The Cannon Fodder in the Global Apocalypse Game lives a leisurely life
Chapter 172: The True Transformer

Chapter 172: The True Transformer

(A/N: Chapter dedicated to Chibi_Wolf38 for the Dragon.)

Contrary to the peaceful summoning ritual of the bumblebee little ginseng, the ritual this time was very different.

The two-meter golden magic circle had a shimmering, faint red light, and fierce gusts of wind came out of it, forming a little hurricane and sweeping those rocks, branches, grasses, and shrubs into the air, lessening the visibility of the surroundings and making the place a temporary, dangerous site.

Long Haoran pulled Li Chunhua by the arm, and the latter grabbed the Little Ginseng, and the three sought cover behind a rock formation twenty meters away from the now-ruined trail.

Long Haoran covered her body with his in case some of the UFO’s hit their hiding spot.

Li Chunhua was confused as to why the system upgraded their special effects package, or maybe because it was a dragon and needed a grand entrance befitting of its awesomeness. The more her imagination ran wild, the more her eyes shone with excitement.

The monsters at the peak also escaped to the foot of the mountain after sensing the heavy pressure.

The Salted Fish residents, Elga and Little Mantou, saw the hurricane from a distance and became anxious.

While the Boss Croc, who was confident in succeeding in bringing down the potential threat, was now trying to escape by crawling back to the hole, disregarding its dignity and honor. Its ice-leather head was full of question marks as to how a high-level creature was at in this peak at this moment.

His little descendants were following his example and crawling back from where they came from at the fastest speed.

"Roar." (Retreat.)

This happened in just a span of ten seconds, and after the system was done displaying its overly dramatic effects, Li Chunhua sprang to her feet and ran towards the vanishing magic circle to welcome her drag...

"Kya."

"Kya Kya."

"Kya Kya Kya."

Li Chunhua: "..." What is this?

"Kya." A small pinkish creature resembling a turnip with four tiny round fat limbs, smaller than Little Ginseng, and 16 red leaves over its head stared at her from below.

Long Haoran quickly followed her after failing to stop Li Chunhua from returning to the dangerous spot, and she also saw the creature that looked like the lotus he cooked during lunch. Long Haoran narrowed his eyes at the coincidence.

The hurricane and that odd rampaging force were gone, and this appeared. It must be related to it, and judging from the way it is behaving, the woman must be involved too, and one suitable explanation came to his mind, which was her class: Summoner. Now, his curiosity for the class has increased once again.

The red little lotus’ cartoonish pink eyes searched for its master, and when it saw Li Chunhua, it plucked one of its red petals, and another one grew.

The red petal morphed into a small lotus bud, and a long stem emerged, which the little creature held. It skipped over while letting out a bunch of cute kya kya kya sounds along the way towards Li Chunhua, planning to give her a greeting gift.

Its petal-like hairs swayed along with its movements.

Little Ginseng jumped out of Li Chunhua’s embrace to meet the new little friend, and the two circled around and touched each other’s leaves and petals curiously.

"Ji ji ji." (Why do you have 16 leaves?)

"Kya Kya." (Why do you have only two leaves?)

"Ji ji ji." (I don’t know.)

"Kya Kya." (Then I also don’t know.)

Meanwhile, Li Chunhua viewed its status screen.

[Karmic Lotus Spirit Level 1 (HP: 1,500/1,500)]

[Summon Name: Karmic Lotus Spirit (Infancy Stage)

-Summon Grade: S (Evolvable)

- Summon Type: Mage Type

- Skills: Karmic Fire (P), Lotus Kya-Cutie Petal Dance (A), Pew Pew Bomb (A), Kya-Charm Spell (A), Don’t make Little Lotus cry or else (P)...]

Li Chunhua vomited blood: Where’s my dragon?

"Kya!" The little red lotus remembered its master, hopped towards Li Chunhua, and tugged on her track pants before handing her the flower while issuing the combination of a charming voice and starry eyes, melting Li Chunhua’s dragon hopes.

Li Chunhua couldn’t bring herself to show a disappointed expression and went to take the flower in her hand.

[Karmic Lotus Flower Spirit’s Gift]

- Opening its bud can give you a random surprise.]

A gift? Is this a bribe?

"Kya!" The little lotus was happy and hugged her ankle while rubbing its turnip-smooth face on her track pants. Mama!

Li Chunhua’s eyes stayed on its scale-less form and its body size. She had the urge to cry. My only chance at getting a dragon is gone.

She shouldn’t have eaten the egg with the lotus, but just the egg alone. She restrained her tears from falling so as not to make the new little guy feel unwelcome.

But since it has already come to this point...

Never mind; better luck next time. It isn’t this lotus spirit’s fault. But the battle with the boss will fall into her hands; she should plan ahead before it.

She said so in her mind as her hand opened the bud.

And when the last petal fell, the flower disappeared.

