I'm the best at fire, after all!

Chapter 56

A living sacrifice?

Summoning a dragon?

Soon to be summoned dragon Shi An : "......"

What a thing!

At this moment, the several mercenaries in front of them had already struck out and violently attacked in their direction.

Zhao She and Wei Bocheng were ready to fight and met their opponents the moment they struck and tangled with them.

However, Zhao She was able to clearly feel that the strength of the mercenaries this time was much stronger than the wave they encountered earlier in the Abyssal Ruins, coupled with the fact that the opposite side had more people and more experience in actual combat, they soon felt overwhelmed and could only retreat under the mercenaries' gradual overpowering offense.

"Hey! Shi An! Come and help!" Zhao She shouted.

At that moment, the mercenary in the lead seemed to then notice Shi An who had been wandering around the edge of the battlefield since a while ago.

He glanced up and down at the slender, pretty-faced teenager not far away, and let out a mocking snort:

"You're in the power department too?"

Shi An looked up with a pair of dark eyes, and he nodded seriously:

"Yeah."

"Hahahahahahahahahahaha!" A burst of laughter erupted among the traveling mercenaries.

The leader of the mercenaries smiled contemptuously, raised his hand, and beckoned to the two power faculties in his team, "Go, have a couple moves with the little friend."

Wei Bocheng was startled and jerked his head around to look.

The two tall, fierce-looking mercenaries were seen walking towards the slender, fair teenager with smirks on their faces.

Although he had heard Zhao She say that Shi An's strength was not bad, he still couldn't help but worry.

Beside him, Zhao She, who was also fighting bitterly, shouted, "Don't wander off!"

Wei Bocheng : "But ......"

Jo She: "Shi An over there is nothing to worry about!"

The head of the mercenary squad laughed out loud, ''No need to worry? Hahahahahaha! I really don't know what you guys ......"

Before his words even fell, only a few clear bone cracks accompanied by miserable howls rang out, instantly cutting through the long gray sky.

The head mercenary craned his head in shock.

Only the teenager remained where he stood, his face well-behaved, his pink fluffy bunny earmuffs and gloves making him look even more boyish and harmless - if you ignored the two other mercenaries who had fallen to the ground screaming in agony.

Their limbs snapped in the opposite direction, white bones pierced through the skin and protruded out, dripping with blood, looking very horrible.

"Come again?" Shi An lowered her eyes to one of the mercenaries in front of her and showed her teeth.

He stepped forward and lightly stepped on one man's leg bone.

"Gala-"

The toothsome sound of breaking bones resounded again.

The teenager narrowed his eyes and whined in a petulant manner, "Can't you do that?"

Head Mercenary: "............"

The instinctive alarm of sensing danger went off, and his demeanor intensified.

He then realized that perhaps the student from earlier was right, and that the softest looking member of the group was the ruthless one of them.

The head mercenary didn't dare to take it lightly now.

--Take this little brat out first!

He gave a wink to a few of his strongest companions in the group, and then almost at the same time, they abandoned their fight with the other two power faculty trainees and attacked Shi An's direction in unison!

He narrowed his eyes sinisterly.

Even if it's stronger, so what? Isn't it still a strength system?

As long as the angle of the attack was tricky enough and the strike was vicious enough, it was simply impossible for a District Strength Department that excelled in physical combat to fend off so many enemies at once!

As the distance closes quickly, Shi An doesn't dodge.

Fluffy pink fur lined the teenager's white face, cheeks and the tip of his nose were red from the cold wind, the more he looked like he had clear eyes and a serene posture, he raised his lips, revealing a little bit of fine white neat teeth, his eyes slightly squinted, smiling sweetly and softly.

How ...... how?

The mercenary leader's pupils tightened slightly, a trace of incredulity sweeping across his eyes.

However, before he could think of anything, he only saw the young man in front of him raise his hand, a cluster of scarlet flames jumping at his fingertips, the fire emitting a dangerous aura reflecting in the bottom of his dark eyes, as if the bottom of the abyss was lit up with a golden-red fire.

"I do know a little bit about the power department."

The teenager smiled coyly.

