asked.

"They killed a kid," he replied. There was nothing more to this than that.

"Someone you knew?" the queen showed a worried face.

"No, it was the prince of the Yorshan kingdom. I accidentally arrived there this morning and found that he was dead. I tracked the assassination down to here and killed them because they deserved it," the Ning said.

She realized that Ning had killed all these people for someone he didn't even know. In her heart, she knew that she had done the right thing by trying to recruit him.

Only… now the reason for the recruitment was gone.

'Not yet,' the queen thought with an angry face. She grabbed onto one of the wooden splinters belonging to the chairs and used the sharp end to stab the woman who had poisoned her directly through the eye.

"This is for trying to kill me," the queen said.

She then stabbed her through the other eye.

"This is for paralyzing me and making my life a living hell!" the queen shouted.

"And this is for all the pain you brought me," she shouted and stabbed the woman all over her chest and head.

She then went on to repeat the same thing with each of the heads she recognized. Those she couldn't recognize, she still stabbed it a few times.

Ning was glad he wasn't on the opposing side of the queen or he would end up looking like a beehive.

The queen finally stopped after a few minutes as her frustration was fully taken out on the dead bodies.

"You done?" Ning asked.

"Not yet," the queen said and kicked the head next to her like a ball. "Now I'm done."

"I hope you are somewhat satisfied with what you saw here today. You don't have to stay in the past now, being trapped by your need for vengeance," Ning said.

"Yes, you're right," the queen said. "I… my legs are fixed and now my enemies are dead. Thank you for everything you've done for me. I owe you a lot."

Ning smiled. "Let us return then."

Chapter 724 Passing on knowledgeOnce Ning returned back with the queen, he went back to the arena to finally get some rest.

The next few days went by normally as he fought in the arena once and spent most of his other times just teaching the princess.

Since the princess was Rank 1 and already knew how to summon, he didn't have anything about summoning itself that he could teach. However, since she was his student now, he was going to make sure she would become the strongest summoner in the world by the time she was barely an adult.

As such, despite her reluctance to study it, Ning started teaching the princess about Summoning Circle. By now, he knew almost everything there was to know about the summoning circle.

He started teaching her what each aspect of a circle that appeared beneath a beast when they were summoned was.

Ning told the princess to summon a beast, any beast. He watched carefully as she summoned a bird from it.

Ning remembered the circle that appeared beneath it and started drawing it again on a piece of paper.

"Look here," he told her as he pulled out a giant book and flipped over to the page that taught about the circles that showed a beast's rank.

"Can you find the matching circle from the book?" he asked.

"Hmm… here," the princess pointed to one of the circles on the book.

"Can you read what it says?" he asked.

"Okay," the princess leaned up to the page and read it out loud. "This part of summoning circle denotes that the beast in of Rank 1."

"See? It told you what rank this bird is. How useful is that?" Ning asked.

"What? But I already knew what rank this bird was," the princess grumbled as she thought the teaching pointless.

Ning sighed. He closed his eyes and suddenly a summoning circle appeared on the bed where the princess was.

Out of it came a beast with a furry little rodent that left wisps of black smoke behind as it walked.

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Ning quickly called it to stand on his shoulders and then asked the princess, "Tell me about this beast."

The princess looked in confusion. "I don't know what that is. You're never taught me before," she said.

"I know, but I want you to tell me whatever you know," Ning said.

"Uh… it's a rat. And uh… it's small?" the princess said.

"What rank is it?" Ning asked.

"I don't know," the princess pouted.

Ning quickly drew the summoning circle that came from the rat and gave it to her. "Now tell me, what rank is it?"

"Oh," the princess understood what she had to do. She looked through the book and cross-matched the outer circle with the images in the book.

"Oh! Rank 4," she screamed happily. "Is that it, teacher? Is it Rank 4?"

Ning smiled. "Yes, it is rank 4. See how easily you knew that even without being strong enough to sense the beast?" he asked.

"Yes," she said.

Ning continued teaching her more, going away from Rank and moving towards elements. The princess easily figured out that the rat had a shadow element to it once Ning showed her what to look for.

The task of remembering only got harder as the information about the circle reached broader fields such as strength, and mental capabilities as well as other properties such as how many limbs, eyes, ears, etc the beast may possess.

While the princess found it hard to remember, Ning still taught her everything he could.

Everything, except for perhaps the most important aspect of the summoning circles.

He did not teach her how to use the circle to summon the desired beast.

There was a single reason as to why he chose not to teach her, and that was because summoning a beast required blood, and more times than not, it required sacrifice for that.

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He did not want her to go through that at such a young age.

A week or two passed and the princess was considerably more learned in the ways of the summoning circle.

By now, she could tell every rank and element of a beast just by looking at the circles. There was more for her to learn, but just this much was already a lot better than most people could do.

Ning doubted there was anyone in this very country that was more talented than her in the subject of the summoning circle.

As Ning continued teaching her, he came across a problem with her that he wasn't sure was a blessing or a curse.

The princess was taking a lot of time to reach Rank 2. While this was normal in every case, he still felt it was too slow given how fast his own progress was.

'Is there any way I can help her?' he wondered. Spiritual energy had no absorption techniques or stuff like that to aid one by increasing their speed. However, Ning wondered if he could still help her.

He knew that creating an absorption technique was impossible since, unlike Qi or Aether, Spiritual energy didn't move around one's body at will.

It simply tried to connect one person with other beasts. However, there had to be a way to improve the speed even without using any absorption techniques, right?

As such, Ning asked the system for help and the system delivered him in the perfect way.

"Huh? I didn't think it would be so simple," he thought.

He turned around to the princess and smiled. "I have good news for you," he said.

The princess's eyes shined brightly at the sound of that. "Good news? What is it, teacher?" she asked.

"I have a way to get you to Rank 2 as quickly as possible," Ning said.

"Oh… how?" she asked.

"Here's what you will do from now on. Every night before you sleep, you will summon something to empty the Spiritual energy in your body. Then, have some pearls next to you as you sleep," Ning said.

"If you do that, your body's capability to store spiritual energy will increase by a great amount and you will enter Rank 2 before you know it."

Chapter 725 First BeastA few days later, Ning arrived at the boss's office on the floor of the arena.

When he arrived there, the boss let him know that the 'Man versus Beast' battles was ready to commence. All the advertisements were done and Ning only had to fight now.

"When is it?" he asked.

"2 days from now," the boss said.

Ning nodded. "I'll get ready then."

He went over to the cafeteria, bored as there was nothing to do until the afternoon.

He sat down, eating a bowl of fish soup when someone called for help to build some houses again.

'Who keeps wanting to make houses in the Arena?' he thought and turned around to check, but he couldn't pinpoint the source of the call in the crowd.

However, he did notice Saphandra who came and sat by his side.

"Hey," he called her.

"Hey!" she said and looked at him curiously. "I heard you're going to be the first person to fight the beasts. Is that true?"

"Oh, is the news already spreading?" Ning asked.

"Yeah, they started announcing the starting fighter. Given how easily you've been winning your other matches, people will be interested to see your fight," she said.

"Wanna bet on me?" Ning asked. "You will earn a lot."

"Uh… I don't know if I need more money," Saphandra said. "I already make quite a bit from my own fights nowadays."

"Of course. You're considered the strongest in the arena. It is obvious you would earn quite a bit," Ning said.

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The two talked for a while before Ning had to go to the palace to teach the princess.

2 days later, it was time for the match everyone had been excited about.

Ning arrived next to the boss in the tower a few minutes before he was to go on stage and asked him one more time.

"The match will end even if I keep winning right?" Ning asked.

"Yes, yes," the boss said. "You will be fighting until either you lose, we run out of beasts or it is 5 in the evening."

"As long as any of those 3 happen, we will end the match," the boss said.

"Good," Ning nodded. "Alright, let me go fight then."

Ning walked onto the stage and the audience started cheering his name. It was hard to believe just how many fans he had in this place.

So many people knew him without actually knowing him. It felt weird thinking that they would likely never get to see him again since he would be leaving this place very soon.

The host started explaining the rules of the competition. Ning listened absentmindedly as he looked around the stage.

At some point, he heard something from the host that he hadn't heard from anyone before.

"I can use weapons?" he asked.

"Oh yes. Anything that doesn't include gun powder of course. Although, I'm sure the fans would love it if you didn't use one," the host said.

"Ooh, I do want to use a staff, but I guess I won't use it right away," Ning said to the host.

The host went on to explain the rest of the rules and finally, the first match started.

Ning jumped around a bit, loosening his muscle while the first beast landed on stage.

It was a massive scorpion-like beast with giant pincers. It had four eyes on its head and a stinger at its tail that looked extra painful.

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Once both Ning and the summoner were ready, the match started.

The scorpion suddenly started creating sand all around it, blowing out all around Ning. There was so much sand in the air that it caused a visibility problem not just for Ning, but for the audience as well.

Ning tried to look, but he couldn't see anything. He tried his other visions, but the sand was like a thick wall, making it unable to see much in the distance.

Ning sent out an Air Cutter through the air, making it large enough that it hit the beast that was in front of him, but weak enough that it didn't get defeated easily.

The air cutter ended up hitting the scorpion's pincers and did basically nothing.

Still, it helped Ning see exactly where it was. So, he immediately rushed to the location.

When he arrived there, he could see that the scorpion knew he was coming. It was most likely that the beast could see him even though the sandstorm.

The scorpion's stinger fell on Ning, but he was quick enough to dodge it and instead grab the beast's tail.

When he did, he the scorpion tried to grab him with its pincers.

However, Ning flipped through the air and arrived behind the beast. He kicked the beast's underbelly while he continued holding the tail, and suddenly the beast was up in the air.

Ning then pulled on it and started spinning it quickly. The scorpion tried to move, whether it was its pincers or its stinger, but neither of it could overcome the centrifugal force Ning was producing with his spin.

Soon, the air from the spin started dissipating the sand storm, giving the audience a crazy surprise out of nowhere.

Ning looked at the surroundings and where he could throw the scorpion, but there wasn't a good place for it to throw at.

So, instead, he started changing the angle of the spin and suddenly threw it directly into the sky above the arena.

