Rags to Riches: The Rise of a Dual-Talent Prodigy-Chapter 532 - 524: I’ll avenge you

At first, Qian Qi thought she had heard wrong, assuming it was tinnitus caused by poisoning or injury.

Until her consciousness connected to a point, followed by her head being gripped directly by something akin to claws, her entire being was lifted from the poisonous mush, gliding towards the sky—

In the piercing, icy wind, she struggled to open her eyes and found that what grabbed her was actually an Advanced Flying Magical Beast. Not only that, hundreds of Flying Magical Beasts appeared all over the sky, their wings roaring through the mountain wind as they screeched and demonstrated against the Lanshan Python Group hovering in the poisonous miasma, their wide-open claws seemed poised to strike.

Soon, a Flying Magical Beast swiftly darted towards a Lanshan Python, its sharp beastly claws tearing through the Lanshan Python’s skin, unprotected by snake scales.

The Lanshan Python instantly let out a horrific scream.

Seeing the success of the first Flying Magical Beast, from the beast group in the sky, Flying Magical Beasts continued to descend like meteors, entangling with the Lanshan Pythons in combat, Qian Qi recognized a few; they were Magic Beasts resistant to poison.

"Contractor!"

Bai Ji’s voice sounded in her consciousness.

Qian Qi’s eyes brightened, looking around, "Where are you?"

"Here!" Bai Ji emerged from the ear of the Flying Magical Beast overhead shouting at Qian Qi, "Are you alright?"

"I’m fine! But how come you’re here? What about the other White Extreme Rats?" Qian Qi asked in confusion, she distinctly instructed Bai Ji to wait at the entrance of the instance, how did they suddenly appear here?

Bai Ji released the edge of the bird beast’s ear tuft he was gripping, its beast eyes flickered slightly, calculating something, and soon it smoothly landed on Qian Qi’s shoulder along the magical bird’s body.

It lifted its paw to adjust the nonexistent eyeglass frame before its beast eyes, and replied steadily like an old professor, "While waiting for you, I got too bored, so I led my team to learn some Flying Magical Beast language, befriended them, and asked them to bring us to find you."

Qian Qi: ?

Qian Qi turned to look at the sky full of at least twenty kinds of Flying Magical Beasts and then looked at Bai Ji, who seemed to be saying learning "one plus one equals two" was no big deal, she couldn’t help but feel a sense of respect.

As expected of an Intelligent Mouse!

How is this even possible?

"Luckily we came, Contractor you..." Bai Ji stared at the venom and rotten flesh on Qian Qi’s face, reaching out a paw in distress to touch it, causing Qian Qi to quickly say, "Don’t touch that! This venom is corrosive!"

Bai Ji’s paw indeed started to corrode, but Bai Ji’s face showed only a stoic endurance of pain. It calmly said, "I must remember today’s pain as a warning to myself to ensure there won’t be a next time."

Almost losing its Contractor.

Qian Qi did not possess Bai Ji’s high IQ or evident emotional intelligence, she thought Bai Ji meant it wouldn’t be this careless touching venom next time, so she nodded approvingly, "Yes, it’s better to be cautious."

No one knew what Bai Ji said to the Flying Magical Beasts, but they placed Qian Qi on a safe mountain top.

"Contractor, you should wait here, I’m going to avenge you."

Bai Ji coldly left these words, turned away as the mountain wind swept through, the mouse fur swaying as if exuding gloomy murderous intent, it drilled into the Flying Magical Beast’s ear as if boarding its own flying warship, commanding it to speed towards the poisonous miasma.

Above the sky, Flying Magical Beasts seemed guided by experts, constantly changing battle formations—sometimes rescuing Wei to attack Zhao, borrowing tools to kill, feigning an attack from the east while attacking the west, pulling up the ladder—all tactics executed flawlessly, decimating the Lanshan Pythons, leaving Qian Qi, a military strategy novice, stunned.

A rare anxious feeling bubbled in her heart.

Is she too foolish?

Sometime unnoticed, the system appeared, now clean and tidy, looking up and watching the distant battlefield with Qian Qi, [Whoa, even Bai Ji is more capable than you.]

Qian Qi: ...

Qian Qi glanced sideways at it, "Why did taking a bath take so long?"

System: [Also washed the Lanshan Snake Scale, all sticky and slimy; if you washed it yourself later, it would be too cumbersome.]

Qian Qi’s eyes flickered, "Oh." 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

[So moved you’re crying? It’s okay, cry it out, you can lean on papa’s shoulder.] The system cheekily moved its panel closer.

Qian Qi kicked it away, "Get lost!"

No one knew how long passed, but finally the battle approached its end.

The Poisonous Emperor Pythons, upon seeing those Flying Magical Beasts, got a flash of insight, thinking maybe Qian Qi devised some strategy to turn the tables, and thus immediately decided to return, upon realizing those Flying Magical Beasts were allied with Qian Qi, they immediately joined the battle.

Half of the Lanshan Pythons were slaughtered, and Qian Qi also joined the battle, employing the strategy of capturing the leader during the battle’s climax by fiercely shoving the Blood Energy Storage Crystal into the Lanshan Python King’s wound.

The Blood Energy Storage Crystal greedily absorbed the snake blood, causing the Lanshan Python’s veins to burst and ultimately got sucked to only a shell and skeleton left, an era’s prodigy thus perished.

After the battle ended, the Flying Magical Beasts stood among the mountain of dead Lanshan Pythons, feasting heartily.

Snake scales are tough; for Flying Magical Beasts to fight the Snake Beasts takes considerable effort, not to mention that Lanshan Python is a group-living A+ Level Magic Beast, incredibly vengeful and united; once they discover a peer is killed, they would charge forward in succession.

Individual or a dozen Flying Magical Beasts would never choose to provoke a Lanshan Python.

But this time was different; the Lanshan Python Group was poisoned, their scales shed, poisonous teeth vanished, their combat strength sharply declined, while the Flying Magical Beasts, though different species, having Bai Ji as the language link efficiently utilized the strategy of Thirty-six Stratagems, greatly enhancing their combat effectiveness, leaving the Lanshan Pythons utterly defeated—

This was so enjoyable.

Isn’t this like pies falling from the sky?

"How did you convince them to fight the Lanshan Pythons?" After the war, Qian Qi curiously asked Bai Ji.

"No need for persuasion." Bai Ji shook its head, "It’s the nature of Magic Beasts, since they can defeat the Lanshan Pythons Group, why miss this chance for a hearty meal?"

The world of Magic Beasts isn’t as complicated as the human world.

Eat when you can, fight if needed.

No need for reasons, just following instinct.

Qian Qi pondered deeply.

This battle was inevitably bloody, many Magic Beasts have already come scenting the turmoil, fearing in the coming days, various Magic Beasts will come to feast on the meat.

Qian Qi and the Poisonous Emperor Pythons had exhausted their strength, staying longer might invite trouble, thus Qian Qi decided to abandon the remaining snake scales on the Lanshan Pythons to leave first with the White Extreme Rats.

After all, the snake scales in the System Space were already plentiful enough.

As the White Extreme Rats left, they did not bid farewell to the Flying Magical Beasts, just as Bai Ji said, Magic Beasts act true to their nature, they share a relationship of easy come easy go, no need for goodbyes.