Attribute Farming System-Chapter 60: Ravaging Serpent’s Basin

— An unknown amount of time later, within the Perfidious Castle of the Cobra Empress —

*Thud!*

Hearing and seeing another snake-kin hit the ground with sweat rolling off his face, the Cobra Empress's sharp, delicate brows furrowed. "Let me guess—another stronghold has fallen?"

"Y-Yes, my Queen! Fortress Beatriz has fallen to that human!"

"And you?" The Cobra Empress motioned to the snake-kin who had arrived first and kneeled.

"M… My Queen, Fort Amock has also fallen to the insidious human…" said the kneeling snake-kin.

"I see… What number does that make now?" she asked, her face covered in shadows and unknowns. "50? 60? 70??"

Silence.

"Answer me!"

RUMBLE!!

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"!!!" "!!!"

"I-It makes 86, my Queen…!"

"86…" The Cobra Empress repeated, her thoughts unreadable. "To have 86 bases demolished by a single human… Just how many millions of our kind have been slaughtered because of the incompetence of you all?"

"6-68 million, my Queen—"

BAZING!

POP!

"That wasn't a question I wanted answered," the Cobra Empress said as she watched the Nascent Soul Realm snake-kin's corpse fall to the floor. "If you want to live, then I suggest you listen very closely."

The remaining Nascent Soul Realm snake-kin hastily bobbed his head.

"Good," she continued. "I want you to call upon all the Beast Kings and Queens still alive in my territory. On my behalf, you'll order them to encircle this audacious human. My three Demonic Generals and Neleron will be joining you in this crusade as well. Do. Not. Fail."

"Y-Yes, my Queen!" the servant said. "I'll carry out your orders just as you have instructed!"

"Then get out of my sight at once."

With a dismissive wave of her hand, the servant was forcefully teleported out of the Cobra Empress's room. Confusion caught hold of him for the briefest of moments before he recalled Her Highness's orders, which urged his feet into urgent motion. He flew to every subordinate Beast King of the Empress and informed them of what they had to do.

A rendezvous time was also set up by him, scheduled for as soon as humanly possible.

While that was happening, the Cobra Empress was tenderly running her dainty hands through luscious brown hair. Hair that was attached to the severed head of the 7th daughter of Duke Dezmond.

"I made sure you never attempted to escape again," she warmly whispered to the head. "And the one who got away will soon join you as well. Then you'll both become a part of my collection. My pretty, pretty collection."

The Cobra Empress had an… unusual fetish. One that had her actively seeking out all those deemed 'pretty' in her eyes. She'd capture them and throw them in her dungeons before doing whatever she wanted to them.

Those who didn't attempt to escape would simply rot in their cells, staying as her skinny, perfect, pretty little dolls forever—just like what her mother wanted her to become.

As for those who tried to leave her… they'd end up just like Smelovia. Yet, in a way, they too were forever immortalized as heads that never truly died.

Unfortunately, high-level cultivators' lifeforces were tenacious like that…

— Some time later, standing outside a huge, heavily guarded fortress hidden within the side of a gorge —

*Tap, Tap, Tap!*

"Hello! Is this thing on??" Knox asked while knocking on a microphone made from Innate Energy. "Can you all hear me? Shake head if yes, nod if no."

"Kill the human!!!"

"FIRE!!!"

Swoooosh—!

"I'll take that as a yes," Knox said as he stepped out of the way of a large beam of light that shot out of an Earth-rank Magic Artillery. He bounced around a little as a result of the light beam creating a crater where a dozen snowy mountains used to be.

"Why is every single one of you always destroying everything?" Knox asked, shaking his head. "Don't any of you want land? Trees?? Mountains???"

"FIRE AGAIN!!!"

Swoooosh—!

"I guess not," he said as he watched a massive light beam pass right through his afterimages and make contact with a different mountain range. "So violent…"

FWIP!

SHING!

"There," he mused as he teleported back to where he had been levitating. Clenched in his hands was the enormous scope of the Magic Artillery Cannon that had been firing at him.

"I solved the problem," Knox said while tossing away the scope. "Now then, why don't we have a friendly discussion about what's going to happen to all of you—"

"FIRE!!!"

BOOOOM!

Following the Peacock King's boisterous shout, what remained of the Magic Cannon exploded. Shrapnel and highly advanced magical technology flew everywhere, killing several Beast-kin in the process.

Knox's lips curled in annoyance. "I guess this means you want to speed things up. Killing yourselves off like this—are you trying to make sure I get less loot? Well, if that's how it's going to be, I'll quit being amicable."

OOOM!

His aura frosted over along with his face as he flashed forward at more than a hundred times the speed of light. He reached the Peacock Queen in an instant.

"!!!"

Surprise passed through her colorful eyes before Knox's blade cut them off—along with the rest of her bird-like head.

Yet, rather than slow his advance, he sped up. He blurred from the Peacock Queen's corpse, his Intent Sword slashing through the necks and Nascent Souls of every single morsel hidden away in Grand Fortress 'Moonrift.'

A few more Beast Kings and Beast Queens were stationed there, but they fell no differently from the rest of the Beast-kin. He severed their heads, then their limbs and Nascent Souls, not even allowing them the opportunity to plead for their lives.

BOOM! BOOM!! BOOOOM!!!

The icy Grand Fortress had explosion after explosion blow holes through it as entire sections collapsed. Within milliseconds, all fifty square miles of the fortress had been reduced to rubble.

Left behind were the faint, remnant screams of departed souls.

*Ding!*

[You have slain 6 Half-step Soul Formation Realm Beast Kings and Beast Queens!]

[Tens of thousands of Beast-kin ranging from the Core Formation to the Nascent Soul Realm have died by your hands!]

[A large-sized pile of Attribute Orbs has dropped!]

[Strength +730,000]

[Agility +615,000]

[Mind +220,500]

[Affinity +7,900]

[Charisma +3]

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