The audience's eyes followed as the beast flew nearly 200 meters into the sky and then fell back down to the ground.

They expected a massive crash landing, however, Ning simply placed his hand up and grabbed it.

His legs dug into the stage, but other than there, there wasn't much sound. The force of the landing caused the scorpion a great deal of damage and suddenly its summoning circle appeared, taking it away.

Ning walked out of the small holes he had dug himself into and looked towards the other side.

"Next please."

Chapter 726 Monkey and WolfA flaming monkey arrived on the stage not even 10 seconds after the scorpion had disappeared.

The monkey had red fur all over his body except for his chest which was white. Its long tail burned all the way through and so did its hair.

Ning saw the monkey and smiled. "If it's fire, then I should fight with water," he thought.

He closed his eyes for a brief moment to find a beast and summon just its powers. Since he was simply asking for powers, he didn't need to give the beasts more than 20% of his spiritual energy.

He surprisingly found a rather strong beast that accepted his offer and now Ning had its powers.

The flaming monkey jumped around on the stage as it started circling Ning. Ning did nothing but wait for the monkey to start the fight itself.

The monkey suddenly punched toward Ning, sending a fireball at Ning through its fist.

Ning dodged and opened his palm as something formed on it.

The monkey punched again, sending another fireball at Ning. This time, Ning didn't dodge but instead threw what had formed in his hand.

A snowball.

The fire met with the snow, and the two of them canceled each other for the most part as the fire was a tad bit stronger in this case.

The monkey created a spear of fire this time around and suddenly threw it toward Ning.

Ning created a snow icicle, that was flimsy for the most part but kept it together by crushing it into shape with his hands and sending it flying.

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The force with which he threw the icicle destroyed the fire spear, but at the same time, the icicle also broke into a million pieces.

The monkey suddenly jumped in the air and did a quick little spin, creating a wave of fire that moved towards Ning.

Ning suddenly clapped his hands forward, causing a small snow storm to form in front of him that stopped the wave of fire.

The monkey used this time to get close to him and landed barely 3 meters away from him. Then, it took in a deep breath and started breathing out fire.

Ning waved his hands and suddenly a snow wall appeared right in front of him to block the attack. However, the monkey continued breathing out a fire that started quickly melting through the wall.

Ning continued adding onto the wall, making it thicker and thicker, but the monkey didn't stop at all, as if it didn't need to breathe at all.

Ning saw the monkey trying its best to get through the wall and that gave him an idea. He stopped creating more snow to cover up the wall and let the monkey get through it.

When it finally managed to get past the wall, Ning swung his arm, sending an air cutter towards the monkey.

The air cutter was violent and carved through the fire breath as it landed directly on the monkey, throwing it backward.

Ning had held back a bit, but he was still surprised that the monkey hadn't been defeated at all.

So, he ran up to the monkey and created a massive snowball above him, and dropped it onto the monkey as hard as he could.

The monkey was hit hard by the ball and ended up getting unsummoned, leaving Ning as the victor in their two battle.

The crowd shouted in excitement at the fact that Ning had won again. Ning turned to look at the betting area and could see that the odds were still in his favor. However, as the matches went along, it would definitely go against him as many would start to believe that he was tired and couldn't fight anymore.

Ning immediately turned around and went to the edge of the stage, waiting for the next beast to come by.

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A wolf appeared on the stage with silver-white fur that growled at Ning.

The beasts were all summoned away from him so he couldn't see what the beasts' summoning circle looked like, thus he didn't know what rank or type of beast it was.

He could simply use his analysis skill, but that didn't seem fun. He wanted to fight as normally as one could.

The wolf's purple eyes shined with a bright light, and suddenly, the beast split off into a bunch of other wolves that started moving all around him.

Before Ning even understood what was happening, he had already lost track of the original beast amongst the nearly 50 that had appeared on the stage now.

He smiled a bit as the situation intrigued him. He was looking forward to this fight.

A snow icicle formed in his hand as he threw it at one of the wolves that were running around him. The wolf that was hit suddenly turned into motes of light while his snow dispersed as if it actually hit something, suggesting that it wasn't a simple visual illusion but rather something that was much more physical.

Ning saw the wolf that jumped at him from behind and dodged to punch it back.

He felt some feedback on his hand from the impact, but not enough to feel like he was hitting.

The best he could compare it to was as if he was hitting a pocket of air that was inside a balloon.

He started going after the beasts one by one.

He punched the wolf next to him while sending an icicle at the one far away. He created a snow storm to disrupt the wolves as much as he could.

The snow storm was harmless for the most part, but as the storm kept on going, Ning increased its powers and soon the snow storm turned into a hailstorm, as hailstones the size of grapes started pelleting through the pack of wolves.

One after another, the many wolves started turning into a bunch of light all around him. As Ning kept it going, all the wolves disappeared except for one.

He turned around to find the real wolf standing behind him, with a lot of fight left in it still.

Chapter 727 More Beast FightingThe wolf started running toward Ning, with its claws outstretched.

Ning turned around while lowering his body as the wolf flew over him. At the same time, he grabbed the wolf by its tail and pulled it back.

He punched the wolf right onto its side, sending flying away. However, Ning was surprised afterward.

That was not the wolf at all. He looked up front towards the wolf and saw it slowly disappearing into motes of light as well.

'That was an illusion?' Ning thought with surprise. 'How the hell did it not disappear in the hailstorm?'

At the same time, he looked around him as another question formed in his mind. "Where's the real one?"

Ning's vision changed to heat vision at a moment's notice. The moment he didn't see any beast around him, he knew it had to be invisible.

When he finally saw the beast, camouflaged in the distance, he created an icicle with his snow and sent it flying towards the beast.

The wolf had only been invisible because it wasn't moving. The moment it was forced to move, it came out of invisibility.

It saw the threat and started pumping out more illusions again. However, this time, Ning didn't let it get out of his sight.

He dashed forward with incredible speed and appeared right in front of the wolf.

The wolf jumped in terror as it didn't expect Ning to be there right away. It tried to swing its claw at Ning to attack him, but Ning simply grabbed the outstretched claw and slammed the entire beast on the ground as hard as he could.

Crack webs appeared all over the stage and at the same time, a summoning circle appeared beneath the wolf as it disappeared.

Ning raised both his arms in victory as the crowd jumped around in happiness as they had made a lot of money in these last 3 fights.

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Ning smiled and breathed heavily as he waited for the next beast to arrive.

The next beast that arrived was a blue snake with two giant horns on its head.

Ning got ready to fight when suddenly the snake started producing water from its body.

Ning didn't understand what was happening, but the water slowly filled the entire stage, even melting the snow he had made to create more water.

Just then, Ning heard a crackling sound and he felt a jolt of electricity pass through him.

"An electric snake?" he thought as he faltered a bit. He had 80% defense against all-electric attacks, but that didn't mean that the 20% didn't do anything.

While it didn't hurt, it also caused his body to go stiff for a split second. Ning felt like he lost control of his body for that one split second.

He created an icicle and sent it hurtling towards the snake. But suddenly, the snake turned into the water itself and mixed in with the water underneath it.

Ning switched his vision but the snake truly had turned into the water as everything looked the same in his changed vision.

A blob of water emerged in the distance at the same time as it turned back to the snake and Ning suddenly got another electric shock.

"Goddammit!" Ning shouted and immediately flew up above where the water couldn't reach him at all. At the same time, he closed his eyes and summoned the powers of another beast.

He put his two palms out and an intense gust of wind emerged from all around him, dropping toward the ground as it pushed all the water away.

The snake tried to hold on, but Ning managed to send the snake flying away as well, giving him the victory in this match.

Ning flew down to the ground and breathed heavily, faking it for the audience, and waited for his next opponent.

Then came out a beast that Ning had never seen before.

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It was humanoid like a gorilla was, but that was only in its overall physique. The beast had many eyes all over its face and no nose at all.

He saw gill flaps open and close at the side of the beast's neck. Its legs were massive enough to handle its giant body which seemed to be covered in fish scales.

If anything, Ning thought of this beast to be a hybrid of a fish and an ape. A little information about this type of beast came onto Ning's mind from the massive pile of information that was in his mind and handed went through.

He started learning it the moment he could.

All the eyes on its head landed on Ning as its massive hands moved in the air as it came down onto Ning.

Ning dodged to the left and ran to the edge of the stage.

The crowd thought that Ning was scared and running away, and couldn't help but be disappointed.

However, when they saw him grab a 2-meter-long staff, they couldn't help but cheer him vigorously.

From what Ning could see, it didn't look like the beast had any type of elemental ability to it. All of its powers were concentrated on its physical body.

So, despite being a lower-ranked beast, it would have a physical strength like no other beast.

Ning stood in front of the beast with a wooden staff and got ready to battle the beast that was nearly 4 times his own size.

Ning ran straight to the beast which swept its arm on the ground. He jumped over the arm and hit the beast's wrist with his staff's butt before pushing himself into the air.

The beast's other arm moved to catch Ning, but he spun midair to slam the beast's left arm with his staff.

When both of the beast's arms were pushed back, Ning arrived right on top of the beast.

The beast looked angrily at Ning and tried to bite him, but Ning's trajectory changed at the last moment, barely escaping the beast's mouth.

The Ning landed on top of its head and swung the staff down as hard as he could.

BANG!

Chapter 728 Trouble in the PalaceNing fought many more beasts throughout the day. The odds kept changing against him more and more, but he kept winning.

Throughout the day, he had to summon skills from 3 different beasts. The first was the snow beast. He used it for a while, but using the same attacks over and over got boring to him at some point.

Next, he summoned a lightning beast. Surprisingly for him, that was the summon that gave him the most fun. Throwing out lightning bolts, creating thunderous noises, and even teleporting around with lightning.

Lastly, Ning summoned a telepathic beast's skills, that could help him read a beast's mind and even hurt it mentally. He didn't use those skills for anything more than just dodging the beasts' attacks before they even started attacking.

With these 3 skills altogether and his supreme staff skills, Ning managed to defeat every single beast that came his way.

Many of the audience members were sad in the end, while a few of them were beyond ecstatic. Having done nothing but continuously bet on Ning, they ended up being richer than they would've ever expected themselves to be.

