Chapter 184: Sudden incident

Lin Fan took out his Iron Eater Bone Artifact and transformed it into the heavy two handed zweihander sword. He wanted as much force as possible, so that meant that the heaviest sword would let him use the most force.

Once the sword came out, there was a mix of three lights that surrounded the sword. It was the same power of force, water, and lightning that wrapped around it, creating an intense power.

Lin Fan quickly utilized the bit of wind law that he had to quickly charge forward before bringing it down right onto the back of the Magma Slug.

This Magma Slug's defense might have been hard for a normal cultivator in the Platinum Realm to break through, but with Lin Fan and his combination of three laws, it was easily done. Not to mention that there were hints of Embryo Soul Realm laws that were contained in the Iron Eater Bone Artifact that would have cut through anyways.

The Magma Slug was cut in half just like a hot knife cutting through butter, being cut right in half.

Magma spilled out of the cut in the middle and poured onto the Iron Eater Bone Artifact, but it didn't melt at all, it didn't even turn red from being heated up. The only thing that changed was that when the Iron Eater Bone Artifact touched the rock shell, it swallowed up pieces of the rock shell that it came in contact with.

Lin Fan was surprised to see this at first, but when he looked over the rock shell, he immediately understood.

While the pieces of the rock shell were considered impurities for the Magma Slug, the metals that it was made of were all scraps of rare metals.

These metallic elements had been refined in the magma that the Magma Slugs eat and while they were naturally melted inside the magma, these fragments were things that the Magma Slug's body couldn't take, so it had to expel them as impurities which created that shell on its back.

This was why even though Magma Slugs were hard to hunt down, there were still people who chased down Magma Slugs. It was all for the rare metals that were found on their back, rare metals that could be used to make even better items.

Lin Fan swept the Iron Eater Bone Artifact across the shell of the Magma Slug and absorbed the rest of the rare metals into the Iron Eater Bone Artifact.

The Iron Eater Bone Artifact had developed the seed of spirituality, which had allowed it to bond with Lin Fan. This also meant that it had kept the ability of the Iron Eater, which meant that as long as it continued eating rare metals, it would be able to continue to evolve and become a stronger weapon. There was nothing better than the all you can eat buffet of rare metals on the back of the Magma Slug.

After the Iron Eater Bone Artifact had finished swallowing the rare metals on the back of the Magma Slug, the structure of the sword had changed. Although it wasn't that clear what had changed, Lin Fan could tell that the edge of the blade was sharper and that the blade itself was a bit more sturdy compared to before.

This even made Lin Fan wish that he could find another Magma Slug or a whole colony of Magma Slugs. If he could gather a bunch of rare metals, he was certain that he would be able to evolve the Iron Eater Bone Artifact today. But it was a pity that there weren't anymore around.

This was something that he would have to do eventually, he would have to evolve his weapon since his cultivation was also quickly increasing without stopping.

Now that the Magma Slug had been taken care of, there was only one beast that was left on Lin Fan's hunting list. It was the Ice Tusk that he had seen in the picture the president had shown him.

Once Lin Fan caught this final beast, he would bring the corpses of these beasts back to the base camp for the support staff there to research.

It didn't take that long for Brainy to find the Ice Tusk, rather it had known where the Ice Tusk had been all along since it had found it at the same time as the Magma Slug.

It was similar to how the Magma Slug burnt away all the trees around it.

The Ice Tusk's bristles were made of ice itself, so wherever the Ice Tusk went, the bristles that brushed against objects or the bristles that fell froze the area around it.

So it wasn't hard to find the large patch of forest that had been completely frozen by the bristles of the Ice Tusk.

Brainy led Lin Fan and Angela through the forest at a leisurely pace, but before they could even reach the domain of the Ice Tusk, there was something that had happened. It was something so sudden that Lin Fan was completely caught off guard.

"Master, one of the kids is dead." Brainy said in Lin Fan's mind.

Lin Fan immediately stopped in his step when he heard this.

Angela looked over at Lin Fan who had suddenly stopped and immediately knit her brows when she saw the expression on Lin Fan's face.

"How did they die?" Lin Fan immediately asked.

"I don't know." Brainy said.

Since Lin Fan had taken the babysitting job, of course he planned on following through since he was being paid.

When they first came into the planar crack, Lin Fan had dropped one of Brainy's new seeds onto each of the geniuses.

This seed was different from the parasite seed that Brainy had before, instead this was a seed made for monitoring.

But putting the seed on the clothes of those geniuses, Brainy could monitor their vitals and their location. So instead of wasting time and effort following them completely, Lin Fan was just using these seeds to make sure that they were safe. After all, Brainy only had a certain amount of beasts that it could control and he didn't want to use them monitoring these kids.

He assumed that since they were geniuses from large families, they would at least be able to survive long enough for him to arrive to save them, but he never expected one of them to die just like this.

"Was there anyone near them when they died?" Lin Fan kept asking.

"There was the seed of another genius that was nearby, but I wasn't sure which once it was since they all scattered since the beginning. I was too busy controlling my beasts to search for our prey." Brainy explained.

Lin Fan fell into deep thought for a bit before saying, "Bring me to the corpse."

Brainy without saying anything else guided Lin Fan through the forest to where the corpse of the young master had been left.

When they approached, Lin Fan could smell the blood in the air, as well as see a few scavengers that were nearby, looking to feast on the corpse.

Lin Fan just released his aura and all the scavengers were scared off.

As Lin Fan approached, he saw the blood that was scattered across the ground and when he finally came close, he found the identity of the person who was murdered.

It was the young master with long hair who looked like the perfect image of a sword cultivator. He was just lying there on the ground with a shocked look on his face, but that wasn't the strangest thing.

The strangest thing was that the wounds on him didn't seem like they were made by any beasts, the wounds seemed like they had been made by a human weapon. To be precise, they were made by his own sword that had been discarded on the ground that had blood at the tip of the blade.

Judging by the wounds on the young master's body, he had been slashed across the chest once by another weapon before his weapon was taken and he was stabbed several times with his own sword.

With the scene of the crime like this, Lin Fan quickly came up with two possibilities. One was that there was a beast that could transform into human form that could use weapons, but that didn't seem likely since it would take becoming a King Beast to have a chance to transform into human form. The only other possibility was that there was a traitor among them who had killed this young master, which was made even more likely by the fact that there had been another tracking seed nearby.

It seemed like the Beast Clan was indeed set on invading and it seemed like the Beast Clan wasn't just acting alone.

If that were the case, Lin Fan would have to rethink his plans and he wouldn't be able to just hunt the beasts like he wanted.

Lin Fan closed the eyes of the young master before picking his corpse up to head back to the camp, it seemed like he would have to call a meeting.

There were no real rules that the Monster Trainer Union had placed on this trip, but they did have one strict rule that everyone had to show up when a meeting was called since meetings were only called for the most dangerous of situations. Now that someone was dead, this seemed to fit that description.

When the supporters in base camp saw Lin Fan coming back carrying the young master, they all stared at him in shock.

Lin Fan ignored this and just said, "Call a meeting, now!"