44: Chapter 44 Royal-Level Team Secret Realm

This was the location of President Shen Yanshan's office. Through the massive floor-to-ceiling panoramic glass windows, one could vaguely see Shen Yanshan pacing inside the office, seemingly arranging some important matters via a communicator, his expression focused.

Surrounding this top-floor office was an incredibly sturdy, magically reinforced special glass curtain wall, offering an extremely expansive view, enough to overlook most of Zhongnan City.

Lin Muyang's gaze quickly swept over the glass wall and soon locked onto his target for this trip—a carefully laminated map clearly marking the areas surrounding Zhongnan City, posted in a conspicuous spot on the inside of the glass window. On the map, the entrance locations, levels, and ranks of various Dungeons and secret realms were marked with markers of different colors, providing detailed information.

"Not bad, high efficiency. It was posted according to the agreement after all." Lin Muyang nodded with satisfaction.

Posting this distribution map on such a high-security top floor, hundreds of meters in the air, inherently implied extremely high confidentiality. Ordinary people would have no chance to get close to view it, and even if someone had the ability to come up, they would definitely not escape the perception of a powerhouse like Shen Yanshan.

But Lin Muyang was completely different. The effect of the 【Divine Concealment Aura】 could be called heaven-defying; even though he was hovering just outside the window, mere inches away from a dragon over twenty meters long, Shen Yanshan inside the office showed no sign of noticing anything, still focused on handling his own affairs.

"The number of Dungeons refreshed today is quite large..." Lin Muyang whispered to himself while taking out his phone, adjusting the angle, and clearly photographing the distribution map through the glass to save into his photo album.

These marked Dungeons and secret realms were all "fresh" resources that had refreshed between late last night and early this morning and had not yet been conquered by any team. Every morning, major forces in the city would send out specialized scouts, like industrious worker bees, to collect this type of intelligence everywhere to plan the most efficient leveling and harvesting routes for the Class Transferee teams under their command.

However, to Lin Muyang's slight surprise, in the blank space below the distribution map, a line of large characters was written with an eye-catching red marker, clearly meant to convey a message to him:

"We sincerely invite you to assist our Tianqi Tower in conquering the 'Burial Ground' (Level 97, Sovereign-rank team secret realm, 20-person limit) at noon tomorrow. A core support position has been reserved for you. We await your favorable response. — Shen Yanshan"

Seeing this message, a flash of pleasant surprise instantly crossed Lin Muyang's eyes.

This was exactly what he needed!

This was the most crucial and fastest link in his plan to achieve magic crystal freedom! Imagine, after entering that high-level secret realm, he would only need to leisurely activate a few powerful suppression-type Auras to significantly weaken the monsters in the secret realm. The elites of Tianqi Tower would fight hard in the front, while he, in an absolutely safe state of invisibility, could leisurely activate all his "corpse-looting" Auras and reap the rewards... The value of the equipment and skill books harvested would be an unimaginable astronomical figure!

He just didn't expect that Shen Yanshan and Tianqi Tower would act even faster than him, sending an invitation so impatiently.

"But thinking about it carefully, it makes sense." Lin Muyang quickly understood the key.

"Many high-grade Dungeons and secret realms do not exist permanently. They are usually activated in the form of a 'secret realm scroll', or after natural refreshing, they have a fixed duration. Once the time limit is reached and they have not been cleared, the entire secret realm will collapse and disintegrate, and there is a high probability that the powerful monsters entrenched within will flood into the real world, causing disaster."

"And the most critical point is that these monsters flooding into reality, even if killed, will no longer drop any loot like they would in the secret realm, and even the experience points gained will be negligible."

"Therefore, for any force, to obtain the maximum benefit from a secret realm, it must be successfully conquered before its duration expires!"

It was very likely that the 'Burial Ground' secret realm scroll in the hands of Tianqi Tower did not have much time left. secret realm scrolls of this level were often worth a fortune and were likely purchased from other channels at a great cost. If they ultimately failed to clear it, it would be equivalent to a huge investment going down the drain, resulting in heavy losses.

"Tomorrow at noon... the timing is just right, right before that auction!" Lin Muyang quickly calculated the time.

This meant that he had a complete opportunity to accumulate enough vast wealth to crush all other bidders through this "cooperation" before the auction started! By then, he would have no financial pressure to bid for that Swordsman's 【origin skill book】, and he would be determined to win it!

He kept the time and location firmly in his mind and then stopped lingering.

