Xia De removed his hands, leaving two red handprints on his handsome face.
Slowly opening his eyes, he suppressed the sadness that flashed through them and exhaled deeply.
The light flickered once more in his vacant eyes as he casually wiped away his tear tracks. The words his mother from his past life had said to him echoed in his mind.
“Baby, you must always be happy. Your smile is Mommy and Daddy's most precious treasure in this world!”
Placing his index fingers at the corners of his mouth, he slowly pulled them upward. A perfect smile appeared on his face once again.
Xia De scratched his hair and said with some frustration:
“Is it because I'm influenced by my age after reincarnation? I've actually become so sentimental, just like a teenager. I clearly swore ever since I fought back against the bullying that I must always smile. What are these pathetic tears anyway?”
He then tensed his core and, with a kip-up, sprang up from the grass.
“Besides, this world has a powerhouse with a Combat Power of ten million, and there's another guy with a million behind the portal. Even if I want to go home, I have to ensure I have enough strength first. Instead of moping around here, it's better to go kill more magical beasts and increase my strength!”
“Yes! Exactly, kill more magical beasts!”
However, Xia De then remembered that he had basically slaughtered all the powerful magical beasts in the labyrinth. He scratched his head awkwardly and said:
“I just visited recently. Wouldn't it be bad to slaughter them all over again? In that case, let's go slaughter the magical beasts around Toka City! Although it'll waste a lot of time because they're so scattered, I still really want to forge some life-and-death bonds with them.”
Then, Xia De silently added in his heart:
It really wasn't because the quality and quantity of the magical beasts in the labyrinth didn't meet his standards.
“Alright, no time like the present!”
Xia De made his decision. He slapped his cheeks hard with both hands to cheer himself up, and then...
“Fuck, that hurts!!!”
Because he had slapped himself too hard earlier, when his hands landed on the red marks again, a burning, stinging pain shot through his face.
A green magic circle appeared in his palm, and then numerous green plus signs began to pop up all around Xia De's body. The swelling on his face gradually dissipated.
Feeling his facial injuries heal and looking at the green plus signs appearing around him, Xia De nodded in satisfaction, but then shook his head in dissatisfaction.
“The visual effects for this healing spell are okay, but it's a bit too generic. I'll modify it next time.”
Indeed, these green plus signs were a visual effect Xia De created by modifying the magic spell formula. Altering a magic spell formula was something only geniuses with top-tier magic talent could achieve.
Previously, those geniuses constantly modified spells to make them more powerful, have longer range, or cast faster.
Xia De could easily imagine that if those geniuses found out he modified a magic spell formula just to add a completely pointless visual effect, they would surely kick open their coffin lids in anger to give him a thorough beating.
“Well, of course, they wouldn't be able to beat me anyway.”
Changing the subject, he added fiercely:
“Besides, who told the original effect of this healing magic to be a flashing green light? It made me feel incredibly awkward. If I ever meet the person who invented this magic in the future, I'll definitely slap a green light effect on them that they can't turn off.”
Next, his body sank into the shadows, and Xia De reappeared near the entrance of the labyrinth.
He strode toward the exit of the labyrinth, muttering to himself:
“I didn't have much fun this time. Hopefully, it'll be better next time. But then again, it truly lives up to being a large labyrinth. It's massive and quite dangerous. Just the floor with the dwarf mushrooms alone—if an ordinary Tier Four, Rank One adventurer went in, they probably couldn't finish exploring it even if they wandered for a day and a night. Not to mention the entire labyrinth has over eighty floors. If it weren't for the strange shadows covering the whole place, I probably wouldn't have been able to clear the map last time.”
Speaking of which, a tiny black thread formed from shadow appeared at his fingertip. He extended the index finger of his other hand and poked it.
“Look at you. How are you so useless? Why is your range so small? Why do you still need to rely on external things to cover the entire space?”
Shadow: ...
“Remember to kill more magical beasts later. Are you really satisfied with a range of only a few hundred kilometers? Our goal is to cover the entire continent! No, to corrode the entire world! Do you understand?”