While the rest of them were saddened by the fact that they lost quite a large sum of money.

The boss looked from his seat high in the tower with absolute glee on his face. While it wasn't finalized, a staff had brought him a rough estimate on how much they had made.

If the numbers were half as true, this battle was even more successful than the one with Saphandra and Billy.

Around 5 pm, Ning finally left the stage having won every match. He was immediately taken to the boss who thanked him a lot for bringing in so much money.

"You have earned quite a lot too," the boss said. "Just wait a bit, I will count how much you have earned and bring it to you. It will just take half an hour maybe."

"It's fine," Ning said. "I am in a little hurry. You can do the math slowly, I will come for my money tomorrow."

Ning left the place to go to the palace to meet up with the princess and continue her lesson.

However, before he could leave, he was stopped by Saphandra.

"Hey, what's up?" he asked.

"Oh, my pearls went dull again. Would you mind getting them recharged again?" she asked.

"Uh… sure," Ning said. He didn't have anything else to do tonight anyway. "I can do that."

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Little blue came out from her side and chirped like a bird. Ning almost thought he could understand her, but those random chirps weren't any language at all.

"See you later," he said. "Bye, little blue."

Ning turned around and left the arena. Many people recognized him and tried to come up to him and talk, but Ning only smiled and left, saying he had something to do.

After a while, he finally arrived at the palace.

However, when he was about to enter, the guards stopped him.

"Huh? It's me," he told them.

"I know, brother. We can't let you go in right now. King's orders to stop anyone from entering," the guard said.

"Huh? Do you why?" Ning asked.

"I don't know, but there seems to be some sort of problem inside. We keep hearing shouts and even the battleships have landed already," the guard said.

"Woah, must be something serious. I wonder if someone was hurt or something," Ning thought. "Can you go tell the queen that I am here? I can help with whatever the problem is."

"I don't know if I can—"

"The queen. She knows what I'm capable of. If they need help, she will definitely want my help," Ning said.

The guards sighed and one of them left to go ask the queen.

A few minutes later, the guard returned with a both horrified and curious look on his face.

"What's wrong?" the other guard asked.

"I… I don't know. But the atmosphere there is very serious. Both the King and Queen are angry," the guard said. Then, his eyes switched to Ning. "But when I said you were here, the queen was relieved for some reason. She's asking you to visit her in the palace hall immediately."

"Oh, okay," Ning said and basically sprinted inside.

The army was roaming the insides of the palace while all the servants were made to stop and were being checked.

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One of the soldiers saw Ning and stopped him with a gun pointed at him.

"Who are you?" the soldier asked.

"I'm the princess's tutor. I'm being summoned by the queen," Ning said.

"The queen? Come with me," the soldier took him personally.

When they arrived at the door of the palace hall, it was fully shut. However, he could hear shouts of anger from inside.

The soldier knocked on the door and suddenly the room went silent.

One of the captains that Ning had seen in the battleships opened the door and Ning finally entered.

When he did, he was surprised to see the number of people that were there.

The court officials, the captains, the many maids that were secretly being taught by the queen, and finally both the king and the queen were in the room, giving it a rather packed feeling.

Ning walked to the center of the room, walking past the many captains and maids that were standing there doing nothing.

When he arrived at the front, he saw Joann lying there with her head kneeled to the ground.

He looked around at the people that were staring back at them.

"What is going on, your majesty?" Ning asked.

"Brother Ning, can you tell me where you have been today?" the King asked.

"Today? I was in the arena fighting from morning to just about half an hour ago," Ning said. "Why do you ask?"

"So you did not at any point come to the palace today?" the King asked, while his feet started shaking.

"No," Ning said.

A grave look appeared on both the King and Queen's faces, as the King opened his mouth to speak.

"Then it is true," the king said. "Our daughter has really been kidnapped."

Chapter 729 Summoned AwayNing looked at them with a confused look on his face for a second before the severity of the situation became real to him.

"What? The princess has been kidnapped? When? How?" Ning asked.

"2 or so hours ago. She was in her room at one point, then in the next, she wasn't," the queen said as she tried her hardest to not think of the worst.

'System, is the princess fine?' Ning asked without wasting any time.

Ning sighed in relief when he heard that.

"Did you truly not take our daughter?" the King asked, hoping that the news was still not true.

"No, your majesty. I was busy fighting all day today," Ning said. "Was no one around the princess when she disappeared?"

"This one was, but her words don't make sense at all," the queen said as she gestured to Joann who was kneeling on the ground.

"Joann, can you tell me what happened?" Ning asked.

"I… I don't know what really happened. One moment she was there. Then the next moment, she was taken away from right in front of my eyes by a beast," she said.

"What beast?" Ning asked.

"I… I didn't see. The beast was invisible," Joann said.

Ning looked at her weirdly. "If it was invisible then why was it a beast and not a human?" he asked.

"Because the beast was summoned away after taking her," Joann said.

"Wait, wait, wait, what?" Ning looked at Joann with a confused expression.

"See? It doesn't make sense," the queen said.

Ning nodded. It indeed didn't make sense at all. "Joann, did you see the summoning circle yourself?" Ning asked.

"Yes," she said.

"But if there was a summoning circle, then the beast could only be unsummoned that way. It cant' take things through its own summoning circle," Ning said. "You either didn't see a summoning circle, or the princess was taken in other ways."

"I know what I saw, teacher," Joann said.

"Tell me exactly what happened," Ning asked.

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"Well, the princess was learning from your book and then suddenly she stood up straight saying that she will reach Rank 2 very soon. But before she could say anything else, a beast arrived, and then a summoning circle took her and the beast away," Joann said.

Ning thought for a moment. "But you didn't see the beast," he asked.

"No," Joann said.

"Did you hear the beast? Smell it or see its feet walk on the bed?" Ning asked.

"No… not really," Joann said. "But what else could it be then?"

"Tell me what you saw exactly," Ning asked.

"Well, what I saw exactly was a summoning circle appearing beneath the princess and her disappearing away," Joann explained.

When put like that, Ning could only think of one thing that happened. But was it possible?

There was one way to find out. "System, was the princess summoned away?" Ning asked.

Ning gave a wry smile. He couldn't believe that the princess had actually been summoned away. But what could a small child like her even do?

Whatever it was, he needed to get her back.

"Your majesty, I think I know what happened," Ning said.

The crowd got silent to hear him.

Ning looked around and said, "I believe the princess was summoned away."

"Summoned away?"

"What nonsense is this?"

"That doesn't even make sense."

"Who would want a small child."

The king looked at him with a look of subdued anger. "Brother Ning, this is not the time to be making jokes. How can a human possibly be summoned?" he asked.

"Why can't a human be summoned?" Ning asked. "Why would a human not be summoned?"

"Who would summon a human?" the king asked.

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"I don't know, but it's certainly not another human," Ning said. "Since you can't bond with someone from your own species, whoever summoned the princess is a beast for sure."

The queen gasped. "Are you certain?" she asked.

"Yes, no doubt," Ning said.

"Please. Please help bring my child back," the queen pleaded.

"Don't worry, I will," Ning said.

He closed his eyes and asked the system where the princess was. When he got the answer, he couldn't help but be a little surprised.

"That's… that's gonna be hard to get to," Ning said softly.

"Can you do it?" the queen asked.

"Don't worry, I'm leaving right now," Ning said and walked out of the room.

The queen quickly followed him out, and reluctantly, the king did so as well. With both the king and the queen walking out, the rest of the people walked out as well.

Ning walked over to the beach, confusing the queen as to why he wasn't leaving already.

"Why aren't you teleporting?" she asked.

"It's not a place I can go to by teleporting," Ning said. At least, he couldn't teleport right now.

"So? What will you do?" the queen asked.

"I will fly there. Don't worry, I will return as soon as I can, but it might take me a few days to do so," Ning said.

"Where are you going?" the queen asked.

Ning was about to answer, but he decided not to. That would only make the queen more scared than she already was.

"The princess is fine for now, but I can't promise she will continue being fine. So, I will leave right now," Ning said. "Wait for me."

Ning looked towards the setting sun to the west and suddenly flew off without telling anyone anything about where he was going.

Each second, he slowly increased his speed until he could feel his body burning with heat. However, that didn't cause him much problem, so he continued flying.

Slowly, the sun got brighter and brighter the more he went west. However, soon he was no longer going west from his perspective, but rather up.

He would have to soon leave the planet Nulwurn. After all, the princess had in fact been summoned away to another planet far away.

Chapter 730

Ning flew towards the sun. He very quickly got out of the atmosphere and his automatic breathing skill activated to provide him with air even while he was out in space.

The moon Sena was showing up from his left so before he went any further, he landed by the moon and looked back at the planet.

The pale, blue planet in the sky barely had any land features one could distinguish the location with.

Each island was incredibly small and thus impossible to tell which island was which. At least through the normal eyes.

Ning sighed and turned back towards the sun. He needed to hurry, but how could he go there quickly?

After a moment of contemplation, he realized that the only way to get there was to teleport once he was out in space.

So, he took off from the moon and flew towards the sun. There was a reason he was making his way towards the sun and it was not to gain momentum.

There were exactly 6 planets in this world's solar system, and 4 of them had been named aside from Nulwurn. While only two of them were actually named as possible planets, the other two were considered bright stars in the sky.

There was only one planet that had not been named at all and there was a reason for that. None of the humans living in Nulwurn knew this planet even existed.

It wouldn't be until a few hundred years before science would advance enough for people to find the existence of this planet.

The princess had been summoned away to this exact planet as well. Ning's objective at the moment was to get to this planet anyhow.

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After flying out towards the sun, generously away from the planet, his teleportation skill kicked in, letting him leave the area without much problem.

Ning looked towards the sun, but his vision darkened instead as the star chart appeared all around him.

He looked at Nulwurn in the star chart. Then he looked at where he was standing, a few thousand kilometers away from Nulwurn.

From there, he looked at the sun at about 200 Million kilometers. Then, directly behind the sun at about another 200 Million Kilometers was the greenish-blue planet he needed to go to.

