Chapter 121: I'm Not The Idiot!
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As Lucifer ventured deeper and deeper into the Great Raja Forest, a few girls were very much on edge in a log cabin.
Pitter. Patter. Pitter. Patter.
Pacing around in circles, Xue Lan, the ghost woman, Shun Wen, the elven chick, and Li Yan, the bro-con goth girl, couldn't seem to calm their nerves. With the sudden disappearance of the one always on their minds, they were originally going to wait it out until he came back.
However, when more than 24 hours had gone by with no word back from him, they stopped their bickering and did the most useful thing they could.
They freaked out and did absolutely nothing!
"Wait!" Stopping in her tracks, Xue Lan looked toward the elven princess. "Aren't you like… able to send out a search party or something…?"
"Uhmm… No… Well, normally I could. But when it comes to the Great Raja Forest, that is just not possibl- well, hmm…"
Shun Wen was going to shut down Xue Lan's suggestion right away, but Xue Lan's words got her to thinking. 'Maybe I can ask my dad and his Elite Guards for help…? Well, no, that won't either… They will likely kill him the first chance they get,' she thought.
While thinking deeply about this matter, the little bro-con also stopped moving around so much. She looked at both Xue Lan and Shun Wen a couple times, then with a small voice, she said, "If not recieve help… Will become the help…"
After getting out these rather bold words, Li Yan Naruto-ran outside the cabin and quickly vanished into the whisky tree branches of the ominous forest.
"..." "..."
Both Xue Lan and Shun Wen were mulling over a matter that had no light at the end of the tunnel. That was, when, both at once, they snapped out it and noticed the absence of the goth midget…
"Errm… Looks like we're going in?" Xue Lan murmured after a moment of thought.
Still in a confused trance, Shun Wen lightly bobbed her head. "We have no choice now," she helplessly muttered.
Less than two seconds after they came to this consensus, they were already right behind Li Yan, following her into the depths of the unknown.
With Shun Wen's cultivation base being exceptionally high, she believed that she possessed the necessary power to protect them up until reaching the heart of the Great Raja Forest. And there was simply no way Lucifer already made it to the heart of the Great Raja Forest with his low cultivation base!
Right…?
For a moment, Shun Wen actually was correct in her train of thought. But in the very next moment, Lucifer had already stepped into the darkest reaches of the Great Raja Forest, the Great Raja Heart!
It was a location where Nightmare Monsters in and above the Middle Unity Form Synthesis Realm ran rampant. Larger than mountains and fiercer than berserker gods, these creatures dominated both the land and the sky!
But no matter how strong they were, Lucifer and his gang of clones swarmed them like ants and slashed at them until the elephants hit the earth as corpses…
In a matter of 4 hours, his Battle Power skyrocketed from the Early Unity Form Synthesis Realm to the Late Unity Form Synthesis Realm!
And that wasn't even the end of it as he also got his Evil Cultivation to match his Body and Mind Cultivation! With them all achieving the Peak Adamantine Rank, it was without debate that his improvements in Battle Power made perfect sense!
SHING!
While casting |Sword Slash| over and over again like an extremely annoying long range caster, Lucifer sat on a large rock and looked over the most recent system notifications with a bored expression.
BLING!
[Ding! You have killed a Late Unity Form Synthesis Realm Ice Yeti. The reward is 1850 Legendary Clone Essence!]
[Ding! You have killed a Late Unity Form Synthesis Fire Phoenix Aberration. The reward is 1920 Legendary Clone Essence!]
[Ding! You have killed twenty Middle Unity Form Synthesis Mountain Heart Diggers. The reward is 1370 Legendary Clone Essence!]
[Ding! You now have over 1.5 million Legendary Clone Essence! Would you like to use it all and buy lots of powerful clones?]
Tick!
As a vein formed on his forehead, Lucifer couldn't restrain himself any further and shouted, "Why the hell do you always want me to burn through every piece of my clone essence!? How far do you want the hole in my pocket to burn!?"
