101: Chapter 101 Ferocious Beast Meteor Shower

The originally dazzling, dreamlike meteor shower tore off its disguise the moment it penetrated the atmosphere, turning into meteorites burning with purplish-red flames.

With ear-piercing shrieks, they hurtled toward the Trial Grounds.

Some of the landing points were not very precise.

Right next to the lawn where Chen Xi and the other two were, a massive fireball enveloped in rolling heat waves crashed straight down less than fifty meters away from them.

"Watch out!"

Chen Xi reacted extremely quickly, grabbing the two girls' shoulders and retreating rapidly.

Boom—!

A loud explosion rang out as dust filled the air and debris shot out in all directions like bullets.

A deep crater several meters in diameter was smashed into the ground.

Inside the crater, before the smoke had even cleared, a hideous claw suddenly gripped the edge of the pit.

"Hiss—!!"

Accompanied by a hair-raising roar, a giant lizard covered in dark red scales with eerie purple flames burning on its back slowly crawled out from the bottom of the pit.

Chen Xi looked closely, his pupils shrinking instantly.

"What's going on!? Is this... a Flame Lizard?"

He recognized the characteristics of this monster from the encyclopedia at a glance. But what shocked Chen Xi wasn't the type of monster.

But rather—

The top of this monster's head was actually completely empty!

No name!

No level!

And certainly no iconic red health bar!

An extremely ominous premonition instantly surged in his heart.

Chen Xi shouted:

"Be careful! This thing isn't a Dungeon Monster!!"

"What?"

Su Xiaoxiao gripped her magic staff tightly, her expression tense.

"Dungeon Monsters are products of rules, they're artificial, so they have data markers above their heads!"

Chen Xi stared intently at the lizard, speaking rapidly:

"If there are no markers... it means they aren't bound by the rules of datafication!"

Li Murou looked at the monster dripping lava-like saliva and screamed in terror:

"Holy crap! Where did this come from!?"

"Roar!!"

The Flame Lizard clearly had no intention of giving them time to discuss.

It turned its head, its eyes full of tyrannical aura locking onto the three humans closest to it.

Su Xiaoxiao subconsciously stepped forward, shielding Chen Xi and Li Murou, lightning flickering at the tip of her magic staff.

"If it's not a Dungeon Monster... then that means..."

Chen Xi gritted his teeth, finishing what he was about to say:

"This thing... is an Outside the Border Ferocious Beast!"

Just as he finished speaking, the Flame Lizard suddenly opened its bloody maw.

Whoosh—!

A mass of purplish-red flames swept toward the three of them. The temperature of these flames was extremely high, instantly turning the lawn along its path to ash.

Chen Xi was quick-eyed and nimble-handed; his right hand flicked, and a card glowing with white light instantly flew out.

"【Carbon Dioxide】!"

Snap!

The card shattered in front of the flames, instantly releasing a massive amount of high-concentration Carbon Dioxide gas, forming an invisible wall of suffocating gas.

Fire needs oxygen to burn; when that menacing mass of flames crashed into the high-concentration Carbon Dioxide zone, it extinguished with a "poof," leaving only a wisp of black smoke.

"Xiao Xiao! Do it!"

Chen Xi shouted.

Su Xiaoxiao's eyes narrowed, and she swung her magic staff down, her chant already completed:

"【Sword Prison】!"

Swish, swish, swish, swish!

Dozens of white swords instantly condensed in the air, stabbing fiercely at the Flame Lizard.

"Puchi! Puchi!"

The sound of blades entering flesh was clearly audible. The ice swords pierced through the lizard's hard scales, leaving over a dozen bleeding holes in its body, with some swords even impaled directly into its back.

If it were a 【Flame Lizard】 in a dungeon, with such severe injuries, its health bar would have long since emptied, and it would have collapsed and dissipated into points of light.

However—

"Roar!!"

The Flame Lizard let out a pained roar; instead of falling, it acted like an enraged Berserker. Covered in ice swords, it exerted sudden force with its limbs and charged frantically at the three of them without regard for its life!

Its eyes held no fear, only the madness of mutual destruction!

Su Xiaoxiao's eyes widened in shock:

"What!? Even after all that, it's still not dead!?"

This was the biggest difference between wild ferocious beasts and Dungeon Monsters!

Dungeon Monsters are judged dead once their health bar hits zero, but wild ferocious beasts—as long as their heart is still beating and their head is still there—will bite off a piece of the enemy's flesh even if their guts are spilling out!

Chen Xi shouted:

"Don't be careless! Don't think with the logic of clearing a dungeon!"

"This thing is a ferocious beast! They have no sense of pain, only a desire to attack! Unless you chop it into mincemeat, it will keep attacking!"

As he spoke, the Flame Lizard's wind-whipping claws had already swung before their eyes.

Its speed was astonishing, far exceeding Dungeon Monsters of the same level.

Su Xiaoxiao's old strength had just been spent and her new strength hadn't yet gathered; she watched as the foul-smelling claw was about to strike her face.

At the critical moment!

"Zheng—"

A sorrowful and low sound of a zither suddenly rang out.

Li Murou stood in the back, and though her face was pale, her fingers precisely plucked her instrument.

An invisible sound wave instantly spread, enveloping the Flame Lizard.

The lizard, which had been pouncing fiercely, suddenly froze as if stuck in a swamp of time. Its swinging claw stalled half a meter in front of Su Xiaoxiao, coming down at an extremely slow pace.

A hint of confusion appeared in its eyes, as if it were overwhelmed by endless sorrow, and even its muscles lost their explosive power.

"Beautifully done!"

Su Xiaoxiao's eyes narrowed with a cold glint; she didn't dare to be overconfident anymore.

She twirled her magic staff, lightning and frost intertwining.

"Again! 【Sword Prison】!"

Puchi!

Flesh and blood flew everywhere.

The resilient Flame Lizard was finally chopped into mincemeat under this strike.

【Killed Lv.15 Outside the Border Ferocious Beast · Flame Lizard】

【Obtained Experience Points: 800】

A notification sound rang in the minds of the three of them simultaneously.

Chen Xi looked at the mincemeat on the ground and the massive amount of experience points slowly drifting into his body, slightly dazed:

"Is this a ferocious beast? Even just a Lv.15 mob gives 800 experience points! That's more than three times higher than a dungeon elite monster of the same level!"

High risk indeed comes with high rewards.

But the price behind these rewards...

Chen Xi took a deep breath and frowned, "

Strange, where on earth did ferocious beasts of this level come from? Has the space-time travel Minister Li mentioned already broken out on a large scale?"

He finished speaking, but found there was no response beside him.

At this moment, Li Murou and Su Xiaoxiao ignored him, both staring blankly into the distance.

"What's wrong?"

Chen Xi followed the two girls' gaze.

Toward the largest area of the school—the Trial Grounds.

In the next second, he was also completely stunned, a chill rushing from the soles of his feet straight to the top of his head.

He saw that the Trial Grounds had now turned into a purgatory-like sea of fire.

Countless meteorite craters dotted the playground, and dense crowds of Flame Lizards were continuously crawling out of the pits.

Although it was night, there weren't as many people at the Trial Grounds as during the day.

But there were still many students who had just come out of leveling up in dungeons, exhausted and defenseless.

"Ah!!!"

"Where did that thing come from? Help!"

"Don't bite me! Ah—!"