When the star chart disappeared, Ning imagined the location he had to teleport to, and then he vanished.

About 800 Billion Energy was spent for him to teleport from outside of Nulwurn to here. Even a year ago, Ning would consider it a huge number as it would have taken him nearly 700 days to collect that sort of energy.

However, with a few Quintillion of energy at his side, a few billion was nothing. Besides, he only needed 2 months or so to collect that much energy now.

Ning looked at the giant greenish-blue planet in front of him. Unlike Nulwurn, this planet was about 60% water only, while the rest was land with mostly trees growing everywhere.

Ning immediately flew to the planet at full speed and slowed down only after he had entered the atmosphere.

He didn't go all the way down and hovered in the sky. Even as he did, many birds flew right past him. Ning was a little surprised to see that every single one of those birds was at least Rank 3 in spiritual energy.

But he quickly shook his head. There wasn't any reason to be shocked by something so obvious.

It was obvious for this planet to have a strong beast. It was obvious for this planet to have such thick Spiritual energy.

After all, this was the planet that almost everyone summoned their beasts from.

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"Where's the princess?" Ning asked his system, not wasting any time. Once he got the location, he teleported directly to that side.

When Ning reappeared, he was in the sky above a forest with a massive clearing in the middle. He saw some activity there, so he quickly flew down into the thick trees to see what was happening.

'So many beasts,' he thought at first when he heard the sounds of things hitting each other. However, when he got close to the edge of the forest, Ning's eyes went wide.

'Humans?' he thought with shock. That should have been impossible. Why were there humans here?

As far as the system had told him, Nulwurn was the only planet nearby with human life in it. He had indeed learned that this planet had beasts that were summoned to Nulwurn for various purposes, but there was nothing about humans in those knowledge packs.

'Wait, could they have been summoned here just like Janice?' Ning thought. He didn't even want to think of what was happening to the princess right now. Was she perhaps being made to labor like all of these people who were clearly too fatigued to work at all.

Ning didn't understand what was happening, but he didn't have the time to. Whoever the culprit was for making all of these beasts and humans relentlessly work for them, he needed to find them and set things right.

Without hesitation, he dashed into the open area where all the trees had been cut off.

The humans and beasts saw him and many cried at him about different things, but Ning didn't hear. He was focused on the location about 400 meters ahead where the princess was according to the system.

Ning didn't even pay attention to the surrounding he flew through as he arrived right in front of a massive tree with a giant opening at the base.

There were leaves covering the opening like curtains and Ning walked up to it. However, before he could see inside, he heard the princess's sound.

He quickly parted the leaves and entered inside, hoping the princess was fine, only to be in absolute confusion at what he was seeing.

In front of him, the princess was laughing like this was the most fun she had ever had. And next to her, the one she was having fun with was a big, blue slime monster.

Chapter 731 Slimy"Who?" the slime suddenly turned around, its googly eyes staring at Ning.

"What's… going on?" Ning looked at the two, not sure whether to be angry or confused.

"Teacher? Teacher!" the princess shouted the moment she saw Ning. "Teacher, look, look. I ranked up."

"Huh?" Ning turned to the princess and checked her rank. As he did, his eyes narrowed in surprise. "Rank 3? How?"

"Slimy gave me spiritual energy," the princess said.

"Don't call me slimy. I told you to call me master," the slime said.

"No! You're slimy," the princess said and started laughing on her own.

Ning couldn't process the situation at the moment, so he instead went up to the princess and checked whether something was wrong with her or not.

She was mostly fine, aside from being dirty from playing on the ground. Although, now that Ning properly did check the floor, it was mostly hard-wood that he was standing on. That didn't seem like a place one could get so dirty.

"What's this black smudge on your face?" Ning asked as he wiped some black soot-like substance from her face.

"Huh?" the princess turned to look at Ning's finger. "Oh, it was probably that time I went into that hole."

"That hole? What hole?" Ning asked.

"Hey? Have I seen you before?" the slime suddenly spoke, grabbing Ning's attention.

Ning turned around to pay attention to the slime finally. It was a blob of… slime with a blue core floating in the middle, and everything else like its arm and eyes was a caricature formed by the same slime body.

It was about half a meter at the base and reduced to about a quarter by the time it reached the top, which was also about half a meter tall.

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"What are you staring at? Is this how you look at your master?" the slime suddenly started shouting.

"What?" Ning looked confused. Was there a reason why the slime thought it was his master?

"Hey! Don't call yourself a master. Your name is slimy," the princess said.

The slime couldn't help but groan when he heard that. Ning could understand what that was. Slimy wasn't the best of words to call someone by.

"Was this the beast that summoned you here?" Ning asked the princess.

"Yes! Slimy said that if I helped him get things from the holes, he would help me rank up, so I came," she said.

Ning stared at the slime up and down. He could tell that this was a rather intelligent beast. If he wasn't wrong, this beast most likely even had a soul in it.

He wanted to check how strong a beast with a soul was. So, he then used up his analysis and his eyes went wide at the very first second.

"Rank 9? What the hell?" he exclaimed in surprise. He had never even thought of such a high-rank beast existing and it was this random slime he found on this planet.

Granted it might have some soul and intelligence, but that hadn't helped the people of Nulwurn from getting stronger at all. So what the hell was going on here?

"How do you know my Rank?" the slime asked with a weird look in its eyes as if it were emulating confusion and suspicion. "Rank 8? I have never summoned a human this strong before. I would have remembered."

The slime's voice got colder. "Who are you? And why are you here?" the slime asked.

"I am this little girl's teacher. I am here to get her back. You tell me why you summoned her in the first place?" Ning asked, his voice equally cold as well.

"What? You came here to save her?" the slime looked confused. "How do you know this girl I just created?"

Ning was taken aback. "Created? What do you mean? You summoned her," he said.

"Yeah, I did. That's how I created her. How do you know her? That's what I'm asking," the slime said.

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Ning couldn't understand if the slime was trying to make fun of him or not. "Do you know what summoning is?" he asked.

He chose to assume that the beast was oblivious about what summoning was.

"Of course I do. When I need something, I call for someone to help me. When I do that, they are created to help me," the slime said.

"No!" Ning said. "No one is created to help you. They are summoned to help you from elsewhere."

The slime looked at Ning, not believing him at all. "That's a lie for sure," the slime said. "After all, I've gone around the world and there is not a single human out there. How do you explain all the humans in here came from?" the slime asked.

"From the other planet where the human live," Ning said. "It's a planet that is directly opposite to the sun on the other side of it. This planet and that planet had the same distance and speed in relation to the sun, so you never end up seeing each other."

The slime looked at him dumbly. "No way, is there really a planet out there with humans?" the slime asked.

"Yes, now unsummon her right now," Ning said.

The slime looked towards the princess but didn't unsummon her immediately. It wanted to learn more.

"What about all these people I've summoned to help me outside? Are they from that planet too?" the slime asked.

"Yes, absolutely," Ning said. Just then a thought came to him that he hadn't thought for a while now, but seemed to ominously fit together.

"When did you start summoning these humans?" Ning asked.

The slime thought for a bit. "About 2 years ago or something like that," it said. "That was around the time I started to think of settling down."

"And how many have you summoned until now?" Ning asked.

The slime thought for a bit and said, "1342 humans."

"I thought so," Ning thought as he sighed. He was starting to realize the answer behind the mystery that had been there since he had come to Nulwurn.

He had realized the answer to the quest. He had found the missing people that were vanishing from all around the world.

Chapter 732 Reason for SummoningThere was a troubling problem going around in the world in Nulwurn. Before Ning had even come here, there were people already missing everywhere.

Each Summoning Circle Ning had gone to, there was a global quest in it that mentioned something about missing people and needing help finding them.

Ning hadn't bothered with it since people that did disappear were mostly from the other side of the planet which he hadn't gone to and had simply assumed that those that were missing were on that side.

So, no matter how urgent the quest looked, he had never taken it.

However, now he was coming to realize that it wasn't something that was happening because of a random group of people kidnapping people, but rather this slime monster that was summoning them for something.

Ning sighed. "These… these people have been away from their family and loved ones for nearly two years. Do you know how much trouble you've caused them?" he asked.

The slime's hands moved to grab its head in worry. "I… I didn't know that. I… I thought I was creating humans," the slime said.

"You summoned 1340 people and did none of them ever tell you that they had families? Or that they wanted to go back?" Ning asked.

"Well, I… I didn't talk to them at all," the slime said. "I summoned them for the help I needed and then… I never saw them again. Oh god, I should return them, shouldn't I?"

"Yes," Ning said. "Do it quickly."

Ning turned towards the princess and said, "Listen, tell your mother you are fine and that I am fine too. I will see you later okay?"

"No, I don't want to go. Slimy makes me so strong. I want to get stronger," the princess said.

"But your parents are worried. The entire country is worried because you are missing. Joann is getting punished because you disappeared. Do you want that to keep happening?" Ning asked.

"N-no," the princess said softly. "But I want to see slimy."

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Ning sighed. "Go home first. Slimy can call you again if he needs you," he said.

"Oh, okay," the princess said after realizing that she could come back whenever she wanted. "Slimy, send me home."

"Yes, yes, not just you, I need to send everyone home," the slime said. The slime's 'fingers' moved for a bit and a summoning circle appeared below the princess's feet.

Ning read the circle and couldn't believe that she was Rank 3 so easily. She could've probably grown to a higher level if the slime had given her more.

The princess waved her hands in goodbye and the slime did so too. Once she was gone, Ning finally turned to look at the slime.

"All humans are gone," the slime said. "Do you think I should let go of the beasts too?"

"Did you summon them too?" Ning asked.

"Well… not exactly, I guess," the slime said. "I met them and after meeting them I tamed them. Sometimes I tamed a single beast, sometimes it was a whole pack of beasts."

"So none of them were actually teleported here from someplace else?" Ning asked.

"No, every beast was someone I found while roaming around the world," the slime said.

"Hmm… I guess its fine then," Ning said. "You don't have to worry about it. Although, what exactly were you planning to do with so many beasts?"

"Uhh… nothing?" the slime said. "I just kept roaming around the world and they either tried to attack me or told me I was great because of my high rank. Either way, the result was they wanted to be my subordinates and so I tamed them."

