Chang Long glanced down at the landscape below with horror, her hands barely clinging to the edge of the cliff. The Sovereign Sword lay on the ground, a fair distance from her. The stone lizard beast king opened its mouth wide, attempting to attack Chang Long again. Kitsune attacked the beast, seeing his master in dire situation.

"Good job, Kitsune!"

Chang Long praised her pet's actions, then struggled to pull herself back up onto the ledge. Luckily, the brutal quests she had undertaken before had significantly enhanced her physical abilities, allowing her to muster the strength to climb back up.

"Pant... You almost make me die a horrifying death. Don't you think you're getting off easy,"

Chang Long scolded the stone lizard beast king while still catching her breath. She then picked up the Sovereign Sword and charged at the enemy swiftly.

Clang!

Chang Long's exceedingly sharp sword could barely make a two-millimeter cut into the skin of the stone lizard beast king, startling her greatly. She quickly jumped back to check if there was something wrong with her sword. Even after a thorough examination and checking the sword's stats, she found nothing amiss, leading her to realize just how tough the skin of the stone lizard beast king really was.

'Master, its skin is very tough. My claws can't do any damage!'

Kitsune communicated through telepathy with worry, because a predator's claws are always meant to be razor-sharp. Yet, even after ensuring his claws were at their sharpest, they could not even scratch the beast's skin.

"I refuse to believe my sword can't scratch you. Davy-chan, Spirit Possession!"

Chang Long called for Davy-chan to possess her, before attacking the stone lizard beast king again. She raised her sword high and slashed down with all her might. With Davy-chan's power, which was at level 100, her strike carried an immense force.

The Sovereign Sword sank deeply into the body of the stone lizard beast king, hard as its name suggested, nearly thirty centimeters. However, pulling the sword out proved impossible, as it seemed to be stuck by some liquid resembling wet sand on the beast's body.

"What's that!"

Chang Long yelled, trying to pull the Sovereign Sword, which was being slowly absorbed into the stone lizard beast king's body.

'I think that's its skill, transforming part of its body into quicksand,'

Davy-chan said to Chang Long.

"Cool skill. I really want your eye now,"

Chang Long joyfully said, pulling on the Sovereign Sword once again.

The Sovereign Sword was finally pulled out from the body of the stone lizard beast king. Chang Long looked at the lizard, troubled, unsure how to attack it. She did not forget to order Kitsune to keep distracting it, strictly forbidding close combat. Yet, even from afar, they still had to be wary of its sticky, stretchy tongue.

"What do we do? We can't cut it, and even if we try to stay away, its tongue will still get us,"

Chang Long muttered to herself worriedly, while Kitsune continued to distract the stone lizard beast king.

Yelp!

Suddenly, a cry made Chang Long's face pale, as she quickly turned towards the source of the sound. The scene before her eyes was Kitsune being caught by the tongue of the stone lizard beast king and being pulled back into its mouth.

"Kitsune!" Chang Long shouted in shock, then quickly moved towards the mouth of the stone lizard beast king.

The figure of Kitsune, the flame fox, vanished into the stone lizard beast king's mouth, to Chang Long's astonishment. She quickly moved towards it, then raised her sword vertically, blocking the beast's mouth that was about to snap shut rapidly.

Shunk!

The Sovereign Sword was lodged just in time inside the mouth of the stone lizard beast king, revealing Kitsune wrapped miserably by its tongue. Chang Long tried to pull the sticky, stretchy tongue off Kitsune, but it was futile. As the stone lizard beast king shook its head in pain from the sword lodged in its mouth, causing blood to start oozing out, aiding Kitsune became exceedingly difficult.

"Stop wriggling, will you!"

Chang Long jumped back from the mouth of the stone lizard beast king as it was now thrashing wildly, trying to dislodge the sword blocking its mouth. But it seemed the more it struggled, the deeper the sword penetrated.

"Kitsune!"

Chang Long looked at Kitsune, still trapped in the beast's mouth with concern. Despite appearing to be in great distress, Kitsune did not cry out for her help. He tried to use his sharp fangs to bite the beast's tongue, which was tightly wrapped around its body.

'Master, don't worry about me. Please deal with it as you please,'

Kitsune sent a telepathic message to its master, seeing her standing anxiously.

