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Meng Lei was currently using Earthquake to search for Magical Beasts in the surroundings. With his current spellcasting standard, he could cover a search range within a radius of over 200 meters with Earthquake!
“There’s a Magical Beast at two o’clock!”
Meng Lei carefully crept over and parted a bunch of bushes. A lizard that was dark green in color throughout, covered head to toe in spikes, and over five-meters-long entered his sight.
“It’s the Fourth-Grade Magical Beast, Ground-Spike Lizard!”
Meng Lei frowned lightly, his interest in it somewhat a little lackluster. The prices of Fourth-Grade Magical Beasts were so-so, and their magic cores only fetched 2,000 to 3,000 gold coins per core. It didn’t bring in much!
Even so, Meng Lei still cast the Earth-Elemental Spell, Ground-Piercing Lance, anyway, and stabbed the Ground-Spike Lizard dead before the poor lizard even realized what was happening.
“Ding! 1 Ground-Spike Lizard killed, 2,400 gold coins gained!”
“2,400 gold coins? Not bad!”
Meng Lei walked over, fished out a dagger, and gouged out the Ground-Spike Lizard’s magic core. He ignored the blood on it and tossed it straight into the spatial ring.
Another 2,000 gold coins into the bank account!
“That’s double the cash with a single Magical Beast! Marvelous!
“Earthquake!
“Another Magical Beast at 11 o’clock in front!
“A Fourth-Grade Magical Beast?
“Ground-Piercing Lance!”
“Ding! 1 Golden Rhinoceros Beetle killed, 2,200 gold coins gained!”
“Earthquake!
“A Fourth-Grade Magical Beast again? What the f*ck!”
“Ding! 1 Golden-Spotted Silver Ant killed, 2,400 gold coins gained!”
Just like that, Meng Lei hunted as he advanced. In this particular region of Magical Beast Forest, mid-grade Magical Beasts were very common. Just like normal wild beasts in the forest’s outer boundary, they fought and fed on each other and competed against each other for the sake of survival!
“I’ve already killed seven Magical Beasts and earned more than 20,000 gold coins in less than two hours!
“Yeap, not bad, I would say!”
Meng Lei walked up to a Six-Winged Iron Crocodile that had died with grievances. He gouged out its magic core, put it happily into his spatial ring, and then continued on his journey.
“What a shame that there isn’t any way I can carry these Magical Beast carcasses out. Otherwise, I’d be able to earn yet another sum of money!”
Splurt!
Splurt!
“Eh?”
Right at this point, a few peculiar sounds reached his ears. Meng Lei’s footsteps came to a stop. He cocked his ears and looked toward the three o’clock direction. A few more of the peculiar sounds reached his ears again, the sounds crisp, clear, and horrifying!
Meng Lei wasn’t a stranger to the sound—this was the sound of a sharp blade piercing through flesh.
“Is someone fighting over there?
“That doesn’t make sense, though! There aren’t any battling sounds!”
Puzzled, Meng Lei quietly crept over. Then, he was astounded by the scene in front of him!
In the fields in front was a blazing campfire, and propped on top of the fire was a rack of roasted meat. The roast was a golden-yellow color, and a meaty aroma assailed the nostrils, easily stimulating anyone’s appetite.
However, Meng Lei wasn’t in the mood to eat the roasted meat at all because strewn all over the ground around the campfire were five dead bodies!
There were both men and women, and both Warriors and Magicians!
Everyone’s eyes were widened, and all of them were unable to rest in peace after their deaths, however. Their throats had been slit, and blood was gurgling as it flowed out of their wounds. They had died in an extremely tragic manner!
“Who the hell did this? Isn’t this too brutal?” Meng Lei murmured softly, a chill coming over him.
It was evident from the pitiful, horrifying sight of the victims, as well as the signs in the murder scene that they hadn’t even been able to put up any resistance at all during their deaths.
They hadn’t been able to put up even an ounce of resistance, yet the killer had still slit their throats, nonetheless.
How tragic!
“Are you looking for me?”
Unexpectedly, a joking voice suddenly rang out in Meng Lei’s ears right at that moment. Alarm had only just welled up within Meng Lei when he felt a slight chill at his throat.
Danger!!!
That was Meng Lei’s immediate reaction.
His second reaction was to pull back.
Boom!
Meng Lei’s powerful physical body constitution, which was on par with a Seventh-Grade Warrior’s, produced an outburst of strength. The moment he sprung into the air, he went ten-meters-high and leaped forcefully backward. In just a split second, he had already shot over ten meters away!
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The person that had ambushed Meng Lei was astonished!
Chapter 62: Killing The Assassin, Becoming A Seventh-Grade Magician
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
In the instant when Meng Lei jumped away, a small and skinny man with a large bamboo hat on his head and wrapped head to toe in black clothing showed up. He had a dazed and stupefied expression on his face as he stared at Meng Lei, who had jumped more than ten meters away.
(⊙o⊙)
“He’s that fast!?”
A moment ago, he had detected someone approaching, so he had concealed himself. Right after that, Meng Lei had appeared within his sight.
He was so young!
And he was a Magician, too!
So, how strong could he even be?
