320 No Work, No Meat! (2/2)
Therefore, they were able to find so many Transcendent Crystals from the previous era when they unearthed the deeper parts of the underground.
”Hmm?”
Suddenly, Leon discovered something in the heart region and located onto it with his divine sense. The thing seemed to have also realized that it was found out and quickly shot out from Balthazar's chest and tried to escape.
”Where do you think you're going?!”
Leon made a quick grasp with his hand and controlled the earth's surrounding rubbles to wrap around the thing and restrict its movement. Shortly after, it was brought back in front of him for a closer inspection.
The thing squirmed within the countless rubbles plastered to its body. It resisted and try to break free, but to no avail.
It had the appearance of blood crystal but appeared to be tainted with demonic energy. Two pairs of black pointy legs could be seen sticking out from the bottom and seemed rather creepy.
Leon sighed.
”Even Transcendent Crystals can be demonized. This must be the result of a Demon Seed fusing with the blood crystal. Too bad this blood crystal can no longer be used, but that is fine. This discovery more than makes up for it.”
The Bloodfiend Sect was related to the demons.
Leon clenched his fist and crushed the crystal demon, shattering it into fragments like broken glass. After that, he waved his flaming hand and reduced everything to ashes, including Balthazar's corpse.
He cleaned up every trace of blood-eroding poison and proceeded to do the same to the rest of the poison where the core disciples were killed.
It was too irresponsible of him to leave behind such a dangerous thing for others to clean up. It would be bad if it fell into the wrong hand.
Once Leon was done with clean up, he collected his spear and silver needles scattered across the area before making his way over to the tri-building of Lost Isle Alley.
One of the buildings had been cleanly shaved off diagonally from the middle. The other two buildings were also either missing a third or a quarter of their upper section.
None of the buildings were in one piece, and the darkness profound energy escaped after the heaven gathering formation was destroyed, revealing the inside of Lost Alley Isle.
Leon sighed with relief after seeing the Teleportation Array in one piece.
If any of the attacks had been 6 feet lower, the Teleportation Array would have been caught in the attack.
”I should make some preparations and recover some strength first.” Leon carefully considered with a frown.
If he chooses to teleport to the other side of the Teleportation Array now and run into a strong demon, not only would he not be saving anyone, he will also lose his life in vain.
After cleaning his body, Leon tossed away the ragged old clothes and took out a new set of common clothes from the Worldspace.
”I'll probably need to buy some new clothes while I'm at it.”
Leon recalled the nice tailor shop in the Lower District he visited once. He wondered if the tailor shop's owner had been able to survive the spider disaster back then.
The first ray of sunlight soon shined on Leon's face and started the next day. He ran back through an entire night and fought until morning, but he did not feel tired.
In fact, he felt relaxed. No rest was needed. What is sleep even?
Shaking his head, Leon ingested a few pills and decided to head over to the workshop and fix his weapon, and forge some more items while he was over there.
…
Shortly after Leon left, palace guards arrived at the site and began directing dozens of city guards, hundreds of soldiers, and labor workers. They worked together to clear out the rubbles and patch up the cracks and craters in the ground.
”Move it, move it, move it! We have a lot of work to do today, people! Those who are too slow will not be getting any meat for breakfast!” A stern palace guard shouted.
”Ehhh? That is too cruel, Sir! You can't do that!”
A few people at the 2nd layer of the Body Tempering realm protested while the rest of the labor workers at the 3rd layer of the Body Tempering realm went straight into work without complaint.
”I'm afraid I can! His Majesty has given me free rein to decide what you can and cannot eat!” The palace guard grinned.
”Don't you know? Meat is a luxury now! All beast meat businesses with the Western Frontier had been cut off due to the recent strange events happening in the Wildlands! You should be happy that I am even giving you the option of having meat! If you don't want to lose it, then quickly get to work!”
”Y-Yes, Sir!”
The few ignorant labor workers were immediately shocked with wide eyes. They were not allowed to purchase beast meat from the Western Frontier anymore? What exactly was going on over there?