Crap!
She was overjoyed for nothing!
Even so, the fox girl concealed her thoughts that arose from the bottom of her heart, and said with a sweet smile, “Lord Magician, 50 cubic meters of storage space is a moderate amount, hence the prices are relatively favorable as well. They start from around 1,500,000 to 5,800,000 gold coins and beyond...”
“...”
The corners of Meng Lei’s mouth twitched as sweat appeared on his forehead. “How much is the cheapest spatial ring in your store?”
“...?”
The fox girl was stunned. She pointed at a spatial ring placed at the bottom of the crystal cabinet and said, “This is the cheapest spatial ring in this store. It has a 1-cubic-meter storage space, and the original price is 190,000 gold coins. If you want—”
“Forget it! I don’t want any of these!”
Meng Lei left the shop with cold sweat on his forehead as if he was fleeing from it!
Damm*t, even the cheapest spatial ring cost 190,000 gold coins. This is a robbery!
190,000 gold coins?
Even if I sell myself, I can’t even fetch so many gold coins!
“Poor ghost! You shouldn’t be shopping if you don’t have money!”
Chapter 50: Battle Of The Silver Fighters, Fire Demon Bloodline
Meng Lei was very frustrated!
He’d initially thought of himself as someone who owned a modest amount of assets after the last half a year of wealth accumulation. Even though it couldn’t compare to what the nobility had, he had excess money in his card and felt reassured!
That was why he had dared to enter the store to purchase the magic device that he’d had his eyes on for the longest time. Little did he expect that a spatial magic device would actually be that expensive! Even the cheapest spatial ring cost 190,000 gold coins!
Goddamnit!
I’m a pauper after all!
Forget it! I’ll go to the arena first!
...
On this night, all seats in Arena No. 7 were full!
As a Silver Arena, be it scale or decor, Arena No. 7 was a place far beyond what Bronze Arenas could compare with. Just the audience in the venue alone was enough to prove that!
Dragon People nobility decorated with gold and silver!
Big-bellied overlords!
Gorgeous and fashionable upper-class young ladies!
They were people that either enjoyed a high social status or had great riches!
They were either the wealthy or the noble!
This was what the Silver Arena was—the upper-class society’s entertainment venue. It wasn’t a place that the petty bourgeoisie could freely enter!
“Esteemed guests!
“Dear friends and audience!
“Good evening, everyone! Welcome to Flame Arena!
“I am Nilya Noel, your host for tonight!
“Tonight, I am honored to present everyone an exciting showdown between two fighters! The first is the Two-Star Silver Fighter, Aric Bene, the Flaming Tiger Fire Demon!”
A flash of light suddenly shone, and the beautiful Swan-Woman host appeared on the stage. Her clear and melodious voice rang throughout Arena No. 7, and the noisy venue quietened at once.
“Dear guests, all of you should know that the Flaming Tiger Fire Demon is famous for being bathed in flames, and for his strong and ferocious, wild and violent fighting style. He is affectionately known as the Flaming Tiger Fire Demon by the audience...
“As of now, the Flaming Tiger Fire Demon has fought a total of 192 battles and achieved an excellent battle record of 98 victories, 32 draws, and 62 losses, of which, he has knocked out the opponent 19 times. He is one of the most experienced Silver Fighters in our Flame Arena!”
“Flaming Tiger Fire Demon!!!”
“Flaming Tiger Fire Demon!!!”
“Flaming Tiger Fire Demon!!!”
The host had only just said that when the stands erupted into huge cheers. As the most experienced veteran Silver Fighter of Flame Arena, the Flaming Tiger Fire Demon had gained and accumulated immense popularity. Having 1/3 of the audience in the venue cheering and rallying for him was the best proof of this!
However, when the beautiful swan-woman host revealed the other fighter’s identity, the cheers and rallying became even louder. Each wave of cheers overpowered the previous and almost flipped over the roof!
“Thunder God!!!”
“Thunder God!!!”
“Thunder God!!!”
“I love you, Thunder God!!!”
