themonasnovels Chapter 1518 - 112: Reality (5)
Chapter 1518 - 112: Reality (5)
And within the Dream Realm, the battle at the peak of East Look Mountain, where Lu Hong reached the pinnacle of slaughter, did indeed occur, but it was altered by Taichu.The original event that truly took place was the Imperial Army gathering around the East Look Mountain area, preparing to use East Look Mountain as a foundation, to establish a base that could be both offensive and defensive.
To the Yuanhua Plane, East Look Mountain is a relatively important strategic hub.
Therefore, to disrupt the Sacred Empire’s plans, the families within the Yuanhua Plane united to fiercely battle against the Sacred Empire.
The battle at East Look Mountain became the largest grinding mill of flesh and blood in Yuanhua Plane, with both the Empire and Yuanhua’s local families almost throwing all their military forces into the fight over this place.
Every minute, every second, someone would die on this wasteland turned into ruins.
As time passed, the Sacred Empire gradually gained the upper hand, forcing Yuanhua to resort to fire attacks, burning a thousand miles of land to ashes.
It was during this chaos that Lu Hong made his way near East Look Mountain.
The wildfire blazed and spread, separating both the Imperial Army and Yuanhua’s local army, preventing them from forming any large-scale effective formations, which was advantageous to Lu Hong.
As long as the army didn’t form a structured force, Lu Hong had confidence in killing and gaining experience!
Thus, the great fire at East Look Mountain became Lu Hong’s best assistant.
Lu Hong activated his Bloodline Power, launching into indiscriminate and frenzied slaughter deep within East Look Mountain.
Every living creature he saw, Lu Hong killed one by one.
And it was under this bloodthirsty frenzy of this battle that Lu Hong finally mastered the warrior profession’s Second Transformation Fierce Blood Warrior skill, Bloodthirst.
Of course, the Bloodthirst here wasn’t as domineering and unsolvable as described in the Dream Realm.
In the real world, the Warrior Temple had not collapsed, and there were still many who chose to become warriors, so the mystery of Bloodthirst was not buried. Instead, most Masters knew about this frenzied skill of the Fierce Blood Warrior.
Therefore, many masters who couldn’t perform Purification-type skills would carry a Purification Scroll, since this thing didn’t have much destructive power and was particularly easy to make, cost-effective, specifically countering Fierce Blood Warriors. Carrying one was the norm for Masters. After all, this thing could specifically suppress a profession, making it highly cost-effective.
But Lu Hong was a bit different, and that difference was the Lion Heart Bloodline.
The Lion Heart Bloodline had very high resistance to Magic Skills.
So, an ordinary Purification Skill hadn’t truly had an effect on Lu Hong’s Bloodthirst skill, as it was resisted by the Lion Heart Bloodline.
Unless someone had absolute power to suppress Lu Hong, it was basically difficult to bypass the Lion Heart Bloodline’s resistance to magic power and affect the Bloodthirst skill.
And upon activating Bloodthirst, Lu Hong transformed into a maniac, killing every person he saw. The soldiers of Yuanhua and the Empire who died at his hands were almost fifty-fifty.
The slaughter once drove Lu Hong into madness, but in the end, the system intervened, pulling Lu Hong out of his complete descent into it.
This wave of slaughter was enough to elevate Lu Hong to Second Transformation Level 3, and knowing he had inadvertently killed many allies, Lu Hong felt embarrassed to return to the Imperial camp and hid in Yuanhua instead.
When the Empire finally suppressed the Yuanhua uprising and Yuanhua completely stabilized, he returned to the Continent of God’s Grace through normal spatial transmission, returning to Caesar’s side.
During this period, Duke Leishan of the Eagle Alliance visited the Sacred Empire, stirring up another storm in the Empire.
To deal with a distant and powerful kin enemy, Konstantin drew a large number of military and human resources from within the empire, heading to the border plane, which greatly weakened Konstantin’s own power within the empire.
And Princess Nono stood up, seizing this opportunity to form a force of her own, the Roland Knight Order.
This news startled countless young talents of the empire, and many were interested in joining.
