Rebirth of the Prime Dragon Master
Chapter 149 Excelled, Yet Again

The Dark Heaven Insect was able to breed a kind of treasure that could adapt itself accommodatingfor the need to upgrade the spiritual power of the spirit manipulator. While in this vast Wild SpiritLand, such spirit-manipulated beasts were extremely precious and rare in species. It was said thatthey amounted to less than ten species. Compared to them, the Dark Heaven Insect was massive.For other species of the spirit-manipulated beast of its kind, these quantities were peculiarlyuncommon. Although, those rarer species could breed treasure, as the Dark Heaven Insect were themost wanted creatures. In order to upgrade their power, spirit manipulators of Supernal Stage oftenwandered around the Wild Spirit Land to capture similar spirit-manipulated beasts which couldbreed treasure. It was certain that the Wild Spirit Land was a boundless realm and the rare spirit-manipulated beast lived in the darker recesses or in the more dangerous parts of it. The opportunityto catch these insects was mostly negligible, but the search in the wilderness of the Wild Spirit Landcontinued irrespectively. After all, their power could be manifested once captured. Who would notwant to fight for that?

'What a pity! I should not have killed it. Had I known the Dark Heaven Insect was such a goldenspecies, I would have captured it alive. It could have elevated my powers to a higher level.’ Rockyregretted his haste actions after discovering the possibilities. He knew he couldn't bring it back tolife. It was too late. This couldn't have been undone. Somehow, he managed to acquire twomedium-level Black Heaven Eggs from the dead Black Heaven Insect. These two medium-level eggsserved as a major catalyst for the elevation of his powers at this stage.

Rocky was content. After all, half a loaf is better than none.

On the other hand, Marin and the deputy commander stared at the body of the Black Heaven Insectwith the same regretful face. Although, it was a good news that the culprit which ruined the villagewas annihilated, yet the better outcome was that the insect would've been captured alive. If onlythey had reached sooner...

"The base camp of the Crimson Dragon Group, thanks to the good timing and the advantageousposition of the camp, only keeps two Dark Heaven Insects of this species. Even if it is in the royalPalace City, there are only four to five insects of this kind that were caught alive. Which spiritmanipulator blindly murdered such a rare spirit-manipulated beast? Such a reckless waste ofgodsend treasure!" Deputy Commander Chen sighed as he shook his head in disapproval. Theculprit's justification could not make the remorse go away. After all, the Black Heaven Insect was aspirit-manipulated beast that one could not have asked for.

"Deputy Commander Chen, did you see Captain Rocky anywhere on the way here?” Marin inquiredthe moment she noticed.

"I did not. Neither did you, Commander?" Deputy Commander Chen shook his head in silence. Theyhadn't seen Rocky anywhere on their route. When they saw the Dark Heaven Insect in front of them,an unpleasant thought suddenly crossed his mind. He realized that if Rocky had encountered thisDark Heaven Insect, he probably wouldn't have survived. He did not want to imagine that. Jerkingoff the negative ideas, he went on.

"It's so weird that we haven't seen any traces of Rocky anywhere. Where on earth did he go? Or washe..." Marin, gawking at the Dark Heaven Insect, frowned upon the thought of Rocky being killed bythe creature.

"Commander, could he have been..." Neither of them could finish those sentences. Both of themknew what they were asking each other. Deputy Commander Chen's eyes ran up and down thebody of the Dark Heaven Insect as if he was scanning it.

"If he is dead, we can only hope that he is in a better place. There's nothing more we can do aboutit. It was praiseworthy that he could successfully bring the Dark Heaven Insect out of the village toavoid greater casualties. It was tough for him under his current base of power. But he made it. I wasproud of him,” Marin said in a pitiful tone. But she was truly surprised by Rocky's audacity andcalmness considering the fatal situation. The Dark Heaven Insect was way more powerful than him.He was merely a second- or third-level spirit manipulator of Mortal Stage. Yet, he maintained hiscomposure and made a decisive response to avert the crisis. Eventually, he led the Dark HeavenInsect out of the village successfully and stopped further destruction. This was truly beyond aregular spirit manipulator's power. Adding to this, during the execution of this task, the sixth unitunder Rocky's leadership captured the Three Powers at the Gehenna Border, the principle criminalwanted by the northeastern military camp. This exceptional performance is also credited to Rocky.After all, the sixth unit surprised everyone, especially those laughed at them, with their successiveachievements ever since he assumed leadershipy.

