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Chapter 942: The Petrifying Breath of the Rock Draco

The overwhelming pressure, accompanied by a heavy elemental aura, made everyone on the battlefield pause.

"What's going on with you?" Lu Xingshi's voice came, and the huge rock dragon beast lowered its head, its pair of dragon eyes full of ferocity.

This is the default expression of Rockdramon, but it didn't seem that fierce because it was not strong enough before.

As his strength increased, combined with his own aura, that terrifying sense of ferocity suddenly emerged.

"Grand Duke, you are finally here." Cato couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw this.

They were trying to break through and had only fought halfway, but they did not expect that the number and strength of the enemy exceeded their expectations.

If Lu Xingshi had not arrived in time, they would probably have died here.

As soon as Lu Xingshi arrived, the situation immediately changed.

"Retreat!" The elite troops from the besieging countries fled without hesitation.

They couldn't even deal with the rock dragon beast, let alone Lu Xingshi.

"Grand Duke, don't let them..." Cato shouted loudly, asking Lu Xingshi not to let these people go.

But before he could finish his words, the rockdrake's petrifying breath accurately turned all the enemies into statues.

The rock dragon beast can naturally breathe out. After all, it has the word "dragon" in its name, but its breath is not harmful and cannot actively cause damage.

But if you fail to be immune to the petrifying breath, you will not be injured but will be turned into a piece of stone directly.

However, if one is neither strong enough nor weak enough, it is possible that one will be partially petrified.

This is a new ability unlocked after the growth equipment Amber of Rockdrake is upgraded to a higher level.

Seeing that Lu Xingshi easily dealt with the elite enemy troops who were surrounding them, Edward silently compared the strength of both sides.

Even if he added the two dragons of life and death, he would still be no match for Lu Xingshi.

Even if we take a step back, the petrifying breath is the full force attack of the Rock Dragon Beast, but it is not Lu Xingshi's.

"Are these people crazy? Why are they surrounding and killing you at this critical moment?" Lu Xingshi let the rock dragon beast lower its head, walked down, and asked in confusion.

It's already this time, why is there still time for internal strife?

"It's nothing more than wanting Edward's favor of fate and the double dragon of life and death. As you know, many empires are still imperial systems."

"Corruption, ignorance and greed." Cato was also extremely disdainful of this.

Of course, these empires had many shortcomings, but weakness and backwardness were not among them; they were powerful and able to keep up with the times.

This is very troublesome.

"Thanks to you, Grand Duke Lanton, otherwise we would not be able to escape this time." Edward said with a wry smile.

"You may not die, but Cato is dead." Lu Xingshi said bluntly. He came at such a coincidence that he rescued the protagonist.

It’s very routine, but very useful.

However, it was not Lu Xingshi who enjoyed this treatment, but he was the one who saved people.

As for whether he would be held accountable for killing the elites of other empires? Lu Xingshi didn't care at all.

Furthermore, these empires can only swallow their anger. This matter was originally a shameful one, and if Lu Xingshi didn’t cause trouble for them... eh?

Lu Xingshi suddenly discovered a blind spot, that is, he could use this stone statue to cause trouble for these empires, and extort top-level treasures and magical weapons with unearthed attributes from these empires.

It was indeed inconvenient to take action before because there was no reason, but now they are coming to the door, Lu Xingshi must seize the opportunity.

"Do you still remember which empires there are?" Lu Xingshi asked.

"Of course I remember. What do you want to do, Grand Duke?" Cato felt that when Lu Xingshi asked this, he definitely had their own ideas.

"What I need to do is very simple, that is, to ask them to reimburse my travel expenses." Lu Xingshi said confidently: "I came all the way from the Dragon Mountain Range because of this group of people. No matter what, I have to ask someone to reimburse me."

"Look, my rock dragon beast is so big, it needs elements to move."

"It's not too much to ask them for some travel expenses."

At Lu Xingshi's words, both of them were speechless.

"Grand Duke, they won't admit it. After all, this is a secret operation." Edward reminded.

Lu Xingshi smiled and said, "They can deny it, and I can be unreasonable."

Cato finally understood that Lu Xingshi was going to blackmail him, but the other party gave in readily, so he just let it go.

But if what Edward said was true, they would have to suffer.

"Don't worry, I'll give you a list later, a list stamped with the imperial seal." Cato said with a smile. It was indeed different when you had a strong man on your side.

Although Lu Xingshi benefited from it, he couldn't help but vent his anger on their behalf.

The stamped list is just a piece of white paper. Lu Xingshi can write the name of the empire he wants to leave on it.

Edward had less contact with it. Most of the time he was just fighting and killing. And because of his lack of strength, he didn't understand more ways to use fighting and killing.

After all, he is not like Lu Xingshi, who can intimidate many empires by himself.

If he really encountered the siege of the extraordinary army and no one came to rescue him, he would die here like today. But Lu Xingshi was different. He was enough to destroy an entire extraordinary army by himself.

