Chapter 245: Mutually Assured Destruction?
Benton fell on his butt as soon as he materialized in one of his bunkers. At least he wasn’t so zonked out by his injuries that he couldn’t think. Better than last time anyway.
Reaching out with his spiritual senses, he discovered a Nascent Soul above the sect. One. His attack had been successful.
Finally, a part of his plan had gone correctly. Benton’s relief was palpable. If the woman had somehow survived the towers’ devastating attack, he didn’t know what he would have done.
His senses also found three unknown Golden Cores at the edge of his detection range. More attackers? Observers? He didn’t know, but he couldn’t worry about them at the moment. There were more important issues needing his attention. Or rather, a more important issue.
He immediately initiated Time Manipulation followed by a Light orb and activating his Healing technique. A Major Healing Pill appeared in his mouth from his spatial ring, and as soon as he’d downed it, he followed it with ten greater spirit coins.
With his body repairing itself, he considered the previous fights, what had gone right and what had gone wrong. On the plus side, he wasn’t dead, and one of his opponents was. But those were about the only good things.
Getting the woman into the trap had been much more difficult than he’d expected, and he’d nearly been killed twice. Neither his time as a cultivator nor a lifetime spent as a middle manager, father, and husband had prepared him for losing limbs in combat, and he found that he didn’t enjoy the experience. At all.
In fact, he’d prefer to avoid it happening again no matter what achieving that outcome required. But the only way to do that was to not fight. Which he had to admit sounded more appealing than he would have thought.
Part of him really wanted to quit. To just hide out in the bunker until the bad man went away. But the adult part of Benton knew he couldn’t and wouldn’t do that. In fact, the sooner he exited the bunker, the better. As soon as the man finished destroying the towers, he’d start on the shields protecting the amphitheater.
With the twins, Kang Lin, and Kang Ya-Ting feeding their own qi into the formation, the Chameleon Jade cultivator would find it a tougher nut to crack than he probably expected, but he would penetrate it eventually. The tyranny of realm was real. There was nothing even Kang Ya-Ting could do against a Nascent Soul.
Benton would just have to grit his teeth and do what he needed to do whatever it took. Determined as he was, though, he still had a major problem. When he’d first contemplated the battle, he’d figured that killing one of the attacking cultivators with the towers would be easy, and defeating the second one on one wouldn’t be any more difficult than the fight against the cyclops.
That idea was wrong. Very wrong. Both the cultivators were more powerful and much more intelligent that the beast had been. The comparison was night and day.