SWNOVELXO Chapter 63 - The Four Dark Kings!
Chapter 63: The Four Dark Kings!
A blazing pillar of light shot towards the sky, reaching a height of dozens, nearly a hundred meters, before gradually fading.
This display was much more intense compared to Shuanghan’s activation of a silver-grade item just moments ago.
Li Ao’s activation was overwhelmingly more powerful.
The onlooking newcomers were a bit dazed.
Exchanging looks.
Really?
Not only did Li Ao, the great demon king, not fail, but he also managed to draw a gold-grade item from the Newcomer’s Destiny Chest?
If things continued like this, how would they ever defeat him in the future? Oh benevolent Goddess of Fortune, aren’t you just making things more difficult for us?
With Li Ao already invincible with a junior silver-grade Rock Giant, if he got his hands on a gold-grade item or war beast, what chance would this generation of newcomers have?
“Quick, look what it is!”
Naturally, the twenty people on the challenge list were the most anxious, as they were the direct victims.
Lie Feng, who had just collapsed on the ground, scrambled up swiftly.
Reacting very quickly.
He rushed up to Li Ao.
Tie Zheng and Man Huang also hurried over.
Even Shuanghan and Cang Yue, who had previously appeared calm, looked nervously at the red card floating in front of Li Ao.
The red card signified something well understood by everyone.
The card levels, from lowest to highest, were: white, blue, purple, orange, and red…
White represented items or war beasts without a grade; blue was for Black Iron level; purple for Bronze level; orange, quite rare, was sought after by the newcomers for Silver level.
As for the red card.
It corresponded to the Gold level.
Whether it transformed into an item or a war beast, it was always exceptional.
According to the combat power ratios between each level, white ranged from 1-10, blue from 10-100, purple from 100-1000, and so forth.
Li Ao had drawn a red card.
Meaning he was about to possess an item or war beast with a combat power starting at a minimum of 10,000.
Shuanghan felt dizzy. How were they supposed to fight this? His own combat power was not even close to 2000, and Li Ao was about to break 10,000, and that too with Li Ao, the unbeatable demon king in combat skills! Now he truly became a demon king!
“Eh? Another egg?”
Huo Mei, who had forced Long Ying to separate Zhao Kong and Youjin to squeeze in for a closer look, was astonished to find that the pattern on Li Ao’s red card was not much different from the one on Lie Feng’s white card earlier.
It was also an egg.
Only the information was slightly different, displaying: An extremely mysterious egg of unknown origin.
Unknown origin…
Extremely mysterious…
It was still just an egg!
Everyone sighed in relief upon seeing this.
Li Ao, after hatching this egg in the future, nobody knows what war beast he would obtain, but for now, it was definitely of no use.
Because.
It was merely an egg.
“Why? Why is the egg Li Ao got a gold-level, while mine is just a cuckoo egg?”
Lie Feng sighed in relief, but couldn’t help feeling sad for himself. Both were eggs, so why was there such a huge disparity?
One was destined to be gold-level even before hatching, while the other was destined to be no more than suitable for starting a breeding farm and becoming an outstanding farm owner! Fate, to what extent do you plan to mock me?
“Your luck is just too bad!”
Shuanghan gave him the straightforward answer.
“You!”
Lie Feng almost choked to death on his anger.
“Let’s visualize and see what it is…”
Cang Yue wasn’t completely reassured. After all, Li Ao was quite perverse; what if the egg hatched as soon as it was visualized?
“Could it be a dragon?”
Zao Chi couldn’t think of any other egg that would be gold-level without even hatching.
“Absolutely not.”
Huo Mei immediately denied.
Li Ao visualized the egg from the red card.
Round and smooth.
No distinctive features.
No patterns or spots.
Except for a faint glow shimmering from within, its size and shape were not much different from the cuckoo egg Lie Feng had before.
Of course, no matter how ordinary the egg looked, nobody would underestimate it.
Just kidding!
This was a gold-level egg!
Though it was unknown what kind of war beast it was, it was definitely a super-strong creature born at the gold level, a terrifying existence on par with dragons!
“Aren’t you going to say something?”
Ling Long signaled Li Ao to share his thoughts on opening the Newcomer’s Destiny Chest.
“Should I really say?”
Li Ao looked around at his classmates.
“When I tell you to talk, just talk, stop with the nonsense!”
Cang Yue really wanted to claw him to death.
“Actually, I don’t have any secrets, but my big boss Fuxi does have one. I could introduce his exclusive secret worth three gold coins to everyone.”
Before Li Ao could finish, Cang Yue immediately grabbed him by the collar, staring him down with his golden and silver demonic eyes.
Cang Yue didn’t believe in lucky underwear or anything like that, and certainly wouldn’t put a green lucky underwear on his head.
He wanted Li Ao’s own experiences.
“Speak your own secret!”
Lie Feng really wanted to know how Li Ao managed to open a gold-level item.
“Li Ao, if you think you can say it, say it; if not, let it be.”
Tie Zheng, the future family head, was more considerate of Li Ao.
“No, he must say!”
Qiu Ye and the others firmly objected.
“Then I’ll say it…”
Li Ao gently touched his face with his hand: “Actually, there’s nothing that can’t be said, as long as your face is white enough!”
Before he could finish his sentence.
He was already being pummeled furiously on the ground.
It was too much; they asked for his experience, and he had to stab everyone’s hearts?
Was he afraid that they wouldn’t spontaneously vomit blood and die on the spot, so he couldn’t show a tragic scene? Is there anyone else who would hurt people with their words like this?
Beat him!
They must beat him until his face was beyond recognition.
Let him open gold-level items, let him have a face as white as the prince of the White Elves, let him use his venomous tongue to stab everyone’s hearts!
