Picking Up Attributes From Today

Panda Novel

The pinnacle of Saint Domain realm represented the apex. It was easy to advance to the Saint Domain realm, but to attain the Saint Domain realm’s pinnacle was an impossibly difficult task.

There were thousands of ordinary Saint Domains in the whole of the Dragon God Empire, so many that one could barely keep count, but there were only a handful of pinnacle-level ones. On top of that, that number was an accumulated result of many years.

Yet now, nine of them had died in such a short time!

Who would be able to accept that?

Nobody at all!

“How did that happen?”

Emperor Frederick the 32nd had broken down completely. No matter how he thought about it, he couldn’t understand why Meng Lei, who was just 16 years old, was that strong.

He killed pinnacle-level Saint Domains as if he were just slaughtering livestock.

Just how did he manage to do that?

“You’re the only one left now!”

With the Hammer of Destruction hoisted over his shoulder, Meng Lei looked at the longest Golden Colossal Dragon and asked, “What’s your preferred manner of death?”

“You… You’ve actually killed nine of the elders!”

The Grand Elder was shaking as flames of wrath and hatred burst forth from his eyes. Amid his fury was, however, a hint of alarm and fear.

Although the other nine elders weren’t as strong as him, they were nevertheless still pinnacle-level Saint Domains.

Instantly killing pinnacle-level Saint Domains? He absolutely wouldn’t be able to do that at all!

And yet… Meng Lei had managed to!

What did this show?

It showed that Meng Lei was even more powerful than him and even stronger than a limits-level Saint Domain—a half-deity!

Only a half-deity would be stronger than a limits-level Saint Domain.

The moment that occurred to him, the Grand Elder couldn’t help but bellow in a deep voice, “Sir, by acting in such a way that shows no regard for authority, don’t you fear the Dragon Island’s half-deity’s punishment!?”

“That’s my business. I don’t need your unnecessary concern about that.” Then, Meng Lei suddenly laughed and added, “But if you want to worry about something like that, I can give you the opportunity.”

“What are you intending to do?” the Grand Elder bellowed in a deep voice.

“I’ve always had a dream, and that is to roam the heavens while riding a Colossal Dragon. In the past, I was too weak and could only dream about it, but that’s no longer the case now.”

Meng Lei gave him a leisurely smile and said, “Although you aren’t a pure-blooded Golden Colossal Dragon, you’re not that far off, either. As long as you form a master-servant contract with me and become my mount, I can spare your life!”

“Form a master-servant contract with you? And become your mount?”

The Grand Elder was so furious that he was shaking all over. “Sir, what you’re doing is trampling on a Colossal Dragon’s pride! The prideful Dragons will never let you off!”

“So, you’re not agreeable to it? Die, then!”

With an icy snort, Meng Lei came right up to the Grand Elder with just a step and swung the Hammer of Destruction down!

“No!”

The Grand Elder’s eyes were widened to the point of splitting, yet he nevertheless couldn’t dodge the Hammer of Destruction smashing down heavily toward him.

Crack!

Under the hammer, the limits-level Saint Domain great expert was no different from the previous nine pinnacle-level Golden Colossal Dragons—with just a strike, the hammer blasted his head apart, too!

Boom!

The enormous Dragon carcass plummeted onto the ground, causing an intense tremor to go through the ground before everything returned to peace and quiet.

In spite of that, no-one was feeling any peace and quiet in their hearts. In fact… All of them had already lost it!

“Dead? He’s died just like that?”

“Even the limits-level Saint Domain Grand Elder is dead?”

“Nine pinnacle-level Saint Domains and one limits-level Saint Domain have died just like that?”

“A devil! He’s the devil himself!”

“O great Dragon God, hurry and save your pious descendants…”

“And now, it’s all of your turns!”

With the Hammer of Destruction hoisted over his shoulder, Meng Lei gazed at Frederick the 32nd and the many other Saint Domains, nobles, and officials.

“Guards! Guards!”

Frederick the 32nd was as pale as a sheet, so frightened that he was shivering all over. Which part of him even looked like a sovereign now?

“Now… No-one can save all of you anymore!”

Meng Lei had a calm and tranquil look on his visage as he asked, “The higher management officials of Dragon God Empire are all here now, right?”