"It is really a shame,” Marin muttered to herself. No one knew whether she meant the death of theDark Heaven Insect or Rocky. She then ordered Deputy Commander Chen to bring the creature'sbody back to the camp to use the iron shell for forging weapons. She didn't want to waste whatthey had. "I have to go back to the military camp now.” She looked a little low in spirit as shefinished her command. Walking away, she approached the Verdanim and drove it away.

Following her, some soldiers worked out how to carry the Dark Heaven Insect back to thenortheastern military camp along with other soldiers and two units of spirit manipulators under theguidance of the Deputy Commander.

After all the people had left, Rocky slowly uncovered himself from under the sand dune.

"So, they all thought that I was dead. I wonder if they would be too dumbfounded if I just go backalive and well." An evil smile appeared on his face as he pictured another mischievous idea unfold,then led Uriah to get away from the sand dune.

At the northeastern military camp, the spirit manipulators of the sixth unit were waiting anxiously tohear from Rocky. Their miraculous team leader had unknowingly become the backbone of theirteam.

"Thor, do you think our captain can make it this time? Is he going to be okay?" Joss muttered toThor.

"That's nonsense. Of course, our captain will be alright. If anything happened to such a powerfulcaptain, who else would we ever count on?" Thor comforted him. Patting Joss’ shoulders, he maskedaway his own anxiety.

Just then, a giant dark green shadow of something flew across the sky bringing with it, a strongbreeze, arousing the sand and dust, as it slowly descended to the military camp.

"Commander..." Thor and Joss ran hurriedly at sight of its landing, with tears washing away theirfaces.

Marin had arrived. The Verdanim's was very fast. It didn't take her long to come back.

"Commander, where is our Captain?" Joss asked eagerly.

"The men we sent out to search for him, couldn't replace anything. But, I doubt he could...” Marin couldnot look them in the eyes and gave the unfortunate news. Before coming back to the military camp,she actually went back to look for him everywhere around the village, but there was no luck. Rockywas gone.

"No way! Our captain couldn't have... not so easily.” Thor and Joss read Marin's face instantly. Theylooked at each other with disbelief. It didn't seem real to them.

"All we found was the wild spirit-manipulated beast that assaulted the village. But it was alreadykilled by some sort of powerful spirit manipulator who must've happened to pass by. Rocky wouldhave been back if he had survived that accident. But now, it seems..." Actually, Marin did come backwith a little faith in her. She thought Rocky would be back at the military camp if he had escapedthat disaster. But when she saw the look on Thor and Joss’ faces, she knew Rocky wasn't comingback.

"Captain..." Thor and Joss grieved as they heard Marin's explanation. This belittled unit had just risenfrom ashes because of the new leadership. They could not believe the leader that brought thechange and hope to the unit was now...

Other spirit manipulators of the sixth unit stood there beside them, dejected, and sighing ingrievance. They won a Third-class Honor under Rocky's leadership, but he just passed away beforehe could be thanked and rewarded.

"Is the death of that kind of a lowly screwball worth our sorrow?" Evan sneered at the distressedteam members of the sixth unit.

"Even though, he did not survive the crisis, he did manage to handle it properly. He prevented thatspirit-manipulated beast from causing more destruction. Therefore, I shall confer a Second-classHonor to the sixth unit and the deceased, Captain Rocky.” Marin's sudden announcement surprisedall the people there.

Suddenly, the entire military camp seemed to be warmed up by her words.

Three other units which had not received the mission were also stationed here at the military camp.Their team leaders, including Evan, were astonished as they heard Marin's announcement.

Those petty leaders thought it was a sheer dumb luck for the sixth unit to capture the Three Powersat the Gehenna Border. On top of this, Marin conferred a Second-class Honor to the sixth unitpurely because Rocky died. This made it even harder for them to accept reality. A Second-classHonor was only conferred to a perfect execution of a fairly dangerous, important mission.

Not to mention the fact that the sixth unit had never received any award before. Among the otherfive spirit manipulator units of the northeastern military camp, only the first unit had been awardedone First-class Honor and one Third-class Honor. Among the remaining units, only one of them hadreceived two Second-class Honors. For other units, there was only one opportunity to receive theSecond-class Honor once.

Also, from all the military guarded area at the Gehenna Border of the Holy Dragon Empire, thelocation of the northeastern military camp was a relatively peaceful one. So, there were fewerchances for them to execute crucial missions of pretty danger. The first unit was only rewarded witha Third-class Honor when they killed a spirit-manipulated beast of Earthly Stage rioting last time.As a result, other units were definitely unwilling to accept Marin's decision to confer a Second-classHonor to the sixth unit and Rocky.