The King of Beast Trainers
Chapter 884 - 458

Chapter 884: 458

"I’ve been away for a while, has everything in the Empire been going smoothly?"

Lu Ran arrived at Manager Ying’s office and addressed the dilemma with a sigh to the lifted-headed cat lounging on the desk, chasing drama series and munching on dried fish, her body adorned with jewels.

This was Manager Ying’s true form... she didn’t seem to be working hard.

"All is well. A few poaching gangs were being sneaky, but they were easily detected and dealt with. They’re now feeding the wild boars at the mines, courtesy of the Shura Army." Manager Ying lifted a small bag of dried fish, offering some to Lu Ran.

Lu Ran waved it off, puzzled, "Isn’t it daring that with the lineup of the Beast Training Empire as it is, there are still those who would dare to poach here?"

Manager Ying shrugged, "A bunch of black-skinned Beast Trainers, who knows what they’re thinking, probably don’t operate on the same wavelength as normal people."

"Anyway, if everyone in a world was normal, that would be abnormal. Alright, out with it, what do you want? Don’t distract me from my show."

"My parents—"

"No news." Manager Ying expressed headache, "No idea what’s going on, but you better prepare for the worst."

"Alright." Lu Ran said, "Nothing else. In a few days, I’m off to the Breakthrough Secret Realm. I’ll leave the Empire in your care, oh and we’ll need to draw a few more tons of blood."

Manager Ying: ?

The cat’s drama-watching expression twisted into a grimace as she slammed her paw onto the keyboard.

Lu Ran wouldn’t bother arguing with this cat. He simply brought out No. 18, placed her on Manager Ying’s office desk, and simply walked away, leaving everything to No. 18 to negotiate.

Then Lu Ran was walking in the spacious harem garden, inhaling the fresh scent of flowers and grass, and muttered to himself,

"This trip to the Elemental Era is extremely dangerous."

"Though I’m not planning on hunting the high Middle Legends, even hunting their underlings, those lower and middle ones, doesn’t mean they won’t provoke the higher ones."

"When underlings, subordinates, or affiliations are hunted, those upper echelon Legends will surely rage."

"When that time comes, trouble will be incessant. Liu Hua, you should not be able to single-handedly push through seven or eight upper echelon Legends, let alone rival a group under the pursuit of the Lord of Light and Darkness, right?"

"Nonsense." The human silhouette of the Six Paths Flower also appeared in the garden, walking beside Lu Ran and speaking to him, "One-on-one is still manageable, but against two or more upper echelon Legends, I definitely can’t handle it. Not to mention... those of God Level."

"It’s a pity I can’t bring the Tree King along." Lu Ran reminisced about the experience where the Tree King gathered the strength of 10 Time Pet Beasts to enhance himself to Legendary Level.

If it were the Legendary-level me, I’d probably have a relatively easier time in the Elemental Era.

As a member of the Human Tribe, his performance was still limited. Mr. Husky and the others could level up in an instant with just one Time Fruit, but for him, the Time Fruit was not much use; signifiant enhancement effects required a combined effort from the Tree King and their peers. After all, inherently, the Tree King is still a "Beast Trainer," and the resources created are mostly to serve Extraordinary Beings.

"No worries." Lu Ran patted his cheek pouch and said, "Relying on others isn’t as good as relying on oneself."

"For the sake of caution, Liu Hua, you’ll act as my surgeon next; we’re going to perform a ’breakthrough surgery’!!!"

"After it’s over, even if I don’t reach the state I was in when The Tree King enhanced me, in terms of strength, I should also be able to achieve a great increase."

"Hmm???" Liu Hua tilted her head to look at Lu Ran, curious to see what kind of wild idea the kid had this time.

Lu Ran just sat straight down on the stone bench in the pavilion, stabbed his own chest with his hand as if it were a knife, creating a bloody hole through which he pulled out his heart and placed it on the stone table.

"Cough." For a moment, Lu Ran’s face paled considerably, coughing blood continuously as blood gushed from the wound until a Flame Spirit emerged and the bleeding stopped.

Lu Ran looked at his heart on the table, gathered the Power of Death he had secretly learned from his Pet Beast, and severed the last bit of life force from the beating heart.

Lu Ran’s face looked even worse, but then he gave a ghastly smile, looking at Liu Hua.

Under normal circumstances, in such a state, one wouldn’t even dream of moving around peacefully, let alone surviving, but Lu Ran had a Life Contract and a Life Link with Liu Hua, so even with a dead heart, his main body could still maintain its vitality.

"You..." Liu Hua felt a pain in her stomach, understanding what Lu Ran wanted to do.

[Name]: Heart of Legends

[Level]: World’s Rare level.

Lu Ran looked at his heart and chuckled, "Look, my Physique is so strong now, and many of my organs are just World’s Rare level; there’s still plenty of room for improvement."

With that said, Lu Ran took out an Epic Enhancement Card and slapped it onto his already dead heart.

Under the enhancement waves, the Heart of Legends immediately underwent a transformation!!

[Name]: Epic Heart

[Level]: Epic level.

"Next, I’m going to put this heart back in, so Liu Hua, I’ll trouble you to... use the Legendary Level Life Granting ability to heal me."

"It’s still my heart, so there shouldn’t be any rejection reaction."

Liu Hua stared at Lu Ran, her vision going blurry, almost seeing a Crow’s head hovering above Lu Ran’s head.

"You and that Crow, I can’t tell who resembles who anymore."

She rolled her eyes but still proceeded to help Lu Ran with the "heart transplant surgery" as he had requested.

...

Every part of the body--the internal organs, limbs, skull, bones--in Lu Ran’s mind was to be enhanced to Epic level.

Epic-level body parts were actually hard to come by, you know. The heart of the God of War, who was a Middle Legend, was only at Epic level.