Playing with fantasy beasts in the martial arts world

Chapter 228 The Space Dragon...Egg!
"Be careful! It's a minion of darkness! A powerful enemy from beyond the heavens!" The Winter Summoner warned Cha Nan, quickly shielding her behind him. In the world of mythical beasts, humans, as contractors, are never the main fighters.

This was especially evident when fighting against powerful phantoms.

It really does know a lot more.

Cha Nan looked at Huiyueyi, bathed in moonlight and backed by a crescent moon, not far away, and wondered what role it played in the current fantasy beast world.

In the game, Huiyueyi is a special type of mythical beast that fell from the sky along with a meteorite.

In the world of fantasy beasts, it seems to have become a complete 'outsider', and is clearly not on the same trajectory as the traditional fantasy beasts in the world.

This Radiant Moon Beast is level 57, which is even higher than the Winter Summoner Beast.

However, the Winter Caller is a divine beast with a hierarchical suppression, so Huiyueyi should not be a match for it.

However, the scorching wind carrying a strong sulfurous smell blew around, causing Cha Nan's confidence to waver slightly.

This is not a suitable place for the Winter Summoning Beast. Being close to the massive volcano and lava fields makes the temperature and humidity in the air clearly unsuitable for the Winter Summoning Beast to perform its skills.

Cha Nan is ready to support the Winter Summoning Beast at any time.

As darkness descended, the ground seemed to move and tumble.

In the distance, the volcano spewed out thick smoke and lava, the surging lava resembling a scarlet, wriggling carpet of fungi that had stained the ground red.

A surging, overwhelming heat wave swept over them. If it weren't for the Winter-Calling Beast cooling them down, Cha Nan would probably have been suffocated by the heat.

Of course, this is just an exaggeration. With Cha Nan's current resources, he can gradually adapt as long as the living environment is not too harsh.

Although nominally still a Grandmaster, in every aspect, Cha Nan has long surpassed ordinary Grandmasters. Now, he only needs to master one more realm of intent and merge it with the wind and ice realms he has mastered before, and he can become a Great Grandmaster, condensing his true qi into qi and becoming a terrestrial immortal.

The Winter Summoning Beast did not rush to attack. Instead, it protected Cha Nan while flapping its wings and releasing a chilling aura.

It is a god that summons ice and snow, not an ordinary ice-type mythical beast.

Changing its home field advantage is one of its innate abilities.

A strong wind blew up, and the cold suddenly dropped.

The ground began to spread rapidly, covered with ice.

Ice and fire collided in the distance, creating plumes of white mist and smoke.

Huiyueyi coldly watched the Winter Summoning Beast's earth-shattering transformation, floating at the boundary where ice and fire collided.

It seems to have no physical form, or rather, its physical form is the flowing moonlight itself.

Countless strands of silvery-white, deep blue, and even deathly dark purple "moonlight" flowed, swirled, gathered, and dispersed around it, forming a huge, ever-changing, breathtakingly beautiful, and soul-freezing crescent moon.

Roar!
The Winter Calling Beast, which had always appeared sacred and magnanimous, revealed its ferocious beastly side for the first time in front of Cha Nan.

A roar, seemingly not originating from the material world but reverberating directly at the soul level, a sound mixed with the shattering of billions of glaciers and the mournful howl of the eternally frozen wind, suddenly exploded from inside the mouth of the Winter-Calling Beast.

The icicles beneath their feet instantly turned to dust. Centered on them, it was as if an invisible giant hammer was blasting them from the inside, producing a deafening, terrifying roar like a mountain collapsing.

Ice-blue light, a chilling, soul-freezing light, burst forth from every visible crack in the ice.

The attack was a deadly strike; the Winter Summoning Beast left no room for retreat.

In an instant, a crystal-clear ice corridor, seemingly stretching across the sky, was formed between it and Huiyueyi, and the space itself seemed to groan under the unbearable weight of this frozen power.

At the same time, Kaguya also moved.

Without warning, the enormous crescent moon rippled like water.

In the next microsecond, it collapsed into the crescent moon.

It did not disappear, but rather, at a speed beyond comprehension, it condensed into a beam as thin as a hair, yet so refined as to pierce the soul—the radiant moon ray.

A soft sound, as gentle as a lover's whisper, yet carrying an absolute sharpness that pierces through everything.

The icy corridor that had frozen everything was silently cleaved in two by this line of moonlight. The cut was as smooth as a mirror, and the line of moonlight continued its momentum, pointing precisely at the icy armor worn by the Winter Summoning Beast.