The next second. The blazing fire that could burn out the heavens and the earth burst out, madly and noisily displaying a horrifying destructive power.

"But when it comes down to it, fire is what I'm best at."

*

Deep in the snow-covered canyon, there was a very hidden tunnel in the stone wall, the exterior covered and obscured with magic, and the traces of man-made excavations were all but hidden.

The tunnel was extremely deep, with a faint line of gray sky overhead.

The thick stone walls were hard and jagged, muffling the sound of the storm from them.

Through the rocky tunnel, the scene suddenly opens up.

Under the huge pale stone dome, scarlet blood formed a huge and complete circle, and several men in mercenary uniforms were outlining the ground with human blood.

A man in a flashy cloak walked through the tunnel and into the cave.

He took off his snow-covered hat to reveal a distraught face.

The visitor was Chen Yanming, the governor of Irving.

He took off his gloves and headed straight into the cavern, and soon he stood before a man who looked to be the leader of a mercenary group, and asked with some impatience:

"How's it going?"

Jefe: "Don't worry, everything is fine."

Chen Yanming somewhat distractedly turned around twice in place, "Are you sure this will work? You know, I'm taking a very high risk here ......"

Jefe: "The higher the risk, the higher the reward."

He smiled slightly and slowly continued, "The price ...... I think you should have already made up your mind when you chose to work with us, rather than with the Administration over there, shouldn't you?"

Chen Yanming's expression was slightly gloomy as he clenched his teeth:

"--You guys better really be able to pull this off."

As much as he didn't want to admit it, the other man wasn't wrong at all.

Ever since they decided to deceive Mu Hang and cooperate with the mercenary group to trap the giant dragon, there was no way back for them.

It is also thanks to this that Lu Yuanyi has now been hospitalized and is still unconscious.

Although this guy also shared a portion of the treasure, which wasn't considered clean, but for him to turn the students of our school and other colleges into living sacrifices to lure the arrival of a giant dragon, even for the sake of his own reputation and that of the Avon Academy, Lu Yuanyi was afraid that he wouldn't agree to it.

And now, just in time for Lu Yuanyi to lose control of the academy, the Avon District hierarchy can reach out and manipulate this academic exchange.

Anyway, the ones who participated in the Academic Exchange Conference this time were the most unappreciated power faculties, and even if they grew, they couldn't grow much, so when the time came, they would just use the natural disaster as an excuse.

Most of the powerful and high-ranking officials in the Avon District were involved in this division of the dragon's treasure.

They have all the say and it couldn't be simpler for them to attribute an incident to an accident.

Watching the huge blood-colored spell formation take shape little by little in front of him, Chen Yanming took a deep breath and consoled himself in his heart.

It's not his fault.

If anything, it's Mu Hang's fault.

If he hadn't refused to cede the ownership of the dragon, he and the other powerful people of the Avon district wouldn't have taken a risky step.

And now, as long as they cooperated with the mercenary group, they would not only be able to keep as much of their original treasure as they could, but they would also be able to divide every part of the precious raw materials on the giant dragon.

That's a dragon that's been gone from the continent for 10,000 years! A legendary fantasy species, a mythical creation.

Whether it's the legendary indestructible dragon scales, claws, horns, dragon bones, liver and gallbladder entrails ......

Every part of it fetches an unimaginably high price.

However, in his heart of hearts, Chen Yanming himself would have preferred to capture the dragon alive.

Coming from a family of experimenters himself, he was well aware of how much value a living fantasy species could bring.

It was a pity, they were very clear about the difference in strength between the dragons and humans, killing the dragons was already difficult, capturing them alive was even harder.

So their goal for the time being was to keep the dragon as intact as possible to kill it.

If the program is successful, they will receive immeasurably large revenues.

The bottom of Chen Yanming's eyes swept through a hot look, the original fear of the dragon had long since disappeared in his heart, leaving only boundless greed and fervor.

Moreover, the forces involved in this secret planning are all high-ranking officials and dignitaries of the Irving District, who hold the resources and voice of the entire district, and as long as they want to--

The snow of the Avon snowfields can hide all evil.

*

Auction House.

Mu Hang, head down, opens his cell phone.

