Similar to the size and attractiveness of fleshy mounds, the diameter of the neutral area indicated a Gold King Beasts strength. The greater their strength, the more space they occupied. Inadvertently, that meant greater fleshy mounds.

Hoh, so the uses of fleshy mounds weren’t so limited. Humans are intelligent, indeed. They found a way to express the size of fleshy mounds through this method. Tian Lang thought in all fascination and praise.

He looked at the largest diameter occupied by the Bloody Queen and couldn’t help but salivate.

Luo Hua City Mistress thought this country bumpkin went silly in fear and quickly explained, “Don’t get the wrong idea. Above the Bloody Queen, there was originally a stronger Empress whose area of influence was the biggest on the third floor. It’s just that she had left the third floor and moved to the fourth floor instead. Her daughter ascended as the Bloody Queen. As she had just gone through a variant evolution, her strength and authority are still weaker and smaller compared to others. Even though the space you see is still the largest, it’s barely in their glory. The Bloody Queen is still losing more and more of its territory.” Then it thought Tian Lang might get complacent, so it went into detail, “Although the Bloody Queen’s mother went away, she left two demon commanders who would be difficult to fight with. One of them is bronze-ranked level 6 Ghost-clawed Rainbow-Winged Banshee, and the other is a bronze-ranked level 7 Blade Massacring Demoness. We must eradicate them both. Furthermore, there are also a few dozen bronze-ranked level 2 Harpies and bronze-ranked level 3 Spider Blade Demoness, which are really troublesome to deal with.”

When Luo Hua City Mistress said this, Tian Lang felt like he was going to faint.

So he missed the bigger fleshy mounds?!

No, he couldn’t think that way. Tian Lang slapped his cheek inwardly and motivated himself. If the Bloody Queen had great strength, won’t he fail to capture it?

He still lacked his fleshy mounds and detailed knowledge about them. The only sad thing was, even though Luo Hua City Mistress taught a lot of stuff regarding Tong Tian Tower, it didn’t teach him any secret of fleshy mounds.

Tian Lang event hinted, saying he wanted to learn some deeper secrets of the human race, but it went on about some legend of Top Rankers.

Anyway, the bronze-ranked level-7 Hydras were too aggressive, and this Bloody Queen’s subordinate was also bronze-ranked level 7 Blade Massacring Demoness. If he refused to get rid of the limitation he placed on himself, he would be seeking his own death.

“Great Luo Hua City Mistress, how about we take a small break? It’s really urgent.” Just as they were about to leave the Ironfist City, Tian Lang suddenly offered.

Luo Hua City Mistress looked at Tian Lang in suspicion, “You didn’t get cold feet now, did you?”

Tian Lang patted his non-existent fleshy mounds and reassured, “How can this country bumpkin get cold feet? Ah, what does getting cold feet mean?”

Luo Hua City Mistress facepalmed and had a guard accompany Tian Lang to the restroom.

Tian Lang immediately summoned his Grimoire. It took him two seconds, without further practice, even he couldn’t shorten the time.

Before he hardly had a look at his Grimoire, now that he carefully observed every part, Tian Lang was more and more amazed.

The cover of the book had a glassy texture to touch. The bronze patterns around the surface weren’t some simple patterns. They were tiny intricate and magical runes.

Feeling good and proud, Tian Lang turned the first page.

However, his expected portrait did not come.

It was an empty purplish page with similar bordered runes.

Tian Lang turned the page once again, and finally, he found what he was searching for, his own portrait.

Heh, as expected of the great Alpha, I just lack the fleshy mounds.

Below it, his status was written: Level 1-Beginner [Apprentice].

Under the “Apprentice” words, there was a simple line of Rank Description.

Apprentice: You are a unique existence of the worlds, although you are weak and lowest of the supreme summoners, you are still venerable.

Tian Lang had braced himself for the harsh words, but the description was totally different from what remembered.

Eh, that’s not right. Tian Lang had braced himself for the harsh words, but the description was totally different from what remembered. Maybe his greatness changed the definition?

Skipping over, the next half page described his Inherent Skill. From what Tian Lang knew, everyone had their own unique Inherent Skill. Only a handful of people would have an identical Inherent Skill, but almost everyone’s Inherent Skills were totally different.

If anything that excited Tian Lang most, that would be his [Inherent Skill]. He definitely had something more incredible than Twin Star Innate whatever skill that fake goods had. He was in no way inferior. Hm, maybe he had three inherent skills?

But the moment he saw his inherent skill, Tian Lang was flabbergasted.

It was not because he had three inherent skills or some jealousy-inducing, heaven-shaking inherent skill, but it caused Tian Lang to sweat profusely.

Every [Inherent Skill] is portrayed as a picture below the [Summoner]’s portrait.

Similarly, Tian Lang’s inherent skill was portrayed with a pair of sharp wolf-like eyes without any face. The golden eyes seemed to attract everything around it and also command them.

What Tian Lang drove crazy was the skill’s description.

Alpha: You are arrogant. You are fierce. You are the greatest predator of the hierarchy. You easily influence those around you. You are like the brightest star of the sky, so you get noticed even among millions. Unexpected situations are bound to happen around you. Weak-willed and weaker enemies are prone to bow their heads before you. Your Inherent Skill level is 1.

This... wasn’t this really a useless skill? He was the Alpha even without any inherent skill! What would he do with this redundant, useless skill?

But at least, there was some surprise. Below the Inherent skill, there was another portrait. It was much smaller in size. With a colorful background, this picture had some twinkling stars in them. Besides that, it was empty.

There was a description below it.

Chaotic Sense: You are Evil. You are Holy. You are the amalgam of all chaotic things. You swim on the vast chaotic sea, so you’re immune to all superficial things and sense elements for what they are. Your Innate Ability current level is 2.

