Chapter 186 - Antonella Of The Golden Lion Tribe
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"It looks like I have to change my appearance." Although he was wearing a mask during the battle, it would still be better to take some precautions. He took off his mask and altered his hairstyle. He loosened his long hair as usual but he tied the front part into a topknot.
He then searched through his spirit ring and found a beautiful foldable fan with intrinsic drawings in the corner.
"Hehe, I'm sure that I look like a Young Master now." He opened up the fan and slowly made his way towards the city gate.
He saw people paying an adequate amount of spirit stones to the snake guards to enter inside. However, this was not the case for humans. The guards politely greeted them and allowed them to enter without paying a single cent.
The same goes for Davion.. In this way, he easily went inside without any difficulties.
"Haiz, now that I think about it, this place is far from being comparable to the cities in the Inner Region." He sighed as he carefully observed every single detail here.
The roads were quite wide, but they were graveled and small pits could be observed. Most of the buildings looked plain and simple where he could even see some traces of battles. He identified some weapon marks on them.
"Seems like fights are common here. So, this must be the reason why they don't bother to make grandeur buildings. However, not all buildings are like these." He glanced in a certain direction and saw a six-storeyed tower.
It was the tallest and the most eye-catching one. Moreover, it was beautifully decorated and it even prevented his Mind-Eye from peeping through.
"The Sky Heavens Restaurant"
"Interesting. I should make a trip there when I have time." He smiled and continued moving forward. Along the way, he ran into various shops.
Firstly, he visited the clothing shop and bought lots of clothes for himself and Danny. Next, he went to the pill refining shop to sell all the useless and ineffective pills he had. But he ran into some troubles there.
"Young Master, are you here to buy some pills?" The moment he entered; he was greeted by a woman having a luscious body. Most parts of her body were exposed as she was only wearing tiny clothes to hide her important parts. This seemed similar to the bikinis on Earth.
"Nah, I'm here to sell." He replied calmly. He didn't even put the woman in his eyes.
Seeing this, the woman became a bit surprised. Nonetheless, she acted professionally.
"Why don't you take them out? We will evaluate them and offer you a suitable price."
"It's good." Davion nodded and passed her a spirit ring. He was prepared for this a long time ago.
She peered through it and became shell-shocked with what she saw inside. There were many Qi refining, Qi restoring, Healing, and even rare body forging pills.
"Young Master, do you belong to a tribe involved in Alchemy?" She asked with excitement on her face as only alchemists could possess so many pills. Specifically, they were very rare in the Demon Beast World.
This is due to the fact that it's difficult for the Demons to learn Alchemy when compared to humans. It requires proper concentration and outstanding manipulation of flame which only a few notable tribes were capable of. Not only that, the Demon Beast World is a savage world where battles occur every day. So, not many were interested in this profession. It was better to cultivate and become stronger to protect oneself.
"Yes, I do." Although he was surprised to hear this, he replied instantly without any hesitation.
"I can't let her know the truth and create troubles," He thought. Who knows how she would react when she finds out that he got all these pills from plundering?
"As I thought." She smiled mischievously and introduced herself.
"Young Master, I am Antonella, an alchemist of the Golden Lion Tribe and the person in charge of the Lupinus Pill Shop."
"So?" Davion responded without any change in expression. After all, he was getting annoyed. Couldn't she simply buy these pills and finish the job?
"You.." She felt embarrassed due to his reaction. "Young Master, why don't you introduce yourself? We can collaborate more in the future."
"Nah! This is only a one-time exchange. I don't think we need to be so close with each other, do we?" He declined it.
However, she still didn't give up and kept on pestering. "Young Master, why are you in such a hurry? Did you come from far away?" She wanted to dig out some information from him. Especially about his tribe.
"You can say so," He nodded.
"Young Master, then I won't be keeping you here any longer. But can you at least tell us the name of your tribe? Our Golden Lion tribe really wants to make a visit and cooperate with your tribe." She finally got to the point.
As an Alchemist, she knew how difficult it was to make so many pills. Thus, she was interested in his tribe. In addition to this, if she reported this precious information to the elders in her tribe then she would definitely get promoted to a better city in the future.
"Hehe, brat, there must be a reason why you are hiding your tribe from us, aren't you? Are you worried that your tribe might get annexed by us if we found out?"
"Brat, but you don't need to worry about it. Our Golden Lion Tribe will take care of it properly." She chuckled inwardly with a cold glint in her eyes.
"Cooperate my ass. Does she take me as a fool?" Davion cursed in his heart. Besides, he felt that he had still underestimated the savagery of this World as this woman was already plotting something evil just after meeting him once. If it was a tribal person instead of him then he would have already decided the fate of his tribe right here right now.
"Young Master." She called him out abruptly after seeing him getting distracted.
"Oops! I'm sorry." He scratched his head in embarrassment giving her the impression that he was finding it difficult to reveal his tribe.
"Hehe, it must mean that his tribe is weak. But how do I make him blurt it out? Do I have to use force?" While she was pondering, Davion suddenly answered, catching her off-guard.
"It's the Flame Leopard Tribe." Since the White Tiger Clan didn't work last time, he thought of a random name. Actually, he wanted to say the Flame Tiger Tribe; the one his bloodline belonged to. However, he refrained from doing so as he knew that this was not the right time.
"What?" Hearing this, Antonella's expression became quite ugly.
"Is something wrong?" Davion backed a few steps and looked at her warily.
"You dare lie to me. There is only one Leopard Tribe in this world, and they are also the mortal enemies of our Golden Lion Tribe." She released her aura and the temperature of the room increased rapidly.
"This.." Davion became speechless.
"I really messed up. I should have gone to the library first." He regretted not having enough knowledge.
"Brat, I was being polite with you all this time. But it's enough. I will catch you and simply interrogate you." She smirked and produced a golden fire on top of her index finger.
She then flicked the fire on the ceiling, and it started burning. Despite this, the fire didn't spread as usual but rather materialized over all the walls of the room preventing Davion from escaping.
"You are well prepared," Davion smiled.
"You still have the mood to laugh?" Antonella became annoyed and struck without any hesitation. Her hands transformed into the paws of a Lion and she tried to grab his head straight away.
"Haha, you are cocky for a mere beast at the Nascent Soul Stage." Davion mocked her and released his Dark Energy.
"Dark Domain"
The current dark energy was so powerful that all the flames she had released disappeared in the blink of an eye and she even had to coat herself with a layer of aura to protect herself from the corrosion effect.
Furthermore, the whole room turned dark and she lost her vision.
"I have misjudged him. He is not an easy opponent." The confidence she had as a Peak Nascent Soul Expert began to crumble after witnessing this ability.
"Time to go all out." Muscles and fur emerged everywhere from her body and she became ten feet tall in the blink of an eye. She had the face of a lioness and was radiating a blinding golden light from her body.
"Found you" With the help of this light, she spotted him at once. But before she could act, a large number of dark sharp tentacles formed in the air and shot towards her.
"Golden Sun"
She put her hands infront of her and produced a circular ball of flames that sucked in those tentacles easily.
"Is this all you got? This is the inherent ability of our Tribe. Our fire can absorb all types of auras in the Heavens and Earth and can continue burning forever." She explained.
"Is that so?" Davion vanished from his spot and appeared behind her using Thunder Stomp. Afterward, he used Dark Hands and grasped her whole body. This happened so quickly that she couldn't even react.