Chaos Devourer System

Chapter 604: Exiting Unscathed

It was fast! Almost making a slash on Zeras’s face, he quickly shot backwards before turning to look at the dead creature. Right now, it had two-meter-long pitch-black, iron-like wings dripping black liquids…

“It seems sliding hands on their back slits would make them eject their wings out beyond their control,” Zeras mused to himself as he walked back to the creature and swiped his hand over the liquid on it, and then…

TSSSSHH

Smoke rose out of his fingers as he watched the liquid burning away at its flesh, but it failed to penetrate his hands before it burned itself out.

“Their wings are also coated in venom that can burn away at the skin. It would be lethal if they can eject the venom at will. Even I would be burned to the bones if a bucket of the venom is poured on me,” Zeras mused, a tingle running through his spine.

Then he turned the creature on its face, as he properly scanned its hollow face filled with pitch-black eyeballs, and the most lethal part of it being its elongated snout hiding sharp rows of abyssal-looking teeth that would no doubt rip apart flesh like it was nothing. Its legs, instead of being humanoid, were like those of an eagle, with sharp elongated nails.

“Hmmm, I’m understanding now. It’s a flying creature, with the legs of an eagle. Its mode of attack is spraying venom from its wings onto its prey on the ground.

Then, while its prey is wriggling in pain, it would swoop down and catch its prey within its clamping claws and raise it up into the sky. Then it will sink its bloody teeth into its immobilized prey or outright tear it apart with its pincers.

“An aerial devil…” Zeras determined in his head, and then he rose up from the ground, climbing out of the pit of the rubble and emerging outside…

What he saw made his spine go chills…

More than hundreds of the same creatures that he had just killed all spread into the distance, seemingly in a deep slumber. And even among the slumbering creatures, Zeras could see some creatures that were like mini-mountains. They were devil giants, looking like humans in all aspects save for their inky black skin and extra-large grasping hands. They roamed the entire place, every one of their footsteps creating a mini-earthquake that shook the entire area, and a spiked club lay in their hands as their inky black eyes scanned the place…

He was standing just before an entire army of devilish creatures.

“Huuuuu.” Zeras couldn’t help but heave a sigh of relief that he had decided to quickly slaughter that one, or he would have been screwed if it had alerted the others of his presence.

With extra cautious attention, he slowly retreated away from the place, crawling on the ground, and soon he quickly slithered away like a snake, disappearing among crumbled rocks and half-destroyed mountains…

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“This is perfect!” Zeras said out loudly with a satisfied expression as he looked at the mini-cave that he had carved within a half-crumbled mountain.

The mountain was among a hundred more of the same crumbled mountains, and Zeras had smartly created a mini home within the mountain. A simple large space where he could cultivate, he also created two other exits in the place, which he could use to quickly escape the mountain in unforeseen situations. He had used crumbled large rocks to act as doors within the place.

“Now, I have an abode where I can practice my arts and an army of devilish creatures to test my arts on. And that’s still under the cover of me attending my duties as an outer sect. This is just too perfect for me,” Zeras said with a big smile on his face.

Grand Elder Celestine probably thought she was punishing him and slowing down his cultivation by making him an outer sect disciple, who would be flooded by duties and regarded as low-life.

Never in her wildest imagination would she have known she was only helping him even more, as Zeras easily adapted as an outer sect disciple and made sure it never impacted his cultivation negatively in any way. Here, he would have a pretty quiet place to grow himself. In the day, he would practice his art and grow his combat prowess, and at night, he would be able to cultivate in the sect grounds. It was a perfect situation.

“Huh?”

Suddenly Zeras turned his attention to the card that he was given, as he saw it blinking in and out.

“Oh, three hours gone already?” Zeras mused out loud. The card blinking out of existence meant the teleportation card could now be used to return.

“Well then, I guess I used my first day to properly create an abode, memorize the area surrounding the place, and note the type of devilish creatures present. Tomorrow will be the day I begin my duties,” Zeras said in mockery, and with a last look at the mini room that he had created, he crushed the card within his palms. A mystical green light emanated from it and quickly wrapped around his figure, and in the next instant, he disappeared.

“I guess he would be dying to return now,” Aleo said as they all turned their attention to the dark gate, which soon opened up. The brothers prepared themselves for a good laugh while Kenji’s heart almost bounced out of his ribcage.

But what they saw couldn’t help but make their jaws drop to the ground, as they watched Zeras exit the door, his hands in his pockets, and his face holding an uninterested expression as he chewed on the leaf that was at the corner of his mouth when he had first left the place.

Waltzing forward like that, he turned his poker face to the three people who looked at him as if he was dead…

“Why are your jaws falling off? You unhinged them?” he asked with a slight tantalizing expression as both guards scanned him up and down.

“You didn’t even lose a single body part!?”