novelraw Chapter 431: Your Pet Beast Is Awesome~
Chapter 431: Your Pet Beast Is Awesome~
Boom! Rumble!
Upon the sea, panicked and confused voices connected with one another.
Within this massive fleet, most people were civilians without combat capabilities.
Many could only hold their children, gazing at the colossal titan before them—
This was no longer a water spirit, but the King of Water Spirits!
"Wahahahaha!"
Deepsea Water Spirit No.1, having obtained new power, laughed maniacally while condensing two small fists with a fifty-meter radius, fiercely smashing them down towards the Black Blood soldiers at the seabed.
Smash! Smash!
With the lethal blows falling, numerous Black Blood soldiers on the Sea God warship were struck into the depths, thick seawater flooding into their bodies.
Simultaneously, they also saw an extremely handsome, tall Yellow-Robed One, a black hunter looming over the white-haired witch, a royal palace filled with supernatural bait, and a flower monster trying to seduce the man...Water Spirit No.1 had inherited the illusion ability of the Illusion Beast, allowing it to continuously pour its own imaginings into the enemies' minds.
"!!!"
Within the terrifying illusions, the Black Blood soldiers couldn't even resist in the short term, forced to endure both spiritual and physical ravaging by the water spirit.
Within the fleet, exclamations of shock inevitably arose.
"What a terrifying familiar! This must be a descendant of the great beast Kraken!"
"Such a king, which beast tamer's familiar is it?"
"It must be a beast tamer from the Goldenfinch Kingdom, I heard! They also sent new troops to protect the Princess!"
"Mom! There seems to be someone standing in the waves."
"Child, don't look at him! Don't look at him! You must not look directly into his eyes!"
Chen Qi stood amidst the turbulent waves, manipulating the wind while taking a sip of black tea.
With the enhancement of Tidal Power and Storm Power, whether on the sea or in the sky, he could move freely.
"Mass-produced war soldiers under Blood Lion's command?"
Chen Qi looked towards the soldiers on the Sea God fleet, assessing their strength and value.
Relying on the fifth-tier War Beast profession ability, it could transform a third-tier individual into a fourth-tier soldier.
Of course, although they possessed a fourth-tier spiritual energy field, their actual strength still had a huge gap compared to true fourth-tiers.
Most Black Blood soldiers couldn't match the power of the Seven Sea Pirate Generals, merely possessing weak shells with nothing inside.
Worthless cannon fodder... Chen Qi didn't pay them much attention.
They were just too weak!
He had thought the Black Blood Empire would send stronger warriors.
On the Sea God warship, the Black Blood soldier designated as Number One suddenly opened his blood-red eyes, breaking free from the dream illusion.
The moment he woke up, Number One felt unprecedented rage.
What kind of powerful person was he?
In the Black Blood Empire, he was a radical colonialist who believed all uncivilized lands should be ruled by their Black Blood Empire.
And he would eventually become a colonial governor during the long campaigns.
He absolutely could not fall on this battlefield in a desolate wasteland!
"For the Emperor!"
"Black Blood Burns Eternally!!!"
"All soldiers! Obey my command! Kill that beast tamer before us! Make him know the price of overstepping!!"
Number One stood up again, releasing the group enhancement skill 'War Zeal'.
Instantly, all Black Blood soldiers regained their senses, formed ranks, and aimed at Chen Qi.
"Blade Release. Lion Formation!"
Fifty Black Blood soldiers converged into a scorching crimson giant lion, biting towards Chen Qi amidst the waves.
Even a Pirate General would be forced to kneel before their immense power.
Chen Qi glanced at them.
They were shouting about glory, power, the Emperor, and such, charging forward fiercely!
"Fen's black tea really tastes good..."
Chen Qi took a sip of the black tea.
Storm Power!
With his assistance, the water spirit's watery fists were imbued with powerful storm energy, transforming into formidable deep sea spiral spheres!
"Waku waku! (Power!!!)"
Water Spirit No.1 looked at its small fists, feeling its entire body filled with strength.