"Did a summoning circle form beneath them when you tamed them?" Ning asked.

"Yes," the slime said. "So, I don't need to let go of them right?"

"I don't think you do," Ning said. "Although what do you plan by keeping them? You have them now so you need to do right by them."

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"I know, I know," the slime said. "That's why I had to create, I mean summon humans in the first place."

"Oh, why is that?" Ning asked. Now that he thought about it, he still didn't really know why the princess exactly was summoned here.

"It's the things outside. I needed them to build those," the slime said.

"Outside?" Ning turned around to look at the leaf curtain that was blocking the view outside. He remembered seeing a giant opening with the trees cut down.

There were humans working there as well as beasts, but aside from that… what was there exactly again?

He was in such a rush that he had basically flown straight to this hollow tree where the princess was and hadn't even seen what was outside.

He walked up to the curtain and pushed it aside to walk outside.

It was afternoon here on the planet, so it was very bright outside. The first thing Ning saw after coming out was the giant opening he remembered.

Only it was much larger now that he was carefully inspecting it. It was enough to house a small village here.

He ignored the confused beast who much have been troubled because the humans had randomly disappeared around them.

Instead, he looked at the things they were building. Those structures… were those… houses?

"You're building houses here?" Ning asked.

"Yes," the slime said. "At first I didn't care for the beasts that were under me as they were all able to protect themselves, but as the group got bigger and families joined in, I realized that I needed to take care of their shelter."

"I tried having them build it, but… the beasts weren't… what's the word… sophisticated enough to build it, and… I guess I didn't know how to build it exactly."

"So, I started summoning humans to design it and later more to help build all of these houses," the slime said.

Ning nearly slapped his own face in frustration when he heard that. He remembered the multiple callings to help build houses back when he was in the arena.

That was this slime as well.

Chapter 733 The Slime's Story"So, the one asking people to come help build houses… that was you too, huh?" Ning asked. "I can see you didn't have any bad intentions, so I'll let it slide."

"O-of course," the slime said. "I'm not a bad slime."

"That you are not," Ning said and started walking. The slime walked behind him.

Well, 'walk' wasn't exactly correct. The slime waddled along the floor as its body continuously spun like a wheel to move forward.

It was already surprising to Ning that it was even able to keep its 'face' in the front even when it was constantly moving.

Ning walked around, looking at the unfinished projects. The beasts and humans had been living together, building houses for nearly 2 years now from what the slime had told him.

There were some houses that had already been built, but most of these places seemed new.

"Why are there so many new houses?" Ning asked.

"Oh, that… actually when I first summoned humans, I didn't account for them in the numbers to have houses for so I needed to make more."

"To help in that, I summoned more humans and I needed more houses, so I summoned more humans, and so on and so on. Before I knew it I had about 3 thousand total subordinates, all of who needed houses and I had to help them build them."

Ning sighed. Despite being a Rank 9 beast, the slime was actually quite dumb.

Speaking of which… "How old are you?" Ning asked.

"Me? Hmm… let's see. 3 years," the slime said.

Ning stopped. "Wait, what? 3 years? Are you sure you're not counting wrong?" he asked.

"No, no. It has been… about 1100 days since I was born in this world," the slime said.

"In… in this world?" Ning looked towards the slime. "Do you know about other worlds?"

"Uhh…" the slime realized it had said something that it shouldn't have said. "Umm…"

"Did you reincarnate?" Ning asked.

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"What? No, nonsense. Wh-wh-who even asks this sort of question?" the slime spoke up.

Ning smiled. "Then how did you get to Rank 9 in just 3 years?" he asked.

"I… I…" the slime was unable to answer at all.

Ning used his Omni-analysis on the slime. Instantly, he received information on everything the slime was, had, or ever done.

"Oh, a system huh? Quite impressive," Ning said.

"Wha-what? How do you know that? Who are you?" The slime started getting suspicious.

"Don't worry. I am similar to you too," Ning said. "I have a system too, just like you. And I was reincarnated as well."

The slime got a little less defensive. "Really?" it asked.

"Yes," Ning said. "I died because a zebra kicked me. What about you?"

"Wait, a zebra kicked you?" the slime snickered. "Really?"

"Don't laugh. They are surprisingly deadly creatures that you should be careful around. I had only been in the zoo for a few months, so I kinda screwed up. Well, I don't think there was my fault there."

"Wait, a zoo? Not even in open ground or in the jungle when hunting? You died in a zoo?" the slime started laughing.

Ning was a little angry, but at least the slime was getting a little less defensive.

"So, how did you die?" Ning asked.

"I…" the slime got silent.

Ning looked at it to see why it was hesitating when he realize the slime was quite sad.

"Something wrong? You don't have to tell me if it's a troubling memory," Ning said.

The slime put on a tragic smile. "My father… he used to be rich, very rich," the slime said. "But then he died in a car accident and the inheritance was left to be divided amongst my stepmother, my stepbrother, and me."

"I… I guess you can see where I'm going with this," the slice said.

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"They killed you?" Ning asked.

"Well, my step-brother did. But I suppose my stepmother was in on this too. Well, why wouldn't she be? She would get a million Firozes too after that," the slime said.

"I'm sorry," Ning said.

"No, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have laughed at you. In a way, you were much luckier than me. You didn't have to see the dark side of your family," the slime said.

Ning sighed. He wouldn't have been able to even if he wanted to.

"Let's forget about this sad stuff. Now tell me, how many houses do you want exactly? I will help you make them," Ning said.

"Really?" the slime asked. It looked around hurriedly, trying to figure out how many houses he needed.

"Well, I have about 1700 beasts, so I will need about 80 buildings that can house 20 or so beasts each," the slime said.

"80?" Ning didn't know what to say. There were already houses built, so maybe he needed some less.

'System, check the resources here and give me an estimated data on if we can fit all 1700 of this slime's subordinates in houses that can be built from those resources,' Ning asked.

The system analyzed for a second and returned with an answer.

"Ooh, nice," Ning thought. Then he turned back to the beast.

"I can make 42 houses that should be able to fit them all. They would be more like shelters than exact houses, but the beast won't mind, right?" he asked.

"Of course not. Anything is better than nothing," the slime said.

"What about you? Do you want me to make you a separate house or do you want to continue living in that old tree?" Ning asked.

The slime looked at the tree, then the beasts, then finally toward Ning.

"I… I don't know if I want to live here at all now," the slime said.

"Huh?" Ning gave him a confused face.

"I… I want to go live with the humans."

Chapter 734 Fly Away"You want to come with me back to the other planet?" Ning asked the slime.

The slime was clearly contemplating its words as its face was scrunched up in thoughts and didn't even look towards Ning at all.

When it was finally done thinking, it looked around the field towards the many beasts that were working, as per its orders.

"The beasts have treated me well. Great even. I love them very much and do care for them a lot. However, they don't give me what I want. Intelligent conversations."

"They are intelligent in their own right, but their servitude towards me stops them from being overly familiar and speaking their minds around me, even if they were intelligent enough."

"As far as I know, the only beasts intelligent enough to properly converse are usually too high ranked and too pompous to try and talk with seemingly weaker beasts like me," the slime said.

Ning understood what the slime was saying to a certain extent. It was bad enough to be alone, but when you did find a company, and you didn't even get to talk with the other person, it just sucked.

"If only I knew the humans were actual humans with actual lives. I would have tried to talk to them," the slime sighed. "Alas, I thought they were something my system created out of nothing and didn't even engage with them."

"So are you certain?" Ning asked again. "Do you really want to leave?"

The slime sighed and nodded. "Yes, I do want to leave. Please go back to the planet and summon me. I will accept any sort of deal you have for me," the beast said.

Ning looked at the slime with a weird grin on his face. He then turned towards the beasts that were out in the open and asked.

"What about those beasts? Do you not want to bring them back with you?" Ning asked.

"I… what?" the slime turned toward Ning. "How can I bring them back with me? Can I summon beasts that I have already bonded with?"

"No, that's not possible," Ning said. "But I wasn't suggesting you to summon them over there. Rather, I am not even going to you there myself."

"Ho-how?" the slime asked.

"We are going to fly there," Ning said. "Easy, right?"

"Fly?" the slime turned to look at the sky. "How will we breathe?"

"We're not going to fly just like this of course. We are going to use a spaceship," Ning said. "You ever rode on a spaceship before?"

"Spaceships? Ships that sail in space? I've never even heard of one before, let alone experienced it," the slime said.

"How advanced was your world?" Ning asked. "What was the latest discovery that was surprising everyone?"

"Latest discovery… let's see," the slime thought. "Oh right, there was this one guy that used some sort of glass to put lightning through and create light that would shine even at night."

"Oh, you only just created a bulb huh? That's not as advanced as I had assumed your world to be," Ning said. "Although, the planet we are going to go to is even less developed than that."

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"Well, as long as the humans are smart enough, I don't really mind if they haven't even created the wheel yet," the slime said.

Ning nodded. "So, to reiterate, I have a spaceship that I will fly you back to that planet. However, I can't fit way too many beasts in there," he said.

"How many?" the slime asked.

"About 200 at most. That too will cram the spaceship quite a bit," he said.

"What about the rest? I will have to leave behind nearly 1500, won't I?" the slime asked.

Ning shrugged. "I'm sorry. I don't have much cho—" he paused. "Stupid!" he called himself. "I'm so goddamn stupid."

"Huh? What's going on?" the slime asked.

"Nothing, sorry. Just one of the times when my brain stops working," Ning said. "Anyway. You don't have to worry about choosing only 200, we can bring all the beasts back with us."

"We can? Okay, that's good. But is your spaceship big enough to fit them all? I thought you said it was only about 200 beasts that could fit here," the slime asked.

"Yes, it still can only fit 200 beasts. That hasn't changed. What I realized is that we can just do multiple trips," Ning said.

"Huh? Multiple trips? You can do that? I thought this other planet was far away, right? Didn't you say it was on the other side of the sun?" the slime asked.

"Yes, don't worry about that. I have a way to fix that. Go tell your beasts to get ready. We'll be leaving in just a few minutes. Meanwhile, I think I have a job to do," Ning said.

