Boiling Beast Bloodline
Chapter 1664 - 538: The City Shrouded in Golden Armor

Chapter 1664: Chapter 538: The City Shrouded in Golden Armor

"Your Highness, the enigmatic strongman, since Ninth Prince’s ’Golden Branch’ is an absolute metal control technique, even if he can only exert absolute control over ’gold,’ he is still an invincible warlord! For instance, if he were to swing a gold mountain and smash it onto the enemy from the sky, wouldn’t that be an overwhelming force?" Avril said, brimming with wild imagination.

With that, every native of Florence suddenly recalled a significant matter!

There exists a mountain of Jing Gold at the bottom of the Underground Strait of Gibraltar!

This Jing Gold mountain has been smelted into true gold by volcanic lava and has been washed clear of impurities by river water for millennia. The little giant, Iverson, with the help of five Black Dragon Pearls, has managed to mine only a few bean-sized gold particles so far. If the Ninth Prince could actually...

Everyone’s mind immediately conjured up the scene of the Ninth Prince holding up a massive Jing Gold mountain in the sky and crashing it down onto the Demon Clan and Sea Clan, causing a bloodbath.

The continuous sound of sinister laughter made a group of Buddhist giants and monks’ hair stand on end.

"My metal control is mainly for leading troops and building armies. After all, I am a Flower Knight, a general commanding troops in battle, not a lone warrior. Not to mention the lack of a gold mountain, even if there were one, I couldn’t lift it. Metal control has its own limitations!" Xiao Kong said, wiping the cold sweat from his forehead. "While the weight doesn’t affect me when controlling metal, the restriction on spatial area still exists. I can’t command gold exceeding my body size to move freely! Also, when controlling metal, the gold cannot exceed half an inch from my palm, or else it becomes uncontrollable."

"Don’t you have transformation magic?" Liu Zhenshock persisted, "Just like before, transforming into a Flaming Crane, can’t you control a gold lump the size of a small mountain? Or transform into a Base Dragon!"

"No, it’s not possible." Xiao Kong shook his head and gave a bitter smile. "The original form determines the original ability."

"A Flower Knight can also lead troops and build armies? Isn’t this similar to the Flower Sage’s power to confer all officials?" Elise finally calmed down a bit, but her face was still flushed. Hearing what the prince said, she couldn’t help but poke Old Liu and kept asking Xiao Kong eagerly, "Can you elaborate on what you mean by leading troops? Is it also conferring flower titles? How many can you confer?"

"Responding to Mother!" Xiao Kong’s answer came with a fierce aura like clashing gold and iron, "When autumn arrives, on September 8, my flowers bloom, and all others perish, the fragrance pierces through the heavens, the entire city clad in golden armor!"

Yi Tiao translated on the side because the Ninth Prince’s last four sentences were said in the Silk Continent language.

Under Yi Tiao’s rather distorted translation, the Aegean natives became more confused, but it was Wei Zhi who helped clarify, allowing everyone to at least understand the last sentence of Xiao Kong’s words — translated as "Flower Knight of ’Conscious Air’," the newly appointed Ninth Prince of Florence, who can transform an entire city’s army into warriors clad in golden armor.

"What does this mean?" Elise asked, confused, "The term ’entire city’ is too eastern and abstract, considering cities vary in size and population."

"Does it mean turning all the warriors of a city into Holy Temple Knights?" Liu Zhenshock and Helen’s imagination was still stuck at the Beamon level.

"An entire city? Can you create millions of gold warriors? Do they all have your metal control ability?" Avril’s eyes glistened with gold, but the Mermaid Princess seemed to have forgotten that the population base of Sea Clan cities is not on the same level as land cities.

"Not that exaggerated, only three thousand Flower Knights." Xiao Kong, seeing his words becoming increasingly misinterpreted as something boastful, quickly clarified, "These Flower Knights certainly won’t be like me, after all, there is only one Flower Knight. I can only enlighten them a bit, let them possess a small degree of ’golden form, jade quality’!"

"So what kind of warriors are these three thousand Flower Knights exactly? Are they Magic Warriors?" Avril asked again.

"Ordinary warriors, warriors wearing golden armor."

"What?" Avril was puzzled, "At least the Flower Sage confers officials, using a native famous flower as a magic medium, capable of releasing high-level single-target attack magic! Eighth Prince, you are a prince, yet isn’t this a bit too modest?"

"Reporting to Mother! Arrow Car and Dahlia, these are the two abilities I bestow upon the Flower Knights. Each Flower Knight can choose one, becoming either an archer or a warrior!" Xiao Kong’s head was spinning from the disparate titles of Eighth and Ninth Prince, "Arrow Car is archery, Dahlia is tremendous physical strength, for both long-range and close combat. This should be considered quite a remarkable ability, right?"