Frederick the 32nd’s voice trembled as he asked, “M-Meng Lei, what exactly are you planning? Be clear about it!”

Meng Lei gave him a calm smile as he replied, “Wiping all of you out at once!”

“Wiping all of us out at once?”

Everyone’s countenances changed greatly!

“Divine Technique: Absolute Zero!”

With a flick of his fingers, a golden, chilly air current burst forth and spread forward.

“Run!”

Everyone’s insides were close to rupturing from fear as they fled madly. However, the golden, chilly air current was even quicker—in the blink of an eye, it had spread outward and enveloped the entire square!

Creeeak!

Creeeak!

Creeeak!

All that it stood in the chilly air current’s path became sealed in ice.

From Frederick the 32nd to every high-ranking official, all of them were frozen to the spot. Then, they turned into golden ice sculptures.

Everyone maintained a pose in the midst of escape while looks of alarm and fear also remained on their faces.

In this instant, everything had become frozen in time!

“Flee? How laughable!”

Meng Lei walked into the crowd of ice sculptures. A sculpture fell onto the ground with a light tap, and then, with a loud crack, it shattered into ice chips!

“Meng Lei! Stop that! Hurry and stop that! They are all higher management officials of the empire! You can’t kill them all!”

President Fred, the Fighting Dragon Academy president, and the other four who hadn’t been sealed in ice, stared hard at Meng Lei.

“I know what I’m doing, Presidents.”

Meng Lei shook his head lightly and pushed the second ice sculpture down. Then, he went on to the third, fourth, fifth, sixth…

By the time Meng Lei had walked from one end of the square to the other end, 99% of the ice sculptures had broken into bits and pieces. Only about a dozen vivid-looking ice sculptures were left standing—and all of them were pure-blooded humans!

Meng Lei released them from Absolute Zero’s hold. The dozen or so humans that had been unfrozen watched Meng Lei with fear and trepidation on their countenances. In particular, upon noticing the broken fragments littered all over the ground, they became even more frightened, so much so that their insides were close to rupturing from fear, and they were scared witless!

Dead?

They’re all dead?

Oh my god!!!

Meng Lei’s gaze swept across them. Then, he turned and walked toward President Fred and the other five academy presidents.

“Look at what you’ve done, Meng Lei! You’re in deep trouble! You’ve totally stirred up a hornet’s nest! The empire will never let you off, and neither will the Dragon Island, not to mention the Dragon God!”

Fred and the others were terribly distressed.

“Then let them come!”

Meng Lei flicked his fingers as he said, “I’ll kill one if one comes, and if ten come, I’ll kill a dozen! If all of them come, then I’ll just kill them all!”

“Meng Lei!!!”

Fred bellowed deeply, “Why have you become like this? How can you let down the spirit of the deceased President Amos?”

“No, you’re wrong!”

Meng Lei gazed at President Fred as he replied, “If Ol’ President knew about everything I’ve done, he’d only be happy for me! I know him better than you do!

“He doesn’t belong to the Dragons! Much less sworn allegiance to that bunch of rotten, depraved nobles and that so-called Golden Colossal Dragon emperor!

“Therefore, Ol’ President wouldn’t be angry over those guys’ deaths at all! On the contrary, he’d support me instead!”

At this point, Meng Lei sighed and added, “He knows what I want, and he knows the reason why I’ve done all that. He knows why I have to do so!”

“What are you planning on doing, Meng Lei?”

Fred shouted hoarsely, “You’ve killed His Majesty, you’ve killed all the high-ranking court officials, you’ve killed all the officials and nobles, and you’ve killed a good half of the Saint Domains in the empire! Tell me, what exactly are you planning to do?!”

Meng Lei gazed into the distance, and then, he slowly replied, “President, I’ve become a half-deity!”

Then, he left without a second word.

“A half-deity?!”

Fred and the others were astounded!

Despite having witnessed Meng Lei go on a killing spree and instantly kill a limits-level Saint Domain, thereby realizing that he might already have entered that unfathomable realm, having Meng Lei personally admit to it to them nonetheless still astounded Fred and the others to the extreme.

“A half-deity!”

“Meng Lei has attained half-deification?”

“Oh my goodness! He has actually attained half-deification!”

“This…”

It was only after a substantially long while that the six of them finally got over their astoundment and regained their senses.

