My Divine Pet Enables Me To Become The Biggest Winner
Chapter 132 - 130: Softshell Turtle (Second Update)_1

Chapter 132: Chapter 130: Softshell Turtle (Second Update)_1

The entrance of the Iron Spear Underground Palace was still covered with Thundering Water Grass. However, this time, the deeper parts had lost their flickering spiritual light.

Owen Bertram was thrilled: that flickering light was the concealed spear qi.

Did it imply that the power of the defensive Iron Spear was nearly exhausted?

After all, the thing was an inanimate object that had guarded for countless periods. If not replenished, these few times of cutting off the river with spear qi must have depleted it greatly.

"My younger brother might really have a chance to turn this place into his personal snack warehouse."

Contrary to the previous Giant Crocodile, Softshell Turtle doesn’t guard outside the Iron Spear Underground Palace all the time. It enters Hunshui River for food twice a day, once in the morning and once in the afternoon.

After a full meal, it remains still, with its body visibly transforming—its highly arched turtle shell began spreading to the rest of its body.

Its diet consists mostly of shellfish, snails, and fierce turtles, most of which are below the second level.

It must have been here for several days already. The fresh turtle shell covered its whole body, but it’s only about a tenth of its original thickness. Even the most vulnerable eyes are covered, but they’re transparent—to be semi-transparent and weaken its vision in the future, presumably.

Owen Bertram suddenly understood: it intended to cover its entire body in a layer of turtle shell to insulate it from lightning, and then resist the thunderbolt of the water grass head-on!

Although it was a crude method, it was secure. With the formidable strength of Tier-3 Demonic Beasts, it was easy to achieve this.

Surely doing so would severely reduce the agility and visibility of Softshell Turtle. However, this layer of turtle shell, once weathered the thunderbolt, would be discarded right away, just like an eggshell.

Owen Bertram couldn’t help but give a thumbs up: this move has quite the style of that totally submissive barber with his Hard Camp and Dumb Warfare.

With it acting this way, Owen Bertram was reassured. He quietly warned Little Loach: Do not bother it, just keep an eye on it. You also shouldn’t compete with it for seafood lately, let it form its eggshell as soon as possible.

Little Loach was puzzled: Why?

"Elder brother does have a splendid plan."

When he got back, he caught a Military Officer and commanded: "Call Ethereal Devin."

These past few days, Ethereal Devin had been particularly hardworking and felt very tired. On the construction site of the outpost, almost all the heaviest stones were carried by him.

Owen Bertram had ordered the Military Officer and ordinary men to work together. Although the Horizon Bureau had private complaints, Ethereal Devin fully agreed. His origin wasn’t high, the Devin Clan has many branches. When he was young, his family was extremely poor. There were a few times when his father was conscripted for corvee labor which delayed the farming, bringing his family to the verge of bankruptcy.

He utterly comprehended the suffering of these ordinary men, so he worked especially hard.

Essentially, Ethereal Devin was a good person; only his vision truly wasn’t high.

"Chief Flag Sir." Now Ethereal Devin doesn’t dare to treat Owen Bertram as a possible ally for Devin Clan, he saluted respectfully when they met.

"I wanted you to handle one thing." Owen Bertram asked: "Is there any array that can condense or increase the power of thunderbolt?"

"For this... you should ask Lord Prescott. There are many such arrays in the Horizon Bureau, but we don’t have the qualification to view them at our level."

The following day Owen Bertram went to Quinn Base. After hearing his purpose, Matthew picked out a jade slip for him: "This has all the cultivation information that Lord Prescott can view in Horizon Bureau, including heart methods, spell methods, array methods, talismans, and more, you are free to take a look."

Owen Bertram hesitated: "This doesn’t follow the rules, will it cause trouble for you?"

Matthew smiled casually and waved: "Nobody cares about these materials now. They are not only semi-public in the Bureau but also have leaked quite a bit outside."

Only then did Owen Bertram receive it, thanked him, and then went back. Along the way, he scanned the contents of the jade slip. It was indeed arranged in separate categories and was comprehensive yet rudimentary, to the standards of The Second Level and below.

The heart cultivation methods in this were not even worth mentioning.

Owen Bertram found the array section and realized that with his own strength, he could easily set up all of them. However, there were only two types of thunder array methods, and only one "Three-Eyed Thunder Attraction Array" could condense the power of the thunderbolt.

Once set up, you can absorb the surrounding free thunderbolt power from the three array eyes aligned in the shape of a brand.

"Let it be this one, then." There was no other choice, Owen Bertram was quite desperate.

Then, elder brother had a bright idea and handed the jade slip to Little Loach. However, upon smelling it, Little Loach turned its head away with a disgusted face.

Owen Bertram went to the side of the Hunshui River. This array occupied a large area but had weak power—this was a common problem of all low-level arrays. Furthermore, the array needed a Spirit Jade to activate, Owen Bertram painfully took out a Spirit Jade to fill it in.

It only took less than half a shichen (an hour) to set up the array. Softshell Turtle happened to go hunting.

The array was set up at the bottom of the river, hidden by silt, leaving no trace.

After the array was complete, Owen Bertram sensed a faint presence of thunderbolt power gathering around. He was scratching his head: it was too weak.

In the end, he gritted his teeth, and Owen Bertram took out six more Spirit Jades to set up three separate Three-Eyed Thunder Attraction Arrays along both banks of Hunshui River.

Finally, with the superposition of seven arrays, the speed of condensation of thunderbolt power significantly accelerated.

Owen Bertram was in extreme pain: "Softshell Turtle, you must not make me lose out!"

After that, Owen Bertram didn’t bother with it anymore. The construction of the outpost was going smoothly, and he focused on upgrading his Mechanical Dao Soldiers.

...

At dusk, in the Waves Prefecture Horizon Courthouse, a Lord Prescott left the office, greeted acquaintances along the way, declined several invitations, and headed home.

He observed his back, and after making sure no one was following him, he suddenly turned into another street. After a while, he appeared in a cabin on a boat outside the city.

Only a Middle-Aged Man with a fierce sword-like temperament was waiting for him here.

"Sir has arrived." The Middle-Aged Man smiled slightly, and Lord Prescott gestured: "No need for formalities, did you bring what I want?"

The Middle-Aged Man took out a jade bottle: "A Divine Seal Pill is enough to solve all your problems and help you successfully advance into The Third Great Boundary!"

Lord Prescott’s eyes showed greed, and he grabbed it, but the Middle-Aged Man didn’t let go and said coldly: "The Spiritual Pills are incredibly precious. Where are the things I want?"

Lord Prescott gritted his teeth and took out a transcribe paper: "Everything is on this, you can have a look."

Both of them handed over their items at the same time. Once Lord Prescott got the Divine Seal Pill, he immediately left and disappeared into the night.

The Middle-Aged Man spread out the paper. It was a copy of an internal document from Horizon Bureau with detailed records of Abigail Turner and others in the Extinct Village.

Seeing the part about the death of the Young Master of Sword Mountain, the Middle-Aged Man’s hands started trembling, and he shouted painfully: "My son!"

"Golden Face Killing God, and Horizon Bureau, who disregards the dying, I will make all of you pay with your lives for my son!"

A few screams came from outside, and soon someone reported at the door: "Mountain Master, everyone on the boat has been taken care of."

The Mountain Master clenched his teeth and said: "Set off immediately — head for Extinct Village to avenge my son!"

"Yes, Mountain Master!"