“Those five children are known as the ‘Six-Eyed Golden Ni-Lions’. Their bodies are very similar to lions, except they are as enormous as titanic dragons, and they have six eyes and a pair of massive wings.” Bebe sighed. “Although those Six-Eyed Golden Ni-Lions aren’t as terrifying as the Deity-level ‘Heaven Devouring Beast’, they still can store an enormous amount of things in their stomachs. Despite being the size of a dragon, they can easily swallow over a hundred giant dragons.”
Linley and Delia were secretly shocked. Although the descendants of Deity-level magical beasts couldn’t compare to their ancestors, they still couldn’t be underestimated. When Linley had drawn forth Bloodviolet and released Dylin and his three children, he had no idea that those three children were Six-Eyed Golden Ni-Lions.
Afterwards, those three Six-Eyed Golden Ni-Lions had swallowed over a hundred giant dragons of Foggy Gulch into their stomachs in the blink of an eye. Clearly, this was something they inherited from their father.
“Six-Eyed Golden Ni-Lions are Saint-level magical beasts, but their children are only magical beasts of the ninth rank. Boss, you should know about them. Guardian Ni-Lions, of the ninth rank.”
Linley immediately nodded. Guardian Ni-Lions, ninth-ranked magical beasts with extremely powerful attacks and which looked very similar to normal lions, only their body was the size of a dragon.
“Guardian Ni-Lions are extremely rare. They might mate with tiger-type magical beasts or lion-type magical beasts, and their own descendants would thus be the likes of Goldmane Mastiffs or Blue-eyed Tiger Mastiffs, two magical beast races of the eighth rank.” Bebe was clearly very familiar with the mutations and changes of these various magical beast races.
Linley now understood. At the Mountain Range of Magical Beasts, the first time Linley had activated the baleful aura of Bloodviolet, he had slaughtered an entire clan of Goldmane Mastiffs.
“I didn’t expect that the magical beast races have such interesting history.” Delia was quite intrigued as she listened. “If you follow their ancestry, it would seem as though Goldmane Mastiffs and Blue-eyed Tiger Mastiffs can trace their heritage back to this Deity-level magical beast, the ‘Suanni Lion’ you spoke of.”
“Are you saying that Dylin had come to the Yulan continent long ago in the past?” Linley suddenly realized what the implications were.
In the past, the Mountain Range of Magical Beasts had no Deity-level experts. In other words, at least within the past thousand years, Dylin had not been present. But if Dylin had never been in the Yulan continent, how could it be said that Guardian Ni-Lions, Goldmane Mastiffs, and Blue-eyed Tiger Mastiffs were his descendants?
“Right. According to what Grandpa Beirut said, Dylin first arrived at the Yulan continent ten thousand years ago,” Bebe explained. “These Goldmane Mastiffs, Blue-eyed Tiger Mastiffs, and Guardian Ni-Lions can all be considered his descendants.” Bebe laughed as well. Actually, it was the same for him. Didn’t the large number of descendants of the Godeater Rat eventually devolve into Stoneater Rats and Shadowmice?
“But according to what Grandpa Beirut said, in the past, Dylin had five children. It seemed as though two of them died in the Gebados Prison. Only three are left now,” Bebe said.
Linley nodded slightly. He didn’t know much about the history of the Yulan continent, especially from five thousand years ago, and all this was even more ancient history. There were very few books containing records regarding what happened ten thousand years ago. What had happened back then? Nobody really knew. After all, most books started from the founding of the Yulan calendar and Empire. Most started from Yulan calendar, year one.
“Bebe, doesn’t this mean that in the future, you will easily reach the Deity level?” Linley laughed as he looked at Bebe, and Bebe’s eyes shone with a rare flash of pride, but then his eyes quickly dimmed.
“No matter how powerful I am, my parents are still dead.” Bebe looked at Linley, then said seriously, “Boss, keep training. I’m going to make a trip.” As he spoke, he immediately flew out.
“Bebe, where are you going?” Linley immediately asked.
“I’m going to kill those two bastards.” Bebe’s voice echoed within the hall, but Bebe himself had disappeared.
