Chapter 1009: Chapter 996: It’s too miserable, luckily I’m not a genius Chapter 1009: Chapter 996: It’s too miserable, luckily I’m not a genius Thump!

A figure covered in sticky, corrosive gastric acid fell to the ground. After landing, the figure immediately removed the faceguard that covered their face and breathed in the surrounding air with an almost greedy attitude, revealing an expression of bliss.

“It feels so good to be alive!” After taking several deep breaths of air, the youth exhaled in one go, turned his head to look around, and then saw the being that had saved him from death’s door.

It was a giant ape with thick, lustrous black fur. At the moment, the ape was giving him a “you’re so useless” expression in a very human-like manner, and in its hand, it dragged a green-scaled giant python that was half-dead.

The python that had swallowed him as food had a twisted mouth, and a sticky, undefined liquid mixed with blood continually flowed out, looking thoroughly beaten.

“Brother Ape is mighty, Brother Ape is awesome!” Seeing the giant python that had been beaten beyond recognition, Victor gave the giant ape a thumbs-up, knowing it to be one of the many native species domesticated by that guy Jelos, with unfathomable strength.

“Ha!” Hearing Victor’s praise, the giant ape snorted upwards with an expression that indicated it was only to be expected, unable to hide the look of pride on its face.

No matter when it was or what level of existence it was, even if its real form was a legendary being capable of moving mountains and seas, showing off always brought it exceptional pleasure.

“Brother Ape, I have a favor to ask. Some of my equipment is still in its stomach; could you help me get it out?” Victor requested with a sycophantic smile on his face.

The giant ape glanced sideways at this human who kept calling him “brother” with extreme humbleness, picked up the python in its hand, grasped the tail with its right hand, and pulled hard.

Immediately, a large pool of sticky, fishy-smelling liquid gushed out of the python’s mouth, but Victor’s desired Star Armor was not among it.

“Brother Ape, pull a few more times, the thing I want has not come out yet.” Victor said encouragingly, as he watched the robust giant ape pull on the green-scaled giant python.

Hearing the human’s request, the giant ape scratched its head, looking at the python whose vital signs were fading, caught in a dilemma—it didn’t want to kill the snake just yet.

“Brother Ape, if you grab here, my Star Armor is right there; just pull here, and it’ll do.” Seeing the giant ape hesitate, an anxious Victor quickly pointed out the exact location of his Star Armor in the python’s belly.

Unable to resist Victor’s pleas, the giant ape once again, under his guidance, grabbed the green-scaled python and frantically pulled more than a dozen times, causing the python to vomit disorientedly and almost emptying out its insides.

“It’s out. Thank you, Brother Ape!” After a while, Victor joyously maneuvered his Star Armor components to fly out from a pile of sticky liquid and circled around him.

“Hm!” Seeing that it had completed the task given by its master, the giant ape grunted, then picked up the limp python, devoid of any strength, and after thinking it over, wrapped it around its waist.

“Brother Ape, mighty! Such an outfit is truly domineering!” Victor immediately praised as he saw the giant ape with the python wrapped around its waist, giving another thumbs-up.

And upon hearing the praise, the giant ape split its mouth into a grin, showing its snow-white teeth, then turned around and walked away. It decided to give the kid another two hours, and then it would come back to attack him.

In this survival training session, it was also a hunter. All the Douglas family geniuses participating in this training were its targets—including this kid in front of it.

However, since the kid had just faced a life-threatening situation, it had temporarily played the role of rescuer. According to the rules, it could have eliminated him instantly after saving him, but the kid had licked it so comfortably that it decided to give Victor some additional time to prepare and adjust.

…

“Your brother is just fooling us. Lowering the difficulty level is just a bluff; the current difficulty is not even on the same level as what we experienced at the training ground.”

A girl who was hurrying through the dense jungle couldn’t help complaining to the girl with smooth indigo hair beside her, her eyes filled with panic.

In this jungle, after some exploration, the girl shockingly discovered that this so-called clan-sanitized forest was fraught with danger, filled with native species that could cause them harm, and various fierce and terrifying insects and reptiles.

“Brother didn’t lie to us. In the Arena, we had to fight him right after entering, but here, we have the space to avoid him. We have the chance not to engage in any battles with him, so in a way, saying the difficulty has been reduced is not wrong.”

