Netherworld Retrograde
Chapter 279 - 130 General_2

Chapter 279: Chapter 130 General_2

"See, I promised you..." she said, her lips forming the words.

A few minutes later, in the quiet resting room.

Cheese wiped the sweat from her neck, as the recent Awakening had put a tremendous burden on her body, soaking her completely.

She took off her hoodie and sweater, revealing a somewhat overburdened women’s tank top, and teased Li Yelai with a chuckle, "You’re as nervous as a husband outside the delivery room."

Li Yelai had gotten used to her teasing, shifted his gaze, and handed over the hoodie and sweater, asking, "Congratulations on becoming a Four Awakenings, how do you feel?"

"The Awakening period was overall fine except for some annoying effects from the Void Realm." Cheese, looking at Li Yelai’s profile, smiled lightly. "Fortunately, I can still distinguish between the real and the fake. I guess I’ve successfully completed the Four Awakenings."

After Cheese got dressed, Li Yelai asked, "How effective is your Dragon Roar? I’ve heard some even summon meteors."

This was something Li Yelai had heard from other Ark Chosen Ones within the ark.

Although far from being real meteors, they were merely condensed rocks falling from high altitude, but still not to be underestimated.

Cheese responded, "After drinking the Dragon Roar Potion, a lot of fleeting knowledge appeared in my mind. I tried to retain as much as possible without my will being swept away. The meteors you mentioned are actually abilities of the earth element’s massive power. I didn’t get that, but I did get plenty of other good goods."

Saying this, Cheese handed her Spiritual Ability Equipment, a soft whip, to Li Yelai.

"Hold tight."

Li Yelai, holding the whip, said in confusion, "I’m not into S&M..."

"Neither am I..." Cheese snorted lightly, then after swallowing a candy, she uttered a complex and archaic phrase to Li Yelai.

Through the Virtual Realm Beast Language, Li Yelai understood the phrase.

[Disarm]

Instantly, the soft whip in Li Yelai’s hand burst out with astonishing power, slipping out of his grasp.

Watching the whip fall to the ground, Li Yelai was dumbfounded, "Huh?"

It was known that Li Yelai’s physique was comparable to a Four Awakenings True Martial.

His grip was also quite strong, but still, his weapon was disarmed with just a word.

This ability, naturally not so effective against insect swarms or extraordinary creatures, as they mostly don’t have weapons, but against human Spiritual Ability Users. Forcing an opponent to drop their weapon was too powerful!

While the opponent was still searching for their weapon on the ground, Cheese’s second Dragon Roar came.

Cheese, frowning her beautiful brows, ate two more candies, "Consuming sugar so fast... I need to bring more candies in the future."

"It’s a powerful ability after all, want to try another?" Li Yelai said, "Shall we go to the training ground?"

"Hmm."

Subsequently, the two headed to the training ground.

Li Yelai immediately activated Mimicry·Abyss Dragon Scale and picked up a Hardwood Gun.

Cheese, now a Four Awakenings Awakened Spirit User, grew even stronger, her previous abilities enhanced, and Dragon Roar adding wings to a tiger.

When Li Yelai charged, she used Dragon Roar [repel]

A powerful blast of air rushed towards Li Yelai, sending him flying nearly ten meters during his charge.

Li Yelai was slightly surprised and then controlled the distance, circling to dodge the Dragon Roar as Cheese used another Dragon Roar [charge].

Her speed suddenly increased, Cheese again distancing herself from Li Yelai.

"Playing dirty a bit..." Li Yelai, using Aerial Stepping to pursue, was hit by the third Dragon Roar [knockdown].

Aerial Stepping failed for a second, causing Li Yelai to fall back to the ground.

"Fine, fine, fine, is this how we’re playing? Kite-flying, huh?" Li Yelai complained, wiping his face quickly, Sealing Langju Xuhuo Qubing!

Shadow Army Swift as the Wind!

As the Shadow Army Light Cavalry appeared, Li Yelai’s speed suddenly shot to the extreme, turning into a barely visible black shadow, closing the distance to Cheese instantly.

Then he hit the fourth Dragon Roar [fear].

Li Yelai’s body momentarily stiffened, as if seeing some dangerous natural enemy.

During this delay, Cheese had already run quite a distance, sporting a taunting ’come chase me’ expression.

"Let’s end it, if it’s just a spar I can’t catch up with you. How many Dragon Roars do you still have left?" Li Yelai scratched his head and said.

