Chapter 226: The BGM

"Alright, Rose, Go Wild."

{Ding!! Detected that the host is in an epic fight, playing Battle BGM!!}

Raiden:???

Before he could say anything, heavy retro techno music started to play in the background, which sounded really familiar to him.

Everyone on the battlefield paused and started looking around at this sound that was coming from, but it seemed omnidirectional.

{The Strongest Man, Entrepreneur. Born in 3164~

Archon, The Archon~

Come on, Archon, You can do it

Stop The Beasts, Put your back into it~

Tell us why, Show them how~

Look at where you came from, look at you now ~

Stormwind and Goldwyn and Ash it

Amateurs can fuckin’ suck it

Fuck their—!!}

’STOP!!! THE FUCK IS THIS???’

Raiden shouted loudly in his mind.

Meanwhile, everybody outside was feeling stunned speechless.

What just happened? What was the song? Who sang it? Can they get a link for it??

Both Theodore and Aria never felt more confused in their lives.

Meanwhile, Raiden was dying inside from the cringe. He remembered the song. It just had different music due to copyright.

For all the songs the system could play as background music, this was the one he had to pick??

{As you wish, host, I have changed the music.}

System voice rang out in his mind, leaving him more confused.

’Huh, wait what??’

Before he could comprehend any further, another new song started to play.

Raiden listened to the familiar high-octane upper beat music that was playing in the background.

**{There was a certain man on the Farm Long Ago

He was big and strong, in his hands a thunderous ball

Most people looked at him with terror and with fear

But to Verdant chicks, he was such a lovely dear~

He could preach you shamelessness like a preacher

Full of bullshit and lies

But he also was the kind of shameless person

Women would desire ~

Ra Ra Rai Den~

Lover of the Redhead Queen~

There was a sheep that really was gone

Ra Ra Rai Den~

Alliance greatest love machine~

It was a shame how he lived alone~}

There was this absolute pure silence on the battlefield, as Theodore and Aria turned their heads towards Raiden with a weird look on their faces.

Raiden, in turn, who just wanted the earth to swallow him, turned into a statue and started staring at the ground like it was very interesting.

Both siblings, on the other hand, had even forgotten about the threat they were facing at the moment, just staring at him as if he had grown a second head.

"Umm... Raiden, is that you who is playing this music??" Aria asked hesitantly.

"No, it’s not me. You got the wrong person. I don’t know what you’re talking about." Raiden turned his head away.

"The song is talking about you, Raiden, the guy who lives on the farm. That’s you, right?" She pressed on, and she got closer to him.

Raiden turned his back towards them as he started looking at the sky at a 45° angle.

"What song? Did you hear anything? I didn’t hear anything. I think you have gotten way too tired, and you are just hallucinating now."

Hearing the smooth delivery of his words as if he practised it a thousand times, Aria didn’t know what to say.

This song was very weird but very catchy as well.

"Sha Sha!!" Song about Rai Rai!! So cool!!~

Neva, on the other hand, was vibing to the song. Rose also her head in her agreement, was swaying to the beat of the music.

’System, you fucking bitch. Get out of here. All this time, I’ll kill you. I want you to stop this music this instant. Not pause it, but stop it. In fact, delete this useless feature entirely!! Also, what are these Parody versions of these songs?!! Do you fear the copyright law?? Do you think the author is too poor to afford this music or in the lyrics??’

{You guessed correctly. Host, the author is way too poor to afford this kind of music, so we have to make do with what little creativity he had. As you wish, I will turn off the BGM right now.}

The music stopped instantly.

Raiden kept staring at the sky for a few more seconds, refusing to turn around and face the two siblings behind him. His expression was calm, his posture was calm, but his heart was screaming loud enough to destroy the entire private realm.

If possible, he wanted to find a hole in the ground and bury himself in it for the next hundred years.

Theodore looked at Aria, who in turn looked at Theodore. Then both of them looked at Raiden again.

"Raiden..." Theodore began in a slow voice. "I have many questions."

"I have no answers," Raiden replied immediately.

"But the song literally said—"

"I don’t know what it said."

"It called you—"

"I am deaf."

"You were replying to something in your head."

"I am mentally unwell."

Theodore opened his mouth, then closed it again. There was no way to win against such shamelessness.

Aria covered her mouth with both hands, trying her hardest not to laugh. Her shoulders were shaking wildly, and even though she tried to look serious, a tiny snort escaped through her fingers.

