Electric currents rampaged, and flashes of lightning reached far and wide!
Broken limbs and severed appendages were everywhere, all bloodied and mangled!
Dozens of Magical Beasts were all skewered to the ground!
This horrifying scene completely stunned Hudders and the rest!
“Oh my dragon god!!!”
“This many Magical Beasts... All of them have died just like that?”
“There are Third-Grade Magical Beasts, the Mountain-Rendering Pangolin and Blood-Spotted Snake, among them, you know! And they’ve died just like that?!”
“A hallucination! This must be a hallucination...”
Everyone felt as if everything was a dream. They were ultimately just ordinary humans; hunting some ordinary wild beasts was as far as it went. When had they ever seen anything like this?
Roar!!
The Iron-Armored Rhinoceros’ roaring pulled everyone back to reality at this point. The Iron-Armored Rhinoceros, which was as big as a bus, was in a terrible rage. It stomped on the ground, exhaling heavily through its nostrils!
The ground trembled, and the mountains shook!
Trees quivered!
The Iron-Armored Rhinoceros glared furiously at Meng Lei, killing intent raging within its eyes!
It launched a brazen attack the next moment!
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
It took only an instant for dozens of rocks as big as an ox’s head to rise into the sky. As though cannonballs had been launched, they suddenly shot toward Meng Lei!
It was the Second-Grade Spell, Rock Meteor Rain!
“Insignificant tricks!”
With a wave of Meng Lei’s arm, lightning arrows appeared out of nowhere and met the large expanse of rain of rocks head-on!
It was the Second-Grade Spell, Thunderbolt Arrow!
Boom, boom, boom!
Lightning arrows and rocks made contact, causing a deafening sound of explosion to erupt. The rocks were smashed into bits, turning into broken fragments that covered the whole sky as they landed like snowflakes!
Roar!
Upon seeing that its attack hadn’t been effective, the Iron-Armored Rhinoceros roared again and again. The horn at its forehead flashed yellow, and all the earth elements within a radius of dozens of meters converged in its direction. It was gearing up for a big move!
“A big move? It’s time to end this!”
Meng Lei shook his head lightly and launched the Third-Grade Spell, Thunderbolt Chains. Countless silver threads quietly appeared around the Iron-Armored Rhinoceros. Before it could react, they had already firmly surrounded it!
Crackle, crackle!
The Iron-Armored Rhinoceros was wrapped like a mummy. Electric currents thrashed about and flowed around it, numbing its body. The Iron-Armored Rhinoceros spasmed all over and shook in its boots, as though it was rave-dancing!
“It’s over!”
Meng Lei drew an arc across the air. A lightning spear appeared and pressed against the middle of the Iron-Armored Rhinoceros’ forehead, ready to pierce through its head and impale it to death on the spot anytime Meng Lei wished to!
However, Meng Lei hesitated at this point.
The Iron-Armored Rhinoceros couldn’t be said to be strong, but neither could it be said to be weak!
It was a Fourth-Grade Magical Beast, after all. It didn’t count as much in the depths of the forest, but it was considered a fairly powerful Overlord-Level Magical Beast in the fringes and outer boundaries!
If used well, there was a high chance that it could solve the beast tide problem for good. The moment he thought of that, Meng Lei turned to Captain Hudders and said with a smile, “Captain Hudders, what do you think of this Iron-Armored Rhinoceros?”
“(⊙o⊙)”
Hudders was mildly startled but replied nonetheless, “The Iron-Armored Rhinoceros is a Fourth-Grade Magical Beast with top-notch defenses and is also skilled at earth-elemental magic. If placed in the battleground, its offensive abilities can be said to be terrifying!”
“Since that’s the case, how about getting it to become your mount?” asked Meng Lei.
“My mount?”
Hudders looked totally bewildered.
“Yes! Your mount!”
A smiling Meng Lei said, “If the Iron-Armored Rhinoceros becomes your mount, it should be able to solve the beast tide problem very well. The village won’t suffer from beast tide attacks in the future anymore!”
“I... This... Is this viable?”
Hudders became agitated at once. Even his voice was somewhat shaking. As a Warrior, he naturally longed to have a powerful mount!
It was just a pity that... It was too difficult!
With his Second-Grade Warrior capabilities, it wasn’t difficult for him to tame a lousy mount. However, such mounts were no different from white elephants. What use were they even if he tamed them?
