Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
“I’ve become a Rank-10 Wizard!” Savoring the wizard power rumbling in his blood, Zhang Lisheng let out a long sigh of relief and shouted, overjoyed.
However, when he recalled the strange image in his mind when he transformed, the joy on his face slowly dissipated. Frowning, he pondered over it and jumped off the animal leather chair, before walking back and forth in the bark house while muttering to himself, “Human head with a snake body, human head with a snake body… The Goddess Nuwa had a human head with a snake body, and First Ancestor Fu Xi had a human head with a dragon body, which is pretty much similar to a snake. But, what does it mean for a huge snake flying above my head straight into the sky during the doom of the world? Don’t tell me that it’s prophesying that I’m going to save the world…No, no, no, this is too ridiculous. How can salvation be such a simple matter? In ancient mythology, Goddess Nuwa sacrificed herself to patch up the sky and gave up her body and spirit to save the world. I don’t have such conscience at all! If the doomsday really arrives, I’ll definitely bring mom, Tina and the rest to hide in Shrimp World No. 2…”
Zhang Lisheng muttered a few assumptions to himself, from how he was going to become a savior in the future to how he would devolve and follow the beautiful path of becoming an ancient god. Even though the more he pondered over it, the more he felt that the strange image he saw during the transformation should not be anything bad, he still could not get any reasonable answer out of it.
Not being able to get any result after pondering left and right, the young man no longer gave it much thought and eased his frown before walking out of the tree house. After transforming using the wyrmdragon’s wizard power and riding the clouds to rise to the sky under the worships of thousands of indigenous tribesmen, he flew along the sea and came to a foreign beach on Wizard Li Island, wanting to test the power of the newly acquired strange eight-headed snake incarnation.
After he landed, he looked at the vast rippling sea shrouded in bright sunshine, and transformed his wyrmdragon’s transformation power into the strange snake’s power. After six breaths, his green scales faded and changed into a thick rubber-like skin that was red in color. His neck was stretched to about one meter long while his head became eight. His bulged eyes and wide mouth also turned to become a triangular snake head.
After trying to re-observe the blue sky above the Wizard Li Island using his 16 eyeballs on his eight flexible soft heads that could turn 360 degrees and feeling that he could adapt to his vision already, the young man suddenly commanded his eight heads to open their bloody mouths at the same time and looked at the ground.
In an instant, countless tiny wounds cracked open on the eight heads and their necks, dripping out magma-like blood that flowed down from Zhang Lisheng’s body.
After that fresh blood that gave off green smoke dripped onto the beach, it changed into a red shadow and entered between the gravel under the snake’s gaze. Not long after, streaks of thick ridges bulged out from beneath the sand, rapidly moving across the beach. When each of the ridges moved about more than 100 meters away from Zhang Lisheng, it suddenly detonated and formed a lava pillar that was 20 to 30 meters tall and more than ten meters thick.
“The omniscient power of the wizard gu from the foreign world is really bizarre. This ‘Red Blood Mountain Ridge’ omniscient power is like the Plasma Mine that comes with an automatic tracking function…” Looking at the deep pit that was over ten meters deep containing lava that gave off a scorching aura on the beach, Zhang Lisheng curled his lips and muttered to himself. He ran a few steps with his eight heads moving in a swaying manner and leapt into one of the magma pits nearest to himself.
The moment his body entered the pit, the magma in the deep pit immediately tumbled violently. The overflowing magma pit flowed and spread out unbridledly and not long after, it turned the beach within a 500 to 600 meter radius into a red fiery sea.
After the fire sea was formed, the continuously rushing magma inside tumbled and set off layers of tides that were more than ten meters high. They rose into midair as all the hot air dispersed and the waves became solidified, transforming into a low and translucent glazed mountain.
On top of this low mountain on the beach that did not blend in harmoniously with its surroundings, a ferocious looking devil-like red giant with eight snake heads that constantly swayed gradually shrank and transformed into a normal human.
After retrieving the giant eight-headed snake’s transformation power, Zhang Lisheng breathed in the smell of sulfur that slowly dissipated in the air and looked around. A smug smile appeared on his face. It was apparent that he was more satisfied with the second half of the demonstration than the first half of the omniscient power of the strange snake incarnation that appeared to be quite inconspicuous just now.
“Now this is what I’m talking about…” Zhang Lisheng muttered and when he was about to transform using the wyrmdragon’s transformation power and ride the cloud to go back to Wizard Li’s ancestral land, he suddenly saw some commotion in the distant jungle. More than ten 13 to 14 year olds, mainland boys and girls ran out with laughter.