Thus, he had promptly launched an attack.
Little did he imagine that Meng Lei would actually move so quickly. His outburst of speed in that instant just now had definitely surpassed a Fifth-Grade Warrior’s. Was he really a goddamn Magician?
“I’ve actually made a mistake in my judgment!”
The small and skinny man licked his lips, a dark and deep look in his eyes.
That was so close!!!
Meng Lei landed on a tree, a layer of cold sweat forming on his back. It was fortunate that he had reacted in time just now. Otherwise, his throat would definitely have been slit!
That was really such a close shave!
He suddenly thought of a saying, “In Magical Beast Forest, what one needs to be on guard against the most aren’t Magical Beasts, but humans!”
Magical Beast Forest was independent of the four great empires. There were no laws, no rules and regulations, and no morals here. It was a wild, savage, and uncivilized territory. It was the Magical Beasts’ paradise and the adventurers’ heaven!
Most of the people that came here were here for magic cores. Some hunted Magical Beasts honestly and honorably to obtain magic cores, but some didn’t go about it in the same way. Instead, they pointed their blades at their own kind.
After all, it was obvious that one could obtain magic cores a lot faster by killing others.
This led to humans becoming a more dangerous presence in the Magical Beast Forest instead!
Very evidently, the small and skinny man in front of Meng Lei right now belonged to this group of people. The moment he thought of that, the look in Meng Lei’s eyes turned cold and frosty, and murderous intent arose in his eyes.
To actually dare to set his sights on me, he ought to die!
The small and skinny man glanced at Meng Lei. Then, he disappeared from the spot where he was. Meng Lei secretly became more cautious and vigilant—he didn’t think that the other party would leave just like that!. And true enough...
Whoosh!
An almost indiscernible sound of something slicing through the air quietly rang out. An icy glint suddenly flew out from the left and shot right toward Meng Lei’s temples.
A person’s temples were awfully fragile. Once struck, there was no doubt that the person would die!
Meng Lei pulled back and evaded the attack. Then, he heard a crash—the man had actually inexplicably emerged from underneath his feet and was plunging the dagger in his hand toward Meng Lei’s heart!
The dagger reflected a vibrant green glow in the sunlight. It was obvious that it was covered in poison. Should one be even the slightest bit struck by it, they would lose their life for sure!
A diversion tactic? How cunning!
Meng Lei didn’t panic at all. His right hand suddenly transformed into a dragon claw and, in one motion, grabbed hold of the dagger plunging toward his heart. Then, as the man watched him in stunned surprise, he rammed his knee upward brutally.
Splurt!
As though something had been forcibly burst, the man let out a shrill scream that sounded like the squeals of a pig being slaughtered, and his whole self launched right into the air!
“Die!”
Meng Lei let out a cold snort and casually flung out a lightning lance. It instantly pierced through the man’s heart and pinned him onto a large tree!
“Y... you’re... a... a... dragon...”
The man’s mouth opened and closed. He wanted to say something, but in the end, before he could utter anything, his head fell to the side... and he croaked!
“Phew!”
Meng Lei breathed a big sigh of relief, and his heart finally settled at ease. That guy was an assassin. He could appear and disappear like a ghost and was incredibly sly and cunning. Even a Sixth-Grade Warrior would perish in his hands if they were careless!
What a pity that he had bumped into Meng Lei instead!
“Murderers will also be killed by others someday!”
Meng Lei walked right up to the small and skinny man. There wasn’t even an ounce of sympathy in his eyes. Who knew just how many people had died in the hands of people like him that specially hid in the shadows to attack adventurers in Magical Beast Forest? He was definitely scum even among the dregs of society. There was nothing regrettable about his death at all.
However, one must admit that people like him were usually very wealthy.
Meng Lei’s eyes turned bright and shiny, and he began to rummage through the corpse’s clothes...
“Nothing in his hands! Nothing in his pockets, either!
“No spatial equipment! No magic crystal cards or gold coins, either!
“How strange! Why isn’t there anything on him? Could he actually be a pauper?
“That shouldn’t be the case, though...”
After searching the body for a good half a day, he simply didn’t find even half a bronze coin. This aggravated Meng Lei badly. His presumption was that wicked crooks like him that relied on attacking and killing adventurers should all be filthy rich, so how could he possibly be penniless?
“Something’s not right here!”
Meng Lei decided to start a fire in a fit of pique and began to burn the man’s dead body. “I don’t believe that you don’t even have half a gold coin on you...”
The fire burned and blazed!
Under the burning of fire-elemental spells, the man’s body didn’t even last that long before he was burned into ashes. His clothes, flesh and blood, and bones—all of them were reduced to ashes.
And with that, true enough, Meng Lei discovered something odd!
A belt made out of some kind of special magic material laid quietly among the ashes. In addition, there were four rings tied to the belt!
“Why didn’t I find this when I was searching his body just now?
“Could the belt have been sewn inside the clothes?
“Yeah, there’s a possibility of that!”
Meng Lei was secretly glad that he had gone a step further. Then, he picked up the belt and began to examine it.
The moment he did, Meng Lei became utterly excited.
“Haha! It’s actually a spatial belt!
