Chapter 449: First Test of the Blade’s Edge. Huge Increase in Efficiency
Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales
Edited by Aelryinth
It went without saying that Zhang Che had no idea of the things going on in Bei Du. All technological devices were non-functional in the beast world. Even if Huang Juyun and the others wanted to contact him, there was no channel they could use.
Of course, the incident had a strong start but a weak finish due to them mistakenly underestimating how strong Liu Gang’s squad, the guardians of the villa, were. As a result, the four beastmasters were simply like meat buns thrown at a dog, going on a one-way trip.
Not only that, even the other team of people that stole a large number of beast cards from Premium House had nowhere to escape to after being pursued by the military’s powerful troops. All of them were captured in the end.
Since that was so, it didn’t matter if Zhang Che knew about this matter or not.
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After testing the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon’s flight speed, Zhang Che was gratified to know the fellow could actually fly at more than two thousand kilometers per hour.
“Not bad, not bad. With such a fast speed, there shouldn’t be anyone that can catch up to the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon even among epic-quality beasts, with the exception of a small minority!” Zhang Che burst out in laughter excitedly, feeling extremely satisfied with this.
“Congratulations to Master!” the elemental queen behind him congratulated at an apt time. {TLN: She used a line that’s commonly used for joyous occasions like weddings, childbirth…}
Zhang Che was stunned. He turned around to see the elemental queen smiling at him, and he asked, “Where did you learn that from?”
The elemental queen smiled like a beautiful flower and replied, “The television! The people in a fantasy movie I watched recently complimented the powerful like that.”
Zhang Che was speechless. -Can you not be so direct? It’s very awkward, you know?-
“Umm… don’t learn to speak like the characters in television in the future. The screenwriters are all r.e.t.a.r.ded. The lines are too eighth-grader.”
“Ugh. Alright then… But, Master, what does eighth-grader mean?” {TLN: Check Eighth-grader syndrome, or Chuunibyou.}
Zhang Che was simply at a loss for words. He proceeded to explain what it meant to her, finally getting the elemental queen to correct her bad habit. Otherwise, it would only get worse in the future, learning all styles of speaking. He would be exhausted from that!
“Come on, let’s go eat our breakfast, then continue hunting exotic beasts today and look for spiritual herbs at the same time!”
They were so excited to test the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon’s flight speed after waking up that they had yet to eat their breakfast.
They found a place for the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon to land and quickly settled their breakfast. Afterwards, Zhang Che summoned all his subdued beasts and pets of legend-quality and above, commencing a cruel slaughtering session in the area.
As usual, he didn’t go with his other pets and subdued beasts. He flew on the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon alone, looking for any powerful exotic beast that might be around, wanting to see how much stronger the dragon’s attacks had grown, especially the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon’s new skill, Extreme Yin Ray. It was a single-target attacking skill that could be used once every minute. He wondered how much power it could display against other powerful exotic beasts.
For that reason, Zhang Che couldn’t be bothered to chase down the exotic beasts that were slightly further away. He controlled the scarlet and white sword, cutting down every exotic beast within a hundred meters of his path, obtaining quite a number of beast cards on the way.
It couldn’t be helped. These places were hand-picked by his father-in-law, with an extremely high density of mid-tier and above exotic beasts. He’d be able to obtain a decent amount of beast cards even if he didn’t focus on hunting.
Zhang Che swept through the surrounding dozens of kilometers, but he didn’t discover any exotic beasts that were worthy of letting the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon use his skill on.
On the other hand, after the significant increase in the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon’s speed, their hunting efficiency increased by a huge margin!
Despite having the scarlet and white sword’s range reduced by more than half of before, the difference in hunting efficiency was made up for with the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon’s increase in speed.
“Hmm, how strange. Is there not a single legend-quality exotic beast around here?” Zhang Che couldn’t help but furrow his brow after searching for close to an hour and not finding any legend-quality exotic beasts.
