Solo Battle Against the Unicorn Iron Rhinoceros Herd!

Space shifted.

The instant they stepped into that room, all they saw was a deathly silent dark night. At the same time, they immediately began plummeting at a terrifying speed. Even though Vinina unleashed her Lightning Domain, enhanced by battle intent, to its utmost limits and controlled the miniature planet within her body to alter the surrounding gravity, she still slammed heavily into the ground.

Accompanied by four dull impacts, the four of them landed.

"This should be the so-called Death Desert."

Getting to her feet and looking out over the endless black earth beneath her feet, Vinina said, "Leave this place first."

With that, she casually chose a direction, pushed her Lightning Domain to its limit, and began moving at high speed.

The three Star level ninth-rank Martial Artists followed closely behind.

There was no other choice. It was night here, and they had no way of determining the exact direction. The Death Desert was one of the most dangerous regions in the Lightning World. Even ferocious beasts dared not live here. Every extra minute they stayed meant another measure of risk.

And that was indeed the case.

After the group had traveled for only about ten minutes, Vinina, empowered by her domain, suddenly frowned and turned to look behind her. Her heart immediately tightened.

The black ground, which had originally stretched out in plain sight, was somehow now covered by overwhelming black sand and dust, hurtling toward Vinina's group at an astonishing speed.

At the same time, beneath that sweeping sandstorm, a group of young men and women were desperately fleeing for their lives.

Death Duststorm!

One of the three great dangers of the Death Desert. It appeared without any pattern, could not be hidden from, and the experience passed down by generations of predecessors told those who came after them that when facing a Death Duststorm—

They could only run!

The faster, the better. Only by outrunning the Death Duststorm could they survive!

Just my luck.

She complained inwardly, but her movements did not slow in the slightest. Vinina's speed instantly surged to its peak. Under the dual enhancement of the Lightning Domain and battle intent, her speed was no less than that of the Star level ninth-rank bodyguards.

One fled while the other pursued.

The deadlock continued for more than an hour.

Over that hour, anyone too slow and caught by the Death Duststorm—whether they were Star level first-rank or Star level ninth-rank—was instantly shredded apart and flung away. After several people met that fate, the Death Duststorm's speed and overwhelming momentum finally began to weaken.

That meant this Death Duststorm was nearing its end.

When Vinina turned to look, only two people remained behind them.

Both were women. The first wore a silvery-white battle suit and carried an ink-black staff. The other had a petite figure, no taller than 150 centimeters at most. She wore peach-red armor, wielded a longsword, and had faint peach blossom patterns on her face.

The latter's strength was not too remarkable.

Her realm should have been similar to Vinina's, Star level first-rank. As for the former—

Her realm was no longer important.

Because Vinina could clearly sense the threat she posed!

A domain expert!

And her attainments in the domain definitely did not pale in comparison to Vinina's!

For some reason, the two seemed to have set their sights on Vinina's group. They tailed them all the way, continuing even after they entered an unbroken mountain range.

"Who are you?"

Vinina stopped moving forward, her gaze fixed firmly on the woman in silvery-white armor. She raised her battle spear, its tip pointing at the two from afar, and coldly demanded, "Who are you?"

"You can call me Kelly."

The girl with faint peach blossom patterns on her face replied with a smile, "She's Venus."

"So?"

"Venus says you're strong, so I wanted to see just how strong you are."

"I don't have time to spar with you right now."

Vinina's attitude softened slightly.

There was no helping it. This reason was fairly convincing in the universe. It was like when Vinina had revealed that she possessed a domain in the Decisive Battle Space of the Virtual Universe—experts had come in an endless stream to challenge her.

It was the delight of encountering worthy prey among geniuses.

But even that had to depend on the time and place, didn't it?

This was the Lightning World, the site of a mercenary trainee assessment. It was filled with danger. Was this really a place for sparring?

"Relax."

Kelly waved her hand with a smile. "We can spar after completing this mercenary mission. I'm just wondering whether we can form a team with you, big sister?"

"No."

Vinina rejected her directly.

But the refusal proved useless. Kelly and Venus followed Vinina's group of four out of the Death Desert and into the Longsuo Mountains, all the way until they reached their destination—the central area at the border between the Longsuo Mountains and the Death Desert: Demon Moon Lake.

During this time, Vinina naturally did not simply ignore them. She fought Venus several times. Since Venus was Star level ninth-rank, she held a realm advantage, and her domain was also one level higher than Vinina's, at the third level. Therefore, without using battle intent, Vinina was still at a slight disadvantage despite possessing combat secret techniques inherited from the Fallen Rider.

Only after using battle intent was she able to suppress Venus.

But suppression was not domination. Their battles remained deadlocked in the short term. Yet in the Lightning World, drawn-out stalemates were absolutely impossible. Who knew whether they might get struck by lightning in the middle of a fight?

Yes, struck by lightning!

The Lightning World was named primarily for the sudden bolts of lightning that erupted throughout it. Those were far more dangerous than the Death Duststorm they had encountered before. Once struck, even a Domain Lord Level expert risked perishing, let alone Star level participants in the assessment.

She could neither kill them nor drive them away, so Vinina could only allow them to keep following behind.

Because Babata had a small detector dismantled from the Yunmo Star Ship, Vinina's group also ended up serving as guides for Kelly and Venus behind them.

They were not teammates, yet they were practically better than teammates.

Still, through her repeated sparring with Venus, Vinina gained quite a bit. Otherwise, this would really have felt like a loss.

Back to the point.

Babata's small detector was quite reliable. It could scan an area with a diameter of twenty thousand meters. Within that range, even a World Lord could not evade detection. Their progress was naturally extremely efficient. Though the forested mountains were difficult to traverse and they did not dare fly, they still reached Demon Moon Lake in less than two days.

Then came the long wait.

Their target finally arrived on the eleventh day.

Unicorn Iron Rhinoceroses.

Twenty-seven in total!

"Miss, there are too many Unicorn Iron Rhinoceroses. We need to find a way to separate them first."

"No need. You only need to stay alert."

"Kelly, Venus, neither of you interfere either."

Vinina responded immediately. Then, looking at the massive creatures resembling heavy trucks, her eyes brimmed with surging battle intent!

Clearly, she intended to make all twenty-seven Unicorn Iron Rhinoceroses her opponents!