Chapter 210: The Forbidden Land of Kings
“Why won’t you let me go!” Seiya said indignantly.
“Stop causing trouble for me, okay?”
Cheryl’s jump was already a dereliction of duty for this tutor. If anything happened to her, the responsibility would not be small. The tutor would absolutely not tolerate any more accidents happening to a new student. He naturally wouldn’t be polite to anyone who dared to mess around again.
“Let me out!” Seiya, the white knight with only his head exposed, roared in frustration. “I promise not to mess around. Let me out first…”
“Keep an eye on him. Don’t let this guy do anything stupid…” The ninth-tier magic tutor ignored Seiya, who seemed to be behaving himself. With Cheryl’s little trick just now, he didn’t dare to let anyone go easily.
“Let me out! I want to solve this!” Seiya shouted relentlessly.
“Solve it yourself inside,” an angry voice replied.
“…”
Entering the shroud of green ghostly light, Chen Ran found that the speed of his fall gradually slowed down.
His body fell unconsciously, his sense of direction blurred, flying around with that quiet power like a leaf, as if in a fog.
His vision gradually returned to normal. His body was still surrounded by a ball of ghostly light, slowly falling to the ground.
Upon landing, the ghostly light on his body also dissipated.
Chen Ran hadn’t expected that there would be such a complete world under the Netherworld. He couldn’t have imagined such a magical world structure, which exceeded his understanding and looked like a new world.
But before Chen Ran could catch his breath, several large red dots on the map instantly stunned him. A huge dot was rapidly approaching him from behind. He felt an unprecedented oppressive wind…
A stream of light disappeared from the spot, and Chen Ran reappeared 20 meters away to his side, narrowly dodging a nearly fatal blow with Instantaneous Movement. In the position where he had stood before, an iron-armored creature, fully five meters tall and holding a trident battle spear, was slowly pulling its battle spear from the ground, so quiet that there was almost no sound.
Chen Ran broke out in a cold sweat on his back. If his reaction had been a little slower, it would have been a fatal blow.
The Forbidden Land of Kings truly lived up to its name…
Under the observation of the Eye of Insight, the tier of that creature was quickly displayed.
Tenth tier, Ghost King!
To receive such a big gift upon meeting, Chen Ran didn’t know whether to praise his luck or curse it. To encounter a tenth-tier creature so casually, was this place fit for humans? Right, this was the Netherworld.
Taking advantage of the moment after the teleportation, Chen Ran quickly ran away. While running, he cast a series of support spells on himself, including the crucial life-saving skill, Holy Light Shield.
A dazzling white translucent eggshell covered his body, and Chen Ran immediately felt a lot less pressure. With such a powerful shield, he should be able to withstand a fatal blow from a tenth-tier creature.
The Ghost King moved very fast, closing the distance with Chen Ran rapidly. It had no legs. Its entire huge body floated a few inches above the ground. Its figure was stretched out, like an Asura demon, exuding the aura of a grim reaper.
Chen Ran didn’t want to go against this big brother-level creature. Although the combat power of Netherworld creatures was greatly reduced due to their immortal and indestructible attributes—for example, a tenth-tier creature might not even be as strong as the void sub-dragon before it completed its true dragon form—it was still not something Chen Ran could handle.
Whenever he was about to be caught, Chen Ran would always cast Instantaneous Movement at the right time.
Although the skill Instantaneous Movement was good, because there were a large number of chaotic spatial factors in the position just after the movement was completed, continuous teleportation could not be completed. Generally, one had to run more than ten meters away to perfectly cast it a second time. Chen Ran grasped the timing very well and kept running away.
In the process of being chased by the Ghost King, Chen Ran roughly observed the general environment of this place.
The visibility in the Inner Netherworld was very low, and one couldn’t see very far. The only thing that could be seen was a vast expanse of green in the distance, while the ground underfoot was made of heavy bricks and stones.
Here, not only did all creatures have the power of rebirth, but even the earth had the ability to recover automatically.
Although he was fleeing, Chen Ran was not running aimlessly. Although he was sometimes almost driven to a dead end, Chen Ran still positioned himself well and didn’t let himself run into another boss’s territory.
Although the creatures here were not dense, each territory was guarded by a powerful guy, at least a ninth-tier Ghost Demon Lord. Chen Ran didn’t dare to run to the wrong place. A tenth-tier Ghost King had already scared him into a sweat. Another one would directly take his life.
After running for a full half an hour, there was finally good news. That terrifying big guy stopped chasing…
It seemed that the Ghost King also had its own territory. Chen Ran estimated that he had finally escaped its territory, and it was no longer interested in chasing Chen Ran, this insignificant existence.
Finally having a rare moment to breathe, Chen Ran collapsed on the ground from exhaustion.
Now, in his field of vision, there were a total of four dots: the tenth-tier Ghost King that had just given up chasing him, a ninth-tier Ghost Demon Lord, a tenth-tier Netherworld Iron-backed Dragon, and a tenth-tier Chaos Knight.
