“Thinking of fleeing?”
The giant snorted, and then, a mad flurry of fists bombarded the snake.
“Hiss, hiss!”
This was evidently not an equally-matched battle. It went without saying how the final outcome turned out—one by one, the six-headed snake’s remaining four heads were swallowed into the giant’s stomach!
And then, it died!
“This...”
At the sight, everyone at the Dragon God Cathedral felt chills running down their spines, and their necks felt cold and breezy.
“So, that’s the little fellow named Adil?”
Dumbfounded, Frederick the 32nd couldn’t help but laugh. “What a fierce and brutal little fellow he is! His battle style is surprisingly very similar to that bunch of boorish, unreasonable Titans, though!”
“How brilliant, Your Majesty!”
A smiling President Luke said, “Not only has Adil awakened his Thunder Titan bloodline, but the awakening is even an in-depth one. In terms of bloodline purity, he can already match up to a demi-Titan!”
“An in-depth awakening? Not bad!”
Frederick the 32nd repeatedly nodded as he said, “Thunder Titans are a high-end race that’s in no way inferior to us Golden Colossal Dragons. If Adil can achieve ultimate awakening, he’ll be able to match up to a pure-blooded Thunder Titan!”
“Indeed, Your Majesty!” replied a smiling President Luke.
“That kid has great potential. Emphasis must be placed on him in terms of grooming! With due time, perhaps a Thunder Titan clan can also emerge in the Dragon God Empire!”
Frederick the 32nd went on. “When that happens, that barbaric Titan in the western continent will definitely be so infuriated that he’d die! Hahaha!”
“Your Majesty indeed has a heart as big as the Endless Oceans and as broad as the vast starry skies! I’m full of admiration!” President Luke lauded sincere praise from the bottom of his heart!
Chapter 161: A Proliferation of Geniuses, A Deep Sinkhole
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
The scene displayed on the magic screen changed constantly. Following Sachhen the Golden Dragon-Lion and Adil the Thunder Giant, the other geniuses also made their debut one by one.
“Your Majesty, that’s Miriam the Immortal Fairy. Miriam has successfully awakened her Wood Fairy bloodline and has nearly perfectly inherited all of the Wood Fairy’s abilities.
“Not only does she have superbly high wood-elemental magic talent, but she also possesses a superbly wide field of vision, making her both a wood-elemental Saint Domain Great Magician as well as a Saint Domain archer!
“That’s Meredith the Empire’s Dawn. Meredith possesses the powerful Angel bloodline and has incredible and exceptional talent when it comes to light-elemental laws of nature.
“At the young age of 29 years old, Meredith already possesses the strength of a mid-level Saint Domain. Even many old-timer Saint Domains wouldn’t dare say for sure that they can beat her in a battle!
“That white-haired fellow wearing beast hide is Mond Aston, the White Tiger Knight. Mond Aston is a rare double bloodline-holder. Additionally, both bloodlines he holds are extremely powerful.
“One of them is the Beast People’s royal bloodline, the White Tiger bloodline, while the other is the Netherworld White Tiger bloodline.
“White Tigers are legendary warlord divine beasts. They are resolute and decisive in battle, and their ferocious might reaches all the way to the heavens, while Netherworld White Tigers are rare light-elemental and dark-elemental Saint Domain Magical Beasts, which makes them strange and unpredictable.
“For Mond Aston, who has successfully awakened his double Tiger bloodlines, not only does he possess the rarely-seen combination of light-elemental, dark-elemental, and metal-elemental magic talents, but he also has a strong and powerful body, as well as incredible speed. Mond Aston’s strength is not to be doubted!”
“Sachhen the Golden Dragon-Lion, Adil the Thunder Giant, Miriam the Immortal Fairy, Meredith the Empire’s Dawn, and Mond Aston the White Tiger Knight!”
Upon hearing President Luke’s introduction, Frederick the 32nd was terribly emotional. “The geniuses this year are undoubtedly the most impressive in the last 100 years!
