Episode 8: Walking a Thousand Miles Chapter 5: The Mysterious Panther
Linley’s brows were furrowed.
He hadn’t heard of this kind of magical beast either. There were only a few leopard-type magical beasts, but one with a nearly pitch-black body and a dense black pattern that was nearly curved was simply unheard of.
Generally unheard of magical beasts could not be underestimated.
The bald one eyed man continued, “That monster was right in front of our eyes, eating that magician’s face meat, thigh meat …… that meat in one bite is a piece, looking at a group of us are crazy with anger, one by one immediately surrounded up.”
“But ……”
The bald man shook his head, “What we didn’t expect was that this monster was too strong. We originally thought that he escaped with a sneak attack because he wasn’t strong. But …… when a group of us surrounded it, he was the one who easily seriously injured them.”
“Heavily injured?”
Linley inquired suspiciously.
“Right.”
The bald man said in fear and anger, “That monster definitely has the strength to easily kill us, yet it doesn’t, it only seriously injures us.”
“Originally, I thought we still had hope for survival. But then I realized that the monster was completely fixated on us. He came to take the two of us every day, sometimes taking us away, sometimes eating our friends not far in front of us.”
Linley’s heart trembled.
He understood that the intelligence of magical beasts was very high. And the magical beast that the bald man in front of him was telling about was definitely an extremely powerful magical beast, and its intelligence was naturally extremely high. I’m afraid that this magical beast was truly perverse.
“We wanted to escape back, but when we were about to flee towards the outside of the Magical Beast Mountain Range, that monster came back and seriously injured us once again.”
The bald, one-eyed man laughed bitterly, “There’s no way for us to escape out of the Magical Beast Mountain Range. This monster came every day to take two of us. In the blink of an eye, there are only six of us left out of our group of twelve.”
“My wife finally broke down after seeing it a few times, when the monster ate our friends hard. She begged me. Begged me to kill her.”
The bald, one-eyed man laughed bitterly, “You can’t even imagine, after three consecutive days of being under that kind of fear, a group of us almost broke down. My wife’s strength is relatively weak, even worse than me …… I went through a difficult choice and finally chose to let my wife simply die without pain.”
“You killed your wife?”
Linley frowned.
“Yes, with my own hands.”
The bald, one-eyed man said painfully, “But on the very day I killed my wife, we met several other people, one of whom was a big shot in our Southwest Province. A rank nine powerhouse, ‘Putlu’.”
“Originally, we all despaired and broke down. I killed my wife, but at this time, the rank nine powerhouse appeared, what do you think I would have done then?”
The bald, one-eyed man’s entire body trembled, “I was going crazy, really, I wanted to kill myself in agony.”
Linley could completely imagine being in complete despair and collapse. Killing his own wife with his own hands in order to keep her from suffering a monster eating and biting her to death in one gulp. But after killing his wife, the ninth level powerhouse appeared.
This kind of contrast would absolutely drive one insane.
“I’m in pain, but a few of my other friends are happy because they think there’s hope. A rank nine powerhouse, that’s second only to a Saint Domain powerhouse, we told him about it, and Lord Putlu immediately said that he would take care of this monster for us.”
“When that monster came again, Lord Putlu directly struck out.”
The bald, one-eyed man had a strange expression on his face. “In just one move, that monster hardened itself against Lord Putlu’s sword, and then directly cracked Lord Putlu’s head in one grab.”
Linley’s heart trembled.
A ninth level powerhouse’s attack could actually be resisted, and its speed and defense were both so terrifying. This monster was not to be underestimated.
“This time this monster was so excited that it actually swelled in size in front of us, turning from its original height of two meters to nearly five meters tall. Ten meters long. It directly devoured Lord Putlu in one bite.”
The bald, one-eyed man said in fear.
Linley’s face changed.
“Growing in size?”
Linley was truly shocked.
Because size change was something that all Saint realm magical beasts could do. They could easily become larger or smaller in size. Of course, a very small number of highly gifted ninth level magical beasts were also capable of doing so.
Bebe, for example, was able to become a bit larger in size.
That is to say ……
That monster, it was either a Saint Domain Magical Beast or an extremely gifted ninth level magical beast.
“It can’t be a Saint realm magical beast.”
Linley’s heart was also a bit terrified, although Linley was now very confident, he still wasn’t at all sure about Saint Domain Magical Beasts.
The bald, one-eyed man laughed bitterly, “Just like that, that monster continued to torture us, eating two of us a day. In the end, only my second brother and I were left. We fled all the way towards the central region. We had the luxury of hoping that this monster would fight with some powerful magical beasts and we could take the opportunity to escape. But obviously, there were no magical beasts that could stop that monster.”
Linley nodded.
He completely understood.
It was just that this bald, one-eyed man didn’t harbor good intentions towards himself either, and had to follow him. Obviously, he wanted to have himself protect him. This kind of behavior simply didn’t care about his own life or death in the slightest.
Linley’s face sank.
“My lord, I, we can’t help it.”
That bald, one eyed man understood what Linley was thinking, and even said, “I still have children, and my second brother also has children …… We don’t want to die.”
“Do I want to die?”
Linley snorted coldly.
From amongst the description of the bald, one-eyed man just now alone. Linley could at least determine the bottom line of this monster’s strength.
A ninth level powerhouse couldn’t be injured by a single sword, and it was faster than Bebe.
These two points alone. It had to make Linley nervous. Not to mention that it was only temporarily manifested, what was this monster’s true strength in the end?
Would it not be a Saint realm magical beast? Linley couldn’t confirm it, if it was a Saint realm magical beast, even if he teamed up with Bebe, Linley wouldn’t have any hope at all.
“You don’t want to die, but you’re dragging me down?”