None of the points could be easily crossed. He could only try to move forward around the alert circle.
It was precisely because of this situation that Chen Ran was even more worried about the safety of his student. In this situation, even he, with so many life-saving skills, almost had an accident. What kind of consequences would Lucy, a swordswoman student of only the seventh tier, encounter?
Chen Ran was very anxious. He could only hope that Lucy had randomly landed in a relatively safe place and hadn’t run around. Or else, he could only hope that there was still time to catch up with the rescue time of the resurrection spell.
The place in the Inner Netherworld was very large and empty, seeming not much smaller than the Outer Netherworld above. Although there was only one boss in each territory, none of these bosses were easy to mess with.
Relying on his own legs was undoubtedly a stupid thing. Chen Ran took out his retractable flying saucer from his storage ring, unfolded it, sat on it, and activated the Void Stone.
He adjusted the detection range of the positioning map to the maximum. If there was a human aura, whether dead or alive, it would be prompted. Chen Ran had to find that girl Lucy as soon as possible. Searching and searching, wandering on the edge of the various boss forces, Chen Ran searched for the figure on the map with maximum efficiency. He didn’t dare to fly too high. The high-level Netherworld creatures here generally had advanced anti-air skills. He also couldn’t guarantee whether there were flying high-level ghost creatures in the sky. If he was caught in the sky, with his inflexible mobility, the only result would be death. With his current speed, although it was much faster than running, the pattern was simple and easy to lock onto.
Unknowingly, half an hour had passed. But in Chen Ran’s nervous state of mind, it felt like several hours had passed. For the time being, there was no situation of being chased. The high-level Netherworld creatures along the way made his heart tremble. Not to mention the ninth and tenth tiers, he even passed by the territory of an eleventh-tier Ghost Emperor and was almost discovered by it, scaring Chen Ran into a cold sweat.
In his search, suddenly, there were two fighting dots on the map, and one of them was a human. Chen Ran’s spirits lifted.
He quickly drove the flying saucer close to that area, but saw a familiar dance of flames. Chen Ran approached and saw that the person was none other than the familiar Cheryl.
“Why is she here too?”
A black line appeared on Chen Ran’s forehead. Looking at Cheryl fighting with a ninth-tier Ghost Demon Lord, it seemed that she was at a disadvantage.
Cheryl, surrounded by flames, was like a dancing fire spirit. Pillars of flames impacted the tall Ghost Demon Lord’s battle armor. Although she had activated the power of the Flame Rune, she still couldn’t cause substantial damage to that ninth-tier Ghost Demon Lord.
“Too reckless.”
He hadn’t expected Cheryl to come too. In this situation, Chen Ran naturally couldn’t stand by and watch.
He quickly jumped off the magic flying saucer and hurried over to cast his set of skills on Cheryl.
Continuous flashes of light. In the battle, Cheryl felt a familiar power flowing into her body, and her fire aura also flourished a few points. She finally forced back the Ghost Demon Lord who had been occupying the advantage for the first time.
Netherworld creatures had similar body shapes. Their strength could be easily judged from the armor on their bodies and their body shapes.
This Ghost Demon Lord held a double-bladed battle axe. After being repelled by Cheryl, it roared and charged up again. But with Chen Ran’s support, the current Cheryl already had enough strength to destroy it.
Cheryl had long been provoked to kill by this Ghost Demon Lord. After gaining enough power, she counterattacked desperately. The power of fire was stronger wave after wave. The air was filled with the scorching aura of flames, and waves of heat were suffocatingly strong.
At this moment, Chen Ran felt that Cheryl’s power, which had been delayed in breaking through, finally sublimated at this moment. The flame also became a few points purer and more aggressive. And her aura was still increasing. The Flame Rune on her body was activated to the extreme. In a round of brilliant fireworks, that Ghost Demon Lord finally turned into ashes in the surging flames…
The battle ended, and Cheryl won.
The exhausted girl collapsed on the ground. The brilliant fireworks from before suddenly disappeared completely. She supported herself on the ground with both hands, looking painful, and gasping continuously.
“Why did you come down too?” Chen Ran helped Cheryl up. Looking at the multiple wounds, he couldn’t bear to cast a few healing spells on her injured body. “A ninth-tier Netherworld creature almost cost you your life. If you were a little unluckier and encountered an eleventh-tier ghost creature here, you would probably be lying on the ground already.”
“Aren’t you the same?” Cheryl replied stubbornly, looking pathetic at this time.
Cheryl could defeat even an eighth-tier Netherworld creature with her own ability, but a ninth-tier creature was another level, exceeding her combat limit.
In the battle just now, Cheryl was miserable. A few symmetrical, beautiful sideburns beside her beautiful fringe were cut off neatly. Even her cheek was cut with a long gash, and blood was flowing out continuously, making the usual goddess of the academy look a bit ferocious. The danger just now was imaginable.