“Any of them would’ve been a well-deserved candidate for the title of champion in the past years, yet there are so many of them this year! I am greatly comforted to see that!”
“These are all thanks to Your Majesty’s great leadership!”
“The proliferation of geniuses and the empire’s prosperity are all thanks to Your Majesty!”
“Ever since Your Majesty has ascended the throne, all have surrendered, and every race has realigned their allegiance to the empire. The Lost Continent was then discovered, and now, there are geniuses...”
At the sight of the emperor’s reaction, the officials began to sing unending praises, which flowed like the gushing, flooding rivers beyond one’s control.
Frederick the 32nd waved lightly and said, “The proliferation of geniuses is certainly the empire’s fortune, but I’ve heard that those aren’t the only talents this year!”
At this point, Frederick the 32nd’s gaze landed on the other academy presidents, his inquiry evident.
“Your Majesty, several geniuses have also emerged from the Royal Knights Academy. The most outstanding one is no doubt Her Highness, Annabella the 13th Princess!
“Her Highness has excellent talent. At 28 years old, she’s ranked 17th in the Dragon God Genius Ranking and firmly overpowers everyone in the younger generation. She has even made great contributions during the dozens of marine beast attacks. Her strength makes even old antiques like us ashamed of ourselves.”
“Little Thirteen is indeed not bad!”
Upon hearing praises of the 13th Princess, a smile appeared on Frederick the 32nd’s countenance at once. Among all his children that numbered more than 1,000, the one he doted on the most was Little Thirteen.
All the officials and numerous Saint Domains also nodded repeatedly. As the one hailed as the strongest among the younger generation, there was no doubt about the 13th Princess’ strength. Thus, she was highly favored by His Majesty.
If it weren’t because her bloodline wasn’t pure, she’d have been the next emperor for sure. Prince Barbarossa wouldn’t even have been part of the discussion at all.
In a certain area of a forest in the Lost Continent...
“The Saint Domain Magical Beast aura is emanating from this pit!”
A young man wearing a black magic robe approached a sinkhole in the depths of the forest. The sinkhole, measuring 100-meters-wide and unfathomably deep, looked just like a monster’s enormous mouth that was about to devour someone.
The sinkhole’s walls on the inside were full of fine grasses, lichen, and fungi that blocked the sinkhole firmly and entirely from view. If he hadn’t found his way here by following the Saint Domain Magical Beast’s aura, he wouldn’t have discovered its existence at all.
“Yet another Saint Domain Magical Beast is going to croak. Sigh, they must be really down on their luck to have run into you! How pitiful~”
“Ol’ President, must you really say it like that?”
“Am I wrong in saying that?”
“Aren’t you?”
“Are you intending to kill it?”
“Of course!”
“It’s staying in its den all fine and dandy, yet calamity’s going to fall out of nowhere from the sky. Since it’s going to be killed by you for no good reason, then doesn’t that make it really down on its luck?”
“Well, I guess so.”
“There’s nothing wrong with what I said, then!”
“I can’t win in an argument with you...”
The young man was naturally Meng Lei. He went right into the sinkhole with a leap. A chilly, humid dampness in the air coupled with the stink of decay rushed toward him.
As he went deeper and deeper int
o the sinkhole, the temperatures began to drop, and the light became dimmer and dimmer. However, the aura of the Saint Domain Magical Beast lurking within also became increasingly stronger.
Meng Lei, who was bold and fearless thanks to his skills, descended swiftly into the sinkhole. Approximately five minutes later, he finally reached the bottom of the sinkhole. A gigantic underground cave entered his sight.
“Wow, there’s a whole different world at the bottom of the sinkhole!”
Despite how dimly lit the bottom of the sinkhole was, as Meng Lei had astonishingly good eyesight, nothing in the surroundings could escape his vision. The area at the bottom of the sinkhole was incredibly wide and spacious, and one actually couldn’t even see to the end of it.
It was truly a whole new world full of profoundness within.
The ground was strewn with various skeletons and remains. The largest skeleton was as tall as 100 meters, and just a single rib bone alone was already as tall as a 10-story building.
