Chapter 401: Witch
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Lily’s scream echoed in the dark warehouse. Before the echo ended, she disappeared from their vision. Next, she appeared behind Lin Huang like a ghost. Under the black robe, her inhuman black claws reached out towards his neck with black mist on them. Her phantom movement was beyond what Lin Huang’s eyes could capture. However, with his Micro Territory that was active at all times, nothing could escape him within a radius of a hundred meters, including Lily’s peculiar movement.
Sensing her appearance behind him, Lin Huang did not escape, but he stretched out his grade-5 sword relic, Dragon Slayer, to his back. Before the golden glow left the sword, the sword sliced through the air cleanly.
Bang!
As the sword and the claws collided, a loud bang was heard. With the help of the force, Lin Huang dashed towards Fatty and Zhang Mengmeng. Lily backed off and disappeared into the dark again.
As Lin Huang was closer to Fatty, he was ready to chop off the black chain that was restraining Fatty with his sword. Suddenly, a shadow appeared next to Fatty. Black needles fired like bullets at Lin Huang faster than the speed of sound. He stopped moving while slashing the sword maniacally in the air like it was a giant shield blocking all the black needles.
Suddenly, he felt danger coming from behind. He activated his Cloud Steps and Seraphic Speed, then stepped a hundred meters away and saw the black shadow disappear.
“What was that?” Lin Huang was puzzled. At that moment, he could sense danger coming from his back again. He stepped away immediately. Under the bright moonlight, he turned around and saw a shadow disappear from where he stood again.
“A shadow?!” Lin Huang could tell it was a shadow. Although he had no idea what the shadow was doing, the sense of danger came from it. Lin Huang trusted his instincts.
“Lin Huang, the moment you stepped into this warehouse today, there’s no way you’ll leave alive. Give up all your useless struggles now,” Lily’s voice echoed.
“Lily, if you had gone for the psychotherapy sessions last year, perhaps you’d have been living like a normal kid just like everybody else now. Mr. Wei’s love wasn’t real. It was an odd feeling that you have towards him after his brainwashing. He never loved you. You were a toy to him and you could’ve been thrown away anytime he wanted. You know very well who he really was. His death is a release for you…” Lin Huang shouted.
“So, you thought my dad is dead! He’s not dead. He was saved by the Grandmistress! She sent me to Phoenix Island for training… Phoenix Island is like hell… Hahaha…” Lily sounded like a lunatic, her laugh scaring Lin Huang.
However, Lin Huang got some information from what she said. “Mr. Wei didn’t die? How is that possible!? There was a hole in his head, so how did he manage to survive?”
“An ordinary person like you could never imagine Grandmistress’s special ways! Dad will be revived two years later,” Lily sounded like she was talking to herself.
Lin Huang frowned as he listened to Lily’s crazy talk but he could tell that what she said was true. He could not imagine what kind of person the so-called Grandmistress was.
“The Grandmistress that you’re talking about, who is she?” Lin Huang asked.
“Grandmistress is dad’s mother. She’s the most incredible woman in the entire world.” Lily sounded insane.
Now, Lin Huang finally found out that Mr. Wei had a powerful background. He thought it was odd that the Grandmistress did not get anybody to assassinate him for the past one year. Could Lily be here to fulfill some odd fetish? Lin Huang was half right; training Lily to get revenge was the Grandmistress’s fetish. She did send assassins on Lin Huang’s tail, but the assassins were always stopped by the Leng family.
“My dad asked me to kill you and keep your dead body in the freezer. By then, Grandmistress will extract your soul to feed the worms. Two years later, when dad is revived, he’ll slice your body into pieces as you watch and use different ways to cook you every day. When your body is all eaten, he will chop off your head and make it into a spittoon and get Grandmistress to put your consciousness into the spittoon…”
“It seems like killing that pervert didn’t teach him a lesson. Next time when I see him, I’ll wipe away his soul and consciousness so that he won’t be able to live ever again.” Lin Huang was furious.
“And that Grandmistress? I shall chop off her head one day,” Lin Huang added.
“Too bad you won’t be able to survive until that day,” Lily mocked and attacked again.
Three giant shadows dashed towards Lin Huang by sliding on the ground.
“It’s redundant to play shadows with me!” Lin Huang shouted, “Come out, Witch!”
A human-form monster with a horn on its head appeared in front of Lin Huang. The monster was a female with a pliant body. It was one of the fiend Monster Cards that Lin Huang had obtained the last time.
“Monster Card
“Rarity: Epic
“Monster Name: Witch
“Type of Monster: Fiend (Beginner)
“Combat Level: Blue Flame-level
“Skill 1: Magic of Gu
“Skill 2: Poison Magic
“Skill 3: Witchcraft
“Summon Authority: Activated
“Card Remarks: Trainable”
Lin Huang had seen the skills description before. The Witch had the most secular skills. She only had three skills that were of different abilities. For Magic of Gu, she had mastered tens of worms with different functions. Some could control human minds from parasites, some could store venom, while some were cannibal worms that could devour an adult’s flesh to his skeleton within seconds…
Meanwhile, Witchcraft included some soul-type attack, defense, and psychic abilities. It included some peculiar abilities such as shadow control, plant control and even summoning monsters from another dimension.
As Lin Huang had seen the Witch controlling shadows before, he decided to get her to fight Lily. Seeing the three shadows that were coming, the Witch stomped hard, and a giant fiend-form shadow grew under the moonlight.
Chapter 402: Zhang Mengmeng’s Identity
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The fiend shadow that the Witch created appeared within seconds. The three shadows that Lily was controlling sensed something was wrong, so they attempted to go around it to get to Lin Huang. However, the fiend shadow entered Lin Huang’s own shadow at the speed of light before the three shadows could even move. He was speechless as he watched his shadow became a gigantic fiend shadow. As the shadows were fighting, he had no idea how he could help. He did not have any idea what would happen to him if he touched Lily’s shadow.
The fight among the shadows on the ground was intense; it was like an intriguing shadow play. The shadows collided with each other and separated so fast that Lin Huang could only grasp a little bit of what was going on. The fiend shadow was certainly much stronger than the three shadows. Although it was surrounded by the three shadows, it was winning. It stood on its spot, barely moving, while the other three were constantly in motion. They backed off once they were attacked, not daring to fight the fiend shadow face-to-face.
The battle lasted for more than a minute, and it became stagnant. Just when a shadow was attacking, the fiend shadow retaliated by transforming one of its shadow hands into a massive mouth and snapped at the shadow. The other two shadows wanted to help, but they were chased away by the other enormous hand. The shadow that was captured was whimpering like a wounded beast. However, it was soon swallowed, and there was complete silence.
After settling the first shadow, the fiend shadow seemed to grow a few times bigger. It turned around and looked at the other two shadows. It extended its claws and transformed them into two thick chains, then dashed towards the two shadows. Under the moonlight, the two shadows were running for their lives. Soon, one of them was captured by the chain. It struggled hard, but its efforts were redundant. As soon as the fiend shadow pulled the chain, it captured the shadow with its claws and consumed it.
Knowing that it could not escape, the last shadow left the ground and transformed into a thick, black mist. Soon, it became Lily. Lin Huang was surprised to see that as he did not expect any of the shadows to be Lily herself. As soon as she turned into a human again, Lily screamed at Lin Huang while she attempted to escape,
“How could this happen? I have already sealed the space! You shouldn’t be able to summon your monsters!”
“Nothing is impossible. Since I couldn’t summon my monsters, it’s obvious that I have my own way of making it happen.” Lin Huang did not explain much.
Lily, who was escaping, stared deadly at Lin Huang, then turned around and dashed towards Fatty and Zhang Mengmeng.
“Since I can’t kill you, even if I die, I must kill these two!”
“Witch, kill her!” Lin Huang frowned and instructed.
The warehouse became even dimmer as Lin Huang’s shadow changed back to normal. He had no idea when the fiend shadow had left his shadow and where it had gone to. All the dark corners were alive. It looked like the entire warehouse had become the fiend shadow’s playground.
Any spots with shadows were transformed into chains. They were like tentacles that grew and sped towards Lily as if they had lost their minds. No matter where she was running to, the chains would follow her. They even left the ground and became individual feelers. Suddenly, Lin Huang noticed that Lily had no shadow!
Soon, she was surrounded by the black chains that were coming from everywhere. As the first chain curled up her ankle, the rest followed like maggots. As he watched Lily groaned in the chain hold, Lin Huang held his head down and sighed, “I hope you’ll be reborn into a better family in your next life.”
She had gone through a year of touch training and exhausted her talent, but all she could manage was holy fire-level and at the most, white flame-level. Although Lin Huang was restricted, the Witch was a blue flame level after all. Moreover, it was a fiend with many odd abilities, so even a gold flame-level might not defeat it. Lily was just an appetizer to it, and it could defeat her easily.
As the black chains faded and Lily disappeared in the black robe, Lin Huang turned around and ran towards Fatty and Zhang Mengmeng. The both of them were hung 20 centimeters from the ground. Zhang Mengmeng was still staring blankly while Fatty looked up to Lin Huang slowly as he was getting closer.
“That black-robed person…”
“She’s here for me. I’m so sorry to drag the both of you into it… But she’s dead now. I’ll get you out of this place.” Lin Huang was guilty as Fatty was out of breath and there was a wound on Zhang Mengmeng’s face. If not for him, Lily would not have captured the both of them. Lin Huang sliced away the hooks on their backs with his sword, and the both of them landed on the ground. Zhang Mengmeng seemed to only snap out of it and starting crying.
“Mengmeng…” Fatty looked at Zhang Mengmeng in concern.
“Don’t worry. I’ll break you free now.” Lin Huang sliced the chains that were binding their bodies.
“Mengmeng, are you alright?” Ignoring his pain, Fatty attempted to help Zhang Mengmeng up, but his pain restricted him.
“Alright, you should rest since you’re in pain. Let me do it.” Lin Huang shook his head and held Zhang Mengmeng’s arms in an attempt to help her up.
Suddenly, Zhang Mengmeng looked up and stabbed Lin Huang’s stomach with a blade.
“Die, Lin Huang!”
“You…” There was no way Lin Huang could avoid the attack as it was too close, and he did not see that coming.
“Mengmeng, what are you doing?!” Fatty was shocked.
“Hangyi, we can only be together if he’s dead.” Zhang Mengmeng did not look as shy as she had been anymore.
“Who are you?” Lin Huang pressed on his wound and backed off meters away. Blood was flowing freely from the stab wound.
“I’m the real Lily. The one that you killed just now was just a crazy personality split of me that I sealed in one of my shows… Everything was planned by me, not by her,” Zhang Mengmeng finally revealed who she really was.
“I thought she could kill you so that Hangyi won’t see me doing this. Too bad, that crazy lady is useless…”
Chapter 403: Let’s Break Up!
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As Lin Huang backed off, Zhang Mengmeng did not pursue him and proceeded to say with a smirk, “There’s no need to struggle, Lin Huang. My blade is coated with venom from a Fiendish Pufferfish, and there’s no antidote in the entire world. You only have one hour to live….”
The Fiendish Pufferfish was a poisonous monster from the abyss, and a drop of its venom could kill a holy fire-level. Such venom could infect one’s life directly. It looked like a drop of ink dripped into a glass of clear water and could affect the person’s Life Power.
“Mengmeng, why would you do that?” Fatty did not expect Zhang Mengmeng to attack Lin Huang. He was still confused by what was happening.
“Hangyi, Grandmistress will kill me if I don’t finish Lin Huang. She’s trained me for a year and given me a month to accomplish this assassination. If I fail this mission, no matter which part of the world that I run to, she’ll be able to find me. Grandmistress’s way isn’t what you can ever imagine it to be.” Zhang Mengmeng looked like she respected this Grandmistress very much as she spoke of her.
“The Lily that I recall doesn’t look like this. Who are you really?!” Yang Ling had confirmed Zhang Mengmeng’s face was real. However, it was odd that she said she was the Lily that he knew a year ago.
“It’s all your fault!” Zhang Mengmeng glared deadly at Lin Huang.
“If not for you, I wouldn’t have been with Grandmistress and be sent to Phoenix Island which was hell. On the island, the psycho lady Poison Sting would use different ways to torture me every day. She called that training, but I was already tortured to death on the 12th day that I arrived on the island. The lady kept my soul and consciousness and got Grandmistress to send a human android to the island. She then inserted my soul and consciousness into the android, which is what you’re looking at right now. Since then, she tortured me more and more each day, which was also how I managed to level-up from an ordinary person to holy fire-level. I managed to finish the training a month before the expected time.
“However, such psychotic training put me through many meltdowns. The lunatic that you killed just now was my split personality. Although she was a lunatic, I should thank her because if not for her, I wouldn’t have been able to complete the 11 months of training.
“After the training was completed, I returned to Division7 looking everywhere for Lin Huang, but there’s nothing much. I went to Wulin Town, but your house has been vacant for a very long time. I even looked for your sister Lin Xin. However, it seemed like she disappeared at the end of last year. I then found out that you’re close to Hangyi, that’s why I got closer to him so that I could get to you…”
Zhang Mengmeng looked at Fatty after she said that.
“So, you’ve never loved me? Your intention of being with me is to kill Lin Huang?!” Fatty’s tears flowed from his swollen eyes.
“Ahh, that’s why there was no response from the Love Rock because you’ve never loved me. Not even a tiny bit, I’ve been living a lie!”
“Hangyi, I admit that I approached you with intentions to use you, but I truly fell in love with you later on… Since I was young, nobody has ever treated me like how you do. You’re the only person who treats me sincerely, not like the rest of them who either use me or treat me as a toy. I love it when I’m with you. As long as I’m with you, I feel safe even if you don’t say or do anything. As for the Love Rock that had no response…” Zhang Mengmeng was choking back tears as she went on.
“Because you’re dead…”
“What?” Fatty was shocked to hear what Zhang Mengmeng said.
“I actually wanted to kill you when we first met at the assessment as well as engulf your soul and consciousness. I wanted to extract everything about Lin Huang from that.” Zhang Mengmeng took a deep breath and told the truth.
“But after browsing your memories, I found out that you had no idea where Lin Huang was. Helpless, I used the way that Grandmistress taught me and extracted your consciousness and sealed part of your soul into your body to ‘revive’ you as well as wipe away the part of your memory of being dead.”
