Beast God Descends!

At the edge of Star Dou Great Forest, Origin Internet Cafe.

It was the busiest time of the afternoon.

Thanks to that battle during the freshman assessment, Huo Yuhao's team's "item build" and "Monster Hunter tactics" had completely taken off.

After hearing about it, Shrek's students all came running over. Even if there were no available computers, squeezing around the entrance to watch others play was still pretty fun.

In a corner, Dai Huabin, who had just woken up, sat blankly in his chair.

He held a newly issued membership card in his hand, his entire body still trembling.

Not because he was cold, but because Red King was squatting at the seat beside him, playing a game.

"Hey, you little White Tiger." Wearing a helmet, Red King kept his eyes on the Rathalos on the screen and spoke without turning around. "I had ten thousand gold soul coins loaded onto your card. Consider it compensation for the emotional distress you caused by trying to tear down the shop last night. Got a problem with that?"

"N-No problem." Dai Huabin shook his head like a rattle drum.

Was this a joke? This was Red King, a ferocious beast! Forget ten thousand gold coins—even if it wanted his life, he could only hand it over!

But... Dai Huabin looked at the Monster Hunter on the screen, the game that haunted his nightmares, and gritted his teeth.

"Since I've already paid... I'm playing too! I refuse to believe that if Huo Yuhao can learn it, I, Dai Huabin, can't!"

Just as the internet cafe was filled with peace and harmony—

In the core region of Star Dou Great Forest, at the Lake of Life.

This was a forbidden land of the continent. Even Titled Douluo did not dare set foot here lightly.

Massive bubbles rose across the lake's surface as a terrifying pressure slowly awakened from the depths below.

"Auspicious beast... why hasn't she returned yet?" A low, ancient, and authoritative voice echoed through the depths of the forest.

Then, an enormous black dragon shadow burst through the lake surface, blotting out the sky.

Di Tian floated in midair, his golden vertical pupils sweeping across the entire Star Dou Great Forest.

The auspicious beast and Red King had said they were going to "patrol their territory," but neither had returned since.

What unsettled Di Tian even more was that through his connection to fate, he had sensed that the auspicious beast's aura had become extremely strange.

It was filled with excitement and agitation, along with an indescribable sense of weakness from staying up too late.

"Could she have been captured by human experts? Is she being tortured?" A savage killing intent flashed through Di Tian's eyes.

"That useless Red King! Can't even protect the auspicious beast?"

Di Tian was enraged!

The aura of his eight hundred ninety thousand years of cultivation erupted in full. The clear skies stretching for thousands of miles instantly turned as black as ink.

Dark clouds churned, thunder roared, and it felt as though the end of the world had arrived.

"Humans! If anything happens to the auspicious beast, I will make you pay in blood!" Di Tian flashed forward, transforming into a bolt of black lightning as he shot toward the source of that aura—Origin Internet Cafe.

At that moment, inside Origin Internet Cafe.

"Quick, quick, quick! Xu Sanshi, you pig! Heal me!"

"Stop rushing me! I'm playing the flute! The wind-up is ridiculously long, okay?!"

"Wang Dong! That dragon's about to take off! Use a flash bomb!"

A group of gaming-addicted youths were having the time of their lives in a Monster Hunter multiplayer dungeon.

Even Dai Huabin had become immersed in it, raging helplessly every time he got carted.

Bzzzt— The lights overhead flickered twice, and every screen suddenly froze.

The Rathalos that had been breathing fire hung motionless in midair. Even the flames had stopped moving.

The latency in the bottom-right corner instantly shot from a green 5ms to a red 999ms.

"What the hell? It froze?" Xu Sanshi let out a miserable howl, yanking off his helmet and slamming the table wildly. "Boss! What's going on? Why isn't anything moving? I was just about to cut off its tail!"

"Did the internet go down?"

"Who kicked the network cable?"

"Boss, refund us! That was my finishing move!"

For a moment, the entire internet cafe erupted into wails and cries.

For these gaming addicts, losing their connection in the middle of a team fight felt worse than being killed.

Behind the counter, Lu Yuan was drinking Sprite. Seeing the system's network monitor suddenly turn red, he frowned.

