Boiling Beast Bloodline
Chapter 1407 - 402: No Poison, No Great Man

Chapter 1407: Chapter 402: No Poison, No Great Man

Liu Zhenhan waited a full week in the verdant city, and there was still no news from Gortani, Gomes, and Mari, who had accompanied Flower Elf Ramos to scout the Southern Cross Star Forest.

This inadvertently made old Liu a bit worried. Could they have just happened to bump into the patrolling forces of the fallen elves and been killed?

But then again, considering Mari and Gortani’s martial skills, and at the very least, with the siblings having a Unicorn, a Tiger Vulture, and an Iron Cross Beast that had been modified by the Doppler Rays—three flying Magical Beasts—and Ramos being a flying Flower Elf, even if they couldn’t win, escaping shouldn’t be too much trouble!

As long as they didn’t encounter the three Hell Black Dragons, with their high-ranking combination of priests, exorcists, warriors, and archers, it’s not just difficult for the Cow-Eagle People and Eagle-Bull people to intercept them; it would be good enough if they were not completely defeated.

Having had his fill and no more urgent needs, Liu Zhenhan simply stopped thinking about the "Eternal Moon Well" and the "Tree of Life". Every day, he would swaggeringly take his son and daughter, along with a group of guards, to hunt extensively in the Underground World, specifically targeting suitable Magical Beasts to fiercely take down.

Magical Beasts are intelligent creatures, and once they are thoroughly subdued, they are far more spirited as mounts than purebred warhorses, potentially requiring less time to train than it would to heal from injuries; and the verdant city just so happened to need armor category Magical Beasts, this type of Magical Beast, regardless of the Magic faction, are mostly of the tanking type rather than the attacking type, thus greatly reducing the difficulty of hunting.

The Kou Tao Merfolk from the Underground were summoned by Whale Warrior Figo to serve as guides, leading Liu Zhenhan and the other Summer Palace Warriors, who aspired to become Phantom Beast Knights, to where the armor category Magical Beasts roamed, best suited to be Phantom Beasts; and to where communal Magical Beasts were abundant, suitable for large scale encirclement and capture.

The new captain of the future Phantom Beast Knight troop, Knight Lampard, like all Paladins, had an incurable infatuation with martial power, while also embodying compassion, humility, and bravery; after he swore on his own honor not to divulge any secrets about the Phantom Beasts, Liu Zhenhan revealed to this new captain the origin and truth of the Phantom Beasts. The poor Paladin has since become engrossed in his spring and autumn dream of leading the Pan Continent’s premier Air Knight troop, punishing evildoers and saving the weak, counting every day how many Summer Palace Warriors had captured Magical Beasts.

During this process, Liu Zhenhan’s seventy-six Panda Knights put on a mighty show.

Downstream of the Underground Strait of Gibraltar, there used to live a group of Sea Sponge Seven-Tailed Turtles that were well-suited to become Phantom Beasts. Every morning they would emerge onto the shore to sun their green algae-covered shells. A group of Antelope Warriors had previously tried to subdue them, but the "sponge armor" of these Underground Seven-Tailed Turtles had a natural rebound ability, coupled with their hard shells and sharp fangs, and in the end they failed to subdue even one, angering Duncan so much that he took his Dragon Ball Mirror Cannon and blasted several large models, for which he was seriously criticized by the Overlord.

Upon hearing this, the Panda Knights blocked the group of Underground Seven-Tailed Turtles on the beach for a good beating. The sponge armor simply couldn’t fend off the Panda Knights’ signature move "Strike-Across-Mountains", especially the thirty-two elder Panda Knights swinging 300-pound barrels, smashing the Sea Sponge Seven-Tailed Turtles on the spot till they spat blood. The scene shocked Knight Lampard, who once looked down upon them slightly, and he pesteringly begged Liu Zhenhan to transfer them to the future Phantom Beast Knight troop.

What excited old Liu the most was that Summer Palace Army’s Ronaldo, having used "Taming Secret Language", successfully summoned a Three-legged Gold Toad beside a large underground river called the E’nan River!

The Three-legged Gold Toad was an exceptional choice for Phantom Beast Knights, being of the Metal Magic category, the Doppler Rays’ modification did not affect its original Magic casting, essentially resulting in a freely granted liquid metal Transformation Ability.

However, it looked like this Gold Toad and Nedved’s "Thousand-Mile Horse" seemed like old acquaintances, cozying up to each other as soon as they met.

The third and second sons asked their father what those toads were doing, and old Liu hesitated for a long time, not knowing how to answer properly.

The two toads, while shedding their skins, were swallowing slowly. The Kou Tao Merfolk said that such a Three-legged Gold Toad mated only once a year, shedding one skin each time. Liu Zhenhan suddenly had a brilliant idea—since this Phantom Beast was a rare Metal-repelling species, theoretically, it could even make the Seven-Colored Dragon roll its eyes, so its shed skins should certainly be valuable Magic materials.

Indeed, as Liu Zhenhan had thought, the two half-pieces of the shed skins snatched from the toad’s mouth, after careful examination by Nana, were confirmed to require only minimal processing to be made into effective metal-repelling Magic Robes. While their repelling power was limited—enough to deflect arrows but not to fully negate close combat weapons like heavy axes and great swords—it was somewhat akin to the effect of a "Slippery Grease" Magic Shield.

One Gold Toad was larger than a rhinoceros, and these two half-pieces of skin would probably make about ten robes, making them particularly suitable for priests’ attire—as for Mages, the verdant city was occupied by Golden Dwarves clad in gold armor, who had no need for such garments.

Although the Summer Palace Archers were quite envious of Ronaldo and Nedved, not many Three-legged Gold Toads were available in the Underground World, and not all Hauss family members had the "Taming Secret Language" ability. Moreover, relying on arrows, it was difficult for them to subdue Magical Beasts as mounts. But this was not a problem for Liu Zhenhan; with Thunder Diamonds so abundant, it’s simply a matter of taking turns using them.