Traveling through the second dimension, the joy system encourages me to laugh heartily!

Chen Ming wasn't surprised that Niman could see through the real considerations behind his decision. He nodded and readily admitted it.

"It's impressive that you saw that. Yes, including tolerating a small number of possible casualties, I've already assessed all the risks of this operation..."

He glanced at the satellite map on the screen and said calmly, "We're almost there. You're here for a battlefield tour, so you'll be able to look down on the battlefield from the air in a bit."

As soon as he finished speaking, the clouds outside the porthole suddenly thinned out. The "Kun" transport plane had already arrived silently at the destination of this mission—the city of Shambren—like a ghost, and hovered stably at a height that was high enough to overlook the entire city.

What came into view was a shocking and horrific scene, like a painting of hell.

The four gates of Chambreun, from east to west and north to south, were now completely blocked by a group of agile and ferocious lionesses!

They did not wander aimlessly, but like experienced hunters, systematically ravaged and slaughtered those who tried to escape or resist. Desperate cries, shrill screams, and the lioness's deep roars intertwined, forming a concerto of death.

Although they are not true "demons," but rather the "familiars" of the Beast King Leor.

However, even their retinues are far more powerful than humans can match—their hunting methods are brutal, their sharp fangs easily snapping shut, crushing the skulls of fleeing people as if they were delicate sugar sculptures; their gleaming claws can tear flesh apart like soft butter with a casual swing.

The crowd cried out and fled in extreme fear, but their path to survival was completely blocked.

The Knights of Chambrun, who were supposed to protect the city, had long been routed by the monster's absolute power and speed. Broken armor and shattered weapons were scattered everywhere, proving the futility of their previous resistance.

These lionesses are terrifyingly large, standing nearly two meters tall and over four meters long, even larger than male lions in the wild. Even more frightening is their defense; their fur has a metallic sheen, possessing the hardness of steel, yet is as supple and resilient as the hide of a top-tier magical beast. Protected by some kind of oil, it becomes exceptionally slippery, making even the most strenuous swings and strikes by knights virtually ineffective, like a mere tickle.

In order to carry out the slaughter more efficiently, they have even dispersed, like a spread of death, covering the main area around the city gates.

However, Leor, the Beast King who was the source of all this disaster, was nowhere to be found.

Chen Ming speculated that this guy was probably like a pride of lions in nature, leaving the actual hunting work entirely to his "harem" of lionesses, while he himself hid in some comfortable corner, enjoying the fruits of others' labor and waiting for his subjects to bring him "tribute".

but it does not matter.

Chen Ming was well aware of the other party's weakness.

Once the mass slaughter of these lionesses begins, the Beast King Leokor will naturally be forced to reveal himself—after all, these lionesses are not low-level monsters he created at will; they are independent and powerful beings, his carefully selected and nurtured "harem" with genuine emotional connections!

Chen Ming briefly put himself in her shoes—if it were his own harem in danger, he would definitely appear to rescue them immediately and would never sit idly by!

Just as the "Kun" transport plane quietly arrived, the tragedy below continued. A lioness silently emerged from behind a woman who was desperately trying to hide in the ruins of the city while holding her young child. Her cold, beastly eyes locked onto the desperate mother and child, and her raised claws gleamed with the light of death.

"Help! Help! Someone... someone please save us!!"

The woman sensed the approaching death behind her and let out a heart-wrenching cry, clutching her child tightly to her chest, her eyes filled with despair.

The claws, capable of easily tearing through a knight's steel armor, were about to touch the crying, pleading mother...

Instant teleportation

As the space rippled slightly, Chen Ming's figure appeared out of thin air behind the lioness, like a ghost. His movements were extremely simple, without any fancy moves, just a seemingly plain punch, carrying extremely concentrated power, which accurately struck the back of the lioness's head.

"Oh!"

A dull thud, like the sound of leather being struck.

Although Chen Ming had tried his best to reduce the force of his attack the moment he struck in order to avoid the aftershocks of his punch injuring the mother and child who were standing nearby.