There was no earth-shattering collision.

Time seemed to stand still for a moment.

The layer of ice armor covering the Winter Summoner's body, as hard as diamonds, began to melt, like a scalding knife cutting through solidified grease.

The contact point sank in silently.

Cha Nan immediately moved, transforming into the wind and dispersing from the spot.

With Cha Nan gone, the Winter Summoning Beast no longer had a reason to continue its resistance.

Only an empty shell of ice armor remained, its own form transforming into the radiance of wind and snow, scattering among the cold snowflakes, and then reappearing elsewhere.

The crescent moon ray, along with the ice crystal armor, transformed into specks of energy fragments, scattering into the air and dust.

"Do you need any help?" Cha Nan asked the Winter-Summoning Beast.

Huiyueyi's overall size is roughly the same as that of a normal human, so even if its skill attack intensity is a bit higher, Cha Nan is not afraid of dealing with a phantom beast of this size.

Unlike warriors, some mythical beasts may possess powerful attack capabilities but not necessarily matching defense and health.

Huiyueyi is clearly a mage-type pet. Although its defense is outstanding compared to low- and mid-tier pets, it is slightly weaker when compared to pets of the same tier and level.

Cha Nan kicked out, and Hui Yueyi, with her physique, might not be able to withstand it.

"No need! Take care of yourself, and be careful that something else might be watching you from the darkness."

"I'll cripple it in a bit, and you'll be in charge of capturing it." The Winter-Calling Beast's tone was very relaxed.

Perhaps, Cha Nan was the human with the strongest self-preservation ability it had ever encountered.

After all, there was no such thing as 'martial arts' in the past history of this world. Even contractors who wear the best armor and the highest-level shields are still vulnerable when facing the skill attacks of high-level and high-ranking phantom beasts.

Therefore, for those mythical beasts with contractors, their biggest weakness is their contractors.

Cha Nan's quick thinking and reliability made Huan Dong Beast feel much more at ease.

As it turns out, the Winter-Calling Beast wasn't exaggerating.

Its battle with Kaguya initially appeared to be evenly matched, with both sides exchanging blows.

But as time went on, its widespread attack began to make the surrounding air colder and the area covered by ice and snow became wider and wider.

In contrast, the Winter Summoner's attack methods are becoming increasingly unpredictable and less constrained by skill restrictions, allowing for greater freedom of expression.

Huiyue was finding it increasingly difficult to cope. A massive array of light rose from the ground, creating a huge area-of-effect attack.

Light Strike Array!
One of the most powerful area-of-effect attack skills in the world of fantasy beasts.

Basically, this is a must-have skill for any pet formation when fighting the Stone Slab BOSS.

At this moment, Huiyueyi planned to use this skill to destroy the home-field advantage created by Huandongshou and bring the gradually tilting battlefield situation back to the original balance of power.

However, the Winter-Calling Beast did not give it that chance again.

A terrifying roar and breath appeared, and a pillar of ice crystal light flew towards Huiyueyi, locking it firmly in place and freezing it.

The powerful ice-type sealing skill 'Diamond Star' was activated first.

Those struck by this attack will be sealed within ice crystals resembling giant diamonds, from which they will find it difficult to escape.

When this skill is unleashed by an ice-type divine beast like the Winter Summoner, its sealing power is extraordinary.

Even though Kaguya was no pushover, she still couldn't break free from her restraints.

With Huiyueyi blocked, Chanan immediately threw the Palu ball.

After failing three times in a row, it was successfully captured by Chanan with a master-level Paruk on the fourth attempt.

"Well done!" The Winter Summoning Beast nodded approvingly at Cha Nan.

In fact, the moment the Palkia failed to capture, Kaguya had already unlocked the Ice Crystal Seal because of the Palkia.

However, Cha Nan's throwing technique was specially trained. With a total of five balls, after arranging them in the correct order and calculating the angles, they were thrown almost simultaneously. If one ball failed, another would be thrown immediately, ensuring that the targeted phantom beast had virtually no time to resist or react.

This technique, while slightly wasting the Parru ball, significantly increases the success rate.

After Huiyueyi was subdued, the pale moonlight in the sky became even deeper.

Cha Nan looked at the Winter-Calling Beast, intending to continue asking the questions she hadn't had a chance to ask before.

"Aren't you going to set up a base here?" the Winter Summoning Beast reminded Cha Nan.

Cha Nan scanned the area and saw that, apart from the large ice layer that had been altered by the Winter-Calling Beast, all that could be seen were charred volcanic rocks and ash, as well as lava flowing and spreading freely.

