Chapter 2016 - 2009: Guardian God of the Dragon
Although he was beaten half to death by the Blood Demon Ants at the time, Lumas was still very clear-headed. He vividly remembered Zhang Menglong throwing out that ball of flame, burning nearly ten thousand Blood Demon Ants to ashes, and almost every Blood Demon Ant exploded spectacularly, leaving Supreme Coins and Supreme Crystals scattered all over the ground. At that time, he even slapped himself twice, afraid he was dreaming.
The Supreme Crystals that Bart took out were very precious to others, enough to incite conflict and robbery, but to Zhang Menglong, they were just like trifling fruits.
"I appreciate the gesture, but take these back," Zhang Menglong pushed Bart’s hand away, "Actually, I feel like I should compensate you guys a bit."
Zhang Menglong not only refused to take their Supreme Crystals, he even took out ten thousand of them and handed them to them!
The saying goes, ’Those who live by the mountain, rely on the mountain.’ Their survival base was built near this mountain range, of course depending on the mountain’s resources. Now that he blew up the mountain, shouldn’t Zhang Menglong give them some compensation?
Bart and Lumas had never seen so many Supreme Crystals in their lives!
A full ten thousand, enough for a hundred people to leave this perilous place for good, and he just handed them out without batting an eye? How many Supreme Crystals did he have on him?
"Bart, I just saw Zhang kill that group of Blood Demon Ants, almost every ant dropped a Supreme Crystal. If he destroyed the Demon Ant Nest and killed all the Blood Demon Ants inside..."
"Hiss..." After hearing this, Bart shivered all over.
No one knew the exact number of Blood Demon Ants in the Demon Ant Nest, but each layer had millions for sure, so the whole population might have reached eighty or ninety million, perhaps even over a hundred million!
If Zhang Menglong really killed all the Blood Demon Ants, and each of them dropped Supreme Crystals like Lumas had seen, wouldn’t that mean there were tens of millions of Supreme Crystals?
Those ten thousand were really just a drop in the bucket.
"Let me give you guys some of these too, hopefully they can help your survival base!" Zhang Menglong then took out quite a few Supreme Weapons and gave them to them.
"These are... Supreme Weapons!" Their hands began to tremble, the drop rate of Supreme Crystals was low, but if you’re around long enough and you’re not too unlucky, you can eventually get one or two.
But Supreme Weapons were different. At their survival base, these were legendary items. Out of the entire human race of several tens of millions, he had only heard of a few Peak of Dao Realm magnates owning them. They had never even seen one, let alone owned any.
"Are you really giving these to us?" Lumas confirmed.
"Why would I need so many weapons for myself?" Zhang Menglong shrugged, he got about ten thousand Supreme Weapons from those Blood Demon Ants, he couldn’t use them all anyway.
"On behalf of everyone at our survival base, I thank Brother Zhang for his generous gift!" Lumas and Bart were practically in tears. After all, Zhang Menglong and they had only met once, yet he was willing to give them so much.
Actually, part of the reason Zhang Menglong did this was that he found Lumas and the others to be quite loyal, and secondly, they were all humans, he wanted humanity to thrive in this place, and these things could help them. As for the items themselves, he really didn’t care much about them.
Just ten thousand Supreme Crystals and a few hundred Supreme Weapons, all he needed to do was target a Warcraft group, throw down a few Destruction Fire Lotuses, and he could get as many as he wanted!
"Brother Zhang, are you going to the Great City of Aiville?" Lumas remembered what Zhang Menglong said earlier.
"Yes!"
"We’ve been there quite a few times, and are pretty familiar with the whole Great City of Aiville, how about we lead the way for you?" Lumas suggested.
They definitely couldn’t keep all these Supreme Crystals to themselves, so they might as well go to the Great City of Aiville and exchange them for items their survival base could use. It would definitely aid their future development significantly!
Of course, the main purpose was to help Zhang Menglong get familiar with the area. He had mentioned it was his first time going to the Great City of Aiville, which was very large, and it would be troublesome without a guide.
"That would be great!" Zhang Menglong, being a terrible navigator, dreaded arriving in a new place. Without someone to lead the way, he wouldn’t know where to go, and he really had no time to waste now.
"Time waits for no one," let’s set off now!
Lumas and the others naturally knew that Zhang Menglong’s time was precious, the mission had a ten-day deadline, and Zhang Menglong had already delayed for several days. Traveling from here to the Great City of Aiville would take at least two days, and he still needed to visit the Ice Demon Race’s territory. Zhang Menglong could only stay in the Great City of Aiville for two days at most.
Other than Lumas and Bart, everyone else returned to the survival base first, taking 5000 Supreme Crystals back with them. They planned to buy some things from the Great City of Aiville with the rest.
They were all comrades who had faced life and death together, and no one doubted that they would secretly pocket any of the Supreme Crystals.
According to their original estimate, it would take them another two days to arrive, but along the way, they unexpectedly encountered a rule-being. They could appear randomly in various places, and as long as you paid them a sum of money, they could teleport you anywhere.
Of course, different distances had different prices.
Sometimes for a Martial Artist, time was more precious than money. The cost to teleport to the Great City of Aiville was a full 100,000 Supreme Coins, nearly a year’s net income for many people. Normally, they would rather spend more time to save this money.
However, with a rich person like Zhang Menglong around, they had no need to save that money.
After receiving the money, the rule-being happily used some kind of power to teleport them directly to the gates of the Great City of Aiville.
"Wow! This is..." After seeing various buildings, Zhang Menglong was still in awe of this giant city. It wasn’t that the architecture was so magnificent, but rather, there was an azure dragon circling in the sky above this giant city!
This dragon’s body was probably hundreds of thousands of meters long, and Zhang Menglong had no doubt it was an existence of the ultimate level, an Ultimate Life Form!
"Surprised, aren’t you?" Lumas seemed to have anticipated Zhang Menglong’s reaction, "The first time I saw it, I was scared too, but don’t worry, the Azure Dragon King won’t harm us. Instead, it’s our human race’s Guardian God. Any civilization that wants to destroy us must first get past him!"
"Guardian God..." Zhang Menglong looked at the dragon, his heart full of excitement. With this dragon guardian here, every human being felt an overwhelming sense of security.