The shadow swayed casually, as if giving an answer.
The moment Xia De stepped outside, a pungent stench of blood entered his nostrils, followed by several explosive booms echoing not far from him.
Trees collapsed, and thick black smoke rose from the spot.
A faint gleam flashed through Xia De's pupils, making his dark eyes shine.
Perception Domain!
With Xia De as the center, the scene within a five-hundred-kilometer radius appeared in his mind.
Then, Xia De's eyes lit up like two light bulbs, and an unstoppable wave of excitement and thrill washed over his face.
He greedily licked his lips and said cheerfully:
“Wow! There's even a buffet delivering itself to my doorstep!”
Within his Perception Domain, the area around Toka City was packed with a dense swarm of magical beasts, like a rice jar filled to the brim with rice.
Right now, Xia De's Perception Domain was like the rice jar, and the dense magical beasts surging toward Toka City were the rice!
What's more, leading them was a Tier Eight magical beast!
Roar—!
“Haah—haah—!”
Immediately after, the deep roars of magical beasts and the heavy panting of humans running at full speed reached his ears.
Sensing them for a moment, Xia De's eyes lit up, and he laughed excitedly once more:
“A double blessing! There's even takeout!”
Up ahead, two bears with limbs covered in stone armor and irregular rocks growing on their backs were leading a group of magical beasts. With hatred gleaming in their fierce eyes, they relentlessly pursued several humans in front of them.
Among the three in front, one was a blond man wearing armor, and another was a mage with a hot figure. At this moment, her two heavy assets seemed to have become an obstacle, bouncing up, down, left, and right continuously as she ran.
The last one was a freckled girl with reddish-brown hair tied in twin tails.
It was none other than Reid's group of three.
The moment the news of the monster tide attacking the city came out, all adventurers of the Adventurer's Guild received orders to resist the monster tide. Of course, there would be corresponding rewards afterward.
Soon, the prepared adventurers, the Count's knights who had just begun martial law, the mercenaries of the merchant chambers, and the nuns and priests of the Holy Light Church formed teams and left the city one after another to eliminate the magical beasts.
After receiving the quest, Reid's trio also went out of the city to eliminate magical beasts. Due to their haste, they didn't have time to gather all their teammates, so they could only carry out the extermination with their current all-out offensive party.
Actually, they could have just blended into the crowd, but unfortunately, the two bear cubs whose mother they had killed earlier had remembered their scents.
They then led several Tier Four magical beasts to chase them like crazy, causing immense misery to other adventurers wherever they passed.
In the end, upon realizing that the target of the two bears and the magical beasts they led was only those three, the other adventurers steered clear of them.
As a result, the pressure of nearly ten Tier Four magical beasts had to be borne solely by the three of them.
In their panic, Reid realized that the labyrinth might save their lives. For some unknown reason, external magical beasts did not dare to enter the labyrinth.
Therefore, as long as they reached that place!
Thus, the three of them stumbled all the way to the entrance of the labyrinth, where they spotted Xia De standing right before them.
Seeing someone ahead, Reid didn't even have time to see who it was and hastily shouted, “I've lured them over, I'm counting on you!”
Beside him, Kathleen didn't quite understand why Reid suddenly said such a thing, but Shanna reacted quickly and shouted along with Reid:
“Everything is going according to plan! It's your turn to make a move now!”
Hearing the shouts of the two, the magical beasts behind them looked at the harmless, handsome youth ahead. Thick killing intent surged in their crimson eyes, wishing to tear Xia De to pieces as well.
This included the two crack-rock bears!
Although this human was not among those who had killed their mother back then, as long as it was a human, they had to die.
And become their food!
Xia De quietly watched them run toward him, getting closer and closer, and then his eyes crinkled with a gentle, amiable smile as he said:
“Sure!”
He then raised his right arm and clenched his hand into a tight fist.
Then, he swung a punch out with tremendous force!!!
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