Chapter 18 : Chapter 18
Chapter 18: You One-Shot Elite Monsters Too? How the Hell Is This a High School Student?
“As expected, it’s far stronger than an Ordinary-grade Fiend Soldier by more than just a little...”
Seeing his opponent’s attributes, Ye Ze could not help but sigh.
The rank classification for magical beasts was the same as that of summoned beasts.
But the rank classification for Fiends was completely different from both of those, and instead was rather similar to the titles used by ancient humans.
They were divided into: ordinary, elite, general, commander, king, emperor!
Or, more specifically: fiend soldier, fiend lieutenant, fiend general, fiend marshal, fiend king, fiend emperor.
No one knew where these Fiend ranks had originated.
People only knew that they strictly represented strength and status!
Just like the Blood-Skeleton Fiend in front of Ye Ze, it was fundamentally incomparable to an ordinary Corpse Fiend:
【Blood-Skeleton Fiend (lv.15)】
Type: Elite-grade Fiend Lieutenant
Attributes: Strength 116, Constitution 99, Agility 108, Spirit 30
Characteristic: Bloodfiend Frenzy — Once an enemy is wounded, the Blood-Skeleton Fiend goes completely berserk, and its attack and attack speed both double!
Skills: Blood-Poison Spike, Bone Spike, Bone Shield
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A mere level 15 elite already possessed combat power no weaker than a Warrior of the same level!
Ye Ze instantly understood. No wonder, ever since the Abyss descended, every nation on Earth, China included, had been steadily pushed back, their living space compressed again and again.
This was only an elite Fiend!
There were still stronger Fiend Generals, Fiend Kings, Fiend Sovereigns, and even Fiend Emperors. Just how terrifying must their strength be?
Fortunately, at least for the moment, Ye Ze’s confidence did not waver.
If Panda had only been epic 2-star, it would probably have needed some effort to deal with the Blood-Skeleton Fiend.
But now Panda was epic 6-star...
At most, it would take two slaps. No more than that!
But just as Ye Ze quietly approached, he discovered that someone else had gotten there first!
No...
Rather than saying someone had beaten him to it, it would be more accurate to say that the Blood-Skeleton Fiend had found its own prey!
Within a field of broken stone ruins below, the Blood-Skeleton Fiend and three Corpse Fiends were hunting down a scout team!
The team had four members, all level 11 or 12 Class Users.
Yet against the Blood-Skeleton Fiend, they were completely unable to hold their ground.
The Blood-Skeleton Fiend could cast Bone Shield, and it could also tear bones from its own body to launch as Bone Spikes. It was extremely troublesome, with both offense and defense.
And on top of that, there were the hard-to-kill Corpse Fiends at its side...
“Forget the Corpse Fiends for now! Focus all fire on the Blood-Skeleton Fiend! We’re not going to hold out much longer!”
The one shouting was the team leader, a First-Advancement Greatsword Fighter.
But aside from him and one Assassin, the remaining two were both ranged classes.
An Archer and a Priest, both girls, and facing disgusting Fiends like Corpse Fiends was a torment for them both physically and mentally.
The Archer girl shouted, “We can’t ignore them! They’re almost on top of us!”
What she meant was the Priest in the back line.
The frail Priest, who already had low Agility, was being forced back from the flank by the approaching Corpse Fiends.
Especially after being damaged, the Corpse Fiends’ severed arms writhing across the ground were especially horrifying.
“I’ll deal with the Corpse Fiends first!”
As the Archer girl spoke, she fired three arrows in rapid succession, easing the danger to the Priest girl.
But then she suddenly heard the urgent shout of the team leader:
“Lin Feifei! Dodge!”
The Blood-Skeleton Fiend had torn one of its own ribs free and turned it into a bone-spear spike!
WHOOSH—it shot toward the back line.
Fortunately, the Archer girl named Lin Feifei was agile enough to avoid a direct hit.
But the bone spike still grazed her jeans on the leg.
RIIIP—
A patch of fair skin was exposed through the torn denim on Lin Feifei’s long, slender leg.
But over that skin floated a layer of blood-red energy!
She had been wounded by the bone spike!
“We’re finished.” The faces of the four team members turned deathly pale.
The pale blue flames burning in the Blood-Skeleton Fiend’s eye sockets abruptly turned a terrifying crimson!