Normally, when a fourth-tier just advanced to fifth-tier, they needed considerable time to adapt to the massive spiritual energy within their body.
However, Chen Qi had previously been given a Blade's Wrath by the Ice Witch, allowing him to adapt to rift power in advance.
Plus, the Sea Shepherd profession itself was a Saint-level vocation related to the sea, and Chen Qi's own talent greatly accelerated the adaptation speed to the fifth-tier profession.
Boom! Boom!
The two powerful forces of the Black Blood Empire soldiers and Water Spirit No.1 stirred up layer upon layer of waves.
In less than a minute, the Black Blood soldiers shouting about glory and the Emperor stopped breathing, becoming floating corpses drifting on the sea.
"How is this possible..."
"This isn't fourth-tier power at all..."
"My name is... losing to you... is an honor."
The red-haired man's body drifted on the sea, looking in terror at the presence in the waves, muttering his name.
At this moment, only one thought remained in his mind:
"Did he make this powerful being remember his name? Did he make the Valkyrie hear his name?"
The sound of the storm is really loud... Chen Qi tilted his head, condensing large amounts of storm energy near his ears would still create significant obstacles.
"The Black Blood Empire soldiers are dealt with, next up are the pirates..."
Chen Qi didn't pay much attention to the Black Blood soldiers' cries, instead looking towards another massive group attempting to blood sacrifice the refugee fleet.
A large alliance formed by rebel forces from the Sea God Pirates!
Their leader was a powerful fourth-tier Shadow Beast Tamer.
The Shadow Beast Tamer looked at the titanic water spirit before him and roared wildly:
"To think it's the same profession as me, how exciting!
On this sea, aside from the Dragon Tamer King, I've never encountered a beast tamer stronger than me!"
"But, what unfortunate timing, I've already gained the Great Whale's protection! No fourth-tier supernatural beast tamer is my match!
Not even the Dragon Tamer King is an exception!"
After speaking, he raised his staff high, pointing it at Chen Qi.
Whoosh!
In an instant, countless black bubbles appeared on the sea surface—
Followed by a full nine terrifying, twisted abyssal beasts emerging from the deep sea.
Many who understood beast taming ways couldn't help but exclaim.
"That's—"
"How is it possible!"
"Why can someone control such monsters!"
These monsters were entirely black, strangely shaped, with blood-red compound eyes, thick black scales, extremely sharp teeth, and numerous sprawling tentacles—
Abyssal beasts!
They were forbidden creatures growing in ocean trenches, ferocious beasts personally designated by Goldenfinch Kingdom beast tamers as impossible to tame.
Each one's power was second only to the Black Lantern Dragon!
Even a peak fourth-tier beast tamer could only control three such ferocious beasts with their spiritual energy!
However, he had inherited the power of black whale blood.
And he had a full eight more such beasts, nine total!!!
The Shadow Beast Tamer roared:
"Go! Use the blood of these hundred thousand people to fill our empty souls!"
Chen Qi looked at the creepy abyssal beasts before him and couldn't help but smile.
These were all sea beasts from the abyss.
They were still sea beasts!
This was like delivering a care package!
Originally, cultivating the Abyssal Sea Flower required large quantities of mature abyssal beasts.
Moreover, his flock just happened to lack powerful lambs!
Facing the abyssal beasts charging towards him, Chen Qi didn't hesitate. He adjusted his posture, released spiritual energy, straightened his chest and back—
Trying to make himself look a bit more handsome!
Without any hesitation, Chen Qi immediately used Shepherd's Charm.
Although theoretically, Shepherd's Charm was used on severely wounded creatures.
However, if the target's affinity towards him was naturally higher, it could also produce miraculous effects.
"Go! Go! Run wild!"
The Shadow Beast Tamer manipulated his staff, laughing heartily.
However, his expression gradually froze.
His relationship with the abyssal beasts was inherently fragile.
He had built this relationship over more than ten years of effort, relying on massive spiritual energy and black whale power.
But regardless, this was a relationship cultivated over ten-plus years.
