Boom, boom, boom!
The ground shook faster and faster while the booming sounds filled the sky.
The ferocious red ants were finally visible through the cloud of yellow sand!
Chapter 91: Dragon-Language Magic, A Sea of Fire Burns the Sky
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
As thick waves of Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants charged with great momentum, yellow sand filled the air, and dust and soil flew everywhere.
The Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants had bodies the size of calves with blood-red armor, teeth sharp as sickles, and six terrible-looking legs.
These were terrible monsters that made people fearful upon hearing their names.
“It’s here!”
“The ant tide is coming!”
“Hurry up and meet the enemy!”
The horn resounded across the sky.
The soldiers clenched their giant swords, the Magicians clenched their magic wands, and archers clenched their magic bows, and they all shared solemn expressions.
Everyone was so nervous they were suffocating. This was their first time encountering an ant tide, could they resist it?
Marquis Gould looked at the approaching ant wave on a tower more than ten meters tall and its unstoppable momentum with a gloomy expression.
“How long before the Flying Dragon Troops arrive?”
“Three hours, Lord Marquis!”
“Three hours is enough!” Marquis Gould drew his sword. “Send my order. All weapons are to be readied, listen to my orders!”
“Yes, sir!”
At the other side...
Meng Lei was also waiting intently. He licked his lips, and a glimmer of light flashed in his eyes.
Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants are Sixth-Grade Magical Beasts. They are as hard as iron, so only seventh-grade magic can instakill them. However, seventh-grade magic greatly consumes magical power, so I’ll be unable to constantly cast seventh-grade spells. In which case, this is the only way!
With this thought, Meng Lei rode the magic carpet to a place several hundred meters before the Great Dragon Blood Wall and stopped.
“What’s up with that guy? Why did he run out?”
Meng Lei’s actions appeared very jarring in the neatly lined-up troops. Everyone was a little confounded.
“Who is that bastard? Why is he acting by himself without following orders?” Marquis Gould was infuriated and demanded to know that person’s identity.
“I... I don’t know him, Lord Marquis!” the soldier stuttered. “There’s no such person in the defense army at all. He’s likely a Magician who came to assist the battle out of his own free will!”
“Here to assist the battle out of his own free will?” Marquis Gould’s face was ugly. “Call him back. Without my orders, nobody acts on their own!”
“Yes, Lord Marquis!”
The soldiers replied, took the magical-transmitting horn, and prepared to call him when the ground in front of them suddenly started shaking.
The next moment...
A crack suddenly opened up on the earth, and then it started expanding rapidly. Amidst the rumbling and exploding sounds, a canyon hundreds of meters wide appeared in front of the Great Dragon Blood Wall!
“This... This is...”
“Eighth-Grade Spell, Earth Force!”
“Holy my, he’s an Eight-Grade Magician!”
All the Magicians in the tower started gasping in shock. Magicians were rare, to begin with, and eighth-grade ones even more so. There weren’t many in the entire defense army, but there’s one there?
“This guy is an Eighth-Grade Magician?”
Naturally, as a Ninth-Grade Warrior, Marquis Gould’s judgment was very good. He looked at the canyon Meng Lei had created, and surprise showed on his face before he felt confused. “What’s the point of making such a canyon? Does he think that a mere canyon can stop the ant tide? A fantasy!”
Whether it was a fantasy or not, Meng Lei still continued with his digging operation. He continued to chant the Eighth-Grade Spell, Earth Force to extend the canyon.
Soon, a canyon several kilometers long and hundreds of meters wide appeared. It was like a small snake lying at the foot of the Great Dragon Blood Wall, looking completely insignificant, yet fully demonstrating the might of an Eighth-Grade Magician.
“Pfft...” Meng Lei breathed out a mouthful of dusty air. “Eighth-grade spells really consume too much magic power, an entire 10,000 units of magic power. I’ve got to replenish them from the ant tide later.”
Boom, boom, boom!
