Jinbao instinctively pushed off the ground with his paws, but with a slight exertion of force, it felt as though they had sunk into a bog.
He looked down and saw that he had easily churned the ground beneath him into a soupy mess. Yet, he distinctly remembered that before he fell asleep, several Arrays had been placed here, strong enough to make the ground as hard as steel.
The thought of steel made Jinbao's mouth water. Thanks to his Lifebound Talent for devouring metal, smelted steel and Spirit Ores were like slightly harder, somewhat sweet candies to him—and they were especially crunchy.
Jinbao wasn't fully awake yet. He had slept for so long that he still felt incredibly groggy.
It was like when someone sleeps for several days and nights straight; upon waking, there's always a period of reacquainting oneself with their own body. That was precisely the state Jinbao was in.
'Right, where's my master?'
