Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Everyone’s gazes shot over to the ranking in unison!
“No. 3: Augustine Kroc, Human, 30 years old, Level 76”
“No, he should be in 4th place now!”
Speechless, everyone hurriedly looked at the fourth place in the ranking.
“No. 4: Goblen Frederick, Golden Colossal Dragon, 29 years old, Level 75”
“So that’s Goblen, the one ranked fourth? That’s so impressive!”
“Isn’t Goblen a historical figure from 30,000 years ago? He’s actually still alive?”
“He’s lived for more than 30,000 years? Oh my dragon god, doesn’t that make him an old bastard[1]...”
The people whispered among themselves as they engaged in wild speculation.
Suddenly, a Golden Colossal Dragon Person with a pair of horns on his head squeezed into the crowd and dropped onto his knees. “Grandmaster! Your unfilial descendant greets the Grandmaster!”
“Grandmaster?”
Everyone was astonished.
“How audacious! Hurry and get on your knees!”
The Golden Colossal Dragon Person shouted furiously and sternly, “The Grandmaster is the Dragon God Empire’s tenth emperor and is even one of the five great legendary emperors of the Dragon God Empire...
“The Grandmaster has already become a venerable half-deity and is even the strongest and oldest half-deity with the most highly esteemed status among the Golden Colossal Dragons! Why haven’t all of you gotten onto your knees upon seeing the Grandmaster?!”
“The tenth emperor?”
“A half-deity?”
“Greetings, Grandmaster!”
“Greetings, Grandmaster!”
“Greetings, Grandmaster!”
Upon hearing his words, a huge jolt went through everyone, and they hastily prostrated on the ground, bowing and saying their greetings loudly.
Most of them were Dragon God Academy students and teachers, though there were also sightseeing tourists among them.
To them, one must bow and kowtow upon seeing the emperor, let alone when the emperor in question was a legendary one who was also a venerable half-deity! All the more, they had to kowtow!
“I didn’t expect anyone to still remember me when such a long time has gone by!”
The golden-robed elderly man nodded slightly, the wrath on his features mellowing slightly. “You may rise!”
“Thank you, Grandmaster!”
Everyone got up one after another, looks of excitement and worship in their eyes. As students and teachers of Dragon God Academy, they didn’t lack contact with Saint Domains.
However, half-deities were the only ones that still existed only in legends, biographies, and songs to them. They had never laid eyes on one before. But now, they had finally seen one.
They had seen with their own eyes a living deity, an existence with the strongest combat power in Heaven’s Vault Continent.
Who wouldn’t be worked up?
Who wouldn’t worship him?
Who wouldn’t be excited?
“Goblen Frederick, 4th in the Dragon God Genius Ranking?”
Meng Lei was the only one that didn’t kneel or kowtow. He gazed at the Dragon God Genius Ranking, a hint of amusement showing at the corners of his lips.
“If memory serves me right, you were ranked third in the past, right? Why have you dropped to fourth place?
“Alright, so it’s because I’ve gone all the way up to first place!” Meng Lei shook his head.
“How dare you!”
The Golden Colossal Dragon Person from before glowered at Meng Lei as he shouted furiously, “There is no place for you to speak in front of the Grandmaster! Get down on your knees!”
“Get on my knees?”
Meng Lei cast a glance at him. Then, a golden beam shot out, and the Golden Colossal Dragon Person’s head shot into the air and left his body right away.
“There is no place for you to speak here!”
Meng Lei curled his lip disdainfully before he then turned his gaze to the golden-robed elderly man suspended in mid-air. “You’d better give me a satisfactory explanation for your ambush on me just now!”
“You brazen, audacious renegade!”
Flames of fury rose in Goblen Frederick as murderous intent roiled in his eyes. “You’ve killed the empire’s emperor, slaughtered all the court officials, and killed more than 1,000 Saint Domains! Your sins are grievous, heinous, and unforgivable!
