Start With Contracting Sprites

In front of the Sky Lake.

"Neighhh ~ Neighhh ~!"

The Dumb Unicorn let out a domineering cry. In an instant, thousands of waves rose on the surface of the water, forming a water wall. After staying still for a few seconds, the water wall suddenly exploded. Countless fish and a few water-element sprites flew out from it and ran away in panic.

Fish were carried by the water and flew hundreds of meters away, sprinkling down from above like dense raindrops.

It fell into the huge, still water balls on the shore.

Thud! Thud!

The fish flew into the water and were trapped in the water prison. The few people who had long prepared beside the water balls sprayed out large nets to cover the huge balls of water and pulled forcefully.

The lively fish were caught.

Seeing that today's ingredients were set, and perhaps that was even some extra, Su Hao got the Dumb Unicorn to throw two huge water balls back and let some fish live. Then, he instructed,

"Continue your training. After that, enrich your battle methods according to the arrangements I made yesterday."

After giving instructions to the Dumb Unicorn, Su Hao found the Big Fat Bear again.

At this moment, the Big Fat Bear was also by the lake. Stepping on the frozen water, it suddenly bent down and slapped the water surface with its paws…

Sizzle—

Dense electric arcs spread out, forming a huge electric net. Countless waves exploded, and the countless fish that had just been released were blown out again and landed on the shore.

But now, the fish couldn't jump around anymore.

Su Hao stopped and checked for a moment. "Yes, not bad. Continue."

By the lake on the horizon, after Su Hao gave a few sprites some pointers, he laid on a rocking chair woven from vines.

Making plans for the future…

Earning money, writing research papers, cultivating Butterfly and the others into monarch rank, contracting sprites with affinity for the eyes…

Things weren't urgent. Now that he had the ability to protect himself, he felt…

extremely relaxed.

The lake breeze blew, as Su Hao enjoyed the rare peace.

...

White Cloud City, somewhere.

A hover car without tires flew at waist-height.

The hover car was a completely new type of spiritual energy technology. It didn't consume oil or electricity, but spiritual jades. It was also developed based on the earth-element Gravity unique skill and wind-element unique skill Wind Ride.

At the moment, the technology was still at a stage where there were very few of these hover cars. Each one was extremely expensive and had high energy consumption. There weren't many hover cars to be found in the entire Dragon Nation.

But in a New World with complicated terrain and no roads, the hover car was more useful than other ordinary cars… Its speed was also comparable to the speed of an elite Limit Ground Wolf running at full speed.

At this moment, six people were sitting in the seven-seater hover car. All of them were dressed in black clothes, wearing either black suits with black trousers or black short skirts.

A few of them were fully armed, equipped with slanted firearms and tactical helmets.

Making them look very much like… a couple of underlings.

But they all had one thing in common, they were all wearing a pendant. One of them had a pendant with Black Spade K imprinted on it, while another had a Red Spade Q pendant. The rest wore pendants with the numbers 6, 7, 8, and 9, with either a red or black spade.

"Boss, we're only 50 kilometers away from our destination."

"Oh, are we almost there? I think I see bank notes waving," the curly-haired man in the suit said as he hung his hand outside the window.

A certain underling asked, "Boss, what if we still can't find the machine?"

"Then we'll go back and beat up the person who provided the information. More than once!"

In a flash, a lofty and continuous mountain range appeared in their vision.

In another half-hour or so, the car had already driven halfway up the mountain. The curly-haired man in the suit ordered his subordinate to stop the car. "Let's do it here. This car is worth a lot so we shouldn't go too far."

He looked at a woman among the six. "Q, take them and get the machine."

"What about you?" The woman with the code name of Red Spade Q asked.

"Me?" The suited man looked into the distance. "My baby told me that someone bothersome is coming… We'll meet in half an hour."

The woman summoned her sprite and went up the mountain with the other three.

The remaining person drove the hover car away.

...

At the peak of the nameless mountain, by the lake at the horizon.

The machine developed by Old Qian's team was still continuing to extract water from the Sky Lake, purifying it and extracting bottles of frozen water after purification.

