Chapter 104

"If it were an ordinary genius, perhaps after running into difficulties with leveling up, they really would have signed a training contract.

Unfortunately, the daily attribute and skill points the system provides me mean that even without any resources, I can keep growing stronger!"

Zhou Yi shook his head and looked at his four-dimensional attributes.

Strength: 150!

Constitution: 159!

Agility: 149!

Intelligence: 162!

Right now, his four-dimensional attributes had reached an average of 150 points!

"An average of 150 points across all four attributes, plus a class level of 16—against the other specially-recruited students, I should be able to crush them completely, right?"

The corners of Zhou Yi's mouth curled up, and he began to look forward to the upcoming Freshman Grand Competition.

PS: At the start of the month, begging for monthly tickets~~~ Thanks for the support~~

"Woooo~~~"

Just as Zhou Yi was checking his four-dimensional attributes.

The Gale Wolf carried a cyan crystal core about the size of an egg, emanating a faint magical energy aura, and dropped it at Zhou Yi's feet.

From its pair of ghostly-green eyes, one could tell that it had an extremely~ strong desire to devour this crystal core.

But after placing the crystal core at Zhou Yi's feet, it respectfully lowered its head and retreated to one side.

"Good Little Black."

Zhou Yi smiled and stroked its smooth wolf fur.

A month ago, after entering the Gale-Howl Mountain Range, he had discovered a problem.

And that was that his traveling speed was simply too slow!

Relying on himself alone, there was originally no way he could avoid all the danger points marked on the map and sweep the entire outer region of the Gale-Howl Mountain Range within a month.

He needed a mount.

Therefore, when he encountered this Gold Rank level-18 Gale Wolf, he deliberately spared its life and did not kill it.

He tamed it into a mount.

Because he wasn't carrying any magical pet contract scrolls, the entire taming process was a bit troublesome......

Still, judging from the Gale Wolf's current level of obedience, the final taming effect was fairly decent.

Of course, this Gale Wolf's name still carried over the name of the villa's AI.

After all, he was terrible at coming up with names.

【Item: Level-19 Wind-attribute Magic Core x1】

【Note: A crystal core containing surging magical energy, the most critical core within a magical beast's body. Can be used to construct magic arrays or serve as enchanting material; fed to a wind-attribute magical pet, it has a certain probability of causing it to level up.】

Under the Appraisal Technique, this crystal core's information was laid bare.

A magic core was the magical energy core found within the bodies of all Silver Rank and above magical beasts.

Magic cores like this one—Zhou Yi already had over a hundred of them in his backpack space.

Among them, there were also many wind-attribute magic cores.

So this time, he chose not to store it in his backpack space.

"Little Black, this magic core is for you."

Zhou Yi patted the head of the Gale Wolf in front of him, which had lowered its head to show submission.

Although it had been tamed by force.

One still had to throw it a treat now and then, right?

"Awoo~~"

The Gale Wolf's eyes lit up, and its massive wolf mouth swallowed the magic core on the ground in one gulp.

"Roar—"

Not long after swallowing the magic core, a massive surge of wind-attribute magical energy erupted from within its body.

Its body size also swelled up a notch, and its imposing presence was much stronger than before.

"It leveled up?" Zhou Yi's brow rose.

【Monster: Gale Wolf】

【Level: Level 19】

【Potential: Gold ☆】

【Skills: Wind Blade, Gale Technique, Gale Cannon】

【Note: The Gale Wolf's charging speed is extremely fast; it is a darling of the gales.】

"Sure enough, it leveled up."

Looking at the information presented by the Appraisal Technique, Zhou Yi felt somewhat emotional.

For human class users, leveling up usually required hunting large numbers of magical beasts and gaining large amounts of experience.

But for magical beast monsters like this, they only needed to devour two or three crystal cores from magical beasts one level higher, and they could easily complete a level up.

Coupled with magical beasts' strong reproductive ability, many magical beast cubs were born already at level 10 or above.

Inherently, magical beasts were a cut above humans.

Precisely because of this, the Gale-Howl Mountain Range, which had existed for over a hundred years, still harbored so many magical beasts despite countless class users rushing in to train themselves wave after wave.

"Little Black, let's go. Head northeast."

After the Gale Wolf finished leveling up, Zhou Yi slung the Heavy warhammer back onto his back and vaulted up.

Once again seating himself on its broad back.

Come to think of it, after leveling up, Little Hei's back was much more comfortable than before.

"Roar—"

With a low howl, the Swift Wind Wolf, child of the gale itself, carried Zhou Yi swiftly streaking off toward the northeast.

The outer perimeter of the Stormwind Mountains, a valley on the northeast side.

Here, the light was dim, and a strange purple-black energy permeated the air, making it impossible to see the surroundings clearly.

On the flat valley floor stood six massive rune stone pillars, each roughly 30 meters tall with a radius of about 1 meter, emanating surging waves of magical energy.

The six positions where the stone pillars stood were connected, faintly forming the shape of a six-pointed Starlight magic array.

And at the very center of this faintly formed six-pointed Starlight magic array, a palace of purple-black had been built.

"Clop, clop, clop..."

In the grand palace hall, a tall figure roughly two meters high, his entire body shrouded in armor, walked in.

He dropped to one knee at the very center of the palace.

"Your Highness, the Dark Erosion magic array is nearly complete. In five days, we can Return to the Holy Realm."

His deep voice echoed within the palace.

It was a language unlike any spoken by any nation on Blue Star, its syllables exceedingly strange, sounds no human could produce.

"Haha, excellent!!"

"Half a year of mission complete — at last we can return!"

At the very front of the palace hall, lounging on a luxurious seat carved with intricate patterns, sat a tall demon with two horns on his head and purple-glowing eyes.

This demon was clad in black-purple battle armor; right in the center of the breastplate, flame patterns resembling molten lava were burning.

The smile on his face was just like the molten lava flame patterns on his chest — wild and unrestrained.

"Before we leave, let our kin have one last bout of indulgence!"

"During this period, the garrison may freely go out to hunt humans."

"But remember — we must not be discovered by the human powerhouses. The hunting grounds are also limited to the vicinity of the valley. Every time you strike, make sure not to leave a single survivor!!"

The voice that the tall demon emitted from his chest cavity, throughout the entire hall, was like thunder, constantly reverberating and echoing back.

"Many thanks to Your Highness for your grace. I think they won't be willing to leave any survivors either."

The tall figure in the center of the hall stuck out his tongue and licked his lips.

The taste of humans.