The interior of the Sacred Empire was already co-governed by two major family forces, with Konstantin being dominant, controlling almost eighty percent of the Sacred Empire’s court, but this visit from Leishan forced Konstantin to focus a large amount of energy on the border to deal with these Eagle Alliance members, giving Nono an opportunity to rise, and rising meant more people could be promoted, gaining status and wealth.
Although Konstantin’s side was strong, it was so crowded with talent that opportunities for promotion were too small, but Nono’s side was different.
Upon learning of this news, Lu Hong initially had no plans, after all, he was a man with a system. Though it was a bit hard and tiring at first, he would eventually ascend to the world’s pinnacle; how could he become someone else’s servant?
However, when Lu Hong learned that the Roland Knight Order would enter Demon Beast Paradise—the Endless Forest for training, he couldn’t sit still.
What could be more unburdened and unrestricted than killing Demon Beasts?
Going to other planes to kill people required the plane to be in turmoil, and even then, there needed to be a legitimate reason for killing; otherwise, if anything went wrong, Lu Hong would face a military tribunal, but dealing with Demon Beasts had no such issues. He could kill as many as he wanted, and killing more would even earn him rewards and reputation, so why not?
Under the temptation of Endless Forest, where Demon Beasts roamed freely, Lu Hong set aside his dignity, seeking a strong path for advancement.
With Lu Hong’s young age and strength at Second Transformation Level 3, after signing up in the Imperial Capital, he easily became one of the strongest among all the registrants.
Thus, he was specially summoned by Nono, who had now been crowned queen.
Hmm, you might ask why Lu Hong didn’t directly seek out Nono, and the simple answer is that with no status or background, he simply couldn’t meet Nono.
After the summoning banquet, Lu Hong was quickly incorporated into the Roland Knight Order, beginning his journey of training to become a Roland Knight.
During this time, Hughes, a teacher who didn’t favor him, was unexpectedly killed by an assassin from the Elf Clan. This assassin was not the elf slave Lu Hong had initially brought out from the Dream Realm, but purely an assassin sent by the Elf Clan. Regarding Hughes’s death, Lu Hong only chuckled with no sadness whatsoever; after all, Hughes didn’t favor him. If he had shown him half the kindness Caesar did, Lu Hong wouldn’t have had to survive alone in the wilderness for over three months, almost losing his life out there.
The time when he was weak, surviving alone in the wilderness hunting Demon Beasts, was deeply engraved in Lu Hong’s memory.
Upon reaching the Endless Forest, Lu Hong crazily accepted the monster hunting missions distributed by the Roland Knight Order, becoming a madman for killing Demon Beasts.
Due to the numerous and outstanding completion of tasks, he earned the captain Chi Ya’s favor.
Just like that, Lu Hong killed Demon Beasts with abandon for nearly two months, and due to his outstanding performance, he made others feel a sense of crisis, so during outdoor missions, Lu Hong often faced ambushes from the Roland Knight Order’s reserve members while completing tasks.
Of course, all these ambushers were killed by Lu Hong without any psychological burden; since they came to kill him, they should be prepared to be killed, shouldn’t they?
As the Roland Knight Order gradually penetrated deeper into the Endless Forest, an Imperial powerhouse during an exploration was quite unlucky, encountering a strong Divine level Magical Beast in the Endless Forest.
But the chaotic Divine level Magical Beast showed no intent to kill and left after waking up.
Underneath where the Divine level Magical Beast left, a Divine Blood River was discovered, a river formed by the blood of the Heavenly God, where Heavenly God blood could be collected.
This thing is so precious that it immediately drew the empire’s attention, and they began sending more troops to the Endless Forest, attempting to monopolize the Divine Blood River.
But unexpectedly, the news of the Divine Blood River was still learned by the Snowy Region.
A war between the Sacred Empire and the Snowy Region was on the verge of erupting.
As a member of the Roland Knight Order, Lu Hong participated in this war and achieved outstanding military merits, causing Konstantin to finally notice him because of his excellent performance.
At first glance at Lu Hong, Konstantin had an inexplicable feeling, leading him to start investigating Lu Hong’s identity and discovering he was his sister’s only son, thus beginning to secretly take special care of him.