It was also taking samples for research… There were corresponding research facilities in the silver-white building.

The other three ordinary guards still carried out their duties. Every day, they ordered their sprites to patrol the surroundings and chase away the invading wild sprites.

There was no need for the Dazed Crow and the others to make a move. After all, this area was a relatively safe area to begin with, which was why the research station was built here. The Six-Eyed Flying Fish that day only made a fuss because it was disturbed by the aura of the Dumb Unicorn. Usually, very few water-element sprites appeared in the Sky Lake.

The whole scene was harmonious…

Boom~!

An explosion came from the foot of the mountain. The people in the building ran out one after another. "What happened, what happened?"

"Some sprites are fighting, wait, not just sprites… humans, Sprite Trainers are fighting!"

An elite Sprite Trainer shouted.

Su Hao immediately sent out Dazed Crow to scout, and used "Sprite Commandeering: Visual Sharing" to ensure that it remained discreet.

He saw a few men in black riding sprites and had already arrived at the top of the mountain.

The sprites didn't talk much, but they were ruthless. The group of sprites immediately attacked, especially the Fairy Snail…

Waves of water turned into blades, slashing out continuously.

In just an instant, before many of them could even react, several elite-level sprites were already heavily injured and had lost their battle power.

The Dazed Crow and the other sprites were all at the lake so they couldn't get to the scene in time to help out.

Well, even Su Hao had to admit that his attention was a little scattered due to the ongoing battle below.

"That's the Union's arrest team!" Someone identified one of the parties fighting halfway up the mountain.

Su Hao continued to let the Dazed Crow observe the situation. "Isn't that… the department in charge of arresting major wanted criminals?"

Within the Union, apart from the Association of Sprite Trainers and the Association of Sprite Cultivators of the various countries, there were also several important departments.

The Crime Bureau was one of them.

Su Hao knew quite a lot about this. The Crime Bureau was an "Internal Affairs" department. The duties of the arrest team and arrest officers were somewhat similar to the students of Sprite Universities.

They were all arresting wanted criminals and dealing with terrorist organizations.

The difference was that the wanted criminals the students dealt with were mostly small fry, while the Crime Bureau specialized in capturing the big fish… especially the ones of an international scale.

But who were those men in black?

"It's, it's the Poker Bandits!" said the young Sprite Cultivator Yi.

Su Hao was still puzzled. "The Poker Bandits?"

"You actually don't know?" Yi was surprised. "The Poker Bandits are a group that got on the Union's wanted list and committed countless crimes…"

As Su Hao and Yi spoke, the people at the front lines were continuously forced to retreat.

The Poker Bandits approached step by step with a group of "fierce" sprites.

The woman in black, who was surrounded by the others in the middle, brushed her long curly hair. "Since you know about the Poker Bandits, then obediently hand over the frozen water purifying machine and the corresponding technology."

"We don't know what machine you're talking about!" Mr. Yi blurted out, but his eyes involuntarily glanced at the machine by the lake.

The woman in black immediately discovered it. She chuckled and pressed forward step by step.

"Are you going to hand it over yourselves, or…"

Her words weren't fierce, but rather charming. However, Yi and the others didn't dare to relax. Their bodies had already tensed up.

An elite Sprite Trainer shouted, "The Union's arrest team has already arrived, it's not too late for you to escape now!"

"A mere arrest team?"

Her expression was disdainful. At this moment, apart from Su Hao, the other two Sprite Trainers who were using "visual sharing" to connect to the flying sprites were also able to see everything.

Halfway up the mountain, the arrest team of five men and ten sprites had been defeated by the violent attacks of the black-clothed gang and their sprites.

The powerful sprite owned by the leader of the arrest team should have been an extraordinary sprite. However, even such a sprite slowly lost its advantage after being bombarded by the broadsword attacks of the Golden-Armored Overlord of the black clothed gang.

The arrest team was no match!

Then what should they do?

Many people turned to look at Su Hao.

Old Mr. Qian suddenly said, "You can have the machine and the technology, but you have to promise not to hurt anyone!"