Versatile Mage c1-2021, page 456
"It's obvious that you wanted to come here all along, yet you said we had a better chance if we collected the Lightning Tyrant first," Mo Fan pointed out in the narrow, dark cave.
"I wasn't lying either; you did end up getting the Lightning Tyrant. It's pretty high-quality as a Soul-grade Seed!" Asha'ruiya replied cheerfully.
"I'm just thinking about my money," Mo Fan grumbled.
" I think I didn't ask for enough!" Asha'ruiya retorted.
"Where are we going?"
"To the top!"
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Many demon creatures resided on Mount Tyrant. Anyone that tried to climb the mountain would most likely be devoured by its residents. Most creatures that called the mountain their home were Commander-level creatures, and most of them had ancient bloodlines, too. They either used to rule the mountain, or were rising as the new rulers of the mountain. Either way, not many of them were friendly to humans.
The cave inside the mountain was actually a secret path leading to the top of the mountain. By the time they exited the cave, the sky was already lighting up. However, since the mountain was usually shrouded by the clouds, the top of the mountain and the nearby ridges were still in darkness.
The path to the top of the mountain was extremely steep. It felt like they could fall off at any moment as made their way to the top.
The jagged rocks along the path resembled an enormous dragon with spikes on its back. It was like a slope extending toward the clouds, eventually forming a long, steep cliff!
The cliff extended beyond the mountain. The path was flat, but it looked fairly intimidating from a distance. It felt like someone was walking on a path floating in the sky, with strong winds blowing and moving the clouds...
"Stand at the end of the cliff," Asha'ruiya said to Mo Fan.
"Can you tell me what for?" Mo Fan said.
"There's no time for an explanation now. Once you're there, release your Space Magic," Asha'ruiya said.
"Alright..." Mo Fan knew Asha'ruiya was up to something seeing her stern face.
As a matter of fact, Mo Fan had never felt the top of Mount Tyrant was ordinary. The clouds were actually sinking to his feet. The sky was perfectly clear and blue, the sea of clouds was moving below his feet. The whole of Mount Tyrant was currently concealed in the cloudy mist. The slope leading to the cliff was like a gray-white broken bridge, giving him a spectacular view.
Mo Fan was slowly heading for the end of the cliff. It felt like he was making his way onto a heavenly scaffold.
As Mo Fan reached the end of the cliff, he subconsciously looked down. There happened to be a gap in the clouds. Mo Fan stared through the gap, trying to guess his current altitude.
However, when Mo Fan looked through the gap, he could only see something black, and it seemed to be moving...
"What is that?" Mo Fan was confused. He gathered all his focus to look into the gap, to see what the thing that was blocking his view was.
"Mo Fan, release your Space Magic!" Asha'ruiya voice came from the other end.
Mo Fan finally collected his thoughts and followed Asha'ruiya's instruction by releasing the Space Magic.
"Don't look down, look at me!" Asha'ruiya suddenly yelled.
Mo Fan glanced at Asha'ruiya and saw her running at him from around five hundred meters away.
She was sprinting like a cat. Mo Fan could not understand why she was stopping him from looking down. Was she worried that he was afraid of heights?
Mo Fan was a naughty man. He could not help but look down, as he desperately wanted to know what the black thing below the gap was. Meanwhile, the sea of clouds had sunk a few dozen meters, revealing more of the black object!
"Holy crap, what the hell is it?" Mo Fan was dumbfounded. His eyes were fixed on the black existence in the clouds.
Mo Fan felt like he was looking at a creature's backbone. It was covered densely in scales, with long, black spikes like horns, as big as a mammoth's tusks!
Mo Fan was shocked not because he was able to get a closer look at the black creature, but because he could not even see the creature's full appearance when he looked down. Mo Fan could tell that he had only seen the tip of an iceberg!
It was too big!
The creature was so huge that he could not see it all with a single glance. As it slowly rose, Mo Fan felt like he had fallen into a bottomless abyss. He was overwhelmed by a sense of being very, very small!
"Don't move, stay right there!" Asha'ruiya's voice came.
