Starting with the Broken-Winged Frost Butterfly: Beast Taming

Chapter 95 The Dice of Fate

In mid-air, the Four Seasons Robe wept and sobbed, its emotional fluctuations mirroring those of a human girl.

Zhu Ran felt a sudden, inexplicable pang of heart palpitations.

Before he could react, Xuexi cried out in surprise, and her flight speed also decreased significantly, like a moth trapped in the palm of an invisible hand, the more she fluttered, the more powerless she became.

"Rip!"

The sky was torn apart, and a dark cloud pressed down from above, its force overwhelming.

Zhu Ran was stunned. It wasn't a dark cloud at all, but a die, as big as a spaceship, dark silver in color, spinning continuously as it descended.

"Wait—what's it doing here? What's it doing here during the vigil?"

The Azure Elephant Cudgel was initially furious, but upon seeing who it belonged to, his anger dissipated, and he stood there dumbfounded.

"Whoosh!"

Lingxiao Gong, who was furthest away, suddenly abandoned the pursuit, turned around and flew away, successfully escaping.

At close range, the Mountain-Shattering Hammer wasn't so lucky. Just as it made a move to run away, it was trapped in an invisible restraint, and its abilities were suppressed.

"Dice? There's such a thing as a king of beasts in this form?"

Crocodile Sister was also caught in the trap; she stared intently at the giant die, her heart filled with horror.

Could it be an S-rank weapon beast? Otherwise, how could it suppress all the A-rank beasts present in an instant?

"Not S-rank, but—"

Zhu Ran's first reaction was the same, but after looking at the panel, his tension did not ease, and his expression became extremely serious.

[Race]: Dice of Fate [Attribute]: Fate [Life Level]: Mature [Bloodline Strength]: A

[Core Talents]: Twelve Choices/Gambler's Domain/Curse of Doom/Graceful Gift/Fair Gamble [Racial Skill]: Fate Reset [Status]: Ecstasy surges! It's fate!

Zhu Ran clicked his tongue in amazement. This trip to the secret realm, including encountering the ancient magic mirror with spatial attributes, had already broadened his horizons.

He never expected that he would be able to witness the true nature of the most mysterious and incredible attribute of fate!

"How can a melon rind that doesn't move be considered 'fortune' or 'misfortune'? Why aren't you staying in your territory and running around?!"

The Azure Elephant Cudgel once again spewed out profanities, with the most vulgar words of the beast warrior race popping out of its mouth one after another.

Clearly, upon confirming that the creature above him matched someone from his memory, it cursed angrily and felt immense fear.

"Hehehehe————"

"Come play—let's play together—"

The dice of fate emitted the silly laughter of a mentally challenged boy as they slowly fell.

At that moment, the entire space seemed to lose gravity, and the two-headed crocodile and Crocodile Sister slowly floated up, approaching the Dice of Fate, and finally reached the same height as it, with a distance of ten meters between them.

Uncontrollably, Qin Taozhi broke free from Xue Xi's hook. Following some kind of impulse, she summoned the Ink Thorn Rose Fairy, and together with the vine, they came to the right side of Crocodile Sister.

Zhu Ran and Xue Xi finally arrived at Crocodile Sister's left side. Big Butterfly looked blank, completely unaware of how the current situation was developing.

"I'm not going to gamble with someone like melon rind that doesn't move properly. I always lose; I don't have that kind of luck!"

The Azure Elephant Cudgel continued to curse, but it was also out of control, slowly floating on the other side of the fate dice. If one could see through it, it would be right face to face with Qin Taozhi.

Next came the Mountain-Shattering Hammer and the Four Seasons Kasaya.

One is indirectly connected to Sister Crocodile by a straight line, and the other is indirectly connected to Zhu Ran by a straight line.

"Yay! Yay! We can start playing now!"

The Fate Dice was overjoyed, just as its status column indicated "ecstasy," its overall mental state was both mad and silly.

"No—I'm scared—"

The Four Seasons Robe is almost in tears. It has persevered until now to prevent other creatures from getting close to the big dice, but unexpectedly, the big dice has once again brought together the "number of players".

"Is it the so-called cursed weapon?"

Zhu Ran had a sudden thought and tried to inquire about the Four Seasons Robe.

Of all the beasts present, only it did not radiate hostility, its mind constantly occupied by fear.

"yes----"

The Four Seasons Robe felt extremely wronged. "If you lose the game, it will be terrible. Your future might go to the other extreme, even more painful than death—"

"Aaaaaah, oh my god!"

