Picking Up Attributes From Today

Panda Novel

“My respects to the Ram-Lion Grandmaster!”

At the sight of the gigantic Ram-Lion in the center of the magic circle and upon sensing the terrifying force of its presence that it was giving off, Thackeray lowered his head and bowed at once.

“My respects to the Ram-Lion Grandmaster!”

The 1,000 Saint Domains, as well as the other members of the Golden Dragon-Lion clan, also bowed in greeting, their voices loud and sonorous. They were inexplicably excited as if they’d just seen their own fathers.

“Who has summoned me?”

The gigantic Ram-Lion shouted in a low, deep voice as its blood-red eyes swept across Thackeray and the many Saint Domains. It sniffed hard at the air, and then, it asked, “Are you my descendants?”

“Grandmaster,” Thackeray raised his head and replied excitedly, “This is Heaven’s Vault Continent. We are your blood descendants that you left behind 80,000 years ago when you were traveling here!”

“Heaven’s Vault Continent? 80,000 years ago?”

The gigantic Ram-Lion couldn’t quite recall the memory for a moment there, and it walked down memory lane from eons ago.

After a long while, it finally said, “I remember now. I had indeed graced a Golden Colossal Dragon’s bedchamber 80,000 years ago. All of you must be that Golden Colossal Dragon’s descendants?”

“Yes, exactly! Exactly!”

Overjoyed, Thackeray nodded repeatedly.

“I see! No wonder you know the Devil contractual magic circle that summons me!”

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At once, the gigantic Ram-Lion’s eyes became significantly less hostile. It said with a voice like a great bell, “Descendants of mine, for what purpose do you summon me?”

“Please let me report the matter to you, Grandmaster!”

With a face full of tears and snot, Thackeray said, “A half-deity has newly emerged as a force on the material plane here. He is wicked, perverse, and behaves atrociously. Not only has he slaughtered all of Dragon God Empire’s half-deities, but he even wiped out the Titan Empire’s half-deities a moment ago, and now, he’s making his way over to us!

“If nothing goes wrong, he’ll arrive at the Golden Archipelago very soon. When that happens, all one million of my Golden Dragon-Lion clansmen shall all die an untimely death!

“The clan is facing imminent danger where the calamity of complete annihilation may befall us anytime. Left with no other choice, we could only disturb the Grandmaster’s rest. Please forgive us, Grandmaster!”

“All of you are my descendants. My blood flows through all of you. How can others slaughter all of you as they please?”

The gigantic Ram-Lion flew into a thundering rage. He roared furiously, “I’d like to take a look for myself just why a native half-deity dares to behave so audaciously!”

“How virtuous of the Grandmaster!”

Thackeray hurriedly prostrated and kowtowed.

“Rise, everyone!”

The gigantic Ram-Lion nodded slightly. His gaze swept past the million corpses in the square. Then, he licked his lips and roared deeply, “I’m hungry!”

“Hungry?”

Thackeray was taken by surprise for a moment before he quickly regained his senses. He ordered, “Hurry! Bring forth the offerings that we’ve prepared, and let the Grandmaster sample them!”

“Yes, Grandmaster!”

Before long, the Golden Dragon-Lion clansmen brought forth the so-called offerings—they were actually some fair and fleshy human toddlers!

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Aged about two to three-years-old, these toddlers had been thoroughly cleaned up beforehand, and they wore not even a single thread of clothing. Fair and tender, they were then placed on trays and presented.

A simple gaze revealed that there were easily tens of thousands of them!

Thackeray received one of the trays and offered it up respectfully. “Please enjoy your meal, Grandmaster!”

As descendants of the gigantic Ram-Lion, not only did they, the Golden Dragon-Lions, have the means of summoning the Grandmaster, but they also knew what it liked to eat—because they’ve had similar experiences before.

In the past, whenever they faced imminent annihilation of the clan, this was exactly what they would do—making sacrificial offerings of a million people and then preparing another 100,000 male toddlers as sacrificial offerings.

This was how they’d always been doing it for the last tens of thousands of years!

Thackeray took no pity on all these lives. To the Golden Dragon-Lions, all the people in the Golden Dragon-Lions were their livestock and slaves!

Who would care about the deaths of livestock?

“Yes, this offering is pretty good!”

The gigantic Ram-Lion shrank its size. Then, it opened its mouth and easily sucked a toddler into its mouth. Blood flowed incessantly amid loud crunching.

