Chapter 290 – West Advances (1/2)
When Fatty came out from the Elemental Mystery Realm, the Crimsontail Fire Luans had been gone for some time.
In short, this trip had yielded him a bountiful harvest. Not only did he acquire more than enough Fire Paulownia Wood, but he also stole several hundred pet eggs.
“That’s strange, why did they suddenly leave though?” Fatty kept wondering why the pack of Crimsontail Fire Luans had collectively left their lair. If it weren’t for that, there would have been no opening for Fatty to rob them clean.
In fact, if Fatty had noticed the luan leader’s tattered state, he would have known why they had left. They were obviously fighting some other Yao monsters.
However, Fatty didn’t delve on it. The most important thing now was to gather all the materials to restore the God Destroyer Crossbow. After Karl repaired and produced more of these ballistae, it would become a layer of protection for Sky City.
Using the Recall Scroll and returning to the Imperial Capital, Fatty instantly left for Sky City. With Lucas’ help, Karl had soon moved all of his belongings to Sky City and was now the chief blacksmith there.
Fatty rushed all the way to Sky City, only to see Karl walking back and forth under a tree as the blacksmith mumbled something in an odd manner.
During the time when Fatty was absent, Sky City had been gradually restoring and looked better by the day. At the moment, the trees had grown tall and fragrant grass covered the ground, as the number of animals was increasing as well. What's more, the ten little Holy Unicorns had matured and started to birth.
Several little fellows, looking exactly like the ten unicorns Fatty first hatched, were running cheerfully around their adults. Upon spotting Fatty, they flocked over to play with him.
“Isn’t this too fast?!” Fatty exclaimed as he looked at the little unicorns.
“Heh,” Reck chuckled proudly. “I spent thirty magic stones on Acceleration to speed up the production process and only got them to conceive one batch. Not fast at all.”
“Oh, that is to say, as long as we have enough magic stones, they can birth indefinitely?” Fatty’s eyes shone brightly.
“How’s that possible?” said Reck scornfully. “Acceleration only speeds up the passage of time; if the other things can’t keep up, how can they birth indefinitely?”
Fatty pouted and shut up. Glancing at Karl who was acting strangely, he couldn’t help but open his mouth, “What’s the matter with Karl?”
“He is thinking of a way to pull out those skeletons from underground.” Lucas appeared next to Fatty in a whoosh. He held the Space Sonic in his left hand and was drawing some magical formation with his right, looking to be a hardworking person.
Skeletons? Fatty understood. What else could they be except for the nine Dragon God skeletons?
“Master, master.” Fatty leaned close to Karl and poked his back.
Karl ignored him and kept mumbling something between gritted teeth.
“Heh, what does he think a Dragon God skeleton is? Even in death, a god is still a god, not something the likes of us can mess with.” Lucas snorted. “Not to mention, what the nine Dragon God skeletons are protecting is the Source Origin of Power, something coveted by all creatures of both the Human and Demon Realm. If the Dragon God skeletons were so easy to move, the Source Origin would have already been devoured whole.”
Reck nodded repeatedly. It was exactly thanks to the nine Dragon God skeletons’ protection that the Source Origin wasn’t taken away by either the Holy Dragons or the God of Light. If Karl could easily remove those skeletons as he wished, Sky City would have collapsed by then.
Crackle! At this moment, the thunderous sound of lightning striking rattled Fatty’s eardrums. A big tree that had just matured was struck. After a boom, the tree was left with half of it still green and lush, while the other half was reduced to ashes.
“Lightning on a sunny day? Just who would do such a wicked thing?” Fatty said in shock.
Boom! A flame pillar rose into the sky where the lightning had just come from. Along with the flame, rampant laughter could be heard.
“Hahaha, I’ve finally advanced!”
Within the surging flame stood West, who was dressed in fire armor, looking at ease yet imposing.
After completely absorbing the Inferno Crystal’s energy, West finally broke through to the 8th class enhancement, which meant he was now a Fire Grand Magus. As a fire spirit, he also possessed certain close-quarter combat abilities. That said, West was a cultivator in both magic and martial arts like Undead Marshal Lei Ting.
It was unknown whether the NPCs’ advancement was different from the players’ because lightning struck when Lucas ascended the 9th enhancement to become a Saint Magus, and lightning also struck when West ranked up just now.
Boom! Boom! One after another, bolts of lightning kilometers in length struck down at West from the sky.
“Break!” West roared at the sky. Flames rose from his body as a huge fireball shot out screaming at the bolts.
BOOM!
As thunder and fire met, the entire space shook in thunderous rumbles. The fireball was smashed into countless scattering sparks while the lightning bolts were weakened by a third.