Dragon Master: The SSS-Ranked School Belle Asked Me To Contract Her

Chapter 80 Dark Slates

As the attacks rained down on him, Veer easily dodged them and got back to his usual work. He marked the Scarecrows, recognised the pattern they moved and the blind spot of those patterns.

In this farm, it took him a while to get the blind spot, as for a moment he thought there was no blind spot. After dodging a lightning bolt by an inch, he finally landed in the blind spot.

Veer didn't even bother thinking much, as exhaustion and fatigue took over his mind. His mind demanded rest and sleep, but he fought against it. There was no way he would sleep here.

But he still gave plenty of rest to both his mind and body. For over the next half an hour, he did nothing, and he thought nothing. Simply lying there was peaceful.

All of a sudden, he slapped himself and thought, 'I'll be damned! You just let down your guard for a moment and this mist will do the world.'

He sat up and examined himself again. Everything was fine except for his cheeks. He could have used his healing potions, but he considered otherwise. It wasn't a big wound.

Only if the itching would stop.

"Okay, so I can't use fences, and I also can't just speed run," Veer began talking to himself. "The only thing left is this blind spot. Coming here is important, huh. But why?"

Was this some checkpoint?

He looked down and in the next section, plunged his sword in it. Finding no obstacles, he took out a shovel and began to dig there. There had to be something important in this place which triggered the mechanism.

Unfortunately, he found nothing even after digging more than twenty feet. He had wasted more than an hour just here, but he didn't regret it. At least he won't be curious about this.

Using the rocks protruding from the wall, he came outside and stood at the edge of the hole. He prepared to dive in the farms once again, but there was something playing in his mind.

'What if you stop mining right before the diamond?'

Veer clicked his tongue and jumped back in the hole. After landing, he touched the ground and muttered, "Mana Pulse!"

In the next moment, the ground shattered and his surroundings trembled slightly. This was his only [Area of Effect] spell.

'Wasting mana on this... fuck you Veer,' Veer cursed himself and used his bare hands to push the soil aside. Fortunately, he didn't find many rocks here, which wasn't rare considering this was a farm.

He sighed and was going to take his hands back when he touched something cold. Excited, he instantly took the object out and looked at it.

It was a small, rectangular metal slate, formed from the darkest material. On it, there were two Runes which Veer failed to identify.

"Is this the reason for everything working?" Veer whispered, feeling cold sweeping into his body from the slate. He tested it by sending Mana into it, but he encountered a heavy resistance as if he was pushing against an impenetrable wall.

"Whatever this is, it's going to be helpful," Veer smiled and jumped outside. Still having the slate in his hand, he stepped forward, outside the blind zone.

He was ready to jump but no attacks came. He tried to walk around a bit more but still nothing happened.

"Haha!" Veer laughed out loud as he kissed the metal. "At least I got something."

He picked up his belongings and went to the other farms he had already visited. They must also have this strange slate, and he had a feeling they would be useful later.

Sure enough, he found another rectangular metal slate buried deep beneath the blind spot in other farms. It took him some time, but he was able to gather them all.

Veer was happy, but he didn't let it get over his head. He knew a moment of carelessness could cost him his life. A life which didn't belong to him only.

After collecting a total of Ten Dark Slates, as he called them, Veer had his meal in the tenth farm. It looked no different from the first, which made him question if he had any progress or not. Enjoy new tales from empire

Sighing, he ate his meal in silence. After that, he spent some more time resting as he planned to do a speed run later on. It would be tough but definitely a better choice.

As he looked at the grey, cloudless sky, Veer thought, 'There are no timezones or what.'

The twin moons had not changed at all, despite him spending hours running around. It was as if the world was frozen in time.

"I wonder how others are doing," Veer closed his eyes, hoping for his friends to get out alive.

As Veer was busy escaping the endless farms, in a distant location, a similar scene was unfolding. The difference was, it was an endless desert with sand hills rolling around.

Blazing hot sun loomed over the desert, sucking away every bit of moisture.

Liliana stood on a sand hill, frowning to herself. All of a sudden, her surroundings churned as a massive hand made entirely of sand rose behind her, only to turn into crystal ice a second later.

"Begone!" Liliana muttered, as the hand got blasted into smithereens. Not paying any attention to it, she looked ahead and thought, 'Who would go to such lengths?'

After finding out that the desert was actually a Rune Formation working on space principles, she knew it would take a long time for her to cross it.

"You dare to keep me away from my hubby," Liliana scoffed and raised her hand. With a flick of her fingers, the desert suddenly twisted in itself and began to turn upside down. It was a bizarre scene, but that was the result of messing with such a massive Rune Formation.

After a while, though, the desert returned to normal, endless as ever. Liliana's hand, however, was gone. It was a clear cut from her elbow, as if it never existed to begin with.

Liliana wasn't disappointed; instead, a wide smile formed on her lips as she whispered, "So it's you! And here I was confused why I felt this familiarity."