Linley let out a sigh. He wouldn’t say anything about Bebe going to kill Rudi and Dylin. After all, he too would seek revenge on someone who had killed his parents.
“Now all is made clear.” Linley couldn’t help but sigh again. In the past, the War God had treated him so kindly, and even helping him out in the matter of his little brother’s marriage. When the Baruch Kingdom was founded, even Rosarie of the Frost Goddess Shrine had come, while the High Priest had sent his disciples over.
Linley didn’t have a relationship with any of those hidden powers, but they all sent representatives. “So they weren’t giving me face. They were giving Bebe face. They were giving face to the King of the Yulan continent.” Linley knew very well that no matter how strong he was, and how powerful his ancestors had been, and even if his Dragonblood Warrior ancestors had become Deities in the Infernal Realm… so what? What impact would any of those things have on the War God and the High Priest, here in the Yulan continent?
As the saying goes, the heavens are vast and the Emperor is far away. What happened nearby was what mattered. In the plane of the Yulan continent, even the War God, High Priest, Dylin, and the others all had to listen to Beirut. Bebe had said that even the Planar Overseer from the Infernal Realm, ‘Hodan’, had to be obedient and orderly in front of Lord Beirut. One could imagine how much authority Lord Beirut had!
“What’s his is his. As for myself, I need to work hard.” Linley didn’t want to rely on anyone else “Come, Delia. Let’s return to the training room,” Holding Delia by the hand, Linley smiled as he spoke. Delia smiled as well, and the two left the hall, quickly returning to that planar door. They returned to the life of training which belonged to them.
But even as he began training again, Linley still had questions in his mind. Hodan was the Planar Overseer who had come from the Infernal Realm, and he definitely had to have a powerful source of support and backing from the Higher Plane of the Infernal Realm. Why was it that even Hodan had to be obedient in front of Lord Beirut? What level of expert was this Lord Beirut, exactly?
A full God? Or perhaps a Highgod? Linley didn’t even dare to consider the possibility that he was a Sovereign. For example, there were only seven Sovereigns of Darkness. In all the countless planes of the universe, there were only seven of them! Only when one died would another be born. In trillions of years, there might not be a single new Sovereign throughout the universe. And what’s more, in the Higher Planes, there was another bit of common knowledge…
Sovereigns were not able to enter common, material planes. Their power alone would cause any material planes to rip apart and collapse!
5
Bebe’s Revenge
The town of Moller, despite being just a town, had status that was almost on par with most prefectural cities. This was because the thousands of residents of the town of Moller all belonged to one clan. This clan, centuries ago, had been a very ordinary one, but after producing the earth-style Grand Magus Saint, Rudi, the entire clan’s status had skyrocketed.
However… right now, the central building in the town had collapsed. The corpse of an enormous Black Dragon of the ninth rank lay there, coiled in the middle of the debris. A hole had been drilled through the head of this Black Dragon. All the residents of this town were staring with terror at the scene playing out in mid-air.
The incomparably exalted Grand Magus Saint, Rudi, was being absolutely trampled by a black rat. He didn’t have any chance to fight back at all. Rudi’s clothes were tattered, and his Sacred Earthguard Armor had been ripped apart early on by eighteen successive lightning-fast claw attacks from Bebe. Bebe’s raw attack power was actually a bit higher than even that of Linley’s, and in twelve years, he had gained some insights into the Laws as well.
Those eighteen successive claws was the technique that Bebe was most skilled at. Even something as powerful as a Saint-level Earthguard Armor had been broken through.
“If you want to kill me, then kill me. Why are you doing this? Did Linley order you to come?” Rudi roared with fury and grief. He had heard that Linley possessed a Saint-level rat-type magical beast with black fur. He didn’t expect that he and Linley actually had enmity between them!
But the only reply he got was another claw. “Ah!” Rudi’s entire body spasmed in agony as yet another large chunk of flesh and blood was ripped from his body. Even his face had Bebe’s claw marks on it. Bebe’s attacks were very precise. He wasn’t trying to kill Rudi at all.
“You ask me why?” Bebe’s beady little black eyes were blazing with unquenchable flames of rage. “Do you still remember, thirty years ago, how you and Dillon fought over that ninth-rank Shadowmouse?”
