Chapter 339: Lotton’s Choice, the Seventh Member (1/2)

The group of youths and teachers quickly arrived at Greywater Lake.

Greywater Lake was located in the central region of the Kingdom of Eiche on the edge of the Riverbend Plains. Beyond here were the Winterfell Plains and Icefrost Plateau which composed the northern region of the Kingdom of Eiche.

Bordering Greywater Lake was the Carlin Bay and the White Harbor Plains. Both of these territories were easily accessible and contained a large number of cities.

Meanwhile, between Greywater Lake and the Winterfell Plains was a vast expanse of barren wilderness. Due to the many nameless graves which were scattered through this rugged wilderness, it had been simply named the Land of Nameless Graves.

Not a single town existed in the marsh-ridden Greywater Lake and the Land of Nameless Graves. As a result, very few arcane masters or teams ever traversed through either area.

It was rumored that this was why the ruins of the Clockwork Corps had not been discovered until a few years prior.

“Ayrin! Rinloran! Look! Belo is eating a poisonous snake again!” Stingham’s voice abruptly rang out somewhere within Greywater Lake.

“Idiot!” Rinloran replied in a scathing voice.

With its many marshes, Greywater Lake was naturally a haven for amphibious creatures, especially of the poisonous kind. As a result, there were many poisonous frogs and venomous snakes hidden throughout the area, along with numerous venomous spiders nesting in the trees.

As they traversed through Greywater Lake, Belo had been continuously grabbing any poisonous organism he could lay his hands on and devouring their blood and toxin as allowed by his beastman bloodline. Having bitterly tempered himself and gained a portion of the abilities of the Poisonflame Emperor, this constant ingestion was evidently allowing him to grow his strength further.

“Belo should be doing this to further strengthen his own poison. He is only becoming more terrifying for our enemies to deal with,” Ayrin explained to Stingham.

“But won’t the snake blood also contain many impurities?” Stingham muttered. “And what about parasites?” Stingham gulped. “What if Belo’s body becomes infested with parasites?!”

“Idiot!” Rinloran said once more as his face became covered with black lines.

The beastmen ancestors were innately reliant on consuming blood to strengthen themselves. So how could someone with a high rank beastman bloodline be afraid of parasites? Moreover, earlier beastmen had managed to live and thrive in conditions even worse than the Greywater Lake around them.

Coupled with the massive improvement of Belo’s own bloodline, they didn’t need to worry at all.

After all, Belo’s blood was now extremely abnormal when compared to a normal arcane master’s blood.

It had basically become a stew of the most toxic poisons. How could anything survive in such an environment?

Upon hearing Stingham’s shouts, Belo immediately turned around. Blood slowly dripped from the corner of his mouth as he threw the snake in his hand towards Stingham and he said in an impetuous manner, “What? Do you want a bite? Or do you want to kneel and lick this grandfather’s feet?”

“Why would I want to take a bite? And why would I ever lick your feet?!” Stingham cried out as he immediately dropped the mangled snake corpse, his face paling.

“We have almost arrived at the destination. Do you really have the time to pay so much attention to Belo?” Rui’s voice abruptly rang out from behind Stingham. “How is your study of Invulnerable Golden Body coming along?”

“We are almost there. There is not enough time left to take advantage of,” Stingham replied as he chuckled awkwardly.

“Is that so?” Rui indifferently stared at Stingham as a black light flashed in his hand and the big black stick appeared once more.

“It’s the big black stick again?”

A smug look appeared across Stingham’s face as he nonchalantly said, “So what? Now that I’ve mastered Shock Conduction, you can’t hurt me anymore.”

“Is that so?” The same three indifferent words came out of Rui’s mouth once more as the black stick in his hand began to rotate at an alarming speed under the control of the arcane particles which emerged from his fingers.

In the next moment, the black stick viciously stabbed towards Stingham’s chest like a spear.

A terrifying penetrative and twisting force invaded Stingham’s body.

The skin over Stingham’s chest seemed to distort as he let out a wretched and painful scream, “Argh!”

“That must have hurt a lot.”

“Just from the sound of his scream, the pain must be unbelievable. I’ve never heard him scream so miserably before.

Ayrin and Rinloran quickly exchanged looks before turning their attention back towards Stingham. Their gazes were full of sympathy.

Stingham twitched as a white froth emerged from his lips. For a long time, he remained incapable of speech.

“So how was this Starcrushing Strike of mine?” Rui asked as he swung his stick around.

Tears immediately emerged in Stingham’s eyes as he quickly replied, “You scoundrel! You are too mean! Why did you stab and not bash?!”

“Are you going to learn Invulnerable Golden Body or not?” Rui’s tone became persuasive as he continued, “If you learn Invulnerable Golden Body, this Starcrushing Strike of mine will become useless against you as well.”

“I won’t learn it!” Stingham madly replied, “I want to rest! I don’t want to learn! A true brave warrior! I’m a man of my word! If I say I won’t learn it, I won’t learn it!”

Stingham’s response caused Ayrin, Chris, and everyone else present to become completely speechless.

Stingham’s manner and appearance was surprisingly resolute and like a true warrior.