With an irritated look on his exquisitely handsome face, he tapped his feet up against the boulder, accidentally causing a few crack to spread here and there. Before long, the boulder shattered and crumbled, leaving Lucifer no place to lay his royal rump!
Luckily for him, the 'clean up' of this area of the Great Raja Forest was just about finished-
RUMBLE!!!
"!!!"
Out of nowhere, a massive tremor caused the land to violently quake!
Shooting his head toward the source of this distrubance, Lucifer realized that a new black sky had replaced the previous one- "Wait… That isn't the sky, is it…?" Slowly turning his head upward, he saw a kneecap so large that even a mountain range was smaller than it was. "Well… It's fair to say that we're rurally fucking screwed!" He shouted at the top of his lungs.
No matter how far he extended his divine sense, he couldn't even see past the upper part of this mysterious entity's kneecap!
And it only got worse from there, as the massive organism started to move! With just a slight bending of its knee joint, entire mountain ranges were shredded up and reduced to pebbles!
From this small movement, more than ten thousand of Lucifer's clones perished!
Not wishing to stick around and find out, he lifted up the sleepy floofer and got himself right the fuck out of there!
He had not a damn clue what exactly that thing was, but the one thing he did know was that his death was a certain event if he confronted that thing head on!
'It's at the very minimum of the Tribulation Transcendance Realm, and if my guess isn't too far off, it's likely around the peak of that realm… In other words, no matter how bravado I have, it's all pointless in the face of true insurmountable power…!'
Lucifer was no coward, but running oneself right to the chopping board was what made a courageous person a fool!
Still, he would've definitely died whether he ran or not. But luckily for him, it didn't seem like the mighty entity even noticed his existence. In fact, it moved its two world-like legs in the complete opposite direction of him and started to make its advance deeper into the Great Raja Heart.
It was unknown where it was going or what it planned to do, but the intentions of such an existence was way, way out of Lucifer's pay grade. Therefore, he went on his merry way and left the Great Raja Forest without looking back!
Of course, he left a very large portion of his Clone Force in the deeper areas of the rest, leaving them to farm their hearts away. Exactly 15 million clones were to scour the forest and hunt any Nightmare Monsters they could handle. Of those 15 million, only 80 of them had power in the Late Unity Form Synthesis Realm.
There were around ten thousand or so in the Middle and Early Unity Form Synthesis Realm as well, but the vast majority of the clone force were in and below the Half-Step Unity Form Synthesis Realm.
Most of the Nightmare Monsters were in or around the Peak Soul Transformation Realm, like the ones Lucifer encountered when he first got here. Therefore, the larger 'grunt' side of the clone force still had their parts to play.
But regardless of how deep Lucifer got himself into poverty, on his way out, he noticed a rather unusual occurrence…
Stalking up like a wraith, he hid behind a tree with Whitey on his shoulders. The first thing he saw was a familiar face, and then two more familiar faces. As for what they were doing…? Well…
"I chopped this log, but the ax got stuck! H-How are we going to make the fire now…!?"
Freaking out and biting at her nails, Xue Lan whacked a large log in frustration. However, seeing her hand pass right through the log, her frustration only grew!
"S-Stupid log and stupid campfire!" She shouted.
Whack!
A bonk arrived on Xue Lan's head, causing a grimace to spread across her face. "W-What was that for, Shun Wen…!?" She asked in an irkful tone. Holding her head with puffed lips, she stared up at the beautiful elf woman standing over her.
"Xue Lan… You know you're an idiot, right?"
"Whaa… I'm not the idiot! I was just trying to make the campfire…!" Before Xue Lan could defend herself, she was interrupted by Shun Wen, saying:
"Why did you suddenly decide to make a fire?? You said that you have been living in the Great Raja Forest for many years, so you should be well aware of how a light source can attract every Nightmare Monster in an extremely large radius!"
Pausing for a second to catch her breath, Shun Wen continued by saying, "So why in the name of the God of Darkness did you decide to set up a campfire when we were just supposed to take a few moments to look over this map and assess our situation!?"
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