Giant Dragon Lord: Starting from Daily Intelligence

Chapter 537: Chapter 413: A Fleeting Glimpse of the Abyssal Plane

His decision proved to be the right one.

Lightning was a naturally gifted scout and hunter.

Its control over the Lightning Element gave it unparalleled speed.

And its keen perception as a Giant Dragon allowed it to detect any potential danger in advance.

Over the next two days, Lightning fulfilled its duties perfectly.

It could always spot hidden dangers up ahead.

For example, a stretch of marshland where Highly Poisonous Swamp Serpents lay in wait.

Or, a cliff that was home to a large group of Two-legged Flying Dragons.

It would use its own unique method to send a warning to Raylo.

A small bolt of lightning would fall from the sky, landing on the ground in front of the group and blasting out a small, charred crater.

When Raylo saw this signal, he would immediately order the group to take a detour, avoiding any unnecessary trouble.

Besides scouting, Lightning’s hunting abilities were also outstanding.

Every dusk, as the group stopped to make camp, it would always descend from the sky, right on time, with prey in tow.

Sometimes, it was a massive, thick-hided Barbarian Bull.

Sometimes, it was a few plump, winged mountain antelopes.

Each time it dropped its prey in the center of camp, it would raise its little head, looking to Raylo for praise.

Of course, it couldn’t resist showing off to and provoking Baofeng a bit.

「On the third day of their journey.」

They came to the bank of a great, turbulent river.

The water was murky and swift, and the river was several hundred meters wide, completely impossible to wade across.

Just as Raylo was about to order the Giants to cut down trees and build a raft to cross the river.

BOOM!

The calm surface of the river suddenly exploded in a massive splash.

A giant crocodile, over eighty meters long and covered entirely in rock-hard Scale Armor, suddenly shot out from under the water.

It opened its cavernous maw, bristling with sharp teeth, and viciously bit down on a sizable, giant-horned Barbarian Bull drinking at the river’s edge.

CRUNCH!

A sickening sound of splintering bone rang out.

The giant-horned Barbarian Bull didn’t even have time to let out a cry of pain before half of its body was brutally bitten off by the giant crocodile.

Blood instantly dyed the river water red.

The giant crocodile dragged its prey and slowly sank beneath the surface.

On the river’s surface, only ever-widening, blood-red ripples remained.

This bloody and shocking spectacle sent a chill down everyone’s spine.

This giant crocodile was a genuine Domain Level Magical Beast. Crossing the river rashly would inevitably lead to more trouble.

Raylo chose to take a detour. The current mission was to get to the soon-to-erupt volcano in the western Black Stone Mountain Range as quickly as possible.

They walked more than ten kilometers upstream along the riverbank and finally found a spot where the channel was relatively narrow and the current was relatively calm.

Kado, carrying a rope, used his Gravity Domain to leap over a hundred meters to the opposite bank.

Holding onto the rope, the Giants waded across the river.

After crossing the river, they entered a forest filled with peculiar colors.

The trees in the forest grew exceptionally tall, their trunks a metallic, silvery-gray.

Even stranger, the trees were laden with grape-like clusters of fruit.

The fruits resembled red agate, crystalline and translucent.

A mouth-watering, sweet, fruity aroma filled the air.

Lightning plucked a cluster of fruit from a tree, flew back with it in its mouth, and placed it in front of Raylo.

Raylo picked up a fruit, performed a simple check, and after confirming it was non-toxic, took a bite.

An indescribably clear, sweet, and refreshing juice instantly exploded in his mouth.

The flavor was a hundred times more delicious than any fruit he had ever eaten.

Moreover, he felt a pure energy flow down his throat and spread throughout his body, instantly revitalizing him from the fatigue of several days of travel.

"This is good stuff."

Raylo’s eyes lit up.

He immediately ordered the Giants to stop and pick these delicious fruits to their hearts’ content.

These fruits, which contained Life Energy, were a better supplement for them than Magical Beast Meat.

The Hill Giants were all beaming with joy.

They popped them into their mouths by the handful, as if they were eating jelly beans.

Raylo also picked a good amount, saving them as snacks for the little ones.

The group rested there for nearly an hour before setting off again.

Just as they were leaving the forest and arriving at a barren mountain ridge.

The sky suddenly darkened.

A heart-stopping spatial fluctuation, filled with a destructive aura, came from above their heads without any warning.

It was a shudder that originated from the depths of one’s soul.

It was as if the Laws of the entire world had become chaotic and fragile in that moment.

Raylo snapped his head up.

He saw that in the once pristine blue sky above them, a pitch-black, scar-like fissure was silently and slowly opening.

At the edges of the fissure were distorted light and violent, dissipating Spatial Energy.

It was like the man-eating maw of a Giant Beast, and behind it lay a bottomless darkness filled with the unknown and the terrifying.

"A spatial rift!"

Raylo’s heart sank.

He had never expected to witness the formation of a spatial rift here.

"Everyone! On guard!"

He roared with all his might.