At that moment, the ant tide’s vanguard finally arrived at the edge of the canyon. They jumped in without the least bit of hesitation!
Countless Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants let out strange cracking sounds and rushed into the canyon.
If it continued like this, the canyon that Meng Lei had worked hard to make would be filled in a matter of a few minutes. Thus, everything he had done would be in vain.
“Childish tricks, good for nothing!” Marquis Gould couldn’t help but snort upon seeing that. “Good strength, but stupid! This kind of canyon is nothing for a massive ant tide. They will pass through it effortlessly!”
The Magicians also shook their heads and sighed.
At this time, Meng Lei, who was hovering in the sky, moved again. His lips opened slightly, chanting in an ancient and difficult language.
His voice wasn’t loud, but like some kind of ancient Buddhist chant, it passed clearly and powerfully into everyone’s ears.
“That’s...”
Marquis Gould’s whole body suddenly shivered in shock.
Boom, boom, boom!
Fire Elements gathered wildly within several hundred square meters, and a big fireball shining with white light appeared in the sky.
As the immense amount of Fire Elements gathered rapidly, the big fireball expanded at a terrible speed. Within a few breaths, a 'small sun” with a radius of dozens of meters appeared.
“That’s...”
Everyone’s eyes widened!
“Fire Inferno... Drop!” Meng Lei shouted ferociously.
Boom!
The huge sun suddenly dropped from the sky and right into the canyon. Following an earth-shaking explosion, bright tongues of fire suddenly splashed out of the several-kilometer-long canyon!
Boom!
A huge fire started burning everything in the canyon, and its intense flame rose up dozens of meters into the sky. Like beans being fried in a pan, cracking sounds echoed as the countless Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants that had jumped into the canyon died painfully. The white flames incinerated the ants!
In but a moment, the hundreds-of-meters-wide canyon turned into a sea of fire. The fire wall was several dozens of meters high, blocking out the ant tide like a line of blockade.
Any ant that approached... got blown up and turned into dust. The Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants were momentarily stopped right where they were, and some were hesitating to move forward!
“Is this the Seventh-Grade Spell, Fire Inferno?”
Inside the mage tower, all the fire-elemental Magicians somewhat doubted life. Judging from the huge fireball’s surface appearance, it was indeed the Seventh-Grade Spell, Fire Inferno. However, wasn’t it a bit... too powerful?
It had a diameter of a hundred meters and exuded white flames... Was this really Fire Inferno!?
“A Magician that’s versed in Earth and Fire magic!” Marquis Gould’s eyes narrowed. “Besides, if I didn’t hear wrongly, the magic spell just now... was chanted in Dragon Language. He actually knows Dragon-Language Magic! How can he possibly know Dragon-Language Magic?”
Meng Lei didn’t know how shocked the others were. He felt a bit annoyed right now because of the system’s non-stop notification sounds that kept ringing in his mind.
“Ding! 1 Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ant killed. 10,380 gold coins gained!”
“Ding! 1 Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ant killed. 11,029 gold
coins gained!”
“Ding! 1 Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ant killed. 10,853 gold coins gained!”
“Ding...”
“System, can I block the notification sounds?”
Meng Lei swung his head, feeling a bit exhausted.
“Okay, host!”
The notification sounds disappeared immediately.
“Finally, quiet!”
Meng Lei heaved a sigh of relief before his gaze fell on the Stats interface—his “Wealth” column was changing wildly!
Chapter 92: A One-Man Suppression? How Can This Be
Host: Meng Lei
Race: Human (Contains Fire Dragon bloodline and Fire Demon bloodline)
Wealth: 16,729,428 gold coins
Physical Body Constitution: Eighth-Grade Warrior (361,456/1,000,000)
Spirit: Eighth-Grade Magician (249,518/100,0000)
Magic Power: Eighth-Grade Magician (20,648/100,0000)
“Sweet!”