“RAAAH—!”
With a furious roar, Bloodfiend Frenzy activated!
Once someone was wounded, the Blood-Skeleton Fiend’s attack power and attack speed instantly doubled!
It had already been incredibly hard to deal with before. Now it was even worse!
But the Greatsword Fighter team leader said nothing more. He desperately held the Fiend back and roared,
“Use the Distress Talisman now!”
In theory, once the Distress Talisman was activated, it would send a signal to the camp, and an expert from the Scout Camp would hurry over.
But that was only in theory.
The Scout Camp was already short on manpower. Who knew whether any experts were available right now?
And besides, with the Blood-Skeleton Fiend’s current combat power, whether they could survive until reinforcements arrived was another matter entirely.
That was the danger of scout missions.
Who could have expected that in the blink of an eye, the situation would become instantly fatal?
Although Ye Ze did not know any of these people, he had no intention of standing by and watching.
Besides, he absolutely intended to take the experience from this elite Fiend!
“Squirrel, hold the Blood-Skeleton Fiend in place. Panda, deal with them one by one!”
At Ye Ze’s command, the Blood-Skeleton Fiend, which had been just about to go on a killing spree, suddenly froze as though something had seized it by the throat.
In front of it, the team leader, who had been bracing himself in a defensive stance, felt his brain short-circuit when he saw that.
“What just happened?”
Meanwhile, just as the three Corpse Fiends were about to attack the two girls in the back line, Panda struck through the air with two palms.
Taiji Inner Force, flowing like water, erupted across the area occupied by the Corpse Fiends.
BOOM—!
【Killed Corpse Fiend *3, EXP +270.】
A single strike instantly killed all three Corpse Fiends.
“What overwhelming power!”
The eyes of the two girls in the ranged classes widened. They had been ready to fight the Corpse Fiends to the death, but now hope suddenly appeared.
“Reinforcements from an expert!”
Defeating Corpse Fiends was not that hard in itself, but blasting them into pieces with a single strike required unimaginable power!
And the Panda before them had done it effortlessly!
“A Summoner... Was there a Summoner among this batch of scouts?”
Lin Feifei, who had just been about to activate the Distress Talisman, lowered the talisman in her hand and started trying to remember.
But no matter how hard she thought, she could not recall one.
In truth, she did have some impression of Ye Ze.
But she had never connected that powerful Panda summoned beast with the level 4 Summoner Ye Ze from earlier...
Then, in the next moment, Ye Ze stepped out from the shadows.
The four members of the team looked as though their eyeballs were about to pop out.
“It’s him!!!”
“I remember him! That level 4 high school student—he really was a Summoner!”
“Are high school students these days all this terrifying?”
The reason they remembered so clearly was simple: there were not many people at level 4 who dared come to the Contaminated Land.
And someone like Ye Ze, who had come alone, was rarer than a phoenix feather or a qilin horn.
But Ye Ze paid the group no attention. His gaze remained fixed on the Blood-Skeleton Fiend.
“Do it!”
Once he killed this Blood-Skeleton Fiend, his experience would be enough to level up!
And besides, the corpse of a Blood-Skeleton Fiend seemed like it could be exchanged for some Military Merit Points as well.
When they heard that Ye Ze intended to take on the Blood-Skeleton Fiend, all four members of the team urgently warned him:
“Be careful! That Blood-Skeleton Fiend is in a berserk state—”
Before they could even finish, their expressions froze completely.
Panda had already flashed in front of the Blood-Skeleton Fiend.
At that moment, with the double Legendary Renown buffs, it had a 50% attack bonus and an 80% attack speed bonus!
Panda swung out a palm, so fast it seemed to leave afterimages, carrying overwhelming Taiji Inner Force with it.
SLAP—!
The Blood-Skeleton Fiend’s skull shattered into a scatter of broken bones, and the crimson flames in its eye sockets were extinguished at once.
For a moment, Lin Feifei and the others felt their eyelids twitch wildly!
That elite Fiend, which had nearly pushed them into a deadly situation, had just been slapped to death by the summoned beast of a level 5 Summoner?
One-shotting ordinary level 10 Corpse Fiends was one thing.
But you one-shot an elite Fiend in a berserk state too?
Inside, all four of them were screaming:
“How the hell is this a high school student?!”