75: Chapter 75 Seventh-Rank Beast Emperor?

Although that massive mushroom cloud evaporated a hundred thousand low-level sea race members and cleared the flank battlefield, it also seemed to have poked a hornet's nest, completely infuriating the true rulers within the deep sea.

Awoooo——!!!

A dragon's roar filled with rage, even carrying an ancient pressure, exploded without warning from beneath the deep sea at the center of the blast.

The terrifying sound waves instantly shattered the smoke and dust in the sky that had yet to dissipate.

Immediately following that.

Rumble!

That patch of sea, already dyed red with blood, suddenly began to boil like a pot of water.

A massive body with a diameter exceeding five meters, covered entirely in scales harder than obsidian, burst from the water and soared straight into the clouds!

Two hundred meters!

Three hundred meters!

It was a Deep Sea Black Flood Dragon over three hundred meters long!

It coiled amidst the dark clouds and lightning, with four claws growing from its belly and a single horn atop its head flashing with destructive thunder light.

Those massive eyes, like two blood moons, stared fixedly at the Seventh Defense Zone below, burning with tangible fury.

[Warning! Warning!]

[Detected Seventh-Rank Peak lifeform reaction!]

[Target: Deep Sea Black Flood Dragon (Beast Emperor level)!]

[Danger Level: World-Extinguishing level! Please evacuate immediately!]

Inside the base, all the alarms went off the charts at that instant and then burned out.

“Seventh-Rank... Beast Emperor?!”

The defenders, who had just recovered from the shockwaves of the explosion, looked at the monster in the sky that blotted out the sun; the hope that had just been ignited was instantly doused by a bucket of ice water.

“Vile beast! Cease your arrogance!!”

A thunderous shout rang out.

Commander of the Seventh Defense Zone, Commander, his body wrapped in dazzling golden light, shot up into the sky. As a Seventh-Rank Grandmaster, he was the only existence here capable of contending with this Black Flood Dragon.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Man and dragon collided violently a thousand meters up in the air.

Astral Qi and demonic power clashed; thunder and black flames intertwined. Every exchange exploded with visible shockwaves in the sky, even tearing the clouds apart.

However, the situation was not optimistic; this was the sea.

The Black Flood Dragon held an absolute geographical advantage. It didn't even need to use its full strength; it only needed to channel the majestic water elements around it to transform them into endless water tornadoes, firmly suppressing Commander.

“Pfft!”

After only thirty exchanges.

Commander was struck by the Black Flood Dragon's tail. His protective golden light instantly shattered, and he fell like a meteor.

“Commander!!”

The eyes of the entire army's officers and soldiers nearly split with grief.

If even Commander Lei was defeated, then the Seventh Defense Zone would undoubtedly be breached tonight!

These million soldiers and the city behind them would all become fodder for the sea beasts!

On that scorched earth that was still steaming, Lin Yuan stood atop the highest reef, letting the rain of blood falling from the sky soak his entire body.

Just now, the system's notification sound rang in his mind.

[Ding! Detected Seventh-Rank Peak alien (Heavily Injured state · previously suffered an old wound at the reverse scale on the left abdomen).]

[Special Mission Triggered: Dragon Slayer!]

[Kill Reward: Unlock system hidden core function — ‘god-demon furnace’!]

[Note: The god-demon furnace can refine all things and extract divinity; it is the key for the host to advance to the ‘God Realm’.]

The god-demon furnace!

One could tell just from the name that it was something good!

“Wealth is found within danger!”

Lin Yuan licked his somewhat dry and cracked lips, his heart beating violently.

If it were a Seventh-Rank Beast Emperor in its prime, he would definitely run as far as possible, but now, Commander was fighting to the death to restrain it, and the system indicated it had an old wound...

This was the chance!

A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

“Xiang Lie! Xiaoxiao!”

Lin Yuan suddenly turned his head and roared at his two teammates hiding behind the rocks:

“Set up the cannons for me! Fire all the firepower you have! You don't need to cause damage, just make some noise to attract its attention!”

“Ah?!”

Su Xiaoxiao poked her head out of the mecha and looked at Lin Yuan like he was a madman: “Captain, are you crazy?! That's a Seventh-Rank Beast Emperor! We'll die if it just breathes on us! And you still want to provoke it?”

“Stop talking nonsense! If you want to live, listen to me!”

“I'm going to... slay a dragon!”

[System Mall 2.0 · Exchange Interface]

Looking at his slaughter value balance that had just broken 800,000, he didn't hesitate at all and scrolled directly to the [One-time God-tier Item] sub-category.

“800,000... what can I buy that can kill a Seventh-Rank thing?”

Lin Yuan's fingers slid rapidly, finally stopping on a giant heavy crossbow that emitted an ancient, even ominous aura.

[One-time Consumable: god slaying crossbow (Replica)]

[Price: 800,000 slaughter value (Limited-time discount)!]

[Description: A masterpiece of ancient mechanical arts; although it is a replica and only has one bolt, a trace of the ‘Law of Destruction’ is sealed within the arrow.]

[Power: Ignores spatial distance, guaranteed hit! Can pierce all defenses below Seventh-Rank and cause fatal penetrating injuries to Seventh-Rank Grandmasters/Beast Emperors (must hit vital points).]

Eight hundred thousand!

The huge sum he had just obtained was going to be gone before it even got warm.

But Lin Yuan only felt the sting for 0.1 seconds.