Linley was somewhat dissatisfied in his heart.
“Bebe, let’s go.”
Linley immediately added and continued on, the bald, one-eyed man still following Linley. Linley didn’t head coldly staring at him.
This asshole, still following himself.
That monster, obviously staring at this bald head.
“My lord, you, just save me.”
That bald one-eyed man’s eyes were filled with thirst.
However, this behavior of his was increasingly repulsive to Linley. Thinking only for himself. Not thinking of anyone else at all.
“A ninth level powerhouse is dead, you think I’m a holy realm powerhouse?”
Linley pulled out the Black Yul heavy sword from his back, and the bald, one-eyed man backed away in fear.
“Follow me again, and don’t blame me for being ruthless.”
Linley said in a cold voice.
Today’s Linley, although he had reached the peak of level seven, after his dragonization he could reach the middle of level nine. It was a bit more powerful than when he was in Hess City Land. However, back in Hess City, Linley had only been able to fight the ninth level powerhouse Caesar to the point of a tie.
Now, to kill a rank nine powerhouse, it would be difficult for Linley to do so in a single blow.
That monster, on the other hand, had easily killed a rank nine powerhouse.
Fighting for someone he didn’t know. Was it worth it?
Linley inserted his Black Yul heavy sword into its scabbard and continued to set off alone. That bald, one-eyed man stood in place not daring to follow at all, except that he continued to look at Linley’s back with despair and resentment.
“Ah.”
Having just walked less than a hundred meters, miserable screams came from behind. Linley immediately turned around to look – only to see a two-meter tall, nearly four-meter long black panther appear in front of him on the snowy ground, and there was the body of the bald, one-eyed man still in the black panther’s mouth.
“Help, help.”
The bald, one-eyed man hadn’t yet broken.
Linley’s attention, however, was completely on this black leopard, which had a dense curved pattern on its body. It was very nice to look at. And that black leopard’s pair of icy eyes were looking at Linley with interest.
It was obvious that ……
This black panther was playing a game, and now that the game had come to an end, Linley was its last prey in this game.
“Help.”
That bald man looked at Linley with an expectant gaze.
That black panther, however, suddenly bit down hard with a single bite, only to hear a click, the bald man’s waist breaking off for the most part, and all the large and small intestines flowing out from the interior ground. The bald man struggled on the ground for a while, surprisingly did not die for a moment.
The black panther gracefully took a step, and its sharp claws directly stepped on the bald one-eyed man’s chest.
“Ka-ching!”
The bald one-eyed man’s right chest sunk in, and he stopped struggling in just a few seconds.
The black panther looked at Linley with interest before taking a graceful step towards him. This leopard’s stride was indeed very aesthetically pleasing.
“Bebe. You’re preparing a sneak attack, and this time, it’s going to be a fight to the death.”
Linley could tell that this leopard-type magical beast of unknown name was fixated on himself. Instead of allowing this monster to sneak attack, it was better to fight head on.
Linley unsheathed the heavy sword behind him and stared at this black panther.
“Hmph.”
Linley’s body began to change drastically at the same time. Icy spikes sprouted from his forehead, and black scales covered every part of his body extremely quickly. That one sturdy ground dragon tail also grew out. Spikes sprouted from his elbows, knees, and back.
In an instant, Linley was completely dragonized.
The black panther saw that what had originally been a human had turned into a monster like a humanoid magical beast all of a sudden. It couldn’t help but be startled, even as the oily, glossy fur instantly stood up.
One was a dragon blood warrior.
One was a mysterious leopard-type magical beast.
“Come on.”
Linley stood motionless in the snow with his Black Yul heavy sword in one hand. It was as calm as a mountain.
The black panther’s body was slightly depressed as he was storing up his strength!
“Whoosh!”
Linley’s dark golden pupils completely locked onto the black panther’s figure, this time Linley could barely see the black panther’s figure, and in almost the blink of an eye, the black panther scurried from nearly a hundred meters away to his eyes.
“Snap!”
Linley’s dragon tail viciously lashed at the black panther’s body like lightning. In terms of speed, the speed at which Linley’s dragon tail pumped was much faster than the black panther’s movement speed.
The black panther was jerked to fly to the snowy ground a dozen meters away.
But the black panther had just landed. A pair of icy eyes stared at Linley and let out a low roar, it was clear that this time the black panther was going to go all out. The black panther stomped on the ground and leapt over at breakneck speed, the speed of which simply made people’s hearts tremble.
Linley could see clearly that there wasn’t a single trace of blood on this black panther.
The dragon tail of a mid ninth level dragon blood warrior couldn’t even hurt the other party.
The ground black yu heavy sword in Linley’s hand slashed lightning fast, the surface of the black yu heavy sword flowing with greenish-black light, and the black panther even directly grabbed at Linley’s heavy sword with its claws flailing about.
“Clang.”
Linley’s heavy sword was actually deflected to the side by one of the black panther’s claws.
“Puff.”
The other claw was on Linley’s arm. And the arm covered in black scale armor. It also left deeper marks, and two more scales were scratched and cracked.
This man and beast exchanged blows once. Immediately separated.
“Roar, roar~~” the black panther was in the snow, coldly staring at Linley. He had already treated Linley as a true opponent. Just now, the attack had surprisingly not completely torn through the scale armor defense and hadn’t broken Linley’s arm. This caused this black panther to be surprised.
Linley looked at the injuries on the scale armor.
Normally a ninth level magical beast couldn’t break through Linley’s defenses, but that claw had just torn through two scales.
The volume of the black panther steeply expanded, from the original two meters high into five meters high, the body length is almost ten meters, the black tail is like a whip general waving. The black panther was still staring at Linley.
“Roar~~” the behemoth leapt towards Linley again.