“As long as it’s to Grandmaster’s taste!”

Thackeray was delighted. He instructed, “What are all of you spacing out for? Since it’s to the Grandmaster’s taste, then hurry and prepare some more for the Grandmaster! 100,000… No, 200,000! Prepare 200,000 offerings at once!”

“Understood!”

The Golden Dragon-Lion clansmen got down to it right away.

The gigantic Ram-Lion enjoyed the meal of toddlers with a look of intoxication on its face as if it were eating a feast of delicacies.

No one knew just how the Golden Dragon-Lions had managed it, but the toddlers neither cried nor fussed. They were entirely unaware that they were about to become someone else’s meal.

“There’s more if these aren’t enough, Grandmaster!”

“Grandmaster, these are all our ways of showing filial respect to you!”

“Grandmaster…”

An hour passed very quickly. All 100,000 toddlers ended up in the gigantic Ram-Lion’s belly. The Ram-Lion burped and picked its teeth with a look of contentment on its visage.

With an ingratiating look on his face, a beaming Thackeray asked, “How do these offerings taste, Grandmaster?”

“Pretty good! I’m very satisfied.”

The gigantic Ram-Lion then cast a glance at him and asked, “By the way, what is your name again?”

Thackeray hurriedly answered, “My name is Thackeray, Grandmaster!”

“I’ll keep you in mind, Thackeray.”

The gigantic Ram-Lion nodded slightly before he said, “Tell me about the situation in Heaven’s Vault Continent.”

“Yes, Grandmaster!”

Not daring to be remiss in any way, Thackeray began to talk about Heaven’s Vault Continent’s circumstances in detail. At the end of it, the Ram-Lion sank into contemplative silence.

“The Titans were the ones ruling this existential plane back when I first came. Little did I think that 80,000 years later, Beast People and Colossal Dragons would also emerge.

“These are the vicissitudes of life, indeed. How time has passed! Nevertheless, this is a fantastic opportunity right now!”

The gigantic Ram-Lion turned to Thackeray. “The Dragon God Empire and the Titan Empire’s half-deities have all perished. It is now a time where the higher management of the empires is vacant. Your time has come!”

“Grandmaster, you mean…”

Thackeray perked up.

The Ram-Lion said, “Lead the Golden Dragon-Lions and conquer the Dragon God Empire and the Titan Empire. Fight for power of faith and seize the opportunity to become a god.”

“But Grandmaster, the Titan Spiritual God, and the Dragon God probably wouldn’t agree to that, would they?”

Despite being sorely tempted by the notion, Thackeray was still somewhat hesitant. He was just a normal half-deity and had even just lost a divine incarnation. He didn’t have the guts to challenge the Titan Spiritual God and the Dragon God just yet.

“Don’t worry. I’ll block them off for you.”

The gigantic Ram-Lion said dispassionately, “Deities can no longer approach a material plane with their real body once 10,000 years have passed since their deification, whereas we, the Devils, can descend upon the material plane via a Devil contract.

“With me around, what is there to fear about mere divinity projections of the Titan Spiritual God and the Dragon God?”

“I thank the Grandmaster for his advice! How virtuous of the Grandmaster!”

Thrilled, Thackeray kowtowed on his knees incessantly.

The Ram-Lion said aloofly, “When you’ve become a true god, I shall have another true god descendant, and my Ram-Lion clan shall also become even more powerful.”

“Yes, Grandmaster!”

Thackeray’s spirits were awfully uplifted. Nevertheless, he said, “But the most pressing matter now is still to get rid of Meng Lei, the renegade. He’s the one that poses the biggest threat to us at the moment!”

“A mere native half-deity is not worthy of mention. I can annihilate him with a simple flip of my hand.”

The gigantic Ram-Lion glanced at him. He didn’t take Meng Lei seriously at all.

It was an old-timer Demon Lord that ruled over billions of lives, after all. What did a mere half-deity even count as?

An ingratiating Thackeray quickly said, “The Grandmaster’s powers reach all the way to the heavens! If that knave Meng Lei dares to come, we’ll definitely turn him into ashes and give him a terrible death!”

Boom!

At that moment, a shrill scream suddenly rang out ahead of them. A jolt went through Thackeray, and he shouted, “What has happened?”

“Grandmaster, I’ll go and take a look!”

A Saint Domain darted out. However, he was thrown back where he was again in no time, falling onto the ground and becoming motionless.