"Arrow Car and Dahlia are the national flowers of two human nations on the Aegean, also the two most famous breeds of golden stamens," Helen raised an eyebrow.

"In the Silk Continent, cornflower and dahlia are still the two most famous golden stamens," Yi Tiao added.

"But... I’m the master of Golden Stamen, so at least the armor and weapons of the three thousand Flower Knights need to be gilded. Otherwise, even if the Golden Stamen ability is activated, the three thousand warriors won’t count as Knights of the Flower Realm and won’t possess ’Golden Appearance and Jade Quality.’" Xiao Kong sighed deeply, "That’s a huge sum of money, wanting to have golden armor throughout the city isn’t easy. Otherwise, I’d have already gathered a group to march to the Flower Court and wipe out those fatherless, kingless religious frauds!"

"Do you have a way to change the form of gold? Like separating chunks of gold about the size of your body from a large block?" Helen interrupted everyone, asking Xiao Kong with a playful smile.

"Of course I can! Mother, I am an absolute gold controller, not a fool restricted by the physical weight of metal magic! I can even let a suitable amount of gold automatically condense into the form I imagine, like quickly forming armor. However, it consumes a lot of flame power, which is a bottleneck, limiting my ability to do it in large quantities!" Poor Xiao Kong was nearly driven to madness, bombarded by these childish questions ever since he revealed his identity.

"A born Alchemist!" Old Claude roared.

As pure-blooded Duergar and Golden Dwarves, they should believe that besides Wild Dwarves, there are no genius Alchemists on the Aegean Continent. But now, they seem to have lost control too, because the Ninth Prince’s abilities are just too powerful!

"We’re rich!" Ito quietly voiced everyone’s thoughts. However, after many adventures, everyone learned restraint, and the Aegean natives quickly concealed their emotions, with not a hint of excitement showing.

But how can the fiery feeling inside be described with words?

Jing Gold weapons are the tools of epic heroes! And they’re about to become the standard equipment of Aegean natives, even the basic gear!

Is this still about forming a military?

This is simply burning money and putting on a flashy show!

In the future, any army facing Aegean natives won’t be able to afford the cost of even one Summer Palace warrior’s gear, even when counting a whole regiment!

"Transformation magic, Yihuo magic, Cloud magic, with innate alchemical skills, and can create ’Golden Appearance and Jade Quality’ for three thousand Golden Armor Flower Knights, Ninth Prince is truly a favored child of heaven." Liu Zhenkan was truly impressed with his son.

From Flower Queen to Flower Minister, and now this Flower General, their floral abilities are more practical than the Flower King, making Liu Zhenkan feel increasingly oppressed.

"Richard, it’s not as exaggerated as you say! Xiao Kong’s transformation magic is because he possesses a ’Golden Branch and Jade Leaf’ physique, so by merging, stretching, and expanding the two key elements of gold and jade within his body, he can naturally transform into other forms!" Duke Tang shrugged, "Actually, this transformation is useless, it’s just for fun. You might wonder how jade can extend? In our East, there’s a saying, ’Soft Jade with Fragrance.’"

Liu Zhenkan and Ito exchanged glances—wasn’t this the combined form of ’Glazed Gold’ and ’Glazed Jade’?

Damn it! It’s totally a humanoid Phantom Beast!

"I thought it was the Seventy-two Changes." Liu Zhenkan sighed, realizing that’s never going to happen, but he couldn’t help thinking about it.

"Seventy-two Changes is definitely not limited! But this transformation, trying to change into something smaller than the original form, won’t work. In this sense, it’s similar to the Aegean Druid’s transformation magic." Duke Tang laughed, "Xiao Kong’s Yihuo magic isn’t a self-cultivated spell but a side effect of his ’Gold Control’ ability; he must absorb fire. Without the power of flames, he can’t blend or alter the state of gold, which you call the innate Alchemist ability! His Yihuo was a memento left last time by a challenging opponent, but now it seems it’s risen to a higher level, reaching the realm of Yihuo!"

The Duke gently petted the little parrot hiding in Xiao Kong’s hair and smiled kindly, "Xiao Kong cannot practice Fire Spells himself; he can only increase and cultivate this fire through absorption and then consuming fine jade. This innate skill, when used in battle, can only act at close range, not as a main attack! His Cloud Magic is actually just the function of a pair of ’Gold Thread Walking Cloud Shoes,’ in Aegean terms, just the merit of magic equipment."

"Fire Absorption Physique?" Captain Beckham of the Magic Protector Brigade shook his head, initially thinking the Ninth Prince had Fire Immunity, but it turned out to be the much rarer Fire Absorption.

"The Ninth Prince is indeed the typical Magic Warrior, the king of close combat." Ito had to admit, fighting against someone wielding an eighty thousand pound staff with skilled stick techniques was far from pleasant.

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