“That smells great!”
“Brat, what did you put in the meat? Why does your roasted meat smell so good?”
Alison’s four-man team had also roasted their own meat, but none of theirs was as fragrant as Meng Lei’s. This greatly puzzled the four of them, and they came over to ask for tips about meat-roasting!
“That’s because I added all of these!” Meng Lei took out the salt and condiments and said with a chuckle, “I’d prepared all of these before I left the village. You can try it, too. Spread some on the meat when you’re roasting it. It’ll taste fantastic for sure!”
The four of them were rather doubtful. Although they took the condiments and tried them out, they didn’t completely trust Meng Lei. What if this stuff was poison?
However, when they saw Meng Lei eating the meat that he had seasoned with the condiments, the four of them finally set their hearts at ease and began to happily spread the condiments on their roasted meat.
Those four fellows are honestly too cautious...
Meng Lei shook his head. He couldn’t even be bothered to diss them anymore!
“This tastes pretty good!”
“As expected of a Second-Grade Magical Beast!”
After a good meal of roasted meat, the group of five continued on their journey.
In the following few days, the four-man team continued to look for first-grade and second-grade magical beasts to train their skills with, while Meng Lei continued to pick up dropped light balls and mature in a cowardly fashion!
At the end of the few days, his rewards were bountiful, and his personal stats had increased by leaps and bounds!
Host: Meng Lei
Race: Human
Wealth: 916 gold coins
Physical Body Constitution: First-Grade Warrior (126/200)
Spirit: Magic Apprentice (13/100)
Magic Power: Magic Apprentice (26/100)
Spell(s): Fireball Technique, Thorn Vine, Water Bubble, Earthquake, Wind Blade, Burning Hand
Chapter 13: Saint Domain Magical Beast, Saint Domain Magicians
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
The number of gold coins he possessed had reached 916!
His Physical Body Constitution had reached 126 points!
His spiritual power had also improved by varying degrees!
And his magic spells, too!
Apart from the Fireball Technique, Thorn Vine, and Water Bubble that he already had, he now also had the Earth-Elemental Spell Earthquake, Wind-Elemental Spell Wind Blade, and Fire-Elemental Spell Burning Hand!
Although they were all first-grade spells, they greatly enriched Meng Lei’s repertoire of spells!
The only sad thing was that his magic power reserves were still too little. It was enough to release only about ten fireballs or ten wind blades. Anything more than that was out of the question!
In order to resolve this, Meng Lei had also secretly tried out the Meditation Method. However, even after several attempts at meditating, all of them had failed!
Magic elements in the universe?
They didn’t exist!
He couldn’t sense anything at all!
After a few fruitless attempts, Meng Lei became greatly perplexed, so he specially consulted Alison about it when he was chatting with her. The conclusion he drew in the end was—he didn’t have any talent in magic!
Yes, that’s right!
He didn’t!
Only people who had talent in magic would be able to sense magic elements!
Those who couldn’t naturally meant that they didn’t have any talent in magic!
This conclusion greatly disappointed Meng Lei. He had also had wild wishes that he could be like those main characters in web-novels, where they had terrifying cultivation talent, knew how to do everything, were gifted with an extraordinarily retentive memory, cultivated with half the effort yet achieved double the results, where one day’s work was equivalent to other people’s ten years of effort...
From the look of it now, his imagination had been too active!
In that case, I can only increase my magic power through pickups in the future?
Meng Lei was rather disheartened. Even his enthusiasm for snatching kills dwindled significantly.
Pickups?
Even with pickups, how much can that amount to?
Boom!
A gigantic creature crashed onto the ground, its enormous body convulsing violently. Upon seeing that it was about to die any moment now, Bobby, Millo, Yale, and Alison dusted off their hands. There had been great rapport in their teamwork this time, so they had successfully killed the Fiery Flying Pig!
“Ding! Dropped item discovered. Will you pick it up?”
“Yes, pick it up!”