Thackeray hastily looked over to see that all the Saint Domain clansman’s bones had been broken—evidently, someone had violently broken him.

“Meng Lei! He’s here!!”

A huge shudder went through Thackeray. He spied a lofty figure weaving through the palace complex as he walked toward them right away. The figure was 1,000-feet-tall, a jet-black color throughout, and had intertwining muscles all over him—it was a Titan!

“Bubbles! Why is he here?”

At the sight of the Titan, Thackeray couldn’t help but let out an exclamation. Upon taking a closer look, he then realized that three people were standing atop Bubbles’ shoulder—and one of them was exactly the person he’d been thinking of day and night.

“Meng Lei!”

Thackeray clenched his fists, his eyes spitting flames of wrath. He roared furiously, “Meng Lei, you knave! To think you really dare to make your way here!”

“Eh?”

At the sound of his voice, Meng Lei glanced over and immediately noticed Thackeray. An icy glint flashed in his eyes, and a hint of murderous intent flitted across.

“Thackeray, you should be cut into a thousand pieces!”

“Die? I’ll see who the one dying today is!”

Thackeray gave him a savage smile. “You’ve killed my divine incarnation, causing my years of hard work to go up in smoke. On top of that, you’ve even come all the way to my doorstep to humiliate us! I’m going to cut you into a million pieces so that my anger may be vented!”

Meng Lei rose into the air and shot toward him. Klaus, Nadja, Seisia, and Bubbles followed closely behind him.

“Bubbles, you traitor! To think you’ve willingly become his servant!”

Thackeray glowered at Bubbles, his eyes spitting flames of fury.

“Thackeray, I am a willing servant to my great Master!”

Bubbles said, “You, on the other hand, didn’t seize the opportunity that Master had given you, so I’m afraid you’re probably going to be wiped out together with the rest of your Golden Dragon-Lion clansmen today!”

“Wiped out? Hahaha!”

Thackeray sneered, “With Grandmaster here, I will never die. The Golden Dragon-Lions won’t be wiped out, either. You’re the ones who are going to die!”

“Grandmaster?”

Meng Lei, Bubbles, and the others couldn’t help but turn to the gigantic Ram-Lion. In truth, they’d already sensed an extremely fearsome aura the moment they had stepped onto the Golden Dragon-Lion Continent.

It was evil, vicious, and bloodthirsty!

At that point, they’d already realized that a terrifying existence had surfaced among the Golden Dragon-Lions.

However, because they had to exterminate the Golden Dragon-Lions’ underlings, they had arrived a little late.

“What a terrifying aura!”

“Is it even a half-deity?”

“Judging from this… It’s probably the Ram-Lions from the Demon Realm!”

“The Ram-Lions?”

“They are a kind of intermediate Devil in the Demon Realm. They have extremely terrifying numbers and are also a main battle force of the Demon Realm’s Devil troops. Even the weakest among them is a Saint Domain!”

“I see!”

Everyone nodded in understanding. Their eyes, as they gazed at the gigantic Ram-Lion, were filled with graveness.

Someone from a race where even the weakest possessed Saint Domain-level strength would definitely possess a fearsome level of strength. They had to take utmost care when facing it.

Thackeray said respectfully, “Grandmaster, those are the knaves that intend to annihilate the Golden Dragon-Lions! I hope the Grandmaster can take pity on us and save the clan from imminent calamity!”

“Don’t worry! All of you are my descendants. I will protect all of you!”

The gigantic Ram-Lion nodded slightly. Then, its blood-red eyes fell on Meng Lei and company. “All of you deserve a thousand deaths for actually vainly attempting to hurt my descendants!”

“Your descendants?” Meng Lei broke into a slight frown. “How have the Golden Dragon-Lions become your descendants when you’re a Ram-Lion from the Demon Realm?”

“Meng Lei, you knave, now that things have come to this point, I don’t fear telling you this!”

Thackeray said icily, “We, the Golden Dragon-Lions, are descendants that the Grandmaster left behind when he was traveling in Heaven’s Vault Continent 80,000 years ago! Within our veins flow the pure and noble blood of the Grandmaster!”

“I see…”

Meng Lei nodded slowly. “No wonder the Golden Dragon-Lions are so cruel. So you’re a Devil’s offspring. Since that’s the case, then it’s just as well that I stamp all of you out at the same time!”