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.
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“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 magic cores. Some hunted Magical Beasts honestly and honorably to obtain magic cores, but some didn’t go about it in the same way. Instead, they pointed their blades at their own kind.
After all, it was obvious that one could obtain magic cores a lot faster by killing others.
This led to humans becoming a more dangerous presence in the Magical Beast Forest instead!
Very evidently, the small and skinny man in front of Meng Lei right now belonged to this group of people. The moment he thought of that, the look in Meng Lei’s eyes turned cold and frosty, and murderous intent arose in his eyes.
To actually dare to set his sights on me, he ought to die!
The small and skinny man glanced at Meng Lei. Then, he disappeared from the spot where he was. Meng Lei secretly became more cautious and vigilant—he didn’t think that the other party would leave just like that!. And true enough...
Whoosh!
An almost indiscernible sound of something slicing through the air quietly rang out. An icy glint suddenly flew out from the left and shot right toward Meng Lei’s temples.
A person’s temples were awfully fragile. Once struck, there was no doubt that the person would die!
Meng Lei pulled back and evaded the attack. Then, he heard a crash—the man had actually inexplicably emerged from underneath his feet and was plunging the dagger in his hand toward Meng Lei’s heart!
The dagger reflected a vibrant green glow in the sunlight. It was obvious that it was covered in poison. Should one be even the slightest bit struck by it, they would lose their life for sure!
A diversion tactic? How cunning!
Meng Lei didn’t panic at all. His right hand suddenly transformed into a dragon claw and, in one motion, grabbed hold of the dagger plunging toward his heart. Then, as the man watched him in stunned surprise, he rammed his knee upward brutally.
Splurt!
As though something had been forcibly burst, the man let out a shrill scream that sounded like the squeals of a pig being slaughtered, and his whole self launched right into the air!
“Die!”
Meng Lei let out a cold snort and casually flung out a lightning lance. It instantly pierced through the man’s heart and pinned him onto a large tree!
“Y... you’re... a... a... dragon...”
The man’s mouth opened and closed. He wanted to say something, but in the end, before he could utter anything, his head fell to the side... and he croaked!
“Phew!”
Meng Lei breathed a big sigh of relief, and his heart finally settled at ease. That guy was an assassin. He could appear and disappear like a ghost and was incredibly sly and cunning. Even a Sixth-Grade Warrior would perish in his hands if they were careless!
What a pity that he had bumped into Meng Lei instead!
“Murderers will also be killed by others someday!”
Meng Lei walked right up to the small and skinny man. There wasn’t even an ounce of sympathy in his eyes. Who knew just how many people had died in the hands of people like him that specially hid in the shadows to attack adventurers in Magical Beast Forest? He was definitely scum even among the dregs of society. There was nothing regrettable about his death at all.
However, one must admit that people like him were usually very wealthy.
Meng Lei’s eyes turned bright and shiny, and he began to rummage through the corpse’s clothes...
“Nothing in his hands! Nothing in his pockets, either!
“No spatial equipment! No magic crystal cards or gold coins, either!
“How strange! Why isn’t there anything on him? Could he actually be a pauper?
“That shouldn’t be the case, though...”
After searching the body for a good half a day, he simply didn’t find even half a bronze coin. This aggravated Meng Lei badly. His presumption was that wicked crooks like him that relied on attacking and killing adventurers should all be filthy rich, so how could he possibly be penniless?
“Something’s not right here!”
Meng Lei decided to start a fire in a fit of pique and began to burn the man’s dead body. “I don’t believe that you don’t even have half a gold coin on you...”
The fire burned and blazed!
Under the burning of fire-elemental spells, the man’s body didn’t even last that long before he was burned into ashes. His clothes, flesh and blood, and bones—all of them were reduced to ashes.
And with that, true enough, Meng Lei discovered something odd!
A belt made out of some kind of special magic material laid quietly among the ashes. In addition, there were four rings tied to the belt!
“Why didn’t I find this when I was searching his body just now?
“Could the belt have been sewn inside the clothes?
“Yeah, there’s a possibility of that!”
Meng Lei was secretly glad that he had gone a step further. Then, he picked up the belt and began to examine it.
The moment he did, Meng Lei became utterly excited.
“Haha! It’s actually a spatial belt!
“What a huge space!
“I’m rich! I’m gonna be rich now!
“Let’s take a look at the four rings now!
“What the hell?”
Meng Lei was absolutely delirious with joy!
The belt and the four rings were actually all spatial magic devices!
The space inside the belt was the largest and stretched as far as 150 cubic meters!
The four spatial rings were slightly inferior. They were respectively 100 cubic meters, 60 cubic meters, 50 cubic meters, and 10 cubic meters each.
Apart from that, there was a large quantity of highly valuable items, such as magic cores, gold coins, jewels, weapons, magic crystal cards, magic materials, magic devices, and more inside the five spatial magic devices!
Of course, there were also clothes, roast meat, condiments, tents, and some other day-to-day necessities that weren’t valuable but were still useful inside.
“Just the value of the five spatial magic devices alone has already exceeded 30,000,000 gold coins!
“Not to mention that there are so many gold coins, magic crystal cards, and jewels, too!
“I’ve really struck it big this time!
“Wahahaha, I’ve struck it big now!
“Calm down!
“Calm down!
“This is the Magical Beast Forest where it’s full of perils!.
“If I celebrate too soon and things start going wrong instead, it’ll become a tragedy.”
Meng Lei forced himself to calm down. He eagerly found somewhere relatively safe and began to make an inventory of his rewards this time.
“First things first—all the gold coins go into the system.”
“Ding! Congratulations to the host. Wealth +570,000 gold coins!”
“570,000 gold coins!”
Meng Lei’s eyes lit up, and he hastily looked at the personal stats interface.
Host: Meng Lei
Race: Human (Contains Fire Dragon bloodline and Fire Demon bloodline)
Wealth: 1,067,835 gold coins
“One, ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand, hundred thousand...
“One million and sixty thousand!
“One million and sixty thousand gold coins!”
Meng Lei broke into a grin so wide that it practically stretched from ear to ear. “I had worked so arduously in my past life and conscientiously did my best to earn an income, but even after toiling for four years, I’d only been able to make a down deposit for a house.
“Never would I have thought that I’d become a millionaire after coming to this alternate universe for just half a year! My life doesn’t lose out to the main characters in those novels, right?”
A millionaire!
For this, Meng Lei had struggled and strove for several years in his past life. Now that he’d finally realized this dream in this life, one of the biggest regrets in his heart had been resolved.
However...
Although money was wonderful, if it couldn’t be put to practical use, then it was nothing more than just a bunch of numbers.
“Come, come! I’ll redeem 60,000 gold coins’ worth of Stat Attribute Points first.
“Then, distribute them to my Spirit and Magic Power attributes.
“Haha, I can finally be willful for once!”
“Ding! Congratulations to the host for becoming a Seventh-Grade Magician!”