"[Disarm] You’ve seen it, besides the ones mentioned above, there’s also [Loyalty] which works on animals and extraordinary creatures with lower spiritual energy levels than mine, as well as [Clear Sky] and [Heavy Rain] which change the weather.

There are also two auxiliary effects of Dragon Roar, [Armor] and [Sharp], similar to the Spiritual Ability Techniques of the Four Awakenings, which enhance spiritual barriers and weapons. You can also master them after the Four Awakenings.

Lastly, there’s [Soul Tear] which launches a special attack on the soul, but I can’t use that one on you." Cheese explained, consuming a lot of candy.

"Eleven types of Dragon Roar, this magic potion is really potent indeed," Li Yelai pondered. "It’s truly a powerful capability that combines both attack and support."

"Thanks to you," Cheese said with a smile in her eyes. Dragon Roar was very suitable for her.

Just then, Li Yelai’s communicator made a sound.

Li Yelai checked and saw it was an official reward and a message alert from the Equipment Department, alongside a notification from a branch saying someone was looking for him. They had been waiting for a while now but he had just noticed it.

As an acknowledgment of Li Yelai’s merits in the Disaster Fog, the officials had awarded him a total of five hundred Merit Points and a cash reward of fifty thousand Giant City Coins.

However, they had prioritized fully replenishing Li Yelai’s equipment.

The message from the Equipment Department was for Li Yelai to go and collect his equipment.

As for the people looking for him, it seemed to be someone from the Jing Family?

"Are they still not giving up on recruiting me?" Li Yelai thought to himself. "Well, that’s good, I’ve been wanting to discuss something with Jing Lin."

Immediately, he sent a message asking the Jing Family people to wait a moment, and he would come after collecting his equipment.

Cheese leaned in and asked, "The Jing Family people invited you to their gathering, right?"

"Did you receive it too?" Li Yelai asked.

"Yes, Doll also received it, Jing Lin seems to have invited quite a few Processors," Cheese responded. "Are you going?"

"Yeah, let’s go and freeload some food and drink," Li Yelai nodded. "I have some matters to discuss with him anyway."

Subsequently, they fell into thought, wondering how a doll in that condition could freeload food and drinks?

Surely they couldn’t just stuff it inside the doll’s costume?

Afterward, Li Yelai first headed to the Equipment Department to collect his complete set of equipment.

Li Yelai’s Three-Pointed Blade had been reforged into an Azure Dragon Halberd.

The halberd was two meters and ten centimeters long, with a blade that had a black base and gold rim, a Golden Dragon coiling around it, paired with a crimson spear shaft, making it look extremely domineering.

Li Yelai picked up the Azure Dragon Halberd and tried swinging it around.

It felt excellent in his hands, even better than the previous Red Dragon Halberd.

"Due to the mysterious material and airflow of this halberd, we’ve set up a new structure," a civilian staff member pointed at the spear ear of the halberd and said, "This will allow you to use its abilities more precisely, to slash out Wind Blades or cast Vortex."

Li Yelai nodded slightly, then spun the halberd, performing Single-handed Eighteen Strokes · Angry Clash!

In an instant, a small vortex burst from the rotating spear ear.

"That’s great, thank you!" Li Yelai appreciated.

"This is just the tip of the iceberg, please have a look at this," the civilian staff member said with a smile.

Next up was the Spiritual Armor, Ming Guang Armor.

Although the prices at the Equipment Department were steep, the craftsmanship and aesthetics were commendable.

Also styled with a black base and gold trim, the pitch-black Scale Armor paired with golden Beast Devourer Pauldrons and abdominal armor, as well as a robust Heart Protector, looked extremely majestic and domineering.

"This armor set uses quite a few Hunting Insect carapaces. It may seem heavy, but it actually weighs less than ten kilograms. Its defensive power is also quite commendable," the civilian staff member explained. "We have also made improvements at each joint to maximize the liberation from the constraint of the armor."

Li Yelai put on the armor and moved around a bit; it was indeed very light.

Despite being heavy armor, there was no sense of cumbersome bulk.

And when Li Yelai donned the helmet and lowered the faceplate, holding the long spear, he looked even more like a valiant ancient general.

His ordinarily plain demeanor also changed abruptly.

As if ready to embrace the glory of battle at any moment.

"So, the ’General’ in Night General refers to a military general, huh," a civilian staff member teased with light laughter.