The Azure Elephant Cudgel went mad. At this moment, it no longer cared about slaughtering humans, and said hatefully, "There was once a king of soldiers who lost the game, his bloodline plummeted to D-rank, becoming the weakest of the weak!"

"Even elite soldiers can lose the game, their souls shattered, leaving only their physical bodies—no different from being dead!"

"I don't want to die!"

"I must win!"

In an instant, an astonishing will to survive erupted, and rings of earth-yellow shockwaves spread out from the staff. At the top of the staff, a phantom giant elephant suddenly appeared, its head raised, roaring angrily.

"Quiet----"

Like the sound of babbling, the dice of fate only turned slightly, while the elephant staff remained motionless, frozen once again.

"We're playing as a team!"

"Your team—your team—"

It was as if an invisible finger was touching Zhu Ran's brow.

Zhu Ran felt a chill run down his spine as a new understanding suddenly appeared in his mind—from now on, Qin Taozhi and Crocodile Sister are his team members, their fates are intertwined, and they will share the responsibility for the final outcome of the game.

Their opponents, on the other side, were another team composed of the Azure Elephant Staff, the Mountain-Shattering Hammer, and the Four Seasons Robe.

"Humans versus Beastmen? A three-on-three duel?"

This was the first time Zhu Ran had encountered something like this. While feeling heavy-hearted, she also experienced a surge of novelty.

"Let's begin—"

The fate die shrank rapidly, becoming the size of a Rubik's Cube in a second, small enough for a human to hold in the palm of their hand.

"Play—Guess the Size—"

In front of Zhu Ran, two circles suddenly appeared in the void, one side engraved with the human character "大" (big) and the other side engraved with the human character "小" (small).

"Guess for yourself—if you guess wrong on any of these, you will be punished—"

"But if your teammate guesses correctly, the punishment will be lessened —"

Zhu Ran, Crocodile Sister, and Qin Taozhi looked at each other in bewilderment.

On the opposite bank, the Azure Elephant Cudgel roared, its tip pointing to one side, "I bet it's big, big, big, big!"

The Mountain-Shattering Hammer remained silent, yet its handle pointed towards "Big".

"Me, me, me, me—"

The Four Seasons Robe's spirit was filled with resistance, but seeing that the two team members had made their choices, it was helpless, hesitant, and fearful. Finally, trembling, it touched "Big" with the corner of its robe.

"This is outrageous!"

Crocodile Sister was speechless. Who could believe that at this very moment, they were actually sitting cross-legged in the void, playing a game of big or small with the three-headed beast king?

Moreover, it seems there will be extremely cruel punishments for guessing wrong; such a bet—

Sister Crocodile shook her head, frowned, thought for a while, and tentatively asked, "Then shall we guess small?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Crocodile Sister added, "Fine, do as you please. Winning is winning, losing is losing, I accept it all."

Zhu Ran hesitated.

The Fate Dice has twelve sides and the talent "Fair Gamble," so it's likely that both the big and small dice have six sides, and the odds of winning or losing are even.

A 50% chance of winning, a 50% chance of losing —

"Xuexi, do you think it's big or small?"

Zhu Ran felt that her luck was just so-so, so she decided to hand over the decision-making power to her destiny partner.

Xuexi: |A·）！ ！

This was Xi's first time at a gambling table, and she didn't know much about it.

"So, who in our family has the best luck?"

Zhu Ran pondered for a moment, muttering to himself.

In their own team, apart from the Hercules Frog Xiao Ji, the others are purely ordinary extraordinary creatures.

Nobita, Gian, and Suneo, thanks to the correct evolution formula, have been promoted to adorable little tigers.

Of the remaining ones—Xuexi, Haha, Tuntun, and Jingxiang—which one didn't evolve incorrectly?

"How about we send Mirror Master up?"

"I don't know who has the best luck, but right now the one with the worst luck is definitely Master Jing."

"The other companions have long since escaped their erroneous forms, but Elder Mirror has only managed to collect one or two-tenths of the materials needed to reverse the process, and that seems a long way off—"

After much deliberation, Zhu Ran made up his mind.

What's this move called? It's called "two negatives make a positive"!

Moreover, Elder Jing is also a beast warrior, and he is very old. He might have known the Dice of Fate before.

Space and destiny are both very noble attributes. Is it possible that Elder Jing and Fu'e had some kind of connection in the past?

The more Zhu Ran reasoned, the more itchy he felt inside.

"Master Jing, wake up! Don't sleep!"

With a flash of light, another Destiny Card floated beside Zhu Ran, and the Ancient Magic Mirror made a dazzling appearance.