Lord Evolution: Starting With SS-rank Skills

DING! [ Your pet has had a major breakthrough ]

[ Your pet has reached Advanced Realm ]

[ Fireball Lv 3 ----> Fireball Lv 4, cooldown time has reduced to 3 seconds and skill strength has been boosted ]

[ Flame Synchronization Lv 1 ----> Flame Synchronization Lv 2, effect has been boosted by 300% ]

[ Your pet has unlocked a new skill: Fire Disk ]

[Fire Disk: Your pet can toss out thin disks of concentrated flame, which can essentially cut through every object! COOLDOWN: 10 seconds ]

A series of notifications popped up in front of Rowan, causing him to smile as he studied all of them. The improvement of the previous skills was good enough, but the addition of a new offensive skill made Rowan's smile widen. The cooldown time was also very impressive for a newly unlocked skill.

Blaze was standing not too far away from him, looking at Rowan with a proud expression on his face as the vigorous flame aura around him radiated even more. Its eyes now revealed a level of profound brilliance, and its muscles seemed to have undergone a series of strengthening, giving it a tougher and somewhat bigger physique than before the breakthrough.

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"Blaze, use Fire Disk," Rowan instructed with a smile.

Blaze was eager to test out its new skill, so it didn't hesitate and immediately used Fire Disk.

Blaze's body tensed as flames gathered at his paws, forming into a thin, glowing disk. With a sharp flick of his head, he launched it forward. The fire disk flew through the air at high speed, cutting through a nearby goblin corpse easily. The sound of splitting flesh and the sizzling sound of organs being burnt resounded.

Blaze did not stop after the first one and shot out a few more fire disks, sending some towards the big trees a few meters away from them. The flame disks also cut through the trees easily, making Rowan realize yet another importance of the skill, aside from combat.

"Great!" Rowan muttered happily.

"Can you burn these corpses now?" Rowan asked Blaze with a smile.

Nevertheless, before Blaze could respond, a voice answered from afar, "Wait!"

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A few hours before dawn.

In the dark forest, after Vishirk told Dragun about the white-haired dark mages who slaughtered his schoolmate, Dragun's expression and aura became really negative.

Vishirk was sort of confused why Dragun was acting in such a way after hearing about the killer of his schoolmates; he even wondered if Dragun knew them or was he just being extremely sympathetic about it? But he did not bother to distract Dragun as he didn't really understand his character completely.

On the other hand, Dragun found a small stone boulder and sat on it to ponder with a deep frown on his face.

He had been pondering for a few hours now, recalling several uncanny moments that he had been trying his best to hide for a long time, since he managed to escape their grasp on his life.

He knew just how much darkness and destruction those two could bring on any territory they arrived at.

Now that Dragun thought about it, the monster attack on Winterseed II might not be a coincidence after all.

'It is definitely the handiwork of Xandros! That psycho bastard!' Dragun gritted his teeth.

'I need to leave this forest ASAP since they might still be within it. They can never think of finding me in a small village like Winterseed,' he thought to himself and stood up from the boulder.

"Senior," Vishirk immediately moved close when he saw him standing up.

"Come with me, Vishirk," Dragun said to Vishirk without looking at him as he began making his way down to the village.

Vishirk was happy and followed Dragun without uttering a single word.

Both of them strolled through the bushy part of the forest in silence.

Vishirk's eyes darted across the area from time to time in search of herbs. He saw a nice herb and was about to go pick it up when Dragun gave him a cold glare, "Do not pick any herb in my territory."

"Okay, senior," Vishirk nodded and picked up his pace, although he was pretty disheartened he couldn't pick more herbs.

After a few hours of strolling, the darkness in the sky began to clear up, and the pale morning sun glowed down on the earth, illuminating their path as they reached the exit of the forest.

After a few more steps, they finally made their way out.

Dragun halted for a minute as he noticed so many footsteps on the ground, coming from different entrances of the forest and trailing down to the village. As a wanderer, he instantly knew it was goblins!

He immediately understood that a horde of goblins had befallen the village.

'Have they arrived at the village yet? Did the villagers run away and survive? What about Rowan and Riela? Damnit! Why wasn't I around to rescue them,' Dragun's eyes became active as he started making his way down to the village.

Vishirk had questions about the numerous trails as well, but he did not stay back and rushed after Dragun.

Both of them crossed the last bush and were greeted with another shocking scene.

"Such a large corpse hill!" Vishirk was amazed by the scene.

Far away from them and not too far away from the village, the hill of goblin corpses that Rowan and his soldiers had made immediately drew the attention of Dragun and Vishirk.

Vishirk was pretty amazed by the scene, finding it cool, but on the other hand, Dragun was confused—how were the soldiers able to slay so many powerful goblins? he asked himself.

Both of them began making their way towards it.

As they got closer, Dragun noticed the gigantic corpses of hobgoblins among the numerous goblin corpses. He also noticed that the smallest goblins were far stronger and wiser than the ordinary goblin, which made him question even more how the soldiers were able to kill them.

'Even I will find it difficult to kill such a large amount of them at the same time,' Dragun frowned.

Dragun soon began to hear voices behind the hill and hurried up to find who the speaker was.

As he got closer to finding out who the speaker was, a very thin and fast-moving disk of fire suddenly flew past and cut down a small tree nearby, shocking both of them.

Dragun suspected it was an intruder at first until he got closer and saw Rowan speaking with his pet.

"Blaze, burn it down now," Rowan said to Blaze.

'Wait, he is going to burn everything and all the monster cores would go to waste!' Realizing this, Dragun ran out and shouted, "Wait!" to stop them from burning the corpses.