As for other skeletal remains, there were so many around that one couldn’t keep count at all.
“The concentration of methane here is astonishingly high. Just a tiny spark would be enough to ignite an earth-shattering explosion. But where’s the Saint Domain Magical Beast, though?”
Buzz, buzz!
All of a sudden...
A peculiar buzzing reached his ears, and then several pairs of blood-red eyes suddenly appeared in his vision.
Innumerable pairs of eyes the color of blood appeared in the dark. As though the eyes of fiends from hell, they gave off an incredibly sinister and chilly glint that would badly frighten anyone.
At the same time, the sounds of something licking its lips and swallowing its saliva also reached him. One could easily imagine that the masters of these blood-red eyes were currently watching Meng Lei intently and licking their lips greedily.
And the truth was indeed so.
In the pitch-black cave opposite him, Meng Lei could clearly see bat-like creatures hanging upside-down. As large as a yak, each of them had a pair of wings on their back, the head of a black wolf, blood-red eyes, and a mouth full of fangs.
Those were the Sixth-Grade Magical Beasts, Shadowwolf Bats!
“I’m being seen as food by a bunch of Sixth-Grade Magical Beasts...”
The corners of Meng Lei’s lips quirked upward in a contemptuous smile. He tossed an orange-sized fireball toward them with a flick of his fingers.
Boom!
The fireball successfully ignited the methane permeating the air at the bottom of the sinkhole. Amid deafening explosions, a series of successive explosions erupted, and shocking waves of fire began to roast everything at the bottom of the sinkhole.
Hooowl!
At once, shrill cries rang out everywhere. All the Shadowwolf Bats flapped their wings and flew about frantically as they tried to flee. They looked as though they had all gone mad. How they wished they had been born with another pair of wings!
“That’s for not knowing what’s good for you.”
Meng Lei snorted lightly. Then, he dived straight into the flames rushing into the heavens and went toward where the Saint Domain Magical Beast’s aura was coming from.
As for the tens of thousands of Shadowwolf Bats trapped inside the sea of fire, he could hardly be bothered with them. If they were going to be burned to death, then be his guest.
As for those that the fire couldn’t burn to death, they would only be in even more pain and agony as they suffered from a living hell.
Chapter 162: Hermaphrodite, This Is My Mount
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
The underground cave was deep and bottomless.
After Meng Lei walked for 15 minutes or so, an enormous underground pool finally appeared. Mist drifted about above the pool, such that one couldn’t see how deep it was or how wide it spanned. It looked just like a celestial pool.
In the center of the pool laid an exotic-looking Magical Beast that bore a striking resemblance to a Chinese giant salamander. A milky-white color throughout its body, it looked as if it was made out of fine white tallow jade. It looked incredibly soft, smooth, white and tender, sparkling and translucent, bright and clear, and as tender as though water was going to ooze out of it...
Its skin could make countless noblewomen and young debutantes ashamed of their own unseemliness, as well as countless beauties and young ladies insanely jealous.
“What the heck? That’s such a huge giant salamander!” Meng Lei exclaimed in a low voice, “It’s probably at least 70 to 80 meters long, isn’t it? How impressive!”
“Waaa~”
His voice greatly alarmed the gigantic salamander-like creature, and it turned to look over.
Perhaps it wasn’t quite apt to say that it had “looked over”—because its eyes were actually tightly shut. Evidently, its body had regressed in order to adapt to the dim underground environment.
Nevertheless, it had still discovered Meng Lei’s presence.
“Waaa~”
“Waaa~”
The giant salamander’s mouth opened, and it emitted sharp, ear-piercing cries, which sounded just like the crying and wailing of a child. It sounded awfully terrifying.
“Ol’ President, what kind of Magical Beast is that?”
Its cries were making Meng Lei rather creeped out.
“If I’m not wrong, that’s likely a Saint Domain Magical Beast that has long since gone extinct in Heaven’s Vault Continent—the Split-Body Devil Salamander!” Ol’ Amos commented with slight astonishment in his voice, “The Lost Continent is truly an amazing place! There are a lot of creatures here that have already gone extinct in Heaven’s Vault Continent a long time ago!”