Money can be earned again, but if the god-demon furnace is gone, he might never encounter it again.

“All in! Exchange!!”

Buzz————!!!

As Lin Yuan's thought fell, those 800,000 slaughter values were instantly zeroed out.

In the next second, in the real world, Lin Yuan's hands suddenly felt heavy.

A simple and ancient heavy crossbow, a full two meters long, made entirely of an unknown black metal with blood-colored runes engraved on its surface, appeared out of thin air!

It was too heavy; even with Lin Yuan's physical strength of a perfected Golden Bone, he almost couldn't hold it steady. A bone-chilling killing intent radiated from the crossbow's body, and the surrounding air instantly condensed into frost.

There was only one bolt.

A bolt as black as ink, with its tip flashing with a destructive red light, lay quietly in the arrow groove.

“Huff, huff...”

Lin Yuan set up the god slaying crossbow, kneeling on the reef, and firmly pressed the stock against his shoulder.

[Gods Insight · Lock-on Activated!]

His mental power poured into the bolt like a tide, and his field of vision instantly zoomed in, crossing a distance of a thousand meters to firmly lock onto the Black Flood Dragon that was currently wreaking havoc in the sky.

“Where is it, where is the weakness...”

At this time, in the sky, Commander charged up again, covered in blood, yet fighting to the death without retreating.

“Vile beast! If you want to destroy my defense line, you'll have to step over my corpse first!!”

Commander burned his origin essence blood, his hands firmly grabbing the Black Flood Dragon's massive tail, trying to drag it into the sea.

“Roar!!”

The Black Flood Dragon was enraged, its massive body rolling in the air, revealing a patch of scales located on its left abdomen.

That was the reverse scale!

Now is the time!

Lin Yuan's eyes instantly turned crimson as his mental power locked onto that reverse scale.

But he didn't pull the trigger immediately because Commander was still there; if he accidentally hit him, both of them would die.

“Commander Lei!!”

Lin Yuan mobilized all his mental power, transforming it into a voice transmission that exploded in Commander's mind:

“GET OUT OF THE WAY!!!!”

High in the air, the desperately fighting Commander was stunned by this roar.

He saw that in that patch of pitch-black ruins, a faint but heart-palpitating red light was flashing.

That was...

As a battle-hardened Grandmaster, Commander's intuition for danger was sharp to the extreme; he instantly felt a terrifying aura capable of threatening a Seventh-Rank life.

What is this kid... trying to do?!

Although shocked, out of judgment of the battle situation, Commander chose to believe.

He abruptly let go of his hands, his figure forcibly twisting in the air as he moved a hundred meters to the side.

Boing————!!!

At the very moment Commander moved out of the way.

Below, a sound like a bowstring snapping, yet louder than thunder, erupted.

A pitch-black stream of light, carrying a law aura that destroyed everything, instantly tore through space.

It was too fast.

So fast that even a Seventh-Rank Beast Emperor couldn't keep up.

The Black Flood Dragon only felt an extreme chill lock onto its heart; it tried to twist its body in terror to avoid it, but that stream of light seemed to have eyes as it bit down firmly on it.

[god slaying crossbow · Guaranteed Hit attribute · Activated!]

Pfft!

That black bolt shot with incomparable precision into the reverse scale on the Black Flood Dragon's left abdomen, drilling in without any resistance!

Immediately after, the “Law of Destruction” sealed within the bolt exploded violently at the Black Flood Dragon's heart!

Boom!!!

The Black Flood Dragon lowered its head, looking at its chest in disbelief, where a terrifying blood hole two meters in diameter had appeared; its heart had been completely ground to dust.

“Awooo, ugh...”

The Seventh-Rank Beast Emperor, which had been rolling in the air and acting invincible just a moment ago, saw the divine light in its eyes rapidly dissipate.

Its body, as massive as a mountain, lost the support of its power and fell straight down from a thousand meters in the air.

Rumble————!!!

The Black Flood Dragon smashed heavily into the sea, kicking up giant waves hundreds of meters high, and its bright red dragon blood instantly dyed ten miles of the sea area red.

In the entire Seventh Defense Zone, whether it was the soldiers who were fighting or the sea beasts that were attacking, everyone stopped their movements at this moment.

Everyone stared blankly at that massive corpse gradually floating up on the sea surface.

Dead?

That Beast Emperor, which had pressed a Seventh-Rank Grandmaster into vomiting blood and made everyone despair... just died like that?

Who did it?

Countless gazes followed the source of that black light from just now, only to see on the ruins of the black reef beach on the flank.

A youth was standing atop the reef.

He held a giant heavy crossbow that was slowly dissipating in his hands; his face was as pale as paper, and his body was swaying.

But he was smiling.

Smiling wantonly, smiling arrogantly.

Because in his mind, that pleasant system notification sound was announcing the victory of this gamble.

[Ding! Congratulations to the host!]

[Successfully killed Seventh-Rank Peak Beast Emperor · Deep Sea Black Flood Dragon (Kill Stolen)!]

[Obtained Achievement: Dragon Slayer (Mythical)!]

[Reward settlement complete]

[Congratulations to the host for obtaining: System core component — god-demon furnace!]

Lin Yuan threw away the crossbow in his hand that had already turned into scrap metal, sat down on the ground, and grinned at the equally dumbfounded Commander in the sky:

“Sorry about that, Commander.”

“This kill, I'm taking it.”