M-magic power +1? It’s magic power this time?
He felt a warm sensation where his dantian1 was. It was as if he had drunk erguotou2. Meng Lei knew that this was likely the magic power that he had just assimilated into his body!
He raised his right arm again!
True enough, there was a reaction this time!
A spark of fire appeared out of thin air in the middle of his palm. Then, it swiftly swelled. In just a few short breaths, it had swelled to the size of a pomelo!
The fireball was small, and it flickered and swayed. However, the astonishingly high heat that it emitted was such that no one would dare to doubt the terrifying energy contained within this fireball at all!
Magic!
This is magic!
Meng Lei was so agitated that his blood was boiling. This sensation was indescribable with mere words!
How exciting!
How stimulating!
This is an entirely different experience!
It was just a shame that the fireball didn’t sustain that long before it turned into a wisp of smoke and dissipated into the air.
Meng Lei felt a sense of debilitation come over him. It was as though his body had been emptied...
What the hell!? I’ve used up all my magic power!
Chapter 4: Breakthrough to Trainee Warrior
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Upon feeling the emptiness inside his body, Meng Lei was rendered speechless—one single fireball had actually exhausted his magic power!
This consumption is overbearing! I need more magic power!
Meng Lei set his sights on the Fire Wolf. Meng Lei had never come into contact with magic before, so he did not know how to acquire magic power. Currently, he could obtain it by picking it up, and when looking around the whole field, only the Fire Wolf may drop the magic-power light balls!
Although no more magic-power light balls dropped in the next few minutes, some other light balls dropped. Meng Lei’s wild wishes failed to be fulfilled, but his strength was steadily growing, and the Physical Body Constitution column quickly broke through 10!
The system’s cold cue tone sounded just in time. “Ding! Congratulations, host, for achieving a breakthrough and becoming a Trainee Warrior. Please keep working hard, host, and strive to make another breakthrough!”
“Trainee Warrior?”
The stats interface changed as well!
Host: Meng Lei
Race: Human
Wealth: 0
Physical Body Constitution: Trainee Warrior (10/100)
Spirit: Normal Human Being (4/10)
Magic Power: 0 (0/10)
Spell(s): Fireball Technique
I’m a Trainee Warrior now? Meng Lei was a bit dumbstruck. This speed of advancement is too fast, right?
A Trainee Warrior!
Though there was the word “trainee” in it, it actually made him much stronger than ordinary people!
Magical Beast Village was located on the edge of the Magical Beast Ridge, and people relied on the ridge to make their living. The villagers made a living by hunting and collecting herbs, but great strength was required to traverse the Magical Beast Ridge, and the villagers were all tough and strong!
Yet among the almost one hundred villagers, there weren’t but a few Warriors. Many villagers were limited in natural talent. Despite being slightly stronger physically, there weren’t many who could become Trainee Warriors!
For Meng Lei to get promoted from a member of “the old and the weak”, who were to be protected, to a Trainee Warrior, his improvement speed was definitely astonishing!
Trainee Warriors are very strong!
I’ve seen them tear apart tigers and leopards with bare hands and beat up wild boars with fists. They are even fiercer than those Ding kings on Earth!
I’m also a Trainee Warrior now!
Am I just as strong as them?
Should I give it a go?
Meng Lei looked at his thin arms and legs, picked up a rake, and moved cautiously!
His footsteps became lighter!
And the rake felt lighter!
Roar...
A wild boar with a black face and protruding tusks, almost two meters long, just happened to be rushing over. Its hair stood up like steel pins, while its tusks were extremely sharp, shining with cold light.
If an ordinary person got hit by this thing, they would definitely be ripped apart.
“Take my rake hit!” Meng Lei yelled, waved the rake, and smashed it at the boar!
“What are you doing? Retreat immediately!”
Job, a member of the guards standing beside him, got shocked, and his eyelids twitched. He hurried to raise his big sword and slashed it toward the Hairy Wild Boar!