However, during the journey on the transport plane, he used the time to cast [Multiple Chanting] to stack hundreds of different buff spells on himself—strength enhancement, speed boost, armor penetration… The variety was vast, and the combined effects were simply too overwhelming.

This punch, which had contained most of its power, still easily shattered and annihilated the lioness's head in an instant! The massive body stiffened for a moment, then crashed to the ground, losing all life.

"You should run towards the city center! The city gates and surrounding areas are now teeming with these monsters!"

Chen Ming gave instructions in a calm tone to the mother and child who had survived the ordeal and were still in shock.

"Okay, okay! Thank you, sir! Thank you for saving my life!"

The mother snapped out of her fear and surprise, held her child, bowed deeply to Chen Ming, and then, without the slightest delay, ran desperately in the direction he indicated.

Chen Ming then extended his finger, and a cluster of blazing and pure flames leaped from his fingertip.

With a flick of his wrist, the cluster of flames landed precisely on the lioness's corpse, instantly escalating to an intense heat. Strangely, it did not ignite the surrounding debris, but instead efficiently enveloped and devoured the massive lioness's body, reducing it to a small pile of ashes within seconds, which then drifted away in the wind.

He chose cremation and deliberately avoided using his best swordsmanship to prevent triggering the "Sword Saint's Blessing" and scaring away the lurking Beast King Leor.

As for the question of whether Beastmaster could revive a corpse by touching it.

The problem can be solved by simply burning the corpses to ashes—these lionesses are not demons with cores of existential power, and their weaknesses are quite obvious.

The commotion immediately attracted the attention of the other lionesses.

Soon, a new lioness suddenly darted out from a street corner in the distance.

It twitched its nose, as if it could smell the scent of its companion's complete demise. Its wild, beastly eyes immediately locked onto Chen Ming, filled with tangible hatred and rage.

Immediately afterwards, it raised its head and let out a deep but penetrating roar. This roar was not a meaningless rant, but a clear summoning signal.

Accompanied by the heavy sound of running and the cracking of bricks, two more equally large female lion demons came galloping in.

They are filled with murderous intent because of the death of their companions, but their actions are also characterized by an unusual calmness and coordination, and their eyes gleam with the wisdom of hunters... This shows that their leader has taught them well.

Chen Ming stood there calmly, even with a hint of encouragement, letting them call for reinforcements.

In his view, the more lionesses the better, so that he can deal with them all at once and send the whole family on their way, saving him the trouble of searching and cleaning up afterward.

However, perhaps based on their confidence in their own strength, believing that the coordinated attack of the three lionesses was enough to deal with any human except a brave warrior, they did not wait for more companions to arrive and immediately launched a swift action, demonstrating a high level of tactical skill.

The three lionesses launched a three-pronged charge:

The one charging directly at Chen Ming did not advance in a straight line, but instead sprinted in a "Z" shape, sometimes to the left and sometimes to the right, its trajectory unpredictable. Its figure flashed rapidly between the broken streets and ruins, effectively avoiding the possibility of being easily locked onto by ranged attack magic or arrows.

Meanwhile, the other two groups used the partially collapsed houses on both sides of the street as cover, quickly flanking and encircling Chen Ming from the left and right. Their actions were silent, and their intention was very clear—to launch a deadly surprise attack from Chen Ming's blind spot.

This rapid, coordinated, and unpredictable three-dimensional offensive is an almost insurmountable predicament for the knights and mages of this world.

Because the goddess restricted the development of magic in this world, there are only 100 kinds of weak magic in total, the most powerful of which is only equivalent to the superior magic of World 2.

As for battle aura, there is none. The so-called knights are nothing more than combat mages who use magic to enhance their bodies.

In this drama of heroes defeating demons, humans can only play the roles of victims and believers.

However, for Chen Ming, who comes from another world, possesses a system, and wields immense power, a single spell can easily resolve the current human predicament.

"[Flame Storm]..."

Chen Ming uttered a spell softly, but his tone carried a hint of regret, "What a pity, only three came."

