He’d thought that he had run into super experts, but never would he have expected that the ones that had wiped out his Lone Wolf Bandits and killed him would actually be... Four little brats!
He practically didn’t die in peace!
“Big Brother Meng Lei, is that guy d-dead?”
Hiding behind Meng Lei, Jonah and the other two stuck out their heads carefully, their little faces pale.
“Yes, he’s dead!”
Meng Lei nodded and hopped off the magic carpet. His eyes fell onto Lone Wolf’s left hand right away, and he noticed a bronze-colored ring on his left ring finger...
Meng Lei took the ring off the finger and imbued spiritual power into it. He burst into laughter at once.
Looks like I was right! It really is a spatial ring!
A spatial ring!
The treasure that Meng Lei had longed for!
It was just that it was too expensive, so all he could do was sigh and look longingly at it!
However, when Meng Lei had seen the Violent Thunder Crossbow vanishing right before his eyes just now, he’d guessed that this group of bandits probably owned spatial equipment. It looked like his guess had been on the mark!
I went through so much trouble to look for one to no avail, only to obtain it effortlessly in the end!
It’s a spatial ring with an area of over 50 cubic meters! I’ve struck it big this time!
Eh? There are actually so many things inside?
Several objects floated about in Meng Lei’s mental vision. There were heaps of gold coins, heaps of magic cores, heaps of jewels...
What a dazzling array of things!
What a wide variety of things!
They almost blinded Meng Lei!
I’ve really struck it big this time!
Meng Lei’s eyes shone brightly.
The gold coins alone probably amount quite a few hundred thousand? Not to mention the other things, such as magic cores, jewels, and weapons!
Our forefathers don’t lie, indeed. Horses really don’t bulk up without feeding at night, and people really don’t get rich without unexpected windfalls!
Chapter 58: A Wild Beast Tide, Producing Lightning With A Flip Of The Hand
After they exterminated the Lone Wolf Bandits, Meng Lei and the others resumed their journey back home. Jonah and the other two constantly chattered, their eyes brimming with worship and idolization when they looked at Meng Lei. Everything they said could be summed up into one sentence:
“Big Brother Meng Lei, you’re so awesome!”
Meng Lei replied with a smile, “You guys will also be just as powerful in the future if you cultivate well!”
Then, he secretly deposited all the gold coins in the spatial ring into the system, making his wealth surge by 300,000 gold coins!
Adding what he previously had to it, he now had a total of 480,000 gold coins!
This didn’t even include the magic cores, jewels, weapons, and other things inside the spatial ring! Should he sell those treasures, he would earn yet another hefty sum of money!
I’ve really struck it big this time!
Meng Lei fingered the spatial ring, reveling in the pleasant sensation of receiving a huge windfall. He was in such a fantastic mood that snot bubbles were practically forming at his nose!
Of course, the biggest gain is still this spatial ring that’s worth several million gold coins!
There was no doubt about the spatial ring’s functionality. With it, Meng Lei could now hunt magical beasts to his heart’s content without any reservations!
Although the 50 cubic meters space wasn’t particularly spacious, it was sufficient to store a lot of magic cores. Meng Lei’s mind had already drifted all the way to the Magical Beast Forest. He almost climaxed as he fantasized about hunting and killing magical beasts, gathering magic cores, and making a huge windfall!
The magic carpet was very fast. After two hours of flight, they finally returned to Magical Beast Village. However, the scene before their eyes gave the four of them a huge shock instead!
A beast tide!
A beast tide was happening again!
All over the mountains and the plains, wild beasts gathered into surging torrents and raced toward Magical Beast Village like a bunch of thunderclouds. It was as if they wanted to drown the tiny Magical Beast Village within the torrents of wild beasts!
...
Dozens of young adults stood atop the village walls, their eyes full of horror and hopelessness!
These young adults were the team of guards led by Captain Hudders. As Magical Beast Village members, they frequently fought against beast tides, so every one of them was a seasoned warrior. Typical beast tides didn’t faze them at all!