"The goal has been achieved, let's go. Let's first go and clear this Level 22 Platinum-rank Dungeon." Lin Muyang commanded from the dragon's back, selecting the nearest Platinum-rank Dungeon entrance from his current location on the map.

Looking at the distribution map, there were several Platinum-rank Dungeons between Levels 20-30 that had refreshed today. Unfortunately, two of the Dungeons had higher level requirements, exceeding Lin Muyang's current level by more than 3 levels. If he went to challenge them now, the monster level suppression inside would be too great, and he would not be able to gain any experience, which would be a pure waste of time and opportunity. He could only follow the plan and start from the ones with suitable levels, taking it one step at a time.

...

Meanwhile, inside the top-floor office of Tianqi Tower, although Shen Yanshan was ostensibly handling official business, a part of his mind remained focused on the distribution map he had personally posted outside the window. His heart was filled with curiosity and a trace of imperceptible anxiety.

He was very curious, what unexpected method would that mysterious "super genius" use to obtain this map? Was it some kind of ultra-long-range clairvoyance ability? Or had they tamed some kind of magic pet capable of invisible reconnaissance?

At the same time, he was also a bit worried, would the other party not even see the invitation message he had specifically written at the bottom? After all, that method of communication did seem a bit primitive and passive.

"I hope she can appear on time tomorrow at noon." Shen Yanshan gazed at the city skyline outside the window and sighed softly.

He helplessly realized that in his interactions with that genius, he was completely in a passive position. The other party was elusive, leaving no contact information, and their style of doing things was unpredictable. Yet he was helpless against it.

And this mystery and power only made him more determined to befriend them. A newcomer who had just changed classes not long ago could make him, a top powerhouse in Zhongnan City, feel helpless; their future potential and energy were simply immeasurable! Investing in such an existence early on was definitely a wise move with only benefits and no drawbacks.

...

Above the clouds, the snow-white dragon was soaring.

"The duration of my dragon transformation is about to end." Ao Qingyan's cold voice entered Lin Muyang's mind through telepathy. "Do you need to find a place to land?"

"No need for such trouble, just dispel the transformation directly, we will continue flying on our own." Lin Muyang replied nonchalantly.

Upon hearing this, a trace of speechlessness flashed in Ao Qingyan's ice-blue dragon eyes. Was this human youth who summoned her serious? Wasn't he afraid that she and they would fall from this high altitude together?

However, at the very moment her dragon transformation time limit arrived, her massive dragon body began to dissipate, and she transformed back into human form—

A soft yet powerful green energy Aura, centered on Lin Muyang, rapidly spread out like ripples in water, enveloping all of them who were about to fall!

Immediately following this, a scene that surprised Ao Qingyan occurred: the bodies of the four people—Lin Muyang, Lilia, even herself who had just dispelled the transformation, and Elabess beside them—all defied the laws of gravity, floating lightly and steadily in mid-air!

An invisible force of wind gently held them up, making them as secure as if they were standing on solid ground.

"You can actually fly on your own?" Ao Qingyan stabilized her figure, feeling the strange wind elements swirling around her, and for the first time, a look of obvious astonishment appeared on that eternally frozen, stunningly beautiful face.

"Is there a problem with being able to fly?" Lin Muyang looked at her surprised expression and felt a bit strange instead; wasn't this basic operation?

"Since you can fly on your own... then why did you make me expend energy to transform into a dragon to carry you on this trip?" Ao Qingyan knitted her beautiful eyebrows, her cold tone filled with deep confusion and a hint of feeling teased.

She had always thought that Lin Muyang and the others did not possess flight capabilities, which was why they needed her to transform into a dragon to serve as a mount. It turned out that was not the case at all!

"Well..." Lin Muyang rubbed his nose, a smile of successful mischief appearing on his face, and said honestly: "Actually, I just simply wanted to try what it feels like to ride a dragon."

???

Ao Qingyan was suddenly silent, speechless.

She never imagined that this seemingly steady summoner actually hid such a mischievous side deep inside?

Her precious dragon transformation ability had actually been treated by him as a novel experience to satisfy his curiosity?

However, what she didn't know was that there was an even more "blasphemous" complaint in Lin Muyang's heart that he was too embarrassed to say out loud, fearing that if he said it, this cold-natured dragon girl would draw her sword and fight him to the death on the spot—

"Hmm, the feeling of riding a dragon... it was just so-so. The view was quite expansive, but the dragon scales were a bit uncomfortable, and the wind was too strong. It seems that for long-distance travel in the future, riding a dragon girl or something would be more comfortable... *cough cough*!"

Of course, he only dared to think this in his heart.