He had already proven that fire magic was an effective way to attack this kind of monster when he burned the first lioness's carcass. So, in the brief interval when the monster roared for reinforcements, he had already taken the opportunity to complete the spell incantation, and a powerful area-of-effect fire spell was ready.

With a slight thought, the magic was instantly detonated.

Centered on Chen Ming, within a radius of several hundred meters, the air seemed to be instantly sucked out. Immediately afterwards, incredibly violent fire elements surged forth and roared like a flood bursting its banks! The blazing flames were no longer simple pillars or fireballs, but formed a swirling, crushing, and all-consuming fire storm! The temperature soared, and houses and stone slabs instantly melted into boiling crimson magma. The air was distorted by the high temperature, crackling and popping.

Whether it's the lioness in front trying to evade being locked on with elusive movements, or the lioness that has already leaped out from behind the houses on the left and right, at this moment, all tactics, all speed, and all cunning become meaningless.

Like moths drawn to the sun, they didn't even have time to utter a cry before their massive bodies were completely swallowed up, submerged, and reduced to ashes by the destructive torrent of flames...

Chapter 274: You really are amazing

“Master, all the lionesses around the city of Chambren have abandoned their hunting of humans and are rushing toward your location from all directions at top speed.”

Through Chen Ming's miniature headset, the distinctive loli voice of [Crimson] came through, reporting the latest developments on the battlefield.

"Very good. Continue to closely monitor the movements of all enemies, especially to find traces of the Beast King."

Chen Ming calmly issued the order.

"Yes, Master! [Crimson] understands!"

Hearing Chen Ming's concise affirmation, Crimson on the other end of the communication seemed to be full of energy, focusing even more intently on mobilizing the resources of the Sky Eye satellite in space to monitor the entire battlefield in all directions.

Soon, accompanied by tremors and low, menacing growls, several more lionesses charged out from different streets and alleys. They sensed the impending demise of their companions, and their eyes burned with even more intense fury and murderous intent.

This time, however, Chen Ming did not choose to use swift and decisive methods to eliminate them as he had done before.

After all, if as many as come, they die instantly, even the most foolish enemy will sense something is wrong, which could lead the remaining lionesses to choose to flee, and that would be troublesome.

Amidst the frenzied attacks, claw strikes, and tail sweeps of several lionesses, Chen Ming's figure moved like a ghost. He frequently used [Instant Teleportation], each time narrowly avoiding the claws at the last second, making for a truly perilous situation.

At the same time, he chanted loudly and clearly a complex and lengthy magical incantation.

He gives the enemy the illusion that he is a mage with profound magical skills, but whose body must be relatively weak! As long as they can get close enough to touch him, they can easily win the battle!

However, the reality was quite the opposite of this carefully crafted illusion.

Even if Chen Ming didn't dodge and just stood there letting these lionesses attack him, they probably wouldn't be able to break through his defenses. Putting aside the hundreds of layers of divine-level magical shields on his body, just with his current battle qi cultivation and strong physique, plus the almost unlimited automatic recovery ability brought by the [Fountain of Life], and the abnormal defense of reducing physical damage by 99.99% provided by the [Iron Body], the attacks of these lionesses wouldn't even be considered "scratching" for him, and could be completely ignored.

Chen Ming's plan worked.

His "disheveled" performance successfully deceived the lionesses. Instead of fleeing, they became even more convinced of the magician's judgment that he would die if he got close, and began frantically calling for reinforcements, trying to use their overwhelming numbers to completely squeeze out all of Chen Ming's possible escape routes, ultimately forcing him into a desperate situation.

Chen Ming was happy to waste time with them.

Anyway, his magic power is as vast as the stars, so this consumption is nothing, and it doesn't even keep up with his recovery.

He continued his "performance," each dodge appearing more perilous than the last, as if he were just a hair's breadth away from being torn apart by sharp claws. The distance of his [teleportation] was also getting shorter and shorter, as if his magic power was about to run out.

This sent a strong signal to the lionesses: with just a little more effort and another reinforcement, this troublesome magician would have nowhere to escape!

"Master, the lionesses scattered throughout the city of Chambren have all gathered within a radius of 300 meters around you, forming a complete encirclement."

