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Dark Forest
Around the left inner dangerous region of the Dark Forest, multiple Three Saber-toothed Rhinos were strolling along a brook leisurely. They were Level-3 demon beasts. A silver glow shone on their backs, their teeth were as sharp as swords, while their fist-sized brown eyes glittered with a malicious look. The three rhinos were all covered by hard dried mud, which formed a natural armor, through which any normal weapon would find hard to cut.
The three Saber-toothed Rhinos were sipping water now and then, while looking around discreetly, seemingly to be looking for prey.
In the bushes not far from them, a dark silhouette appeared quietly.
As the three Saber-toothed Rhinos walked around slowly, The figure moved from its place to come near them.
Saber-toothed Rhinos that he is eyeing are Level-3 demon beasts, equaling to Human Realm Warriors. They move fast and have sharp tusks. Against Saber-Toothed Rhinos, low leveled warriors would either be crippled or killed but this person looked very calm and composed despite of looking to hunt three of them together.
The dark figure kept wandering his cold eyes over those slowly disappearing rhinos, his expression showed an interest in a fight with them.
He slowly raised his hands which were clinched tightly as a layer of blackish glow with white sparks channeled through his body covering it completely.
“Dark Lighting Armour!”
Somewhere from within the darkness, the black figure bathed in lighting suddenly appeared and struck the Saber-toothed Rhinos.
In a flash, the black figure which appeared so insanely fast that not even the beast could respond, struck and a burning flame was all over the Saber-toothed Rhinos body.
*Bang!* Without a sound, the Saber-toothed Rhinos, despite its tenacious armor, was electrocuted and reduced to ashes.
The figure didn’t stop but rather attacked more ferociously and did not decrease in intensity. He shot right up into the sky and killed the remaining Saber-toothed Rhinos.
Following his attack, the ground vibrated and the sand parted, revealing Leylin’s face.
Currently Leylin wasn’t dressed in his previous slightly baggy clothes but rather doned a khakhi colored robe like an archeological researcher.
His clothes was full of patches of folded clothes forming pockets, this attire although not very attractive is very useful for Leylin who carries dozens of different materials on himself. It’s his only option to carry items since, he doesn’t have a spatial ring.
Leylin carries innumerable specimen, drugs, medicine, materials and poison on himself since he has been doing experiment on various specimen found throughout the forest, even capturing mercenaries for his research purpose, collecting hundreds of samples each day.
“A.I. Chip! Present the degree of attack!”
For these few days, he had been on watch in the area to hunt down those beast that had swooped down looking for food.
A few days have passed since Leylin has entered this region and nonstop without any breaks except for meditation substituting his sleep Leylin has been on the hunt.
Through these days he has been extremely busy scanning different new resources, plants, herbs, poison, making formation, learning spells and setting up traps for preys.
He has attacked dozens of different types of beasts ranging from Elementary, Nascent, Human and even an injured Disaster Realm Demon Beasts to gain various resources materials, specimen, and a great supply of devour force.
Leylin has obviously not distinguish between humans and beasts, he has been firing on all cylinders. Leylin has hunted various mercenaries group as well, who reaped him benefits of huge amount of materials, Purple coins, devour energy and helping him to analyze Martial Skills improving his database.
Just now, Leylin had been experimenting with a new spell that could be distinguished as a rank one spell in Magus World that the A.I. Chip came up with.
After advancing into his cultivation, Leylin’s Profound Qi had significantly increased. Even the A.I. Chip, which was bound to his soul, seemed to have obtained many benefits as it’s power was reverting back to it’s unbelievable capabilities. Just two days ago, it was finally able to simulate a rank 1 spell model.
[Beep! Data collected, scanning in progress…]
The A.I. Chip’s voice intoned.
