The next morning, Ye Qin and w.a.n.g Tao met up at the princ.i.p.al"s office to request a leave of absence from school. "What? You want to be away for how long? The exams are in a month and you want to go now?" the princ.i.p.al said worriedly"We have permission from our parents, it won"t affect our overall performance in the exam. As for theory, I"ll teach w.a.n.g Tao during the journey." Ye Qin said
"..."
After thinking for a while, the princ.i.p.al reluctantly agreed to their request
Afterwards, the two boys received a call from Father w.a.n.g telling them that their pa.s.ses are ready. They quickly went to w.a.n.g Tao"s house to collect them then went to the supermarket to buy the necessary items
…
"Boss, what"d you buy?" w.a.n.g Tao asked in a set of new clothing
"Not much, a pot, pan, wok, meat, veges, salt, pepper, spices. A few packets of matches, an emergency charger and other miscellaneous things." Ye Qin replied
"..."
"Well I bought two sleeping bags and a tent…" w.a.n.g Tao said
"Alright, throw them into your smart.w.a.tch and then let"s go." Ye Qin said as w.a.n.g Tao nodded then the two of them headed towards the local teleportation checkpoint
A smart.w.a.tch not only carried the details and information of a person, it can also be used as a storage s.p.a.ce due to it having its own dimension within. Humanities technology advanced by leaps and bounds leading to things that could only be dreamed of coming into reality within a short span of 1000 years. This also lead to humanity being able to create teleportation gates that send them to and back from the Abandoned lands, almost every city had its own checkpoint allowing anyone with a pa.s.s to come and go freely. It doesn"t matter which checkpoint one took as all of them connected making it convenient for all with pa.s.ses
As they arrived at the New Jiangnan City"s checkpoint, the two got off the cab and directly entered the building. Before they could step pa.s.s the front door, two men in uniforms stopped them "Halt, only those with a pa.s.s may proceed past this point."
Ye Qin and w.a.n.g Tao each revealed their pa.s.ses whilst the guards felt quite shocked as they allowed the boys inside the door
"Tsk, Kids these days, thinking they"re so great even though they are still in school. Once they face the true terrors of monsters they will know." one of the two guards said
"Be quite, just do your job." the other one said
"..."
…
Ye Qin and w.a.n.g Tao stood in front of one of the gates then placed their pa.s.ses over the ID scanner and waited for it to approve before putting them away and entered
Woosh* Woosh*
Inside the s.p.a.ce, everywhere is all the same, a vast green s.p.a.ce along with strips of white beams of light pa.s.ses through as Ye Qin looked around. After a few minutes, the two boys stepped foot in the Abandoned Lands
Taking a look around, the two boys could see a large military base filled with soldiers either on patrol or training. Proceeding forwards and out from the base whilst facing the gazes of dozens of soldiers, the two boys noticed a large barren s.p.a.ce in front of them
The once flourishing cities of China over 1000 years ago had now become a wasteland filled with crumbled walls however no monsters were nearby
The two boys looked at each other before calling out their monsters then sat on them as they flew off into the distance
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"Boss, couldn"t you have let me ride on your other dragon? Think about it two young men riding on dragons during their first journey, how domineering!" w.a.n.g Tao asked
"I could but your partner can fly so why should I? Ye Qin teased
"..."
After flying at a low alt.i.tude for a while, they finally spotted some monsters. Ye Qin scanned them and took a look at the information displayed before him
[Monster- Rocky Earthworm]
[Type- Insect]
[Level- 15]
[Element- Earth]
[Details- a type of worm that lives deep beneath the mantle of the planet with large bodies that can vary from 5 to 30 meters in length. They attack their prey by diving deep into the ground then surprise them by jumping out from anywhere and bite into their prey using their razor sharp fangs]
[Weakness- Water, Ice]
Seeing 3 large Earthworms going after a single prey, the two boys flew in on the monsters and attacked without hesitation as if they are veterans in battle
Ye Qin called out his Silver Yinglong as he rode the Qiulong and battled against two earthworms whilst w.a.n.g Tao fought against the last one
The Earthworm noticed their presence and tried to use its large tail to slap them out of the air however they dodged with ease. Ye Qin told the both his dragons to keep their distance and attack using their breath attacks
After evolving into dragons, the two dragons learned new attacks including a breath of their respective element and can also shoot out a ball of their elements
Roar*
The two dragons" breath attacks rushed out of their mouths like rushing waves that shot towards the Earthworms and caused instant critical damage even with a difference in levels
The earthworms taking serious damage tried to dig underground however Ye Qin"s dragons rushed forward and coiled around the worms and strangled them
Crack* Crack*
Shriek* Shriek*
Sloosh* Sloosh*
The earthworms being unable to breakfree were crushed into pieces as blood dyed the skies and ground around the them. As for w.a.n.g Tao, he sat on his tigers back as it flew at great speeds and cut down the earthworms using just its powerful wings and similarly ended the fight quickly
Ding* Ding*
[+600 xp]
[+700 xp]
Seeing this, Ye Qin"s eyes glistened as he watched the exp bar increase by a good margin just from a single battle. However when he saw the total amount needed to level up once he wanted to puke a mouthful of blood
[600/25000]
[700/25000]
"What the h.e.l.l? At just level 10 they already need so much exp to level up!" Ye Qin shouted internally
Seeing the bleak and slow journey ahead of him, Ye Qin could only sigh
The two boys then flew in closer to collect the materials gained from the carca.s.ses of the earthworms whilst their initial prey, a single scrawny looking monkey that had previously escaped came back and looked at the two boys whilst they collected their rewards
[Rocky Earthworm scales x8]
[Rocky Earthworm legs x13]
[Rocky Earthworm fangs x 6]
"Not bad, these can fetch a bit of cash. We haven"t ventured far but have already found a few monsters." Ye Qin thought