Chapter 251 : : Beast God Temple

"So how are you feeling, in this form I mean," Rex asked while circling around her.

"It's ..uncomfortable.. to wear this.. tight dress," Lerna said as she stretched her hands to show how tight the dress gets when she moves her body.

When Rex saw her stretching her mature body in tight clothes he finally understood the true meaning of 'taking pleasure in someone else's misfortune', it's just the meaning was more literal here.

"Ahem! well if you are too uncomfortable then it's better to remove it, after all, there is only me..." Rex instantly spoke when he heard her words but then he noticed that she was narrowing her eyes at him so he stopped mid-sentence.

'Did she developed common sense?' Rex slightly averted his eyes.

"That Lucia woman... did say that... it's better to stay inside.. or lecherous men will stare... it seems right," Lerna said while staring at him.

'Lucia, you betrayed me' (Rex)

"Cough... I was just joking just now, why are you taking it so seriously but it's better for you to stay inside. If you go outside wearing that then there would indeed be many people staring at you. I will arrange someone to bring a right set of clothes for you," Rex said as he gently grabbed her hand and carefully pinched her skin.

Lerna didn't resist but gave him a weird look.

"What...you doing?" She asked.

"I am just checking how much different are you from a normal human," Rex said while observing her soft skin.

"Speaking of difference, I ...also curious.. what are you?" Lerna asked as she touched her chin.

Rex's body shook her for a second.

Only now he realized that Lerna was now three whole realms above him which means there was more than a two whole realm gap between them so she could see through more things about him than others. Rex was sure that she should have already noticed the organ responsible for his Battle-Wings and his Core Bladder if not his crystallized form brain.

But seeing that her reaction was not too exaggerated, he believed that she didn't per-sieve further to see his core inside the Core Bladder.

"Just take me as a special variant of human race," Rex said with a smile as he reached out his hand and lightly pinched her right cheek.

Lerna was calm until he pinched her cheek but when she just realized what happened, her heart suddenly shuttered and she stepped back while subconsciously pushing away Rex to make some distance between them but...

...Boom...Thudd...

Rex felt like he just collided with a mountain, his body flew out of the balcony like a broken kite and it left a long trail behind when he crashed on the ground.

[-97 HP]

'Ouch.. damn a few of my ribs just cracked,' Rex slightly groaned as he wiped the blood from the corner of his lips.

[Your ability to court death has at least reached S+ grade.]

'Thanks for the compliment,' Rex stood up and was just removing the dust from his clothes that he noticed Jiang Shuang standing on the side.

Jiang Shuang was looking at him with a poker face.

"I just fell off the balcony," Rex said with a straight face.

Jiang Shuang looked at the broken boundary of the balcony around 60 meters away and the trail left on the ground by Rex before turning back to him.

"It's alright brother, I understand," Jiang Shuang said in an encouraging tone as he patted Rex's shoulder then turned around and left.

[He seems pretty experienced in falling off the balcony.]

'Indeed,' (Rex)

Rex used Instant-Transmission to again go back to his room.

"Wasn't it a little too extreme," Rex said as he looked at Lerna who was now sitting on his bed.

"I am still not used to controlling my new strength in this form and it's your fault for acting too intimate all of a sudden... hmph," Lerna lightly snorted without looking at him.

She was checking the soft mattress on the bed and the squishy pillows on it, until now when she was in the beast form she didn't live in such a luxurious environment so everything was a new experience for her.

Rex didn't argue and sat beside her, he then picked the book she put on the bed earlier.

"Are you interested in learning how to read? if you are, then I can teach you," Rex said with a serious face.

Her emerald green eyes shined for a split second before they became normal again.

"I..am not, but if you have.. time to teach then... I won't refuse, it's better than.. getting bored here," Lerna replied after looking into his eyes for a while like she was pondering whether to agree or not.

'Her form changed but her temperament is still the same, the words she uses are a lot different from what she actually means and wants to convey to others... if I am right there is a word for people with this type of personality,' (Rex)

[Tsundere?]

'Yeah, that one,' (Rex)

Rex then took out a simple book containing the picture of herbs with their names and some details on the side and started teaching her, she wasn't a newborn kid so he knew that there was no need to start from the zero.

Rex proved to be a really passionate teacher and why passionate? it's because even when he already knew all the content of the book he kept telling her to focus on the picture while he also focused on the scenery of the forbidden valley to uncover the hidden mysteries of the universe.

'Luo Niu finally met her match, no Big Lerna probably surpassed her, now my Little Ru needs to work hard,' Rex thought to himself.

[Hey perve... I mean partner I have good news]

'Was it my imagination or you just said..' Rex narrowed his eyes.

[Just a system bug, ignore it. Yes I was saying that the Evolutionary Tree is updated you can check the Evolutionary List to see the details.]