“Ding! Congratulations to the host. You’ve obtained the First-Grade Spell, Fire Ring!”
A spell again!
Meng Lei sighed.
Without magic power, what’s the use of having so many spells?
“Little Meng Lei, why are you so down in the dumps?” asked a slightly surprised Alison as she walked over to Meng Lei with a magic staff in her hand.
Her impression was that Meng Lei was usually a very lively person and was very active in snatching kills!
Why was he all wilted today?
“Alison, is it impossible for someone to become a Magician if they don’t have magic talent?” asked Meng Lei, who couldn’t reconcile himself with the fact.
“Without magic talent, of course it’s impossible for anyone to become a Magician!”
As though this was to be expected as a matter of course, Alison added, “Just like Bobby and the other two, all of them come from fairly impressive family backgrounds. Even so, they still couldn’t become Magicians precisely because they don’t have magic talent!”
“Magic talent is a hurdle. Just how many people has it obstructed and kept outside the grand hall of magic?” said Millo, the muscular man with the giant axe. Then, he raised his eyebrows and asked, “What, do you wish to become a Magician too, little Meng Lei?”
“Isn’t that obvious, Millo? Who doesn’t want to become a Magician?” teased Bobby with a laugh.
Yale nodded slightly, agreeing wholeheartedly with the statement. There were so many people in Heaven’s Vault Continent, and every one of them wished to become a Magician. Unfortunately, it was just that they didn’t have any talent in magic, so it was nothing more than just daydreaming!
Meng Lei let out a couple of resigned laughs and said no more.
“Let’s go on ahead!”
“Little Meng Lei, I’ll leave the next Magical Beast’s head to you. Remember to take the kill!”
“Meng Lei, my little old brother. Cheer up, you have a lot of physical strength, so you’re born to be someone who cultivates Battle Aura. Be a Warrior like me instead, magic doesn’t suit you!”
“Hahaha, that’s right...”
The group continued on their journey as they chatted and laughed. After a few days of interaction, the wariness that the four of them held toward Meng Lei had gradually lessened. Their relationship had also become a lot more harmonious, and they had become mutually familiar, so they could now somewhat joke around with each other.
Under Bobby and the others’ counseling, Meng Lei’s mood gradually improved. After they continued forward for a few kilometers, an earthshaking roar suddenly came from the sky!
Roar!
Horrifying sound waves spread outward as though an atomic bomb had exploded! It was so loud that everyone’s ears were humming. Looks of agony appeared on their faces!
“What’s going on?”
“Has a high-grade Magical Beast run out to the forest’s outer boundary?”
Everyone was alarmed and fearful. With such a fearsome roar, it was highly likely that it was a high-grade Magical Beast. With everyone’s current battle capabilities, only death awaited them for sure should they encounter a high-grade Magical Beast!
“Look at the sky!�
� shouted Bobby suddenly.
The others lifted their heads upon hearing him. Then, all of them started trembling all over as if they had seen a ghost!
In the sky, a long distance away, a terrifying behemoth more than 100 meters long was suspended in the air. It had the same physique as a Colossal Dragon, wings like an eagle’s, and the head of a lion!
With long narrow ears and sharp claws like a bull’s horns, it shone a brilliant gold all over its body. Covered in armor, it had a horrifying build and looked savage and ferocious!
However, the key was that unlike other flying Magical Beasts, the gigantic creature wasn’t flapping its wings, and yet it could still suspend itself in mid-air and fly about. Its identity was pretty much on the tips of everyone’s tongues!
“Could that be the legendary Saint Domain Magical Beast, the Golden Flame Dragonne?”
Alison’s teeth chattered, and her body shook as she uttered the question!
Bobby, Millo, and Yale were also shaking like a leaf. Their eyes were full of fear and alarm!
“A dragon’s body, an eagle’s wings, a lion’s head, and the ability to fly!”
Bobby swallowed hard repeatedly. He said, “That is definitely the Saint Domain Magical Beast, the Golden Flame Dragonne!”