The slime nodded and gathered the many beasts that it had managed to tame and started explaining things that were happening to them.

"I am going to leave with that man to a new world. I don't know how well this world treats beasts like us, but I can promise you I will take care of you."

"Still, those of you who want to stay behind, I will allow it. Choose," the slime said.

The many beasts turned to look at each other, and almost unanimously shouted that they wanted to join the slime on his adventure to a new world.

While the slime was busy gathering his beasts, Ning was busy gathering all the wood that the beasts had cut up until now, including the half-built houses.

Ning decided to let the houses that were already built continue to be. It took him about 15 minutes to roam the entire cleared forest, looking for logs and woods that he would have to use to build houses for these beasts later on the other planet.

Once everything was ready, Ning arrived next to the slime and saw the first 200 beasts it had separated to take back.

"This is it?" Ning asked while looking at the beasts. He realized that most of these beasts were weaker beasts and children of the beasts.

A few of them were strong, but most of them were the bad batch of his group, clearly.

"I'm starting with the weaker ones. I don't know how long it will take, but I can't leave them here in case another beast comes in the meantime and attacks them," the slime said. "Sabron here will keep the rest of my people safe while I am away."

Ning turned to look at the blue lizard the slime had pointed to and was a bit surprised to see that it was a Rank 7 beast. There were actually 4 different ranks 7 beasts, but the lizard was most likely the strongest one of them.

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"Alright, let's get them on board then," Ning said as he gestured to the open area and suddenly a massive spaceship appeared out of nowhere.

The smooth, silver ship with many metallic arms coming out from the lower section surprised the slime.

"That's a spaceship?" the slime was in full-on awe. It had probably never seen this much metal in one place. Not even in forgeries back in his home world.

A door appeared at the bottom of the ship that opened up to form stairs that led to the ship.

Ning stood by the door as the many beasts slowly approached under their master's command.

Those that had legs or could fly easily climbed into the spaceship, while those that crawled or weren't big enough to climb were aided by Ning's telekinesis to get in.

After all the 200 beasts had entered the ship, Ning started checking on them to make sure they weren't cramped or were going to places they weren't supposed to go to.

"Do not touch anything here," Ning told the beasts in a language that he didn't even know he was speaking.

The beasts were surprised to hear him speak their language and acknowledged his suggestion.

They would not touch anything unless they were told to.

Ning went to the front of the ship and make sure everything was okay and that it wasn't too heavy to fly.

The system stats didn't show any problem at all, so he turned to the slime and said, "it's ready to go. You can tell your beasts to wait for a while. It should be quick, but still," Ning said.

The slime quickly got out of the spaceship and explained the situation to the beasts who easily agreed to wait for the slime to come back.

With all their 4 great generals still with them, the beasts weren't worried much. Besides, they knew how much their master cared for them.

"Alright, get ready. I have never done this before, so it might end up being a bumpy ride," Ning said.

"What? You've never done this before?" the slime suddenly turned toward Ning.

"Nah," Ning said with a smile. "That's where the fun part comes from though."

"Dear God save me," the slime softly spoke to itself.

Ning looked over the dashboard and started tapping on things to get the ship going.

He hit a button and the thrusters on the 14 different arms simultaneously activated to slowly tilt the spaceship upwards.

At the same time, an artificial gravity system was activated to keep the people inside from sliding down.

The frozen hydrogen in the fuel chamber slowly started to thaw and turn back to gas, which the nuclear drive forced to go through nuclear fusion, creating a lot of heat and energy that was used to power the main thrusters at the back of the spaceship.

Once enough energy was produced, the spaceship lift off.

Chapter 735 DepartureNing felt the inertia push him back as the ship lifted off even when artificial gravity was one.

The fourteen different arms also simultaneously turned on their thrusters and the spaceship was propelled into outer space with such speed that Ning was left stunned.

In less than 5 seconds, they were out of the atmosphere, where the ship automatically stopped.

"Please plot a course," the ship's AI spoke in a language no one but Ning understood. The slime looked at the screen and saw unfamiliar words on there too.

"What's going on?" the slime asked.

Ning tapped a few buttons and suddenly the screen in front of the ship that was covered during the initial launch out of the planet opened up to give a view of… nothing.

The slime slowly flew out of its seat, surprising Ning a bit, and went to the front glass to look into nothingness.

Of course, it felt like there was nothing there, but when the slime truly looked beyond, it could see everything.

"Look at those stars, they look so bright," it said with a certain tone of surprise and amusement.

"Want to see the planet?" Ning asked.

"I can?" the slime asked.

Ning smiled and had the arms of the ship slowly turn the ship around, during which the slime also saw the sun.

"What the hell? Why is the sun so white?" the slime asked in confusion.

"The sun is white, you just don't see it due to the atmosphere and stuff. I'll explain later," Ning said as the ship finally turned back towards the planet.

The green and blue gem were finally visible to the slime as it looked at the behemoth of a celestial body.

This plant had no moon, and fortunately not much cloud on this particular day, so the slime got a very clear view of everything.

"This is where I have been living for the last 3 years?" the slime was in awe. It took at the whole thing, while only seeing half of it.

"Can we go to the back and see more?" it asked.

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"Later," Ning said. "Don't you want to take these beasts to the other planet and come back for the rest?"

"Oh, yeah. We should do that first," the slime said and reluctantly left the window to go back and buckle up.

Ning turned the ship around and set up the course.

"Course plotted for planet Q4-S3-C23-G3-17C."

"Strengthening outer hall."

"Initiating Space Drive."

"Space Drive not available."

"Space Jump not available."

"Initiating Light Emission."

"Checking all systems."

"All systems except Space Drive are functional."

"ZSS-Unity III is ready to leave."

"GO!" Ning said as he pressed a button on the dashboard. At that very moment, the propulsion system activated to the fullest and the ship moved.

The moment the ship moved, Ning could tell it was something special. It zipped at a speed he didn't think was possible. He quickly switched his body to the entire ship and looked around.

What he saw shocked him. the speed was so fast that the planet they had just left behind was nothing more than a small blue and green marble in the distance.

At the speed they were going, it wouldn't take more than 20 minutes to reach the sun. Meaning, that in under an hour, they would arrive on the other planet.

'What sort of speed is this? Just how fast are we going?' Ning wondered.

"Woah, that is so fast," Ning thought to himself. He could likely reach a higher speed now if he had the time and was willing to spend all the energy he had, but this speed was achieved by just fusing hydrogen.

Hydrogen? Ning could create that with a fraction of the energy he gathered every day, and somehow this ship was using exactly that to travel a distance that would require months of energy for him.

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In fact, from the very start, before he even brought the ship out, he had been planning to switch body with the ship and teleport it back to Nulwurn.

However, now that he was moving, he didn't feel the need to. At least, he didn't need to spend 2-3 months' worth of energy just to bring these beasts to the other planet.

He returned back to his body and heard the slime murmur to himself how he was most likely dreaming at the moment.

"Are we going to die?" the slime asked Ning suddenly.

"No? Why do you think that?" he asked.

"We… won't we get burned? We're going directly towards the sun after all," the slime said.

"Oh, we're not going to the sun, but close to it. The ship will fly around the sun at a distance where the hit won't affect its performance. Then, we'll use its gravity to curve the ship's path and go towards Nulwurn," Ning said.

"Nulwurn?" the slime looked at him with a confused face.

"Ah, it's the planet's name. Did I not mention it before?" Ning asked.

"I don't know. I'm having a hard time remembering everything you are telling me," the slime said as it looked around. "Everything is so overwhelming."

"I see," Ning said and pressed a button on the dashboard. Metal sheets moved up front to block the windows of the spaceship.

Then, he checked something. "Okay, so we have about 50 minutes before we reach Nulwurn. If you are getting overwhelmed, then let me help you understand where you are being overwhelmed."

"Although, I hope you will answer some questions of mine too that I'm curious about," Ning asked.

"What sort of questions?" the slime asked.

"First of all, what was your planet called?" Ning asked. "The one you lived in before."

"Faelon," the slime answered without hesitation

"I see," Ning nodded and quickly checked with the system to find that this young man had actually died in the milky way galaxy as well.

"Then can you tell me the name of your system?" Ning asked.

"Sure," the slime said. "It's called the Beast-Taming system,"

Chapter 736 Arrival

As the planet got closer and closer, the blue marble became exceedingly vibrant.

The slime was already floating close to the window as it looked out into space.

"What is that?" it asked, pointing towards the planet with its translucent blue hands.

"That? That is a moon," Ning explained. "Did your planet not have moons?"

"No," the slime said. "Ours did have a massive ring going around the planet though. I didn't see it in the last planet, and now this planet has rings. Are all planets like this?"

"Sort of," Ning explained. "Some have nothing. Some have satellites, some have rings. Some are even made up of entirely gas. There are probably way more that I don't even know about."

As the planet got closer, the slime could see all the blue in it and was surprised at how much water was on this planet.

As the spaceship entered the planet's atmosphere, it slowed down heavily as the thrusters immediately started doing their job.

At the same time, Ning quickly spoke with the system to figure out where they could land so the beasts could live on their own.

After a bit of discussion, Ning chose a place that was a bit further away from human civilization, but close enough that the Slime could sail there on a ship if it ever wanted to.

The location was a few hundred kilometers away from the Darius kingdom to the southwest.

Ning tapped a few things around the dashboard and the ship's AI spoke up.

"Activating Camouflage."

"What did it say?" the slime asked.

"I'm making the ship invisible," Ning said while focusing on the ship's dashboard. He had to tell the ship where it had to land.

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Once the information was given, the ship's AI would slowly hover the ship down to the island where the beasts would get off and they would return back to get more beasts.

Ning sat back at the ship drifted through the clouds and the slime was with absolute disbelief.

The first time around, the ship had left the atmosphere too quickly, so the slime had seen nothing. But now, as it slowly drifted down, when the clouds parted, the slime saw the most magnificent sight it had seen it all of its life.

The massive planet with lands so tiny got bigger and bigger as the land itself covered the entire view.

The island they were to land on was soon visible and Ning told the slime which it was.

