The King of Beast Trainers
Chapter 347 - 198: Dividing the Spoils_1

Chapter 347: Chapter 198: Dividing the Spoils_1

"King of Sudden Death, thank you for your hard work."

"Roar..."

After the Secret Realm, Lu Ran began to treat King of Sudden Death’s injuries.

Considering the impact was strong enough to instantly take down a rival Overlord Clan member, you can imagine how terrifying it was.

At this moment, not a single piece of the Ant Queen could be found intact...

Though King of Sudden Death was also in a bad shape, the Dragon King Shield’s defenses allowed it to rapidly self-heal the moment it withstood the impact.

Combined with its formidable defensive power, it only sustained severe injuries, which was a small price to pay for pulling off this "assassination."

After treating King of Sudden Death with the Divine Deer Pendant, it quickly recovered to its original state.

"Woo."

"Caw."

Meanwhile, Mr. Husky and Dark Crow continuously examined the huge meteorite crater with a diameter of several hundred meters, shaking their heads slightly.

Ant Queen, you died a truly miserable death.

"Let’s withdraw."

Lu Ran said with a smile. At this point, he couldn’t wait to go back and divide the loot, ah no, distribute the rewards.

As for the rest of the Secret Realm, Lu Ran had already known through Dark Crow’s reconnaissance that there wasn’t much left to desire.

Everything had been consumed by the Ant Queen, used for the proliferation of her ant swarm.

...

Private room.

King of Sudden Death sat on the floor, taking long breaths.

Feeling relieved.

Thankfully, the Ant Queen’s defensive power was weak, otherwise, after crashing down, it might have faced a second brutal battle.

The current outcome was quite good.

It definitely did not want to fight with any Ant Devil Creature.

Many ants can bite a dragon to death, this basic principle was well known to it; no one knows how powerful the Ant Devil Creature’s burst strength could be, better not to gamble if it can be avoided.

"Roar~~"

King of Sudden Death squinted its eyes, asking Lu Ran if any of the loot was suitable for it.

"This Blood Crystal... King of Sudden Death, are you considering having a Dragon King offspring???"

At this moment, while flipping through the rewards, Lu Ran also spoke after a moment of silence.

"How about this for you?"

This World’s Rare Resource... it’s so strange!

Water from the Mother-Child River of Women Country?

"What?" King of Sudden Death was taken aback, so shocked that it went through a voice break.

Beside him, Mr. Husky and Dark Crow also showed shocked expressions, whoa, there was such a resource?

"Roar!!"

Upon hearing that Lu Ran wanted to give it this resource, King of Sudden Death repeatedly waved its hands and shook its head.

What a joke, it was a male lizard; how could it use this sort of thing to breed offspring?

Lu Ran then looked towards Mr. Husky and Dark Crow.

These two guys also shook their heads repeatedly; they were male too and could not accept it, not at all.

"This thing, although a bit unconventional, is indeed quite valuable!" Lu Ran said:

"According to breeding knowledge, the higher the Species Level and Growth Level of Pet Beasts, the more difficult it is to breed, but the offspring that are born are also more powerful."

"This thing, if used on high Species Level creatures, could have maximum effect!"

"Even, if it’s used on Legendary Divine Beasts, wouldn’t it be possible to produce a little Divine Beast?" Lu Ran quickly digressed, shaking his head as he thought it should be impossible, since it’s only a World’s Rare Resource.

Even if it did allow a Divine Beast to give birth, it surely wouldn’t inherit the complete Bloodline power of a Divine Beast.

In any case, the most suitable user for the Blood Crystal Lu Ran could think of right now was King of Sudden Death.

With a unique Dragon King Bloodline and high Species Level... but since King of Sudden Death didn’t like it, Lu Ran wouldn’t force it.

He decided to keep it for now.

What if he met some older, single, rare-species creature in the future?

Making a good impression, perhaps it might be possible to inherit a young beast.

At this moment, for some reason, Lu Ran envisioned Manager Ying...