Finally, the loli voice of [Crimson] came through the headset again.

Upon hearing this news, Chen Ming muttered to himself:

"They're still not coming out? Looks like I'll have to increase their hatred level a bit more..."

Immediately, he held back and unleashed a fire spell he had prepared long ago—[Heavenly Flame Funeral]!

The sky seemed to be set ablaze at that moment.

Countless enormous waterfalls of lava, burning with pale flames, poured down like a divine punishment, precisely covering the entire area within a radius of several hundred meters centered on Chen Ming!

There were no screams, no struggles, only the roar and heat of flames purifying everything.

After the light faded, all that remained on the ground was a charred, deep pit with glassy edges.

The entire pride of lionesses was wiped out!

Chen Ming stood above the deep pit, his gaze calmly sweeping over the scene of destruction he had personally created.

If Leor, the Beast King, can still refrain from showing himself and fighting to the death after his harem is wiped out, then Chen Ming can only sincerely "admire" him and bestow upon him the honorary title of "Ninja Turtle".

But clearly, the other party wasn't that patient.

The Beast King Leokor had merely taken a lazy afternoon nap in his lair, only to find upon waking that his dozens of "wives" who had been by his side for so long were all dead in a very short time! Who could tolerate such a near-annihilation tragedy!

“┗|｀O′|┛ Awooo——!!”

A roar, brimming with boundless rage, grief, and madness, exploded like a thunderclap from the depths of the earth in a certain direction outside the city! The roar contained terrifying magical fluctuations, instantly spreading throughout the entire city of Chambrun, and even the three little ones and Niman, far away on the transport plane, could hear it clearly.

Just as Chen Ming had predicted, the Beast King Leokor was not the type to realize impending doom and immediately flee when his familiars were killed.

On the contrary, it belongs to the violent personality of someone who extremely hates enemies, is vengeful, and is determined to make the other party pay for their crimes in blood.

At this moment, it burst forth from its underground lair with a furious rage that could consume everything, determined to tear the murderer who dared to slaughter its entire harem to shreds!

The moment the Beastmaster Leorko appeared, he was instantly locked onto by hundreds of satellites outside the atmosphere from various angles. Countless data streams poured into the background refresh area of ​​[Crimson] like a waterfall, constructing a detailed real-time model of this ultimate goal.

Chen Ming heard the location indicator [Crimson] coming through his miniature earpiece. He looked up in the direction indicated and spotted a golden figure rushing rapidly toward his location in the distance.

The previous lionesses were already quite large and imposing, but the one that appeared now was noticeably even bigger, like a small, moving gold mountain. The thick mane around its neck was not the usual brown of a lion, but shone with a pure gold luster, each hair seemingly cast from liquid gold, beneath which surged an astonishing magical power that was almost overflowing.

Most of the demons Chen Ming had encountered in the past maintained a form similar to humans, but the Leo Col was more like a pure beast.

"I can't hear them... I can't hear their voices anymore! My women... there's no response! Was it you?! Did you kill them?!"

Leocoul's voice was filled with a murderous intent that almost materialized. Its beastly eyes, burning with golden flames, were fixed on Chen Ming, as if it wanted to devour him alive.

Faced with the Beast King's overwhelming rage, Chen Ming was not nervous at all. Instead, he decided to use the quotes of classic villains to provoke the other party and completely cut off his chance to escape.

"Jie Jie Jie..."

He first let out a standard villainous chuckle, then said in a tone laced with mockery and pity, "You know what? Your women, on their deathbeds, begged me to spare you... How laughable and pathetic. But I refused. Anyway, what's the point of living for a piece of trash like you who can't even protect his own women? I might as well send you down now to reunite with them!"

As expected, this combination of classic villain quotes—including "creepy laughter," "reciting last words," "personal attacks," and "death declarations"—was extremely effective at provoking Chen Ming, even exceeding his expectations.

"Roar--!!!"

Leo Col let out an even more frenzied roar, and its already enormous body expanded even further at a visible speed, with its bulging muscles bulging out like inflated balloons.