Surrounded by a few islands off to the side, the island they were going to land on was an island with a rainforest, elevated by a few mountains in it.

Ning watched the ship scan the island to land, but there was no empty space for it.

In an instant, Ning teleported down to the ground and asked the system to scan for life around. He used a special frequency of sound to scare away all beasts from the area.

Then, he kicked the ground horizontally.

The sweeping kick resulted in an Air cutter forming from his feet that cut most of the trees from the very root.

Once the trees started toppling, Ning used his telekinesis to push all the trees away, and suddenly, there was a place for the ship to land.

The hanger doors opened and the beasts started pouring out one by one. The slime came out as it looked around the place with enthusiastic eyes.

Then, it walked over to Ning and said, "Your system is quite good, huh? You cleared this place so easily."

"I'm sure you could do this too," Ning said.

The slime shrugged, not bothering to argue on that topic.

"Keep looking around. Have your beasts get used to the surrounding. The sun should be setting any time now, so our next few trips will have to be during nighttime here," Ning said.

"Oh, I didn't realize it was close to evening time already," the slime said as it looked at the sky that was slowly turning from blue to purple.

"Do what you have to for a few minutes, okay? I'll return soon," Ning said and disappeared.

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He arrived back in the streets of the Darius kingdom. Since it was nighttime now, no one noticed him when he popped up in the streets out of nowhere. Not just that, it was also raining, so not many were in the streets, to begin with.

Ning quickly made his way to the palace and was allowed entry.

Then, he went to see the princess and found that she was with her parents.

"Teacher! You're back," the princess said the moment she saw him.

"Oh, did you get back here fine? Did you have any problem?" Ning asked.

The princess shook her head. "I was back in my room the moment the slime unsummoned me, teacher," she said.

"What is she talking about?" the king asked. "She keeps saying she was summoned by a slime to make houses? What sort of nonsense did she go through?"

Ning sighed. "Do you remember the missing person report that was popping throughout the world?" he asked.

When the two royals nodded, Ning explained that it was because of the slime that had summoned the princess.

Ning explained that the slime didn't have any particular bad intentions, but the parents of the kidnapped princess were reluctant to believe that.

"Teacher, where is slimy?" the princess asked.

"He's near, why?" Ning asked.

"Can I go see him now?" she asked.

"You want to see this slime?" the king asked angrily.

"Yes," the princess said. "I only came back because Teacher said you were worried about me. Now that you know that you don't have to be worried, can I go"

"No!" the queen said without hesitation. She did not like the idea of her daughter going to visit a beast that she knew nothing about.

"But he's a good beast, and I like playing with him," the princess protested.

"How about this, princess," Ning spoke. "Slimy is a little busy today, so I will bring him to visit you tomorrow, okay?"

Once the princess finally agreed, Ning returned back to the slime and got back on the spaceship.

He helped the beasts settle down a bit and then soon boarded the spaceship with the slime to leave.

With a few instructions to the ship's AI, they drifted off into space.

The ship flew up at a speed that was blazing fast. The ship automatically passed by Sena and flew straight towards the sun again.

With the sun's light directly on them, Ning closed off the front shields again. Then, all he could do was talk with the slime for the next 50 or so minutes of the journey.

The slime was curious about Ning's system, so Ning explained it to him in the most basic way possible, while keeping away the ideas that would make the slime think it was overpowered.

They talked about each other's past lives, which Ning had many to choose from as he had been to the various planets.

He still chose to talk about earth, as no matter where he went, he still compared everything to earth in his mind.

There was a time when he couldn't do that after forgetting about Earth, but now that those memories were perfect in his mind, he always compared everything to earth.

If anything wasn't as developed as Earth, he considered it not modern. If anything was more developed than Earth, he considered it futuristic.

As the two of them kept on talking, they were disturbed by a notification that the ship's AI quickly informed them about.

"You have a message from FRS Icefall. Would you like to view it?" the AI spoke.

FRS? Ning was a little confused about what it was. "Open it," he asked.

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Suddenly, the window they were viewing the outside with, which was currently closed, suddenly acted as a viewing screen. A video popped up on it and started playing.

"This is Captain Gerrbax of the FRS Icefall. We have received your message for assistance. We are plotting our course for planet Q4-S3-C23-G3-17C."

The video was from a ship's control room where the man who called himself captain Gerrbax sat in the center of the room.

He wore a green and black shirt, with emblems on his clothes that Ning just couldn't quite make sense of.

There were two people off to the side, working on a bunch of panels in the side. A few people walked by behind him in red shirts, but their faces were too blurry to get a good look at.

"Estimated time of arrival is 10 years. Please go into cryo-sleep until then if you can. If you can't, try to survive on your own. We will definitely rescue you," the captain said.

Ning looked at the captain again closely. He was definitely a human from what he could see. The man had dark skin, long black hair, slightly brown eyes, and even a bit of stubble on his chin.

However, Ning couldn't ignore the tail that was moving behind the captain at all. That was perhaps the most distracting thing in the whole video.

"That man has a tail. Weird," the slime said from the side.

"And you are slime. I don't think you get to judge here," Ning said.

"Hey, I… dammit," the slime frowned a bit, making Ning laugh.

"Captain Gerrbax of FRS Icefall out."

The video ended and the screen from the window disappeared at once.

"What was that?" the slime asked. "What did that man say?"

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Ning shook his head. "It's just something for me. Nothing you have to worry about," he said.

'10 years huh?' Ning thought. He didn't think it would take them this long to arrive. But when he thought about it, even with the ship Ning had at the moment, it would take him nearly 7 years to reach the closest star system in this galaxy.

The rescue ship arriving in just 10 years meant they were likely going to use up a lot of space drive to get to him.

Ning wondered how big of a stone they must have been using to get to him. He couldn't help but feel a bit guilty too.

'Whatever,' he thought. 'I need to get back to Kumia as soon as I can,' he thought.

Ning told the system to keep track of the time for him and quickly forgot about the rescue mission that was put underway for him.

The slime asked a few questions, but Ning sidestepped them, not telling it what was going on. He didn't think it was a good idea to strip the slime away from a planet that it was so suited to live in and take it someplace that was clearly not intended by the creator that made this system.

Without Spiritual energy, the slime could likely not be of much use in the other worlds, so it was better to keep this bit of information from it.

Ning did however have the system pass on that message to Taron, who was doing his own thing in the part of the world that cared more about summoning.

Since Ning only had 10 years left on this planet now, he decided to speed up his journey and go visit the other places as soon as he could.

Half an hour after the video was received, Ning and the slime arrived back on this nameless planet and flew down to the surface where they met up with the 1500 beasts.

It had been 2 hours since they had left, so the sun was about a few hours away from setting. By the time they returned next, the sun would very much likely be setting, and the next time after that, it would be completely dark.

The slime had the next 200 beasts line up and quickly board the ship. Ning told them the same thing he had to the other beasts to not go anywhere or touch anything.

Once they were all settled down, Ning sat back on the seat at the front and plotted back the course again.

A few seconds later, the ship was flying and on its way back to planet Nulwurn again.

Chapter 738 MessageOnce the princess finally agreed, Ning returned back to the slime and got back on the spaceship.

He helped the beasts settle down a bit and then soon boarded the spaceship with the slime to leave.

With a few instructions to the ship's AI, they drifted off into space.

The ship flew up at a speed that was blazing fast. The ship automatically passed by Sena and flew straight towards the sun again.

With the sun's light directly on them, Ning closed off the front shields again. Then, all he could do was talk with the slime for the next 50 or so minutes of the journey.

The slime was curious about Ning's system, so Ning explained it to him in the most basic way possible, while keeping away the ideas that would make the slime think it was overpowered.

They talked about each other's past lives, which Ning had many to choose from as he had been to the various planets.

He still chose to talk about earth, as no matter where he went, he still compared everything to earth in his mind.

There was a time when he couldn't do that after forgetting about Earth, but now that those memories were perfect in his mind, he always compared everything to earth.

If anything wasn't as developed as Earth, he considered it not modern. If anything was more developed than Earth, he considered it futuristic.

As the two of them kept on talking, they were disturbed by a notification that the ship's AI quickly informed them about.

"You have a message from FRS Icefall. Would you like to view it?" the AI spoke.

FRS? Ning was a little confused about what it was. "Open it," he asked.

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Suddenly, the window they were viewing the outside with, which was currently closed, suddenly acted as a viewing screen. A video popped up on it and started playing.

"This is Captain Gerrbax of the FRS Icefall. We have received your message for assistance. We are plotting our course for planet Q4-S3-C23-G3-17C."

The video was from a ship's control room where the man who called himself captain Gerrbax sat in the center of the room.

He wore a green and black shirt, with emblems on his clothes that Ning just couldn't quite make sense of.

There were two people off to the side, working on a bunch of panels in the side. A few people walked by behind him in red shirts, but their faces were too blurry to get a good look at.

"Estimated time of arrival is 10 years. Please go into cryo-sleep until then if you can. If you can't, try to survive on your own. We will definitely rescue you," the captain said.

Ning looked at the captain again closely. He was definitely a human from what he could see. The man had dark skin, long black hair, slightly brown eyes, and even a bit of stubble on his chin.

However, Ning couldn't ignore the tail that was moving behind the captain at all. That was perhaps the most distracting thing in the whole video.

"That man has a tail. Weird," the slime said from the side.

"And you are slime. I don't think you get to judge here," Ning said.

"Hey, I… dammit," the slime frowned a bit, making Ning laugh.

"Captain Gerrbax of FRS Icefall out."

The video ended and the screen from the window disappeared at once.

"What was that?" the slime asked. "What did that man say?"

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Ning shook his head. "It's just something for me. Nothing you have to worry about," he said.

'10 years huh?' Ning thought. He didn't think it would take them this long to arrive. But when he thought about it, even with the ship Ning had at the moment, it would take him nearly 7 years to reach the closest star system in this galaxy.

The rescue ship arriving in just 10 years meant they were likely going to use up a lot of space drive to get to him.

Ning wondered how big of a stone they must have been using to get to him. He couldn't help but feel a bit guilty too.

'Whatever,' he thought. 'I need to get back to Kumia as soon as I can,' he thought.

