Xie Feng was stunned for a long time before he said, "Meng Chao, do you know that the way you speak often makes the students want to spar with you?"
"Is that so?"
Meng Chao asked without changing his expression. "Every night, I spar with ten students in the Ultimate Style study group. If you're interested, I'll fight you anytime, but you'll have to make an appointment first. Let me see. Right now, I have an appointment for the seventh the day after tomorrow. Is that okay?"
Xie Feng sucked in a deep breath and stared at the silver light shining nonstop between Meng Chao's fingers. His expression was a little stiff.
Suddenly, two sparks shone in Meng Chao's eyes. His ears twitched a little, and he became excited.
"A superbeast! And it's a big guy!" he mumbled.
Xie Feng was a little stunned. "Where did the superbeast come from?"
"It's to the northwest. It's around five kilometers away from here. It should be the tyrant of reptile-type monsters. It might even be a dragon-type superbeast. I've been waiting for so many days, and it finally appeared!" Meng Chao placed his hands on the saber hilt and licked his sharp canines.
Xie Feng wanted to say, "Are you kidding me? The sound waves from a superbeast five kilometers away are blocked and distorted by the fog, but you can still hear them?"
But Meng Chao had already jumped back lightly and landed on the mountain of flesh formed by the Blade Shattering Pythons. Then, he jumped again and disappeared into the depths of the fog.
The Four Great Kings of Agricultural University's martial arts course looked at each other at a loss with strange expressions.
"What's going on? Even if there's really a superbeast, we Beast Soul Style martial artists should be the ones to handle it. He's just a broken-star superhuman of the Ultimate Style. What's he doing here?" Jiang Rui grumbled.
"Let's follow him and take a look," Sun Ya said.
"We're classmates, after all. If we really run into a superbeast, we can't just watch Meng Chao die, right?"
…
Four kilometers away.
After a storm, they arrived at the mysterious lake that had just formed.
Due to the influence of the crystal mine at the bottom of the lake and the meteors, the lake water and the swamp around it were thick and orange. They bubbled like a hot spring and gave off the smell of sulfur. The temperature around them was around twenty degrees Celsius higher than it was a few kilometers away.
The three freshmen who had lost their way in the thick fog stumbled and stumbled in the swamp, rolling and crawling as they tried to escape.
One of them panicked and stepped into a pit in the swamp. He crouched down, and his right leg sank down to his knee. Many thin, vine-like etherealized plants shot out from the depths of the swamp and wrapped around his leg. Even with the nano battle suit's defense, his leg muscles were severely torn, and he screamed in pain.
His two companions quickly went forward. With great difficulty, they cut through the etherealized plant and pulled him out. But then, a deafening explosion came from the fog behind them. A fire snake tore through the air like a long whip, and with a loud crack, it lashed out violently beside the trio.
Although the fire snakes did not hit their targets, the sparks that flew landed on the three of them and continued to burn like napalm bombs. No matter how hard they rolled in the mud, it was difficult to completely extinguish the fire. Even if they managed to extinguish it, the flames had burned through their nano combat suits and left painful wounds on their bodies.
When the three of them endured the pain and stood up, the surrounding temperature was already unbearably high. The 'hot spring' beside them had also turned into 'magma'.
In the depths of the fog was a large, crimson creature. It slowly walked out with the posture of a king.
It was a dragon-type monster that was more than five meters long.
At first glance, it looked like the amalgamation of a lizard and an ancient dinosaur.
There were three red crystals embedded in its forehead, and it was covered in a layer of dazzling feathers that looked like they were burning. When the feathers were raised, its body seemed to have swelled up by another level, and it exuded an invincible might.
Even the weakest Fire Feather Dragon was a Grade Two superbeast. When it became an adult, it would usually reach Grade Three. Among all Nightmarish Beasts, it was one of the overlords that was second only to the Lightning Dragon.
Its inborn skill, Flame Breath, could release flames that were more than one thousand degrees Celsius. It could burn for more than five minutes, and it was very difficult to extinguish it, just like napalm bombs. It could flow everywhere and form a wall of fire that could continuously shrink the prey's living space. It could even suffocate the prey.
Its inborn skill, High Heat Turbulence, could use the contraction and expansion of hot and cold air caused by the flames to form a turbulence shield around it. It could interfere with other monsters' poison and humans' bullets, and it could also distort the trajectory of the enemy's long-distance attacks.
Its inborn skill, Flame Dance, could make sharp and hot feathers stand up. Then, it could use its body to spin at high speed to shoot thousands of feathers in all directions. They would form the effect of a meteor shower, and it could kill a large number of normal monsters and human soldiers. It was a very effective AOE attack.
Aside from a handful of exceptions, when humans categorized monsters, most of them followed a simple and crude principle. The number of inborn skills they had was how many levels they had.
Since the Fire Feather Dragon had three inborn skills, it was definitely an existence that gave low-grade superhumans a headache.
The three freshmen were separated from their companions. They wandered around the fog like headless chickens for a long time, and after going through a few bloody battles, they were long since exhausted. They also ran out of ammunition.
Due to spirit energy magnetic field interference, their communication channels kept letting out static sounds. No matter how much they shouted, they could not get any response from their reinforcements. Even if they managed to get through to their reinforcements, they did not know where they were!