This was another skill. However, it wasn’t an [Inherent Skill] but rather [Innate Ability].

Only Grimoire Contractor can have Inherent Skills. On the other hand, Innate Ability is known as an inborn ability. Sometimes also known as Racial Ability.

Meaning one already had such skills or abilities when they were born and can use them similar to their second nature.

Still, Tian Lang couldn’t understand what kind of uses this [Chaotic Sense] had. Though it did sound weird.

Tian Lang’s mood already took a sharp dive. Both the [Inherent Skill] and [Innate Ability] looked like trash. He really wanted to grab this book and slam it against the bathroom.

But not now, he had yet to check his [Guardian Beast]. Who knew, maybe he had a fantastic guardian beast that offset his useless Inherent and Innate abilities?

After all, a guardian beast was important because unless the Master died, a Guardian Beast would never truly die.

Tian Lang turned to the next page and was a bit stumped.

The picture where a beast should be was completely blank. Below, there were a few lines of description. It was the description of his [Guardian Beast].

Origin Slime:

Special-type, level 1, Non-living Entity.

Contract: Grimoire–Guardian Beast

Can follow simple instructions.

This... What was his Guardian Beast anyway? An invisible beast? That sounded pretty interesting but not anything eye-catching or powerful he had been expecting for.

Curious, he slowly put his hands on the [Origin Slime] picture as a golden light began to glow underneath his fingers.

An almost transparent, slightly cloudy, and bluish melon-sized ball popped up. Tian Lang hurriedly caught it and instantly–

–all his growing frustrations and anger faded away.

A feeling of calmness washed over Tian Lang. He loved his Grimoire so much that he kissed it again and again.

So this is where my fleshy mound was hiding...!

Tian Lang squeezed the slime. The heavenly feeling surpassed anything. Yes, he finally got his very own fleshy mounds! To think his fleshy mound was his guardian beasts, humans really led him by the nose!

What Ivy Academy? What human knowledge? They could go to hell.

Weird though, why was there only one? Suddenly he remembered the description. So he instructed his fleshy mound to become two.

The slime followed his instruction.

Awesome! Unlike humans, my fleshy mounds can follow my instruction! Tian Lang rejoiced at his superiority.

The process was incredibly slow as it took around a minute. And they weren’t totally separate either. A thin line connected the two.

Even though it was a bit troubling, Tian Lang didn’t mind. He took off his shirt and placed the fleshy mounds on his chest!

He almost felt himself glowing.

Tian Lang squeezed his new-found fleshy mounds, but this... didn’t this seem a little small compared to his strength?

He let one of his fleshy mounds go, and it fell down.

Profound realization dawned upon the Chaotic Being. He just got his fleshy mounds. They had yet to become one with him.

He readily commanded them to merge with him, “Equip!”

...

...as expected, nothing happened.

He then went through many other forms of instructions, such as: “Mix.” “Mix with my flesh.” “Merge!” “Nono, don’t merge, become two again.” “Just stuck with me, please!”

Defeated, Tian Lang fell down to his knees. What secret was there to merge his fleshy mounds?!

Anyway, he couldn’t just have his fleshy mounds and not use them. So following his instructions, two threads separated from the mounds and connected his back. Since Tian Lang gave his command, the mounds would remain stuck without any problem.

Finally, after half an hour, Tian Lang opened the door of the restroom.

“Ahh!” Only to freak out when a face glared at him from outside.

Luo Hua City Mistress stood there with hands on its waist and an angry pout on its lips, “Are you trying to bore me to death?”

“Eh? When did I attack you with bore-something?” Tian Lang couldn’t make out any heads and tails of its anger.

“Ah, come with me quickly. We are already late. I know you are interested in checking out your [Inherent Skill] and [Guardian Beast] but didn’t I tell you demons are also targeting the Bloody Queen?” Luo Hua City Mistress sounded a bit begrudging. It let Tian Lang go because knowing his inherent skill might help them but who knew, he would take half an hour.

“How did you know?” Tian Lang was surprised. He couldn’t believe he was seen so easily.

Luo Hua City Mistress snorted, “Hmph, which person did you see go to the restroom for more than half-an-hour? That too when it was an emergency! So what Inherent Skill do you have, tell me, tell me!”

So that’s how it is. Tian Lang took the profound knowledge and shoo-ed the human away but still followed it. “Shh-shh.”

“By the way, I was meaning to ask, what’s that in your chest?”

When Luo Hua City Mistress finally asked what Tian Lang wanted to hear, he immediately raised his chest to the max and walked with his chin facing straight.

“Pfft, hahaha...” Luo Hua City Mistress laughed so hard that it had tears flowing out of its eyes, “I didn’t think you perverted country bumpkin had this kind of bad humor in you! But you should laugh a bit more, you know. You might forget to use your expressions.”

Tian Lang became angry. How dare this human insult his fleshy mounds?! Sure his mounds weren’t that great and still not connected, they were still better than before, ok?

Anyway, what this human said about expression did falter him. He had also noticed this for some time now. Even though he was happy or angry, at most, he could voice them out.

But his face never changed. As if he was disconnected from his face.

Since this human helped him so much, he decided to get a little more help, “How do I make an expression?”

Luo Hua City Mistress paused and gave Tian Lang a dumb look, “You really...”

Luo Hua City Mistress didn’t finish its words. It kept teasing Tian Lang on their way, pulling his cheek and irritating him, all the while not forgetting to keep him motivated with the gold-ranked beast so that he wouldn’t give up so easily. The two of them passed through mountains and rivers, walking for more than two hours, before finally arriving near the domain of the Bloody Queen, the Flying Mountain.