In a low voice, one of the academy presidents said, “While attaining half-deification is certainly astounding, can he act so recklessly and brazenly just because he has attained half-deification? What kind of position would he be putting the Dragon Island’s grandmasters in?”

“Exactly! Does Meng Lei think that he doesn’t need to fear the few grandmasters just because he has become a half-deity?”

“That’s too egotistical of him!”

“I don’t know whether he’s being egotistical or full of himself or not, but Meng Lei definitely isn’t just purely killing people for the sake of it!”

Fred’s voice trembled as he said, “This is him fighting for power of faith! He intends to fight for the power of faith!”

“Fight for the power of faith?!”

A huge jolt went through everyone!

…

Killing the emperor! Slaughtering the empire’s higher management!

With that, one could say that he had thoroughly offended the Dragons, the Dragon Island’s half-deities, and in fact, even the Dragon God!

This appeared to be an extremely rash, foolish, and irrational act, but in truth? Of course it wasn’t!

Because in just that brief amount of time, Meng Lei had already received rich, handsome rewards!

Wealth: 2,583 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals

After killing over a thousand Saint Domains, he had earned a net profit of 2,583 Laws of Nature Origin Crystals!

Was this transaction worth it?

There was no doubt about the answer—because this many Laws of Nature Origin Crystals was enough for him to do a lot of things.

Such as raising the Gods-Slaying Rat bloodline assimilation rate to 100%;

Such as raising the Golden Gods-Slaying Ant bloodline assimilation rate to 100%;

Such as redeeming 25 Power of Divinity droplets;

And such as using the Limitless Pickup function 2,583 times!

Pray tell, compared to such rich, handsome profits, what did offending the Dragons even count as? What did offending the Dragon Island’s half-deities even count as?

Should they dare to attack him, he’d kill them all and turn them all into Laws of Nature Origin Crystals!

As for offending the Dragon God?

Meng Lei remembered that Ol’ President had once said this—deities that had already left Heaven’s Vault Continent couldn’t descend upon the continent in their true form.

At best, they could only send a divinity projection—and divinity projections could only utilize a half-deity’s level of strength.

Meng Lei had no fear of half-deities; after all, an adult Gods-Slaying Rat at 100% bloodline assimilation rate… could eat a deity!

Therefore, while it might appear rash, foolish, and irrational, it actually wasn’t at all!

With this many Laws of Nature Origin Crystals, nothing in the entire Heaven’s Vault Continent fazed or frightened Meng Lei anymore!

Since that was so, then why not fight for the power of faith?

It was exactly like what Meng Lei had told President Fred—”I’ve become a half-deity!”

The underlying meaning behind those words was… “I’ve become a half-deity, so I need worshipers!”

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And where were his worshipers going to come from?

The Dragon God Empire, of course!

For the sake of obtaining the huge piece of the power of faith “cake” known as the Dragon God Empire, he needed to get rid of the old religion.

Was there a need to leave the emperor and the empire’s higher management alive?

The answer was clear and definite—of course not!

“Now that even the emperor is dead, surely the Dragon Island’s half-deities will be infuriated? It’s best if all of them come over! If I can kill them all, I’ll be able to bring the empire under control with peace of mind.”

Meng Lei made his way over to the Dragon God Tower while he thought about all that. He wanted to continue earning money in the Dragon God Tower.

The Dragon God Academy was as quiet, peaceful, and harmonious as always. Students were doing whatever they should be doing, completely unaware that the empire’s higher management had all been slaughtered. Neither did they know that an unprecedented storm was about to sweep through the entire empire!

“Enjoy the last moments of peace quietly, children!”

Upon reaching the Dragon God Tower, Meng Lei strode forward and entered. In no time, he arrived at the 41st level.

The Saint Domain Magical Beast on the 41st level was the Heavenly Blade Bug and was roughly a mid-level Saint Domain. Meng Lei casually killed it, and then, he continued to head up.

The 42nd level, 43rd level, 44th level…

The 52nd level, 53rd level, 54th level…

The 62nd level, 63rd level, 64th level…

A half-deity’s strength was not to be resisted. Meng Lei advanced with a crushing force. It didn’t take long before he surpassed the top-ranking Timon Barton and arrived at the 79th floor.

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At the same time, his ranking on the Dragon God Genius Ranking also rose to first place, triggering a huge commotion!