It was said that her true form was the Nine-Tailed Cat, which should also be an extremely rare species. If the avatar is so strong, the true form definitely cannot be weak...

"Let’s check out the other things." Lu Ran swallowed and then mumbled, Beast Training Technique · Affiliation!

Upon first setting eyes on this skill, Lu Ran was certain of it.

His next Beast Training Technique would be this one.

What is Affiliation?

Fundamentally, it’s akin to one being establishing a "Contract" with another life form.

On the Star-Moon Continent, Affiliated life is a very special term.

Generally speaking, only extremely formidable Legendary Divine Beasts could have affiliations.

It is also only they who possess the ability to "create affiliations."

In ancient mythology, some Legendary Divine Beasts could part with a fraction of their power and bestow it upon other beings, triggering their evolution.

Then the lives that evolved after receiving the power of a Legendary Divine Beast would establish a special connection with the Divine Beast.

The relationship would become much closer, like battle companions or generals from the same bloodline.

Two of the Four Great Genesis Dragons, The Dragon of Life and Dragon of Death, were said to each have three affiliations, delegating them to walk the earth and maintain the order of life and death.

This skill is clearly another type of "Legion Technique."

However, what’s being cultivated aren’t "ordinary soldiers," but "high-level generals."

Typically, the stronger the Divine Beast is, the stronger its Affiliations are.

Obviously, this is basically an ability to "recruit underlings."

Of course, what surprised Lu Ran the most was that this wasn’t a Trait Crystal, but a Beast Training Technique.

This means, if Lu Ran learned it, as he further developed the technique, he’d have the ability to assign one or even multiple Affiliations to each of his Pet Beasts!!

For example, if Mr. Husky had a sword-shaped being as its Affiliation, there’s no doubt that Mr. Husky’s strength would become even greater!!

And it would belong to that kind of strength that glitches the system.

The stronger Mr. Husky becomes, the stronger the Affiliation becomes... The stronger the Affiliation becomes, the stronger Mr. Husky becomes.

Although he didn’t know to what extent he could exploit this bug, a sword that had a closer connection to itself would undoubtedly allow Mr. Husky to soar in power.

Then there’s the Weather Spirit.

If it had several Pet Beasts that also wielded the power of weather as its Affiliations, its strength would certainly leap in quality as well.

Even for the King of Sudden Death, which is relatively unsuitable for fighting side by side with Affiliations, having an underling skilled in healing would definitely make it more invincible.

However...

Lu Ran shook his head, realizing that to make good use of this Beast Training Technique would be equivalent to a Beast Trainer raising "an entire team" of spirits, which would definitely take a huge amount of effort.

Moreover, the life of an Affiliation is mostly not retractable into a Contract Card, so it appears one could only swagger around on Blue Star and couldn’t bring them into Infinite City.

Unless Lu Ran treated the life of an Affiliation as a second team of Pet Beasts to contract, but that would once again show a severe shortage of Contract Cards.

"Ah, who wouldn’t hurry up and discover the training methods of the Beast Training Space. If there were the Beast Training Space and Contract Cards, there’d be no such dilemma."

Besides the challenge of carrying Affiliations, the "Legion" in Legion Techniques certainly cannot be carried around casually either.

Lu Ran glanced at the Species Dominance Trait Crystal. After thinking about it, he decided it would be more suitable for the Dark Crow.

At that time, he was pondering whether to give the Legion Technique Crystal to the Dark Crow or the Weather Spirit.

But surely, as soon as it became available, the dilemma became meaningless.

Because this Species Dominance can only control creatures with its own bloodline or those similar to its own Species.

On Blue Star, the Weather Spirit is a unique Species.

Unless the clouds on Blue Star could also develop consciousness and evolve into Elemental Beings, but that’s simply unrealistic.

Animal life, undead life, plant life, mechanical life, elemental life... each one more preposterous than the last.