What was tough was taming powerful mounts!
Take the Iron-Armored Rhinoceros, for example!
If one wanted it to recognize them as its master...
The first way was to defeat it with absolute strength so that it would become most willing to recognize them as its master!
The second way was to use a contract scroll and forcibly compel the Iron-Armored Rhinoceros to recognize them as its master through the contract’s power!
The third way was to get a Magician to set up a Contractual Magic Circle...
It was just a shame that Hudders couldn’t achieve any of the methods, no matter which it was. If he had such abilities, he’d have made it big a long time ago. Why would he still be stuck in this tiny little Magical Beast Village?
Therefore, in the case of mounts like the Iron-Armored Rhinoceros, the only thing he could do was just to daydream about it, and nothing more!
However, Meng Lei was telling him right now that he could make the Iron-Armored Rhinoceros recognize him as its master. How could Hudders not become agitated?
“Why not?”
Meng Lei smiled and began to quickly chant a magic incantation. Before long, a dazzling and colorful magic circle arose from underneath the Iron-Armored Rhinoceros, giving off strange fluctuating waves!
The Iron-Armored Rhinoceros became unsettled upon seeing the magic circle. It began to struggle fiercely, and the Thunderbolt Chains actually started to show signs of breaking! Upon seeing that, Meng Lei launched a few more Thunderbolt Chains in succession!
For a moment there, the Iron-Armored Rhinoceros was shackled and wrapped like a mummy, unable to budge at all!
Meng Lei landed on the ground and dragged his finger lightly across the Iron-Armored Rhinoceros. It easily cut through its tough skin, which was as solid and sturdy like iron, and formed a laceration!
Blood spurted from the wound and landed in the magic circle by itself!
“Captain Hudders, come over here and subdue this beast!”
“Sure, sure!”
Hudders hurriedly ran, so worked up that he could barely contain himself!
Meng Lei pointed at the magic circle and said with a smile, “Drip a few drops of blood into it!”
Hudders didn’t dare to be tardy. He took out his dagger, made a cut on his finger, and let a few drops of blood drip from the cut. At once, the magic circle emitted a bright light, which shrouded Hudders’ and the Iron-Armored Rhinoceros’ blood!
Both human and beast blood began to rapidly transform and formed a strange pocket-sized blood-colored magic circle. Then, it separated into two and shot swiftly toward the Iron-Armored Rhinoceros and Hudders, before entering their heads and vanishing without a trace!
Whoosh!
The magic circle on the ground also vanished along with it!
“How is it, Captain Hudders?”
Meng Lei looked at Hudders, a hint of curiosity in his eyes. He’d long wanted to subdue a Magical Beast as his mount, so he’d specially studied how to set up a Contractual Magic Circle before!
However, this was still Meng Lei’s first time setting up a Contractual Magic Circle and subduing a Magical Beast. Thus, he naturally found it very new and interesting!
“It... feels like... I now have a bit of a link with it?”
Hudders looked at the Iron-Armored Rhinoceros, which also looked at him!
Two pairs of eyes gazed at each other!
The irascibility and savagery in the Iron-Armored Rhinoceros’ eyes disappeared, and reverence and allegiance took its place. The way it looked at Hudders was completely different from how it had looked at him previously!
Hudders called out, “Come here!”
The Iron-Armored Rhinoceros walked over obediently without even the least bit of resistance!
It didn’t resist even when Hudders reached out and touched its nose and was as docile as a kitten. There was no trace of its previous demeanor at all!
“So this is the might of a master-servant contract? It’s impressive, indeed!”
Meng Lei clicked his tongue in wonder and admiration as he watched. The contract’s successful formation had actually straight up changed the Iron-Armored Rhinoceros’ will and thoughts, causing it to recognize Hudders as its master from the bottom of its heart!
This was too scary!
“Haha! I have a mount now! I have a mount now!”
Hudders kept stroking the Iron-Armored Rhinoceros, so excited that he was practically grinning from ear to ear. The other guards also approached them, both excited and envious!
“Captain, congrats!”
“Tsk, tsk, having the Fourth-Grade Magical Beast Iron-Armored Rhinoceros as a mount, I’m totally green with envy!”
“It’s so mighty and imposing! I’m dying of envy...”