“In reality, you’re dead and your soul no longer exists. Your consciousness looks like it exists, but it’s just a part of mine…”
“Since I ‘revived’ you, I approached you so that I could retrieve Lin Huang’s location from you. However, after spending time with you for a few days, I realized that I enjoyed being loved by you. It’s a feeling that I have never experienced before. Since then, I regretted killing you. I came up with many plans and looked up many documents on how to revive you. However, your soul is a unique thing. As soon as it dies, it can’t be revived or reversed.”
“The Love Rock can sense the souls of both people. It will only light up for souls who are connected. You don’t have a soul, so our palms didn’t light up…”
Not only was Fatty shocked at what Zhang Mengmeng said, even Lin Huang, who was not far away, was dumbfounded.
“But I thought about it. It doesn’t matter if you’re alive or not. As long as I keep inserting your soul for you, you can maintain what you are now and we can be together forever.” Zhang Mengmeng smiled at Fatty.
“If you had kept this as a secret, I would have chosen to believe you. But now… How am I supposed to believe you?” Fatty looked up while tears kept pouring down his face.
“After I kill Lin Huang and inform Grandmistress, I’ll remove this part of your memory. You won’t remember it was me who killed Lin Huang and you won’t remember whatever I’m saying now. We can still live happily ever after. I can even accompany you to Lin Huang’s funeral…”
“Enough! Everything isn’t real!” Fatty stopped Zhang Mengmeng from saying any further
“Zhang Mengmeng, if you really love me, stop creating illusions to trick me and stop lying to yourself. Let me go. I would rather be dead than live in your illusion.”
“You’re abandoning me?” Zhang Mengmeng looked at Fatty with tears in her eyes.
“If that’s what you think then sure, I don’t want to be with you anymore. Let’s break up!” Fatty looked into Zhang Mengmeng’s eyes.
“How dare you?!” Zhang Mengmeng was furious as she strangled Fatty’s neck and dangled him in the air.
“I never thought you would be like every other man who treats me like a toy and throw me away when you don’t need me anymore… If that’s the case, I shall kill you too!”
“Fatty!” As Lin Huang shouted his name in warning, the Witch came to his rescue. Fatty, who was in Zhang Mengmeng’s grasp, turned into a scarecrow. The Witch appeared in front of Zhang Mengmeng and slapped her on the chest. She flew backwards from the blow…
Chapter 404: In My Next Life, I Want to Be Your Wife
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“Lin Huang, if you kill me, he’ll die too! His consciousness comes from mine. If my consciousness disappears, his will too.” Zhang Mengmeng spat blood as she was struck on the warehouse wall by the Witch. As she had made the wall impenetrable to prevent Lin Huang from escaping, she would have gone through the wall as a result of the Witch’s attack if she had not.
“Since you’re only left with an hour to live, why not you allow Hangyi and I to leave? Give Hangyi to me. As long as I remove this part of his memory, he’ll love me like he always does. As long as I live, so will he.” Zhang Mengmeng landed on the ground slowly. Her two ponytails were loose. Her messy hair and her peculiar facial expression made her looked like a ghost under the moonlight.
“You’re still so stubborn!” Lin Huang sympathized with her at first, but now he was irritated. He crushed the Healing Card that was in his hand, and the blade that had stabbed his stomach was pushed out of his body slowly. As that happened, a small capful of purple liquid came out together with the blade. It was the Fiendish Pufferfish’s venom. As soon as the venom was excreted, his wound started to heal at a pace that could be seen with the naked eye. Suddenly, the Witch appeared in front of Lin Huang and looked desperately at the venom.
“Take it if you want it.” Lin Huang nodded to her. The Witch opened her mouth and swallowed the purple liquid. It only took a moment for Lin Huang’s body to recover to his peak performance after the venom left his body.
“What just happened? How is this possible!? There’s no antidote to the Fiendish Pufferfish’s venom! And how did you manage to heal yourself so quickly?!” Zhang Mengmeng was shocked by what she was witnessing. She shook her head vigorously, unable to accept what she was seeing.
It had taken her so long to plan out everything, so she was sure that Lin Huang would definitely die from the Fiendish Pufferfish’s venom as there was no antidote to it. However, she did not expect him to be able to get rid of the venom just like that. All her efforts had gone to waste.
“Mengmeng, stop dwelling on your mistakes.” Seeing that Lin Huang had recovered, Fatty advised Zhang Mengmeng to move on. He hoped that Zhang Mengmeng could escape. Perhaps, Lin Huang would not kill her for the sake of Fatty. However, if Zhang Mengmeng insisted on staying, Lin Huang would not let her go just like that.
“Dwell on my own mistakes? Hangyi, there’s no turning back for me. I have wasted too much time. I don’t have much time to complete the mission. I’m only left with less than ten days. If I don’t kill Lin Huang, Grandmistress won’t let me go.” Zhang Mengmeng behaved like a lunatic as she cried and laughed at the same time.
“I can only live if I kill him, then we can be together!” Zhang Mengmeng said and raced towards Lin Huang.
“I’m sorry, Fatty,” Lin Huang apologized, then he turned around and nodded to the Witch. The Witch then stood in front of Lin Huang and Fatty. As she opened both her hands wide, countless of black worms flew towards Zhang Mengmeng. These worms were called Lifesiphon Worms. They were the size of an adult thumb. They were completely black, and they were fed by the Life Power of various creatures. Their mouths were like scissors which could cut open the skin of any creatures easily and enter their bodies. These worms usually lived in colonies of tens of thousands. Even an immortal-level would not want to offend them.
Zhang Mengmeng recognized the worms. Although she was delirious, she decided to run away from the worms. As the worms chased after her, she ran helter-skelter and shot daggers at Lin Huang. She knew she could not fight the Witch. Although she did not see how exactly the Witch had killed Lily in the black robe earlier, she could tell how dangerous it was from the energy wave that had been created when they were fighting. The Witch took a very short time to kill Lily and it was obvious that the Witch was much more powerful.
Just like Lily who had lost her mind, Zhang Mengmeng knew very well that her ability was the same. It was impossible to defeat the Witch. She would have to kill Lin Huang by avoiding the Witch. As she ran, Zhang Mengmeng approached Lin Huang’s direction. At the same time, she threw black needles, targeting at Lin Huang, completely ignoring the Witch.
Lin Huang slashed his sword in the air and blocked all of the black needles that got in his way. Meanwhile, as Zhang Mengmeng was pulled a distance away, her body split into two. Soon, from two of her, there were four, then eight… She looked like a cell that was going through mitosis. In less than a second, there were 32 Zhang Mengmengs now.
The Witch could not tell which was the real one. She extended her palm into the air, and countless vines grew out of her palm. She was like a giant tentacle monster as the monstrous tentacles that were tens of meters long dashed towards Zhang Mengmeng. Even Lin Huang could not tell which was the real Zhang Mengmeng after activating his ocular skill.
Suddenly, he felt a shadow encroach into his Micro Territory, rushing towards him. He did not even turn around but just stabbed his sword backward. The Star Dome was powerful. There was a tearing sound in the air as well as white stripes that appeared as his sword collided with the shadow. Following a loud bang, Zhang Mengmeng groaned while the shadow came back to her.
“How is that possible?! Even Poison Sting couldn’t tell which is my real body!” Zhang Mengmeng spat blood out again. She did not see Lin Huang’s sword coming. Although she managed to escape from death, she was badly injured in the intense collision. Without Lin Huang saying a word, the Witch appeared behind Zhang Mengmeng like a ghost. It was too late when she realized that. The Witch’s fingers were like venomous snakes preying on their food as they pierced Zhang Mengmeng’s back. The entire hand had come out through Zhang Mengmeng’s chest…
An immense pain bloomed from her chest. Zhang Mengmeng looked down and saw the bloody hand reaching out from the front of her body. The long nails were like beast’s claws and she finally knew what had happened as she looked at the inhuman limb. The Witch slowly retracted her hand, and Zhang Mengmeng seemed to lose all her strength as she fell to the ground. Tears were pouring while she tried her very best to look at Fatty’s direction.
“Hangyi, I’m sorry…”
“Mengmeng!” Fatty struggled his way to Zhang Mengmeng and held her in his arms. Lin Huang wanted to stop him. However, he just could not do it while his hand hung in the air.
“I’m sorry. The thing I regret the most in this life would be killing you. How great would it be if I didn’t kill you that day…” Zhang Mengmeng touched Fatty’s swollen face.
“Mengmeng, I don’t blame you. The days that I spent with you were the happiest days of my life.” Fatty’s tears were streaming down uncontrollably.
“Me too. I’m happy whenever I’m with you. You give me a sense of security… Perhaps, that’s what real happiness feels like.” Zhang Mengmeng was getting weaker and it became hard for her even to speak.
“I would love to be your bride…”
“I’ve thought of marrying you and having kids. We would see our kids grow up while our heads turn white…” Fatty laid his face on Zhang Mengmeng’s forehead and said softly.
“Hangyi, is reincarnation real in this world?” Zhang Mengmeng asked feebly.
“If it’s real, I would like to see you again in my next life… Promise me you’ll meet me on the Three Lifetime Mountain… Okay?”
“Okay!” Fatty nodded firmly.
“You’re so fat. I’ll definitely recognize you… Don’t you dare not recognize me…” Zhang Mengmeng smiled.
“How can I not recognize you? The most beautiful one among the crowd has to be you.” Fatty hugged Zhang Mengmeng hard while shaking and crying uncontrollably.
“It’s a promise then… In my next life, I’ll be your bride…”
“Mmm!” Fatty could not speak anymore.
Soon, Zhang Mengmeng’s hand that was touching Fatty’s fell away limply. She was dead, but her face was calm like she had never been before with a light smile.
“Mengmeng!” Fatty screamed from the top of his lungs.
Chapter 405: I Have No Regrets in This Life
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Lin Huang watched silently as Fatty cried in devastation with Zhang Mengmeng in his arms. Zhang Mengmeng’s consciousness was now dead, and because Fatty was part of her consciousness, his would die very soon too.
“Xiao Hei, will the Healing Card work on Fatty?” Although he knew the answer, Lin Huang asked anyway.
“The Healing Card only works on living humans but he’s already dead. If one’s soul or consciousness are partially damaged, the Healing Card could still be used as a remedy, but the problem is, his soul has been dead since the beginning. The Healing Card can’t create another soul of a person as there’s only one such thing.”
“How long does he still have?” Lin Huang asked.
“At the most, half an hour. The main consciousness has died, and what he has is just a part of it, so dying is just a matter of time.”
Lin Huang was solemn. Fatty was one of the first friends that he made since he traveled to this world. He did not expect that killing a bastard a year ago would involve Fatty, who was innocent, and as a consequence, his life was sacrificed. As Fatty cried for more than 20 minutes, he started to realize that there was something going on in his body. He felt weak and tired, and he wanted to sleep.
“Lin Huang…” He called out to Lin Huang in panic.
Lin Huang appeared in front of him immediately and held his shaking body steady.
“I feel so tired. Am I dying?” Fatty managed a frail smile.
Lin Huang did not say anything. Observing his response, Fatty knew that he did not have much time left.
“Lin Huang, you’re my best friend. I have a favor to ask…”
“Please tell me. Anything for you.” Lin Huang nodded.
Fatty worked on his Emperor’s Heart Ring’s contact page. “I have sent you two sets of recipes. One is Dad’s and another is mine. I hope you can bring back my dad’s recipe to my family. Give it to my grandmother. He was the only real chef in our family, and he gave me the recipe, so you must bring back the recipe. As for my recipe, it’s not a complete one. I have noted down many recipes that I imagined cooking. I hope that you can give this to a real Food Hunter. Let him or her make my recipes happen…”
“Sure, I will find the best Food Hunter and get him to make all the recipes come true!” Lin Huang smiled and nodded confidently.
“Also, Ke Lai Hotel… The hotel was my dad’s hard work but now that my dad is not around and I’m leaving soon, my family might sell the hotel. I hope you can purchase the hotel and keep the business going. The revenue of the hotel is good so that you won’t lose money. Keep a copy of my dad’s recipe, hire a good chef to learn all his signature food and keep the Yin family’s recipe going. If possible, I hope my recipes will appear in the hotel too…”
“I’ll take care of Ke Lai Hotel for you.”
“Don’t be sad for me. Although I’ve only lived for 17 years, I’m happy that I did. My grandmother said fate determines how long a person could live. I had a great dad and a grandmother who loves me. Also, I met the love of my life and she loved me too… I have no regrets in this life…” Fatty smiled. He got weaker and eventually, he passed away.
“Fatty…” Lin Huang had tears surging in his eyes. He had seen many deaths in this world but he had had no feelings at all. It was his first time seeing a good friend die. A friend who was a glutton, who loved meat. The kind and sincere Fatty was dead.
He put Fatty’s body into his storage space. Just when he wanted to store Zhang Mengmeng’s body, there was an odd energy wave that came out of her body.
Lin Huang backed off immediately as he sensed intense danger. Just as he backed off, Zhang Mengmeng’s body expanded like a balloon.
Bang!
It only took a moment for her body to expand to its maximum before exploding. A raw spark flew up and the intense explosion obliterated the entire warehouse. Lin Huang was thrown down in the wave. The warehouse turned into ruins within seconds.
The explosion extended 10 kilometers away and the blast was heard even further away. Most of the residents on the east side of the White Capital heard it. Some who were closer saw the bright spark. Fortunately, the warehouse was located at the edge of the eastern suburb and it was secluded. Besides some other warehouses with goods, there was no residential area nearby, so there was no casualty.
The explosion happened out of nowhere. Luckily, Lin Huang was fast enough to activate the Dark Shield. Not only that, the Witch created a black spherical defense layer that covered the outside of the Dark Shield. Under the double protection, Lin Huang and the Witch were unhurt. As soon as the explosive was over, Lin Huang removed the defense layer to see the entire place covered in smoke. Zhang Mengmeng’s body that was not far away had completely disappeared.
“That must have been a self-destruction programme by an android. It only exploded after Fatty died. Does that mean Zhang Mengmeng’s consciousness is completely finished now?” Lin Huang guessed.
“That’s great. Now, I don’t have to wipe away the evidence.”