The host was greatly satisfied with the on-site atmosphere. After the waves of cheers died down slightly, she continued and said, “As everyone is aware, the Thunder God is a Magician fighter that’s rarely seen in the Flame Arena. Ever since his debut, he has been termed as the Thunder God by the audience due to his cool and swell battling style and his identity as a Thunder-Element Magician!
“At present, the Thunder God has fought 30 battles, and achieved a great record of 23 victories, 3 draws, and 4 losses! Out of which the 3 draws, and 4 losses had only occurred when he was leveling up to a Silver Fighter. Ever since he successfully leveled up to a Silver Fighter, the Thunder God has not lost a single match and has achieved a crazy battle record of 11 consecutive victories!
“Tonight, can the Thunder God continue his previous madness and overcome the opponent to achieve victory and increase his number of consecutive wins to 12 matches? We look very much forward to that!
“Now, let us welcome the two Silver Fighters on stage with warm applause!”
“Flaming Tiger Fire Demon!!!”
“Thunder God!!!”
Whoosh, whoosh!
Two beams of light shone downward. At once, two light streams—one red and one silver—shot out intensely from the entrances. Before anyone could register it, they had already landed in the ring at top speed!
The light streams settled to reveal two figures!
One of them had a strong and robust body and bulging muscles. He was a crimson red all over, and his gaze was sharp. In particular, his head of red locks, which flew in the breeze, was as though burning flames, giving off extremely high heat!
He was the Flaming Tiger Fire Demon—Aric Bene, a veteran Silver Fighter that had fought 192 matches, and whose victory rate was as high as 51%!
As for the other figure!
He had a golden mask on his face and donned a magician robe. He had an elegant bearing and cut a handsome figure. In terms of body shape and momentum alone, he couldn’t compare to the Flaming Tiger Fire Demon at all!
Yet more than half of the audience present screamed and shouted madly for him the moment he stood on-stage. The noble young ladies were even red in the faces and had become extremely crazed in their behavior, contrary to their previous ladylike elegance!
“I love you, Thunder God!!!”
“Thunder God, I want to have your babies!”
It was easy to see that the audience that had come for the Thunder God was evidently way crazier than the Flaming Tiger Fire Demon’s. As a veteran Silver Fighter, this put an awful look on the Flaming Tiger Fire Demon’s face, and he looked at the Thunder God in an extremely hostile manner!
“For what reason do you get to be more popular than me when you’re just a newbie and a junior?!”
The Flaming Tiger Fire Demon sounded wild and raging as he roared furiously, “Junior, I will finish you, and let the audience realize just how big of a mistake their choice is!”
“Hurhur, come at me, then!”
Meng Lei sounded calm and collected. Hidden under the mask, the corners of his mouth quirked upward slightly into a confident arch. The Flaming Tiger Fire Demon? He didn’t think much of him just yet!
“Kill!”
A bout of red flames suddenly burst forth from the Flaming Tiger Fire Demon and enveloped his whole body. As if he had become a flaming man, he gave off an alarmingly high heat!
The flaming man moved the next moment. He transformed into a burst
of flames and shot toward Meng Lei. In the blink of an eye, he had crossed the distance of 20 meters and arrived in front of Meng Lei!
“Good job coming here!”
Meng Lei stared hard at him. With a point of his finger, an electric current shot out from his fingertip and instantly struck the Flaming Tiger Fire Demon. It easily pierced through the flames on the outside to come into contact with the Flaming Tiger Fire Demon’s skin surface, leaving behind an expanse of charred blackness!
“Hmph!”
The Flaming Tiger Fire Demon let out a muffled grunt and froze slightly!
However, it was precisely during this brief moment that Meng Lei launched a crazy bout of attacks. Several lightning bolts as thick as a human’s arm descended from the heavens and struck the Flaming Tiger Fire Demon heavily!
It was the Fourth-Grade Spell, Descending Wild Thunder!
However, it wasn’t over yet!
