Chapter 546 - Truly Frightened [Two in One] (1/2)
Edited by Aelryinth
Aboard Dijiang-hao, Huang Tielan pointed at the elemental queen, who was in the middle of a fierce battle on a chessboard, and asked quietly, “Zhang Xiaoche, is she always like this?”
Just as they exited the beast world, this humanoid pet actually dove right into the online world and focused all her attention on Go. Her focus was truly shocking.
Although Huang Tielan knew the elemental queen loved playing chess, she didn’t know the extent of it.
Zhang Che shrugged helplessly and nodded, “Right. I don’t even know whether letting her learn to play chess was a good thing or a bad thing anymore.”
Truthfully speaking, it was fortunate the elemental queen was a humanoid pet, and not a real person. Otherwise, there’d be some real problems if she kept studying the art of chess in this manner, foregoing meals and sleep!
“Amazing!” Huang Tielan praised from the bottom of her heart. She had always thought of herself as very hardworking when it came to beast card cultivation, and not many could match up to her in that aspect. However, when she compared herself to the elemental queen, she was so ashamed that she wanted to find a hole to hide in.
The two of them were on totally different levels!
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Going to Jingzhou Island from Bei Du would take more than five hours even on Dijiang-hao. Zhang Che felt tired after chatting with Huang Tielan for some time. Even so, the elemental queen still had her head buried in chess. It truly was admirable.
“Zhang Xiaoche, can you free up some time during my school holidays and come with me to the beast world? I want to rise to Tier Six beastmaster in one go!”
The incident from before had left too deep of an impression on Huang Tielan. She viewed raising her strength as a much more important issue now than in the past.
If it wasn’t for Jiang Chao saving her in the nick of time, perhaps she wouldn’t have lasted until Zhang Che arrived, and would have fallen to the attacks to those evil cult beastmasters.
Only by becoming strong herself would she not be a burden to Zhang Che in the future. Huang Tielan was now much more aware of this point than ever.
Zhang Che nodded and said, “No problem. After you advance to Tier Six beastmaster, I’ll help you find some mid-tier epic-quality beast cards. That way you’ll be able to protect yourself in the future.”
Although it was possible for exotic beasts to reach epic-quality once they attained mid-tier status, it was very rare to find four-star epic-quality beasts. Even five-star epic-quality exotic beasts were uncommon. Six-star epic-quality exotic beasts were much more common.
As such, it was very necessary for Huang Tielan to achieve Tier Six beastmaster as soon as possible.
As for Zhang Che wanting to hunt mid-tier epic-quality exotic beasts, this matter was very easy for him. The only problem was that epic-quality exotic beasts were few in number, and that they usually wouldn’t stay in one area for long.
As such, he needed a bit of luck to find epic-quality exotic beasts. However, none of this was a big problem for him.
With the Huang family supporting him, they could get scouts to spread out to all the beast worlds to search. Surely they’d find some information on epic-quality exotic beasts!
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By the time Dijiang-hao arrived at Xinjing City, the sky had turned completely dark.
However, after learning that his precious daughter and prospective son-in-law were coming, Huang Juyun still took the time to come wait for their arrival personally at the military airport, despite his busy schedule.
He had already learned about the incident in the beast world near Bei Du City on the 18th. Although he knew his daughter was fine in the end, the situation had been dangerous. If Zhang Che had arrived just a moment later, the results would have been unthinkable!
These matters were naturally reported to Huang Juyun by Zhao Wu’s squad, who had returned to Mercury first. He was soaked in cold sweat when he first heard about it.
He didn’t dare to imagine what would have happened if Zhang Che hadn’t followed the school into the beast world to protect his daughter.
In Huang Juyun’s heart, his hatred toward the evil cult was simply at the limit. Zhang Che was ambushed not long ago, and now the evil cults had extended their devilish arm towards his one and only precious daughter. He truly couldn’t take it lying down any more!
In the government and the military’s joint operation, Huang Juyun had responded extremely enthusiastically. Almost all of the forces in the entire Xinjing City military division were mobilized, striking at the evil cults in this area fanatically. In just three days, they had killed or arrested over three hundred members of evil cults, and their seniority in the cults was relatively high, to boot!
The only regrettable thing was that among those evil cult members, the outer members didn’t know much at all, while the mid to high level members wouldn’t say a word, no matter what. It truly was infuriating.
Even so, after suffering such a harsh setback, the evil cult’s arrogance was severely suppressed. At the very least, signs of their activities could no longer be seen on the surface.
During the process of raiding the evil cults, Huang Juyun’s new subdued beast, the Metal Tyrant, displayed shocking strength, especially when going after evil cult members holed up inside complicated buildings. Once the Metal Tyrant activated its innate ability, it could collapse entire buildings, leaving those evil cult members with nowhere to hide.
The Metal Tyrant was definitely a few times stronger than other epic-quality subdued beasts when fighting in cities!
“This was done with only the epic-quality Metal Tyrant. If that terrifying divine-quality metal-attributed exotic beast Xiaoche mentioned could be killed and turned into a subdued beast, it would simply be an invincible existence in cities! A mid-sized city would fall with just a simple wave of a hand!”
However, Huang Juyun knew that this was only his personal fantasy. Even those extremely rare divine-tier beastmasters might not be a match for an exotic beast of that level. If he really came across it, he could only try to run as far away as possible.
Given the situation at Mt Fallen Star, that terrifying divine-quality exotic beast naturally had the geographical advantage. It was in an invincible position with all the metal elements present on the mountain range.
As long as that exotic beast didn’t leave Mt Fallen Star, no one could ever threaten it!
Back then, Zhang Che and the others had noticed that the terrifying exotic beast seemed unable to leave Mt Fallen Star for some unknown reasons. Not only that, it rarely moved at all. Otherwise, it wouldn’t have let them massacre the exotic beasts in the outer region of the mountain range, waiting until the Scarlet Flame Drake killed the Metal Tyrant before it made its attack.
While he was thinking about all that, the airport control tower had received a signal that Dijiang-hao had arrived in the skies nearby and was requesting to land.
Huang Juyun would see his precious daughter who survived a calamity very soon. He quickly collected himself and looked to the skies.
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Shortly after, Dijiang-hao landed smoothly. The cabin door opened, and Zhang Che, Huang Tielan, and the elemental queen came walking out.
“Daddy!” Huang Tielan quickly ran over when she saw Huang Juyun waiting to receive her.
“Lanlan, it’s great that you’re fine. I was so scared.
“Next time, no matter if your school organizes any activities, or you want to go out by yourself, you can’t go sneaking out again, understand? If it wasn’t for Xiaoche this time, the results would have been unthinkable…” Huang Juyun said sincerely, rubbing his daughter’s head.
This incident had truly frightened him!
“I know, dad. I won’t do it again.” Huang Tielan nodded obediently. After such an experience, she viewed her personal safety with more importance.
Zhang Che came up, lagging a few steps behind and greeted Huang Juyun with a nod, “Uncle Huang.”