Even so, Meng Lei still cast the Earth-Elemental Spell, Ground-Piercing Lance, anyway, and stabbed the Ground-Spike Lizard dead before the poor lizard even realized what was happening.
“Ding! 1 Ground-Spike Lizard killed, 2,400 gold coins gained!”
“2,400 gold coins? Not bad!”
Meng Lei walked over, fished out a dagger, and gouged out the Ground-Spike Lizard’s magic core. He ignored the blood on it and tossed it straight into the spatial ring.
Another 2,000 gold coins into the bank account!
“That’s double the cash with a single Magical Beast! Marvelous!
“Earthquake!
“Another Magical Beast at 11 o’clock in front!
“A Fourth-Grade Magical Beast?
“Ground-Piercing Lance!”
“Ding! 1 Golden Rhinoceros Beetle killed, 2,200 gold coins gained!”
“Earthquake!
“A Fourth-Grade Magical Beast again? What the f*ck!”
“Ding! 1 Golden-Spotted Silver Ant killed, 2,400 gold coins gained!”
Just like that, Meng Lei hunted as he advanced. In this particular region of Magical Beast Forest, mid-grade Magical Beasts were very common. Just like normal wild beasts in the forest’s outer boundary, they fought and fed on each other and competed against each other for the sake of survival!
“I’ve already killed seven Magical Beasts and earned more than 20,000 gold coins in less than two hours!
“Yeap, not bad, I would say!”
Meng Lei walked up to a Six-Winged Iron Crocodile that had died with grievances. He gouged out its magic core, put it happily into his spatial ring, and then continued on his journey.
“What a shame that there isn’t any way I can carry these Magical Beast carcasses out. Otherwise, I’d be able to earn yet another sum of money!”
Splurt!
Splurt!
“Eh?”
Right at this point, a few peculiar sounds reached his ears. Meng Lei’s footsteps came to a stop. He cocked his ears and looked toward the three o’clock direction. A few more of the peculiar sounds reached his ears again, the sounds crisp, clear, and horrifying!
Meng Lei wasn’t a stranger to the sound—this was the sound of a sharp blade piercing through flesh.
“Is someone fighting over there?
“That doesn’t make sense, though! There aren’t any battling sounds!”
Puzzled, Meng Lei quietly crept over. Then, he was astounded by the scene in front of him!
In the fields in front was a blazing campfire, and propped on top of the fire was a rack of roasted meat. The roast was a golden-yellow color, and a meaty aroma assailed the nostrils, easily stimulating anyone’s appetite.
However, Meng Lei wasn’t in the mood to eat the roasted meat at all because strewn all over the ground around the campfire were five dead bodies!
There were both men and women, and both Warriors and Magicians!
Everyone’s eyes were widened, and all of them were unable to rest in peace after their deaths, however. Their throats had been slit, and blood was gurgling as it flowed out of their wounds. They had died in an extremely tragic manner!
“Who the hell did this? Isn’t this too brutal?” Meng Lei murmured softly, a chill coming over him.
It was evident from the pitiful, horrifying sight of the victims, as well as the signs in the murder scene that they hadn’t even been able to put up any resistance at all during their deaths.
They hadn’t been able to put up even an ounce of resistance, yet the killer had still slit their throats, nonetheless.
How tragic!
“Are you looking for me?”
Unexpectedly, a joking voice suddenly rang out in Meng Lei’s ears right at that moment. Alarm had only just welled up within Meng Lei when he felt a slight chill at his throat.
Danger!!!
That was Meng Lei’s immediate reaction.
His second reaction was to pull back.
Boom!
Meng Lei’s powerful physical body constitution, which was on par with a Seventh-Grade Warrior’s, produced an outburst of strength. The moment he sprung into the air, he went ten-meters-high and leaped forcefully backward. In just a split second, he had already shot over ten meters away!
(⊙o⊙)
The person that had ambushed Meng Lei was astonished!
Chapter 62: Killing The Assassin, Becoming A Seventh-Grade Magician
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
In the instant when Meng Lei jumped away, a small and skinny man with a large bamboo hat on his head and wrapped head to toe in black clothing showed up. He had a dazed and stupefied expression on his face as he stared at Meng Lei, who had jumped more than ten meters away.
(⊙o⊙)
“He’s that fast!?”
A moment ago, he had detected someone approaching, so he had concealed himself. Right after that, Meng Lei had appeared within his sight.
He was so young!
And he was a Magician, too!
So, how strong could he even be?
Thus, he had promptly launched an attack.
Little did he imagine that Meng Lei would actually move so quickly. His outburst of speed in that instant just now had definitely surpassed a Fifth-Grade Warrior’s. Was he really a goddamn Magician?
“I’ve actually made a mistake in my judgment!”
The small and skinny man licked his lips, a dark and deep look in his eyes.
That was so close!!!
Meng Lei landed on a tree, a layer of cold sweat forming on his back. It was fortunate that he had reacted in time just now. Otherwise, his throat would definitely have been slit!
That was really such a close shave!
He suddenly thought of a saying, “In Magical Beast Forest, what one needs to be on guard against the most aren’t Magical Beasts, but humans!”
Magical Beast Forest was independent of the four great empires. There were no laws, no rules and regulations, and no morals here. It was a wild, savage, and uncivilized territory. It was the Magical Beasts’ paradise and the adventurers’ heaven!
Most of the people that came here were here for
