Green Monster Epic

Chapter 699 Unexpected Loss

“Who exactly is it that could provoke my most beloved disciple to such a great temper?”

Only after Kouer finished venting, and sensing that she was about to leave, did Allen, several kilometers away, take a stride, traverse the not-so-distant distance, and head straight for the devastated snow mountain.

From afar, Allen's curious voice rang out, causing Kouer, who was less vigilant about the surrounding movements due to her outburst, to change her expression instantly and look up cautiously in the direction of Allen's figure.

“Teacher, aren't you in seclusion to study legendary expertise? Why are you in the mood to wander around this snow mountain?”

“You've made such a big commotion, how could I possibly calm down and seclude myself?!”

Allen pointed helplessly at the almost flattened mountaintop and the erupting lava flames.

“Hahahaha~ ~”

Kouer awkwardly tried to cover it up. With her heart just beginning to stir, she was too embarrassed to tell her teacher that the person she had a good impression of had stood her up.

“I'm just too bored every day, so I wanted to find Lord Figlas for a fight, but recently he's been avoiding me, so I thought I'd tear down his home to see if I could force him out!!”

“Is that so??”

Allen was somewhat skeptical.

“It's really like that, Teacher!!”

Kouer nodded repeatedly, feeling guilty.

“Oh, so that's how it is. Since Figlas isn't here, how about I spar with you instead?!”

Allen's eyes were sharp. With Kouer's level of cunning, there was no way she could hide anything from Allen. However, seeing that the girl was indeed in a bad mood, Allen didn't want to continue pressing her and simply offered a suggestion that would excite Kouer.

“Okay!!”

Having vented her emotions earlier, the frustration in Kouer's heart had mostly dissipated. Now, hearing that Allen was taking the initiative to give her a challenge, she immediately transformed into a competitive little warrior, brandishing the black fire greatsword in her hand, eager to try.

“Then come on!!”

The innocent snow mountain suffered another heavy blow. Even though Allen directed the battlefield towards the sky to maintain the overall ecological balance of the Cartor Mountains, the aftermath of the two wilderness powerhouses' battle inevitably caused damage to this mountain range.

… … … …

A demigod versus a legend was basically a crushing difference. After half a day, Kouer dejectedly gave up on continuing to fight. Anyone would feel frustrated if they couldn't inflict any damage on their opponent despite their best efforts, while the opponent was still limiting their power and means and not launching any counterattacks.

“I'm not fighting anymore. The gap between me and Teacher is getting bigger and bigger!!”

She had originally wanted to test her teacher's current strength, but who would have thought that she couldn't even force out her teacher's true combat power? How could Kouer not feel discouraged!

“Giving up so easily?”

Allen looked at his student teasingly. In fact, Allen was very satisfied with her progress in strength. It was just that Allen's own progress was even greater than Kouer's, so it was inevitable that the girl who took chasing after him as her goal would feel frustrated.

“Actually, I can also sense that you are currently in a bottleneck stage, and your strength growth has become slow. In the past, I helped you find what I thought was the right path and helped you make choices, but now that I think about it, what I think is right may not necessarily be suitable for you.”

“So this time, you have to rely on yourself to break through your bottleneck. I won't give you any more guidance.”

Since successfully separating his divine consciousness and deliberately maintaining the duration of its existence, Allen had indeed felt that the images of believers' prayers that troubled him and flooded his mind at any time had become weaker in their influence on Allen's main body after the divine consciousness occupied his sea of consciousness. It seemed that the solution Figlas had given him was correct.

Also, through the existence of the divine consciousness, Allen had deeply reflected on the choices and decisions he had made in the past. Among them, regarding Kouer's education, the divine consciousness especially felt that the main body consciousness might have done too much, which might become an obstacle for Kouer's future advancement and breakthrough.

Allen, who was willing to admit his problems and actively correct them, had since given up on guiding Kouer. During this guidance battle with Kouer, Allen had indeed noticed the problem that Kouer was facing now, and this problem had also plagued Allen until he advanced to demigod and completely solved it.

If Kouer could also solve this problem herself, perhaps she would not be far from demigod. At least, that's what Allen expected.

Kouer's current age is considered young among the high-ranking legendary powerhouses, so she has enough time to try and find her own answer. Allen still has some confidence in his most beloved disciple, although in fact, it is almost impossible for a tribe that has just produced a demigod to produce another demigod.

“Ah?”

Kouer was stunned at first, but then she habitually nodded and agreed: “Oh.”

“Alright, you've vented, you should go back, otherwise when Figlas, the old dragon, comes back and sees his nest destroyed by you, I'm afraid he will be furious and cause you trouble!!”

Seeing the depressed aura on Kouer's face gradually fade away, Allen looked at the mess under his feet, as well as the rolling volcanic ash soaring into the sky. Sensing a breath rapidly flying from the southwest direction in his demigod perception, he quickly pulled Kouer and flew towards the Mul Fortress in the southeast direction.

The figures of the two had just disappeared for only ten minutes when an exceptionally majestic crimson giant dragon, driving the boundless gale, hovered down.

Before the dragon's body landed on the ground, a earth-shattering roar erupted from its high head: “Roar~ ~ ~ ~”

“Who exactly is it!!! Daring to destroy the nest of the great Ember Devouring Dragon, I will make him pay a heavy price!!!!!”

Figlas's eyes were spitting sparks, and boundless killing intent turned into little blue flame flowers, dripping down into the mottled snow mountain, instantly melting patches of snow and ice crystals, which then turned into rising water vapor, quickly forming a pervasive white cloud on this icy mountain peak.

… … … …

Allen, one of the instigators, had already slipped back to the vicinity of the Green Na Trade Route with Kouer. Continuing eastward, among the rolling mountains, a majestic city lurked beyond the horizon.

