CHAPTER 242: CHAPTER 242: SLAYING THE SLIME LEADER, MONSTER NEST

"You despicable human, die!" the Slime leader roared in anger, its huge body leaping high into the air before slamming down hard.

Johnnie frowned. If he died, he would fail the tribulation, and the thunderclouds would disappear.

Buzz!

Space rippled as Johnnie used his teleport skill again, blinking a hundred meters away.

The heavenly tribulation had already torn apart the Slime leader’s Domain, so the space suppression was gone too.

Whoosh!

Just as Johnnie appeared, a fiery serpent shot toward him.

At the same time, another bolt of tribulation lightning began to form overhead.

Without hesitating, Johnnie used his teleport skill again, flashing right beneath the Slime leader.

"Oh, crap—"

Crack!

The Slime leader’s curse was cut short as an even thicker bolt of heavenly lightning struck down, hitting it head-on.

Boom!

This time, the Slime leader was hurt even worse. Its huge body collapsed to the ground, covered in wounds, thick blood oozing out.

Johnnie crawled out from under it, looked at the badly wounded Slime leader, and said with disdain, "What’s wrong? You can’t even handle two bolts of heavenly tribulation?"

"You despicable human, I’ll tear you to pieces!"

The Slime leader cursed furiously. It had become divine with divine essence, so it had never experienced a heavenly tribulation before. Plus, as a Slime monster, its body was never that tough to begin with. There was no way it could stand up to such attacks.

Rumble...

Thunder rolled as the thick tribulation clouds churned, and yet another bolt of lightning formed.

"Damn it!" The Slime leader was truly scared now. It didn’t even try to attack Johnnie, just turned and tried to run.

"Don’t even think about escaping!"

Johnnie wasn’t about to let it go. He chased right after it, and with his teleport skill, the Slime leader couldn’t shake him off at all.

This heavenly tribulation was really special. Even when Johnnie used his teleport skill, he still felt like he was being locked onto.

He even had a feeling that, even if he entered the Map of Heaven and Earth, he wouldn’t be able to escape from the heavenly tribulation.

But Johnnie didn’t really care. He wasn’t planning on becoming a god anyway. Once he killed the Slime leader, the heavenly tribulation would hit him too and finish him off. If he died, he’d fail the tribulation and wouldn’t ascend.

Crack!

The world shook as a thick bolt of lightning came crashing down, hitting both the Slime leader and Johnnie.

Boom!

This time, the damage Johnnie took was even worse. It felt like his soul was being torn apart, and then everything went black.

[Ding, you failed to withstand the heavenly tribulation]

The system prompt flashed. Even with the Slime leader taking most of the hit, Johnnie was still instantly killed by the third bolt of heavenly lightning.

But the Slime leader was in terrible shape too, having taken three bolts straight on.

Now it collapsed on the ground, covered in hideous wounds, thick blood oozing everywhere, barely hanging on to life.

Johnnie revived at the spot, but he had taken a huge hit—his soul and mind were injured, and his head throbbed with pain.

"Huh? My bloodlines are fusing!" he gasped. The seals set by Skye and the White Spirit Tiger were still there, but now a bit of the Witch Clan and Demon Clan bloodlines had merged.

It was just a tiny bit, but there were no side effects.

He looked surprised—the heavenly tribulation had actually helped him fuse his Lich bloodline!

But the fusion was too little. To fully merge the bloodlines, he’d probably need thousands of tribulation bolts like this, and there’s no way he could survive that.

Still, at least it was a possible way forward.

Johnnie didn’t dwell on it. He looked at the dying Slime leader and said calmly, "Let me send you off."

With that, the Seven Sword flashed as he attacked the Slime leader like crazy.

Slash, slash...

Even so, Johnnie could only do around 900,000 damage per hit.

The Slime leader was badly hurt, but still not easy for him to finish off.

But his trump card was the Seven Sword’s instant kill effect.

[Ding, you killed the Dual Elemental Slime Leader. EXP +32,000,000, Four basic attributes +10,000]

[You leveled up to stage 6, level 3. Four basic attributes +100, free attribute points +100]

[God-killing power triggered. All stats permanently increased by 10%]

The system prompts flashed. This time, it only took Johnnie about five minutes of attacking before the Seven Sword’s instant kill effect triggered.

His strength improved again.

It looked like the more badly injured the enemy, the higher the chance of triggering the Seven Sword’s instant kill.

Johnnie stopped thinking about it and checked the items dropped by the Slime leader.

He found a divine essence, a Fire-Element Law Stone, and a Water-Spirit Stone.

Normally, it should have dropped a Water-Element Law Stone, but since Johnnie hadn’t comprehended the Water-Element Law, only a Water-Spirit Stone dropped.

Looks like he needed to learn the Water-Element Law soon.

Besides those, there was also a jade fragment and a token that looked like a National Founding Decree.

[Elemental Heart Fragment: Divine item. Collect three fragments to create the Elemental Heart.]

[Effect: Allows you to master all elements, with a chance for them to merge with each other without any negative effects.]

