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[1] Super Double (超级加倍): From the card game Fight the Landlord, where "Super Double" is a mechanic that quadruples the stakes. Chen Shu wanted to face one Lord after the explosion—getting seven instead is the universe quadrupling his bet.
High above, Shen Wushuang's expression had tightened to the absolute limit. His facial features were practically twisted into a knot.
He kept patting his chest. At this rate, he was going to give himself an actual heart condition.
You three little ancestors! You're NOT RUNNING in THIS situation?!
Shen Wushuang screamed internally. He didn't dare approach—the Ice Phoenix's aura might startle the beast packs, and that would be truly dangerous.
"Let's blow it!"
Chen Shu was still savoring the show, but a potion vial had mysteriously appeared in his hand.
He wound his right arm in several circles and hurled it with everything he had.
CRACK!
The vial struck a rock in the middle of the battlefield. Grey liquid pooled across the ground, odorless and unnoticed.
The surrounding Frost Giant Wolves and Ice Bats paid it no attention whatsoever, continuing to tear into each other.
All three were already standing on the Mutant Thunderbird, ready for takeoff at a moment's notice.
"Time to end this!"
Chen Shu pulled up the hood of his black cold-weather jacket. He turned around calmly, his expression utterly detached.
With his back to the beast horde, he flicked a flint out behind him with effortless swagger.
Seconds ticked by. Nothing happened.
A hint of confusion crossed Chen Shu's face. "Huh?"
Xie Sunan and Xu Xingxing were both staring at him with the strangest expressions.
"Can you STOP trying to look cool?! The flint landed at least a thousand meters away from the liquid..."
"Uh..."
The corner of Chen Shu's mouth twitched. He pulled out another red flint.
SMACK!
This time, the high-temperature stone struck the grey liquid dead-on.
The Mutant Thunderbird's wings snapped open. Blue light flooded its eyes and its wings blazed with skill energy. A second pair of phantom wings extended from its body.
But most importantly—the Mutant Thunderbird's BUTT was also radiating skill light, continuously spraying blue gas like it was blasting exhaust fumes...
The Mutant Thunderbird went full throttle. Its speed was beyond anything imaginable.
In a flash, it reached Shen Wushuang's side.
"You—"
Shen Wushuang looked startled, unable to understand why the three had fled so fast.
But before he could finish his sentence, his expression froze.
He instantly spurred the Ice Phoenix straight upward, eyes still locked on the canyon below in utter horror.
The pitch-black Frost Canyon had suddenly turned blindingly white—impossible to look at directly, as if a sun had crashed to earth.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
A wave of devastating heat followed immediately.
Countless layers of ancient ice and packed snow melted in an instant. Torrents of water appeared only to be vaporized into hissing steam, as though the canyon had transformed into a massive furnace...
Countless beast roars echoed through the air—then cut off in an instant. Killed before they could even react.
The terrifying explosion tore an immeasurable crater into the canyon depths.
With its support gone, the right side of the canyon... collapsed.
RUMBLE! RUMBLE!!
Massive boulders cascaded down. The ground trembled. The scale of destruction dwarfed the avalanche from days ago by orders of magnitude...
The apocalyptic scene shook the entire Alternate Dimension!
Every Beast Tamer inside Frost Canyon rose to their feet. They stared at the devastation before them, eyes glazed over in disbelief.
That night was destined to be sleepless!
The Ice Phoenix and Mutant Thunderbird fled at full speed, reaching the top of the canyon in moments.
Below, the horror show continued.
Shen Wushuang's eyes were full of shock. "You... you three..."
"We have no idea what happened."
All three wore perfectly innocent expressions.
Xie Sunan and Xu Xingxing were shaken to the core. They couldn't help but glance at Chen Shu from the corner of their eyes.
What the hell did you bring?!
Shen Wushuang drew a deep breath. Right now, all he wanted was some quick-acting heart-saving pills.
After a long moment, he finally recovered enough to speak. "Where did you get a... NUCLEAR BOMB?!"
The corner of Chen Shu's mouth twitched. Nuclear bomb my ass...
"Teacher Shen, are you stupid? Tech weapons don't work in Alternate Dimensions!"
"C-Come look!"
Shen Wushuang's eyes were still wide with horror. He pointed at the opposite side of the canyon.
The white light had dimmed by now, but the far side was still vaguely visible.
Collapsed rubble piled high. The opposite wall of the canyon had been reduced to ruins...
"You're telling me this ISN'T a nuclear bomb?!"
Shen Wushuang swallowed hard. He'd considered countless possibilities, but the reality before him was still beyond anything he could accept.
Three trainee Beast Tamers blew up Frost Canyon?!
Could this GET any more ridiculous?!
"Teacher, it wasn't me. My wish is world peace—I'd never do something like this."
Chen Shu had also realized how bad things looked. He threw up both hands and went with full denial.
The Nanjiang Bandit has done plenty of terrible things, but what does that have to do with me, Chen Shu?
Every Beast Tamer in the Alternate Dimension stared at the canyon ruins in stunned disbelief. Their minds had gone completely blank.
"Oh my god! What did I just witness? Frost Canyon actually COLLAPSED?!"
"There was an avalanche just a few days ago, and now the entire canyon caved in? Is this some kind of cursed ground?!"
"I bet there are terrorists in the canyon building nukes..."
Beyond the adventuring Beast Tamers, the Spirit Suppression soldiers stationed at the base were equally... shattered.
Across the entire nation, none of them had ever heard of anything like this...
"Remember—if anyone asks, you all say you don't know."
Shen Wushuang swallowed hard. He, too, was preparing to deny everything.
A Common-level Alternate Dimension wasn't a crisis for the nation—it was a vital Beast Taming resource.
It was precisely because of the abundance of Common-level dimensions that generation after generation of powerful Beast Tamers could be trained.
As long as all three denied it, no one would ever suspect that the culprits were them.
ROAR!
Just as the group was scheming, several terrifying roars echoed through the air.
A blast of blue frost descended. The Ice Phoenix beneath Shen Wushuang's feet was frozen solid.
"Not good!"
Shen Wushuang cursed his own carelessness—he'd let his guard down.
Below, two massive Frost Giant Wolf Lords howled at the sky, spewing blue frost from their jaws.
And directly ahead of the group, an Ice Bat Lord with eyes full of murderous fury descended upon them.
"Holy shit! We're surrounded!"
Cold sweat instantly beaded on Xie Sunan's forehead. A chill ran down his spine, and his whole body began to tremble.
"SEVEN Lords!!"
Only then did all four of them look around in every direction.
Seven Lord-class fierce beasts glared at them from all sides, eyes burning with vengeance. This was a fight to the death.
We were just having a nice Party, and you wiped out EVERYONE?!
The Lords' bodies were scorched black, streaked with dark bloodstains—clearly wounded by the massive explosion.
Chen Shu's plan hadn't been wrong.
The System's Explosion Potion had actually killed every single beast below Lord rank.
But the one miscalculation was this: the beasts hunting them down weren't one Frost Giant Wolf Lord—there were a full SEVEN![1]
"Teacher Shen, what's the call?"
Chen Shu swallowed hard. He, too, realized how bad things were.
I only wanted to hunt ONE Lord. How the hell did this become a super double?!
"What's the call? Obviously we RUN! You think I'm going to counter-kill?!"
Shen Wushuang's expression was grave. Even he was starting to panic.
The situation had exceeded all his predictions.
Your bomb was powerful enough to collapse Frost Canyon, and it STILL didn't kill the Lords?!
Just as Chen Shu was about to speak, options appeared before his eyes.