'Kitsune, try breathing fire down its throat. Can you do it?'

Chang Long asked, trying to remain as calm as possible.

'Yes, Master. I'll give it a try,'

Kitsune replied with a hint of surprise.

'Then do it now,'

Chang Long commanded. Kitsune gathered its strength and spat a massive fireball into the throat of the stone lizard beast. As the intense flame was expelled from Kitsune's mouth, the interior of the stone lizard beast rapidly dried out. Its sticky, stretchy tongue shriveled, losing the ability to bind Kitsune any longer.

Kitsune leapt out from the mouth of the rock gecko beast, drenched in saliva. As it was about to shake itself dry, Chang Long, standing nearby, urgently stopped it, fearing the splash of saliva.

"Flaming Burst!"

Chang Long summoned the skill from the Eye of Flame embedded in the Sovereign Sword, still stuck in the mouth of the stone lizard beast. A fierce golden flame surged from the Eye of Flame directly into the beast's body, already writhing in agony from Kitsune's fireball. The pain was intensified by the scorching blaze of the Flaming Burst skill.

Steam and the smell of burning flesh billowed from the beast's mouth. It thrashed about so wildly, that its cherished tree snapped in two under the chaos.

"It seems to be in a lot of pain,"

Kitsune, still wet with saliva, remarked.

"Of course, we've cooked its insides to a crisp. Let's finish it off before it destroys the path!"

Chang Long said, although she could not get close to the wildly thrashing stone lizard beast to retrieve the Sovereign Sword from its mouth.

"We're in trouble. Why is it heading towards the cliff? Give me back my sword first, Flaming Burst!"

Chang Long panicked as the stone lizard beast staggered towards the cliff, still in a frenzy. She used the skill again, hoping to stop it in its tracks and finally kill it.

Screeccchhh!

With a final pained howl, the stone lizard beast king died just a step away from the cliff. The system announced its death, and Chang Long went to collect the coins and items dropped, which was a sand-colored orb the size of a ten-baht coin that rolled to her feet.

As she picked up the sand-colored orb, the system informed her it was the Eye of the Earth. She then proceeded towards the body of the stone lizard beast to pull out the Sovereign Sword from its mouth, but before she could reach it, the beast's body slowly collapsed into the crevices formed by its own thrashing.

"Hey, wait!"

Chang Long shouted and rushed towards the stone lizard beast king that was about to fall off the cliff. However, due to its massive and heavy body, it fell too quickly for Chang Long to even touch its tail.

"Noooooo, my Sovereign Sword!"

Chang Long screamed in despair and ran to the edge of the cliff in sorrow. She could not retrieve the Sovereign Sword from the mouth of the stone lizard beast's carcass.

Wet Trash Can and Oliang were hunting beasts about five kilometers away from Chang Long. They heard her thunderous scream, startling them and the nearby beasts, as it sounded hauntingly mournful.

"Hey, Oliang, did you hear what I heard?"

Wet Trash Can turned to ask his friend, who was helping him fight a big-toothed squirrel beast.

"Yeah, it doesn't sound good,"

Oliang replied, looking pale.

"What do you think made that sound?"

Wet Trash Can asked while continuously stabbing a beast.

"I don't know, but seeing how these beasts are reacting, I bet it must be a royal class beast,"

Oliang confidently asserted.

"I was thinking the same. Shall we finish this one off quickly and make a run for it? I'm not ready to face a royal class beast,"

Wet Trash Can sought his friend's agreement, then glanced at his egg placed in what he thought was a safe spot to witness his heroic deeds.

"Yeah, better hurry. That sound we heard, I'm sure some beasts went berserk because it lost something valuable. If it finds us, I think I don't need to say what would happen right?!"

Oliang said. Regular beasts in berserk are already fierce, let alone a royal class beast. If they were not escaping now, then when? Once they decided, both used their skills to quickly dispatch the beast in front of them so they could escape.

Beep Beep

"Hello, Siegfried!"

Oliang answered the call, after seeing who was calling him.

"Hello, Oliang. You're at the Royal Cliff, right?"

Siegfried got straight to the point.

"Um, yes, I'm with Wet Trash Can at the Royal Cliff. Is there something wrong?"