Ning told the system to keep track of the time for him and quickly forgot about the rescue mission that was put underway for him.

The slime asked a few questions, but Ning sidestepped them, not telling it what was going on. He didn't think it was a good idea to strip the slime away from a planet that it was so suited to live in and take it someplace that was clearly not intended by the creator that made this system.

Without Spiritual energy, the slime could likely not be of much use in the other worlds, so it was better to keep this bit of information from it.

Ning did however have the system pass on that message to Taron, who was doing his own thing in the part of the world that cared more about summoning.

Since Ning only had 10 years left on this planet now, he decided to speed up his journey and go visit the other places as soon as he could.

Half an hour after the video was received, Ning and the slime arrived back on this nameless planet and flew down to the surface where they met up with the 1500 beasts.

It had been 2 hours since they had left, so the sun was about a few hours away from setting. By the time they returned next, the sun would very much likely be setting, and the next time after that, it would be completely dark.

The slime had the next 200 beasts line up and quickly board the ship. Ning told them the same thing he had to the other beasts to not go anywhere or touch anything.

Once they were all settled down, Ning sat back on the seat at the front and plotted back the course again.

A few seconds later, the ship was flying and on its way back to planet Nulwurn again.

Chapter 739 Bad and Good NewsAfter a couple of trips, Ning and the slime managed to bring back all of the beasts to Nulwurn.

By the time they were done, the sun was halfway into the sky. Ning couldn't help but sigh at the amount of time it had taken him.

Of course, the job wasn't done yet.

After all the beasts had arrived, he now had to help them build some houses and other facilities for them.

Food and water weren't scarce as they were in a rainforest, but the atmosphere was very humid and some of these beasts desperately needed shelter or they couldn't live here at all.

So, Ning used the lumber he had gathered in the other planet and had the system build houses using them.

To his surprise, building these houses took him half the energy it had taken him to teleport to the other side of the sun.

By the time he was done with it, it was full noon.

The slime looked at the open area with a lot of buildings and couldn't help but feel a little emotional. It had been his dream to find housing for these beasts for nearly 2 years, and finally, it had been fulfilled.

"Thank you, brother," the slime spoke up.

"You don't need to thank me," Ning said. "I just helped because I like helping."

Ning let the beasts be by themselves so that they could adapt to these surroundings. At the same time, the slime decided to go around the island, trying to befriend the monsters whose homes they had invaded and destroyed.

He hoped he could even tame them and get them to live with them.

Ning returned back to Arena only to find that it was late afternoon. He had already eaten on the ship, so he wasn't sure what he was even doing in the cafeteria.

He spoke to the system and asked it to find Saphandra. To his surprise, she was fighting against the beasts in the stage today.

It seemed, that the boss had decided to make her the next fighter in the Man Vs Beast fight.

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Ning was watching her fight a lioness beast from high in the arena when he felt a tap on his shoulder.

He turned around to find that it was one of the staff. "Yes?" he asked.

"The boss wanted me to give this to you," the staff said and handed him a piece of paper.

Ning looked even higher in the arena towards the tower at the side where the boss was watching the fight. He saw Ning look toward him and waved his hands in greeting.

Ning gave a small smile and waved back before opening the paper to see what it was.

"Oh, my earnings from yesterday," Ning said out loud in surprise. He had completely forgotten about it.

"14 thousand huh?" he thought. That was a lot, but not as much as he had expected at the same time.

'Well, it's an easier way to earn than teaching the princess,' Ning thought when suddenly his face went blank when he realized something.

The princess was now a Rank 3 summoner. Meaning, that his quest from the summoning circle to have the princess do a Rank 2 summoning was just a moment away.

'So soon,' he thought, not knowing what else to think. He had hated the idea of teaching a little kid about summoning, but now he was quite attached to her.

He couldn't think of not teaching her anymore. At least, not without having a sour feeling grow in his heart.

He sighed. 'I'm surprised I haven't gotten used to this by now,' he thought. Having left so many people behind, it was truly a surprise that he could still feel bad when he thought of farewells.

"Well, this isn't a true farewell," he said to himself. "Not yet at least."

10 years from now would be his true farewell. A time when he would have to leave for real. At that time, he would have to say goodbye for one last time… again.

Ning remembered his close friends and acquaintances from Vilmore. It was very much likely that they had all died by now given how much time had passed.

He remembered Genesis, a planet he had left behind not long ago. But it was two galaxies away from here now, in the other direction from where he was going.

He didn't even know if he would make it back there before the people he left behind there were already dead.

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Ning waited for the fight below to be over before going to find Saphandra.

She had just finished talking to the boss and was happy to wait to learn how much she had earned.

"I have a small bad news, and a big good news for you," Ning said the moment she came up to him.

"Oh? What's the bad news?" she asked, waiting patiently and hoping it wasn't that bad.

"I didn't get to recharge your pearls yesterday," Ning said. "I got quite busy."

"What the hell? That's not even bad news. Stop terrifying me," Saphandra said.

Ning chuckled a bit.

"What's the good news then?" she asked.

"The good news is that we can leave here anytime we want now," Ning said.

"Leave here? The arena?" she asked.

"No, no, the kingdom," Ning said. "Rather this entire hemisphere and go to the one where summoning is much more prevalent."

"I see," Saphandra said. She didn't sound as happy as Ning would've thought her to be.

She sighed. "I guess it's about time to move on to newer things," she said. "When do we leave?"

"Your choice," Ning said.

Saphandra nodded to herself. "In a week then," she said.

'A week huh?' Ning thought. That was indeed just the right amount of time to get done with things here in this country.

"Alright, one week," he said and left her be.

Now, it was time for him to go watch his disciple graduate from under his teaching.

Chapter 740 TestNing arrived at the palace as the sky was turning orange. The setting sun reminded him how late he was, but that did not matter now, did it?

The guards let him inside without any hesitation and Ning went to talk with the king for a bit. After that, he soon reached the princess who had been waiting for him since waking up this morning.

"Teacher!" she shouted and ran up to him. "Why are you so late? Where's Slimy?"

"Slimy? Oh, right." Only then did Ning remember that he had promised her yesterday to have her meet the slime again.

"He's with his people for now. You can meet him after you pass a little test of mine in front of your parents," Ning said.

"A test? What sort?" she asked.

"You'll see soon," Ning said and brought her to the palace hall where the King had been expecting them.

"Come, let's see how our child is doing," the King said as the princess was made to walk in the middle of all the people.

She felt a little embarrassed and tried to hide behind Ning, but Ning pushed her forward. "It's okay. They are all here to cheer you," he said.

"Cheer me? For what?" the princess asked.

"For when you pass the test," Ning said.

"Are you sure she can do it?" the King asked, still a little suspicious as not even a month or two ago, the princess didn't even know how to use her spiritual energy.

"I'm confident," Ning said and turned to the princess. "You need to summon the strongest beast that wants to come to you here."

"Strongest beast? Okay," the princess nodded and closed her eyes.

The King, the Queen, the court officials, Joann, and even Ning held their breath as they waited for the princess to summon something.

They waited for a while before the princess was finally able to bond with a beast to summon.

Ning wanted to look at the summoning circle in front of the princess to see whether she succeeded or not, but his attention was stolen away by the princess's hair which changed color.

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The dark red hair slowly bleached out as it turned to light red, before becoming orange.

Ning thought that was where it would stop, but the orange hair then paled even further before ending up a golden yellow.

The princess was now a blonde summoner. She was three-seventh of the way towards becoming a strong summoner.

At the same time, the beast was summoned and Ning finally turned toward it.

The beast looked like a leopard or at least it was in that category. It was a feline beast with a clouded pattern on its body that was black.

The rest of the fur that wasn't black to Ning's surprise entirely red.

The leopard beast had 3 tails, that kept moving around. It growled as it looked around the room.

"They are friends," the princess said to the beast and it quieted down.

Ning continued looking at the beast and saw something weird on its back. Hidden in its fur was a patch that was covered in dragon-like scales, which were fully crimson in color.

The only part of the beast that was anything other than red or black, were its eyes which had a yellow iris that stared at everyone.

The king looked at the beast closely and was surprised that it did look like his daughter had succeeded. Still, to be absolutely sure, she had to do a couple of things.

"Make the beast move around you," the King asked his daughter.

"Okay," the princess said jovially. "Kitty, can you move around me?"

The leopard growled at being called kitty, as it understood what it meant through the connection they now had with each other.

Still, it was bonded to follow her commands, so it did as asked.

It moved around her, doing absolutely as little as it could in the process.

The people around the room nodded when they saw that. She was indeed in control of the beast, and from the looks of it, it was a strong beast too.

However, there was one more thing it needed to do.

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"Have it use some skills," the king said.

The princess thought for a bit as she went through the information she had on the beast's skills.

"Oh, Kitty, use blood shadow," she said.

The leopard growled and suddenly the scales on its back straightened up like the quills of a porcupine in danger.

When it opened, blood suddenly poured out from its back and pooled next to it. In another moment, the blood suddenly turned to look just like the beast.

The king looked in awe. It was a doppelganger technique, that used the blood element.

He was shocked to see that his daughter had summoned something that could use the elements.

Which meant it was higher than a Rank 2 beast. The Blood Leopard that she had summoned, was a Rank 3 beast.

"Amazing," the Queen was the first to speak. Not only did she find it amazing that her daughter's hair was already golden at just 6 years old, but also that she had already become a Rank 3 summoner.

She could only imagine what heights she could reach if she taught her some of her own knowledge.

"Truly amazing," the king said as well. Then, everyone in the room started cheering for the princess.

The princess was a little surprised by the cheer and nearly backed away. But Ning caught her by the shoulder and patted her head.

"Good job," Ning said.

"I did good?" she asked.

"Very good," Ning said. He then brought out a piece of paper from his storage and brought it to the king.

"I suspect you will have to sign that now," Ning said.

The king looked at the paper and realized what it was. It was the quest he had put up in the Summoning Circle.

Since Ning had fulfilled it, his job here was done.

"You have indeed done what you had come here to do," the king said as he signed the paper. "You no longer have to teach my daughter anything."

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