"Sorry," she said quickly, failing horribly at sounding sorry. "I just... I have never heard anything like that before."

"Good." Raiden nodded solemnly. "Then let’s make sure it stays that way. What happened here today should remain buried between us, the forest, and these four dinosaurs."

"Sha Sha!!" Neva shook her head excitedly.

No way!! Neva will sing it for Sylvia when we get home!!

Raiden’s face went blank.

"Neva."

"Sha?"

"You are grounded."

The little white spider froze.

"Sha Shaa?!" But Neva doesn’t even live in a room!!

"Then I will build one just to ground you in it."

Rose swayed on Raiden’s palm, clearly enjoying the chaos far too much.

"Hiss Hiss~" Rai Rai~ is very popular. Rose thinks the song was good.

"Not you too." Raiden looked down at the tiny serpent with tired eyes. "You were supposed to beat the enemies, not join the bullying."

Rose tilted her head cutely.

"Hiss??"

Before Raiden could explain the concept of betrayal to his own Terra Beast, the ground shook again.

THUMP!!

One of the Platinum-Tier Triceratops finally snapped out of the strange BGM-induced confusion. Its massive red eyes were filled with rage as it lowered its head and charged forward once more.

The other three followed closely behind.

Their gigantic bodies smashed through the trees like they were made of paper. Thick roots flew into the air as the ground cracked under their hooves. Each step made the forest tremble harder.

"Okay, enough embarrassing moments." Raiden’s expression immediately turned serious. "Rose, it is your turn now."

"Hiss Hiss!!" Rose’s eyes lit up.

She slithered off Raiden’s hand and landed on the ground with a tiny plop. Compared to the four charging monsters, she looked extremely small. Her whole body was barely larger than Raiden’s arm.

The Triceratops probably didn’t even see her as a threat, and that was their first mistake.

Rose lifted her tail.

The blood around the unconscious Triceratops that had fallen down in the crater when she was enjoying the music suddenly rose into the air again.

It moved like a red river flowing upward against gravity, twisting around itself before stretching into a massive crimson wall between Rose and the charging beasts.

The first Triceratops slammed into it.

BOOM!!

The impact created a shockwave that blew leaves and dirt across the entire clearing, but the blood wall didn’t break.

It bent inward for a second, absorbing the full force of the charge, before snapping back like a rubber band as the Platinum-Tier Triceratops was thrown backwards.

Its huge body rolled across the forest floor, crushing trees beneath it before it finally stopped more than fifty metres away.

"What the hell..." Theodore muttered.

He had poured everything into defeating one of these beasts. He and Garuda had nearly collapsed after that battle.

Rose had just thrown one away with a flick of her tail. The other three Triceratops didn’t stop.

Instead, they roared in anger, their thick scales starting to glow brown and yellow as Earth energy gathered around their huge bodies.

The ground beneath Rose suddenly split apart.

Hundreds of sharp stone spikes burst upward, each one large enough to pierce through a car. They shot toward the tiny serpent from every direction, trying to trap her in the middle.

Rose looked at them curiously.

"Hiss?"

Then the blood wall behind her separated into countless thin streams that moved faster than the eye could follow.

The blood wrapped around the incoming spikes, crushing them one after another before they could reach Rose. Stone exploded everywhere as the crimson threads tore through the Earth constructs like they were made of wet mud.

Seeing this, the Triceratops grew even angrier and stomped their feet again. This time, the whole forest shook violently.

The ground opened underneath Rose, creating a deep crater that tried to swallow her whole. At the same time, dozens of stone golems rose from the earth around her.

They were huge, each one nearly ten metres tall, with thick bodies made of rocks and mud. Their fists were bigger than Raiden’s entire body.

Theodore’s face turned pale as he looked at them.

"Those are Earth Golems." He spoke quickly. "They can regenerate as long as they are connected to the ground. Rose needs to destroy all of them at once, or they will keep coming back. We need to help her!!"

Raiden nodded calmly.

"It’s fine, Rose can handle it."

"How are you so sure?"

"Because she looks like she’s having fun."

Theodore stared at the tiny crimson snake. Rose was indeed looking happy as her eyes had turned into little crescents.

"Hiss Hiss~"

The blood behind her rose higher and higher before it started changing shape.

A moment ago, it had been a wall; now it became weapons.

Hundreds of crimson blades appeared in the sky, each one long and thin like a sword. Behind them came dozens of spears, axes, chains, and strange spinning discs with sharp edges.