“Today, I shall rip you into a million pieces and cut you with a thousand knives so as to serve a warning to the people!”
“What?”
“What is Grandmaster saying?!”
Goblen Frederick’s words could be said to have caused a great commotion.
All the students were stunned!
All the teachers were horrified!
All the tourists were terrified!
Killed the emperor? Slaughtered all the court officials? Killed more than 1,000 Saint Domains?
How could that be? How could Meng Lei possibly be that strong?
Fake! It must be fake! The Grandmaster must have made a mistake!
Everyone shook their heads hard. They didn’t dare to believe such a thing at all; it was simply too sensational!
However, Meng Lei’s following response mercilessly shattered their fantasies.
“They’re just a bunch of rotten, depraved Magical Beasts. So I’ve killed them. So? What are you going to do about it?”
Meng Lei curled his lip disdainfully, his demeanor calm and unaffected.
“O’ Dragon God above!”
“O’ Dragon God above!”
“O’ Dragon God above!”
“This, this...”
“It’s actually... actually true?”
“How dare he? How dare he?!”
A severe jolt went through everyone, who was shocked and horrified to the extreme.
“Die!!”
Goblen let out a low roar, upon which golden light that covered the whole sky burst forth from him and shot toward Meng Lei.
“The same move again? How boring!”
Meng Lei shook his head slightly. With just a step, he had already reached right behind Goblen, and he took the opportunity to swing the Hammer of Destruction toward his lower back.
“See if I don’t crush your ancient waist!”
Bam!
His hammer swing was simply too swift, so much so that Goblen couldn’t react in time. He took the blow squarely at his ancient lower back and was thrown right out.
Bam!
Goblen crashed hard against the Tower of Time, causing the tower to sway about thrice.
“What the heck!? You’d better not damage it!”
Meng Lei got a huge fright at the sight, and he hastily controlled the Tower of Time with his will.
Then, something shocking happened—the Dragon God Tower, which had stood erect at Dragon God Academy and never moved an inch in 40,000 years, actually rose into the sky!
Then, it rapidly shrank, ultimately reducing in size until it became a little miniature tower that landed in Meng Lei’s palm!
(⊙o⊙)!!!
o((⊙_⊙))o!
┗(@ロ@;)┛!!!
“O’ Dragon God above!”
“This, this...”
“W-why did the Dragon God Tower...”
Everyone was horrified and aghast.
The Dragon God Tower was the divine weapon that protected the empire! For the last 40,000 years, it had stood erect and immovable like a rock!
So why... was it moving now?
On top of that, it had even flown onto Meng Lei’s palm?
Were they serious about this?
“You audacious knave put down the Dragon God Tower!”
Goblen Frederick got up from the ground. A bit of blood hung at a corner of his lip, but his aura was full and brimming, and his divine power vast and majestic—evidently, he hadn’t suffered much of an injury.
He stared at the miniature Tower of Time sitting in Meng Lei’s palm, somewhat hysterical. “Put down the Dragon God Tower at once! Otherwise, I’ll fight you to the death...”
“Put down? Why should I put it down?”
Meng Lei waved the Tower of Time left and right in his palm and said lightly, “The Dragon God Tower belongs to me from the start. I had only deposited it here temporarily. Is there a problem with me collecting it now?”
“You renegade! Knave! Treacherous bandit!”
[1] The derogatory term used here also colloquially refers to turtles, which are known for their long lifespans
Chapter 207: Leave The Princesses Here, Throw The Princes Out
“You renegade! Knave! Treacherous bandit!”
Goblen Frederick was boiling mad.
Meng Lei had killed the emperor, slaughtered all the court officials, and killed more than 1,000 Saint Domains. His actions were atrocious to the point that people would be speechless with abhorrence.
And now, he had even taken the divine weapon protecting the kingdom. Even if he were a bully, he shouldn’t be going that far!
“Die, die, die!”