However, the beast tide this time made everyone incredibly hopeless!
“Why did this happen?”
Hudders stood on top of the walls, staring at the dozen or so magical beasts surrounded in the middle by the beast tide torrents. Apart from hopelessness, there was still only hopelessness on his face!
Fourth-Grade Magical Beast, Iron-Armored Rhinoceros!
Third-Grade Magical Beasts, Mountain-Rendering Pangolin, and Blood-Spotted Snake!
Second-Grade Magical Beasts, Azure Sky Snake, White Snapping Turtle, Golden-Armored Scorpion, Bramble Rat, Swamp Dragon Turtle, Blood-Toothed Boar, Titan Longhorn Beetle, and Wind Wolf King!
One Fourth-Grade Magical Beast!
Two Third-Grade Magical Beasts!
Eight Second-Grade Magical Beasts!
Countless First-Grade Magical Beasts!
Given their terrifying lineup, how were they supposed to fight against them?
They didn’t even have a sliver of hope at winning!
“Why?
“Why are there so many Magical Beasts in the beast tide this time?”
Hudders didn’t understand. Magical Beast Village was situated at the fringes of the Magical Beast Forest. Usually, one would already be considered especially down on their luck if they ran into a First-Grade Magical Beast. Why had even a high-grade magical beast like the Iron-Armored Rhinoceros shown up this time?
It didn’t make any sense!
However, no matter how absurd it was, the Iron-Armored Rhinoceros had ultimately shown up and had even led a bunch of magical beast underlings to launch a never-before-seen beast tide. Magical Beast Village was currently facing an unprecedented disaster!
“Captain, what should we do?”
The guards trembled with fear. Even their voices were shaking somewhat. The scale of the beast tide had shocked and frightened all of them!
“We can only adopt whatever solution we can according to the situation!”
Captain Hudders slowly expended a breath of air. He said, “Behind us is our home and our family. We have no other choice other than to fight to the death!”
“Our home!”
“Our family!”
A severe jolt went through everyone. The fear in their eyes gradually faded, replaced by absolute resolution and frenzy.
“Captain is right! We have no other choice. The only thing we can do is to fight to the death!”
“If you want to hurt our families, then you’d have to do it over our dead bodies!”
“Fight to the death!”
“Fight to the death!”
Roar!
At this moment, an earth-shattering roar of fury reached them. The Iron-Armored Rhinoceros in the middle of the beast tide roared ferociously into the sky, launching the signal for the beast tide to attack!
Howl!
Hiss!
Woof!
Moo!
Meh!
All the wild beasts responded with their own ferocious cries. The torrential sound waves converged into one, as though an explosive peal of thunder booming throughout the sky!
Roar!
As another ferocious roar rang out, torrents of wild beasts covering every inch of land transformed into horrifying tidal waves and surged toward Magical Beast Village
. Dozens of Magical Beasts took the lead and brazenly launched magic attacks!
Rock bullets, water arrows, wind blades, wood thorns, lightning flashes...
First-grade and second-grade magic attacks that covered every expanse of land formed a dense and packed rain of swords that swarmed over in a crushing momentum!
Everyone wore looks of hopelessness upon seeing this. The village walls were made of wood; how were they supposed to withstand magic attacks of this scale?
Moreover, most of them weren’t even Warriors. How were they supposed to withstand the attacks, too?
“T-this... How did it turn out like this?!”
“Captain! What should we do?!”
“Oh my dragon god...”
“We’re finished!!”
Hudders lost all hope in his heart. All he could do was watch helplessly as the magic attacks approached, ultimately fully occupying his range of vision!
He knew that everything was finished!
Up against such terrifying magic attacks, the village walls would be reduced to rubble, and everyone would be annihilated!
Buzz!
However, just as the rain of magic attacks was about to land, an unexpected turn of events occurred. A transparent silver glow quietly appeared and instantly spanned across the top of the village walls!