He looked around to make sure he did not leave any trails. He then summoned the Viridescent Thunderhawk and left.
A while after he left, a couple of shadows ran towards the warehouse. They were the powerful humans around who were puzzled by the wreckage, but they left after discovering nothing around the site. Lin Huang went straight back to the dorm in Martial Hunter College.
“Brother, how come you’re back so early today?” Lin Xin was confused as Lin Huang usually only headed back after 12 but it was not even 11.
“Fatty is dead…” Lin Huang muttered after sitting wordlessly on the couch in the living for a while.
“Brother Fatty…is dead?” Lin Xin was shocked. She had not seen the news coming.
Lin Huang then told her about what had happened.
“I’ll drop by Fatty’s house tomorrow to pass his body and his remaining belongings to his family,” Lin Huang said softly.
“I’ll follow you.” Lin Xin was worried about Lin Huang’s condition.
“That’s great. Since Zhang Mengmeng managed to come to the White Capital, it would be dangerous for you to stay here alone.”
Chapter 406: The Yin Family’s Old Lady
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Fatty’s hometown was in Nanmu Town, which was also a D-grade foothold like Wulin Town that was under the territory of Baqi City. It was almost 1,300 kilometers from Baqi City. After breakfast, Lin Huang brought Lin Xin to Baqi City which he had pinned on his dimensional relic earlier. They then rode on the Viridescent Thunderhawk and headed towards Nanmu Town.
It was past eight in the morning when they arrived and the town had started to get crowded. The appearance of the Viridescent Thunderhawk had attracted the attention of the crowd. Lin Huang recalled the Viridescent Thunderhawk after he found out where the Yin family house was quite easily. The foothold was small, only slightly bigger than Wulin Town. Lin Huang did not summon the Viridian Wolf and walked to the Yin residence by foot with Lin Xin instead.
On the way, Lin Huang was thinking about how to break the news while Lin Xin followed without saying a word. She was not as bubbly and capricious as she always was. Seven to eight minutes later, they finally arrived at the big courtyard that the pedestrians had told him about. The Yins were clearly a prosperous family in town. From the look of the courtyard, it looked like it was at least 1,000 square meters large.
There was an old man sitting in a pavilion not far behind the entrance and the black wooden door was locked.
“What do you want?” When the old man saw the both of them, he stood up and asked.
“Is this the Yin residence? I’m Yin Hangyi’s friend and this is my sister. Yin Hangyi asked me to come here to see his old lady,” Lin Huang politely explained.
“You’re Master’s friend? Please give me a moment while I inform the housekeeper.” The old man called someone and hung up after a short exchange of words. He then opened the door.
“Please come in. The housekeeper is waiting for you at the door.” He opened the door and smiled at the both of them.
They walked through the courtyard. There was a middle-aged man in a black tuxedo who nodded to them at the entrance. It was obvious that he was the Yins’ housekeeper.
“Please follow me to the living room.” The housekeeper brought the both of them to the left side of the halls and headed to the living room.
As they entered the living room, the housekeeper got them tea and asked casually, “How do I address the both of you?”
“My name is Lin Huang and this is my sister Lin Xin,” Lin Huang said.
“Oh, so you’re Mr. Lin Huang. Master always talks about you. He told us that you’re young and capable and that you’ve achieved a lot at such a young age.” The housekeeper was much friendlier after confirming who Lin Huang was.
“I wonder what brings Mr. Lin Huang and Ms. Lin Xin here today?” The housekeeper served them some tea.
“Hangyi asked me to see his grandma.” Lin Huang knew that it was best if he announced the news to the head of the family.
“Oh, is that so? She just woke up and is having breakfast now. I’ll inform her. Please give me a moment.” The housekeeper did not ask further and excused himself.
“Brother Fatty is quite rich.” Lin Xin smiled.
“This is all the effort of Fatty’s father’s business. Now that his dad and Fatty aren’t around anymore, the business must find it hard to go on. Many people have gone to the restaurant for Fatty’s dad’s recipe. Fatty picked up 50% to 60% of his dad’s talent. There’s nobody else in the Yin family who is talented in cooking…” Lin Huang knew why Fatty asked him to purchase the hotel as the family would sell it to others if he did not.
“Without the revenue of the hotel, it seems to be hard for the family to maintain their lifestyle.” Lin Xin observed.
“So, as soon as they know about Fatty’s death, if they’re smart, they will sell the hotel because if they continue to manage it, they’ll definitely lose money. Since it’s still making money now, the earlier they let it go, the better for them.” Lin Huang nodded helplessly.
“Why not you buy the hotel, brother? We can get some good chefs to come up with some unique dishes. Even if we don’t make much, at least the business won’t be losing money,” Lin Xin suggested.
“Fatty hoped that I would purchase it as well, but I can’t be the one who initiates that. We need to hear what the grandma says.” Lin Huang knew if he was to suggest that himself, to the Yins, he would seem like he was robbing a burning house instead of trying to help.
After taking two sips of tea, the housekeeper came back to them. “Please follow me to Grandma.”
The both of them trailed behind him and headed to the second floor. On the living room, there was an old lady with white hair on the couch, sandwiched between two women. Lin Huang guessed that they were Fatty’s aunts.
The old lady waved to the both of them. “Since the both of you are Hangyi’s friends, don’t be shy and come sit down. Make yourself at home.
“Hi Grandma, hi Aunties,” Lin Huang greeted the three of them. The housekeeper left after bringing the both of them tea.
Lin Huang was seated on a chair that was not far from the couch and was comfortable. However, Lin Xin looked slightly uneasy.
“I heard from the housekeeper that you’re Lin Huang?” The old lady chuckled.
“Yes, I’m Lin Huang. This is my sister, Lin Xin.”
“Hangyi mentioned about you before. He said you saved his life once. He also told me that you have great abilities and that you’re a genius,” the old lady complimented.
“Hangyi was kidding…” Lin Huang did not know how to break the news anymore.
“Oh yeah, let me introduce yourself. I’m Hangyi’s grandmother and these two are Hangyi’s aunties.” The old lady suddenly realized that she did not introduce the three of them.
“Do you know that Hangyi has a girlfriend now? Although the girl is pretty, I’m worried that she doesn’t really love Hangyi. Think about it. If she’s so pretty, which part of Hangyi would attract her? Since you’re his friend, watch out for him on my behalf. I don’t want him to get cheated…” The old lady did not stop talking. Lin Huang finally knew where Fatty got his chatterbox mouth from.
She was interrupted by one of the aunties. “Mom, don’t just talk about yourself. Hangyi went traveling and now he asked his friend to come here, so there must be something important,” the aunt said.
“Look at me, forgetting about what’s important. Hangyi must have something urgent to tell us?” The old lady asked. Lin Huang was struggling as he did not know how to break the news. He was looking for the opportunity to break it gently but there was no way that he could, judging from the old lady’s conversation.
Now that the three of them were looking at him with anticipation, he did not know how to say it anymore. The old lady seemed to notice something was wrong from Lin Huang’s expression.
“Lin Huang, did something happen…to Hangyi?” The old lady asked carefully. Lin Huang’s silence made the ambiance awkward.
“Just tell me, I can take it.” The old lady took a deep breath and nodded at Lin Huang. She seemed to know what had happened as there were tears in her eyes.
“I’m sorry, Hangyi is…dead…” Lin Huang felt terrible but he told the truth anyway.
Chapter 407: The Funeral
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
“Hangyi is dead…”
The light in the old lady’s eyes extinguished but she was much calmer than Lin Huang expected. He was worried that she might not be able to take the news. Nevertheless, she was much stabler than he imagined.
“It’s my fault…” The old lady slapped her thigh hard.
“Mom, don’t say that!”
“It has nothing to do with you!”
Yin Hangyi’s two aunties stopped the old lady from hurting herself further. Lin Huang and Lin Xin were puzzled.
“How is it not my fault?! The fortune teller said that I’m no good for this family. My two husbands are dead. Now, so are my two sons, one daughter-in-law and two grandchildren. If I’m dead, nothing like that will happen to anyone!” The old lady cried and blamed herself.
Now, finally, Lin Huang and Lin Xin understood why she blamed herself.
“What happened, Lin Huang? Hangyi was just traveling with his girlfriend. How did this happen?” The aunty asked Lin Huang as she wanted to change the topic.
“Hangyi and his girlfriend got kidnapped in the White Capital. It was too late when I arrived. Hangyi wasn’t dead yet when I got there but there was no way that I could save him.” Lin Huang hid the truth. He had to lie as the less the Yin family knew about the Grandmistress, the safer they would be. They might want to take revenge if he told them the truth. It would be a disaster if the Grandmistress found out about their attempt to seek revenge.
“Kidnap? Why didn’t they call us to ask for ransom?” Hangyi’s aunt asked.
“The kidnappers didn’t want money. They were actually after Zhang Mengmeng as there was something from her family that they wanted. She was a royalty outside of Division7, so she was targeted before she even came to Division7. It was unfortunate that Hangyi got dragged into this. As Zhang Mengmeng’s family couldn’t come to terms with the kidnappers, the both of them were killed. Zhang Mengmeng’s body was taken away by her family while Hangyi’s is my storage space.”
Lin Huang came up with the story and intentionally said that Zhang Mengmeng’s family was royalty outside of Division7 as the Yin family was a normal family after all, so it would be difficult for them to get any information that was outside of the division. They would need a massive amount of Life Crystals to get out of the division. A year’s worth of Life Crystals was equivalent to one million credit points. Getting to the nearest Division8 or Division6 would cost each person thousands of Life Crystals.
The Heart Network ran individually in every division. Besides people of a certain level, the information of each division was isolated. Normal people would only receive information about the division that they were residing in. If they did not know anyone from other divisions, they would basically know nothing about other divisions for all their lives. They trusted what Lin Huang said as Fatty always mentioned about him and his extensive network as far as the old lady and the others remembered. They had even seen their photos together, so they were not skeptical about Lin Huang at all.
“Can we see…Hangyi’s body?” The old lady was sobbing but she heard Lin Huang loud and clear.
Lin Huang nodded and took out Fatty’s body. He lay his body on the carpet in the living room. The aunties took a quick glance and looked away while the old lady stood up calmly. She walked towards Fatty’s body with her walking stick slowly. Although Fatty was slightly unrecognizable as his face was swollen, the old lady could tell that it was her grandson, Yin Hangyi.
“Hangyi…” She tossed her walking stick aside and knelt on her knees. She looked devastated as she touched Fatty’s head lovingly.
“Why did you leave just like that? Didn’t you say that you want to be a Food Hunter and make monsters into delicious dishes for your grandma?”
The old lady lost control as she wept and talked to Fatty. Lin Huang’s eyes turned red as he watched while Lin Xin wiped her tears quietly. Yin Hangyi’s aunts were crying as they stood aside and the atmosphere became gloomy.
Around 20 minutes later, the old lady finally calmed herself down, wiped her tears and looked at Lin Huang.
“Hangyi’s face…”
“He was tortured before he died. He must have been protecting Zhang Mengmeng. There was only a sword gash on Zhang Mengmeng’s face, nothing else,” Lin Huang nodded and explained.
“Hangyi sent me both his dad’s and his recipes to me. Those are the only remaining possessions that he has. Let me forward that to you,” Lin Huang said to the old lady.
“Did he…say anything before he died?” The old lady asked.
“He said he has a grandmother who really loves him, a great dad and that he met the love of his life. He has no regrets in his life,” Lin Huang conveyed what Fatty had said.
The old lady started crying again after hearing that. Lin Huang stood aside while waiting for them to feel better and did not say anything else. Ten minutes later, the old lady had finally calmed down. She stood up with her walking stick and her daughters’ help.
“Lin Huang, who are the kidnappers?” The old lady had the plan to take revenge.
“I’ve killed the kidnapper but I’ve no idea who they are. I’ll get to the bottom of this and give all of you an explanation,” Lin Huang said as he did not want to get the Yin family involved.
To the royals, an ordinary person’s strength was weak. Even a small royal in the Division7 could kill the Yin family easily, let alone the Grandmistress who mastered the immortal-level Poison Sting. Lin Huang even suspected that the Grandmistress could be from the core zone. It was too bad that he did not get sufficient information about the Grandmistress from Zhang Mengmeng.
“Don’t you hope that we get to the bottom of this ourselves?” The old lady managed to understand what Lin Huang said.
“Yes, as this incident involves the royals, it could possibly be one of the popular families from the other ruling, so let me do it. Hangyi is my friend. I’ll take revenge behalf of him. One day, I shall chop of the mastermind’s head and bring it to your family.” Lin Huang looked determinedly into the old lady’s eyes.
The old lady nodded her head slowly as she looked at Lin Huang’s conviction.
“Alright then, I shall let you handle that. Hangyi has passed, so we have many things to handle anyway. And Hangyi’s funeral…”
Following the old lady’s arrangement, Lin Huang and Lin Xin stayed with the Yis for the following two days. On the third day, Fatty’s funeral went as planned. After Fatty was buried, Lin Huang bade farewell to the old lady and left with Lin Xin.
Chapter 408: Worth Having!
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
In the giant castle in Division2 that was as impressive as an art piece, a lady in a purple dress, who looked like she was in her thirties, sat on the single couch. She was caressing a skull with her right hand. A middle-aged man in a black tuxedo, who looked like a butler, knocked three times on her room.
“What?” The lady turned around and glared at the butler.
“Grandmistress, there’s something wrong with Lily’s android.” The housekeeper bowed slightly in respect.
“That girl contacted you?” The lady in purple dress raised an eyebrow.
“No, but someone in the lab found out that her android’s signal has gone dead. The lab reported that she’s most possibly self-destructed, but there could be something wrong with the signal,” the housekeeper explained.
“Where did the girl last appear?” The lady asked.
“In the White Capital in Division7.”
“That could mean she failed the mission.” The lady in purple dress squinted.
“Mother, do you mean that Lily might have been killed by the fellow named Lin Huang? How is that possible?” The skull in the lady’s hand shouted out of nowhere.
“The fellow was only an iron-level a year ago. Lily’s completed her training and she’s already a white flame-level. No matter how much of a genius he is, it’s impossible that he could defeat Lily!”
“Shan Er, to some geniuses, it’s possible to level up from iron to white flame-level in a year. Lily isn’t very talented. Whatever she’s managed to achieve with all her strength is nothing to the talented,” the lady explained calmly.