Especially after having the god-ascension program, the gap between the two sides has become larger and larger.

"You really have a lot of little thoughts." Lu Xingshi said with a smile.

It seems that Cato wants the empire to endorse Lu Xingshi, but in fact it is not the case. Once Lu Xingshi succeeds in blackmailing, it means that the empire, which is forced to give benefits, has admitted the matter.

After Lu Xingshi leaves, the Orei Empire will come over and ask for compensation again.

It's like the fox taking advantage of the tiger's might.

But Lu Xingshi didn’t care much about it. After all, if the two of them hadn’t been surrounded and killed, Lu Xingshi really had no good reason to take action.

"Let's put this matter aside for now. What's the situation inside?" Lu Xingshi asked.

Even if we want to gain benefits, it's not the time now. We have to solve the problem of the space fortress first.

"It's not optimistic. Soul Demons are very strong, and there are more Iron Men and Abnormal Monsters."

"Unless you do it yourself, we can't stop them with just our number." Edward took a look at the remaining Moonlight Violent Werewolves. There were only seven of them left.

If Lu Xingshi had arrived a little later, probably not even these seven people would be left.

Cato was also very distressed about this. These were the elite soldiers of the empire, and they all died here.

It has to be said that the various countries really spent a lot of money to kill Edward.

Firstly, it was indeed an action driven by covetousness, and secondly, it was to prevent the emergence of another Grand Duke who could intimidate other countries in the Aore Empire.

Therefore, most of these Moonlight Violent Werewolves died at the hands of elite soldiers from various countries rather than at the hands of soul demons.

"I heard that you couldn't even get into the magic castle and were stopped outside by this soul demon. Do you know what's going on inside?" Lu Xingshi asked again.

His perception penetrated the seal and he indeed discovered a unique protective force field. It was precisely because of this protective force field that the relics of these interstellar civilizations were not assimilated by the world.

However, this protection has become very weak, probably because its energy source is about to be exhausted.

Once the protection of the special force field is gone, these monsters will die instantly.

As for the source, Lu Xingshi has not found it yet. The fragments of this cosmic fortress are very large and seem to have touched the center of the earth.

Initial suspicion is that this is most likely the core area of ​​the entire cosmic fortress.

Otherwise it wouldn't have been possible to last this long.

"I don't know. This is my first time to come into contact with the magic castle. Before this, I fought monsters in the magic ship. The monsters in there are not as numerous as here, and they are not as strong as these." Edward told the truth.

Lu Xingshi had expected that those interstellar battleships should also be equipped with similar protective force fields, but their energy levels, strength, etc. were definitely not as good as those on the space fortresses.

"What about the situation of the magic ship? Can you describe it orally? Or do you have some fighting skills that can be visualized for me to see?" Lu Xingshi said directly.

The only means of manifestation is witchcraft, and the fighting skills are not so varied and are more inclined towards combat.

He also noticed that Edward possessed two extraordinary seeds. As the protagonist, practicing both magic and martial arts was not a big problem, so it was normal that he was not affected by the soul seeds.

It is truly extraordinary that the soul seeds of life attributes and the life seeds of death attributes can become sources of power without any conflict.

Lu Xingshi had no way to resolve the conflict between the soul seed and the life seed, not to mention that these two extraordinary seeds had opposite properties.

At first, he simply solved the problem by integrating two compatible extraordinary seeds of the earth element into the heart.

It was probably the help of the Dragon of Life and the Dragon of Death, otherwise ordinary people would not have such ability.

After all, these two are the divinities of life and death, so resolving this contradiction and conflict should not be a problem.

If Lu Xingshi had obtained the help of the Earth Dragon, he would probably have been able to maintain two extraordinary seeds like Edward, instead of just one.

"There's actually nothing much to talk about inside..." Edward said this, but he also told Lu Xingshi about the situation of the interstellar battleship in detail.

Lu Xingshi listened and roughly understood the situation.

The difficulty of the interstellar battleship is not high, it is considered ordinary, but this time the space fortress directly soared to the hell difficulty, so he couldn't clear it, which caused the world to keep interfering with Lu Xingshi's arrival.

Therefore, the only remnants of interstellar civilization left now should be the fragments of this cosmic fortress, and the rest have been cleared away by Edward.

There must not be many of them. If they were everywhere, the world would become a sieve.

"That's about it. Do you have any questions?" Edward glanced at the seal. The cracks were getting bigger and bigger, which made him a little uneasy.

"No more. Otherwise, you guys retreat first and I'll take care of it." Lu Xingshi also noticed the crack in the seal and said immediately.

He seemed to be discussing, but in fact he was notifying.

What's the point of bringing a bunch of burdens along?

Cato agreed without hesitation and left with the remaining Moonlight Violent Werewolves.

Edward thought it over again and again and decided to follow Lu Xingshi in.

"Then protect yourself." Lu Xingshi wanted to chase him away, but then he thought, what if the protagonist might be of use?

(End of this chapter)