In the group of newcomers, only one person was genuinely happy for Li Ao.
That person was the formidable Fuxi.
“Little Li Ao, you’re going to strike it rich!”
Fuxi thought to himself with delight, believing that having such a junior would surely lift his own status as a big brother.
“This guy’s smile is too sleazy, beat him up!”
Suddenly, the newcomers surrounding Fuxi closed in on him.
“Can’t I even smile?”
Fuxi felt as if his beauty was a curse, inciting envy that made others take out their frustrations on him.
Sigh!
Surely, it was his excessive handsomeness that caused everyone’s jealousy, leading them to take it out on him instead of Li Ao.
Many were hesitant to strike Li Ao, but hitting his big brother felt just as satisfying, if not more so!
Consequently, they swarmed over Fuxi, pinning him to the ground.
“Can you not hit the face?”
Fuxi pleaded in his final request.
“I’m aiming for the face, to wipe that stupid smile off! Do you realize how annoying it is?” one of them retorted.
“Burn him!”
“And add some seasoning?”
“Eating him would probably cause diarrhea, right?”
“It’d be more than just diarrhea; it would surely be fatal!”
“Then let’s just beat him up, it’s safer!”
“Good idea!”
As Fuxi was rubbed against the ground, each time he looked up, a fist accurately targeted his ‘handsome face,’ causing him to squeal in pain like a slaughtered pig.
Though his face and body hurt, Fuxi felt somewhat satisfied inside.
He knew they were envious of his beauty.
If they weren’t jealous, why else would they specifically target his face?
So, for those too ugly and powerless to defy fate, who could only silently endure, Fuxi, being both kind and forgiving, forgave them.
You’re ugly!
It must be hard.
I totally understand and have decided to forgive you! After all, who can blame me for being too handsome?
Three elderly heads from the Pantheon of Myriad Realms watched the newcomers’ roughhousing with smiles, unconcerned. Dou Guang and Chang Chi could only pretend to be blind to it.
Finally, the chaotic drama ended.
The opening of the newcomers’ Destiny Chests continued.
Zhao Kong drew a man-eating plant.
He was completely dumbfounded.
Did this man-eating plant have anything to do with his jelly person?
At least he was better off than Youjin, who had drawn a long-toothed rat, a common creature summoned by a White Card.
Youjin was tearlessly miserable.
Yet, everyone seized this opportunity to further jab at his heart: “Youjin, this must be your brother, right?”
“Those two bright, shiny incisors look exactly the same!”
“Congratulations on the family reunion!”
“Aren’t you going to treat us?”
Tie Zheng drew a high-tier Bronze-grade Iron Face person, not the Silver-grade he had hoped for, but he was content.
After all, a crowd of Black Marsh Frogs with faces darkened in silent despair was right beside him!
Being able to draw a useful combat beast was indeed a stroke of luck.
It was too difficult.
Everyone saw how lucky Tie Zheng was, and similarly pinned him to the ground and beat him up, asking, “How is everyone in the Iron Clan so lucky? It’s bad enough that Li Ao is such a demonic overlord, but how did you, with your honest-looking face, manage to slip through?”
After beating up Tie Zheng, everyone went to watch Man Huang open the Newcomer’s Destiny Chest.
The result was a White Card.
And a bunch of ordinary creatures, the Rock Sheep.
Suddenly, Man Huang felt very envious of Tie Zheng and really wanted to be rubbed on the ground by everyone!
“What does it mean for the Destiny Chest to release a bunch of Rock Sheep? Could it be that I eat too much lamb, so I’ve been cursed?”
Feiyu and Liuxing opened a Bronze-level Low-Tier Swamp Dragonfly and a Bronze-level Mid-Tier Killer Bee.
Nothing good either.
Everyone casually rubbed them and let it pass.
Hei Wan opened a Bronze-level High-Tier Lucky Bracelet and jumped three feet high in joy.
How could this be?
There was another White Elf disguised as a human!
Filled with a common hatred, the newcomers immediately hung Hei Wan up and beat him; ordinary beating was no longer enough to quell their jealousy, he had to be hung up and beaten!
Zao Chi, trembling, opened an ordinary creature, the Warthog.
Cang Yue and others laughed wildly.
“Just with that face, you dream of opening anything other than a White Card?”
“Let us congratulate Lie Feng, Man Huang, Youjin, and Zao Chi, four students who are crazy absorbers of our bad luck. They sacrificed themselves to protect our fortunes, which is very great! How about we title them as the ‘Four Kings of Black Faces’ of this session?”
Li Ao made this proposal.
“I one hundred percent agree!” Cang Yue, the big-eyed monster, was the first to support.
“Okay,” Shuanghan had no objections.
“Qiuye, you can’t vote in favor…” Lie Feng was nearly crying. Was even his cousin going to betray him?
“Cousin, I have no choice; my one vote against won’t make a difference!”
Qiuye was also worried that Li Ao would put him among the Kings of Black Faces as well, knowing that he had also drawn a White Card, only a rooted leaf which served as a revelation to him, not utterly face-blackening.
In fact, many newcomers drew not-so-good items.
But happiness is relative, their items might not be good, but they were still a bit better compared to the super-unlucky Lie Feng, Man Huang, Youjin, and Zao Chi.
The Four Kings of Black Faces.
Opposition was futile.
The title was firmly established.
What could Lie Feng and the others do? Who made them so unlucky as to have no friends? Who made them as black as a Black Marsh Frog?
After the commotion.
The newcomers suddenly realized, wasn’t there still one girl who hadn’t opened her Newcomer’s Destiny Chest?
The most timid Yue Sha had yet to open hers, shivering all over.
Could she become the Black Face Queen above the Four Kings of Black Faces?