To tame these abyssal beasts, he had fed them his precious supernatural resources when he was young—
That was over ten years of emotional investment!
And now, he felt this relationship was slowly shattering.
And all of this, simply because these abyssal beasts had glanced at the man in the waves!
Just one glance at him!
One glance!
"No! Don't abandon me!! You bear my marks!"
The Shadow Beast Tamer roared, immediately using stronger enslavement power.
However, soon his face stiffened again.
He could feel his familiar marks being overwritten by more powerful marks.
The marks he had painstakingly implanted in the abyssal beasts!
His spiritual energy passed through the waves, sensing the spiritual energy field of the person in the waves.
Yet—
Terrifying pressure weighed on him, making it hard to breathe.
This spiritual energy field, he had only felt on the Blood Hunter before—
This was a fifth-tier spiritual energy field!
Was I challenging a fifth-tier? Competing with a Saint for familiars? The Shadow Beast Tamer immediately realized his mistake, his pupils rapidly contracting.
[You have captured Abyssal Beast (adult form): Can harvest one portion of abyssal blood, one abyssal crystal, obtain 30 points of Deep Sea Power.]
Success notifications kept popping up in Chen Qi's mind.
Abyssal blood plus abyssal crystals—
These were rare materials that could forge top-tier rift weapons.
Nine abyssal sea beasts total meant nine portions of abyssal blood and abyssal crystals.
Meanwhile, cultivating the Abyssal Sea Flower also required large amounts of abyssal blood.
Really nice~
Chen Qi smiled towards the distant Shadow Beast Tamer and said:
"Your abyssal beasts are really great—"
The Shadow Beast Tamer froze completely, his body trembling uncontrollably.
Through over ten years of interaction with the abyssal beasts, he could vaguely sense the meaning of the ancient language of the abyssal sea beasts.
Normally, these abyssal beasts would convey riddles of ancient abyssal gods to him.
But now...
These abyssal beasts that usually spoke ancient profane languages were...
"Wuu wuu (Pet me! Pet me!)"
"Wuu wuu wuu (Hug me! Hug me!)"
"Wuu wuu wuu wuu (Sleep with me, sleep on me!)"
"Wuu wuu wuu wuu (Ride me!)"
On the battlefield, two lines of bloody tears streamed down the Shadow Beast Tamer's face.
A beast tamer who lost their familiars had almost no combat capability.
"No, this can't be real—"
Amidst desperate wails, the Shadow Beast Tamer leader of the Navy Pirate rebel forces was submerged in Chen Qi's Tidal Power.
Without their leader and Black Blood soldier support, the rebel forces quickly crumbled, arrested by Blood Lady's guard team.
"Thank the Sea Goddess for the rescue!"
"No, this must be the Ice Witch's protection!"
After dealing with the rebel matter, numerous ships continued sailing towards the Moonstone Archipelago for refuge.
Great harvest!
Chen Qi tallied his gains.
Aside from the nine abyssal beasts, the rebels also carried large amounts of gold and supernatural resources.
These resources were sufficient for the upcoming large-scale infrastructure projects.
After finishing his inventory, Chen Qi walked amidst the waves, searching the surroundings for more suitable 'lambs.'
And just then, the floating corpses of the Black Blood soldiers gathered together, drifting with the ocean currents slowly towards him.
Although these soldiers were already dead, they still squirmed, forming a massive flesh ball—
And on this flesh ball, a lion-like eye had grown.
War Beast ability... Chen Qi watched that eye.
In the Black Blood Empire, joining a War Beast unit was both an honor and a curse.
Once you accepted the War Beast's power, even your corpse would become a weapon for the War Beast.
Crack! Crack!
The flesh ball tried hard to probe Chen Qi.
However, when it sensed the spiritual energy, the Blood Lion hidden behind the scenes couldn't help but exclaim:
"This spiritual energy. How is it possible..."
"Blood Lion..."
Chen Qi's expression remained neutral as he manipulated the waves, his right hand clenching, instantly annihilating the golden lion eye along with the flesh ball.