“Of course, it could be the people who have been protecting the young boy. After all, the Leng family interrupted us a year ago. Perhaps, they have been secretly protecting this young boy called Lin Huang.”
“The Lengs… One day, I’ll show them the price to pay for interrupting us Weis!” The skull’s eye sockets had a blue glow coming out of it. As it spoke, its jaw opened and closed.
“Grandmistress, should we…” the housekeeper trailed off.
“Send someone to get to the bottom of this. See if it’s really been destroyed or is it some other factors. After all, it would be trouble if the families in Division7 found out about the android. Leaking of our technology will be nothing, but if the Union Government is informed, they’ll definitely come for us,” the lady instructed immediately.
“Destroy it as soon as you find it.”
“Mother, then how about Lily?” The skull was concerned.
“That girl can’t even manage to handle a small matter, so why should we keep her? Two years later, when you recover, I’ll get someone to find you a better girl,” the lady said in determination.
“Yes, Mother.” Wei Shan decided to give up on Lily.
“Grandmistress, should we get rid of Lin Huang as well?” The housekeeper asked.
“Don’t bother about him. If he’s truly being protected by the Leng family, even an imperial-level might not be able to kill him. Moreover, the White Capital is the largest city in Division7, so the Union Government would be notified if something big happened. Our mission should be the top priority. Confirm where the android is. If it’s still alive, bring it back for recycling quietly and try not to be seen by anybody,” the lady in purple dress highlighted the priority of matter.
“But, Mother, what if he killed Lily by himself without the Leng family’s protection?” Wei Shan the skull could not help but ask.
“That means he’s a powerful genius and is worth being Shan Er’s grindstone. Two years later, he shall be your first target then.” The lady in purple dress grinned.
“But, Mother, what if I lose?” The skull sounded like it was hesitating.
“If Shan Er dies in his hands, that means he’s worth being part of my collection. By then, I’ll kill him myself and make him into a beautiful art piece.”
Wei Shan’s heart sank when he heard what she said. Throughout the year, he had been suspecting if his birth mother did not care about his life. At most, he was just an experiment for her and was nothing more precious than Lily who was also an experiment. He read between the lines of what she said. Instead of saying that Lin Huang was his grindstone, more accurately would his bringing Lin Huang’s grindstone. There was only one reason for his existence, which was to test if Lin Huang was worthy of being in his mother’s collection. If he lost, his mother would focus on Lin Huang and not him. If he won, Lin Huang would lose his mother’s attention and made his existence more valuable.
“Don’t worry, Mother, I’ll definitely win!” The skull gave a determined answer.
“Mother believes that you will win too.” The lady in purple dress caressed the skull and smiled.
“I understand. I shall do the arrangement now.” The butler understood what Grandmistress meant. He did not react at all as he knew who this Grandmistress really was throughout the years. As expected, her own son was only a chess piece that she could get rid of any time she wanted.
…
Lin Huang had no idea that he had just escaped death. Since he got back from Fatty’s funeral, the first thing he did was to contact Leng Yuexin to ask for her help to retrieve Wei Shan’s real identity. However, he was warned again and again by Leng Yuexin not to investigate into that as Wei Shan might be related to the core zone.
Lin Huang’s life was back to normal. He woke up at 6.30 a.m. every morning and headed to the library around 7 a.m. He would stay there until 6 p.m. and train his sword skills at the training room until midnight. He pretended as if nothing had happened a few days ago. In reality, Lin Huang did not give up on the investigation. He remembered Zhang Mengmeng mentioning that Wei Shan was still alive and would take revenge on Lin Huang two years later. Lin Huang was waiting for that day to come. The truth would come out as soon as he captured Wei Shan alive!
Lin Xin could sense that although Lin Huang looked the same as when Fatty visited, he had been hiding how he really felt by flooding himself with a hectic schedule. She had nothing to say as she knew Fatty was one of Lin Huang’s best friends. Words could not make him feel better; all he needed was time.
Half a month soon passed by. Xiao Hei’s notification came when Lin Huang was in the training room in the middle of the night.
“Congratulations, you have accumulated legendary-level skill ‘Star Dome’ card pieces x10,000. Would you like to combine the card pieces into a complete Skill Card?”
“Yes!” Lin Huang said without thinking twice.”
“10,000 Star Dome card pieces have been deducted. Combination taking place.”
“Congratulations, you have obtained legendary-level Skill Card – Star Dome.”
“Skill Card Name: Star Dome”
“Rarity: Legendary”
“Type of Skill: Combat Skill”
“Skill Level: Transcendent Combat Skill”
“Status: Available”
“Card Remarks: Worth having!”
“Worth having…”
It was the first time Xiao Hei had given such good comment on a card. The best remark before was just ‘not bad’.
“Now that I’ve mastered this, it’s almost time to kill the sword type monsters.” Lin Huang had gathered all the information of the double-mutated sword type monsters two days ago. He did not head out to kill the monsters as he was close to 10,000 Star Dome card pieces. He could feel that he would obtain the skill as soon as he collected 10,000 card pieces. That was why he had postponed his trip.
He looked at the time. It was almost 11 p.m. Since he had gotten the Skill Card, he did not want to train anymore. He kept his sword and returned to the dorm. Lin Xin, who was in her bedroom on the second floor, was still awake. She knew it was Lin Huang when she heard the door creak open downstairs. She sat up immediately, put on her slippers and went downstairs.
“Brother, how come you’re so early today?”
“Yeah, I’m heading out tomorrow. I might take a few days.” Lin Huang nodded at Lin Xin.
“What for?” Lin Xin was worried.
“To kill a couple of monsters,” Lin Huang told the truth.
“I’m following you!” Lin Xin said immediately.
“Alright, then. Pack your bag. We’ll leave early in the morning tomorrow.” Lin Huang thought about it and agreed. There was nothing dangerous on this trip and Lin Xin had been cooping herself up at home for many days. Moreover, he did not have to hide certain things from Lin Xin.
Chapter 409: Spiritsword Supreme
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Lin Huang had gotten Lancelot to achieve a double kill when they were in the Volcano Hell. As a result, he had obtained two sword servant cards. Later on, Lancelot killed three sword type monsters before the Mystery Auction started, so Lin Huang obtained another three sword type Monster Cards. He had only received five sword servant cards out of the nine that he needed. They were the Greatsword Fiend that was skilled in handling heavy swords, the Fiery Swordfiend with fire attributes, the Frigid Swordswoman with ice attributes, the Hatted Swordsman of multiple sword skills and the Sword Knight with its sword and shield.
Besides the Greatsword Fiend which was single mutated, the rest were all double mutated monsters. Lin Huang finally had some leads on the remaining four double mutated sword type monsters after almost a month of browsing. Lin Huang’s trip this time was mainly to unlock Lancelot to get the remaining four cards. Of course, he would bring Charcoal along to feed it dracaena in the isolated space where the Starlight Beasts were.
After washing up early in the morning, Lin Huang and Lin Xin locked all the doors and windows in the dorm, threw out the trash and headed out for breakfast. It was almost 8 a.m. after they were done with breakfast and Lin Huang summoned his dimensional relic at a place that was less crowded where he pinned the coordinates for Jinchuan City.
Jinchuan City was a B-grade foothold, and Lin Huang had never been there before. It was pinned by Mr. Fu earlier coincidentally. Lin Huang heard that there was a sword type monster less than 2,000 kilometers from the foothold. Therefore, this became his first destination. After passing through the dimensional relic, Lin Huang and Lin Xin appeared in a bedroom of a luxury hotel.
There was a young, naked couple in the midst of sex. They cringed when they saw the both of them appear in their room. Lin Huang made a shield to cover Lin Xin’s eyes and pulled her out of the room. They took the elevator and arrived at the top floor of the hotel.
“Brother, the coordinates that your dimensional relic pinned is really…”
Lin Xin was still blushing. Although she had not seen the scene clearly, she could tell what the couple was doing from the moaning.
“Ahem… It’s not my fault. It was my Master who set the coordinates. I’ve never been to Jinchuan City.” It was not Lin Huang’s first time in such an encounter. His first time was when a lady got out of the shower with her towel, but this time was even more embarrassing than the last one.
“Well.. Let’s see where we should go,” Lin Huang changed the topic immediately and looked at the map on his Emperor’s Heart Ring. After ascertaining the direction, he turned around to face southwest.
“It’s 1,993 kilometers straight ahead from this direction…”
He then summoned the Viridescent Thunderhawk. He helped Lin Xin up on it, then pulled himself up. He patted the Viridescent Thunderhawk’s back and instructed, “Around 2,000 kilometers southwest.”
The Viridescent Thunderhawk nodded and flew up into the sky.
“Brother, can this hawk understand what ‘2,000 kilometers’ means?” Lin Xin learned that most monsters did not have the concept of numbers, let alone understanding the measure of distance in human language.
“Thunder understands. Don’t worry.” Lin Huang nodded.
Chirp!
The Viridescent Thunderhawk heard their conversation and chirped, seeming to agree with what Lin Huang said.
After flying for more than an hour, the Viridescent Thunderhawk started slowing down. Lin Huang looked at the map and saw that they had traveled more than 1,700 kilometers away. Lin Xin could sense the deceleration and saw from the map that Lin Huang projected that the destination was not far away.
“It really understands!” Lin Xin exclaimed.
Soon, the Viridescent Thunderhawk flew lower. It retracted its wings slightly and started gliding downwards. The map showed that they were even closer to their destination.
“It should be somewhere around here.” Lin Huang patted the Viridescent Thunderhawk’s back when his location matched the coordinates on the map.
The Viridescent Thunderhawk circled in the air, spiraling as they flew lower. They landed on top of the hill that was only hundreds of meters high. Lin Huang looked around and found out that he was less than 10 kilometers from his prey.
“Stay here. It might be dangerous if you get any closer,” Lin Huang said and got the Viridescent Thunderhawk to let Lin Xin down. He then summoned the Witch and instructed her, “Protect my sister.”
The Witch nodded. Lin Huang then rode on the Viridescent Thunderhawk and headed to the jungle where the monster was. The monster he picked this time was a Spiritsword Supreme. It was a unique monster, and its form was different from all the monsters that Lin Huang had killed before. It looked like a sword. If it had to be categorized, it would be a psychic monster.
Lin Huang had researched about the Spiritsword Supreme before. There were two reasons why this monster was tough. Firstly, it could control other sword type monsters that were near it, and it only appeared where there were many sword type monsters. Another reason was that it was 90% immune to sword assaults. That being said, any sword type monster or human fighting it would only have 10% efficiency when the attack reached the Spiritsword Supreme. That characteristic alone made it more powerful than any sword monsters of the same level.
Due to those reasons, Lin Huang did not think that Lancelot could kill the Spiritsword Supreme by fighting on his own. He was only worried that Lancelot would be controlled by the Spiritsword Supreme as he was also a sword type monster. If that happened, getting Lancelot to kill Spiritsword Supreme would be considered an impossible mission. The terms of unlocking stated that Lancelot would have to fight alone whereby Lin Huang was not allowed to help at all.
The Viridescent Thunderhawk arrived less than one kilometer away from where the Spiritsword Supreme was discovered. Lin Huang recalled it and summoned Lancelot, the Ruthless Sword Master. Lancelot wore black armor with a sheer black mist surrounding his body. He stared at Lin Huang, apparently puzzled by the reason he had been summoned.
“There’s a Spiritsword Supreme nearby. It’s one of the monsters that I picked for unlocking,” Lin Huang explained.
Lancelot’s cyclops eye turned red as he surveyed around. Suddenly, he seemed to be attracted by something and headed out. Lin Huang looked around and noticed that there was a giant golden sword covered by plants more than a kilometer away.
“Spiritsword Supreme!” Lin Huang screamed as he did not expect to find the monster so quickly.
Chapter 410: Ruthless Title
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Lin Huang followed as he saw Lancelot tearing forward like a lightning bolt. Lancelot was only a complete gold-level while the Spiritsword Supreme was already a white flame-level. Moreover, the Spiritsword Supreme was 90% immune to sword attacks, so it was difficult for Lancelot to defeat it if he was to fight alone. Therefore, it was crucial for Lin Huang to help him.
As they dashed less than 100 meters away, they heard the sound of leaves rustling getting closer and closer. Suddenly, dozens of shadows leaped from the branches and blocked them. It was a bunch of apes with golden hair. To be exact, they were Boulderblade Apes. There were more than 30 of them. They had golden hair and they were over a meter tall. They held a rock sword in each of their hands as they hissed at Lin Huang and Lancelot.
Lin Huang had read about the Boulderblade Ape in the monster encyclopedia before. They were gold-level monsters that lived in groups. Although they looked like apes, they were oviparous. They were born to be good at mimicking various sword skills and they were born with rock swords in their hand. It was still a mystery to humans how the sword that was clearly not made from flesh could appear when they grew in eggs.
Many scientists did experiments on the apes and concluded that the rock sword was the ape’s symbiosis just like an extra limb. However, nobody could explain such a theory. There were results that documented how the Boulderblade Ape’s sword was comparable with a human’s gold-level weapon. The appearance of such monsters in groups spelled trouble for other gold-level humans, but to Lin Huang and Lancelot, they were nothing.
“Shall I do it or you do it?” Lin Huang looked at Lancelot.
Lancelot did not say a word while transforming himself into a black lightning bolt and rushing into the monster crowd. Despite being agile, the Boulderblade Apes could not do anything within Lancelot’s Death Zone. Lancelot swung his black sword again and again without looking at any of the apes. The apes’ heads were pierced through the air while their brains were scattered all over the place. Their agility and speed were an irony in the Death Zone. No matter where they ran, Lancelot only needed a swing of his sword to kill them.
That was how powerful a double mutated monster was against a regular monster; such a vast difference in ability could not be solved by quantity. Within minutes, all of the Boulderblade Apes had their heads pierced opened. Carcasses were strewn everywhere on the ground. Lancelot did not even turn around or look at Lin Huang. Instead, he dashed straight towards the Spiritsword Supreme.
Lin Huang shook his head and followed him immediately. He thought to himself that all of the monsters that he summoned had their own attitudes, but he was not sure if that was a good or bad thing. Stepping through the Boulderblade Apes’ carcasses, the both of them were blocked by a bunch of skeletons after just taking a few steps ahead.
