Chapter 127: The Birth of the Leviathan
"You, you..."
After crawling out of the game pod, Xu Luo heard a voice from beside him.
Someone was already standing there, facing him but unable to speak.
"It's okay, you don't need to thank me!" Xu Luo smiled at him.
This almost made the other person choke with anger.
How could this person act as if he had helped him?
However, the two quickly left the scene. The current competition no longer had anything to do with them.
Xu Luo glanced at the two people who were searching everywhere for others and shook his head.
These two weren't close to where he had been earlier, so it was no wonder he hadn't seen them then.
But now it was interesting.
Only the two of them were left, and they happened to be together now.
The school wouldn't let them keep searching like this.
Once they knew, or guessed that only the two of them were left, it would be interesting.
Not caring who won or lost between the remaining two, Xu Luo was about to leave when he saw Zhong Tianyue waving at him from the other side.
Although he didn't understand why, he still walked over.
"Xu Luo, come here. This is Principal Dongfang," Zhong Tianyue introduced with a smile.
"A truly wealthy person!"
"Old Zhong, how can you be like this!" Hearing Zhong Tianyue's teasing, Dongfang Cheng shook his head helplessly.
"Xu Luo, you're very good. Keep up the good work."
"Thank you for your praise, Principal Dongfang." Xu Luo greeted neither humbly nor arrogantly.
"Dongfang, tell me, calling him over isn't just for a simple introduction, right?" Zhong Tianyue was also puzzled.
Dongfang Cheng had just asked him to call Xu Luo over, but he didn't know the specifics.
"I called you over to give you something, an opportunity!" Dongfang Cheng's expression was solemn.
"This opportunity isn't something everyone at No. 1 High School can get. Previously, you weren't qualified to enter. I just took a shortcut, using this assessment to give you a simple choice. Fortunately, your choice didn't disappoint me."
"Dongfang..." Realizing what Dongfang Cheng was about to do, Zhong Tianyue was surprised.
"You're so generous?"
"You think I'm as stingy as you?" Dongfang Cheng glared at him.
"Xu Luo, you've passed the main brain's lawful neutral alignment judgment. After this competition ends, come to No. 1 High School for special training. At that time, you'll receive formal personal cultivation guidance, and I'll send you to a plane world. What you gain there will depend entirely on you."
"Xu Luo, quickly thank Dongfang. He's really bleeding here!" Zhong Tianyue finally understood. He now knew why there was a sudden test earlier, even knowing that the choice made at that time might not be from one's true heart. Why did they still do it?
Now he finally knew. This old guy was blatantly cheating, helping Xu Luo confuse the main brain to pass the lawful alignment judgment, so he could enter that special plane world of No. 1 High School.
"That's a treasure of No. 1 High School, something we don't have at No. 6 High School!"
He was hinting to Xu Luo between the lines that they were on the same side, not to be fooled by others' sugar-coated bullets.
"Thank you, Principal Dongfang!" Although Xu Luo didn't know what these two were talking about, the fact that it could cause such a big reaction from Zhong Tianyue meant it must be something good. Even causing Dongfang Cheng to use some tricks, Xu Luo was really curious.
"A petty person judges a gentleman's heart by his own standards!" Dongfang Cheng looked at Zhong Tianyue dissatisfied, but didn't say anything about Xu Luo joining No. 1 High School.
Giving that opportunity to Xu Luo was just because he felt this was promising material, and also hoped he could achieve good results representing Tianhai. When that time came, the entire Tianhai would benefit, and their No. 1 High School would also benefit.
Xu Luo didn't know exactly what it was in the end.
However, he learned that some plane worlds had certain requirements for entry.
Some had strength requirements, some had age requirements, some had race and gender requirements, and some even had direct personality tendency requirements.
Gods had alignments, divided by power attributes and so on.
And human personalities also had tendencies.
Lawful Good, Lawful Neutral, Lawful Evil, Neutral Good, True Neutral, Neutral Evil, Chaotic Good, Chaotic Neutral, Chaotic Evil!
These were the current nine major divisions.
Previously, Xu Luo's personality judgment wasn't Lawful Neutral at all, so Dongfang Cheng used some tricks to confuse the main brain's judgment, making him become Lawful Neutral. This was just in the judgment, but it wouldn't change the person's actual personality.
