Another World Trip: Journey with My Cat and an Otaku Loli Goddess Chapter 236 - The Trope Of Calling Lightning Thunder

However, Long Di shook his head. “That’s not a Mammoth Thunder Rhino. That thing is the unholy matrimony of rhino and dragon.”

Yaomu Shou’s brain blew a fuse when he said this. “Come again!?”

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The knowledge hewn from the bestiary he read was now showing its usefulness.

“It’s the Thunder Dragon Rhino. Look there.” he then pointed to the rough patches that were all over.

When Yaomu Shou looked closer, she saw that what she thought were rough patches of its skin were actually tiny silver scales.

Of course, Yaomu Shou knew of the Thunder Dragon Rhino, but being able to tell the difference between magical beasts wasn’t the easiest thing to do. Especially when some were so similar to each other, she had to admit that Long Di was useful in his own right.

“Of course, the bestiary said nothing about the ornate nature of its horn,” he added, paying attention to the lightning flickering on its horn.

Contrary to its name and Long Di’s out-of-pocket description, the Thunder Dragon Rhino was neither a member of the dragon race nor even a distant cousin.

However, because its bloodline contained trace amounts of dragon blood, more accurately the Deiform Thunder Dragons’ blood, this allowed it to undergo a type of mutation.

Nevertheless, even though the magical beast only had trace amounts of dragon blood in its body, that was enough to make it a powerhouse among magical beasts of the same realm.

With that being said, this was an overlord class rank 4 magical beast!

In fact, the modicum of dragon blood rushing through its vein granted such a boon to its strength that it wasn’t inferior to some early-stage rank 5 magical beasts.

As a result, not even Star Core Martial Masters would carelessly engage in fights with such an overlord-class rank four magical beast.

Of course, the more than a dozen demon race experts fighting the Thunder Dragon Rhino could give a firsthand account of this.

Based on the aura they gave off and the cauldrons they featured, these experts were all within the Core Formation realm and the early stages of the Core Formation realm at that. They were all Two Core Martial Adepts at the most.

Even though there were over a dozen of them, for these Martial Adepts to go against an overlord class rank 4 magical beast was nothing short of courting death.

Initially, when Yaomu Shou saw the demon race experts fighting the magical beast, she was indifferent, but when she really honed in on them, her expression changed.

Krrrrshh!

Boom!

At the same moment, the Thunder Dragon Rhino stamped on the ground with its two powerful front feet, rocking the landscape all around!

Lightning crackled along the patches of silver scales before it took off into a run. Its target was a demon with a large brown shield.

There was a carving of a mountain that pierced the sky engraved on it, giving it an air of immovability and absolute defence!

“Senior apprentice-brother Nao Shan!” yelled a demon.

“Come!” Nao Shan released a battle cry as the cauldrons sped up behind him.

The shield he held released a brilliant glow, proving that it was a spiritual artefact.

“Mountain and Sky Shield!”

The carving of the mountain and sky on the shield lit up. A faint image of the mountain and sky appeared before the shield.

By now the Thunder Dragon Rhino was already upon him and, with its blade-like horn slammed into the mountain and sky manifestation.

Bang!

The mountain and sky shook under the force the rhino carried with it!

Shu!

Boom!

A figure flew out from the point of impact before crashing into a nearby tree. Blood stained his robes and his listless body that slid down the tree did little to confirm his life or death.

“No! S-Senior apprentice brother Nao Shan!” one of the female cultivators of the group had tears streaming down her face as she shakily held her weapon.

“Watch out!” Another one warned her to keep her wits about her or else she would end up the same way further weakening their power.

Yaomu Shou then turned her attention to Long Di. “We need… what are you eating!?”

Yaomu Shou looked to see Long Di and Mina with a box of confectionaries that she had never seen before. It had a buttery, yet sweet and salty smell to it.

“Popcorn,” Long Di answered her.

“Want some?” he then took out a handful and held it out for her to take.

“Oooh, I never had these before. Where’d you get it?” Yaomu Shou asked.

“It’s mine,” answered Mina. “it’s one of the few things I carried with me from the realm of the gods.”

“Well, it tastes godly,” Long Di stated.

Yaomu Shou nodded. “I have to agree it tastes… what the hell am I doing!?”

“Enjoying yourself,” both Long Di and Mina answered at the same time.

“We need to help them!” Yaomu Shou just remembered what she needed to say.

“Whhyyyy?” asked Long Di as he downed another handful of popcorn. He wasn’t necessarily heartless by any means, but his sympathy well was bottomed out for today. They could thank Yuanshi Yi for that.

He had a shirt back home that read ‘I can only please one person a day. Today isn’t your day. Tomorrow doesn’t look good either.’ He lived that mantra at the moment and his question proved it.

“They’re my comrades,” she nearly yelled out as she unashamedly grabbed a handful of popcorn for herself.

“Huh…” was Long Di’s first reaction before he followed up with, “This may make little sense in the beginning, but uh… stay with me here. Could you please keep one hand on the steering wheel, put the other one on the gear stick, ram it in reverse, and back the hell up? Where did this come from?”

Yaomu Shou couldn’t even begin to decipher the more than 84% bullcrap that Long Di spoke and just went for the 16% she could understand, answering. “The Yaomu family have a sort of deal with certain families in the demon race! They and their sects and/or families are supposed to help us in changing certain things within the region. They’re annoying, but I can’t lose the young leaders here!”

“Quick question,” Long Di asked calmly.

“What!?” Yaomu Shou was about to go crazy when she saw how nonchalantly Long Di was treating the whole situation.

“Why do you guys call it a Thunder Rhino when it's doling out electricity? Plus, it came from the Thunder Dragon bloodline when the Thunder Dragon is wretched in lightning. Am I the only one that sees something wrong with that picture? Do you people not know what lightning is? I can hold a class if you like. Seriously, it’s like you guys went with me to the pet store, watched me sign the papers, take the pet home before you decided to peeve it. I ask you… why??”

This was a question that gnawed at him for years when he was reading cultivation novels.

Yaomu Shou’s face was red with rage. “You!”

“No, no, he’s got a point there,” Mina came in clutch to support Long Di once more. “I’ve always wondered why you people do that. For the life of me, I wonder to myself, these people ponder the very workings of the universe and yet, they don’t what thunder is. You know it’s sound, right?”

“Right!?” Long Di was surprised that Mina was the only voice of reason here.

“Bah!!!!” Yaomu Shou was going crazy and had half a mind to strangle both of them! Could they not ask these questions later!?

“Fine…” Long Di got up and activated his Profound Myriad Heavenseize Physique.

Whoosh!

A surge of flames erupted from his body in an explosive blazing inferno before a portion of it wreathed him in its cloth entirely.