The Hairy Wild Boar is extremely strong and destructive, and even I have to use all my strength to fight it. Meng Lei is only a little kid, isn’t he looking for his own death, running up to it?
Yet in the next moment, Job was stunned!
Crack!
The rake crashed onto the head of the Hairy Wild Boar, and like a rake hitting onto a watermelon, it produced a crisp cracking sound, and the Hairy Wild Boar’s head directly opened up!
Its brain burst, and blood splashed!
The Hairy Wild Boar made a wail and then went silent. Then, under inertia, it continued running for a distance before loudly crashing onto the ground, eventually lying motionless and completely dead!
“It’s... dead?”
Job’s mouth opened wide. He was feeling that his brain was not working properly. “Meng Lei... actually killed the wild boar? How is this possible?”
“I killed this wild boar? A Trainee Warrior is actually this strong?”
Meng Lei was inexplicably excited!
“Ding! 1 Hairy Wild Boar killed, 10 gold coins gained!” The cue tone of the system sounded!
“10 gold coins?”
Meng Lei was stunned!
“Ding! Friendly reminder: After the host kills the target, the corresponding wealth points can be obtained!”
The system explained coldly, “Wealth points represent the wealth owned by the host. It has many uses. It can either be used to improve various attributes or for consumption!”
“I see!”
Meng Lei nodded to show he understood. He was not in a hurry to use these 10 gold coins, so he charged forward to kill the other beasts!
“Ding! Dropped item detected. Will you pick it up?”
“Yes, pick it up!”
“Ding! Pickup successful. Host’s Physical Body Constitution +3!”
Yes! That’s the way!
That’s the feeling of becoming stronger!
Coming to the village entrance was the right decision indeed!
The pleasure of becoming stronger was intoxicating!
Meng Lei loved this feeling!
Continue!
Meng Lei advanced and attacked the next beast. This time, it was a python-like beast, about 10 meters long, covered entirely in green scales!
Its tongue moved in and out, its eyes shone with a cold light. It came attacking in an S-shaped route, its slippery body looked nauseating!
“Go and die!”
Meng Lei waved his rake and directly severed the python’s head!
“Ding! 1 Green-Scaled Python killed, 20 gold coins gained!”
Chapter 5: Bug Plug-In, Death of the Fire Wolf King
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Scarlet blood formed a river, and its pungent smell enshrouded the village entrance!
Twenty or thirty strong men held the city walls and continued to kill the beasts, but the beasts seemed to be endless—they kept coming, and the men continued to kill. However, the beast tide still showed no sign of dying down!
The guards gradually got tired, and their combat effectiveness continued to decline. Soon, the situation became unfavorable for the guards!
“This won’t do. We’ll fail to hold on soon
er or later!”
“Captain, hurry up and find a way to kill that Fire Wolf! Otherwise, the beast tide won’t die down!”
When Hudders, who was entangled in a fierce battle with the Fire Wolf King, heard his subordinates’ shouts, he became extremely anxious. He knew that the root of the beast tide not dying down was this Fire Wolf King!
It was very likely the beast tide’s leader!
If the Fire Wolf King didn’t die, the beast tide wouldn’t die down!
The problem was he was unable to kill the Fire Wolf King. He had actually been at a disadvantage in the battle with the Fire Wolf King!
Killing the Fire Wolf King was but a dream, so Hudders could only be anxious inside!
In comparison, Meng Lei, on the other side, achieved repeated successes!
“Ding! 1 Green-Scaled Python killed, 20 gold coins gained!”
“Ding! Dropped item discovered. Will you pick it up?”
“Ding! 1 Wind Wolf killed, 18 gold coins gained!”
In less than 10 minutes, Meng Lei had killed 5 beasts in succession and accumulated hundreds of gold coins. At the same time, he had also picked up 4 light balls, including 4 Physical Body Constitution light balls and 1 Spirit light ball!