The message from Shi An appeared on the screen first.

He paused and tapped the message.

...... exchange? Temporary advance?

Mu Hang frowned.

Instincts cultivated by years of killing immediately began to alert.

He immediately thought of the proposal that had already been rejected by Chen Yanming, the previous governor of the Avon District - how to do it by utilizing the Academy Exchange? How? It was unclear.

Mu Hang's fingertips tightened abruptly, a sense of foreboding rising in his heart.

He dialed Wen Yao and ordered succinctly, "Find out about the College Exchange."

Wen Yao is very efficient in his work.

Soon after, the information was sent to Mu Hang's cell phone.

He lowered his eyes, his eyes falling to the location of the canyon south of the Avon Snowfield on the map with a slight start.

This place he knows.

Although that abyssal rift was already a ruin, it was still under the monitoring of the Administration for a long time. Those people in the Irving District were able to transport so much unowned treasure from it, so they must have a way to bypass the monitoring of the Administration.

Based on all the information and intelligence, Mu Hang concluded that it was through this canyon that they should have entered, broken through the stone wall of the central mountain range, and then transported the treasure out.

Deliberately hiding the exchange from him, temporarily organizing it in advance, and locating it in this place ......

The intent of these people in the Avon area cries out.

Mu Hang's brows went cold.

He turned and walked out the door, his pitch-black cloak raised behind him in a clear, stern arc.

However, before he could walk out of the gate, he was stopped by someone from the auction house.

The head of the auction house is Chen Yanming's brother, Chen Yankang.

He didn't look much like his brother, but there was the same kind of greed under his eyes.

Chen Yankang smiled and said, "Sir, where are you going?"

Mu Hang's voice was cold: "Get out of the way."

Seeing the other party's appearance, Chen Yankang immediately realized that he was afraid that the matter would be exposed, and his smile faded, "Your Excellency, I'm very sorry, the order I received is that I can't let you leave ......"

The silver-haired, blue-eyed man narrowed his eyes slightly, his aura still half-decreased even in the face of an enemy several times his size:

"Don't make me say it again."

Looking at Mu Hang, Chen Yankang could not help but feel a bit scared.

Remembering the fierce reputation he had once heard of the other party, he couldn't help but subconsciously take a step backward, and he tried to persuade the other party and soften his icy attitude by showing affection and reasoning:

"My lord, why are you unwilling to cooperate with us?"

"With your help, we might actually be able to capture the dragon alive.

At that time, not only will we be able to conduct many magical experiments on the body of the dragon, but it will also provide us with a constant supply of dragon scales and blood-"

Chen Yankang's face showed a look of excitement, and endless greed appeared in the bottom of his eyes:

"You can get more by going around Administration."

*

The mercenary leader watched as the formation drawn in blood before him was completed little by little, and his lips tilted up into a smirk of complacency.

At that moment, he suddenly remembered something and turned his head toward one of the people beside him and asked, "By the way, why haven't the people who went to catch those students who sabotaged our operation earlier returned?"

The mercenary froze, "My lord, they've already returned."

The mercenary leader froze, "What?"

The mercenary beside him pointed towards a corner of the cave not far away and said, "It seems that they were originally caught, but for a moment they didn't look at them closely and let them escape, so they first sent a few of them back to report, and the rest of them are still out there chasing after them."

The mercenary leader's brow furrowed, "Just a few students, how could they let them go? It's too humiliating-"

But before he could finish his sentence, his eyes fell on a few people in that corner.

Looking at the unfamiliar faces, the mercenary leader was stunned:

"Wait, that's not right ......"

Before his words fell, several people of wretched description rushed in from the tunnel, all of them stripped naked and covered in green and black frostbite, all of them gray and shivering from the cold, their faces purple:

"...... Dada Dada Dada, my lord, it's not good!!!"

The leader of the mercenaries burst into shock and jerked his head toward the raw faces.

One of the teens scratched his head:

"Geez, I didn't expect to wear so little and still not freeze to death eh, awesome."

He blinked and gave a shy, light smile, his face childishly cute and his tone innocent, but he said words that really sent chills all over his body:

"...... It seems that next time, it would be more useful to have the skin on."