Muttering under his breath, Meng Lei quickly chanted a magic incantation and summoned all the thunder magic elements within a radius of 100 meters of where he was, which quickly converged toward him. As they fell into place, they actually formed 10 Thunder Pythons that were 30 meters long and as thick as water barrels!
The dazzling Thunder Pythons lit up the arena, and also lit up the eyes of everyone among the audience. This scene was practically too cool! The audience went completely mad and began to shout and roar hysterically! Each of their faces was flushed, as though they were climaxing!
“Sixth-Grade Spell, Lightning Snake Flurry!
“Land!”
Meng Lei struck his palms against the floor. Amidst loud and ear-piercing cries, the 10 Thunder Pythons swooped down one by one, flooding the Flaming Tiger Fire Demon and covering the ring!
“It’s over!”
Meng Lei turned around, no longer sparing the Flaming Tiger Fire Demon, who had been flooded by lightning and electric currents, another glance. Instead, he waved at the screaming audience, turning them even crazier!
“Thunder God!!!”
“I love you, Thunder God!!! Be my 18th pretty boy! I want to keep you in my backyard!”
Amid the crazy shouts, the rampaging electric currents gradually ebbed away, revealing the form of the Flaming Tiger Fire Demon, who had been struck by Lightning Snake Flurry. He could be said to be in an extremely pathetic state right now. The burning flames had already been extinguished a long time ago. Even his clothes had been burned to ashes, and his body was charred all over...
Yeap, the sight of him was a little too horrible for one to bear!
“Ding! Dropped item detected. Will you pick it up?”
“Yes, pick it up!”
“Ding! Assimilation successful. Congratulations to the host for obtaining the Fire Demon bloodline!”
“Huh!?”
The Fire Demon bloodline!?
Chapter 51: The Five Great Eras, Transforming Into A Fire Demon
The Fire Demon bloodline?
What the heck was that?
Meng Lei was rather bewildered!
During this half a year of studying in Fire Dragon Academy, he had spent almost all his time on improving his battle capabilities. He rarely read other types of books or studied other kinds of knowledge!
Take for example, The Great Magical Beasts Encyclopedia, The Classification of Intelligent Beings In The Continent, Human Geography of The Continent, and so on—he hadn’t read any of these at all! Meng Lei was a complete newbie in everything apart from thunder-elemental and earth-elemental magic!
Fire Demon?
Was that a kind of living thing in Heaven’s Vault Continent too?
In his confusion, Meng Lei immediately took out his magic communication device and dialed Fatty Hart’s magic code, intending to ask him about it. Since Fatty Hart had taken rudimentary lessons before, he had learned about a lot of things related to the past. There was definitely no going wrong in asking him about things like this!
“Old bro, what’s up?”
Fatty Hart’s round face appeared in the magic communication device.
“Fatty, do you know about the Fire Demons?”
“What?”
“The Fire Demons! The ‘fire’ of Fire Demons, and the ‘demon’ of Fire Demons! Fire Demons!”
“The Fire Demons?” Fatty was startled. “Old bro, why are you suddenly asking about that? What’s that noise over there? Why is it so noisy?”
Meng Lei replied crossly, “Cut the crap! Do you know about Fire Demons or not?”
Duh, I’m in the arena! Of course it’s noisy!
“I don’t like how that sounded, old bro. I, Fatty Hart, know everything from as high up in the heavens as astronomy and as far below in the ground as geography. I know everything that happened in the last 500 years and can predict everything that’ll happen in the coming 1,000 years. What’s there that I don’t know?”
Fatty Hart blew his own horn, his nose in the air as he said, “If you want to talk about the Fire Demons, then you’ll definitely have to bring up the faraway ancient times. Old bro, you should have heard about the few eras that Heaven’s Vault Continent has gone through before, right?”
“Yes, I have!”
Meng Lei nodded lightly. Like Earth, Heaven’s Vault Continent had also gone through a few long eras in the remote past. They were respectively the Fairy era, Titan era, Beast People era, Colossal Dragon era, and the current era where the four races dominated the continent!
Every era had its own master. They dominated and ruled over the whole continent during their time, and fully deserved the title of ruler!