[Dark Lighting Armour! Classification: Rank 1 spell: Lighting, Darkness and Fire. Degree of attack: 32. A full body lighting armour produced through charge of elements, created through simulation of meridians, Profound Qi manipulation and elemental attraction. Source- Lighting Rune of Magus World, Verdant Crescent Blacklash, Dark Light Shield.]
The Dark Lighting Armour is Leylin biggest invention so far in Grace Mainland calculated created and mastered through endless simulation of A. I. Chip after scanning various spells and calculating complex algorithm. Leylin made use of the Lightning Rune he got from Eam, the Rank 5 Thorned Thunderbird Warlock as well as the Lighting Martial Skills he recorded from Mary Dunn to lay it’s foundation.
“A. I. Chip Show my status!”
[Beep! (Berkan Lenoir) Leylin Farlier, Strength: 7.1, Agility: 6.6, Vitality: 9.4, Profound Qi: Third Sky of Nascent Realm. Status: Healthy]
“Currently my status is already comparable to a Rank 1 Warlock, it’s a very remarkable feat considering how little time I have spent here. With the help of my new spell, I have exert a great extent of my powers. As I am now, I am confident even against a Disaster Realm Warrior, although someone with a Martial Spirit could be tricky but a simple cultivator would only become my nutrition pill.” Leylin smirked as he thought about his targets, after entering the forest the situation has become unpredictable even for someone like Leylin it’s difficult to manage all the three parties diverting them from each other all the while profiting from them to simultaneously absorb Devour Qi and fulfilling his goals.
Eventually Leylin decided to not care about the group focusing on himself, only making sure to not let any chance of squeezing them get past.
After a few day, Currently Leylin isn’t a bit afraid of meeting them head-on with his peak Nascent Realm Cultivation. Not only does he have great strength but he has various nefarious means, the only troublesome issue in fighting them are various Trump card like Star Bomb which are lethal even for Disaster Realm.
“As of now, the Fangs Mercenary Corps and Mable’s group should be meeting soon. I have already diverted them towards their general direction and knowing the horny motherfuckers that mercenaries are, they would go in heat the moment they gaze at two beautiful women in their group. At that time, I would get to absorb the Devour Qi from two Disaster Realm as well as various Nascent Realm Warriors, not to mention all the various spells I would get to analyze. The main event of this forest is coming soon…” Leylin rubbed his chin as he smiled in excitement.
“It’s about time to wrap up the farce here and go to Merchant Union, Dunn Family would eventually give up and try to barricade me at Silent Town which is the entry point to Merchant Union, as for the issue of Dark World, they aren’t my business anyways. I would appreciate their ‘donation’ for my growth but they aren’t my target. There are more important things waiting for me…”
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Leylin passed through the forest ignoring the beasts around, as he climbed on an ancient tree like a monkey to find something.
Standing on that ancient tree, Leylin was examining the surroundings. Dancing from tree branch to tree branch, he moved to a nearby withered tree.
The ancient tree had thick, dry trunk: It must have been dead for years.
Leylin glanced at the dry branch of that withered ancient tree, and knocked on its surface revealing a hollow space.
This tree oddly has a hollow space from the inside, and its bottom is spacious enough for three to four people to sit down. A good hide out place and Leylin temporary laboratory.
The upper part of that ancient tree was thin and wide enough for only one person to slip in, but its bottom was rather thick. It was ten metres tall, which was easy for Leylin to slip down.
“Hemph.. hemph!!”
Leylin just entered inside the hollow bottom of that ancient tree trunk as gagging sound reverberated from a corner.
There was a bloody scene in the corner with various bodies lying down and a few of them were twitching uncontrollably and among them a sole heavily scarred unrecognizable man yelped looking at Leylin in hatred.
“Oh, you are still capable of recognizing me. I guess I underestimated the ability of a Human Realm Warrior, although just a cultivator you have mental fortitude matched to that of an Official Magus.” Leylin was amused as he walked near the struggling man, he checked the conditions of others who were lying motionless. All of them were drugged incapable of moving and to add insult to injury Leylin even chained them.