“Oh my dragon god, aren’t Saint Domain Magical Beasts supposed to be in the Magical Beast Forest’s central region? Why is it showing up here?” asked Millo, who found this inconceivable!
“S-saint Domain Magical Beast? Oh my god!”
Meng Lei stared hard at the gigantic creature in the sky. Even his breathing had become quick and ragged. It had been quite some time since he had come to Heaven’s Vault Continent. In particular, after spending the last few days with Alison and the others, he had heard a lot of behind-the-scenes stories about this world!
For example, how battle capabilities were categorized!
Be it Warriors, Magicians, or other races and Magical Beasts, their battle capabilities were categorized, in ascending order, from first-grade to ninth-grade, with first-grade being the weakest and ninth-grade the strongest!
A First-Grade Warrior had a significant boost in strength and was nimble and agile.
A Ninth-Grade Warrior moved like lightning and was capable of killing someone from afar!
And higher than ninth-grade was an existence that belonged in legends—the Saint Domain!
Illusory and vague, the Saint Domain was a legend within legends. A Saint Domain existence could control the universe and fly freely through the sky. They had an endless lifespan and even possessed destructiveness that could ravage heaven and earth...
The Saint Domain!
That was an existence far above everything else and stood at the top of the pyramid of lifeforms in Heaven’s Vault Continent. Like a nuclear warhead, it was an existence of strategic significance!
Moreover, as a Saint Domain Magical Beast, the Golden Flame Dragonne was a king among Magical Beasts. This particular magical beast—a combination of the Colossal Dragon, a lion, and an eagle—was a creature that was neither here nor there. Given the Colossal Dragon blood running through its veins, it was considered an outstanding existence even among Saint Domain Magical Beasts!
“Look over there!”
Yale’s eyes suddenly widened as he pointed at the sky.
Meng Lei turned and looked over, and was stunned at once. In front of the massive Golden Flame Dragonne were two tiny floating humans—though the “tiny” here was only in relation to the Golden Flame Dragonne!
They were actually about the same size as ordinary humans!
It was an elderly man and a teenager!
The elderly man was wearing a purple magician robe, and he had a rosy complexion and a kindly expression on his face. The teenage girl next to him was about sixteen to seventeen years old. Her shining eyes were bright and alert, while her teeth were pearly white—she looked as if she were a fairy!
The wind blew strongly in the air. However, there was a purple protective shield around the elderly man and the teenage girl. Lightning snaked about on the outside of the shield. No matter how strongly the wind blew, it actually couldn’t move the pair at all!
“H-humans?”
Alison and the other three men’s jaws dropped. They were completely stunned. Human Warriors and Magicians could only fly in the sky like birds after they had reached the Saint Domain level!
Of course, this was with the exception of Wind-Elemental Magicians.
However, since the elderly man and young girl were standing so proudly in mid-air and had put up a lightning shield, they were definitely Thunder-Elemental Saint Domain Magicians!
“Lowly humans, to be so bold as to provoke the great Carlos, what are your intentions?”
Chapter 14: The Battle Of The Saint Domains, Destroying Heaven And Earth
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
The wind howled in the vast and boundless skies!
The mighty and savage gigantic Golden Flame Dragonne stood proudly in the air. Fury spewed from its lion eyes, which contained endless wrath. As a Saint Domain Magical Beast, it had been a very long time since any living being had antagonized it like this!
Yet two lowly humans had actually come up right to its doorstep to take advantage of it today. This was practically an utmost form of provocation and humiliation toward the great Saint Domain Magical Beast!
The Golden Flame Dragonne was very angry, and the consequences were going to be very serious!
“Golden Flame Dragonne, I don’t have any other intention in coming here!”
The purple-robed elderly man spoke, his voice kindly and mild as though an amicable and benevolent old man. He said, “This is my granddaughter. It’ll be her sixteenth birthday in a few days, so I’d like to give her a birthday gift!”