...
Meanwhile, above the Fog Sea filled with black smoke.
On a massive ancient war ruin island, the War Beast Blood Lion seated on the general's throne couldn't help but close his right eye, saying again:
"How is it possible, how is it possible..."
At this moment, the Whale Father opposite him coldly spoke, raising his hand:
"General Blood Lion, what we're discussing now is how to conquer the sea, not the time for distraction."
"After all, we're before the Emperor!"
After speaking, the Whale Father looked up towards the massive ruins before them.
On both sides of these war ruins, two hundred-meter war rifts had been inscribed—
And over five thousand Black Blood Empire soldiers had already arrived on the island, preparing to conquer the sea!
Between the two rifts, a crimson hundred-meter tall phantom sat at the center, enveloping everyone—
This was precisely the current ruler of the Black Blood Empire, the supreme Emperor!
Normally, the Emperor wouldn't care about such insignificant wars.
However, the appearance of multiple A-rank rifts had piqued his interest.
More troops, more power!
If they could conquer this place and obtain massive resource supplements, the Empire would become great again.
The Emperor looked down and asked:
"Blood Lion, what did you see?"
The Black Blood soldiers also cast curious looks towards Blood Lion.
Blood Lion looked up and said loudly:
"Reporting to the Emperor! In the Witch Sea, on these waters, a new Saint has emerged."
A new Saint!
"Saint..."
The hearts of numerous Black Blood Empire soldiers surged like turbulent seas.
This was another term for fifth-tier.
Not to mention in this insignificant wasteland, even in their Black Blood Empire, this was unimaginably powerful strength.
A soldier would need to kill countless people, achieve numerous military merits, win many wars to receive the grace of becoming a Saint...
Many couldn't help but worry.
This meant that aside from Hayer, the Ice Witch, and Beiguo's steam mecha weapons, they would also face the power of an unknown Saint!
Without the War Beast domain and war machines, even they, veterans with average service exceeding eight years, were merely cannon fodder in a Saint's hands!
To conquer the Witch Sea, this newborn Saint would be a massive obstacle!
Saints, terrifying indeed!
The Emperor's phantom also revealed a slightly interested expression:
"A Saint from the wasteland, how curious.
However, as the Empire's oath states, in blood and blades, even the most ordinary soldier can become a supreme Saint through continuous battle."
Saint...
Hearing the Emperor's words, numerous Black Blood soldiers couldn't help but let their imaginations run wild.
Although the Saint's appearance greatly increased their conquest difficulty.
It also precisely proved that Blood Lion hadn't deceived them—they truly could become fifth-tier top experts!
As long as they won this war, they could become equals to Blood Lion, possessing hundreds of wives, thousands of slaves, unimaginable great power!
Even after retirement, they could become kings of granted territories!
After everyone calmed down, the Emperor looked down at the Whale Father beneath him, the pirate king of these seas—
And currently, among the four emperors of the Witch Sea, the only one still qualified to be called emperor.
The Emperor asked:
"Whale Father, on these seas, angel-level beings will inevitably emerge, and this land will inevitably birth disasters capable of destroying everything.
Answer me, compared to those mediocre mortals, what qualifications do you have to become the Empire's vanguard?"
The Empire's vanguard? The Whale Father raised his scar-covered face, laughing heartily and loudly:
"Emperor! Don't misunderstand, on these seas, your Black Blood Empire is the vanguard!"
"As for our power..."
The Whale Father smiled slightly:
"Emperor! Have you ever seen an army completely composed of god's blood and blood-mechanical implant sets?"
After speaking, he clapped his hands, turning his head to look at the distant waves.
Boom boom—
In the distance, thick black waves slowly approached them—
Within those pitch-black waves, densely packed black crowds could be seen, endless and without limit—
"This is..."
Numerous Black Blood Empire soldiers widened their eyes.
Even the Empire's War Beast Blood Lion couldn't help but widen his eyes, his heartbeat accelerating.
This massive black tide even made his tempered body feel a trace of threat.