Worthless Profession: Dragon Tamer

Chapter 725, Carpet Search

Translator: Silavin

Lu Fan discovered that he had underestimated a Skill like Fallen Corpse Control.

In fact, after Fallen Corpse Puppet had undergone continuous upgrades and could now be controlled without distance restrictions, allowing them to freely roam away from him, it had turned into something like a Divine Skill!

Because of this, Lu Fan could let his Fallen Corpse Puppets hunt Monsters while he could lie back and collect Experience Points.

And searching for specific monsters on the Map became effortless.

Looking back at how he had wasted so many potential Fallen Corpse Puppets before, the carcasses he left behind, Lu Fan truly felt some lingering regret.

However, coming to this realisation now was still a good thing. Better late than never.

When more Red Ghosts and Ice Rock Giants were killed, Lu Fan no longer wasted their carcasses, crafting them all into Fallen Corpse Puppets to wander freely across the entire Despair Ice Plains, searching for traces of Ice Crystal Beasts.

As for the other Fallen Corpse Puppets, Lu Fan dispatched them all as well.

Although the Monsters here were incredibly powerful, and many of the weaker Fallen Corpse Puppets that Lu Fan had kept in reserve were destroyed upon encountering them, Lu Fan was continuously killing Red Ghosts and Ice Rock Giants, turning them into new Fallen Corpse Puppets.

Therefore, the number of Fallen Corpse Puppets was actually increasing constantly, and their footprints began spreading outward, covering various parts of the Despair Ice Plains.

Originally, Ice Crystal Beasts were considered rare Bosses in the Despair Ice Plains.

Lu Fan, having encountered two previously, was already an extremely fortunate event.

But across the vast Despair Ice Plains, the number of Ice Crystal Beasts naturally would not be limited to just that.

So three hours later, a Red Ghost Fallen Corpse Puppet indeed encountered another Ice Crystal Beast.

The Ice Crystal Beast did not realise this Red Ghost had become a Fallen Corpse Puppet, and still behaved as before, taking pleasure in killing Red Ghosts, destroying this Red Ghost.

How could it know that by casually killing a Red Ghost, it had actually brought upon great trouble upon itself?

In just twenty minutes, Lu Fan arrived riding Ye Sha, the fastest Mount he had, the Ice Crystal Beast had not gone far before being successfully intercepted. It was given a thorough beating, and dragged back to Shadow Isle.

This Ice Crystal Beast seemed even more ‘stubborn’ than the previous ones. Even after two full hours, it showed no intention of becoming Qin Qiu’s or Tao Xiaoman’s Extra Pet.

However, Qin Qiu, seeing this Ice Crystal Beast was truly too pitiful, used her First Profession Skill to heal its wounds.

It was precisely this action that moved the Ice Crystal Beast.

It was also possible that it felt it could not escape Lu Fan’s grasp. So in any case, it eventually obediently became Qin Qiu’s Pet.

Now only Tao Xiaoman was left without an Ice Crystal Beast.

If only Han Ke had one, Tao Xiaoman naturally would not have minded. Yet now, she was the only one without one, and her disappointment was visible to the naked eye.

Lu Fan laughed heartily, patted her head, and told her to wait a little longer. He would definitely bring back another Ice Crystal Beast.

Afterwards, Lu Fan returned to the Despair Ice Plains again, continuing to craft Fallen Corpse Puppets and search across the Despair Ice Plains, continuing to look for other Ice Crystal Beasts.

This time, Lu Fan searched for half a day, yet his Fallen Corpse Puppets provided no feedback about encountering Ice Crystal Beasts.

Seeing that his Fallen Corpse Puppets’ footprints had already covered thousands of kilometres around the Despair Ice Plains yet still had not found a fourth Ice Crystal Beast, Lu Fan began to wonder whether he had wiped out all the nearby Ice Crystal Beasts?

Just as Lu Fan was about to give up and decided to head to the Frost Dragon Ruins first, planning to help Tao Xiaoman look for newly refreshed Ice Crystal Beasts when he returned, Divine Bone Clone suddenly detected something unusual and brought Lu Fan surprising news.

About five hundred kilometres from Lu Fan’s current location, there was an enormous ice cave.

Although the ice cave’s entrance was not large, it was lined up with quite a few Red Ghost carcasses.

Divine Bone Clone had originally wanted to investigate the situation at close range but was hit by an Ice Roar, blasted from within the ice cave. This proves that there very likely was an Ice Crystal Beast inside the cave.

Divine Bone Clone was a Level 95 Epic Boss with considerable strength.

However, it was still at a disadvantage in terms of Level. When encountering an Ice Crystal Beast, while it could ensure it maintained the upper hand, attacking the easily defensible ice cave to see whether there really was an Ice Crystal Beast inside proved to be too difficult for it.

Thus, Lu Fan could only personally investigate the situation.

In no time, Lu Fan arrived at Divine Bone Clone’s location.

At this moment, Divine Bone Clone was still engaged with whatever existed within the ice cave.

But calling it engagement was really just Divine Bone Clone taking a one-sided beating.

The opponent hid within the ice cave, unleashing Ice Roar after Ice Roar, while Divine Bone Clone’s attacks could not find their mark, only able to continuously absorb the opponent’s Damage with Bone Shield.

Although Divine Bone Clone had not sustained serious injuries, at this moment its entire body was covered with ice crystals, clearly still affected by the opponent’s Skills.

“Well done!” Lu Fan gestured, recalling Divine Bone Clone into the Puppet Sub-Space to slowly recover its Health Pool.

Simultaneously, Lu Fan turned his attention to that ice cave.

This ice cave was carved into a snowy mountain’s slope. It was not large but not small either, roughly able to accommodate four or five people entering side by side. It was definitely big enough for Ice Crystal Beasts to come and go from here.

Compared to the vast Despair Ice Plains, such an ice cave indeed was not particularly conspicuous.

However, before the ice cave lay the carcasses of over a dozen Red Ghosts, all frozen solid, which was rather eye-catching.

Even so, being able to discover such a place meant Divine Bone Clone had definitely performed a great service.

Through the previous Ice Roars, Lu Fan was basically certain that there was definitely an Ice Crystal Beast within the ice cave.

The Red Ghost carcasses at the entrance were most likely its food reserves.

However, given the Ice Crystal Beast’s strength and the distribution of Red Ghosts throughout the Despair Ice Plains, theoretically the Ice Crystal Beast should not need to store food reserves.

[Never mind that. What matters is that there is definitely an Ice Crystal Beast in this ice cave.] Lu Fan simply stopped overthinking and directly summoned Xiao Ye. Without wasting words, he unleashed Lava Blaze, pouring it toward the ice cave.

Of course, Lu Fan also had Xiao Ye hold back somewhat. After all, Fire Element Skills dealt considerable damage to Ice Element Monsters like Ice Crystal Beasts, and Lu Fan did not want to seriously injure the Ice Crystal Beast.

As Lava Blaze poured down, the Monster within the ice cave began releasing Skills to counterattack.

However, compared to Dragon Language Magic, the opponent’s Skills were clearly outmatched and were quickly defeated.

Thus, the ice cave was continuously being destroyed.

But then, something occurred that completely shocked Lu Fan.