The so-called reward could only be obtained after the competition was over. At this time, Xu Luo didn't care much about it. After returning home, he continued to deal with matters in his Divine Domain.
The competition proceeded in an orderly manner. On the day of determining the top ten, Xu Luo, sitting in the audience, heard a prompt and his body shook.
After saying goodbye to the guidance counselor, Xu Luo went straight home and entered the game pod at the fastest speed.
[The evolution progress of "Leviathan" you're following has reached 100%!]
This was what made Xu Luo happiest.
After waiting for so long, he finally waited for this day.
Consuming a large number of evolution points and faith power, the effort finally paid off.
He immediately clicked to view the information.
Leviathan: Gold-Tier 9 Monarch.
Talents: Multiple Attacks, Stealth Detection, Air Denial, Shape Transformation, Void Roaming, Spell Shield!
Skills: Particle Breath, Flying Dragon Charge, Ancient God Power, Chaos Devour, Enhanced Spellcasting...
Seeing the Leviathan's attributes, Xu Luo was very happy. Without hesitation, he chose to hatch the Leviathan.
[Leviathan hatching requires 1.2 billion faith power, 1 billion evolution points. Confirm?]
It actually required 1.2 billion. Even Vivi only needed 500 million.
Xu Luo was amazed, but he still agreed.
During this time, he had accumulated quite a few evolution points and faith power.
The Mayflies not only collected from his own Divine Domain, but also didn't spare any enemy unit corpses when going out to battle.
The Leviathan's hatching time wasn't short. Xu Luo's current accumulation was only enough for three Leviathans.
As for the initial idea of building a Leviathan army, that was impossible now.
He still needed to continue accumulating. Only after possessing a large amount of faith power would he have this ability.
However, with the Leviathan, Xu Luo could finally do one thing.
Previously, he had taken in quite a few underlings, providing "protection" himself. Now it was time for those people to pay him service fees.
Before, he wanted to collect protection fees, but it might not have been so smooth. But now with the Leviathan, he finally had the confidence to collect protection fees.
Thinking of it, he did it. Xu Luo directly dispatched them to collect protection fees after the Leviathans hatched.
He collected directly in order of their numbers.
First, he sent emails. For those who paid, fine. For those who didn't, he directly located them and teleported the Leviathans over.
The teleportation fee was paid by the other party.
A Gold-Tier 9 Monarch was invincible when there were no legendaries.
Even peak Demi-God avatars were only at this level.
Collecting one by one, starting from No. 1 Bukadu, they all paid in full obediently.
Until No. 11, an unexpected situation occurred.
The email Xu Luo sent sank like a stone, with no response from the other party.
No resistance, but also no honest payment of protection fees.
"Perfect!" Xu Luo smiled lightly. With the Leviathan's birth, he was just worried about not finding a target to establish authority. Now there was an uncooperative one, just right to make a move. Afterward, he could send the battle video to other members to watch, letting them know the consequences of disobedience.
Thinking this, Xu Luo located the position through the other party's Divine Domain core aura, then directly constructed a transmission channel.
The three Leviathans transformed into the appearance of flying dragons, with wingspans of over ten meters and huge bodies. Just crouching there gave people a very strong sense of pressure.
Entering No. 11's Divine Domain, Xu Luo saw large areas of broken land, with wounds from battles everywhere.
And throughout the Divine Domain, various battle cries could be heard.
Xu Luo didn't expect that No. 11's lack of response was because he had been invaded by others.
Without much thought, he directly commanded the Leviathans to attack.
This was his own underling, private property. He could bully and plunder, but what were others coming to do?
This was snatching food from the tiger's mouth!
When the other side saw the transmission light pillar appear, they initially thought it was their own allies, but seeing it was flying dragons, the troops showed some panic.
"Could it be that he got reinforcements?"
"What are you afraid of? We used the God-prohibiting Stone. He can't contact the outside world. Where would reinforcements come from?"
Although curious, these invaders just wanted to quickly destroy the Divine Domain of the guy who wanted to enslave them.
This time they had finally found an opportunity. When that guy was collecting protection fees, it allowed them to contact each other and know the location of his Divine Domain. If they missed this chance, fighting one by one, they naturally wouldn't be a match.
Seeing three flying dragons appear, they only thought they were new invaders who happened to encounter them.