Before returning to the fortress, Kouer found an excuse and separated from Allen. Looking at Kouer's hurried disappearing back, the expression on Allen's face gradually became serious from the initial indifference.

“Help me investigate, what strange changes have occurred in Elder Kouer recently? Or what is she worried about?”

On the surface, Allen didn't seem to care much about Cole's worries, but that was just a performance he put on for her. In reality, the first thing Allen did upon returning to the Mure Fortress after Cole left was to summon Wesley, the high-level mage in charge of intelligence within the clan, and issue a mission with a serious expression.

"I'll take care of it immediately."

Wesley replied in a deep voice, and his figure quickly disappeared from Allen's sight.

Allen had rarely seen Cole get angry at others over anything. Her strange behavior this time clearly indicated that she was facing some real difficulties. She had experienced bottlenecks in her strength improvement before, but Allen had never seen her so agitated. It was obvious that it was something else.

Regardless of the problem, even though Allen told Cole to solve it herself, he couldn't help but want to understand every aspect of what was troubling his beloved student. Perhaps this was one of the few things that still piqued his interest these days.

As Allen was pondering Cole's worries, a strong surge of violent energy suddenly rose above the city fortress, accompanied by an angry voice.

"Allen!!!!! Come out here!!!!!"

"I know you're behind this!!!!! Don't think that just because you've escaped back to your castle, I won't dare to chase you down!!!!!"

"Today, I'm going to settle the score with you and ask why you destroyed my nest!!!!!"

Figglas seemed to be truly enraged, actually chasing Allen and the others all the way to the Mure Fortress.

Allen opened the window, and in the sky directly opposite, a magnificent crimson, beautifully shaped dragon was angrily spewing sparks, roaring towards Allen's castle.

"Alright, alright, my old friend, I admit I was wrong this time. Tell me, what kind of compensation will make up for the loss of your nest?"

Allen walked to the window, waved at Figglas's massive form with a bright smile, and made an inviting gesture.

Many people in the city were secretly peeking at the sudden appearance of the dragon from the ground, but apart from a few newcomers and adventurers, the other residents of the city were not surprised or afraid of the dragon's presence, even when the dragon had a murderous look and a menacing aura.

"Hmph!!"

A glint flashed in Figglas's eyes, and he feigned resignation, withdrawing his anger. A ball of green, fresh magical energy surged from within his massive body, and then the dragon's body suddenly disappeared, and a humanoid figure suddenly appeared in front of the open window of Allen's castle, familiarly slipping inside.

This time, Figglas had transformed into a troll. No wonder Cole couldn't find him despite wandering around the Green Wilds Tribe's territory these past few days. It turned out that this guy had slyly changed his race.

"Why did you destroy my home?? Do you know how much effort I put into the nest on the snowy mountain? I even incorporated many precious materials into the construction materials!!"

Figglas's anger remained undiminished. If the sight of volcanic ash floating in the sky hadn't alerted Figglas, who was hundreds of miles away, he probably wouldn't have been able to catch the villain who destroyed his nest.

"If you want to extort me, I don't mind, after all, I'm in the wrong this time. But you need to know when to stop. Don't start by making unreasonable demands and fantasizing about completely unrealistic conditions."

Allen wasn't stupid either. As soon as he heard this guy's obviously nonsensical rambling, he quickly interrupted him with a serious expression.

How could this stingy dragon use any precious materials to build a temporary nest on the top of the snowy mountain!! Anyway, Allen didn't believe a word this guy was saying, not even if he died!

"But I really put a lot of effort and heart into it, I'm not lying to you!!"

Figglas didn't care at all that his scheme had been exposed and continued to say, "So, to soothe my injured soul, Allen, you have to compensate me with dozens of tons of delicious food, right??"

"Don't go too far!! It's just a dilapidated lava pile nest. Or I can send people to the snowy mountain now to build you a better nest."

Allen rubbed his forehead. When he saw this dragon chasing after his aura and rushing to the fortress, putting on such a show in front of countless goblins, he knew that this guy was up to his old tricks again.

Indeed, the most valuable thing on Allen for the dragon Figglas was probably his superb cooking skills.

He had previously promised to make hundreds of tons of magic dishes for Figglas, and over the past ten years, Allen had completed them intermittently. And with the permanent blessing of these hundred tons of magic dishes, Figglas clearly felt that his strength had increased by at least ten percent, which meant that he had saved almost three hundred years of slumbering growth with these delicious foods.

If he could persuade Allen to create a few hundred more new recipes, wouldn't his strength increase even faster? Then, the next time he suffered the three-thousand-year molting pain, his chances of successfully passing it would naturally be higher!!

With this in mind, when Figglas noticed that his nest had been destroyed, from the initial rage and the aggressive search for the destroyer's identity, to feeling Allen's familiar aura, Figglas lost his anger and instead had a cunning look of seizing the opportunity.

Then there was this performance of angrily questioning him.

"Hey, Allen!! Are you even being reasonable??"

Figglas raised his voice and loudly questioned.

"If I overturned your castle and smashed it to pieces, wouldn't you feel very distressed and uncomfortable??"

"If it would make you feel better, then smash it, smash it as much as you want!!"

Allen remained unmoved.

"..."

Figglas was momentarily speechless and didn't know how to continue talking to Allen.

"How about this, to express my apology, I'll make five tons of magic dishes for you for free, but it's the same old rule, you have to find the ingredients yourself."

Allen smiled in his eyes, knowing that he couldn't go too far and took the initiative to back down.

"Ten tons!!"

"Six tons!!"

"Nine tons!!"

"Six tons!!!"

"... Okay, six tons it is, we've agreed on that!!"

"When have I ever gone back on my word?"