Chapter 451 Challenge (1/2)

In the Yinglie region, the Saint Tyr base city.

In the northern outskirts of the city stood a lonely, yet elegant-looking manor. This once magnificent building was now in ruins. Smoke and dust seemed to swirl eternally around it. Among the ruins, three massive monsters stood facing each other.

On the left side stood a green-grayish monster, as tall as a small hill. Deep grooves lined its skin from head to toe like a tree's growth rings. Its three eyeballs were embedded on its chest in a triangle. Vines spread out from its feet, squirming like earthworms in the mud. A green-gray aura emanated from its body.

Beside the behemoth stood a 30-foot-tall stone statue, which was slightly hunched over. Muscles rippled across its upper torso. It was also holding a stone torch in its right hand. Curiously enough, a fire was burning on the tip of said torch. The Lord-tier aura that surrounded the stone statue's body seemed to be comprised of red and white patterns.

A huge snake lay coiled up before them in the lake. Its black and green reef-like body was adorned with red stripes. Its red Lord-tier aura had dyed the lake red. Its cold, cruel eyes stared down at the green-gray behemoth before it.

Elias stood on top of Laen's head, his face expressionless. His blonde hair was a mess.

”How dare you crash my party! I don't know who you think you are, but I'll have you pay with your lives for ruining my day! No, I won't just stop with you two; I'll hunt down everyone you've ever loved and make them all pay!” he roared, pressing one hand against his chest. His eyes were bulging out of their sockets, giving him a crazed look.

Since becoming an elder of the Monster Trainer League, he had never met anyone so bold as to ambush him in his own home. If he hadn't activated the failsafe trainer ability he had awakened in his body, he would have been killed by these fiends.

”Laen, kill them all!” ordered Elias as he relaxed his hand, which was pressed against his chest. Moments before, someone had shot at him with an anti-material sniper rifle while he was swimming in the lake. He had thought he was dead when the bullet tore through his heart.

It was his failsafe ability that had scooped him out of the jaws of death in the nick of time. Upon activation, Laen had been able to pour all of its life energy into him, letting his ruptured heart sew itself back up.

The Iwaki Mountain Giant slammed its massive arms down on the ground, which shook and cracked as thick, long vines snaked through the earth before emerging from the ground and entwining themselves around Laen's body.

Hundreds of black-green vines came out of the ground and latched themselves onto the black-green serpent.

The stone statue raised its torch up in the air like an Olympic marathon runner. Flames burned fiercely atop the torch, then suddenly, the flames came pouring down from the torch like a waterfall, as if someone had suddenly tipped it over. The fiery torrent immediately set the vines ablaze, trapping both Laen and its trainer in a fiery cage.

”Did we kill it?”

”Not sure... I doubt it would be that easy to kill the snake, but at least we took care of its trainer,” said a dark-skinned man wearing a baseball hat who was watching the whole thing unfold from a distance through a pair of binoculars. He licked his dry lips.

Suddenly, a black shape lashed out from the inferno like the hand of God.

Bam! The Iwaki Mountain Giant was sent flying away in the opposite direction, a noticeable impression left on its chest by whatever had struck it. Red light spilled out of the open wound on its chest, which also seemed to be lightly smoking.

Upon seeing what had happened to its comrade, the stone statue turned back to the snake and swung its torch at it with all its might.

Boom!

The flames reared up and twisted themselves into the shape of a dragon that collided heavily against Laen, leaving a nasty burn on its chest. Crackling sounds could be heard from it.

Laen wanted to follow up its attack on the giant when it was rudely interrupted by the fiery dragon's assault. The stone statue leaped forth, hellbent on ending the snake's life.

Elias gazed grimly at it, the blood on his body glinting in the firelight. ”You really think you can take me on? Me?! The only reason I was chosen as one of the elders of the Monster Trainer League was that I was strong enough to become one! Laen, finish this one off with your Blood Spirit Ability!”

The huge snake opened its mouth and let out a roar. It spat out a blood-red moon that instantly engulfed all the light in the area. The blood moon floated in the air for a moment. Then, without warning, it sailed through the air towards the stone statue!