“The Split-Body Devil Salamander? Why does it have such a strange name?” Meng Lei was rather puzzled.
“That’s because that Magical Beast has the ability to split apart its body.”
Ol’ Amos explained, “When it encounters lethal attacks, the Split-Body Devil Salamander will split into several individual parts to mitigate the damage from the attack. In other words, the Split-Body Devil Salamander is immune to physical attacks.”
“It can split its body into different parts?” Ol’ Amos’ explanation stupefied Meng Lei. “As expected, fact is really stranger than fiction in this boundless universe. To think there are actually such amazing Magical Beasts in this world!”
Splitting its body?
Wouldn’t that make it very similar to the slugs in Naruto?
“There are a lot of creatures beyond your imagination out there. What’s the big deal about this?” Ol’ Amos smiled noncommittally. Then he said, “You’ll have to be careful later on. The Split-Body Devil Salamander may look cute and silly, but it’s undoubtedly highly irritable and extremely hostile. That’s where the ‘devil’ in its name comes from, after all.”
“Understood!”
Meng Lei turned around. True enough, the Split-Body Devil Salamander, which was snarling and had its fangs bared, entered his sight. It growled deeply and entered an offensive stance.
“Waaa!”
The next moment, innumerable silver water spears glittering coldly in the light abruptly appeared around it. Then, it brazenly launched its attack.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
As though they wanted to jab countless holes into Meng Lei, the silver water spears pierced through the air toward him, emitting shrill whizzes as they did.
“Eighth-Grade Spell, Water Judgment? Am I being underestimated?” Meng Lei shook his head lightly. Then, he slowly uttered two words, “Absolute Zero!”
Buzz!
The Ice Elements in all directions suddenly converged, and then they turned into a surging white air current that rushed toward the Split-Body Devil Salamander.
“Waaa!”
The Split-Body Devil Salamander let out a strange cry. Before it could even react, the white air current had already thoroughly engulfed it.
Crack!
In a split second, the innumerable water spears shooting toward Meng Lei were frozen.
The Split-Body Devil Salamander, as well as the pool underneath it, was also frozen.
Everything in the cave was frozen!
For a moment there, the dim, humid cave turned into a crystal palace that emitted an astonishing chill. It was so cold that even one’s breath would turn into mist.
A whitish mist permeated the air!
The solid ice was bright and clear!
The Split-Body Devil Salamander had turned into a sculpture. It was still maintaining its previous pose and seemed like a freshly sculpted ice sculpture—vivid and true to life, animated and lively.
“Ding! 1 Split-Body Devil Salamander killed. 10.4 billion gold coins gained!”
“Absolute Zero sure is fearsome. But there’s nothing more suitable than that when it comes to dealing with the Split-Body Devil Salamander!”
Ol’ Amos took a deep breath and sighed from the bottom of his heart. As for why Meng Lei could cast an ice-elemental first-class spell, he had already reached a stage where he was nonplussed about it. There was no lack of inexplicable events when it came to Meng Lei, after all.
“Splitting? Something like that doesn’t even exist when Absolute Zero is around!”
Meng Lei laughed lightly. Then, he tapped lightly on the ice sculpture. With a crack, the enormous Split-Body Devil Salamander broke apart and turned into ice shavings at once.
“Collect!”
A watermelon-sized magic core flew out at once. Meng Lei stored it in his ring, and then he returned to the forest to continue his hunt.
At a level like Meng Lei’s, he was no longer satisfied with just ordinary Magical Beasts. His minimal target was Ninth-Grade Magical Beasts, while his priority was Saint Domain Magical Beasts.
As for low-end stuff like Seventh-Grade and Eighth-Grade Magical Beasts, he’d just wipe them out along the way should he encounter them. As for making the special effort to go after them, that was just a waste of time.
“Ol’ President, can you sense any Saint Domain Magical Beasts?”
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