At first glance, it stretched as far as the eye could see, as if they had not arrived at the other side of the mythical beast world, but rather at hell.

This is clearly not a good location to establish a base.

There were no useful resources to be seen, nor was there a safe location suitable for building outposts and various technological constructs.

Setting up a base here is purely to serve as a temporary foothold, facilitating travel back and forth.

"Is there no teleportation point here?" Cha Nan asked.

“It used to be there, but it’s gone now!” said the Winter-Calling Beast.

"why?"

"Was it because of the invasion of a powerful enemy that civilization was destroyed? Were the teleportation points also destroyed?" Cha Nan offered his speculation.

He had already figured it out: perhaps in this world of mythical beasts, there was a group of mythical beasts that were not native to the world, but came from the dark void. They destroyed this world and also severed its civilization.

For example, there's Kaguya, as well as characters like Genodoran, Bellanova, Bellaruge, Extreme Bellaruge... and the most powerful Moon Lord.

They are powerful and evil, and they destroyed the original ecological order of the fantasy world.

"Because the Vortex Dragon perished!"

"Its last bit of power was left on the other side of the world, ensuring that the teleportation point on that side could still function."

"On this side, where the corrosion is more severe, the spatial power of the Vortex Dragon is no longer stable. It needs your stronghold as a coordinate to reignite the ripples in space," the Winter Summoner said.

"The Vortex Dragon controls the power of space?" This was the first time Cha Nan had heard of this.

In the game, the Vortex Dragon is indeed the fastest flying mythical beast.

If the entries are composed of three or four speeds, the speed of flight is much faster than that of the Cloud Deer, which is also three or four speeds.

However, in the realistic fantasy world, the Vortex Dragon is no longer just fast; it has become a symbol of spatial power.
That wouldn't be fast flight, but rather spatial jump movement?
"Each mythical beast represents a source of power and is the cornerstone of the world's structure and operation."

"Besides me, the Vortex Dragon perished, the Nightcaller was sealed away, the Chaos Knight and the Holy Knight lost themselves and fell into endless fighting, the Cleanse Deer hid hope in its bloodline and disappeared among thousands of phantom beasts, the Sea Emperor Whale disappeared into the turbulent waves and became a raging sea, separating the worlds, Poljax is nowhere to be found, and Flame Emperor was transformed into a monster and became our enemy..." The Wintercaller seemed to have opened up, and it seemed that it was time to confess some facts to Chanan, so it took the initiative to say the information that it had not said before.

“And what about Anubis?” Chanan asked.

Each attribute has a symbolic mythical beast, which is neither hard to guess nor hard to figure out.

But without a doubt, Anubis is the most crucial character in the world of fantasy beasts.

It is a god... and also the king of gods, the god above all mythical beasts.

"I don't know!" The Winter-Calling Beast shook its head.

"Perhaps, after you've walked all the roads, you can find Him!"

"But right now, you need to establish a base first, and then find any eggs that Vortex Dragons might have left behind in the volcanic area!"

"Only by hatching the Vortex Dragon can you move more freely between the two realms and find other divine beasts more quickly, thus concentrating their power," said the Winter Summoner.

"I can do it now!" Cha Nan wasn't trying to argue, but rather trying to learn more from the Winter Summoning Beast.

"No! It won't work!"

“You have already passed through the passage left by Anubis and arrived here, so the pollution here will seep into the other side that was originally isolated.”

"If you can't obtain the Vortex Dragon and allow it to regain control of space, not only will all the teleportation points in the other world gradually become ineffective, but the teleportation between your bases will also cease to work, and eventually... you will be completely sealed off in this world, unable to escape," the Winter Summoning Beast warned Cha Nan.

"Find them! Find them quickly!" Cha Nan immediately built a new Palu terminal and then summoned a large number of phantom beasts and his grandmasters.

Many hands make light work. Although this volcanic area is vast, by searching little by little, we can always find the Void Dragon Egg.

If he had known beforehand that there were such hidden dangers on the other side of the mythical beast world, he would never have rushed over so rashly.

But perhaps the Winter-Calling Beast deliberately concealed this to prevent him from being too cautious.

Thinking about all this, Cha Nan couldn't help but feel a little worried.

The reason why the Winter-Calling Beast is so impatient is perhaps because the situation itself has already begun to deteriorate.

"No wonder it was so easy to subdue the Winter Summoning Beast back then. I thought it was because of my outstanding personal charm, and that it had no other choice. Now it seems that it wasn't that there were no tests, but that the tests were all yet to come!"

(End of this chapter)