These skeletons had rusty swords of different forms in their hands. Some of them held a sword in one hand, while some had two in both. They were more and more of them emerging from the ground. Within seconds, there were more than 100 of them.
“The Undead Swordsmen…” Lin Huang frowned.
The Undead Swordsmen were soul type monsters whereby they were formed from swordsmen who had died with strong consciousness intact. After they passed on, their consciousness still remained in the dead bodies and did not wither away with the corpse for some reason. Such monsters had memories of their sword skills when they had been alive, so their abilities were pretty solid. Before Lin Huang could tell Lancelot that such monsters had to be killed by destroying their heads, or else they could regenerate their bodies, Lancelot broke into the skeleton crowd. His method of attack was the same as before. Every swing of his black sword could kill one Undead Swordsman easily. Each and every one of them either had their heads pierced through, cut into half, or blasted as every swing aimed at their heads.
Watching the Undead Swordsmen fall one by one, Lin Huang realized that his concern was unnecessary as Lancelot was much smarter than he imagined and he was aware of the Undead Swordsmen’s weakness. Since Lancelot was enjoying himself, Lin Huang did not bother to help him. However, he noticed that the more monsters that Lancelot killed, the black mist that surrounded his body grew thicker.
“Is this an illusion?” Lin Huang mumbled to himself.
“The thickening black mist isn’t your illusion. The Ruthless Sword Master is a monster that kills for a living. The more he kills, the stronger his ability becomes. Besides, as the number of kills reaches a certain level, he will level up automatically,” Xiao Hei explained.
It was Lin Huang’s first time hearing such a thing.
The monster encyclopedia had records about the Ruthless Sword Master which he had read. However, perhaps there were not many Ruthless Sword Masters that had appeared in the past as the studies in the monster encyclopedia were not detailed. It just covered some basic information, and even the recording of the skills was incomplete. Lin Huang had a more comprehensive understanding of the monster compared to what the encyclopedia stated, which was why he did not know that the Ruthless Sword Master had such a characteristic.
“In reality, all monsters with the title of ‘Ruthless’ has similar hidden abilities to level up by killing.”
“‘Ruthless’ title?” It was Lin Huang’s first time hearing such a theory.
“Some of the monster’s titles are not given by humans, but they’re born with it. Some creatures see them, and they will have matching titles in their head. The Ruthless Sword Master is one of them. ‘Ruthless’ is his title, so no matter which level it goes up to, it will always have the title in his name. Titled monsters are unique monsters to date; they will be extremely powerful as they level up to a certain level.”
“Besides the Ruthless Sword Master, you own another Monster Card which is also a titled monster. The Nephilic Judge’s title is ‘judge.'”
“Titled monsters… It seems like I must train these two properly.” Lin Huang’s eyes lit up as he looked at Lancelot after hearing this brand new concept. From what Xiao Hei told him about Lancelot becoming more powerful by killing, Lin Huang gave up on his thought to help him and just stood aside to spectate. Lancelot managed to kill almost 300 Undead Swordsmen within ten minutes. The black mist surrounding his body was getting thicker and thicker.
Lancelot looked up at the Spiritsword Supreme’s direction and dashed forward.
Chapter 411: Summoning Helpers
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
After being blocked twice, Lancelot and Lin Huang’s journey was a smooth one. They arrived at the area where the Spiritsword Supreme was safe and sound. It was an empty area with no trees. To be exact, not only were there no trees, but there was also no grass to be seen. In the stretch of jungle, the empty space stood out even more like a bald patch on a head of thick hair. The Spiritsword Supreme was pierced into the bald ground quietly.
What caught Lin Huang’s attention were the four human-form sculptures surrounding the Spiritsword Supreme. He could sense that there was something wrong with these sculptures. They were around two meters tall, and all of them looked like armored humans with a sword each on their waists. The figures were so detailed that if it not for the colorless rocks, they would look no different from real humans.
There were not many records on the Spiritsword Supreme in the monster encyclopedia. Although Lin Huang had done his research before coming here, he had never heard of the sculptures. Although he could not sense any aura from the sculptures, his instinct told him that there was definitely something wrong with them. Even Lancelot slowed down, apparently sensing something odd as well.
Nevertheless, Lancelot was impatient. After sensing no obvious danger from the sculptures, he headed towards to the Spiritsword Supreme.
“Wait!” Lin Huang stopped Lancelot with his hand. Lancelot stared perplexedly at Lin Huang. He took out his grade-5 gun relic and turned on the silencer. He then started shooting at one of the sculptures. Despite the shots being fired, nothing happened to the sculpture at all. He noticed that as the golden Life Power bullets collided with the sculpture, they disappeared. They looked like they had been absorbed by a layer of invisible shield.
“Something is really wrong with these sculptures…” Lin Huang was sure of that after testing them. However, the sculptures did not come alive like how he imagined. Lancelot stared at the sculpture that Lin Huang had shot. After confirming that it did not move, he dashed towards it. Within seconds, Lancelot appeared before the Spiritsword Supreme. The black mist surrounding his body peaked, and even his black armor was completely enveloped in the mist, blurring him from anyone’s vision. As the black mist climaxed, he extended the black sword in his hand. It was like a black lightning bolt that moved so quickly that even Lin Huang thought he would not be able to avoid it if it came at him.
The tip of the black sword broke through the speed of sound, and it only got faster and faster. As it almost collided with the Spiritsword Supreme, his speed surpassed three times more than the speed of sound.
Bang!
Time seemed to stop as they collided. A while later, the banging and the explosion that broke through the sound barrier happened almost at the same time. The intense soundwave created a strong wind that devoured the entire space. The entire area was covered in sand. Lin Huang embraced his body with his hand while staring at the position where they both collided. Although he had superb vision, he could not see if the attack was successful or not.
Suddenly, a black shadow backed off from the area. Lin Huang looked closely and found out that it was Lancelot who was being attacked. Instead, he backed off on his own will. Just as Lancelot was doing so, Lin Huang sensed a powerful aura that was awakening. A humming sound was sent underground and he could even feel the earth trembling slightly. The sculptures were cracking as pieces of their outer body crumbled away.
“I know they would be revived!” Lin Huang knew this would happen. It was impossible for the sculptures to be there just for decoration.
He turned around and looked at Lancelot, now finally understanding why he had backed off. The outer bodies of the four human-form sculptures’ were peeling away, revealing four real hunks with swords. They did not look like monsters. Instead, they looked more like humans. The Spiritsword Supreme that pierced into the ground at an angle seemed like it was pulled off by an invisible hand and floated in the air.
Lin Huang could finally see the real image of the Spiritsword Supreme. It was a giant sword of around 1.5 meters long. It was completely golden besides its silver handle and tip. The handle to the body looked like they were made of the same material. Although the patterns on the handle were different from those on the body of the sword, they seemed like they had been created by the same sculptor. The patterns were beautiful and it seemed like that they were alive.
The Spiritsword Supreme did not look like a harmful weapon but more like a beautiful sword that was a work of art. It was more suited in the museum for being admired instead of being used in battles. However, the aura that came out of the Spiritsword Supreme was white flame-level, and so were the four human-form sculptures.
The Spiritsword Supreme floated in the air and rotated for a couple of rounds with its tip pointed to the ground. It then pointed its tip at Lancelot and Lin Huang’s direction. The four hunks with swords seemed to respond to an unheard instruction and raced towards the both of them.
“It seems like I’ll need to summon some assistants…” The cards appeared on his hand, it was the Malachian Fiend and the Inferior Imp.
“Monster Card
“Rarity: Epic
“Monster Name: Malachian Fiend
“Type of Monster: Fiend (Beginner)
“Combat Level: Blue Flame-level (Gold Flame-level)
“Skill 1: Ultimate Destruction
“Skill 2: Demonic Explosion
“Skill 3: Ultimate Armor
“Skill 4: Demonic Regeneration
“Skill 5: Fiendish Strength
“Summon Authority: Activated
“Remarks: Monster’s combat level is oppressed by your own
“Card Remarks: Trainable
“Monster Card
“Rarity: Epic
“Monster Name: Inferior Imp
“Type of Monster: Fiend (Beginner)
“Combat Level: Blue Flame-level (Gold Flame-level)
“Skill 1: Fiend Vision
“Skill 2: Abyssal Fire
“Skill 3: Meteoric Descent
“Skill 4: Demonic Regeneration
“Skill 5: Demonic Telepathy
“Skill 6: Fiendish Strength
“Summon Authority: Activated
“Remarks: Monster’s combat level is oppressed by your own
“Card Remarks: Trainable
…
Lin Huang then crushed the cards with his fingers and summoned the two blue flame-level fiends.
“Kill these four fellows,” he instructed the two fiends.
Chapter 412: Impatient
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
As the two fiends heard the instruction, they ran towards the four guards with their swords. They were clear about their attack strategy as each of them fought two guards without interrupting each other. The Malachian Fiend did not care about the swords the guards were brandishing in their hands. He was like a tank that tore towards them, fighting with his fists that were like hammers that collided with the two swords. The two guards that were just slightly shorter than him reeled backward from his attack.
Meanwhile, the Inferior Imp was fighting with his fists as well but he attacked from a distance away from the guards. As he struck his palm into the air, the two guards fell from getting hit in their chests. They turned into a pile of sand. The Malachian Fiend noticed that the Inferior Imp’s attack was more effective than his, so he then dashed towards the two guards. Both of the guards did not have anywhere to run to, and soon the Malachian Fiend had their heads in his vice-like grip. Their heads were crushed and they turned into a pile of sand just like the other two.
Blue flame-level was two levels higher than white flame-level after all. Moreover, the two fiends came with the ability to perform cross-ranking battles, so killing these white flame-level summoning creatures were nothing to them. Just when Lin Huang and Lancelot walked closer, something odd happened. The four piles of sand on the ground curled towards the Spiritsword Supreme like living tentacles and covered it immediately.
“Is it going to transform itself?!” Lin Huang was shocked to witness that as he did not know that the Spiritsword Supreme had such an ability.
“It seems like the person who compiled the monster encyclopedia had no clue what the real Spiritsword Supreme could do!”
It was impossible for the person who had compiled the encyclopedia to encounter each and every monster in it. Most of the information came from researchers and contributors who had encountered the monsters themselves. Having said that, putting the book together was still not a relaxing task.
The monster encyclopedia exclusively for Gold Hunters that Lin Huang had in his possession had been compiled by more than 20 Hunter Association staff in a span of six years. In reality, the information in the monster encyclopedia was considered complete. However, as the amount of the Spiritsword Supreme beings over the years was limited and many did not want to offend them, the information on that particular monster was incomplete.
The Spiritsword Supreme that was not far away soon gathered the sand its guards had dissolved into and used to create a giant of five meters tall, completely hiding within the giant’s chest. What Lin Huang thought was odd was that the giant that was transformed was not a white or crimson flame-level anymore. It was now a blue flame-level. He did not expect the Spiritsword Supreme to be so tough to handle before he came here.
As it transformed into a giant, the Spiritsword Supreme glared at Lin Huang. It seemed to notice that Lin Huang was the mastermind instead of the Ruthless Sword Master who was standing next to him.
“Human, you killed my brothers and disturbed my slumber. Do you want to die?!” The Spiritsword Supreme shouted at Lin Huang.
“Beat it up until it turns back to its original form, but don’t kill it,” Lin Huang did not bother about the Spiritsword Supreme’s threats while instructing the two fiends.
The fiends were excited as they watched the giant coming together. They were born with the instinct to fight and only managed to warm up when they were summoned earlier. They were keen to fight as there was a monster of the same level standing in front of them. After hearing Lin Huang’s instruction, the two fiends charged towards the sand giant.
With its mighty explosive strength, the Malachian Fiend arrived before the sand giant first and punched hard at the giant’s abdomen. The sand giant seemed to notice the impending hit, so it struck out its fist as well.
Bang!
An intense blast rang out. It was hundreds of times louder than thunder. Lin Huang, who stood close by, felt like his eardrums were going to pop and he covered his ears immediately.
Although the collision did not cover as wide an area as the nuclear bomb did, the area within a few kilometers was affected. Trees in the jungle were annihilated by the impact and wood chips were shooting out everywhere. Even Lin Xin, who was almost 10 kilometers away, could feel the ground quaking. Some of the wood chips flew towards her, but they were blocked out by the Witch with a defense shield.
Standing on top of the hill, Lin Xin watched the battle with a detection weapon from far away. Although she had no idea what level the Spiritsword Supreme was on, she could tell that such destruction could not have been created by a gold-level.
“Is brother fighting a Transcendent?” Lin Xin could not help but ask the Witch.
The Witch hesitated as she was not sure if she should answer her question, but she nodded eventually as she saw how serious Lin Xin looked.
Lin Xin saw that the monster that was made out of sand was beaten up very badly.
“That’s great!” Lin Xin admired Lin Huang even more after confirming her speculation from the Witch.
On the battlefield, the Spiritsword Supreme that was transformed into a giant with a sword was oppressed by the two fiends. It was not as powerful as the Malachian Fiend, and it had lost a part of its hand from the first encounter. Meanwhile, the Inferior Imp showed no mercy while it continued battering holes in its body.
The battle lasted for quite a while. The reason why they could not kill the sand monster was because it could heal itself. It was like a monster with ultra regeneration abilities whereby its wounds would heal immediately. After more than 20 minutes of battle between the three, Lin Huang was finally impatient. He thought that the sand monster would reach its self-healing limit but the fiends had attacked it more than a thousand times, yet its healing ability did not seem to weaken or slow down. Lin Huang realized that wasting time would not win the battle.
“Come out, Sanguine Skeleton Spirit!” Lin Huang summoned.
“Seal its Life Power and see how it can self-heal!”
Soon, the Sanguine Skeleton Spirit joined the team and tied a Punishment Chain on the giant’s left ankle. At that very moment, the Malachian Fiend punched the sand giant’s chest hard. A golden glow shot out from the giant’s body. Soon, the sand giant completely collapsed.
As Lin Huang watched, he noticed a shadow moving from the corner of his eye. Suddenly, a bright white glow glistened from not far away. An intense shockwave shot out and devoured the Spiritsword Supreme’s body.