Logically speaking, there should be a couple powerful exotic beasts in an area with such a high density of mid-tier and above exotic beasts.
After all, with such delicious food gathered in an area, it was impossible for the powerful predators to not discover the place and came searching.
In fact, there really were legend-quality exotic beasts here. However, Zhang Che’s luck was a little on the bad side. The elemental queen was the one who came across them.
At present, the two were more than a hundred kilometers away from one another. Naturally it was impossible for the elemental queen to notify Zhang Che and get him to go over to test the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon’s attack power. With her flaming halberd, she easily beat down the legend-quality exotic beast, leaving it in a half-dead state.
Afterwards, the Purple Crystal Tortoise quickly went up and dealt the final blow. A bone spike directly punched through the exotic beast’s skull, gaining a legend-quality beast card for Zhang Che and earning him a fortune.
The elemental queen wouldn’t be able to obtain any beast cards if she was the one who actually killed the exotic beasts.
Usually, when Zhang Che was with her, the elemental queen would hold back her strength when they came across any valuable exotic beasts, not killing them. Instead, she’d let Zhang Che deal the final blow. Her attack power was too devastating. If she struck without reservations, heavens knew how many beast cards Zhang Che would have lost.
They were all worth money! Even though Zhang Che was a rich man, he would feel the sting of losing mid-tier dark gold-quality or higher beast cards.
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After a long time, Zhang Che still didn’t find anything. He patted the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon’s back with a depressed look, cursing regretfully, “Say, were the powerful exotic beasts in the area scared off after sensing your arrival?”
The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon puffed and blew out a few mouthfuls of air, proudly showing that he was now different than in the past. Naturally those weak exotic beasts would run at the sight of him, not daring to come face to face with him!
“So conceited…”, Zhang Che shook his head. He decided to give up on this idea, thinking that it was more important to take care of proper matters. After clearing all the mid-tier and higher exotic beasts in the area and scavenging for spiritual herbs, naturally he’d be able to go look for a powerful exotic beast without worries for the remainder of his time.
It might not hold true for other things, but looking for a powerful exotic beast in the depths of the beast world wasn’t a problem at all.
When Zhang Che placed his focus back onto hunting exotic beasts, he could better sense his efficiency at hunting was satisfyingly high after the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon’s speed had doubled.
To paint a better picture, in the past he needed more than an hour to sweep through the exotic beasts in a hundred kilometer radius. Now, he might only need slightly more than half an hour to do the job.
-This fellow is only seven-star epic-quality now. If he grows to nine-star divine-quality in the future, or even super divine-quality, wouldn’t his flight speed be comparable to Dijiang-hao?- Zhang Che couldn’t help but feel a great antic.i.p.ation at the thought.
If that day really came, why would he still need Dijiang-hao? The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon would be all he needed!
After all, no matter how fast Dijiang-hao was, taking off and landing was a little more demanding when it came to location, not to mention its greatest disadvantage of being unable to be brought into the beast world. If someone stole or damaged it, then who could he cry to?
The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon was different, however. The riding experience of flying on him was amazing, in addition to his nimbleness being countless times better than a machine. Also, he could be by Zhang Che’s side no matter when or where. How convenient was that!?
“Unfortunately, it’ll take a really long time for the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon to grow to that extent by relying only on absorbing the rainbow crystal’s energy. Fortuitous encounters like finding top-grade cold-attributed treasures yesterday all depend on luck.”
Zhang Che naturally knew it was very, very difficult for the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon to continue growing stronger.
For a very long time, he’d still have to depend on Dijiang-hao to move around. That private sky shuttle had cost him close to two hundred million purple crystal points, and wouldn’t become just a decoration for a very long time to come.
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Before he realized it, half a day had pa.s.sed.
After sweeping through the surrounding two hundred-some kilometers radius, Zhang Che finally reunited with the elemental queen, Earthen Rock Demon, and Scarlet Flame Drake’s teams.