Class 2 Dire beast.

Class 2 Dire beast.

Opening his eyes Jim found himself exactly where he met the fire cats.

Looking around he couldn't find the tunnel that led him to the underground secret passage. 'Maybe I was just hallucinating, but it sure did look real'.

He wanted to think more about the matter, but it seemed like time wasn't on his side this time.

"Help! Help!"

Ling Jim suddenly heard a distressed voice calling for help.

Following the voice, he ran over and witnessed something terrifying.

A python as thick as the thigh of an adult with patterns on its skin was wrapping itself around a teenager.

The teenager was trying to fight back frantically and calling out for help. However, the python was too strong for him, and his struggle was futile.

As the python squeezed tighter, the teenager's voice became weaker, and the bones inside his body crackled.

"Help-Help me!"

The teenager spotted Ling Jim. Knowing that Ling Jim was his last hope, he screamed at the top of his lungs.

Ling Jim knew that he could not let the kid die. They could compete with and rob each other of their harvest later, but watching the other die without lending a helping hand was a no-no. It would reflect badly on a person's character and be detrimental to a person's career development.

Seemingly almost instantly making his decision, Ling Jim ran forward, which to his surprise felt like 2x his normal running speed.

"Eat this!"

Ling Jim raised his hand, and the rocks formed a stone hammer in his hand. He wielded the colossal hammer and smashed down the python's head.

Dush! Dush! Dush! Dush!

Repeated blows smashed the python's head, forcing it to gradually ease up its squeeze, and the teenager escaped.

"Thank you so much for saving me!"

The teenager looked at the python with its smashed head. "I would have died if it weren't for you!"

"You're welcome. Just be careful next time!" Ling Jim reminded the teenager, patting him on the shoulder.

He suddenly froze. The moment he lay his hand on the teenager, a few lines of text appeared in his vision.

Name: Fu Changa

Race: Human

Special ability: Gravity Manipulation (Awakened, replicable)

'Gravity Manipulation? This chap's special ability is gravity manipulation! Holy moly, this is a terrific special ability! Not to mention, it complements my Earth-element Arcana well!'

Ling Jim could not have been more excited.

He had replicated Earth Manipulation, Shadowing, and other special abilities over the past six months.

Except for Earth Manipulation, he could not use Shadowing and the other special abilities on a whim. He was worried that others might find out and associate them with his special ability of replication.

However, it was a different story with Gravity Arcana. He was not afraid of being found out because it belonged to the Earth-element Arcana.

In fact, many Earth-element Arcanists would naturally acquire the Gravity Arcana once they reached the pinnacle of the Earth-element Arcana.

'I am of the Earth-element Arcana. Even if I demonstrate the Gravity Arcana, no one is going to suspect me of my replication ability but think that it's just a natural ability that comes with the Earth-element Arcana'.

With that thought in mind, Ling Jim quietly replicated Fu Changa's Gravity Arcana. After some pleasantries, he left.

He wanted to find a relatively inconspicuous and safe place to assimilate the Gravity Arcana so that he would have one more ability up his sleeve.

What came in abundance in the county city were shops and residential buildings. Ling Jim quickly found a safe and inconspicuous place.

Half an hour later, Ling Jim was back on the street, resuming his hunt for the Dire beasts as if nothing had happened before.

There were many Dire beasts hiding around the place, but most of them were Class 1 Dire beasts.

With Ling Jim's current strength, those Class-1 Dire beasts were no match for him. He killed a dozen Dire beasts along the way.

"Kajiado Zoo!"

Ling Jim ended up in front of a zoo. Hearing a heated fight, he followed the sound and arrived to see a group of people attacking a giant alligator-type Dire beast.

The ten-meter-long alligator-type Dire beast looked like a van.

Lumpy and hard scales covered its back, and one-meter-long spikes grew on both sides of its ribs. The Dire beast appeared extremely hideous.

"It's an Iron spike Gator, a Class 2 Dire beast!"

Ling Jim immediately recognized the alligator. "These guys have guts! Aren't they afraid of that Class 2 Dire beast?"

As Ling Jim pondered about it, he looked at those who were attacking the Iron spike Gator. It startled him to see Li Kai among them.

"Why is Li mingling with these people?" Ling Jim furrowed his brows.

Li Kai aside, the other guys looked older. One was even a middle-aged man. If he was not mistaken, these people were either the Arcanists who had awakened independently or the rejected from the previous years.

Li Kai was with them?

"Come on, guys! This beast is getting weaker now!" a young man dressed in a sports suit shouted as he leveled up his attack.

He was a Fire-element Arcanist. His Fire-type abilities looked impressive with a fire spear, fire blade, fireball, and fire bullets at his fingertips. Plus, his range of attack was over three meters.

Apparently, he was a Level 2 Arcanist.