Divine-level item!

This was definitely something good!

Johnnie was thrilled. His class was Mage of the Five Elements, so he could only practice magic with the five elements, but couldn’t use other types of magic.

But with the Elemental Heart, he wouldn’t have those restrictions anymore.

Plus, there was even a chance to fuse different Elemental Powers together.

The only downside was that he needed three fragments to form the Elemental Heart.

He still needed two more. Maybe the other Slime leaders would drop them.

Johnnie carefully put away the Elemental Heart fragment, then looked at the next item.

[Slime Nest: Monster nest, special item; can be used within your territory and will continuously produce Slime monsters (at least stage 6 strength)]

A monster nest!

This was even more valuable than the National Founding Decree.

With a monster nest, he could get an endless supply of monsters.

In his last life, he’d only heard of these things, but never actually seen one. They were always controlled by the big factions, and even then, the nests were usually low level.

Even so, people fought over them like crazy.

The best part was that this was a Slime nest. When Slimes die, they drop slime and Magic Cores. If he could also get the treasure that the Mountain Hunter uses to refine slime and Magic Cores, he could get an endless supply of Spirit Stones.

Looks like he really had to kill the Mountain Hunter.

"Master, you—you really managed to kill a Domain?" Jack ran over, his face pale, still in disbelief.

He’d just been hit by the Slime leader’s skills, died dozens of times, and his mind had taken serious damage.

He could have logged off, but he wanted to see whether Johnnie could really take down a Domain.

"It was nothing special." Johnnie said calmly, putting away his loot. Then, with a thought, he led Jack into the Map of Heaven and Earth.

"Master, are you okay?" Maiev hurried over, looking worried.

Inside the Map of Heaven and Earth, they couldn’t see what was happening outside, but they could sense it.

She knew Johnnie had used a heavenly tribulation to kill the Slime leader, and that his soul had been severely hurt. She couldn’t help but worry.

Soul injuries were no joke.

But Johnnie didn’t care. "It’s fine. With damage like this, as long as I find some undead monsters, I’ll recover quickly."

With the Void Sword’s Soul Devouring effect, killing undead monsters could strengthen his soul and heal these kinds of wounds fast.

Seeing that Atlas and the others had recovered, Johnnie asked, "Elder Yett, can you guys not log out?"

After he’d entered the land of confusion, he couldn’t contact the outside, but he could still log off as usual.

Atlas shook his head. "After we came here, we were completely cut off from the outside world. Then we stumbled into the Slime territory and got caught by the Slimes."

Thinking about what happened made him shiver.

The Slimes had ways to drain their life force, which could erase them completely.

If Johnnie hadn’t shown up, they’d definitely be dead.

"Master, the reason you can still disconnect normally is because of the blessing of the land of confusion’s laws."

Jack explained from the side.

Blessing of the laws?

Johnnie was a little surprised. He had thought the reason he wasn’t affected was because of his Illusory Body, but now it seemed that wasn’t the case.

So, if Atlas and the others got the law’s blessing here, they’d be able to log in and out normally too.

Johnnie looked at Jack and said, "Give them the blessing."

He himself had gotten the law’s blessing back in the Phoenix Ruins.

Back then, Jack had actually done it to trap him forever in the magma, but in the end, it turned out to be a help instead.

Jack shook his head helplessly and said, "I can’t, Master. I can only do it once. But the lord of the city here can also give the blessing. I know the lord of Celestial End City, which is the nearest city. If I ask him, he’ll help us. And only with the land of confusion’s law blessing can we pass through the black fog and leave this place."

Jack’s eyes flickered. He was thinking of something else too—he wanted the lord of Celestial End City to ask his father for help to deal with Johnnie... He felt that only by completely killing Johnnie could he break the soul contract.

Jack continued, "Anyway, we have to go past Celestial End City on the way to Blade King City."

A city of the Demon race?

Johnnie shot him a cold look and said in warning, "Don’t play any tricks. I can erase you completely if you try anything."

"I wouldn’t dare." Jack said, forcing a smile and acting extra obedient.

Johnnie ignored him. There was no rush to help Atlas and the others get the blessing of the land of confusion’s laws.

First, he needed to deal with the Mountain Hunter.

"Let’s go find the Mountain Hunter." Johnnie said, and with a thought, took Nalorin·Sylvia, Benz, and Jack out of the Map of Heaven and Earth.

They appeared in the forest.

The Slime leader’s corpse was already gone, replaced by lots of weaker Slimes, most of them around stage 7 or 8.

Did these weak Slimes eat the Slime leader’s body?

Johnnie was confused—a Domain-level corpse shouldn’t disappear this fast.

He didn’t bother thinking about it too much. With a thought, he activated Myriad Sword Technique and started slaughtering the weak Slimes.

For his Mage of the Five Elements class advancement quest, he only needed to kill five-element demonic creatures.

He checked his quest progress. As long as he killed a little over three million more stage 6 five-star elemental demonic creatures, his Mage of the Five Elements class would reach stage 6.