Boom, boom, boom!
The dense and packed rain of magic attacks crashed against the silver glow, causing an outburst of brilliant and dazzling fireworks!
“That’s...”
Everyone’s eyes widened!
“A... A magic shield?!” exclaimed Hudders in astonishment.
Hudders hadn’t been mistaken—it was indeed a magic shield. Amid booming explosions, the silver glow perfectly withstood all the attacks, undamaged in the least!
All of the magic elements dissipated!
The billowing waves of smoke faded away!
The village walls were undamaged and intact!
Everyone was safe and sound!
“It managed to block the attacks?”
The guards had a dazed look in their eyes.
“Who was it? Who had launched the magic shield?”
Hudders looked around him.
Then, he saw a blood-red magic carpet right above him. Someone stood proudly on the magic carpet. The figure looked familiar... Yet like a stranger at the same time!
“That’s...”
Hudders exclaimed in astonishment, “Meng Lei!”
“Long time no see, Captain Hudders!”
The person standing proudly on the magic carpet was exactly Meng Lei. Upon hearing Captain Hudders’ exclamation, Meng Lei turned and smiled at him.
“Captain Hudders, we’ll talk again after I’ve taken care of the beast tide!”
After he spoke, Meng Lei raised his hands. Lightning flashed at his fingertips. Thunder balls quietly formed one after another and shot toward the torrential flood of wild beasts like a machine gun’s bullets!
Boom, boom, boom!
Explosions that shook the heavens and earth rang out with a deafening boom. Smoke and dust instantly enveloped the flood of wild beasts in front of the village walls. Amid an endless stream of screams and cries, severed limbs were thrown out, and blood and flesh flew everywhere!
A large majority of the wild beasts in the beast tide were just normal animals. How could they possibly withstand magic attacks?
After a round of wild booms and violent explosions, the wails and cries of wild beasts filled the place. In just the short span of a few breaths, an immeasurable number of beasts had perished on the spot!
This horrifying scene terribly frightened the other wild beasts. Scared out of their wits, they fled desperately. How would they possibly still have the guts to attack Magical Beast Village?
Roar!
This greatly enraged the Iron-Armored Rhinoceros in the middle of the beast tide. It let out several roars to suppress the alarmed and panicked wild beasts. Then, with another few roars, the dozens of magical beasts surrounding it moved!
The Mountain-Rendering Pangolin, Blood-Spotted Snake, Azure Sky Snake, etc., roared furiously as they charged forward with ferocious momentum. Their eyes gleamed red, as though they wanted to rip Meng Lei, who was standing on the magic carpet, into pieces!
What a shame that what awaited them was a rain of lightning lances that covered every expanse of land instead!
Splurt!
Splurt!
Amidst hair-raising sounds of flesh being stripped away from bone, the Mountain-Rendering Pangolin, Blood-Spotted Snake... All of them were impaled to death by the lightning lances. By the time they charged over to the bottom of the magic carpet, all of them were already dead!
“This...”
Hudders and the guards were totally astounded!
Chapter 59: Contractual Magic Circle, Subdued As A Mount
Electric currents rampaged, and flashes of lightning reached far and wide!
Broken limbs and severed appendages were everywhere, all bloodied and mangled!
Dozens of Magical Beasts were all skewered to the ground!
This horrifying scene completely stunned Hudders and the rest!
“Oh my dragon god!!!”
“This many Magical Beasts... All of them have died just like that?”
“There are Third-Grade Magical Beasts, the Mountain-Rendering Pangolin and Blood-Spotted Snake, among them, you know! And they’ve died just like that?!”
“A hallucination! This must be a hallucination...”
Everyone felt as if everything was a dream. They were ultimately just ordinary humans; hunting some ordinary wild beasts was as far as it went. When had they ever seen anything like this?
Roar!!
The Iron-Armored Rhinoceros’ roaring pulled everyone back to reality at this point. The Iron-Armored Rhinoceros, which was as big as a bus, was in a terrible rage. It stomped on the ground, exhaling heavily through its nostrils!