His attributes were quietly changing!
Host: Meng Lei
Race: Human
Wealth: 108 gold coins
Physical Body Constitution: Trainee Warrior (20/100)
Spirit: Normal Human Being (5/10)
Magic Power: 0 (0/10)
Spell(s): Fireball Technique
Surprisingly, his physical body constitution had received a fortyfold increase from the initial 0.5 to 20!
His Spirit had received a fivefold increase from the initial 1 to 5!
As for his Wealth, he now had 108 gold coins!
This wasn’t a small amount!
One had to know that the spending of an ordinary villager of Magical Beast Village was just a few gold coins, and 108 gold coins would be enough for them to spend for 2 to 3 years!
All of this happened in only a quarter of an hour!
I’m this much stronger!
This system is so buggy!
When sensing the strong powers that were about to gush out of his body, Meng Lei had an urge to look up at the sky and laugh.
With such a buggy cheating device, it’d be hard for me to not be awesome!
“Ahhh!”
At that moment, a scream of pain echoed. Hudders was seen flying out backward, smashing against the village walls, and knocking out a hole in it. His chest was a charcoal black, and his clothes were also on fire. He was clearly hit by a fireball!
“Captain!!!”
“Are you alright, captain!”
“Captain, how are you...”
This sudden scene frightened all the guards. Their captain was a Second-Grade Warrior, and he was actually injured by the hit of a First-Grade Magical Beast! How was this possible!?
Roar!
After one successful hit, the Fire Wolf King walked step by step toward Hudders, elegantly. Fire-elemental magical substances gathered in its mouth, and a fireball was in formation! It was going to launch a fatal blow to kill Hudders completely!
“Captain!”
“Protect the captain!”
“Beast, stay away from the captain!”
The guards revealed shocked expressions, but they all rushed toward the Fire Wolf King, roaring angrily!
“Don’t come here!!!” Hudders yelled hoarsely, “Leave me be! Do your own duty! Don’t let the beast tide destroy the walls!”
“Captain!”
The guards’ eyes were blood-red!
“Don’t you even listen to me now?” Captain Hudders struggled and stood up. “Everyone, guard the wall. This beast is mine to take!”
“Captain!!!”
The guards’ eyes were red, but they dared not disobey their captain’s order. Captain Hudders had an extremely high reputation in Magical Beast Village, and nobody dared to question his words!
“Beast, come here if you dare!”
Captain Hudders’s face was grim. His huge sword pointed toward the Fire Wolf King, and he roared furiously!
Roar!
The Fire Wolf King released a low roar, opened its mouth, and spat out the fireball!
“Beast, come here, I’m not afraid of you!”
Hudders looked at the high-temperature fireball coming right at his face and held the huge sword in his hand, his eyes full of determination. “Since it’s come to this, I’ll have to fight with my life by burning Battle Aura...”
Boom!
The fireball was shot over at high speed and was about to hit Captain Hudders when another fireball suddenly shot out from the side! It hit the Fire Wolf King’s fireball accurately!
The two fireballs collided together and exploded!
The fire blasted into the sky, while sparks spattered and dust flew around them. The surroundings were in a mess!
“What’s going on?
Hudders froze!
The guards froze!
The Fire Wolf King also froze!
A fireball?
Where did the fireball come from?
“Captain Hudders, kill it first!” shouted Meng Lei, pointing at the Fire Wolf!
“Little Meng Lei?” Hudders was stunned, but when he saw the fingers of Meng Lei’s right hand, his whole body felt a shock. “Flames? You actually know how to use magic?”
A pinch of hot, red flame was swaying on the tips of Meng Lei’s fingers, releasing an astonishing heat. Nobody would dare to doubt the terrible energy contained in this small flame at all!
“Captain Hudders, let’s talk about everything after finishing off this Fire Wolf!”
Meng Lei could understand Captain Hudders’s feelings, but this wasn’t the time for an explanation at all. The top priority was to kill the Fire Wolf and stop the beast tide!