In this sort of situation, when they ran into the Fire Feather Dragon, their minds were already one step ahead of their bodies, and they fell into a boundless hell.
Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!
Just when the fuel sac at the Fire Feather Dragon's lower jaw shone with a red light and swelled up to its limit, the trio suddenly heard the beautiful sound of propellers descending from the sky, as if they were about to shoot out fatal snakes of fire.
Bang, bang, bang, bang!
Four small and exquisite unmanned attacking machines attacked the Fire Feather Dragon from different angles, as if they were guided by invisible threads.
Rustle, rustle, rustle, rustle!
Eight mechanical spiders that were less than half a meter long but had sharp, blade-like limbs that shone with cold light crawled over agilely and jumped on the Fire Feather Dragon's back.
Bullets flew and attracted the Fire Feather Dragon's attention.
Sharp blades shone and stabbed the Fire Feather Dragon's back in an attempt to cut its spine.
No matter how the creature jumped around in rage, the mechanical spiders remained pinned to its back and carried out their tasks loyally.
A pleasant sound of metal scraping against metal rose in front of the trio, and an awe-inspiring steel demon tore through the fog and crawled out.
It looked like the amalgamation of a strengthened exoskeleton and ancient knight's heavy armor. Its limbs were covered in blades, pulleys, and tracks. It also had four retractable mechanical arms that looked like octopus tentacles on its back. The three-pronged steel claws at its front were embedded with probes, chainsaws, impact drills, flamethrowers, and other tools. At first glance, it looked even stranger than the Fire Feather Dragon.
But the three freshmen looked as if they had seen their savior. They were so happy that they cried.
"Xu Sheng, this is great! We're saved!"
Xu Sheng was a machine course freshman from the University of Technology. He was one of the four specially recruited fighting course students from the alliance of the five universities. He had the title of Machine Maniac since he was young. Even though he was born with a handicap, he had a strong will. He also had talent in metal sensitivity and machine affinity. He designed many firearms and mechanical prosthetics on his own, and he received good reviews from the people in the industry. While the other so-called geniuses were still working madly for their national college examinations, he had already received early admission from the University of Technology's machine course. He was also working with the specialists from the University of Technology and the Red Dragon Army to develop a new generation of strengthened exoskeletons.
"Fire Feather Dragon, that's a rare creature in Shattered Starlake. I'm pretty lucky today!"
The Nightmarish Beast that caused normal students to be afraid of it made Xu Sheng smile. He even whistled.
As he whistled, the barrage of bullets from the four unmanned aerial vehicles became even denser. The mechanical spiders that jumped on the Fire Feather Dragon's back also split open the plates on their bellies to reveal bone saws that were spinning at high speed.
Sizzle! Sizzle!
The four bone saws cut into the Fire Feather Dragon's back at the same time.
The Fire Feather Dragon roared in pain. The red flames around it instantly turned white, and the temperature swiftly increased by more than one hundred degrees Celsius.
Regardless of whether it was the mechanical spiders or the unmanned aerial vehicles, all of them were paralyzed in the high temperature. Sparks rose with crackling sounds.
The Fire Feather Dragon raised its sharp feathers and shot them out like bullets. Flame Dance was activated, and it instantly tore the mechanical spiders and unmanned aerial vehicles to shreds. They burned fiercely and were reduced to scrap metal.
Xu Sheng's expression changed. He summoned more mechanical spiders and unmanned aerial vehicles from the fog.
But the Fire Feather Dragon let out a whoosh and spat out a thick and long fire snake. It surrounded a circular area of thirty meters and created a white wall of fire that enveloped Xu Sheng and his remote-controlled machines.
The raging flames, thick smoke, and flying sparks greatly reduced the visibility.
The rapid increase in temperature also affected the control chips of the unmanned aerial vehicles and mechanical spiders, so Xu Sheng's commands were delayed for a moment.
Hence, the Fire Feather Dragon only used its second wave of Flame Dance to destroy Xu Sheng's unmanned aerial vehicles and mechanical spiders.
'How could this be?'
Cold sweat broke out on Xu Sheng's forehead. 'The attack range of this Fire Feather Dragon's Flame Breath is eight meters longer than the average data in the monster database. The temperature of its flames seems to be around forty degrees Celsius. Even its speed and agility have increased by leaps and bounds. Is it really a Fire Feather Dragon?'
Before Xu Sheng could think about it, the Fire Feather Dragon charged at him like a burning armored train.
Xu Sheng instinctively controlled the four retractable mechanical arms on his back. He tapped against the swamp lightly and jumped into the air.
He did not expect that the Fire Feather Dragon would predict his dodging path and jump even faster than him. It flew eight meters away like a tiger with wings and crashed into him in the air.
The Fire Feather Dragon opened its mouth while it was in the air and went to bite Xu Sheng.
Xu Sheng instinctively blocked it, but his right arm was bitten off at the elbow by the Fire Feather Dragon.
Fortunately, he was born without a right arm and legs. Only his mechanical prosthetics were bitten off. He also seized the chance to activate the super high voltage electric arc cannon hidden in his upper right arm. Three bolts of lightning intersected with each other and struck the Fire Feather Dragon's throat. The creature was electrocuted so much that smoke rose from its throat. Then, Xu Sheng broke free of the creature and fell heavily on the ground.
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