Infront of Richard's eyes was a flaming world.However that is not why Richard was shocked,because in the middle of the flames lay a sleeping beast releasing a pressure that made him unable to move.
Richard didn't know if he was unlucky to be teleported near the beast or if he was lucky that it was asleep.
He stood still and held his breath,afraid he might wake it.He remembered thus was one of the beasts that reached Refinement 9 stage,meaning it was an overlord in this secret realm.Richard looked around to see if there were any other beast around and was happy there were no other beasts at least.
He quietly backed away and was ready to walk in the direction of the light when he suddenly heard a soft cry.
"Nyaw!"
His heart pounded hard and skipped a beat in fright as he turned around towards the cry.There he saw a small beast,identical to the overlord but only smaller,infront of him.
'Is this thing it's child?'
The little beast looked at him curiously as it approached showing no fear at all.It was used to the fact that no beast in the secret realm would dare to harm it because it was the child of two overlord beasts.
"Nyaw!"
"Shhh!Quiet little one,we don't want to wake your mother?father?Now would we?I will just be on my way and get out of your fur."
Richard said as he quieted the beast and continued walking away silently.The little beast looked angry as Richard ignored it and pounced at him.
"Nyaw!"(How dare you ignore me!)
Richard was surprised and instinctively enhanced his body with energy and hit at the little beast.The little beast was only at Refinement stage level 1 so it was sent flying.
"Nyaw!"(Mommy help!Someone hurt me!)
Richard was frozen in place as it looked at the little beast crying for help a day then at the sleeping beast.He saw the beast didn't wake up at its cry and kept sleeping.
"Phew,quiet down little beast we don't want to wake..."
However before he could finish his words he felt a hot breath from behind and a growling in his ear.He gulped as he turned around and saw a beast that looked just like the sleeping beast but just more slender standing not far from him looking at him dangerously.
The beast released a pressure just as intimidating as the sleeping beast meaning it was also Refinement 9 stage.The little beast ran towards the beast and cried towards it.
"Nyaw!"(It was him,he was the one who hurt me mommy.Kill him!)
'Fuck me!'
"Roar!"
It roared at Richard and pounced towards him ready to bite him to death.Richard gathered his energy and turned it into a light sword and grabbed it.The light sword dragged Richard out of the way and he narrowly dodged the bite.
'I may not be able to fight it at the moment however I can use my ability to runaway.'
He continued to use the light sword to drag himself away from the beast and tried to runaway.The beast was stunned at first when it saw such a weak prey was able to escape its bite however it didn't last long as it started to chase Richard.
Although Richard had the light attribute making him faster than others he was still outmatched in terms of strength so the beast caught up quickly.
"Bang!"
"Crack!"
Richard was hit with its paw and was sent flying.His ribs and left arm were broken causing him to cough up blood.He looked up and saw the beast was infront of him again.
He reached into his pocket and took out the medallion he got from Theo and sent his energy into it,he was ready to use it.The beast suddenly stopped and looked at the medallion warily as I could sense the threat of death from it.The sleeping beast also woke up when it sensed the threat and came to stand beside its wife looking at Richard cautiously.
'Fuck this thing is such a huge threat to them! It must have a strong attack stored inside,though it is a pity I can only use it five times.'
Richard coughed as he stood up and pointed the medallion towards the beasts making them back away.
"Haha,now you want to stop.You know what,now I want to use this thing just to see how powerful it is."
"Nyaw!"(You bastard! I'll kill you!)
The little beast didn't sense any threat because it was too weak and didn't understand why its parents were backing away.However it became mad when it saw Richard mocking them while showing this thing that made its parents hesitate.
It wanted to rush up but was pulled back by its mother while the father growled at Richard threateningly to leave.Richard felt if he stayed any longer the father might pounce on him in desperation to give its family time to escape so he started to leave.
Richard ran in the direction of the light while looking around him warily incase those beasts followed him.He kept the medallion in his hand ready to release an attack at any moment.As he ran numerous beast wanted to attack him but were scared off by the deterrence of the medallion by Richard every time.
When he reached the location of the inheritance he saw two people standing in front of a palace.They were the quiet red hair and the beast like man Antoer.They looked up and saw it was Richard however they ignored him since he wasn't worth their attention.If it wasn't for the fact that he was the key to the inheritance they wouldn't even bat an eye at his death.
Richard saw they didn't care and shrugged his shoulders and put away the medallion,he sat down to recover while waiting for the other two to join them.He knew they will need everyone to challenge the inheritance to have a higher chance of survival.
Ten minutes later,after taking a healing serum,Richard was fully healed and the other two had arrived.They were waiting for Richard to recover so they can enter the palace.
"So how do I do this?"Richard asked.
"Usually for inheritances that need recognition you need to inject energy into the seal.So since the seal is on the door try injecting your energy into it."
Amanda explained as she suggested to Richard.He ten came up to the door and injected his energy into it causing the door to tremble and open slowly.When the door was fully open they couldn't see the inside of the palace and only saw darkness.Richard gulped and then gestured to the others.
"After you."
The others snorted at his cowardice and entered.Richard waited for the last one to go in then he entered.