The ground trembled, and the mountains shook!
Trees quivered!
The Iron-Armored Rhinoceros glared furiously at Meng Lei, killing intent raging within its eyes!
It launched a brazen attack the next moment!
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
It took only an instant for dozens of rocks as big as an ox’s head to rise into the sky. As though cannonballs had been launched, they suddenly shot toward Meng Lei!
It was the Second-Grade Spell, Rock Meteor Rain!
“Insignificant tricks!”
With a wave of Meng Lei’s arm, lightning arrows appeared out of nowhere and met the large expanse of rain of rocks head-on!
It was the Second-Grade Spell, Thunderbolt Arrow!
Boom, boom, boom!
Lightning arrows and rocks made contact, causing a deafening sound of explosion to erupt. The rocks were smashed into bits, turning into broken fragments that covered the whole sky as they landed like snowflakes!
Roar!
Upon seeing that its attack hadn’t been effective, the Iron-Armored Rhinoceros roared again and again. The horn at its forehead flashed yellow, and all the earth elements within a radius of dozens of meters converged in its direction. It was gearing up for a big move!
“A big move? It’s time to end this!”
Meng Lei shook his head lightly and launched the Third-Grade Spell, Thunderbolt Chains. Countless silver threads quietly appeared around the Iron-Armored Rhinoceros. Before it could react, they had already firmly surrounded it!
Crackle, crackle!
The Iron-Armored Rhinoceros was wrapped like a mummy. Electric currents thrashed about and flowed around it, numbing its body. The Iron-Armored Rhinoceros spasmed all over and shook in its boots, as though it was rave-dancing!
“It’s over!”
Meng Lei drew an arc across the air. A lightning spear appeared and pressed against the middle of the Iron-Armored Rhinoceros’ forehead, ready to pierce through its head and impale it to death on the spot anytime Meng Lei wished to!
However, Meng Lei hesitated at this point.
The Iron-Armored Rhinoceros couldn’t be said to be strong, but neither could it be said to be weak!
It was a Fourth-Grade Magical Beast, after all. It didn’t count as much in the depths of the forest, but it was considered a fairly powerful Overlord-Level Magical Beast in the fringes and outer boundaries!
If used well, there was a high chance that it could solve the beast tide problem for good. The moment he thought of that, Meng Lei turned to Captain Hudders and said with a smile, “Captain Hudders, what do you think of this Iron-Armored Rhinoceros?”
“(⊙o⊙)”
Hudders was mildly startled but replied nonetheless, “The Iron-Armored Rhinoceros is a Fourth-Grade Magical Beast with top-notch defenses and is also skilled at earth-elemental magic. If placed in the battleground, its offensive abilities can be said to be terrifying!”
“Since that’s the case, how about getting it to become your mount?” asked Meng Lei.
“My mount?”
Hudders looked totally bewildered.
“Yes! Your mount!”
A smiling Meng Lei said, “If the Iron-Armored Rhinoceros becomes your mount, it should be able to solve the beast tide problem very well. The village won’t suffer from beast tide attacks in the future anymore!”
“I... This... Is this viable?”
Hudders became agitated at once. Even his voice was somewhat shaking. As a Warrior, he naturally longed to have a powerful mount!
It was just a pity that... It was too difficult!
With his Second-Grade Warrior capabilities, it wasn’t difficult for him to tame a lousy mount. However, such mounts were no different from white elephants. What use were they even if he tamed them?
What was tough was taming powerful mounts!
Take the Iron-Armored Rhinoceros, for example!
If one wanted it to recognize them as its master...
The first way was to defeat it with absolute strength so that it would become most willing to recognize them as its master!
The second way was to use a contract scroll and forcibly compel the Iron-Armored Rhinoceros to recognize them as its master through the contract’s power!
The third way was to get a Magician to set up a Contractual Magic Circle...
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