As for the Divine Domain master, that is, No. 11 in Xu Luo's words, when he first saw the flying dragons appear, his face was full of despair. With the opponent getting strong reinforcements, he thought his Divine Domain would surely be destroyed.
But after sensing that familiar aura, he understood that this was that big shot coming to collect protection fees.
He wasn't unhappy, but rather felt pleasantly surprised. If not for this, he would have been in trouble this time.
Now, there was still a glimmer of hope.
Previously, those underlings he had collected joined forces and used a God-prohibiting Stone, preventing him from seeking help from the outside world. Now that the big shot had come, he naturally knew what had happened.
Three flying dragons were a bit weak, but they could temporarily hold them off. When the big shot's main force arrived, wouldn't it be easy to deal with them?
"Boss, help me quickly! Those guys rebelled. I understand the rules. I'll pay all the appearance fees and losses!"
Not feeling frustrated about being forcibly protected, wasn't this what he needed now?
Seeing him so cooperative, Xu Luo directly let the Leviathans take action.
He also wanted to see how strong they were.
"Roar!"
The Leviathans transformed into flying dragon form let out a roar like flying dragons.
Flying in mid-air, they continuously spat particle beams towards the ground. Wherever they passed, corpses were strewn everywhere.
To others, it seemed that these flying dragons' breath was unusually strong.
Ordinary flying dragons were just Silver-tier, with a few Silver-tier 9. Although they were elites, that was about it. Only a small portion could have their bloodline return to ancestral form and become Gold-tier.
They didn't know these were Leviathans, even more terrifying than giant dragons.
Possessing the characteristics of xenomorphs transformed from facehuggers, and also fusing the genes of several top-tier creatures, eliminating their defects, made the current Leviathans very terrifying.
They looked like flying dragons, but the particle breath they spat out was a solid Gold-Tier Monarch attack.
Those invaders misjudged, thinking they were just ordinary flying dragons, and ended up in big trouble.
Their attacks weren't weak, but when they all hit the Leviathans, they were absorbed and then returned to them doubled, causing even greater power.
The three Leviathans flew in mid-air like giant dragons, destroying everywhere. The particle breath like dragon's breath caused even more creatures to perish.
"What kind of unit is this?"
No. 11 was very shocked. Flying dragons definitely weren't this terrifying; he had seen them before.
And now these three looked like flying dragons, but their strength had definitely reached the Gold tier.
That person was indeed powerful!
It was because he couldn't beat them that he reluctantly accepted that person's "protection"!
At first, he thought it was just a one-sided demand, giving himself an extra expense for no reason. But now he didn't expect to need the protection first.
It seemed having a powerful expert covering for oneself was also a good choice.
Usually paying a certain protection fee, when needed, he could ask the other party to take action.
Compared to his own losses, asking someone to act and paying the appearance fee himself was the most cost-effective.
It preserved his own strength and also protected his Divine Domain.
If the Divine Domain was gone, what use was there in earning more?
At first, of course, he wasn't reconciled to being extorted like this. He had some small thoughts in his heart. In the future, when his strength was stronger, or he found several powerful experts, when the other party came, he would destroy the other party's Divine Domain and snatch back his Divine Domain core aura.
But now it seemed fortunate he didn't do that, otherwise there would be no one to save him now.
Moreover, the other party's strength was so powerful. Just three flying dragons were so formidable. If he had resisted, he feared his Divine Domain would no longer exist now.
The allied forces that gave No. 11 a headache were like paper in front of the Leviathans, with no decent resistance, easily killed through.
Gold-Tier Monarchs against Silver-tier was already overwhelming, not to mention they were Gold-Tier 9. More importantly, there were three of them.
The battle didn't last long. The invading army was quickly killed by the three Leviathans. The other side cut off the connection, but the Divine Domain core aura was in No. 11's hands, so they couldn't escape even if they wanted to.
It must be said that No. 11 was also formidable, actually "protecting" more than ten underlings. Unfortunately, what he didn't expect was that originally wanting to gather people to collect protection fees together gave them an opportunity to join forces.
Because the other party had a trace of Divine Domain core aura in his hands, they could reversely locate his Divine Domain, thus leading to this scene.
If Xu Luo hadn't come to collect protection fees just in time, he would have been directly defeated.