Goblen roared incessantly. His vast, majestic divine power spread into the surroundings, crushing everyone who was watching the battle straight onto the ground and rendering them unable to even raise their heads.
Roar!
Innumerable golden threads suddenly shot out of Goblen to form a huge golden cage, which covered the area around Meng Lei.
“Close!”
The golden cage rapidly closed and imprisoned Meng Lei in an instant.
“You knave! Traitor! And renegade! I’m going to rip you into a million pieces and cut you with 1,000 knives!”
The golden cage started to contract as Goblen roared furiously, its sharp, indestructible golden threads tightening around Meng Lei forcefully.
Had it been anyone else—even a limits-level Saint Domain—they would surely have been turned into minced meat by the golden threads, yet Meng Lei remained well and intact.
“These are fully formed by metal-elemental power of divinity!”
Meng Lei marveled, “They are incredibly sharp and indestructible, but what a pity that they are just going to... Break!”
Boom!
Meng Lei suddenly began to expand with great force. Amid crisp crunching sounds, the golden threads wound around the surface of his body began to snap one by one... until all of them had broken.
A look at Meng Lei revealed that they hadn’t left even a single bloody scar on him.
“How can this be!?” Goblen was horrified and aghast. “Is your divine body actually that strong and tough?!”
“If I didn’t know a thing or two, how would I have dared to risk challenging you?” Meng Lei waved the Tower of Time in his hand and said, “Didn’t you want the Dragon God Tower? I’ll return it to you now!”
Then, as his fingers closed around the Tower of Time, he swung his arm back and hurled it over.
“The Dragon God Tower!”
Overjoyed, Goblen quickly reached out to catch it, but just as he was about to catch hold of it...
The Tower of Time instantly enlarged and turned from a 20-centimeters-tall miniature little tower into a huge, sky-scraping tower!
“Oh no!”
Goblen’s countenance changed drastically at the sight.
It was just a shame that it was ultimately still too late. The Tower of Time crashed into him just like how a bus would crash into an old man.
Crack!
Amid crisp cracks of bones snapping, blood spurted from Goblen’s mouth as he was thrown back. He crashed onto the ground, causing a deep fissure to form in the ground before he finally came to a stop.
“Seeing how you couldn’t catch it even when I’ve given it to you, it looks like you’re ultimately not fated to own the Dragon Tower. It can’t be helped, then!”
Meng Lei shook his head lightly. With a casual movement from him, the Tower of Time shrank in size again and flew back into his palm.
“You evil creature!”
Goblen soared into the sky and, without a second word, transformed into a huge Golden Colossal Dragon. Golden-yellow in color throughout, it was 1,000-meters-long and had a wingspan of more than 3,000 meters.
Boom!
Fierce, surging dragon might spread out, suppressing all the spectators so much that blood spurted from their mouths as if they had been struck by lightning. The weaker ones even passed out right away.
“You lowly worm! You’ve enraged me! You’ve completely enraged me!”
Goblen roared furiously, “I’m going to rip you into 1,000,000 pieces! And cut you with 1,000 knives!”
Roar!
The Colossal Dragon opened its mouth, from which a wave of golden dragon breath spurted—the dragon breath was actually golden, boiling-hot liquid!
Whoosh!
Meng Lei easily dodged the attack. However, the students behind him weren’t that lucky. Before they could even scream, they had become a pool of golden fluid.
“R-run!”
“Run!”
The students and teachers at the sides almost died from fright, yet they had been forced onto the ground and couldn’t move at all. All they could do was to pray amid their fear and trepidation that they wouldn’t become collateral damage.
“What powerful dragon breath!”
Meng Lei’s eyes flashed as he kept the Tower of Time and took out the Hammer of Destruction.
“As they say, it doesn’t fulfill propriety if one doesn’t return as good as they receive. Take a swing from my hammer!”
He appeared behind Goblen with a flash, raised the hammer, and smashed it down ruthlessly.