As a matter of fact, a shocking sonic wave was coming from below Mo Fan. The voice was so loud that it was inaudible to the ears. There was only a piercing pain in his head, and he was telling him that his eardrums were about to burst!
-What the hell is it?-
Mo Fan felt like his heart was about to break into pieces. He subconsciously tried to run, but he immediately remembered that Asha'ruiya had asked him to stand still.
Mo Fan strongly believed that if the creature below was trying to kill him, there was no way he could escape. The creature was simply too huge, its size had exceeded Mo Fan's understanding. It felt like its body was bigger than the sea of clouds!
Scales, backbone, black skin, that was all that Mo Fan could see!
"Space Journey: Change in a Flash!"
Asha'ruiya sprang forward. When she was around fifty meters away from Mo Fan, the space between her and Mo Fan bent out of shape.
As Asha'ruiya got closer, the space was heavily contorted. The Space Magic that Mo Fan had released before had come into effect too, speeding up the process.
Amid the loud rumble of the sonic wave, Mo Fan's vision started to blur due to the twisting space. He happened to catch a glimpse of the massive claw of the black creature swiping at him. The claw was huge enough to break the whole cliff apart, let alone the tiny figures of himself and Asha'ruiya!
As the black claw came closer, Mo Fan could not help but murmur, "Am I seriously going to die after I just obtained a new Soul-grade Seed?"
Chapter 1037 - Black Dragon Emperor
Translated by XephiZ
Edited by Aelryinth
Space around him wobbled. Mo Fan could only sense his surroundings shifting, as if he was in the middle of some spatial turbulence. His environment kept shifting from nothing to a spectacular view of the breathtaking scenery...
He was seeing things in a blur while suffering enormous pain in his head!
Some time later, everything finally returned to calm. Mo Fan fell onto the grass feebly, like someone who had been tortured by a storm at sea for days.
Asha'ruiya and Mo Fan came out of the space ripple at the same time. Her face was incredibly pale too, and her energy seemed to have depleted. She then fainted and fell onto Mo Fan...
It was sunny, with white clouds in the sky and green grass swaying to the wind in the distance. The petals of some wild flowers were blown into the air at times before landing somewhere else.
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Drops of dew slid along the grass and landed onto Mo Fan's drenched pants.
Mo Fan soon woke up when he sensed the chill. He tried to move his body when he discovered someone's head on his stomach. The woman's face slid further down when he moved.
"Hey, wake up, my pants are wet from your drool!" Mo Fan nudged Asha'ruiya.
Asha'ruiya came to her senses. She blushed immediately when she discovered the wet stain on Mo Fan's pants. She quickly turned away, pretending that nothing had happened.
"Miss Ye Meng'e, don't you think there's something you need to clarify?" Mo Fan said seriously when he recalled the terrifying encounter he had gone through before he lost consciousness.
Asha'ruiya slightly raised her head and was relieved when she saw dew falling down from a stalk of tall grass...
It made a lot of sense. There was no way she would drool so much even if she had accidentally fainted and fallen on a man's body!
"It's dew!" Asha'ruiya pointed at the wet grass with a sniff.
"F**k me, that's not what I'm asking! I'm referring to the gigantic, black creature I saw at the top of Mount Tyrant. Even paying me a billion won't be enough to compensate me for the shock I went through!" Mo Fan exclaimed.
"You should be thanking me, you are the only one still alive after seeing the creature apart from me," Asha'ruiya started tidying up her clothes and hair.
"What kind of logic is that? Tell me, what is that thing? It's so f**king huge!" Mo Fan blurted out.
"It's a real dragon; a real, ancient dark dragon!" Asha'ruiya declared.
Mo Fan opened his mouth wide. It took him some time to collect his thoughts.
Dragon...
A real dragon...
A real, ancient dark dragon!
"Don't tell me you're referring to the creatures with a pure bloodline that once dominated Europe! THOSE huge dragons?!" Mo Fan uttered every word loud and clear!
"Yes, pure dragons! We call them real dragons, some call them huge dragons. The creature has another name too: Emperor Agaroth! It has woken up as the rumors say, and is residing on the top of Mount Tyrant. Its senses are utterly impressive. I had already erased your presence with the Dark Formation, yet it could still detect you," Asha'ruiya said.