“In that case, do you know how the Fairy era ended?” asked Fatty Hart.
After a moment’s thought, Meng Lei replied, “It was probably the ancient Titans that ended them, right?”
The next era’s actuation was usually the cause of the end of an era. For example, the end of the Titan era was due to the emergence of the Beast People.
Through their terrifying numbers, the Beast People, who had an alarming reproduction rate, had overthrown the ancient Titans’ rule to eventually emerge and become the masters of Heaven’s Vault Continent!
For the same reason, the Beast People era was later also overthrown by the Colossal Dragons, who then became the masters of the continent and built a glorious era!
Times alternated, and things developed!
Lives went through the cycle of rebirth, and each dynasty replaced the previous!
Nothing was eternal. No empires would stay strong and prosperous forever, either. This was an unchanging natural law of order that nobody could change!
“No! You’re wrong!!” Fatty Hart shook his head. “The Fairy era didn’t end because of the Titans. Rather, it was because of... The Fire Demons!”
“The Fire Demons?”
Meng Lei was stunned for a moment there.
“Yes, the Fire Demons!”
Fatty Hart nodded lightly and said, “It’s said that during the Fairy era, forests were abundant and full of life, and vegetation grew vibrantly and exuberantly in Heaven’s Vault Continent. Rich and dense forests covered more than 90% of the whole continent!
“The Heaven’s Vault Continent of that time was very beautiful. Beautiful Fairies strolled in the woods, snowy white unicorns pranced along the lakes, enchanting tree spirits danced in the gardens...
“However, the Fire Demons descended upon the world one day!
“Nobody knew where they came from, whether they were Heaven’s Vault Continent’s native beings, or whether they had come from outer space, or other places. People only knew that they were bathed in fire, had burning eyes, and a mane of scorching flames...
“They were a terrifying group of flaming living beings!
“Wherever they passed through, forests were burned and destroyed, and vegetation and woods caught fire. Expanses of crimson land spread for miles. In less than 100 years, the homeland that the ancient Fairies had depended on for their survival had all burned away!
“Aft
er a long period of resistance, the ancient Fairies joined hands with the other races in the continent to put a stop to the crazy Fire Demons and completely annihilated them. However, while this was a move that brought great destruction to the enemy, it also brought severe damage to themselves! Following that, the ancient Fairies fell into decline, and the powerful Titans took the opportunity to emerge!”
“So, the end of the Fairy era was fully caused by the Fire Demons?”
Meng Lei looked absolutely stupefied. He asked, “Are the Fire Demons that fearsome? They had actually ended the ancient Fairies during a time when they were at their most prosperous?”
“Fearsome? Hurhur!”
With a laugh, Fatty Hart said, “The ancient Fairies were an existence that could suppress the ancient Titans so badly that they couldn’t even raise their heads! The Fire Demons had finished even an existence as strong and powerful as them. Do you think there’s any chance that they aren’t fearsome?”
“That’s true!” Meng Lei agreed wholeheartedly. Then, he asked, “Do Fire Demons still exist in Heaven’s Vault Continent?”
Fatty Hart thought for a moment before he replied, “True Fire Demons likely don’t exist anymore. In any case, I haven’t heard about any. However, descendants with Fire Demon bloodline in them likely exist. After all, the Fire Demons had wreaked havoc in Heaven’s Vault Continent for so many years back then. It’s impossible for them not to leave any trace of themselves behind at all!”
“Right!”
Meng Lei fell into deep thought after he hung up.
Fatty Hart had said something that made a lot of sense. After wreaking havoc in Heaven’s Vault Continent for so many years, the Fire Demons had indeed left behind blood descendants—the Flaming Tiger Fire Demon was precisely one of them!
Otherwise, he couldn’t possibly have dropped the Fire Demon bloodline!!!
Now, the question was—was there any use to the Fire Demon bloodline?
Just as Meng Lei was puzzling over this, an abnormal sensation suddenly came over his body. A warm current that had appeared out of nowhere flowed into his limbs and bones...
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