When looking at his stats, especially the constantly changing Wealth value, Meng Lei felt agitated. A Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants was worth about 10,000 gold coins, and in just an instant, he had killed a couple hundred.
The way I obtained a few million gold coins feels almost like robbing.
Fortunately, the ant tide still keeps charging ahead, without the slightest sign of disappearing.
These are all moving mountains of gold. If I kill them all, how rich will I be?
Meng Lei’s eyes were so bright they felt heated.
Kill them! Kill all of them! They’re all money!
System, replenish Magic Power to full!
Meng Lei waved a hand triumphantly. He was indeed a bit stingy on a daily basis, and he used money carefully, but this wasn’t the time to be stingy. If he was still stingy, others might finish off the ant tide!
Why would he be stingy?
“Okay, host!”
Whoosh!
The Wealth value instantly reduced by almost 10,000,000, and the Magic Power value rose to 1,000,000, almost breaking the chart!
Meng Lei took a deep breath, sensing the endless magic power in his body, and felt like he was pumped up and full of energy.
“Gold mountains, I am coming, hahaha!”
Meng Lei looked up toward the running ant tide, only to find that these monsters actually turned direction and spread out to the two sides.
The Great Dragon Blood Wall was several thousands of kilometers long, but the canyon and the fire wall were only several kilometers long.
The ant tide didn’t move aimlessly but evaded to the two sides and moved in a zig-zag manner.
“You still know how to evade, not bad!”
Meng Lei steered the magic carpet to one side, and the Eighth-Grade Spell, Earth Force was activated. Another canyon stopped the ant tide’s march in its tracks.
Crack...
Upon realizing that there were no flames, the ant tide jumped into the canyon without hesitation. When Meng Lei saw that, he once again started chanting the ancient and mysterious magic spell.
The powerful Dragon-Language Magic filled up the space. Marquis Gould’s eyes narrowed as he muttered in a low voice, “It’s really Dragon-Language Magic! This guy really knows Dragon-Language Magic!”
“It’s coming again!”
“Another fireball this big!”
“Who can tell me if this is Seventh-Grade Spell, Fire Inferno?”
Boom!
The fireball, with a diameter of 100 meters and entirely milk-white, dropped from the sky again. Accompanied by an extremely loud rumbling, the flames sprayed into the horizon. Countless Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants died a violent death again.
“Ding!”
“Ding!”
“Ding!”
“Ding!”
“Ding!”
His Wealth value started rising rapidly again!
Haha! This is the way! Rise! Rise as much as you like!
Meng Lei looked up at the sky and laughed, his mouth cracking like a chimpanzee.
The soldiers on the wall were looking at him, utterly stunned.
“What’s that guy laughing foolishly for? He looks like a gargoyle!”
“Maybe he’s secretly happy for killing so many Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants?”
“How secret...”
“He’s got pretty good strength, just his brain is a bit...”
“Go on!”
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
The following period of time became Meng Lei’s showtime. He sent out many Earth Force and Fire Inferno spells like they didn’t cost affect his magic power to blast in wild explosions in front of the Great Dragon Blood Wall.
Whenever canyons appeared, fireballs would drop, and large parts of the ant tide would get bombarded and incinerated. As such, innumerable ants died violently right on scene!
What was disappearing in a split second? That was!
What was the art of explosion? That was!
Wherever the ant tide went, Meng Lei chased, and he really stopped the ant tide out of the Great Dragon Blood Wall on his own.
A 100-meter-wide sea of fire became a natural barrier between the Great Dragon Blood Wall and the ant tide. However wild the ant tide was, they couldn’t break through the sea of fire’s blockade.
Such a wild scene stunned everyone on top of the Great Dragon Blood Wall. Everyone watched Meng Lei, who was active on the battlefield, with only one thought left mind:
Is this guy still human? He actually stopped the ant tide army on his own!?
