Lin Lei stood in front of Mate's body, looked for a moment and just sighed, then involuntarily touched the position of his abdomen.

  There was also a wound here, a wound that almost took his life.

  "You're far inferior to Nina." Lin Lei shook his head and sighed. He didn't have much of a relationship with Matt, they had only briefly met on the way here. The brief acquaintance was not enough for Lin Lei to trust him.

  All the more...

  After going through Nina's experience, how could Lin Lei easily turn his back on others?

  "Psst~~~" Little Shadow Mouse 'Bibi' also brought over the package on Mate's back at this time, and hastily transmitted a message to Lin Lei's soul, "Boss, quickly open it and take a look, see how many magic crystal nuclei are inside. This month, all the assassins who wanted to kill you didn't have as many magic crystal nuclei in their packages as the first assassin."

  Dellin Kowert appeared beside Lin Ray.

  "Lin Lei, this little Shadow Mouse you're raising seems to have a liking for Numerical Crystal Cores." Deling Kwovar said with a smile.

  "It seems like it." Lin Lei stretched out his hand and opened the package, while joking with Beibei, "Beibei, this time you killed that guy named Mate, but it looks like you didn't use your sharp teeth, instead you used your claws. Why didn't you use your most powerful teeth?"

  Bèi Bèi stood up straight, proudly letting out a "squeak" sound, and transmitted her voice saying: "Boss, my strength is quite formidable, my sharp claws are no worse than my teeth. And this Matt is too sinister, biting him would dirty my mouth." At the same time, Bèi Bèi also pretended to spit out water in disgust.

  A little mouse actually stood up and spat on purpose, its eyes were really too humanized, Lin Lei saw this scene and laughed.

  "Alright, huh, Beibei, look at this, there are still quite a few magic crystal cores in this package, about thirty or so. It seems that he hasn't been idle for the past month either. However, among these thirty or so magic crystal cores, the best ones are only fifth-grade beast crystal cores."

  Lin Lei carefully counted them up.

  For the past thirty or so days, he has been killing magical beasts or counter-killing some people who wanted to kill him, and in total, he has obtained more than three hundred magic crystal nuclei. The total price of these three hundred magic crystal nuclei is estimated by Lin Lei to be around 40,000 gold coins!

  "Forty thousand gold coins. If Father knew...". Thinking of presenting the forty thousand gold coins to his father, Lin Lei felt a surge of joy at the thought of his father's reaction.

  "It's normal that you can harvest so much." Dirk Cowart said beside him, "Among the more than 300 magic crystal nuclei you have, except for nearly fifty that you got by killing magical beasts yourself, the others were obtained from the packages of some killers."

  Lin Lei nodded in agreement.

  At first, the first killer who wanted to kill himself brought 15,000 gold coins for himself. The other few killers added up to just a little more than the first one.

  "The Demon Beast Mountains are very dangerous, so people usually enter the mountains in groups. Assassins generally won't attack a group of people because they specialize in killing enemies instantly. Therefore, assassins will usually target lone individuals."

  De Lin Ke Wo Te suddenly burst out laughing, his white beard rising up, "Lin Lei, look at you, don't look at your tall and majestic appearance, but the childishness on your face still exists, and the fluff on your lips all indicate one thing——"

  "You're still just a young man!"

  De Lin Ke Wo Te laughed loudly, "Lin Lei, in the vast Magic Beast Mountain Range, you said those assassins found a young boy with a childish face alone taking the trial, would they let you go? So, in just one short month, you've encountered several assassins."

  "Those who gather a group of friends to hunt together may not even encounter one killer in a month. Of course, when we entered the Magic Beast Mountain Range, those five were an exception. Firstly, they weren't strong enough, and secondly, the killer was too powerful. However, that killer ultimately met his demise at Beibei's hands."

  Lin Lei also smiled and nodded.

  He is only fifteen years old this year, although his body has reached 1.8 meters, but as long as he has a discerning eye, he can still see that Lin Lei is just a teenager.

  "Ordinary fifth- and sixth-level mages can only earn a few thousand gold coins in the Beast Mountain Range in a month. And those few thousand gold coins are hard-won, after all, the Beast Mountain Range is really too dangerous." Dillin Kowert sighed.

  Lin Lei nodded in agreement: "It's very dangerous, I've been trying to temper myself in the outer areas until now, and the most powerful magical beasts I've encountered are level 6, but there have been several times when I was injured. If it weren't for the Panlong Ring, if I weren't a dual-element mage with both earth and wind magic, if I weren't also a 4th-level warrior, and if I didn't have 'Bei Bei', I would probably be done for by now."

  Looking at Little Shadow Mouse 'Bebi', Bebi was playing with the Magic Beast Crystal Core at this time.

  Calm and composed, Lin Lei put away the demon beast crystal cores and set off again with Shadow Mouse, continuing his trial journey in the Demon Beast Mountain Range. After all, according to Lin Lei's original plan, he was supposed to spend two months in the Demon Beast Mountain Range.

  ……

  Every day, Lin Lei was fighting with the magical beasts, and his coordination of magic and warrior attacks became more precise. His actual combat experience with earth and wind system magic also became richer, and the probability of him getting injured became less and less. Of course, as Lin Lei unconsciously drew closer to the core area of the Magical Beast Mountain Range, the number of sixth-level magical beasts increased, and Lin Lei became more vigilant every day.

  On the forty-sixth day of Lin Lei's entry into the Magic Beast Mountain Range.

  "Wow~~~~"

  The calm lake surface suddenly produced ripples, and a figure emerged from the bottom of the lake. It was Lin Lei, who casually wiped his whole body with a cloth.

  Xiao Ying Mouse 'Bebi' was envious of Lin Lei washing up on the shore, so she let out a "squeak" and jumped directly into the air, then charged straight into the lake. Lin Lei just smiled when he saw this scene, and continued to wash up.

  "Haha, stop it, BeiBei, stop it." Lin Lei suddenly couldn't help but burst out laughing.

  "So the big boss is also afraid of being tickled." Xiaoying mouse excitedly jumped up from the lake surface, her black eyes flashing with a hint of triumph.

  Lin Lei smiled and got ashore, took out a clean set of clothes from his bundle and changed into them. After washing up and changing into the clean clothes, he felt refreshed and comfortable. Then Lin Lei washed the original dirty clothes by the lake and hung them on the branches of a nearby tree. With one leap, he jumped onto the branch of another big tree, half-reclined and watched as Little Shadow Mouse 'Bei Bei' frolicked in the lake water.

  Only saw 'Bebi' happily jumping out of the water one moment, and then rushing into the bottom of the water the next, sometimes swimming on the surface of the lake...

  "Pong!" "Pong!" "Pong!" "Pong!"...

  The ground suddenly emitted a faint tremor, and the rhythm of the tremor sounded like footsteps. Lin Lei's heart skipped a beat as he looked directly at the source of the sound - 100 meters south. He saw a tall, blurry shadow appear in the dense forest on the southern edge of the lake. Just for a moment, Lin Lei clearly saw his target.

  Its enormous body was as tall as a two-story building, with those huge fire-red scales that were like shields, and its sturdy limbs covered in scales. Especially that tail, which was half the length of its body, was as flexible and fast as a whip. Those eyes, which were as big as lanterns and as red as rubies, stared fixedly at the lake surface, while white gas flows containing sulfur smells kept spouting from its nostrils.

  Lin Lei's whole body was like a cat that had its tail stepped on, suddenly tense and excited.

  "Rapid Dragon, Seventh-Level Magic Beast 'Rapid Dragon'!"