"So, the reason you are up on this mountain is just to verify that a real, ancient dark dragon is living there?" Mo Fan said.
"Yeah, this piece of information is priceless," Asha'ruiya said.
"I think it's time for us to break all ties!" Mo Fan declared.
-What the heck, this woman is a f**king maniac!-
A real, ancient dark dragon, the creature's level was already beyond Mo Fan's understanding. He strongly believed that even Forbidden Mages would not dare to challenge it, yet this Asha'ruiya was bold enough to trespass into the creature's territory.
He almost died because of it!
"Aren't we alive still?" Asha'ruiya's brows curled slightly upward as she replied seriously.
"Yes, but what if your Space Formation was just a little too late?" Mo Fan snapped.
Asha'ruiya was an expert in Magic Formations. She was obviously setting up a formation to guarantee their escape. She had asked Mo Fan to release his Space Magic just so she could set up the formation and activate it in time.
As a matter of fact, Mo Fan believed if the dragon was determined to chase after them, it could easily tear through the space and force its way through the space ripple. A creature of its level would not be tricked by Space Magic so easily.
They were in luck since the dragon did not really treat Mo Fan and Asha'ruiya seriously. It simply thought of them as two mosquitoes that had flown away, and was too lazy to chase after them. Otherwise, even if they had blinked a few hundred kilometers away, it could still come and kill them!
As such, Mo Fan no longer thought the woman was a saintess, but a total maniac!
"Where are we now?" Mo Fan observed his surroundings. The scenery was pretty nice, and the air was quite refreshing too. However, he could not really tell where they were.
If they did not decide on a specific landing point prior to using the Space Formation that Asha'ruiya constructed, they would be tossed to a random location. Mo Fan somehow felt like they were no longer in Italy!
"I guess we are in Croatia. Didn't you want to break all ties with me? Why are you asking me?" Asha'ruiya wore a cunning grin. She did not seem to be bothered by what they had just gone through.
"Give me back my money, and we can still be friends," Mo Fan said.
"It's all about money in the end."
"It only makes sense for you to compensate me for the spiritual damage I've suffered. Anyone else would have turn into an idiot now!" Mo Fan said.
"But you're perfectly fine, aren't you? You can even show off by telling other girls that you've seen a real dragon," Asha'ruiya said.
"That's my business, so are you going to give me back the money or not?"
"No way!"
Mo Fan started to lose his patience. "Don't you think I can't do anything to you!" Mo Fan had indeed received a great shock.
Even if he demonized, he could not take on the dragon. Anyone would lose their temper knowing that they had barely survived after being tricked by a crazy woman into going on such a dangerous adventure. Furthermore, after all they had gone through, Asha'ruiya was wearing a grin like a cunning little fox. Mo Fan had mixed feelings when he combined her current appearance with her sacred, otherworldly temperament.
Mo Fan's mind was kind of messed up too. He grabbed Asha'ruiya's wrist and pushed her to the ground.
His energy had depleted after going through the space turbulence. As such, Mo Fan had decided to use the most primal approach to suppress Asha'ruiya on the ground.
Mo Fan believed Asha'ruiya's energy had depleted, too. She was worn out just like he was after going through the space turbulence.
As he thought, Asha'ruiya was pressed to the ground and unable to fight back with magic. She glared at Mo Fan in embarrassment, yet there was no sign of compromise on her attractive face. She was staring at Mo Fan like a noble queen with her proud gaze, and was too stubborn to look away.
Mo Fan was totally dumbfounded by her reaction.
Mo Fan was just trying to scare her so she could admit her wrong. He was only planning to vent his frustration after he barely escaped death, yet the woman was unwilling to give up still!
Both of them had no energy, thus they were currently no different than ordinary people. Due to their genders, Mo Fan clearly had the advantage. If he really was planning something, the woman had no chance of fighting back!
"You little vixen, you win this time!" After some time, Mo Fan let one of Asha'ruiya's hands go.
"Are you scared?" Asha'ruiya smirked. Her beautiful eyes flickered cunningly.