Oliang asked while picking up an egg that Wet Trash Can had forced him to place next to his, so it could clearly see the awesomeness of its future master. He prepared to flee from the spot.

"Have you seen Chang Long? She told me she was going there too. But it seems she was approached by players from the Dark Horse Guild along the way, then she disappeared. I can't contact her,"

Siegfried explained, trying to sound as normal as possible.

"Really? The Dark Horse Guild? Wait, I'll ask Wet Trash Can to try contacting Chang Long!"

Oliang told Siegfried. After finishing, he turned to ask his dear friend to try reaching Chang Long right away.

"Sorry, Wet Trash Can said he couldn't get through. But Chang Long is very smart; there's no way something easily happened to her,"

Oliang consoled his friend, though not very confidently.

"I hope so too. Anyway, could you guys scout around there? Maybe you'll find her,"

Siegfried requested.

"Sure, but right now, Wet Trash Can and I need to escape from here first. We just heard a royal class beast roaring through the forest a moment ago. It won't be long before it reaches where we are,"

Oliang replied, sounding worried.

"Alright, please help,"

Siegfried acknowledged, then hung up.

"Let's hurry,"

Wet Trash Can urged, and the two quickly fled.

Regarding the beast of the royal class that scared Oliang and Wet Trash Can into fleeing hastily, after sneezing several times, she kept crying out non-stop. She kept looking at the Sovereign Sword in the mouth of the stone lizard beast king, that fell to the ground below without being able to do anything.

"Davy-chan, what should I do now? The sword has fallen. Hey, give me back my sword, you crazy lizard. Are you taking revenge on me for burning your insides, huh!"

Chang Long raged loudly with anger. Davy-chan, who was summoned from his spirit tablet, could only shake his head at the madness of her successor.

'Master, we can hurry down after it,'

Kitsune commented, while sniffing himself with a twisted face.

'Are you crazy, Kitsune! Do you even know where that is? We don't know if we'll find it after we went down. Worse, we might get lost,'

Chang Long turned and yelled at Kitsune.

'T...That's right, Master. I apologize, Master,'

Kitsune said in a soft voice, intimidated by his master.

"I won't give up. Come back to me right now, Sovereign Sword."

Chang Long shouted after the form of the stone lizard beast king, sitting down in despair.

"That's right, why didn't I think of this sooner,"

Chang Long suddenly stood up and searched for something from her backpack.

'What are you doing, Master?'

Kitsune approached curiously and asked.

"A teleportation scroll. I'll jump down after it to pull the sword out of that crazy lizard's mouth, then use the teleportation scroll. Just like that, no need to waste my time running down to search and no need to die from falling into a pit. I'm so smart,"

Chang Long held up the teleportation scroll and explained her brilliant plan to Kitsune and Davy-chan.

'That's a very smart idea, Master,'

Kitsune eagerly praised his master. Having received support from his beloved pet, Chang Long did not wait to hear Davy-chan's compliment any longer. She quickly sealed Kitsune and jumped down immediately after the lifeless body of the stone lizard beast king.

"Oh! This reminds me of the time I fell into the Southern Sea Abyss,"

Chang Long complained to herself while trying to make her body glide down to the form of the stone lizard beast king.

Thud!

Suddenly, something flew into her free hand. Chang Long turned to look and found that the Sovereign Sword was in her hand, and the wings on the skull fluttered up and down as if it had flown back to its master by itself.

"Ah... how did this happen!"

Chang Long looked at the Sovereign Sword with surprise and extended her other hand, which was holding the teleportation scroll, to stroke the sword for assurance.

'The sword can return to its owner,'

Davy-chan, who floated along, said.

"Gosh... then why didn't you tell me sooner! Why did you let me jump after it. I was risking my life, property, and my level, you know!"

Chang Long complained back while her body was still floating in mid-air.

'I just remembered,'

Davy-chan replied nonchalantly.

"I'll remember this, Davy-chan, back to town, ah!"

Chang Long raised the teleportation scroll. Just by holding the scroll and saying, 'back to town', the system would teleport the player's body back to the nearest town immediately. But while Chang Long was using the scroll, the claws of something presumed to be exceptionally large, grasped Chang Long's body, resulting in both of their bodies being teleported back to town together.

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