[You’ve opened the gift and received the karmic lotus’ gift, Lotus Fragrance.]

[Lotus Fragrance (Rare)

- Your body will emit a Lotus fragrance that will attract monsters within a 500-meter radius.]

Long Haoran behind, who decided to take a peek: "..." Are you sure that’s a gift?

After five seconds, they were surrounded by the efficient response team. The ice-mutant boss croc opened its huge mouth and issued a command. "Hand over that lotus and that ginseng." He could sense the rich essence of that lotus and the little ginseng, and if he could devour them, he would be able to evolve.

The little ginseng and little lotus hid behind their masters in fear.

Now, Li Chunhua’s tears couldn’t be stopped. A gift my foot... This is a curse.

Long Haoran surveyed the place and frowned. There is no escape route, but they can still make it out alive.

"Hand them over, and I’ll both leave your corpses complete." The Croc’s webbed feet took a step forward, and every step caused a tremor.

"Kya! Kya! "The red little lotus was braver than the little ginseng, and when it heard the threat, it got angry and summoned a lotus bud magic wand before waving it.

Li Chunhua saw a tiny red spark resembling the color of the karmic fire in the novel emerged from the tip of the magic wand, which flew in the air and landed on the boss’s head two second later.

Li Chunhua dares not to blink in case she’s missed the moment seeing this legendary karmic fire.

"Kya Kya!"

[Pew Pew Bomb Skill Activated.]

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"Kya?" The Lotus released another pew-pew bomb.

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And another...

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And it couldn’t hurt the boss it used it other skills and all had one-digit damage.

Li Chunhua and Long Haoran: "..."

Little Ginseng: Oh, this new guy is more pitiful than him.

"That’s all you got. Useless!" The boss, feeling a warm tickling sensation on its skin, roared in laughter before opening up its giant mouth to summon an ice beam. "This is a real attack!"

The temperature within the surroundings drastically fell.

Startled, Li Chunhua hurriedly grabbed the two little guys enveloped her body in a energy armour and leapt in the air, while Long Haoran activated his flight skill and went behind Li Chunhua to use his pan as a shield.

The ice beam was released in their direction and the pan bore the most brunt. Long Haoran’s hand was numbed from the cold as frost coated his fingers and beginning to spread on his hand, but he didn’t let go.

The frying pan: Darn, it’s so cold!

While those crocs in the trajectory of the ice beam were caught and turned into frozen popsicles before breaking into tiny pieces.

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Li Chunhua turned around and when she saw the damage on Chef Long’s head, she went back and planned to take revenge when the little lotus in her arms cried.

"Kya." The little lotus saw the magic wand had turned frosty, broke into tiny pieces, and cried.

Along with the red little lotus cries, its head was getting balder as the red petals fell one by one. "Kya Kya Kya!"

And it leapt off with its landing trajectory towards the boss.

The boss who had just finished using a skill was startled and opened its mouth to gobble the little guy.

Li Chunhua, Long Haoran and the little ginseng were shocked and were too late to react.

The boss was also thrilled at the development and tried to sense how much of his strength improved but just a second after, it could feel its stomach warm and getting even warmer with each passing second. The frost on the surface of its skin were beginning to evaporate and its nostril were puffing out streams of hot air.

Li Chunhua was planning to kill it off for her little lotus but Long Haoran stopped her. "Look at its belly."

At his words, Li Chunhua stared at the boss’ stomach and noticed it had a bump and was getting bigger.

Long Haoran added, "Don’t attack it otherwise the little one will also get hurt."

Come to think of it she should get a notification of the little lotus perishing which only means it was still alive.

And Li Chunhua soon got her answer because the boss fell on the ground and started rolling flattening the forest. "It hurts! It hurts!"

Its descendants were alarmed and crawled towards it trying to find a way to help it but the latter actually killed them to heal his burned wounds making Li Chunhua and Long Haoran disgusted.

The other crocs tried to flee but the boss killed them. But no matter how many kin it ate, it’s stomach didn’t get well and smoke was coming out of its orifices as its health bar was being reduced at a fast rate until its HP reached 10%, its stomach burst and something soared into the sky letting out a loud and thundering, "Roar!"

Li Chunhua: (⊙o⊙)!

[Karmic Lotus Flood Dragon (Hatchling) Level 30 (HP: 39,500/39,500)]

[Summon Name: Karmic Flood Dragon (Infancy Stage)

-Summon Grade: S (Evolvable)

-Summon Type: Mage and Aerial Combat Type

-Skills: Karmic Fire (P), Enhanced Physique (P), Intermediate Magic Nullification (P), Dragon’s Breath (A)...]

The Karmic Lotus Dragon opened its mouth and let out a breath of Karmic Fire melting the Crocs and destroying half the mountain in just a few seconds.

The three: (⊙_(⊙_⊙)_⊙) Forget about Optimus Prime, Bumblebee and Megatron! Now, this is a true transformer!