Lin Huang was shocked, but he soon noticed that it was Lancelot’s forbidden skill, the Absolute Life. He shook his head and smiled to himself as he thought Lancelot was impatient.
Before the impact faded, a notification came from Xiao Hei. “Congratulations, you have obtained a new Monster Card, Spiritsword Supreme (Sword Servant).”
Chapter 413: Men’s Summer
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
After killing the Spiritsword Supreme, Lancelot returned to his card form. As he used a forbidden skill, he could not be summoned within the next 24 hours. Lin Huang recalled the two fiends and the Sanguine Skeleton Spirit. The Spiritsword Supreme’s carcass was in pieces. When the Malachian Fiend performed his last punch, it seemed to have injured the Spiritsword Supreme to a certain extent. Even though it was 90% immune to sword attacks, nothing was left following Lancelot’s Absolute Life skill.
The battle lasted for less than an hour. Lin Huang looked at the time. It was only 10.20 in the morning. He then summoned Thunder, hopped on it and headed towards the hill where Lin Xin was. At Thunder’s speed, it only took them a moment to arrive at their destination which was ten kilometers away. Seeing that Lin Xin was safe as he leaped from Thunder, Lin Huang recalled the Witch immediately.
“Xin Er, are you alright?” He noticed that the way Lin Xin looked at him was odd as though she was a fan meeting her idol.
“I’m okay!” Lin Xin waved her hands.
“Come up then. We’ll have to stay in Jinchuan City tonight.” Lin Huang pulled Lin Xin up onto Thunder’s back. As Lancelot could only be able to be summoned 24 hours later, there was no need for them to rush.
Thunder flapped its wings and headed to Jinchuan City. They did not use the dimensional relic as Lin Huang had thought that they would not go back to Jinchuan City, so he did not pin the coordinates. Moreover, since the embarrassing scene they landed in this morning, he decided not to use the dimensional relic. The couple must still be in the room, and it would be really embarrassing if they were to witness the same obscenity again. After all, the couple was young and passionate, so it was possible that they were copulating all day in the room.
“Brother, was that a Transcendent monster that you killed?” Lin Xin asked as soon as Thunder started flying. Although she already knew the answer, she wanted to hear it from Lin Huang.
“Mm-hmm.” Lin Huang nodded.
“There are actually three levels in Transcendent — the holy fire-level, immortal-level, and the imperial-level. The one I just killed is the lowest one in the holy fire-level, which is a white flame-level monster,” Lin Huang added after thinking about it.
“Brother, are you a Transcendent already?” Lin Xin asked in excitement.
“Not yet. I’m only a gold-level rank-3, not a complete gold-level yet.” Lin Huang shook his head and smiled. He did not hide his real ability from her.
“So, you’ve only used a year to level up from a regular person to gold-level. You’re really a genius!” Lin Xin complimented.
What she did not know was that Lin Huang’s speed of leveling up was considered a top genius.
“Don’t brag about this, or else, trouble will come,” Lin Huang warned.
“Yes, I understand! ‘Destruction pursues the great’. I read that in a book. I’ll keep it a secret!” Lin Xin nodded vigorously.
“Brother, then are your summoning monsters Transcendent-level too?” Lin Xin asked again.
“Some of them are.” Lin Huang did not deny as he did not want to hide his matters from her anymore.
“That’s amazing!” Lin Xin exclaimed and touched Thunder’s feather intimately. She thought that Thunder was a Transcendent-level monster.
Lin Huang noticed what she was doing and smiled while he shook his head. He had no idea what this little girl had in her mind. It was 11.40 a.m. when they arrived in Jinchuan City riding on Thunder. Although Jinchuan City was only a B-grade foothold, it was one of the food havens in Division7. It was popular for spicy food. Lin Huang loved spicy food when he was on Earth while Lin Xin was weird as she was not that sensitive to taste and found everything to be delicious.
They booked a hotel in the central zone next to a food street. There were not many stores opened in the food street during noon, so they checked into the hotel after having a simple lunch somewhere. Since they were free, Lin Huang headed to the hotel training room in the afternoon to train his sword skills with Star Dome as the summary. The integration of sword skills needed time to achieve, and he was not in a rush.
There were training rooms in many high-class hotels in this world where they could only contain levels below holy fire-level. To decrease the damage that might be created by the impact, Lin Huang used a wooden sword to train instead. During the training, he found out that his sword realm that used to be stagnant was increasing slowly. As he practiced the entire afternoon, he realized that the training room was covered in sword marks even though he had only been using a wooden sword.
He apologized to the hotel manager and offered to pay for the damages.
“Mr. Lin Huang, our hotel is under the Hunter Association’s management. You’re a Gold Hunter, so the damages will be paid by the Hunter Association. You won’t have to fork out a cent,” the hotel manager smiled and explained to Lin Huang. Lin Huang thought to himself that having the identity of a hunter was useful. After that, he returned to his room and showered. It was past six when he put on his clothes. He then brought Lin Xin to the food street downstairs.
Most of the stores in the food street only opened after six in the evening while some of them started after seven. It was the perfect time to be visiting the food street and Lin Xin was excited. Excluding the time when Fatty and Zhang Mengmeng had visited the White Capital, it had been more than a month since she went shopping with Lin Huang. For her safety, Lin Huang summoned Tyrant to be her bodyguard. Knowing that they were heading to the food street, Tyrant was drooling in the elevator. He could not resist the food in the human word especially when it came to meat.
As Lin Huang had spent more than a year with monsters, he knew that each monster had different preferences in food. Tyrant loved meat. If he was allowed to, he could eat more than 30 tons of roasted meat a day. As for Bloody, it preferred sweet food, especially flavored drinks. There were some of them who did not care for food such as the Nephilic Judge. Until now, Lin Huang had no idea if her ignorance towards food was just her cold attitude, or if she was just not interested in any food.
The day was still bright when they arrived at the food street, but lights were turned on everywhere. There were mineral stones of various colors lighting up like stars. The crowd never stopped streaming, and the bustling food stores promoting their food as well as the chatter made Lin Huang think that he was back on Earth. It was the end of July, which was the warmest season in summer. Lin Huang smirked as he watched men wearing sleeveless tops eating barbecue while drinking green juice on the street.
“It seems like beer and barbecue is always men’s summer favorite past time no matter which world it is…”
Chapter 414: Luminescent Angelwing
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Lin Huang and Lin Xin started falling in love with Jinchuan City after spending a night there. It lived up to its title of being a city with good food as there was so much delicious food. Although most of them were spicy, even a person who was not fond of such food would be addicted. Tyrant would love to live on the food street. He did not want to leave although Lin Huang and Lin Xin asked him to after they were done eating.
The next morning, Lin Huang summoned his dimensional relic after breakfast. They were going to Hulun City on foothold No.7A18 this time. Hulun City was located on the northeast side of Division7. Lin Huang had never been there before. It was Mr. Fu who had pinned the coordinates earlier. This A-grade foothold was not his final destination, but it was closest coordinates to it. Even so, it was more than 12,000 kilometers away from where he wanted to go.
Lin Huang’s final destination was a canyon which was located on the east side of the Hulun prairie. There was the double mutated sword type monster that he wanted to call the Luminescent Angelwing. It sounded like the name of a bird, but it was not a bird. It was a monster of human-form with wings and was an expert in swordsmanship. Its moving and attacking speeds were two levels above its own combat level. Nobody would want to encounter such a swift monster.
Stepping into Hulun City, Lin Huang and Lin Xin looked around and realized that they were in a hotel room again. Fortunately, there was nobody in this hotel room, so they did not see anything embarrassing. However, the environment reminded them of what they saw yesterday morning.
“Let’s go!” Lin Huang pulled her hand and left the hotel room immediately. As they got out of the hotel room, he projected the map and pinned his current location while looking for the coordinates of the dimensional portal.
“Brother, why do you think your master always pins the coordinates in a hotel room?” Lin Xin pondered and asked.
Lin Huang was stunned at the question as he had never thought about it before. He thought and guessed it must be intentionally done so by Mr. Fu. However, Lin Huang suddenly thought of a corrupt hobby… He shook his head to get rid of the obscene images that popped up in his head.
“Maybe he’s lazy,” Lin Huang simply answered.
“Oh, is that so?” Lin Xin did not overthink and accepted the answer.
Mr. Fu was lying on the hammock on the deck of his demonic crystal spaceship while he sipped on his wine and watched the sunrise. He sneezed out of nowhere and squinted.
“Never expected someone to be talking about me when I’m already this old.”
In Hulun City, Lin Xin felt the weather was odd as she stood at the hotel entrance for a while. She noticed that everyone on the street was wearing long sleeves and sweaters. Many were looking at the both of them as they were wearing short-sleeved clothing. Lin Huang did not feel the cold as he was engrossed in studying the map while Lin Xin started feeling chilly.
“Brother, where is this place?”
“Hulun City in foothold No.7A18,” Lin Huang answered without looking at her.
“Young kids, don’t ignore the weather just because you want to look good. If you damage your body now, you’ll suffer when you’re old!” A lady who passed by said to the both of them.
Lin Huang looked at the lady, and only then did he notice how warmly everyone was dressed He then turned around and looked at Lin Xin who was folding her arms under her armpits for warmth.
“Go change in the bathroom. I forgot that there’s no summer here. Although it’s July, the highest the temperature will go is 20 degrees Celsius.” Lin Huang just recalled the weather difference in different areas. Lin Xin nodded immediately and headed to the bathroom of the hotel. Lin Huang returned to the hotel after pinning the coordinates of the dimensional portal. After putting on their spring clothes, he then summoned Thunder and headed to the coordinates where the dimensional portal was. The A-grade foothold was huge and the dimensional portal was more than 200 kilometers away. They would take a couple of hours if they rode on the Viridian Wolf as they could not head in a straight-line direction, so he decided to ride on Thunder instead.
In less than ten minutes, they arrived at their destination.
“Brother, where are we going?” Lin Xin asked when she saw the dimensional portal far away.
“Our final destination is foothold No.7C163, but it’s very far away, so we’ll have to take three different dimensional portals in between.” Lin Huang was helpless as he would need the dimensional portal to get to the places that his dimensional relic had never pinned before.
Fortunately, they had an exclusive pass whereby he would not need to purchase the dimensional portal tickets beforehand and could get them on the spot. Just like the privilege extended to the royal families, he would not need to queue, and he could use the exclusive hunter tunnel via the dimensional portal exclusively for hunters. Besides that, Gold Hunters could bring three persons with them. However, the ticket was ten times more expensive than the normal one, but it was acceptable to all hunters.
After purchasing the tickets at the counter, they arrived at the exclusive dimensional portal via the hunter tunnel smoothly. There were three Gold Hunters queueing at the dimensional portal. The three of them stared at Lin Huang as he was young and he did not bother to hide his aura. They could sense that he was a gold-level rank-3 although they thought that it was unbelievable. As the three of them entered the portal, Lin Huang and Lin Xin stepped into it and they were sent to the first transit, foothold No.7B98.
Lin Huang bought a coupon in Hulun City with the final destination being Yi City in foothold No.7C163. There was no need to purchase tickets in between as they could just scan their coupon while the portal personnel would set the destination. After spending less than five minutes in the No.7B98 foothold, they arrived in the second transit in foothold No.7B116, and then foothold No.7B128. The B-grade foothold was more than a thousand kilometers from Yi City, but it was much faster than riding on Thunder.
Around five to six minutes later, the both of them finally arrived in Yi City. After stepping out of the dimensional portal, it was almost 8:30 a.m. Yi City was not their final destination, but the Bell Canyon located 1,600 kilometers to the northeast. The Luminescent Angelwing, the double mutated sword type monster that Lin Huang was hunting down was there.
Chapter 415: Bell Canyon
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
It was 8:30 a.m, two hours before Lancelot could be summoned again while it would only take them over an hour to get to Bell Canyon by riding on Thunder. Since they had more than an hour of free time, Lin Huang decided to bring Lin Xin around the foothold. Lin Xin was puzzled when she saw Lin Huang summoning the Viridian Wolf instead of Thunder.
“Brother, is the monster that you’re looking for near to this foothold?”
“No, it’s in the Bell Canyon which is more than 1,600 kilometers away.” He shook his head, and soon he realized why Lin Xin had asked that question.
“We’re not in a rush, so I’ll only head there after an hour as Lancelot is still sealed now. We can walk around the foothold.”
Yi City was not considered large. It was similar to the size of Baqi City. Riding on the Viridian Wolf with the guidance of Lin Huang’s map, they arrived in the most crowded commercial street in Yi City in less than ten minutes. Although it was only a C-grade foothold, the commercial street was crowded. It was the summer holiday, so many young people from the D-grade footholds around visited the area.
“What a crowded street!” Lin Xin enthused. If this had happened half a year ago, she would have found this C-grade commercial street to be fascinating. However, since she had been to the commercial streets in the Winter City and the White Capital, that was the best comment that she could give for the one here.
“Let’s shop for clothes?” Lin Huang asked her with his eyebrow raised.
“Yes, please!” Lin Xin nodded as she loved shopping with Lin Huang.
They headed to the shopping mall that was the nearest to them. On the first floor was the jewelry department, the second was lingerie while they headed straight to the third floor which was selling women clothes. Lin Xin saw her favorite brand as they stepped into the third floor. She liked the trench coat that the mannequin was wearing, so she got the staff to get her an S size, and she ran into the fitting room. She was out two to three minutes later.
“What do you think?” Lin Xin asked Lin Huang as she walked over to him. It was a dark gray short trench coat, which would fit a taller, more matured lady more especially since the first impression Lin Huang got was that it suited Yi Yeyu more than it did Lin Xin. She just looked odd now. Although she tried her best to pose maturely, Lin Huang laughed and shook his head.
“This doesn’t suit you. Let’s try another one.”
“Okay…” Lin Xin sighed and walked into the fitting room again.
They shopped for an hour, but Lin Xin did not pick out anything else that she liked.
“Alright, it’s almost time.” Lin Huang had set his alarm at 9:30 a.m. before shopping. He stopped walking when he heard his alarm ringing.
“Must we leave now?” Lin Xin was not done with shopping yet.
“I think it’s better that you stay in Yi City. The monster I’m hunting this time is incredibly fast. If it discovers you in a short distance, I might not be able to save you. Even if you have Kylie protecting you, was Kylie to fight it, you won’t be able to stand the shockwave.”