Honestly, Eighth-Grade Magicians were indeed powerful. They could split mountains and the earth with the wave of a hand or cut forests down within an instant. However, Eighth-Grade Magicians were still people. They would still get tired, would still exhaust their magic power, their spirits would still tire out, and their bodies would still reach their limits!
But Meng Lei?
How many times had he released Earth Force and Fire Inferno already?
Why didn’t his magic power get exhausted, but instead, he got more and more spirited as he fought and killed? The more he consumed, the more he had?
Did logic still exist?
“Although Dragon-Language Magic saves magic power and is more powerful, there isn’t a Dragon-Language Magician like him, right?”
Marquis Gould also doubted life a little. “Such rich magical power reserves, even a Colossal Dragon probably can’t match him...”
In fact, not only them, even Ol’ Amos, who knew Meng Lei the best, was stunned. He knew that Meng Lei’s magic power reserves were rich, as well as that Meng Lei liked to use big actions to overpower others, but his magic power reserve was abnormally rich!
Ol’ Amos couldn’t help but tease him. “You’ve only gotten promoted to Eighth-Grade Magician for less than a week. Why can you release so many eighth-grade spells? How do you do it?”
Meng Lei was in a very good mood, so he said half-jokingly, “Ol’ President, I have a magical instrument specially for storing magic power. Do you believe me?”
“I do! Why not?” The old man’s mouth twitched. “You, boy, already have two divine items on your person. It’s not impossible even if you are to have a few more! Sigh, I’m really envious!
“If I still had a flesh body!
“If I could leave the Gods-Slaying Spear!
“Even if you are my descendant, I would kill you to rob you of your treasures without hesitation. I would open up your body to see what secrets you have!”
“Hahaha! A pity there’s no chance!” Meng Lei smiled proudly. “But, if it is possible in the future, I will definitely find a way to let you out and give you back a free and clean body.”
The old man rolled his eyes and said, displeased, “Pfft! Why does it sound so strange coming out of your mouth? When was I ever unclean?”
“Hahaha!”
Meng Lei laughed out loud and continued killing. Suddenly, he realized that the ant tide actually stopped movi
ng to the two sides but stayed right where it was.
Then, they withdrew to the back like a tide, all moving orderly like one, without the slightest hesitation.
“What’s going on?” Meng Lei was stunned. “They want to retreat?”
“Undoubtedly! Your killing spree has scared them!” The old man laughed happily. “Or, your killing spree scared the ant monarch. Seeing that the deed cannot be done, it must have decided to retreat, recover, and come back again.”
“The ant monarch?” Meng Lei seemed contemplative.
“Magical Beasts of the ant kind are a very special type of gregarious Magical Beasts. They have clear hierarchies and job scopes, and maintain a very efficient situation amongst themselves.”
The old man explained, “And at the very top of the Ant Magical Beasts is the ant monarch. It is the monarch and also the order center, controlling the movement of the entire ant group.
“Given how many of its subordinates you slaughtered in such a short time, the ant monarch must have a pinch in its heart, right?”
“I see!” Meng Lei understood. “Will they come back, then?”
“That’s hard to say! Maybe they will, or maybe they won’t!”
“Hard to say? How can this be?”
Meng Lei was anxious.
System! Hurry! Hurry and exchange for me! 1,000,000 points for Magic Power and Spiritual Power, respectively!
Whoosh!
In but an instant, 20,000,000 gold coins disappeared into thin air!
Chapter 93: Ninth-Grade Spell, Heavenly Fire Meteor
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
1 Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ant ≈ 10,000 gold coins!
10 Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants ≈ 100,000 gold coins!
100 Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants ≈ 1,000,000 gold coins!
,000 Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants ≈ 10,000,000 gold coins!
After setting them on fire just now, Meng Lei’s wealth had increased tremendously. After deducting the amount spent to replenish the magic power that he had expended, his wealth had already broken through the 40 million mark!
,000,000 gold coins!
Even those wealthy overlords didn’t have assets as impressive as that. One could easily imagine just how rich Meng Lei was right now.
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