Meng Lei had put 50% of his power into the blow this time!
Crack!
With a crisp crack, a bloody hole formed, and dragon blood spilled everywhere. Goblen let out a piercing roar and swiped about with his claws as he tried to smack Meng Lei dead, yet he simply couldn’t catch him.
“Everyone says that a Golden Colossal Dragon’s scales have peerless defenses, but it looks like they’re nothing more than just this. This battle has lost all meaning. Let’s end this!”
Meng Lei was like a phantom, yet also like a mirage. He appeared here one moment and there the next, his movements as swift as the wind and as quick as lightning.
Crack!
Crack!
He completely suppressed Goblen. Huge hole after hole was left behind everywhere that the Hammer of Destruction passed by.
Large droplets of golden dragon blood sprayed about and dyed the ground—as well as every single spectator’s mind—in their color. The sight was shockingly ghastly and incredibly horrifying.
Roar!
“Divine Technique: Protective Golden Body[1]!
“Divine Technique: Imprisonment!
“God’s Domain!
“Divine Technique: Golden Flames of Destruction!
“Divine Technique: Indestructible Metal God!”
Goblen roared incessantly and unleashed various trump cards. He didn’t even hesitate to use his power of divinity! Nevertheless, these were still powerless to alter the outcome of the battle.
Meng Lei, together with his hammer, came and went like a ghost.
When God’s Domain came toward him, he dodged and smashed his hammer about furiously.
When the Golden Flames of Destruction came toward him, he also dodged and smashed his hammer about furiously.
When the destructive dragon breath came toward him, he still dodged and smashed his hammer about furiously.
After the series of attacks, Meng Lei was still completely well and intact, but Goblen was already riddled with holes and his dragon scales broken and cracked. He was a terribly wretched sight to behold.
“It’s over!”
Meng Lei liked to fight, but he didn’t have a penchant for abusing the weak. Thus, he resolutely launched his final attack.
“Divine Technique: Ultima
te Alchemy!”
Buzz...
A dazzling golden light beam descended from above and instantly smashed onto Goblen.
All the areas that the golden light beam struck stiffened right away and turned a golden-yellow color before ultimately actually becoming a dazzling gold.
“This is...”
Upon sensing the changes in his body, Goblen’s expression changed drastically. He flapped his wings desperately in an attempt to avoid the golden light beam, only for Meng Lei to smash his hammer onto his head.
The blow dizzied Goblen, making him see stars while his mind blanked out.
Buzz...
The golden light beam swiftly spread out. In a few short breaths, it had fully enveloped Goblen’s 1,000-meters-long body, wings, tail, and claws...
Whoosh!
In this instant, Goblen’s body was completely frozen, and he could no longer budge even an inch. Then, he crashed straight onto the ground and became still and motionless!
Meng Lei landed in front of Goblen and knocked against his body, producing dull, muffled thuds as he did so. He was awfully pleased with his handiwork.
“This place is pretty cold and cheerless after I took the Dragon God Tower. We’ll have you stand in its place, then!”
And then, Meng Lei vanished with a flash.
“I-it’s ended?”
The spectators who had been forced onto the ground climbed to their feet, panting heavily as they did so. They felt as if they’d just had a near-death experience and been given a new lease of life.
It had really been too frightening just now.
“This is wonderful! I’m still alive!”
“Sob, I’m still alive! I’m still alive!”
“Mama...”
Badly frightened, most of the onlookers were currently weeping in joy and relief. The bolder ones among them carefully walked over to Goblen.
One of them trembled as he asked, “G-Grandmaster, a-are you alright?”
However, there was no response.
Utterly confused, the person reached out and touched Goblen lightly. His body was cold to the touch and felt fully metallic. How was this a dragon anymore? It was clearly a Colossal Dragon statue!
“O... O’ Dragon God above! T-the Grandmaster has turned into a statue?!”
...
“That old bastard actually doesn’t even have a single bronze coin on him!”
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