While they were shopping, Lin Huang had been considering if he should bring Lin Xin along. For her safety, he decided to ask her to stay in Yi City. If it was other monsters, Lin Huang might be able to stop them from attacking Lin Xin but the Luminescent Angelwing was swift, and it was difficult to chase after it as soon as it changed its target. Lin Xin felt down. She thought she would be able to see how glorious her brother was in battles but she was not allowed to follow this time.
“I’ll need more than an hour to get there and killing her will take less than half an hour. I’ll take the dimensional portal to get back. I think I should be back before 11:30 a.m. You can continue to shop with Tyrant. Head back to the hotel after shopping a bit more as it’ll be lunch by then,” Lin Huang comforted her. He knew that Lin Xin would be sad, but no matter what, her safety was his top priority.
“Okay.” Although she was disappointed, she agreed anyway.
Lin Huang then summoned Tyrant who was in a black suit, then he watched them leave after briefing Tyrant what to do. He left the shopping mall and summoned Thunder. He leaped and sat on its back, heading to the Bell Canyon. The Bell Canyon was located in the northeast of Yi City and they would pass through Hulun prairie along the way. In reality, the Hulun prairie was huge. The Hulun City that was ten thousand kilometers away was located to the southwest of the prairie. The size of the prairie was even bigger than the continent of Asia on Earth. Although they had departed from Yi City, the journey to Bell Canyon was more than 1,600 kilometers.
Riding on Thunder’s back, Lin Huang breathed in the prairie air. Greenery was everywhere, and he could even smell the fragrance of flowers. He finally arrived at the destination more than an hour later. Before Thunder landed, Lin Huang could see the Bell Canyon from above. The Bell Canyon was a rift to be precise. It was situated in the middle of the Wula Highlands, and the millions of square kilometers highlands were divided into east and west.
Looking from above, it looked like a giant cake on a table that had been sliced into half in the middle. In reality, there was a myth about how the Bell Canyon was formed. It was said that a person had sliced it with a sword. However, geologists suggested that it was split due to an earthquake. The locals chose to believe the former. In the old epoch, the story narrated about how a god had accidentally sliced the ground as it was fighting an abyssal creature.
However, Lin Huang did not think the myth was true as a sword would not be able to slice a path that was thousands of kilometers long. The closer he was to holy fire-level, the more he understood that such a matter was impossible to be done by humans. Even an imperial-level would not be able to do this. He was not sure if the demigod in the myth could do this, but he chose to believe in what the geologist said. He thought about the god of the myth. However, how could a battle with an abyssal creature leave such a trail but destroy nothing else without any trail of struggle?
Looking at his coordinates getting closer to those on the map, he patted Thunder’s back.
“You can go down now.”
Thunder retracted its wings and glided downwards.
Chapter 416: Encountering The Luminescent Angelwing
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The coordinates where the Luminescent Angelwing was discovered was near the first third of the Bell Canyon’s entrance. Lin Huang did not see the Luminescent Angelwing from above, but he asked Thunder to land on the near the coordinates anyway. When they landed, he recalled Thunder immediately. It was almost 10.40 a.m., so Lancelot was free again as 24 hours had passed. He summoned Lancelot in his black armor again.
“The monster I picked this time is the Luminescent Angelwing. It’s very nimble, so it might be tough,” Lin Huang briefed Lancelot.
He looked around and brought Lancelot into the canyon. Although they did not see any signs of the Luminescent Angelwing at the coordinates, Lin Huang was not worried that the Luminescent Angelwing would not appear. No matter the Hunter Association or the black market, the coordinates that they provided was impossible to be fake because if such a matter happened, the buyer would spread the news and their names would be affected. The Luminescent Angelwing might move away that very day. However, looking at the lifestyle of the monster, it would not usually move too far away from its lair unless something drastic happened. For instance, if it was chased away by more powerful monsters or if something were to happen to its habitat such as lack of food and water.
From what Lin Huang could see, it did not seem like the canyon was lacking water or food. He was sure that the Luminescent Angelwing would initiate a fight as he walked deeper into the canyon with Lancelot. Most monsters had the concept of territory, so not only they did not welcome other monsters, they also did not like the invasion of humans as well. To most monsters, humans were extremely dangerous creatures. They would usually react in two possible ways — one was to back off, while another was to attack. However, the more powerful a monster was, the greater its sense of territory and the more likely it would attack.
There was a stream less than ten meters wide at the bottom of the canyon. The water was clear and it was less than two meters deep, so one could see the bottom with their eyes. The shores zig-zagged following the streams, and they were 70 to 150 meters wide. There were 90-degree cliff drops on both sides, bald with no leafy plants on them. There were conifers and minimal moss occasionally. With Lin Huang’s vision, he could see the entire canyon crystal clear; nothing could escape from his eyes.
There were some small monsters drinking water by the stream, and even some baby monsters playing around. The stream was shallow with no water predators in it. It was a heaven for the smaller monsters. However, they soon noticed Lin Huang and Lancelot, escaping into the caves immediately. Lin Huang raised his eyebrow as those monsters that could not actually climb seemed to have mastered the skill from living in such an environment.
As they walked seven to eight kilometers further, the insects and birds’ chirping disappeared. There were no small monsters around anymore. Lin Huang and Lancelot slowed down as they knew they had entered a powerful monster’s territory. They looked around, but he still did not see the Luminescent Angelwing. Nevertheless, he knew it must be near.
Suddenly, glowing white balls streaked towards them like meteorites. Lin Huang looked at the direction of the attack and saw a white figure standing arrogantly in the air thousands of meters away. He did not have the time to study it. He picked up his Dark Shield and blocked himself and Lancelot. Although he did not see the attacker clearly, he was sure that he was in the Luminescent Angelwing’s habitat. The balls of white glow created waves on the Dark Shield but soon disappeared.
The Dark Shield had the highest defense. It was ten times more powerful than Lin Huang’s attack strength. Before he mastered Star Dome, his most powerful attack was sufficient to injure a blue-flame level. Now with the complete legendary-level Skill Card Star Dome, his attack strength had increased even more substantially. His Dark Shield could now only be broken through by a purple flame-level person.
The Absolute Defence that was used by the Final Fortress in the Hunter Arena a year ago was a joke compared to the Dark Shield. With the integration of Star Dome, Lin Huang’s attack ability would have room for improvement before he arrived at holy fire-level. By then, the defense ability of the Dark Shield would be even more powerful. However, with sufficient Life Power, Lin Huang could be standing here, receiving the monster’s attack and the shield would hold up well.
The Luminescent Angelwing soon realized that the human who had invaded her territory had a terrifying defense, so it was no use to attack from a distance. She then moved and appeared less than 30 meters from the Dark Shield. The shield was completely black to her, but to Lin Huang, it was transparent. Through the Dark Shield, he finally saw how the monster looked like.
“It really is the Luminescent Angelwing!”
It was his first time seeing the real Luminescent Angelwing. Although he had seen images of such a monster before, seeing it in front of eyes blew him away. The Luminescent Angelwing was a creature of half energization and looked like a human lady in a white dress. She was 1.6 meters tall with an angelic face. Her body and dress glowed in white. On her back was a pair of wings that looked like they were made of countless white reflections on her back. She was different from any creatures with wings that Lin Huang had seen before.
Looking at the wings, Lin Huang finally understand how the Luminescent Angelwing got her name. The monster looked exactly like an angel. In reality, it had angel blood in her body. Just like Kylie, she was a half angel. If the blood evolved, she would then evolve into a light angel, which was a real angel and was as powerful as a god’s blood creature.
However, he only managed to observe the Luminescent Angelwing for a while as she had bypassed the Dark Shield after examining it and rushed towards the both of them
Chapter 417: A Troublesome Opponent
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To explain the Dark Shield with Mr. Fu’s energy form, it was a skill that could change its form on its surface from any of the three available forms. Lin Huang could transform it into any form that he wanted to, but the coverage depended on the strength of his Life Power. Usually, he would convert it into a hemisphere because besides blocking the incoming attack, it used half the Life Power instead of when it was a full sphere. In real battles, it would always win.
However, the Luminescent Angelwing soon noticed the function of Dark Shield , and she bypassed the shield in an attempt to attack from their back. What she did not know was that although her speed was rapid, she was in their territory. Her movements were crystal clear to Lin Huang due to the activation of Micro Territory . As she bypassed the shield, Lin Huang and Lancelot attacked almost at the same time. His grade-5 sword relic, the Dragon Slayer, slashed at the same time as the Ruthless Sword Master’s black sword.
Lin Huang’s Micro Territory had evolved from the Ruthless Sword Master’s Life Seed. It was similar to his Death Zone whereby it could attack from where he stood towards any location within its coverage. Lin Huang had little opportunity to use the skill as he was used to gunning for long-distance attacks. Moreover, there was a flaw in using Micro Territory which was having only a small coverage. It only covered a radius of 100 meters where the gun would attack further. By using the gun, he could attack from thousands of meters away from his opponent. As his opponent got closer, he could then switch his weapon to a sword although it was strange for him to wait for his opponent to enter the radius of 100 meters before doing so.
However, using Micro Territory was the best to fight looking at the situation now. As the Luminescent Angelwing moved so quickly, it was hard to aim his gun at her. Using Micro Territory to attack from where he was, it was the most effective way. The Luminescent Angelwing did not know that she had just dug her own grave. However, she sensed the danger as she arrived behind the both of them. She backed off immediately, but it was too late.
A golden sword glow sliced through her waist, leaving a 10-centimeter gash on her stomach. Another black sword glow headed towards her head. However, it only got less than five millimeters into her forehead, and it could not go further in. It was obvious that Lin Huang’s attack ability was much more powerful than Lancelot’s that was on the same level. Now that he had mastered the Star Dome, any swing of his sword was comparable to a white flame-level. Moreover, he added the Thunder Sting into that earlier swing to prevent him from missing. The Luminescent Angelwing that was weak in defense would definitely die if she could not avoid the strike.
Meanwhile, Lancelot was only a white flame-level which could do limited threat to the Luminescent Angelwing. If he were fighting a monster with a high defense such as Tyrant, without using Absolute Life, Lancelot would not be able to win. However, the hit did not excite Lin Huang as he soon confirmed the monster encyclopedia’s description of the Luminescent Angelwing. He witnessed the 10-centimeter wound on the Luminescent Angelwing’s stomach healing itself within seconds.
It was the Luminescent Angelwing’s Luminant Regeneration. As she was half energy herself, she could heal any injuries on her flesh. As long as there was sufficient light, it was almost impossible to kill her. Even if the fight took place in the dark, the only way to kill her was to drain all the energy in her body.
“A radius of 100 meters is really too small…” Lin Huang thought to himself. It would only take the Luminescent Angelwing a second to leave the cover of Micro Territory . He stared at the Luminescent Angelwing that floated in mid-air. Lin Huang was staring her wings as he thought about the theory that he had read about on the network.
Meanwhile, the Luminescent Angelwing that was hundreds of meters away watched Lin Huang with her guard up. She knew that the man’s threat was stronger than the fellow in black armor standing next to him. If she had not managed to avoid it just now, she would have been killed by the man. Although she could heal herself, getting sliced on the waist was still pretty darned painful.
“She won’t dare to come closer thanks to the lesson she got just now…” Lin Huang did not know what to do. It seemed like none of the double mutated monsters were dumb. Since she fell into his trap just now, it was impossible for the Luminescent Angelwing to be lured into his trap for the second time. If she stayed a distance away from him, it was difficult for Lin Huang to kill her. The only long-distance attack he had was his gun, but although the Luminescent Angelwing was slower than the bullets, she would not be any slower for the gun to do minimal harm to her.
As for Lancelot, although the Absolute Life was powerful, it was a straight-line attack, and he only had one shot. With the speed of the Luminescent Angelwing that surpassed what Lancelot’s eyes could capture, the probability of him targeting her would be zero.
“She might escape if I summon a blue flame-level fiend.” Lin Huang was coming up with plans in his head. According to the monster encyclopedia, the Luminescent Angelwing was a timid monster and would escape if she was not confident in a battle. If she managed to escape, it would be difficult to find her again. That was the reason why Lin Huang had not summoned the fiends when he was fighting the Spiritsword Supreme earlier. The Luminescent Angelwing might escape if she saw blue flame-level monsters instead of fighting them.
“I can’t use the three fiends. I need to lock down her movement to let Lancelot kill her.” After some thoughts, Lin Huang finally had an idea. He summoned Kylie first. Seeing Kylie who was also a half-angel, the Luminescent Angelwing thought of escaping. Fortunately, Lin Huang did not summon the Sanguine Skeleton Spirit first as the Luminescent Angelwing would definitely flee.
“Hold her still, don’t let her run away,” Lin Huang instructed Kylie.
Kylie remained silent while flapping her wings and flew towards the Luminescent Angelwing like a purple lightning bolt. In the air, the purple and white shadow meshed together. They were colliding with each other again and again.
Chapter 418: Killing The Luminescent Angelwing
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The two white flame-level monsters collided with each other faster than the speed of sound in the air. The banging thud and the explosion were rumbling like a freak thunderstorm. The noise created ripples of waves everywhere while gravel flew in all directions at the speed of bullets. Lin Huang thought it was fortunate that Lin Xin did not come along, or else, she would be crushed by the gravel.
He activated his ocular skill to its maximum while watching the battle that was taking place mid-air. He could barely keep up. He could tell that their speed was similar, but Kylie was more powerful than the Luminescent Angelwing as a whole. She was oppressed by Kylie. However, it was impossible for Kylie to kill the Luminescent Angelwing on her own.
Black mist surrounded Lancelot, and he seemed eager to join the battle. However, he was helpless as the fight took place mid-air and he would not be able to react in time as the Luminescent Angelwing was too fast. All he could do was to suppress himself as he watched. Seeing Lancelot glance at her several times as though he was asking for help, she consoled him, “Don’t worry, her head belongs to you.”
Meanwhile, Lin Huang contacted Kylie secretly and gave her a new instruction, “Bring her closer to me when you can.”
Kylie was on the winning side. Soon, she found a perfect angle and transformed her spear into a rod. She waved the rod at the Luminescent Angelwing, and as the latter tried to block the attack, she was retreating towards Lin Huang’s direction.
