**Chapter 92: Sudden Encounter with a Giant Beast**
A deafening explosion erupted from the depths of the jungle, mingled with the screams of apprentices and the roars of magical beasts.
Due to the sealed planar barrier, the apprentices’ descent was nothing short of a disaster.
They were scattered like seeds sown haphazardly across this primeval forest, their landing points random and dispersed.
As time dragged on, the entire forest transformed into a chaotic battlefield in an instant.
Some apprentices were ambushed by low-tier magical beasts the moment they landed, forced to fight in haste.
Others, while searching for companions, found themselves surrounded by beasts, their cries for help echoing endlessly.
Some, less fortunate, plummeted straight into traps set by the native inhabitants, sparking immediate conflicts.
Naturally, Jie Ming also encountered an enemy.
To be precise, it was another unlucky apprentice who had crossed paths with a magical beast, and Jie Ming was merely caught in the crossfire.
With an enraged bellow, the ground itself trembled.
In the distant jungle, towering trees toppled one after another, the oppressive presence of an approaching giant beast palpable.
Jie Ming had no intention of fleeing. According to the energy readings from his Analysis Technique, the beast was likely a First-Rank creature, within his capability to handle.
“Perfect. Let’s test the strength of this world’s creatures.”
Raising his palm toward the restless jungle, a metallic bracer appeared on his wrist, unnoticed until now.
Embedded with ten “gems,” the bracer glowed faintly as Jie Ming’s spiritual force activated it.
Each gem was a runic artifact, meticulously refined by Jie Ming through multiple iterations.
Since the last academy trial, he had abandoned the wizarding world’s myriad elemental attacks, opting instead for the purest form of energy bolts.
While energy bolts lacked the raw destructive power of elemental sorcery, their greatest advantage was immunity to countermeasures from other spells or creatures.
Though formed of energy, their unique structure allowed them to function as physical projectiles unaffected by gravity, delivering pure physical damage.
Due to their specialized design, energy bolts could be compressed for piercing damage or detonated for explosive impact, both resulting in unadulterated physical force.
A few breaths later, a disheveled wizard apprentice burst from the dense forest, followed closely by the massive beast causing the commotion.
The fleeing apprentice froze upon seeing Jie Ming standing in his path but quickly understood the look in his eyes. Without hesitation, he dove to the side, rolling away.
With the crisp sound of snapping trees, a beast over ten meters tall crashed into view. Its rough, heavy gray skin was covered in rock-like armor, with two rows of sharp bone spikes running along its spine to its massive tail. Each casual swing of the tail uprooted bushes and scattered earth.
Its head resembled a giant crocodile, with murky yellow vertical pupils glinting with cruelty and hunger. Its gaping maw revealed jagged, dagger-like fangs, and a foul stench wafted from afar.
Its four limbs, sturdy as pillars, made the solid ground quake with every step.
A deafening roar tore through the air, carrying primal strength and fury as it charged toward Jie Ming.
Clearly, it had identified the new figure blocking its “fleeing prey” as its next target.
Jie Ming’s expression remained unshaken. He steadily raised his arm, and the ten “gems” on his bracer glowed in unison, floating around it like a radiant halo encircling his wrist.
A low hum resonated from the bracer as a stream of power surged through its intricate structure.
“Not bad strength. Let’s start with the energy level of a Third-Rank apprentice…”
The next moment, a storm engulfed the space before him.
*Swish, swish, swish…*
Blazing white streams of highly condensed energy shot forth at speeds barely perceptible to the naked eye, pouring relentlessly from his wrist!
Each energy bolt resembled a compressed cannonball, its tip glowing faintly red from air friction, trailing a fleeting streak of light.
The ten gems on Jie Ming’s bracer lit up rhythmically, each glow signaling the launch of several energy bolts.
This was Jie Ming’s cooling mechanism for his runic artifacts.
Drawing inspiration from a certain “Gatling Doctor” from his previous life, he had applied the concept to his runic artifact design.
When one rune fired an energy bolt, it immediately entered cooldown, while another rune took over instantly, cycling continuously.
This ensured a relentless high-frequency barrage while giving each runic artifact ample time to cool, preventing overheating and enabling near-infinite sustained firepower.
In his standard combat stance, Jie Ming employed ten runic artifacts embedded in special bracers on each wrist.
These artifacts were ingeniously designed, taking up minimal space and concealing their aura in standby mode, but unfolding into twin halos of light during battle.
In this stance, he could fire fifty energy bolts per second, weaving a dense net of firepower.
The attack frequency was scalp-numbingly intense, like a blazing white whip of pure physical force, relentlessly lashing the beast’s massive frame!
*Bang, bang, bang, bang!!!*
A dense barrage, like torrential rain striking an iron plate, erupted!
The first wave of strikes landed precisely on the beast’s broad chest and shoulder area.
Its tough gray armor was relentlessly eroded by the pure energy impacts, each bolt exploding with visible ripples of compressed air.
The beast’s hard keratin layers shattered and peeled under the brutal physical onslaught!
Its initial roar turned into a cry of pained fury!
The beast had never experienced such a dense, utterly “unreasonable” barrage of pure force.
Its massive body staggered backward under the relentless kinetic energy, each step leaving deep craters in the ground.
The bone spikes capable of smashing rocks emitted faint cracking sounds under the surging shockwaves!
The beast, which had always rampaged unchecked in this jungle, was clearly stunned.
It instinctively tried to raise its massive forelimbs to crush the annoying speck, but the torrential energy bolts battered its limbs, preventing it from exerting strength and flipping it over instead.
It twisted its body to dodge, but the light whip followed like a shadow.
Its yellow vertical pupils clearly reflected the steady human figure and the strange metallic ring spewing destructive streams—a device eroding its defenses in a way it couldn’t comprehend.