"But I'm going to take some interest!"
Just as Asha'ruiya thought Mo Fan was about to let her go, Mo Fan lowered his head and kissed Asha'ruiya's soft, red lips.
Asha'ruiya's eyes widened. She did not expect Mo Fan would really dare to take advantage of her. She kept slapping Mo Fan's shoulder, but the feeling of suffocation grew stronger. She started to feel feeble as the sensation of the kiss surged across her body like an electric current!
"If you try to set me up again, it won't be as easy as a simple kiss!" Mo Fan let go of Asha'ruiya. He could still smell Asha'ruiya's delicious lips.
"You shameless, filthy, perverted, asshole!"
"You aren't any better either! A liar, maniac, thief... I must be blind to think that you were sacred and mysterious just because you were wearing a veil!" Mo Fan shot back.
"You're going to pay for that!" Asha'ruiya totally lost her calm. If she had enough energy, she would surely have Summoned the Dark Swordmaster and ordered it to slice this man that had taken advantage of her into pieces!
"The world is so big, it's hard to tell if we're going to see each other again," Mo Fan felt better after claiming his interest.
As a matter of fact, Mo Fan was infuriated by Asha'ruiya's smugness, even though she had done something so ridiculous. The woman acted as if everything was under her control, yet little did she know, when her energy had depleted, Mo Fan could easily do anything to her if he wanted!
Asha'ruiya surprisingly calmed down after hearing Mo Fan's words.
Mo Fan was having trouble understanding what the woman was thinking. He did not fool around further after seeing she had calmed down. He sat on the ground and started to meditate, trying to recover his energy as soon as possible.
Asha'ruiya knew how dangerous it was to not have any power in an unfamiliar place. She did not waste any more time.
Not long after, Mo Fan opened his eyes and looked at Asha'ruiya, who was meditating.
Asha'ruiya was indeed glamorous when she was motionless. Her sacred temperament was not something she was wearing as a disguise, but flowing out of her naturally, as if she did not belong to this world.
Yet, why did she always have to do ridiculous things?
-Verifying the existence of a Black Dragon Emperor? Is she f**king out of her mind!?-
Chapter 1038 - The Bow of the Contract
Translated by XephiZ
Edited by Aelryinth
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A training ground located somewhere in Venice's canals...
"With these, you shouldn't lose so easily in the World College Tournament. You should understand that the old clan master personally stepped forth to acquire this full set of magic equipment. You must not let us down," Zhou Yilin said with great anticipation, fondling her daughter's hair.
"I won't. Not many people can defeat me with my current strength," Mu Tingying replied confidently.
"Speaking of which, is that girl Mu Ningxue still on the team?" Zhou Yilin asked.
"Yeah, it's so annoying to see her around. I've never seen such a shameless woman before, still bothering showing herself around despite her stinky reputation. Won't she just bring more shame to our clan?" Mu Tingying said.
"She kept competing with you in the past, but what does she even have to compete with you now?" Zhou Yilin said.
Mu Tingying grinned upon hearing this. It was something she liked to hear now.
In the clan, Mu Ningxue's name had been a great pressure to Mu Tingying for many years due to her outstanding talents, and now, Mu Tingying finally had a chance to return the favor. The sense of being surrounded and looked up at by the clan felt better than she had imagined. She had been taking almost all of the resources that were available!
"That's why I'm going to take everything from her!" Mu Tingying smiled. Compared to the fake smile she had been wearing all the time, her smile actually looked sincere for the first time!
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The breeze of the Mediterranean Sea swept past. The wind fondled Mu Ningxue's hair like a pair of gentle hands.
Her silver hair was drifting in the gentle wind. Mu Ningxue turned sideways and glanced at her hair being lifted by the wind...
Her hair was no longer snowy-white. It seemed to be mixed with a hint of black, which she had not had until recently. She could clearly see a few strands of black hair among her snowy-white locks.
Her hair used to be black, the same color that her mother had; a beautiful, silky black, unlike the snowy-white that kept on bringing her unwanted attention. Somehow, she felt sad and depressed looking at her white hair.