'Little Rose I am still waiting for the day I could beat the shit out of you but let's focus on the list first,' Rex then reluctantly told Lerna to revise what he taught her until now then he checked the list.

He soon found a new evolution option on the list.

[Evolutionary List:-

12. Blue-Tier Lesser Elixirior Human (Ultra-Rare)]

[Blue-Tier Lesser Elixirior Human:-

Description: A rare variant of Carbonite Human species that is capable of extracting the maximum effects of any Elixir they ingest and fully utilize their hidden effects to further strengthen the body.

This race will provide a 10% bonus attribute to all physicals status coupled with a 19% increase in the overall Qi channeling speed through the whole body, this race enhances the effect of 'Ultra-Healthy Body Skill' to a whole new level.

Requirement: Indigestion of 'Elixir Of Life' x 1, All physical status should be above E grade]

'Hmm... a 10% increase in all attributes good it's like getting Innate trait for all physical status and..wait what the fukkk, I need to ingest a whole potion bottle to meet the requirement,' Rex didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

After taking one sip of the potion he hit his limit and now he needed to drink the whole bottle to choose this option.

[We will do it slowly, it doesn't say you need to drink it one go although it's a little troublesome but it's still better than randomly choosing other options]

Rex couldn't refuse those words.

"There is one thing... I wanted to talk about," Lerna suddenly said.

"Oh, what is it?" Rex closed the holographic window and looked at her.

"I will tell you but first... the potion you gave me, it was very effective it did more than... just recovering my blood essence, so what do you want... in exchange?" Lerna asked.

'Instead of talking in this roundabout way, can't she just say thanks but what does she mean by the potion did more than just recovering her blood essence,' (Rex)

"You want to pay me back?" Rex asked in a mischievous tone.

She nodded.

"How about paying with your body?" Rex asked with a smirk.

She pondered for a second before she nodded her head in understanding.

Rex almost chocked when he saw that.

"You are fine with becoming my woman?" Rex asked with big eyes.

Lerna's face was dark, she held back the urge to kick Rex in the face.

"I meant that I can help you with my strength for a while nothing else," She said in a flat tone, she didn't argue with him because by now she was already aware of his personality.

"So that's what it was," Rex muttered with some disappointment in his tone.

Lerna chose to ignore his words and continued.

"I will help you but... after taking a small trip to Myriad Beast Continent, long ago... I met someone of the monster race like me, she told me... that if I ever reach Calamity Lord stage... then I can go to the Beast God Temple in Myriad Beast Continent to get a small inheritance from there, that inheritance can be anything... like a cultivation technique, martial arts or treasure pill that is suitable for me.

Now that I have reached this stage and took humanoid form... I can use a cultivation technique specially made for us of monster race to cultivate. She also told me that there are a lot of things sold there... that can be highly useful to the young ones of the monster race like Aru and...." Lerna was saying but Rex interrupted her.

"You are not going anywhere," Rex directly cut her in the middle.

"Why?" Lerna Slightly frowned. she now had trust in Rex so she believed that he could take care of Aru when she wasn't here but who knew he didn't want her to go at all.

"Because I told you not to," Rex said without any change in tone.

"If I go, you can't stop me," Lerna said in a displeased tone.

"I indeed cannot stop you but..." Rex said as he leaned closer to her face.

"But if you go then when the next time we meet, we will be complete strangers, understood," Rex said in a low tone then slowly backed off.

Lerna stood up from the bed and fiercely glared at him.

'This woman may act tough from outside but she is very pure from inside, she was living between the beasts who weren't even aware of the word hypocrisy until now so if I let her directly enter the society right now then she will likely be used by others.

She has strength but that's all, she needs time to get familiar with the ways of the outside world, I don't even need to guess the reason she wants to go there, its probably not for getting the inheritance for herself but Aru, if I let her go and something happened to her... I can't take that much responsibility yet,' Rex thought.

Lerna was silent, she gave Rex angry looks from time to time then sat on the bad while facing her back to him.

'And now she is acting childish, this woman... I just have no words to describe her,' Rex rubbed his forehead.

"I am not stopping you from going there for eternity, just remain here for a while after I am done with my important business here I will find you the route and a guide to go there.. or maybe I will accompany you too if I have the time... Okay?" Rex said in a helpless tone.

Lerna quickly turned around and gave him a 'Really?' look.

"I don't need to lie about such thing you know," Rex assured her.

"How long?" She asked.

"It depends on the work progress it should normally take 3 months with my current speed but if you help me take care of some people then it will take less time," Rex said.

"Okay I will help you," Lerna quickly agreed.

It was better if Rex arranged her a guide or find a map to go to Beast God Temple because although she knew that it was in Myriad Beast Continent but she didn't even know the way to go to that continent much less the way to reach the temple.

Rex shook his head when he saw how quickly she cheered up then he again focused on the valle..cough.. teaching her.