Picking Up Attributes From Today c1-406

by Panda Reunion, 团圆小熊猫

  “Giant Boulder... Land!”

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

  Boom!

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

  Meng Lei was also thrown out, of course.

  “Ugh!”

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

  Thunder spells?

  Fire spells?

  Or brute force?

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

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

  “C’mon, break apart!!!”

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

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

  “If this fails too, then there’s totally nothing I can do about it anymore!”

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

  Whoosh!

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

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

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

  “What the heck!?”

  Meng Lei looked absolutely stupefied.

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

  What the heck are they up to?!

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

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

  “Earth Orbs!”

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

  “Phew!”

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

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

  “How terrifying!

  “How absolutely terrifying!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

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

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

  “What should I do?

  “What exactly should I do?”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  (⊙o⊙)

  “Uh...”

  It didn’t budge at all!

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

  “I... F*ck!”

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

  “But this shouldn’t be happening!

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

  “No, I can’t give up!

  “That’s my only hope in taking apart this dragon carcass!”

  Meng Lei gritted his teeth and tried again.

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

  “I’m so tired!”

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

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

  “You’re not going to be able to pull out the Gods-Slaying Spear like that!”

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

  “Who’s there?!”

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

  He’d been too careless!!

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

  Meng Lei couldn’t help but shiver.

  “Relax, I don’t have any ill intentions.”

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

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

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

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

  “Who am I?”

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

  “The president of Fire Dragon Magic Academy?”

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

  “Amos Kroc!!!”

  Meng Lei exclaimed in surprise, “Did you say you’re Amos Kroc?!”

  “Haha, looks like you’ve heard of me!”

  The red-haired elderly man smiled in gratification. “I’m very comforted to hear that!”

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

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

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

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

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

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

  “I’ve been dead for more than 20,000 years?”

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

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

  “Little fellow, relax. I am indeed Amos Kroc!”

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

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

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

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

  His state of mind moved Meng Lei emotionally.

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

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

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

  “That’s right!”

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

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

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

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

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

  “In that case... This spear is a treasure?”

  “It’s far more than just a treasure. This is a divine weapon!”

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

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

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

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

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

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

  “So, it really is a divine weapon!”

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

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

  “Dripping blood to claim ownership?”

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

  “No, it doesn’t!”

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

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

  “Is that so?!”

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

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

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

  Bzzz!

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

  Crackle, crackle!

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