The entire sky above the clearing turned red.

BANG!!

BANG!!

BANG!!

The crimson blades smashed through the golems one after another, splitting their bodies apart before they could even take three steps forward. The stone giants tried to reform, pulling rocks and mud back toward their shattered bodies.

Rose didn’t let them.

Thin blood threads crawled through the cracks in their bodies, sinking into every small space before expanding rapidly.

CRACK!!

All the Earth Golems exploded at once.

Seeing this, all three Triceratops froze in their tracks. For the first time, something like fear appeared in their red eyes.

"Hiss Shiss~" Rose looked toward them, her little tongue flicking out happily.

The first Triceratops looked at the little snake hesitantly before he turned around and tried to run.

But Rose’s blood moved first.

A crimson chain wrapped around one of its back legs and yanked hard. The gigantic beast crashed face-first into the ground, its heavy body creating another crater.

Before it could stand again, dozens of blood spears appeared above it. They slammed into the ground around its body in a perfect circle, trapping it inside a crimson cage. The Triceratops roared and tried to ram through the cage.

The moment its horn touched the blood, the red liquid wrapped around the cracked horn and climbed across its face.

The beast panicked. It shook its head violently, trying to throw the blood off, but the more it struggled, the tighter the crimson threads became.

Then Rose pulled her tail down. The Triceratops suddenly went still.

A red stream rose from the injury around its broken horn, joining Rose’s floating weapons in the air.

The beast’s legs trembled. Its massive body slowly fell sideways.

Thud!!

"She can use their blood too..." Theodore whispered, unable to hide the shock in his voice.

"Yep." Raiden nodded with a beaming smile. "Isn’t she the best??"

Theodore turned towards Raiden with a weird look on his face as he saw his proud beaming face. He had finally figured it out. It wasn’t just the Terra Beasts that were mad, but their Battle Master was mad too!!

To raise such abnormal Terra Beasts, you need to become abnormal as well.

The other two Triceratops finally realised they were in trouble and stopped attacking Rose and began charging toward Raiden instead.

They had probably assumed he was the master and therefore the weakest point. It was not a bad plan, but it was just useless.

Rose’s eyes widened.

"Hiss!!" You dare to go after Rai Rai?!!

Something inside her snapped, like some kind of maternal instinct.

The blood weapons in the sky moved at once.

Two giant crimson hands formed in front of the charging beasts. Each hand was bigger than their entire heads.

The first hand grabbed one Triceratops by the horn. The second grabbed the other by the neck before both hands slammed them together.

BOOM!!!

The impact created a shockwave that sent Theodore stumbling backwards. Aria grabbed his arm to keep him steady while Neva cheered from Raiden’s shoulder.

"Sha Sha!! Big sister Rose is so strong!!

"Woolie Woo!!" Hmph. This Emperor could do the same thing!!

Woolie spoke confidently, though he had not moved from beside Aria even once.

The two Triceratops fell to the ground in a dazed mess, their heads spinning after the collision.

Rose didn’t give them time to recover in her anger.

The blood from the first injured Triceratops spread across the field, joining the blood from the unconscious one in the crater. It became a massive crimson river that rushed toward the remaining two beasts.

They tried to raise stone walls, but the blood went around them. They created stone spikes but the blood swallowed them.

They stomped hard enough to create an earthquake. The crimson river simply floated into the air, ignoring the broken ground entirely.

Then it crashed down on both Triceratops.

The beasts roared as the blood wrapped around their limbs, their horns, and their bodies, pinning them completely against the forest floor.

Rose sat in the middle of the battlefield, tiny and cute, watching four Platinum-Tier Terra Beasts lie helplessly around her.

Only after seeing the Terra Beasts pinned down in place did her anger calm down a little.

"Hiss Hiss!!" Rai Rai~ I won!! Did I do good??

Raiden walked over and picked her up carefully.

"You did very well." He petted her small head. "You held back too, right?"

Rose nodded happily.

"Hiss!!" Rose only took a little blood.

Raiden looked at the four giant beasts lying around them, then at the huge amount of crimson blood floating in the sky.

"... A little?"

"Hiss Hiss~"

Theodore remained standing in the same place, silent for a long time.

He looked at Rose, then he looked at Woolie, then finally at Neva, who was humming the embarrassing Raiden song to herself.

Finally, he turned toward Raiden.

"Raiden."

"Yeah?"

"Exactly what kind of farm are you running?"