"It's not the internet." Lu Yuan looked out the window. "The energy field outside is too strong. It's interfering with the signal."

He stepped out from behind the counter and pushed open the door, only to see that the sky outside had gone completely dark.

A suffocatingly heavy pressure hung over the internet cafe like a mountain.

That feeling was a hundred times more terrifying than when Dean Yan Shaozhe had come!

"This aura..." Lu Yuan narrowed his eyes.

"Oh no, oh no! The boss is here!" Red King, who had been sprawled on the sofa playing games, sprang up as if electrocuted.

Its red fur instantly stood on end, and terrified expressions appeared on all three heads.

Without another word, it skillfully crawled beneath a computer desk, hugged its heads, and trembled. "Can't see me... can't see me... I'm just an ordinary dog..."

Wang Qiuer beside it was not nearly as frightened. She merely took off her headphones in annoyance, pouting as she complained, "Why is Uncle Di Tian here? The signal is so bad that I got disconnected!"

A deafening clap of thunder exploded directly above the internet cafe.

Then, a grand, icy voice filled with fury pierced through the soundproof glass of the internet cafe and boomed in everyone's ears:

"Ignorant humans! You dare imprison the auspicious beast of my Star Dou Great Forest!"

"Today, I shall flatten this place and make you pay for your greed!!"

Along with that roar, a black dragon claw large enough to cover the heavens emerged from the clouds, carrying world-destroying dark energy as it slammed viciously toward the tiny glass building!

With this blow, forget the building—even a Titled Douluo would be reduced to ashes in an instant.

Inside the internet cafe, Xu Sanshi, Bei Bei, Dai Huabin, and the others went deathly pale.

Before this godlike pressure, they could not even move a finger.

"It's over... we're going to die..."

But just as the dragon claw was about to touch the roof, the Origin Internet Cafe sign lit up with a flash of white light.

The ferocious dragon claw struck something like an indestructible steel plate.

An immense rebound force erupted instantly.

"Aooo—!" A pained and startled dragon roar came from within the clouds.

The massive black claw recoiled, and several black dragon scales could even be seen falling from the sky.

Xu Sanshi's mouth fell open as he looked from the completely unharmed glass ceiling to the enormous black shadow outside, clutching its claw.

"It... blocked it?"

"What is that glass made of? It can even withstand an attack from that kind of monster?"

Standing at the entrance, Lu Yuan dusted himself off and helplessly picked up the large megaphone used for announcements.

He shouted at the black dragon in the sky, which was both furious and bewildered.

"Hey! Mister up there! Violent demolition is illegal!"

"Also, that slap of yours interfered with my shop's signal."

"All my customers got disconnected. Shouldn't we discuss compensation for their emotional distress?"

In the sky.

Di Tian clutched his numb claw, his golden vertical pupils fixed tightly on the young man with no soul power fluctuations at all.

He could not understand it.

He was the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King with eight hundred ninety thousand years of cultivation! The strongest being in the world! Yet his full-power strike had failed to shatter even a glass building? It had nearly broken his hand instead?

"You... who exactly are you?" Di Tian asked uncertainly.

At that moment, a crisp system notification sounded beside Lu Yuan's ear.

[Ding! Ultimate BOSS detected—Beast God Di Tian.]

[Emergency mission triggered: Pacify the Beast God's fury.]

[Mission requirement: Without using force to suppress him, make Di Tian willingly enter the internet cafe and obtain a membership card to go online.]

[Mission reward: Unlock epic open-world game—The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.]

[Special reward: Qualification to learn Dragon Shout.]

Lu Yuan's eyes lit up.

Skyrim? Dragon Shouts?

Those were good things!

He looked at the black dragon still raging in the sky, and his gaze changed.

How was this some terrifying Beast God? This was clearly a Dragonborn being delivered right to his door!

Lu Yuan cleared his throat and gave the sky a friendly smile.

"Lord Di Tian, no need to get so worked up. Didn't you come looking for the auspicious beast? She's right here."

"And besides... don't you want to know why even a ferocious beast like Red King refuses to leave my place?"

"Come down and have a chat? I'll treat you to... a bottle of eighty-two Sprite."