Beast Taming: Invincible Breeder-Chapter 383 - 358: Time City Monster

Zhong Monarch, a Beast Master specializing in time and mechanical elements, was the Mechanical Emperor’s third disciple, possessing the legendary Beast Master talent [Ordered Time].

What players eagerly talked about was not his rare legendary time-based talent, but his genius inventions.

Zhong Monarch’s mechanical talent was a presence even more terrifying than his natural gifts.

It’s no exaggeration to say that as long as Zhong Monarch lives, the Mechanical City will remain a hundred years ahead in technological levels.

The mechanical diagram Li Cunxu wanted to obtain this time was one of Zhong Monarch’s inventions.

Li Cunxu stepped forward and set the hour hand on the pendulum clock to midnight.

At this moment, the pendulum wheel beneath the clock shook violently, its clear ticking growing louder in their ears until it echoed through the sky.

In a fleeting moment, Li Cunxu and Jiang Lingyun found themselves in a secret realm.

On a road paved with ancient tiles, bronze mechanical carriages shuttled through the streets, with pedestrians coming and going.

Jiang Lingyun felt a stranger’s sensation; unexpectedly, the sudden appearance of two people didn’t attract a single glance from the pedestrians.

"The people here... feel a bit strange."

"Strange indeed. They aren’t real people; they are bionic robots."

"Bionic robots?"

"Zhong Monarch is a nostalgic person, so in this secret realm, he meticulously recreated the Mechanical City from over seventy years ago. But with just a city and no people, it felt empty and lifeless. Hence, he added bionic robots to bring vitality to the city."

Bang~

A loud noise came from afar.

A steam train veered off the tracks, its chimney spewing thick black smoke, smashing buildings and grinding bionic robots, rushing towards Li Cunxu.

"Xiaoruan, Myriad Phenomena Domain."

The suppressive power of the Myriad Phenomena Domain slowly brought the speeding steam train to a halt.

A lord-level mechanical pet climbed from the locomotive’s front, its body a one-meter-tall smooth clock, with arms and legs like tubes and a long spear resembling clock hands on its back.

"Kill, kill, kill."

Even suppressed by the Myriad Phenomena Domain, the clock monster remained fixated on killing Li Cunxu, advancing even if crawling.

The clock monster, a time-based mechanical pet developed by Zhong Monarch, was corrupted by the Crowned Evil God’s power due to Zhong Monarch’s death because of it, polluting the Time City Monster within the secret realm via the Beast Taming Contract.

Time City Monster, the final evolution of the clock monster.

The evolutionary line of the clock monster: Watch Monster — Clock Monster — Clock Tower Monster — Time City Monster.

This corrupted Time City Monster is unique; it is the mechanical mother and the source of all clock monsters. Its pollution meant that all subsequently born Watch Monsters would be corrupted and assimilated by the Evil God.

To avoid becoming the lackey of its master’s enemy, the Crowned Evil God, and being used by him, the Time City Monster forcibly channeled the River of Time to resist the Crowned Evil God’s power.

Its method was correct.

The power of the River of Time can counter the power of the Crowned Evil God.

But it underestimated the terror of the River of Time, also truly angering the Crowned Evil God.

Its body got infected by the River of Time, undergoing terrifying changes, becoming permanently frozen in that period, immune to the effects of time and immune to true death.

Even if killed, it resurrects the next second from that frozen moment.

Is it a good change?

Not entirely.

First, it can never advance in realm.

If you were a King in that frozen time, you remain a King forever.

Second, its range is restricted.

If it moves slightly afar, its body resets in that frozen time.

In stirring the power of the River of Time to oppose the Crowned Evil God, the Time City Monster caused the Evil God nearly to contract a hint of the Time River’s aura—a peril feared even by the Time Guardian, Master of Endless Time.

The Master of Endless Time, who even the Crowned Evil God fears greatly. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

A little king almost brought him such a formidable enemy, and the angry and humiliated Crowned Evil God wished to wipe out the Time City Monster completely, but its body was fixed by the River of Time, annihilated a moment before, resurrecting a moment later.

Forcing a divine avatar to descend, even if frozen by the River of Time, could still annihilate it.

However, such a move was excessive; wasting an avatar on a king-level mechanical pet wasn’t worthwhile.

But without killing it, the vexation remained unsolved.

Thus, the Crowned Evil God used a cost-effective method, forcibly embedding a special killing rule immune to time reset into the Time City Monster’s consciousness, destroying its mind.

Thus, the Time City Monster became a mindless, killing-only creature, with all the Watch Monsters it birthed affected by the special killing rule, becoming exceedingly bloodthirsty.

The Watch Monsters it spawned were also influenced by the River of Time, as well as the effect of the killing rule.

Just like this, Xiaoruan’s Myriad Phenomena Domain squashed the rushing clock monster, which then respawned seconds later due to a time reset.

Every Watch Monster born of it possesses such a capability.

The time reset of the clock monster differs from the Curse Crow reset, with a 50% failure chance on resurrection, extinguishing its True Spirit.

When a person dies, the soul remains.

When a soul dies, the True Spirit remains.

The True Spirit is the mark of existence of a person in the world.

Once the True Spirit is gone, even the most potent Resurrection Technique becomes useless, unless one goes upstream in the River of Time to rescue the person while their True Spirit still exists.

However, such an act would incur the notice of the Master of Endless Time, whom even the four gods would prefer to avoid.

Additionally, with each resurrection, the clock monster’s corrosion by the River of Time deepens, and once fully consumed, it would vanish from the world, becoming one of the numerous Time Guardians of the River.

Time Guardians maintain the stability of the River of Time.

When someone disrupts the River of Time, the Time Guardians will intervene, and if they fail, the Master of Endless Time will take action.

Time Guardians are essentially the vanguard for the Master of Endless Time.

If they can’t solve the matter, the Master of Endless Time will personally intervene.

The newly revived clock monster, pinned down, threw its long spear akin to a clock hand; its speed in the air was extraordinarily fast, all because the spear was imbued with the power of time acceleration.

With a gentle exertion of Xiaoruan’s Myriad Phenomena Domain, the perfectly arced clock-hand spear plunges straight into the ground.

The tiles around the clock-hand spear weather at an incredibly fast pace.

The head of the clock-hand spear is imbued with the power of time aging; any ordinary person stabbed could instantly age by a hundred or two years.

Li Cunxu released the Curse Crow.

"Xiaoruan, finish it off."

"Curse Crow, quickly absorb the power of the Time Domain released upon its death."

Seconds later, the clock monster went through another time reset due to Curse Crow siphoning some of the Time Domain power, causing its level to drop somewhat.