Chapter 66: Mare’s Snowball Brims with Mana! The Dragon Breath of Destruction! |
Chapter 66: Mare’s Snowball Brims with Mana! The Dragon Breath of Destruction!
“So it really is…”
As the prerequisite appeared before him, Bai Xuan’s suspicion was confirmed.
Just as he’d guessed, the so-called Dragon of the Frozen Curse was after Mare Alera.
“Master, is there something wrong with that dragon?” Serene set aside her comic book, glancing up with concern.
“Yeah,” Bai Xuan replied with a nod. “The Investigation Bureau just received word—the Dragon of the Frozen Curse is about to descend on Ninghang City.”
“But for now, we don’t know exactly when or where it will show up.”
“Human! I can help!” Mare Alera shot her hand up, eyes sparkling. “We dragons can sense each other. Even before it appears, I’ll be able to pinpoint its location!”
“Oh?” Bai Xuan looked at her expectantly. “Then I’ll be counting on you, Little Mare.”
“Alright, let’s get started on today’s mission.”
With that, Bai Xuan opened the Book of Worlds.
He needed to complete D-rank or higher missions to charge up Epic Charge now. But D-rank Anomalous Disasters were far less common than E- or F-rank ones, and their locations tended to be scattered across distant regions.
“Okay, this one will do.”
After choosing a suitable mission, Bai Xuan activated the Teleportation Array.
……
On the other side of the city, Liu Mufei drove back to her mountain villa.
She had no intention of leaving Ninghang City just yet; she planned to stay a few more days.
Coincidentally, there was still unfinished business concerning Su Yue.
Settling into a lounge chair on the balcony, Liu Mufei drew her phone from the snowy valley of her chest and dialed a number.
“Hello, are you able to handle things on your end?”
A woman’s voice soon answered, “Of course. But are you sure you want to go through with this?”
“Su Yue’s Anomalous Ability is extremely rare. Once the plan is set in motion, we may never find her again.”
“This is her choice,” Liu Mufei said coolly. “I gave her my word. I won’t go back on it.”
“Besides, if you people hadn’t gone so far trying to force out her potential, why would she have fled Ideal City in the first place?”
“You all owe her an apology!”
“Hehehehe…”
A cold laugh crackled through the receiver. “Everything we did was for the world, for Huaguo’s future.”
“Unfortunately, that experiment failed. Her Anomalous Ability lost its potential for further growth. Now, at best, she’s capable of telepathy and simple movement control—nowhere near the level of rewriting reality.”
“Even if you don’t mention it, we won’t be searching for her anymore.”
“After all, she’s just a failed subject.”
“What a pity we couldn’t create another ‘Truth of Bluestar.’”
“……”
Liu Mufei narrowed her eyes, falling silent for a long moment.
At last, she asked, “When will that collar be ready?”
“It’s ready now,” the other woman replied. “Do you want to pick it up yourself?”
“I’ll come by shortly. But let me warn you—” Liu Mufei’s voice turned icy, “Don’t tamper with the collar in any way.”
“Relax. I have no interest in wasting my time on a failure, nor would I bother with such a thankless task.”
“Still, whether she can control her Anomalous Ability isn’t up to me. I’m only providing an auxiliary device…”
……
Meanwhile, deep within a pitch-black cave—
“Serene!”
“I’m here!”
“Attack the mother!”
“Understood.”
Serene raised her hand, summoning four longswords gleaming with golden Holy Light. She gripped the Sword of No Light and charged at the distant white giant spider.
The spider spat webbing like cannonballs to block her, but the Holy Radiant Swords circling her sliced them apart with ease.
In a flash, Serene closed in, sword raised high—
“Holy Radiant Slash!”
Ding!
A golden arc split the air, and the giant spider’s body was cleaved in two.
“Whew—finally done!”
Bai Xuan let out a long breath of relief.
But before he could fully relax, Mare Alera’s desperate cry echoed through the cavern:
“Human! Help me! There are too many spiders!”
At that moment, Mare Alera was beset by a swarm of giant spiders.
She had already revealed her true form—a towering hatchling dragon over ten meters tall!
Yet even so, the endless wave of spiders was overwhelming.
In the time it took Serene to slay the mother, Mare Alera’s limbs had been bound tight by webs. She was on the verge of being wrapped into a spider cocoon!
“Don’t worry, Little Mare.”
Bai Xuan called out, “I’ll help you right now.”
He hurried over to the giant spider’s corpse Serene had just felled and retrieved a round red bead.
According to the Mission Note, these monsters, called White-Faced Spiders, lived in groups led by a mother spider. The mother harbored a unique bead inside her body, filled with venom used to control and poison the males.
“Catch this!”
Bai Xuan tossed the bead into the air and then shattered it mid-flight with a miniature Holy Radiant Sword.
In an instant, green venom splattered over the cluster of male spiders. The poison took effect immediately, dissolving them into pools of blood in mere moments.
“That’s… incredibly potent.”
Bai Xuan was taken aback by its power.
But he knew better than to let his guard down. The mission wasn’t just to exterminate the spiders, but to destroy their nest completely.
The mission details made it clear: the White-Faced Spiders had built their nest deep within the cave, where millions of spider eggs were incubating. If these eggs hatched, all life nearby would be wiped out.
Bai Xuan pressed further into the darkness.
As he passed Mare Alera, he heard her grumble, “Human! This venom is so sticky and gross!”
“I’ll take you back for a bath later,” Bai Xuan promised, pausing as he looked ahead.
A massive spiderweb blocked the way.
With a swing of his Holy Radiant Sword, he sliced through the web, revealing the heart of the nest.
In the depths of the cave, countless milky-white spider eggs lay in eerie stillness.
“Ugh… Just looking at this triggers my trypophobia!”
Bai Xuan shuddered, turning to Serene. “Serene, I’ll leave it to you.”
“Hmm…”
“Wait! Let me do it, let me do it!”
Just as Serene was about to act, Mare Alera eagerly volunteered.
“Alright, go ahead.”
Bai Xuan smiled, leaving the task to her.
“Heehee! Human, watch me!”
Mare Alera lumbered her dragon form forward to the field of eggs.
A deep rumbling welled up from her chest, as if a torrent of mana was gathering within that snowy white mass—Destruction Dragon Breath!
Boom!
A crimson torrent of dragon breath erupted from her jaws, searing flames instantly engulfing the millions of spider eggs before her.
“Incredible…”
It was Bai Xuan’s first time witnessing Mare Alera’s dragon breath.
Though the charge-up was a bit long, the power was truly astonishing.
Hmm?
Suddenly, amid the blazing inferno, Bai Xuan noticed a faint white light flickering within the flames…