Douluo: Martial Soul Iron-Eating Beast, Never a Slave — Chapter 3

After obtaining his first soul ring, Zhao Mu naturally learned the details of his first soul skill.

It was quite remarkable.

First soul skill.

Bear Dominates the World, Thunder Roar!

The Iron-Eating Beast activated the power of lightning within its body, gaining control over lightning...

Descriptions were useless, so Zhao Mu preferred seeing it demonstrated in practice.

He lightly nudged the Iron-Eating Beast lying flat on the ground with his foot.

"Little guy, demonstrate your... our first soul skill!"

As his martial soul, the Iron-Eating Beast shared something akin to telepathic communication with him, or perhaps there was some kind of translation between them. Thus, Zhao Mu was certain that the Iron-Eating Beast could understand him, and he could likewise understand what its cries meant.

For example, when the Iron-Eating Beast lazily sat up and let out two cries, Zhao Mu knew what the little fellow was trying to say.

"What? You want me to shout a slogan?!"

"A slogan?"

Awoo, awoo, awoo!

The Iron-Eating Beast raised both arms high, as if mocking Zhao Mu for being stupid, then directly told him the so-called slogan.

"Bear Dominates the World, Thunder Roar? That's the slogan???"

Faced with Zhao Mu's doubts, the Iron-Eating Beast nodded its large head heavily.

"Can't I skip it? That slogan is way too cringey!"

Zhao Mu instinctively refused. Did it really think he was just a six-year-old child who would enjoy shouting such things?

Awoo, awoo, awoo~

The Iron-Eating Beast howled in dissatisfaction. "You're a soul master, yet you won't even shout the slogan. What use are you!"

"I have to shout it?"

A determined expression appeared on the Iron-Eating Beast's chubby face, and it nodded heavily once more.

At that point, Zhao Mu could not help wondering whether all martial souls with independent lives required their soul masters to shout slogans when using soul skills.

At least Yu Xiaogang did, so would he have to use voice control to command the Iron-Eating Beast in battle from now on???

Well, that did not seem impossible. Voice-controlling an Iron-Eating Beast in battle was more reliable than voice-controlling a toy race car, at least.

Besides, soul masters seemed to enjoy shouting out their soul skills before using them.

Left with no choice, Zhao Mu compromised.

Not for the little guy's sake, but because he was curious about his first soul skill.

Zhao Mu swore it.

"Little guy, get ready. Here we go!"

"First soul skill!"

"Bear Dominates the World, Thunder Roar!"

As Zhao Mu's voice fell, the Iron-Eating Beast opened its mouth and let out a cry at just the right moment.

This cry no longer carried its previous silly cuteness. Instead, it held an air of domineering arrogance, as if an awakened demon god had descended upon the world.

Brilliant purple lightning exploded from within the Iron-Eating Beast's body and spilled outward. It seemed to be bathing in lightning, with purple arcs of electricity flickering across its body from time to time.

Before long, the Iron-Eating Beast began to grow taller. It went from standing on all fours to standing upright on two legs, eventually reaching over two meters in height.

Strands of light purple fur appeared among its formerly sleek black-and-white coat, standing stiffly on end as though shocked by electricity.

Once upright, dense purple balls of light gathered around its front paws. The rampant purple lightning seemed to answer its summons, truly giving it the appearance of one who controlled lightning.

Once the Iron-Eating Beast finished transforming, the little guy... no, this big guy looked at him with eyes that had turned purple as well, its gaze brimming with smug pride.

That look also confirmed for Zhao Mu that although the Iron-Eating Beast's appearance had changed drastically under its first soul skill, its mind and consciousness remained exactly the same. Its temperament had not changed, and it showed no signs of disobeying its master or soul master.

"That's it?"

Watching the Iron-Eating Beast stand there motionlessly for quite a while, Zhao Mu could not help asking again.

The transformed Iron-Eating Beast nodded its now-larger head.

?!

So the Iron-Eating Beast's first soul skill was just a transformation?

Did it boost its attack?

Or its defense?

Or could it shoot electricity now?

Thus, through Zhao Mu and the Iron-Eating Beast's joint experimentation, they really did manage to come up with a few tricks.

"Iron-Eating Beast, Thunder Roar!"

As Zhao Mu's voice fell, the Thunder Iron-Eating Beast, standing on two legs, immediately dropped forward, then let out a roar that boomed like thunder and rolled outward.

Under that roar, everyone present besides Zhao Mu swayed and fell to the ground.

Group stun!

"Iron-Eating Beast, Electric Shock!"

Then, after Zhao Mu shouted the slogan again, the Iron-Eating Beast rose back onto two legs and swung one of its lightning-controlling front paws. In an instant, a purple lightning arc as thick as an arm shot out and struck a large tree nearby.

The tree immediately turned black and snapped apart.

Seeing the damage caused by the purple lightning, Zhao Mu nodded in satisfaction. It was already no weaker than heavenly lightning.

But it was not over yet. Zhao Mu quickly shouted again:

"Iron-Eating Beast, Super Electric Shock!"

As soon as Zhao Mu spoke, the Iron-Eating Beast eagerly tensed its entire body before erupting with power. Purple lightning covered its whole body, and a bolt far thicker than before blasted out.

"Boom!"

Just as the slogan suggested, this electric shock was much stronger than the last, enough to blast several square meters of open ground into scorched earth.

However, the consumption was also considerable, and the Iron-Eating Beast showed signs of fatigue.

Seeing this, the satisfaction on Zhao Mu's face deepened. Although he had never personally witnessed the power of anyone else's first soul skill, it probably could not be stronger than his!

More importantly, other people only had one first soul skill, while he effectively had three!

The first soul ring had actually granted the Iron-Eating Beast a lightning state, but that lightning state itself had evolved three ways of using lightning, making it comparable to having three soul skills.

One had to know that every soul skill of a soul master on the Douluo Continent was extremely important, since their number was limited. Yet now, not only was the quality of his soul ring superior, but even the number of his soul skills was ahead!

This was amazing!

Awoo, awoo~

At the Iron-Eating Beast's cries, Zhao Mu looked toward it.

"You're saying the last two move names aren't domineering enough? You want to rename them?"

The Iron-Eating Beast nodded heavily, looking as though power was secondary and the name absolutely had to be domineering enough.

Since the first soul skill had given him such a huge surprise, Zhao Mu did not mind thinking a little to satisfy the little fellow's request.

After pondering for a moment, inspiration struck Zhao Mu.

Cringey or not, so be it!

"Electric Shock will be called 100,000 Volts!"

"Super Electric Shock will be called 1,000,000 Volts!"

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"100,000 Volts?"

"1,000,000 Volts?"

"What are volts?"

Awoo, awoo, awoo~

The Iron-Eating Beast tilted its head in confusion.

Indeed, let alone the Iron-Eating Beast, there was probably not a second person on the Douluo Continent who knew what a volt was. If someone did know, they were most likely not originally from the Douluo Continent!

Zhao Mu patiently explained to the Iron-Eating Beast, "As for volts, you can understand them as the power of an electric shock."

If he said volts were a unit of voltage, the Iron-Eating Beast would probably ask what voltage was, so it was better to end the subject there.

The Iron-Eating Beast pondered it for a while, but its round face gave no sign of whether it was satisfied or dissatisfied.

Only after quite some time did it finally open its mouth.