My Divine Pet Enables Me To Become The Biggest Winner
Chapter 231 - 229: The Art of Disguise _1

Chapter 231: Chapter 229: The Art of Disguise _1

Nathan Lane didn’t explain the situation to Owen Bertram, because this was Owen’s first time making artifacts independently. Although he had some components to imitate... after all, it wasn’t like the Mechanized Soldier Forging Charts, he didn’t have much confidence in his success.

If it failed... Officer Prescott couldn’t afford the embarrassment.

As expected, the first attempt failed, as well as the second... although the artifact was small, it was remarkably intricate and challenged the artifact maker’s abilities.

Just as dawn was about to break, Nathan Lane scratched his head in frustration while Owen’s spiritual flame flickered on and off. Various treasure materials were embedded into the artifact and finally succeeded on the sixth attempt.

Owen Bertram let out a long sigh, holding a small metal block in his hand and smiling at Nathan Lane, signaling success.

Nathan Lane was overjoyed. In his opinion, River God’s envoys never disappointed him.

Owen activated the small magical instrument and started to sense its surroundings.

In his perception, he discovered that a large group of similar "responses" was within Casterly County, but the location was not very accurate due to some interference.

The two of them opened the map of Casterly County and Owen circled a rough area. They looked at each other: this place was within Magpie River!

A swarm of element-devouring bees capable of building their hives in River Water? Highly unlikely...

No matter what, this was an important clue. Nathan Lane scratched his head and wrote with his finger: Find a way to get rid of Eric Reed, and we’ll go check it out.

Owen responded: "I’ll arrange that."

Without having to get rid of Eric Reed, Owen had already sent his little brother.

Little Loach was having fun in Magpie River. Sleep? Rest? Nope, with elder brother not around, Little Loach could play as much as he wanted.

The night Magpie River was bustling with activity, as various underwater creatures took advantage of the darkness to hunt. And the River Water near Casterly County had never been harassed by Little Loach before.

There were many demon beasts that didn’t know the formidable power of Little Loach—unlike the ones in Jaafar County, many strong and delicious demon beasts had already fled.

Little Loach found a lot of tasty food, and was very satisfied with his meal. However, he regretted that a Tire-4 demon beast escaped due to its better understanding of the local terrain.

But who could imagine that beneath such a large river lay such a complex network of underwater caves?

The thing happened like this: Little Loach was chasing a giant turtle with a shell as large as a mountain.

At first, the giant turtle didn’t run away. It stared with huge eyes and fought Little Loach for several rounds before it decided to retreat decisively!

Little Loach pursued relentlessly. The little tail of the giant turtle in front swayed like a crocodile’s tail, and its speed was incredibly fast, enticing Little Loach’s appetite as it made half the river water flow with saliva!

Little Loach never expected this cunning fellow, as soon as it saw the situation was unfavorable, it dived into an underwater cave and its huge turtle shell got stuck there. Little Loach caught up, only to find that the turtle had shed its shell and escaped!

Only a huge turtle shell was left, and the main body had drilled into the cave behind. Little Loach only saw a tail like a crocodile’s, and in the twists and turns, the turtle completely disappeared from sight!

Now, having received his elder brother’s order, Little Loach immediately swam over and was astonished to find that the place his elder brother designated was precisely the underwater cave where the old turtle escaped!

Little Loach got excited right away: This time, I’ll dig deep and find you.

He shrank himself a little and eagerly plunged into the cave. The cave was pitch black, and Little Loach’s two whiskers elongated infinitely, probing the way ahead and avoiding any danger.

However, after searching for quite a while, he couldn’t find the "honey" his elder brother mentioned.

Ah, no, it was bees.

Owen knew that this wouldn’t work, and he needed to send the sensation talisman himself, or Little Loach would be like a headless fly.

At Bamboo Slope, after dawn Eric Reed asked: "Mr. Owen Bertram, are we going back today?"

"Yes, we’re going back."

...

Little Loach crawled out from the underwater cave again, and now he was only about a foot long, very agile in the cave.

Just as he reached the entrance of the cave, he suddenly saw a huge dark shadow swimming past without any restraint. Its huge body and terrifying strength paid no attention to the other underwater creatures around it, let alone the Little Loach in the cave entrance that could only look up at it.

The huge dark shadow swam past, dragging a long, crocodile-like tail behind it!

Little Loach’s spirit was instantly lifted, and he quietly sneaked out to take a look. This thing was so ugly that it was almost unbearable to look at: the front half was a giant toad shape, but the neck was slightly longer, which is why its eyes looked much bigger than a turtle’s.

In the middle of its body were four pairs of sturdy claws, and finally, there was a thick, long, powerful crocodile tail.

Little Loach still didn’t act recklessly and just followed from a distance. Eventually, he saw this demon beast perform several attempts to retrieve the tortoise shell.

Little Loach threw the turtle shell into the river silt in anger.

It quickly drilled into the shell. Little Loach looked again and finally confirmed: it was the same demon beast, just with different "clothing"! It almost fooled him.

Two pale golden whiskers emerged from the silt and intertwined several times, firmly tying up the demon beast!

And Little Loach’s smart thinking sealed off all six turtle shell exits.

Little Loach also found it strange: the body of this demon beast didn’t seem to "match" the turtle shell. Look at its eight claws - if they were original, there should be ten openings on the turtle shell.

But when Little Loach first saw this demon beast, it was clearly a Tire-3.

If it weren’t for the long crocodile tail, Little Loach would have no appetite for it and would have let it escape by now.

As for the turtle shell, it was a dead thing, but as soon as the demon beast entered it, it emitted a Tire-4 aura!

The Tire-4 demon beast, of unknown type, suddenly fell into a desperate situation and started struggling in panic when it saw Little Loach. However, Little Loach’s two whiskers were mysterious and powerful; the more the demon beast struggled, the deeper they were embedded into its flesh!

Circling around the demon beast a few times, Little Loach still couldn’t figure out its ranking and decided to stop thinking about it. He opened his mouth and sprayed out the Sword Pill!

With a snap, the tortoise shell shattered. Little Loach pounced and bit into it, then chewed it forcefully for a few times. The turtle’s shell was already broken, but now it was completely crushed.

It didn’t take long for the Tire-4 demon beast to end up in Little Loach’s stomach.

Little Loach smacked his lips, still savoring the taste.

Now even a Tier-4 demon beast could only make him half-full, just like... having eaten many delicious dishes, but still feeling not full enough and needing some staple food to make the meal complete.

Little Loach was not a picky eater. "Staple food" could be a magical instrument, a talisman, or even another magical instrument.

He passed this idea to his elder brother, who didn’t respond at the moment—because on the way back from Bamboo Slope to George Estate, the elder brother’s main attention was on the magpie.