“Lowly human, what exactly are you trying to say?”
The Golden Flame Dragonne’s wild and violent voice rang out like an explosion in the sky!
“This granddaughter of mine has very high magic talent. Both her Wind and Fire Elements are superior-grade, and her spiritual power is 38 times that of her peers!”
The purple-robed elderly man added with a smile, “And you, the Golden Flame Dragonne, just so happen to be a Saint Domain Magical Beast that’s both Wind-Elemental and Fire-Elemental. This old man hopes that you can form a contract with my granddaughter and be her magical pet!”
Form a contract!
Become her magical pet!
These words of his were tantamount to a land mine going off out of nowhere, shocking everyone so badly that their minds were humming as if an explosion had gone off within!
“Oh my dragon god! Am I h-hearing this correctly?”
“Getting a great Saint Domain Magical Beast to be a little girl’s magical pet? What the hell, that must be the craziest joke I’ve ever heard in my entire life!”
“They actually want to subdue a Saint Domain Magical Beast! As expected, the Saint Domain isn’t a realm that mere mortals like us can imagine!”
“Who exactly is this Saint Domain Magician...”
Alison, Bobby, Millo, and Yale had received a rather huge shock. Their faces were full of incredulity as they stared at the purple-robed elderly man standing proudly in the sky!
Just what kind of existence was a Saint Domain Magical Beast?
That was a terrifying being standing at the pinnacle of innumerable Magical Beasts, you know!
Subduing a Saint Domain Magical Beast?
Practically unimaginable!
Meng Lei was astounded, too. However, what he felt even more keenly was fervency and excitement.
That’s too impressive! And too domineering! Wanting to subdue a Saint Domain Magical Beast the moment he stepped forward, that’s practically cool beyond belief, isn’t it?! If I could also subdue a Saint Domain Magical Beast as my mount, even death would be worth it!
“Foolish humans! You’re too much!”
The Golden Flame Dragonne was o
utraged. Flames of fury burst forth from its lion eyes. It roared, “I’m going to torture you to death and burn you into ashes to vent my fury!”
Booming thunder exploded and rang out in the sky. Fearsome Wind Elements began to gather around the Golden Flame Dragonne. Before long, a gigantic hurricane had manifested!
Boom, boom, boom!
The several meters-tall hurricane was as though a heavenly pillar spanning between heaven and earth. Sand and rocks flew about, and the whole place turned dark and gloomy. Darkness enveloped everything within a radius of a few miles!
“Oh my dragon god!”
“Is that the fearsomeness of a Saint Domain Magical Beast?!”
They gazed at the terrifying hurricane suspended in mid-air. Even with a distance of quite a few kilometers between them, all of them could sense just how fearsome the hurricane was. Should they be engulfed by the hurricane, they would definitely die a terrible death!
“E-everyone, should we go a little further away?”
“When celestials fight, it’s the mortals that suffer. A battle of that level isn’t something that we can watch. We’d better go further away. If...”
All of them exchanged a look and saw fear and alarm in one another’s eyes!
Then, all of them decided to wuss out!
“Let’s go!”
...
“Lowly humans, die!”
With a flap of the Golden Flame Dragonne’s wings, the hurricane crashed toward the elderly man and the teenage girl with a boom. The look on the pretty girl’s face changed slightly. She cried out in panic, “Grandfather!”
“There’s no need to panic!”
The purple-robed elderly man chuckled and ducked while bringing his granddaughter with him. With a flash, they disappeared into thin air. The ferocious hurricane missed its target and didn’t manage to cause any harm to the grandfather and granddaughter pair at all!
By the time they reappeared, they were already behind the Golden Flame Dragonne. What also appeared at the same time was an incredibly thick and wide bolt of silver lightning!
Crackle!
Lightning flashed across the sky and struck viciously at the Golden Flame Dragonne!
“You cunning humans!” roared the Golden Flame Dragonne.
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