So, after thinking about it, Lu Ran decided to give the Species Dominance only to the Dark Crow, especially since there were several thousand crows under its command over in Green Sea City.

"Now, Mr. Husky and Dark Crow, both of you have a promising future ahead."

"Woof!"

"Caw!"

Mr. Husky and Dark Crow both showed expressions of intelligence. Not bad—the plan is for the King of Sudden Death to work and earn resources, then they’ll use these resources to grow stronger and surpass the King of Sudden Death, how delightful.

"Roar..." Nearby, the King of Sudden Death felt depressed.

What about earning resources for Yun Bao?

In the end, neither it nor Yun Bao gained anything, and everything went to the dog and the bird.

"As for this Ant Queen’s Egg..."

Seeing another egg dropped from the Secret Realm, Lu Ran fell into contemplation.

He felt that this egg was much more valuable than the Stone Dragon Egg.

Although the Stone Dragon Egg is a Sub-Dragon Species, Sub-Dragons are a dime a dozen. Unless it’s a pure Dragon Clan, it’s not considered valuable.

But if this Ant Queen’s Egg hatches into a little queen ant, it would be a Monarch that naturally possesses "Legion attributes." If it can fuse a few Traits, it might have hope of evolving into the core of an Overlord Clan Legion.

Such a young Pet Beast has immense potential, but Lu Ran, who was just troubled by the lack of Contract Slots, certainly had no intentions of raising a queen ant.

He’s already overwhelmed with raising Pet Beast Affiliations, the Dark Crow Legion, and the Weather Legion.

He felt most of the resources erupted this time were quite useful and worth keeping. The only thing Lu Ran thought he could trade away for other resources he needed more was the Ant Queen’s Egg.

Lu Ran believed that this time, there would definitely be many First Generations within the country interested in it, since it’s a Legion-type Pet Beast... Well, let’s see who can offer the highest price.

Might the highest bidder win!

...

[You’re quite quick with your actions...]

Shortly after Lu Ran finished his challenge, messages from Gu Qingyi and others started to arrive in succession. Lu Ran chuckled and replied with a [The gains were not bad] to all.

Seeing that Lu Ran had no intention of elaborating on his gains, others didn’t continue asking what they were, except for Gu Qingyi who asked further.

Gu Qingyi: [What’s your next plan? Will you continue to wait for the next Evolutionary Secret Realm?]

Passerby A: [Hmm, I haven’t decided whether to evolve Dark Crow or Mr. Husky first, but their Evolution resources are both ready. Let’s see who can prepare more thoroughly in the next few days.]

Now that another Trait of the Dark Crow had erupted, Lu Ran was a little uncertain whether to infuse it with the Undead Avatar or the Species Dominance as its third Trait.

But after careful consideration, Lu Ran decided to merge Undead Avatar first.

After all, Trait Crystals need to have "compatibility."

Although the Dark Crow currently has a bunch of underlings, those underlings have no actual connection to it.

They also can’t be brought into the Evolutionary Secret Realm.

It’s completely starting from scratch to merge Species Dominance, which seemed risky and might not maximize absorption.

But if it first merges Undead Avatar, maybe by the time Dark Crow reaches Level 40, it would have already mastered the ability to control its avatars.

By then, controlling its own avatars would at least count as domination.

With that, Dark Crow’s compatibility with the Species Dominance Trait would not be zero.

Besides, if it’s just merging Trait Crystals without involving Evolution, it can be done in the outside world. By then, with a crowd of Crows around, perhaps the effect will be even better.

"Damn, too bad Dark Crow’s level of consciousness doesn’t make the cut; otherwise, the Blood Crystal could’ve been combined with the Dominance Crystal and the Affiliation ability."

"Speaking of which... can Elemental Beings reproduce little clouds through the Blood Crystal?" Lu Ran’s thoughts started to drift again, but Elemental Beings likely don’t have the power of bloodlines, he surmised, and moreover, making the Weather Spirit that wasn’t even a month old give birth felt a bit inhuman to him.