At that moment, Lin Huang had crushed the Sanguine Skeleton Spirit’s card in his hand to summon it. As the Sanguine Skeleton Spirit appeared, the Luminescent Angelwing flapped her wings hard and attempted to run. Suddenly, Lin Huang twirled the sword in his hand and chopped off the Luminescent Angelwing’s wings as two golden sword glows slashed in the air. She fell into Lin Huang’s 100-meter Micro Territory coverage which included the air.
Despite losing her wings, the Luminescent Angelwing could still fly as she was a white flame-level after all. However, she could not adapt as she was not used to not having her wings out of nowhere. The Sanguine Skeleton Spirit seized the opportunity and flicked the Punishment Chain towards the Luminescent Angelwing. Before she managed to run, a chain snagged her ankle while the rest tied her up, leaving just her head free.
The Luminescent Angelwing was not a monster of strength, so it was impossible her to escape from the chain. Moreover, as her body was made of half energy and since her Life Power was being sealed by the Punishment Chains, she was left with nothing. She was not glowing anymore, and her wings were folded into her body. Now, she just looked like a young and beautiful lady. However, Lin Huang was sure that she only looked like a human but bore no other similarity. If he were to extract her genes, hers would be different from a human’s.
“She’s yours now.” Lin Huang nodded at Lancelot as the Luminescent Angelwing was captured. Lancelot walked forward and swung his black sword, lopping off half of the Luminescent Angelwing’s head onto the ground.
“Congratulations, you have obtained a new epic-level Monster Card – the Luminescent Anglewing (Sword Servant).”
Lin Huang confirmed the Luminescent Angelwing’s death when he heard Xiao Hei’s notification. He was worried that she would heal herself when her Life Power was sealed. It seemed like his concern was unnecessary. After recalling his Monster Cards, Lin Huang looked at the Luminescent Angelwing’s carcass that looked just like a human lady’s. Since half of her head had been chopped off, it was unable for Bloody to perform his parasitic process. He did not keep the carcass, and summoned his dimensional relic, stepping into it.
He arrived at the shopping mall that he had gone to with Lin Xin this morning. It was already 11.40 a.m. when he checked the time; he was ten minutes later than the expected time. He called Lin Xin immediately. The call was connected soon, and Lin Xin was standing in a clothing store.
“Brother, are you back?”
“Let’s have lunch somewhere. We’ll take a short rest and head to our next destination.”
“Okay, wait for me at the shopping mall entrance that we went to this morning. I’ll be there soon,” Lin Xin said and hung up.
Lin Huang turned off the phone and took his time down the stairs. After waiting at the entrance for three to four minutes, Lin Xin ran towards him while Tyrant followed behind her. Compared to Tyrant, Lin Xin, who was already short, looked even shorter now. Lin Huang found it funny as her several steps were slower than Tyrant’s one long stride.
“I heard from a clothing store owner that there’s a nice steamboat restaurant around. I think we should try that.” Lin Xin seemed to be addicted since she tried steamboat in Jinchuan City.
“Let’s go then! Lead the way,” Lin Huang agreed.
As Lin Xin knew the name of the steamboat restaurant, with the guidance of the store owner using the map, she found the steamboat restaurant in an instant. They chatted while eating.
“Brother, are we going to another foothold in the afternoon?” Lin Xin asked.
“Yes, I want to finish them as soon as possible so that we can head back earlier. I still have many documents to read.” Lin Huang nodded. He had prepared the teaching materials. The stuff that he had been reading in the library was some basic knowledge which was still mind-blowing to him.
“So, where are we going?” Lin Xin wanted to shop more as Lin Huang would not have the time to accompany her anymore as soon as they got back to the White Capital. However, knowing that Lin Huang was busy, she accepted his arrangement instead.
“The Shadow City in foothold No.7C228. It’ll take some time to get there.” Lin Huang was helpless. The Shadow City was another secluded place to which he did not have the coordinates pinned in his dimensional relic. It would take four transits in the dimensional portal to get there.
“I don’t want to stay in the foothold alone this time. It’s boring.” Lin Xin was worried that Lin Huang might leave her alone again.
“Alright then, I’ll bring you along this time,” Lin Huang hesitated but agreed anyway.
Chapter 419: Shadow Land
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It was almost 1 p.m. after Lin Huang and Lin Xin had lunch and took a short rest. He summoned his dimensional relic and arrived at the Dark Night City in foothold No.7A11. After transiting the four-dimensional portals, they finally arrived at their destination, the Shadow City in foothold No.7C228. His final destination was the Dark Land that was more than 2,300 kilometers from Shadow City.
The Shadow Land was an underground ruin that was formed from a sunken city in the old era. It was a huge city sprawling across five million square kilometers which was comparable to half an A-grade foothold. The ruins belonged to the middle-range danger zone. Judging by the three ranges, this zone had at least five holy fire-level monsters and even immortal-level monsters. Compared to Bell Canyon which had few monsters, this ruins was the territory of various monsters. Many buildings were their hidden places. Entering the Shadow Land was like invading the monsters’ lair which was risky.
“Are you sure you want to follow me?” Lin Huang asked Lin Xin in all seriousness as they got out of the dimensional portal. “I’m going to the Shadow Land, it’s a dimensional ruin that’s completely occupied with monsters. It’s different from all the places that I’ve brought you before.”
“Yes!” Lin Xin nodded hard.
Lin Huang did not say anything after her confirmation. The reason why he had allowed Lin Xin to follow him was that he had the confidence to protect her. Although it might be too early for her to go to places like this, it was good to expose her to the real side of the world. Most students who had just graduated from college were like fragile, protected flowers. They imagined the world to be all rainbows and butterflies as they grew up in the safe zones. Lin Huang did not want Lin Xin to have that illusion as there would be consequences of being naive.
“Are you going to the Shadow Land?” A hunk in golden armor asked, completely ignoring Lin Xin. Lin Huang looked up at him and saw that he was a complete gold-level with great abilities.
“Our team can bring you along if you need. We have two complete gold-levels and three gold-level rank-3’s with us. As long as you’re not planning to go to the area with Transcendent monsters, we can bring you along,” the man suggested, he extended the invitation since he could see that Lin Huang was a gold-level rank-3.
Nobody below Transcendent-level would enter the Shadow Land alone as it would be similar to digging their own grave. Most people would go as a team to look out for one another. Having five people in a team was the basic rule for entering the Shadow Land. That was the reason why the hunk was looking for more teammates as it was dangerous for a team that had less than ten people to enter.
“It’s okay, thanks.” Lin Huang had researched about the place on the Heart Network before coming. However, it was his first time being invited into a team. He thought it was interesting but he still rejected with a smile.
“We’re not from Adventure Paradise. We’re just a team that’s made up at the last minute. You don’t have to pay us to join,” the hunk explained immediately as he thought that Lin Huang had misunderstood him as being from the Adventurer Paradise team.
“We have my own team.” Lin Huang shook his head while smiling. He said that knowing that the person was just asking out of kindness.
“Oh, is that so? Sorry to bother you then.” The hunk then left.
Lin Huang projected the map to locate himself, soon he found the location of the Hunter Association division. Before he departed, he wanted to drop by the Hunter Association to inquire about some information that was only known by the locals as well as purchasing a detailed map of the Shadow Land. As soon as he confirmed the Hunter Association’s location, he summoned the Viridian Wolf and left with Lin Xin. The hunk who had been rejected by Lin Huang was shocked as he recalled what Lin Huang said earlier after walking a few steps away.
“He said ‘we have our own team’ instead of ‘I have my own team’. Is he really bringing the little girl who is not even an iron-level into the ruins?! I think I must have misheard. He must’ve said ‘I’ instead of ‘we’.” The hunk shook his head to get rid of the thoughts while he proceeded to look for more teammates.
Lin Huang brought Lin Xin to the Hunter Association and got what he wanted. He also purchased a copy of a detailed map of the Shadow Land. The both of them were informed that there was no signal to use the network or their phones, so there was no way that they could pin the coordinates. All they had was the map to find out where they were. Moreover, if they were in trouble, they would not be able to contact anybody. However, Lin Huang was not surprised as he had read about that on the Hunter Forum.
“Brother, if we can’t contact anybody when we run into trouble, doesn’t that mean we will die?” Lin Xin asked as soon as they left the Hunter Association.
“Most people would have to register themselves with the organization they belong before entering the Shadow City. They would have to write down the time they left the Shadow Land and log out on the network after they leave. If they don’t log out more than 48 hours later, the organization will try to contact the person. If that fails, they will send people to the rescue. So, it’s still possible for the person to survive if they manage to hold on for more than two days if they are captured by monsters or get lost in the Shadow Land.
“Moreover, there are many human teams that enter the Shadow Land. If they encounter trouble, they can send signals to the teams nearby. Although the Heart Network and phones can’t be used inside, the S.O.S signal in the Emperor’s Heart Ring still functions. It can reach up to a 100-kilometer radius without any obstacles. Other Emperor’s Heart Rings within the coverage will receive the signal. Even if there are obstacles, the signal will still be received,”
Lin Huang explained in detail as the information was useful to Lin Xin. He did not know about the function of sending signals earlier and only found out about that recently as from his time in the library. In reality, some experienced hunters knew about the existence of the signal and colleges covered that in their syllabus as well. Only Lin Huang, who had been out in the world for a year, did not know about the hidden function.
As they left the Hunter Association, Lin Huang did not plan to follow the other teams as he was sure that his summoning monsters were more reliable than the people. He summoned Thunder and the both of them headed to the Shadow Land.
Chapter 420: The Underground City
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The entrance to the Shadow Land was 2,300 kilometers from the southeast of Shadow City. Thunder brought the both of them to the destination in less than half an hour. There were a few teams that were preparing themselves at the entrance while some leaders were briefing their teammates. Many looked envious as they watched the complete gold-level Viridescent Thunderhawk in the air. Although it was not a holy fire-level, such a double mutated flying mount was the same price as a supreme relic, and not everyone could afford it.
They were shocked to see the two people who got down from the Viridescent Thunderhawk as they were so young.
“I bet they’re some royalty…” Many had that first impression of the duo.
Lin Huang recalled the Viridescent Thunderhawk and noticed that many were looking at him with respect. It was impressive that Lin Huang was an Imperial Censor who did not need a monster taming token to recall his monster. It was even more impressive that he could manage a double mutated complete gold-level monster at such a young age.
Lin Huang ignored the teams that were watching him and brought Lin Xin straight to the entrance of the Shadow Land.
“The both of them just went in without forming a team. Are they crazy?!” A person gasped after seeing them enter.
“I know! Even though he’s an Imperial Censor, the most he could do is to summon two or three monsters, which adds up to a team of five. This guy has the balls to enter the Shadow City just like that!” Another person commented.
“That… If I’m not wrong, that little girl is just an ordinary person who is not even an iron-level,” another person said softly. That reminded many of them that there was no Life Power wave from Lin Xin’s body.
“Bringing a normal person in the Shadow Land? This guy must be some royal that thinks that the hotel bed isn’t big enough and wants some excitement somewhere wider?” A hunk with chest hair joked.
Lin Huang did not hear the conversation, or else, he would have taught the hunk with chest hair a lesson. The entrance of the Shadow Land was an oval crystal of four to six meters long and it could accommodate five to six person at once. The crypt was discovered by a bunch of geologists more than a hundred years ago. As they exploded into the crypt, only one of them made it out alive. Many adventurers and hunters came here to explore after the news of this went out.
There was no virtual eye in the Shadow Land. There were two main reasons why the number of monsters increased despite them being killed by many over the years. One was that there was a crack at the bottom of the land that connected to the abyss, while another reason was that the monsters here had a reproductive ability which helped to replace the monsters that were killed.
Lin Huang brought Lin Xin deeper into the crypt. It looked like it had been dug by a monster as it was disorganized. The trench went downwards into the ground with dividers in the middle. Lin Huang followed the instructions on the map and walked more than half an hour following the path and finally arrived at a wide underground space. It was dark in there, but to Lin Huang, his vision was not affected at all. However, Lin Xin had been using a probe light along the way, or else, she would not be able to see at all.
“Such a huge space!” Lin Xin exclaimed as she used the probe light to look around.
“The Shadow City is the largest underground city that’s discovered in Division7 so far. This is an abandoned area at the edge of the city. The deeper we go, the wider it is,” Lin Huang smiled as he explained.
“Put your probe light away and follow me,” Lin Huang said and held Lin Xin’s hand.
Lin Xin blushed, then switched off her probe light and followed Lin Huang forward. She was shocked when she saw the Shadow Land far away after passing an obstacle. Not only her, even Lin Huang was shocked and froze. Although he had seen images of this place before, it was still impressive when his eyes lay sight on it. The abandoned land that they were located at was hundreds of meters higher than a city. The Shadow Land that was far away was lit up. All of the streetlights were shining brightly, and even many of the houses were lit up. The entire city was bright. From afar, it looked like a crowded city that never slept.
That reminded of Lin Huang about the first time he had gone to Shanghai and was amazed by the night view. The city that he was looking at was hundreds of times bigger than Shanghai; the only thing that was missing was the chasing cars.
“It’s so beautiful!” Lin Xin exclaimed.
“It really is.” Lin Huang nodded.
“Let’s go!” Lin Huang summoned the Viridian Wolf after they admired the view for a while.
They rode on the Viridian Wolf and arrived at a broken bridge. The bridge was supposed to connect them to the abandoned land that they were located at earlier. It was broken in the middle for about 30 meters long. The Viridian Wolf accelerated as it got to the broken part, then it leaped and crossed the 30 meters, arriving at the other side of the bridge easily. Listening to the flowing water beneath the bridge, Lin Huang was sure that there were monsters in the underground river.
There were a couple of skyscrapers near the end of the bridge, and vines crept up all of the buildings. However, many of the buildings were lit up, and Lin Huang even saw moving shadows in some of the rooms.
“Brother, I think there’s something in the building on the left,” Lin Xin said softly. Lin Huang briefly warned her not to talk when they arrived at monster areas. If she had to, she had to speak softly, or else, they would attract the monsters.
“I saw that too. It’s alright,” Lin Huang said and summoned Lancelot.
“We’re hunting down the Cursed Swordfiend this time. Lead the way,” Lin Huang instructed.