The instant they ran out of the jungle, they instantly saw the newly formed small magma hill on the beach and Zhang Lisheng, who was standing naked, on the mountain. After the boys and girls were stunned for a while, they could not help but exclaim in surprise. The girls covered their eyes in embarrassment while the boys proceeded to discuss loudly, “Dear Lord! Why is there suddenly a hill right here? And it’s made of glass as well…”
“That is not glass, Angeorge, that is glaze, an impure form of glass. It’s usually formed naturally by volcanic eruption. You really should learn more about geography…”
“Volcanic eruption? Haha! Stop lying, Chesnu. If there really was a volcanic eruption, we would have all been burned to death. Your geography is indeed good but you should properly eat some monkey brain to supplement your brain…”
“Chesnu, Angeorge, do you two think it’s good to argue everyday? This is a Hellfire island and anything can happen. What is there to argue about? Didn’t you see that naked person on that hill? That is even more bizarre okay…”;
“How bizarre can it be to encounter a naked shipwreck victim on the beach? Oh, he’s really skinny. And he looks really pale too. He looks as though he’s dying soon… Ah, he’s a serf…”
“Apuneil, we’re living in a steel age of equality now, there’s no such thing as ‘serf’ anymore…” The boys discussed loudly for a while and finally decided that Zhang Lisheng was an unfortunate shipwreck victim who had drifted to the Hellfire island. They picked up some big leaves and vines and competed to run up the hill, running up to him and handing them to him.
Zhang Lisheng looked on coldly at the antics of these mainland children and did not say any word, much less telling him his identity. After he had successfully spread his territory from 30,000 square kilometers to 140,000 square kilometers, he had become more determined in his seemingly impossible yet magnificent ambition of controlling the entire Shrimp World No. 2.
In the next step he planned, when the over 6000 Wizard Li warriors, who had just newly transplanted with the Gold Core fragments, had awakened, he would lead these Super Hellfiremen plus the remaining 130,000 Wizard Li warriors to continue to conquer the other islands near the Moon Island.
He could clearly tell from the satellite map that after conquering all of the islands gathered around that sea region, he would at least obtain a territory of 250,000 square kilometers of land.
This meant that the Wizard Li tribesmen population would go up to about 9 million. After a year of rest and reorganization to harvest the victory, he would be able to produce about 1.5 million native troops led by 15,000 Super Hellfiremen who mastered the spellcasting ability.
The land area of the entire Hellfire Archipelago is about 10,800,000 square kilometers, with about 300 million people as the population. From this, it sounded as though expanding to a territory of 250,000 square kilometers and reaching a population of 9 million would still be insignificant compared to the enormous size and the massive population of the Archipelago but actually, if Zhang Lisheng could have twice the expansion of 7 to 8 times from 30,000 to 250,000, he would be able to become the king Old God the Hellfire sea region. If everything went smoothly, it would only take him about three to four years to complete all these.
However, after conquering the Hellfire Tribesmen, the next thing that he would have to face was the mainland power of Shrimp World No. 2. By that time, his first victim would be the Oasis Mainland Kattaman City State that was the nearest to the Hellfire sea region. It would be a very difficult problem to make the mainlander yield to a barbarian king like him during the conquest.
In this regard, Zhang Lisheng had been hoping that the mainlander town that he inadvertently built could give him some useful and crucial inspiration. Therefore, he did not explain anything in the face of these teenagers’ misunderstanding. Instead, he just took the leaves and tied it to his nether regions before asking, “Don’t any of you know who I am?”
“Of course not! You must have been half drowned in the sea till you’ve gone silly. Why would we know who you are…” The tallest and sturdiest brown-haired teenager among the boys stared at Zhang Lisheng without fear and replied, “Ah, could it be that you’re a celebrity? Ah, what a pity then. You’ve reached a barren island and it’s useless no matter how famous you are. Who knows, maybe you’ll end up in the tummy of the natives soon. Even though the Hellfire people on this island look much more civilized than anyone else, they still like human meat a lot…”
“Oh shut up, Angeorge! This gentleman is already very pitiful having encountered a shipwreck in the sea. We should treat him with kindness and not intimidation!” After the young man covered himself with leaves, the girls, who had been covering their eyes, finally looked at him. When they heard the brown-haired teenager try to intimidate him, one of the silver-haired girl, who had quite good-looking facial features, said loudly.
Now that he was shut up by the girl, Angeorge pursed his lips and pulled a funny face at her, not saying anything more. That silver-haired girl ignored him and walked up to Zhang Lisheng at the bottom of the hill and said, “Sir, use the leaves to wrap your feet first. The sand on this beach are as sharp as a knife! We mean no malicious intent. Where did you come from? Which part of the sea region did you encounter the shipwreck? Hey, you look very pale. How about this? We’ll bring you to the town so you can eat and can get some clothes to wear first before we talk okay?”
Zhang Lisheng smiled and nodded his head rubbing his belly. He jumped onto the beach bare-footed and casually asked, “How’s your lives here?”
“Oh, your sole is really thick. Why are you such a busybody?”
“Angeorge, can’t you see that this gentleman right here already has an unclear mind? He has encountered a shipwreck and has just woke up so we should treat him with kindness! Have you forgotten what Mr. Charlot said? Even though we’re living on the land of the barbarians, as long as our heart is still filled with kindness and civility, we’ll always be a civilized person!” Upon hearing the brown-haired boy’s words, the silver-haired girl lectured him again while taking Zhang Lisheng into the jungle.