Equally startled by this survival training, Daisy defended Jelos.

“At a time like this, you’re still defending Jelos. Look at the kind of opponents he’s arranged for us. He actually brought all of his raised native species here, clearly not intending to leave us any way out!”

The girl recalled the giant bear she had just encountered, her face unmistakably filled with terror. She recognized that bear, having engaged in a tentative confrontation with it under Muria’s arrangement.

Overwhelming force, unstoppable, unresistable—this was her definition of the native species Muria kept. These creatures were simply beyond the scope of their capability to confront.

“Brother already said at the beginning, this training is about survival, not combat. We don’t need to confront them; we just need to avoid them, and by doing so, we might last the three days.”

Daisy analyzed calmly, their objective in this training was very clear; it was to survive, to stay alive at all costs. If it was a survival mission, then the enemies they needed to avoid being so strong that they couldn’t resist wasn’t particularly surprising.

Howl!

Suddenly, the sound of a wolf’s howl arose, and then Daisy and her companions saw a shadow moving incessantly overhead, its true appearance completely obscured.

“No use running!” The moment she saw the shadow, Daisy’s face immediately turned grave, she grabbed her female companion beside her, stopped in place, and quietly waited.

“What’s wrong?”

“It’s my brother’s black-scaled dog. We can’t outrun it, and fleeing would just be a waste of energy.”

“Black-scaled dog?” At these words, the eyes of the girl beside her lit up instantly.

Among all the native species reared by Jelos, this black-scaled dog was the weakest in strength, and the only one this group of people had any possibility of fighting against.

“It seems our luck isn’t too bad after all, earlier we encountered a slow one, and now we’ve come across one that’s fast but the weakest in strength.”

The girl smiled optimistically, but her smile quickly froze under the angry gaze of a giant black dog that emerged before them.

Roar!

Shifanlin emitted a deep growl, looking down on the two tiny humans in front of him with annoyance in his eyes. Although he was indeed the weakest of Muria’s summoned minions compared to the legends, he was a relative term—why should these humans, who didn’t even possess Soul Intent level, look down on him?

“You’ve angered it,” Daisy murmured ‘dammit’ under her breath, cursing her teammate as a fool, but her expression remained unchanged.

“Brother Dog, it wasn’t intentional, I didn’t mean any disrespect,” said the girl, forcing a strained smile as she tried to appease the dog that now seemed to be going berserk.

Roar!

By now, extremely angry, Shifanlin pounced without bothering to listen to them any further. According to his master’s command, as long as he left them alive, everything else was up to him.

“Fight with all your might and don’t overthink it, this grudge it will surely remember!” Daisy sighed, quickly donned her star armor, unleashed all her firearm weaponry, and retreated to maintain distance.

“Real dog, remembering grudges like that!” muttered the girl beside her, feeling indignant. She had spoken the truth without spreading rumors, was there a need for such anger?

But as she complained, she was slightly slower in her reaction, and just then, Shifanlin charged right in front of her, stretching out his giant paw to strike her down.

Crash!

The girl clad in star armor flew backward as a mere afterimage and was slammed into a tree, which splintered apart, embedding her body within it.

…
Meanwhile, as Shifanlin was single-handedly thrashing the two beautiful girls, generating an extremely tragic and desolate scene capable of arousing the righteous indignation of men everywhere, this battle scene was also being transmitted to a great hall.

“That dog is really too much, striking so viciously!” A young man, ordered by his clan to watch the genius training, cursed indignantly within the hall.

“If I were there, I would beat the scents right out of that dog!”

“Psh, please, if you stood in front of that dog now, you’d be the one smelling, not it. Didn’t you see who is fighting against that dog? Those are super geniuses with an adaptation rate over 80%.”

“Seriously, is this the kind of treatment our clan’s top geniuses get? That’s too awful for words! I’m glad my match rate wasn’t over 80%; otherwise, having been mauled by that dog like that, I think I would lose my sanity.

Dammit, daring to hit my goddess like that, I want to kill that dog, but I’m not strong enough—anyone want to form a group?”

“Count me in.”

“Add one more to that.”

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