“What a huge space!
“I’m rich! I’m gonna be rich now!
“Let’s take a look at the four rings now!
“What the hell?”
Meng Lei was absolutely delirious with joy!
The belt and the four rings were actually all spatial magic devices!
The space inside the belt was the largest and stretched as far as 150 cubic meters!
The four spatial rings were slightly inferior. They were respectively 100 cubic meters, 60 cubic meters, 50 cubic meters, and 10 cubic meters each.
Apart from that, there was a large quantity of highly valuable items, such as magic cores, gold coins, jewels, weapons, magic crystal cards, magic materials, magic devices, and more inside the five spatial magic devices!
Of course, there were also clothes, roast meat, condiments, tents, and some other day-to-day necessities that weren’t valuable but were still useful inside.
“Just the value of the five spatial magic devices alone has already exceeded 30,000,000 gold coins!
“Not to mention that there are so many gold coins, magic crystal cards, and jewels, too!
“I’ve really struck it big this time!
“Wahahaha, I’ve struck it big now!
“Calm down!
“Calm down!
“This is the Magical Beast Forest where it’s full of perils!.
“If I celebrate too soon and things start going wrong instead, it’ll become a tragedy.”
Meng Lei forced himself to calm down. He eagerly found somewhere relatively safe and began to make an inventory of his rewards this time.
“First things first—all the gold coins go into the system.”
“Ding! Congratulations to the host. Wealth +570,000 gold coins!”
“570,000 gold coins!”
Meng Lei’s eyes lit up, and he hastily looked at the personal stats interface.
Host: Meng Lei
Race: Human (Contains Fire Dragon bloodline and Fire Demon bloodline)
Wealth: 1,067,835 gold coins
“One, ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand, hundred thousand...
“One million and sixty thousand!
“One million and sixty thousand gold coins!”
Meng Lei broke into a grin so wide that it practically stretched from ear to ear. “I had worked so arduously in my past life and conscientiously did my best to earn an income, but even after toiling for four years, I’d only been able to make a down deposit for a house.
“Never would I have thought that I’d become a millionaire after coming to this alternate universe for just half a year! My life doesn’t lose out to the main characters in those novels, right?”
A millionaire!
For this, Meng Lei had struggled and strove for several years in his past life. Now that he’d finally realized this dream in this life, one of the biggest regrets in his heart had been resolved.
However...
Although money was wonderful, if it couldn’t be put to practical use, then it was nothing more than just a bunch of numbers.
“Come, come! I’ll redeem 60,000 gold coins’ worth of Stat Attribute Points first.
“Then, distribute them to my Spirit and Magic Power attributes.
“Haha, I can finally be willful for once!”
“Ding! Congratulations to the host for becoming a Seventh-Grade Magician!”
Chapter 63: An Arduous Task And The Road Ahead Is Long, Meng Lei Was Swallowed
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Host: Meng Lei
Race: Human (Contains Fire Dragon bloodline and Fire Demon bloodline)
Wealth: 1,007,835 gold coins
Physical Body Constitution: Seventh-Grade Warrior (15,123/50,000)
Spirit: Seventh-Grade Magician (10,128/50,000)
Magic Power: Seventh-Grade Magician (10,032/50,000)
Spell(s): Some increase
Battle Aura Technique(s): Fire Dragon Manual
Battle Skills: Some increase
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“Magic power has been liquefied! Its quantity has decreased, but its destructive power has become more terrifying!
“Spiritual power has also greatly increased!
“Seventh-Grade Magician!
“I am now a high-grade Magician!
“A Great Magician!”
Meng Lei was extremely excited as he kept looking at his attributes.
Magic cultivation often required diligent meditation, slowly improving every day and night, and years of research. This was much more difficult compared to Battle Aura!
It was a process of accumulation and consolidation for Magicians before the seventh grade. The power they could unleash was limited, and they generally were no match for a Warrior.
But when they reached the realm of seventh-grade, the situation was completely different. At this stage, the Magician could instantly cast third-grade magic, releasing shockingly powerful advanced spells. Their damage output would be much more than Warriors of the same grade!
Because of this, a Seventh-Grade Magician was much more precious than a Seventh-Grade Warrior. Kingdoms would generally award titles to Seventh-Grade Magicians, making them noblemen and granting them territories!
There was no such treatment for Seventh-Grade Warriors.
One could see the vast difference in treatment!
“I’m going back to the capital city now. If I’m lucky, who knows, I might become a Baron, haha!”
Meng Lei was very satisfied with today’s harvest—570,000 gold coins, countless treasures, and a spatial magic device worth 30,000,000. It could be said that he had made a fortune.
This trip to the Magical Beast Forest was worth it!
“However, if I want to continue my progress, I will need even more gold coins.”
For Physical Body Constitution, 34,877 Attribute Points were required to advance from seventh-grade to eighth-grade, which translated to 340,000 gold coins!
Spiritual Power required 390,000 gold coins!
Magic Power also required 390,000 gold coins!
Adding the three together, he required a total of 1,120,000 gold coins.
,120,000 gold coins!
Meng Lei currently only had 1,000,000 gold coins. This was not enough!