Max Level Return—I'll Protect That Fragile One

The black beast agilely shuttled through the jungle like a black sword drawn from its scabbard, appearing dozens of meters away in the blink of an eye.

Xu Xingguang initially managed to barely keep up with its pace, but her mortal body ultimately couldn’t compare to the beast’s physique, and she was quickly left behind.

Encountering a three-meter-wide ravine, the black beast only crouched and kicked, its body lightly leaping over the ravine, landing steadily on the slope of the opposite bank. It didn’t pause in its movements and instantly vanished into the forest.

Xu Xingguang was gasping for breath, forced to stop.

”Eagle Sparrow!”

The pitch-black steel combat mecha suddenly appeared in the forest, kneeling on one knee and opening the cockpit door towards Xu Xingguang.

Xu Xingguang stepped onto its palm, leaping into the cockpit, and activated Eagle Sparrow’s controller using spiritual power, piloting it to race through the forest valley, pursuing the direction where the black monster disappeared.

Huo Wen’an ran to the edge of the ravine, staring at the iron monster’s footprints and the traces left by the beast. He gasped harshly, then suddenly weakened, sitting down heavily on the ground.

With Eagle Sparrow around, the beast shouldn’t harm Xingguang.

Thinking of this, Huo Wen’an sat onto a rock, resigning himself completely.

In the primordial forest, the black monster bolted towards the depths of the No-man District, followed closely by Xu Xingguang.

After half an hour of continuous running, the speed of the black beast visibly slowed down. Even a beast reaches a moment of exhaustion.

Noticing the beast’s decreasing speed, Xu Xingguang accelerated.

Eagle Sparrow was like a gust of wind, stirring the fallen leaves in the forest into a vortex wherever it went.

Boom!

Eagle Sparrow intercepted the beast, blocking its path.

The beast looked up at the mech, eyes filled with deep vigilance and terror. It turned to flee in another direction when Xu Xingguang jumped down from the cockpit of Eagle Sparrow.

She landed in front of the beast, turned around, and her starry eyes locked onto the beast’s gaze.

In an instant, an overwhelming deterrent force surged towards the black beast from all directions.

The beast’s body became stiff, losing control over itself, forced to gaze upward and meet Xu Xingguang’s eyes.

At the moment their eyes met, a cold, commanding female voice echoed in the beast’s consciousness: ”Sit down!”

The black beast reluctantly sat down.

Xu Xingguang walked towards the beast, and getting closer, suddenly squatted down, looking up at it.

With a trembling right hand, Xu Xingguang gently placed her palm on the beast’s peculiar face, her red lips moved for a long time before she hoarsely whispered: ”Grandfather...”

The black beast made no sound, but its ink-black eyes trembled crazily.

Tears formed circles in the beast’s eyes.

At the earlier glancing moment on the iron cable bridge, Xu Xingguang had sensed a peculiar aura in the beast’s Beast Soul. It was not merely a beastly aura but a human one!

Master Mo Xiao said she was chosen by the world consciousness as the solitary hope, cycling through various worlds, not to suffer but to be trained.

Previously, Xu Xingguang felt puzzled and did not understand why the world consciousness sent her to the Beast Tamer’s world. Until today, from the black beast’s Beast Soul, she felt the familiar aura of an old acquaintance, which made her understand the world consciousness’s arrangement intent.

She guessed—

The current world is the rebooted world. The Mortal World before its reboot is very likely already erased by the Divine Martial Realm.

Morality does not allow the ’Divine’ of Divine Martial Realm to massacre alike, but it permits them to slaughter beasts. Hence, mutating Mortal World humans into beasts was their first step in implementing the ’Mortal World Clearing Plan.’

This plan eventually succeeded.

And this world has independently existed for two thousand years, having developed its independent world consciousness early on. The Mortal World was cleared, and the ’independent consciousness’ awoke. Unwilling to see the Mortal World cleared, and billions of citizens devastated, the world consciousness finally found the ’Reincarnation Mirror’ that accidentally arrived in this world and called for help.

As the granddaughter of an important leader at the Neuroscience Research Institute, Xu Xingguang became the solitary hope.

The world consciousness selected the Beast Tamer’s world for her, hoping she could establish soul communication with the beasts and unveil the secret of humans mutated into beasts.