Rudi immediately thought back to that past event. This entire time, he had been quite unhappy about it. Dillon had actually killed that Shadowmouse of the ninth rank. Rudi suddenly realized what was happening. This Saint-level magical beast had surely come to avenge that Shadowmouse.
“The one who killed the Shadowmouse wasn’t me, it was Dillon,” Rudi hurriedly said. He suddenly felt that he had a chance at survival. In front of Bebe, Rudi didn’t have any ability to fight back at all. As soon as Bebe saw Rudi begin to chant a magic spell or the nearby elemental essence began to move, Bebe would immediately give him a slap with the paw on the mouth. And given Bebe’s power, even if he was able to successfully launch a Saint-level spell, it might still be unable to harm Bebe.
“Indeed, you didn’t personally kill them, but if it wasn’t for you, my mother probably would’ve been able to flee early on!”
“Ah!” Rudi let out a miserable cry. His right arm had suddenly been sliced off by those sharp claws, and the severed arm fell down from the skies.
“If it wasn’t for you, would Dillon have killed my mother?” Yet another claw and yet another miserable cry. Rudi’s left arm fell down from the skies as well. The mighty, dignified Grand Magus Saint, Rudi, had been devastated to such a degree. Rudi was utterly bereft. In front of Bebe, he had no ability to resist at all.
“High Priest, why haven’t you come?!” Rudi was growing more and more worried. In the minds of the Saints of the Yulan Empire, the High Priest was their leader. Much like how the Saints of Radiant Church simply didn’t dare to cause trouble within the boundaries of the O’Brien Empire, the other Saints also didn’t dare to cause trouble in the Yulan Empire, especially in a town so near the imperial capital.
“As for you… prepare to die,” Bebe said calmly.
“The High Priest will definitely avenge me!!!” Rudi shouted fiercely, and then a final claw welcomed him. This claw ripped him apart from the skull, creating a massive hole in it. Rudi’s eyes immediately grew dim, and his armless corpse fell down from the skies. “Bang!” It smashed into the rubble, kicking up a cloud of dust.
In mid-air, Bebe stared down below. The civilians down below didn’t dare to make a sound. The current Bebe had none of his usual adorableness or playfulness. All he had was the ferocious cruelty inherent to all magical beasts.
Swish! A black blur slashed across the skies, and Bebe disappeared into the air.
The corpse of Rudi, lying in the rubble, had its eyes bulging in disbelief. Even as he died, he had hoped the High Priest would avenge him… but alas, the High Priest wouldn’t appear for his sake. Unless, of course, the High Priest was tired of living.
Something quite similar happened elsewhere. The Saint-level expert, Dillon, was like an infant in front of Bebe, easily trampled. Dillon hadn’t been able to take more than three attacks from the early-stage Saint Olivier. In front of the current Bebe, he couldn’t even block a single attack.
There were four midair Bebes surrounding him in the form of four black blurs. They were playing a game of kickball, literally kicking the body of the Saint-level expert, Dillon, all over the place.
Bang! Dillon felt his waist receive another vicious kick, and then with a ‘crunch’, his bones shattered. Dillon’s body was then kicked towards another direction. Dillon immediately activated the battle-qi in his body, wanting to fly and flee.
But yet another black blur appeared in front of him. Then another. And another! “Ah!” A piece of bloody flesh was ripped out of him, and Dillon couldn’t help but spasm in pain. He ground his teeth, then flew towards another direction.
However, yet another black blur was there to welcome him! No matter how wildly Dillon tried to flee, given Bebe’s terrifying speed and his Shadowshape Doppelganger Technique, Dillon wasn’t able to escape. This was the Shadowshape Doppelganger Technique! Four doppelgangers were trampling him in four different directions.
“Why?! I’ve never offended Linley!” Dillon howled with grief and anger. Seeing the black-furred Saint-level rat, Dillon knew that the magical beast in front of him was Linley’s magical beast. In the past, Bebe had defeated even Haydson. After twelve years of growth, how could the current Bebe be someone Dillon could deal with?
“My Boss?” Bebe’s eyes flashed with the fires of rage. “Who told you to go to the Mountain Range of Magical Beasts to kill my parents?!”