The bloodied man looked as Leylin with hatred filled eyes which were reciprocated with Leylin’s indifferent pair of devilish hollow eyes devoid of any feelings except for a genuine intrest similar to a researcher.
“Wasn’t it you who wanted to assault and rob me, thinking I am a single hopeless Nascent Realm Warriors, from a hunter to a huntee you have come full circle. You can hate me, it would only be much more interesting that way.”
“Ahhh!”
The starlight fell into the empty center of the trunk. Outside, the demon beasts were howling ominously as inhumane wails unknown to those outside reverberated throughout accompanied by constant scribbling of Leylin.
Soon, there was total silence inside.
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A few days later,
In the deep part of a forest next to the corpse of a snake like demon beast, two group of warriors were staring intently at each other.
The first group was of Mable’s group, the group consisting of the gravitational field martial skill user, the hot beauty as well as Mable who has the Zither Marital Spirit.
Bernard and the rest of the mercenaries kept staring coldly at Levi and others. They were all ready to assault them once Levi made any move.
With a dark expression on his face, the giant sword in Levi’s hand glowed as he said, “We don’t have a slightest interest in the Fire Snake. Do what you want to do, we are leaving.”
Levi knew Bernard was tough, so he don’t want to ask for trouble, it was only his bad luck to encounter them accompanied by world toppling beauties.
Currently with Dark World on their trail, Bringing Mable to a safe place was the most urgent issue at hand.
Seeing they were really leaving, Bernard was a little stunned, as he called out, “Wait.”
Levi’s expression got serious as he turned around. He said, “Everyone, I don’t want to have a dispute with you guys. But you all shouldn’t go too far either.”
“Yeah, well…” Bernard smirked, the muscles on his face relaxing, “My friend, you misunderstood us. I just want to make a deal with you guys. Nothing else.”
“What deal?” Levi was surprised as he had a bad premonition preparing himself for the worst.
“What about one eye of the Fire Snake, three fangs, and two meters of snake skin for the two women?” Bernard pointed at Mable and Demi, and smiled, “My brothers here haven’t touched any women for a long time. They need to be satisfied. All women here have a price, and my offer is quite fair. What do you think?”
“F***!” One of the three warrior guards of Mable, Rayon’s eyes were almost on fire.
Fatoor grunted. Mable bit her teeth as well, while Demi waved her sword and shouted, “Come if you dare!”
Only Levi kept silent as he kept gazing at the captain. He stretched out his hand to stop the hot sexy Demi’s reckless actions and shook his head to her. Then he turned around and said to Bernard, “I’m sorry, they are my friends, not my possessions. They can’t be traded.”
“Well, nevermind.” Bernard nodded, and said casually “Until next time then.”
“Until next time.” Levi looked deeply into his eyes and then yelled, “Let’s go!”
Levi glared at Demi, suggesting her to keep silent, and signaled her to hurry up and leave.
Rayon and Fatoor were both furious, but they could do nothing after seeing the look in Levi’s eyes. They had to obediently encircle Mable and leave.
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“Captain, the same as usual this time?” After Levi and others disappeared into the woods, One of the mercenary who had only one ear named Tumu giggled, “We know what type of woman you like, so we won’t fight you for that little girl. But that hot bitch, Captain, you have to give her for us to taste.”
Bernard’s eyes got colder and colder, and he nodded gently, “Collect the things on the snake first, and then do what we usually do!”
“Got it.” Tumu smirked, “That woman wanted to cut my cock! I will f*** her to death later!”
“She is a beautiful flower with thorns, and though slightly weaker than you, she is still at The Third Sky of the Nascent Realm. You need to be careful. Don’t fail miserably in an easy task.” Bernard grunted. “Remember to kill those men first, don’t merely indulge yourselves in the women. Be cautious, don’t let anyone run away!”
“Yes, Captain!”
