Chapter 242: The Lion Fired a Solar Beam at Luke… Big Mistake

Luke observed the ongoing battle calmly.

First, the lion was 30 feet tall, covered with dark golden mane and brown fur all over its body.

But there was something else mixed in there.

"The beast seems fire type." He muttered after noticing its tail end was burning with continuous fire. Which in the case of beasts like apex beasts, the B rank,

showed its element.

Even in earlier realms, faint signs could be seen, but not as clearly as in the apex stage.

While the other three deer were 25 feet tall, covered with their usual orange and brown fur.

But their horns were glowing with cyan light.

"So they are wind type." He nodded thoughtfully, before looking toward the far distance.

For which he had come here, after getting info from his clone.

A small tree, around 20 feet tall, stood in the middle of a pond. Its entire body radiated a brilliant red glow, illuminating the surrounding water with a crimson hue.

Several branches extended from its trunk, and upon them hung a few bright red fruits, each one shimmering with an unusual energy.

"An early B rank treasure." He assessed the situation, before asking the system as well about its effect.

[Even though the fruit has fire element, Theia would be able to digest its energy to heal herself, and with the glow around the fruit, it could also remove the blood essence from her body.]

Hearing this, Luke breathed a sigh of relief.

After that, the system also told him that those vampire attacks contained raw poisonous blood essence, while the fruit’s energy was refined.

Which was the reason for the lion defending it.

"So how much energy do you think all of them contain?" Upon this he asked for another reason.

Because if this fruit could rank up, even a small realm, then it could be sold for another treasure.

[Seeing the number of fruits, if one being digests all of them, then the person would gain around 2% progress in its realm.]

"heh? that’s it??"

"So low..." he muttered the last words with a speechless expression. Because an early B rank treasure was supposed to make more progress.

But the system clarified his doubt, that higher realms need huge amounts of energy to progress and also other factors.

Or else, everyone would have become A rank beings and higher.

The system also added that consuming the same type of resources often diminishes their effects.

"Sigh." Hearing that, Luke sighed helplessly. Because now he was feeling that even his future realm progress would be slow.

Since the system said that from now on, he wouldn’t be able to use Knight potions to rank up.

As he would be doing a different cultivation.

"Whatever, we will see when the time comes." So he ignored those unnecessary thoughts and focused on the fight.

Because during his thinking, all three deer got injured by the lion’s flame claw, resulting in one of the deer horns also shattering.

"This lion sure contains more strength." He commented with a surprised expression. As the lion had already used 2 active abilities, while the three deer only had used one.

[Luke, did you forget something?]

As he was thinking this, the system’s voice came into his mind, which made him confused. ’What did I forget?’

"Ahh." But the next moment, he understood. "Bloodlines."

[Correct.] The system also replied.

Because the bloodline of beasts decides their growth, their potential, and even their chances to mutate.

As he was thinking this, an earth-shaking roar came from the front.

RROOARR!!

"What the f*ck!" Luke cursed, because a huge amount of solar energy, pure golden, had gathered into the mouth of the lion.

Like he was going to use some kind of huge beam attack.

But he cursed, not because of that!

He cursed because that f*cking lion was pointing toward the direction where he was.

So Luke immediately teleported to another place, and the very next moment, the releasing of the beam sound came.

KRAAAAAASH!

He looked behind him, toward the solar beam that had just erupted from the lion’s mouth.

The 10-meter-wide beam tore through the air, warping the space around it from its overwhelming heat.

SHOOOOOM!

In the next instant, it collided with the first deer beast.

The beast didn’t even have time to react.

Its body began melting within a fraction of a second, despite the thick layer of Wind Essence covering its body.

"Gulp."

Luke swallowed hard at the sight.

Yet the beam didn’t stop.

It continued forward with terrifying momentum before finally colliding with the area where he had been hiding earlier.

BOOOOOM!

An earth-shattering explosion erupted.

The ground violently collapsed beneath the impact, forming a massive crater.

The surrounding trees were instantly reduced to ashes, while the nearby stones melted under the overwhelming heat, flowing across the ground like molten lava.

"If that lion throws one or two of these toward Blackstone..." he shook his head to remove those ominous images and looked toward the two injured deer.

Right now, their expressions were also filled with panic, because they never thought to find someone of this level.

Then the lion suddenly let out a thunderous roar.

"ROOOOOAR!"

The sheer force of its voice shook the surrounding forest, making the beasts’ bodies tremble in fear.

They instinctively backed away before turning around and sprinting toward the depths of the forest, desperate to put as much distance between themselves and the terrifying lion as possible.

"Huh? No more fight?" Luke became confused seeing this.

Because even though the lion could bring this level of attack, he was sure that it wouldn’t be able to do that again in a short time.

And this thing should be known to those deer as well, since both of them were B rank, which meant they had certain intelligence.

"Wait a sec." Then suddenly came the important info that he missed earlier.

"They are wind type." He muttered thoughtfully, before looking toward the pond, where fruits containing fire energy were hanging.

So even if they ate, they would definitely get less energy compared to fire elements.

Which resulted in them not betting their lives on this.

Thinking this, Luke let out an annoyed sigh, because none of them were able to injure the lion.

"And it also has some strong bloodline related to fire." Luke rubbed his chin thoughtfully, but the next moment, a big grin appeared on his lips.

"I like it." He said excitedly, because this meant even his territory’s pet would not be average.

If the lion knew Luke’s thoughts, then it would definitely spit not one or two, but tens of those solar beams at him.

Though just as he was about to go, the system gave a small warning.

[Luke, since this lion is still an early B rank, it would not have that special move of B rank.]

After saying this, it also added,

[But still, be careful, because this lion would probably hold some kind of innate skill.]

[And the innate skill of B rank is no joke.]

The system finished its words, on which Luke nodded.

Even though he had complained about the system not having an inspect skill, still, sometimes the system did give some important info.

After that Luke stretched his body and extended one hand toward the lion, a mischievous smile slowly appearing on his face.

"Seems like I have to teach this kitty some manners."

He muttered excitedly, his eyes gleaming with anticipation.