“Kill your parents?” Dillon was confused. “Have I ever killed a powerful rat-type magical beast?” But then with another claw, Dillon was kicked flying yet again. He felt his head grow dizzy. Given Bebe’s speed, he was able to kick Dillon dozens of times in a single second. By now, Dillon had been kicked over a thousand times. Fortunately, he was at the Saint-rank, and thus could preserve his life.
“Who told you to kill my mother in front of Rudi!” With a ‘bang’ sound, yet another claw struck him.
“In front of Rudi? Ah! Thirty years ago… the Mountain Range of Magical Beasts…”Dillon understood everything now. He remembered what happened that year at the Mountain Range of Magical Beasts. So this mysterious rat was the child of those two rats of the ninth rank.”
Swish! Yet another claw to his face. Right now, Dillon’s clothes were splattered with blood and sticking to his body. He didn’t have a single place of undamaged flesh. After having been kicked around thousands of times, and with a piece of flesh being taken away with each kick, Dillon currently half of his bones broken and visible to plain sight, with his bloody, bright-red flesh visible for all to see. It was a terrifying sight. Even one of his eyes had been torn out!
“Kill me!” “Kill me!” “Kill me!” Dillon was no longer even recognizably human. He could only mumble words out, without being able to resist at all. But Bebe’s eyes didn’t have an ounce of pity in them. Suddenly, the four Bebes became one, appearing in the air directly above Dillon.
Whap! A final, vicious claw delivered to Dillon’s skull. Dillon’s skull immediately shattered apart, and Dillon’s no longer recognizable corpse plummeted to the ground, his shattered bones flying everywhere upon impact.
After that final claw, Bebe just stood there in mid-air, stunned. He had always been carefree and had followed and played around with Linley since he was young. He liked to eat and drink… but in his heart, he had always wondered about his parentage. Where am I from? Who is my father? Who is my mother?
The higher class a magical beast was, the more intelligent it was. Bebe was a Godeater Rat. His emotional intelligence was even greater than that of humans. It had been thirty-three years of wondering… and in the end, he learned his parents had both died!
“Father. Mother. Bebe misses you both. Bebe doesn’t know what it means to have a father, or what it feels like to have a mother.” Bebe’s eyes became covered with a misty layer. “Today, Bebe has avenged you both.” Two teardrops fell down from Bebe’s face.
“Bebe’s name was chosen by the Boss. Although Bebe doesn’t have you, Bebe still has the Boss. The Boss’s embrace is very comfortable. Maybe… your embrace would have been like being by the Boss’s side.” Bebe was quiet for a long
time, there in mid-air.
The thirty-plus years he had spent by Linley’s side had resulted in Bebe, without question, considering Linley as his one and only family member. As for Beirut… although Bebe addressed him as Grandpa Beirut, they had only met not too long ago.
Whoosh. A wind arose. Bebe’s body disappeared into the eastern horizon.
Deep in the magicite mines. In front of the dimensional door. Swiiiiish. Bebe easily passed through that door. The attacks of the dimensional door chopped on Bebe’s body like sabres, but they didn’t even break a single strand of Bebe’s fur.
Linley, who had been seated in quiet meditation, opened his eyes. Before he even said a word, Bebe immediately threw himself into Linley’s embrace. “Boss.” Bebe’s eyes were already red.
Linley hugged Bebe. “Bebe, it’s fine. Don’t be too heartbroken.”
“Okay.” Bebe nodded. Both of them had lost their parents. They had grown up together, and the two were as close as true brothers to each other. Linley was like the big brother, while Bebe was the little brother.
Yulan calendar, year 10024, March 2nd. Outside the imperial capital of the O’Brien Empire. War God Mountain.
Yet another ray of light streaked across the skies and entered War God Mountain. A normally quiet courtyard within War God Mountain already had an entire group of people assembled. This courtyard was the place where the War God usually stayed when he wasn’t behind closed doors engaging in training.
In the empty space within the quiet courtyard, there were around ten people, all of whom were chatting idly amongst each other. All of these people were exceedingly powerful. Not one of them was weaker than Haydson had been.
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