Captain Hudders nodded hard. “You’re right, we’ll kill this beat first! Go to the back and use magic to sneak attack and constrain this beast’s movement. I’ll take it head-on. We’ll kill this beast together!”
After he finished speaking, Hudders used his final strength and rushed forward!
This time, Captain Hudders saw hope, and his eyes were full of fighting spirit. He rushed with big strides in front of the Fire Wolf King and swung his huge sword instantly, aiming for the Fire Wolf King’s head!
Roar!
The Fire Wolf King let out a low roar, scratched the ground with four claws, and retreated. If this had happened earlier, it could have easily jumped away and spewed out a fireball, attacking while dodging!
Unfortunately, this time, when the Fire Wolf King just jumped up, a fireball flew over forcefully through the air, striking right at the Fire Wolf King’s abdomen!
Boom!
The fireball exploded instantly, and like a detonated grenade, it released a fiery flame!
Howl!
The Fire Wolf King howled, and its waist arched!
“A good opportunity!”
Captain Hudders fixed his gaze, his right foot kicked on the ground, and then he dashed like a flash of lightning. A faint earth-brown halo covered the surface of the huge sword as it stabbed out forcefully!
Pfft—
Blood oozed out wildly, and the Fire Wolf howled!
“Slash again!”
Chapter 6: Beast Tide Receded, Harvest After the Disaster
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Boom!
Hudders’ sword pierced right through the Fire Wolf’s throat!
The terrible Second-Grade Magical Beast collapsed on the ground!
“Ha... Haha... Hahaha...”
Captain Hudders staggered, almost unable to stand stably, but his expression was high-spirited. He was so excited that he looked up and laughed.
His laughter was heard by everyone around the village entrance!
“It died?”
“The Fire Wolf is de
ad!”
“Captain killed the Fire Wolf!”
“That’s wonderful...”
Everyone felt ecstatic!
“Phew! Finally killed it!”
Meng Lei breathed out a mouthful of dusty air, and he relaxed completely. But, when he saw the empty Wealth column on his personal attributes interface, he couldn’t laugh anymore.
His 108 gold coins were all gone!
He only got 5 fireballs...
“So costly!” Meng Lei smacked. “Fortunately, the Fire Wolf is dead!”
The Fire Wolf King’s death had a huge impact on the beast tide. The madness and fierceness in the wild beasts’ eyes gradually disappeared. Soon, they lost all their fighting spirit and retreated.
This was what a beast tide was like. Once the leader died, the remaining beasts would all scatter. There was no way they would stay and continue risking their lives to fight!
After all, the leader had forced the vast majority of the beasts to come. Once the leader died, they would run away immediately!
This was indeed the case!
The initially wild and bloodthirsty beast tide retreated like a tide, and within a few minutes, they retreated completely, leaving only corpses, wreckage, and blood all over the ground!
“Retreated?”
“The beast tide retreated?”
“The beast tide finally retreated!”
“F*ck, I thought I was going to die...”
The top of the village wall was suddenly filled with noises!
Some waved their swords and roared loudly with faces flushed red, while others collapsed on the ground and breathed heavily!
The beast tide had finally retreated, and they had obtained victory!
“Captain, are you okay?”
Several guards jumped off the village wall and helped Captain Hudders up, their eyes full of concern and admiration!
“I’m fine!” Captain Hudders shook his head, and his gaze actually fell on Meng Lei. “Little Meng Lei, it was thanks to you just now. If not for you, we’d be in danger today! But you hid pretty deep, huh, boy? I didn’t even know that you, boy, are actually a Magician!”
Meng Lei was actually a Magician!
Upon hearing that, all the guards looked at Meng Lei with a completely different look in their eyes than before!
Shock!
Confusion!
Disbelief!
As compared to Battle Aura, which didn’t have much requirement on natural talent, the cultivation of magic was much stricter!
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