Chapter 34 : Chapter 34
Chapter 34: Slaying the Leader of the Beast Tide! Level 8!
By the train carriage, just before the two Level 30 beast kings could break through the defensive line, Qin Cheng and Panda took one each and successfully held them back.
Yet instead of looking relieved, Zhou Huahua showed alarm instead. “Captain Qin? Why did you come back by yourself?”
Qin Cheng felt rather helpless. At this point, as captain, he was not even getting the slightest bit of concern from his own teammate...
Still, he knew what Zhou Huahua meant and told her about Ye Ze’s arrangements.
To his surprise, the usually gentle Xia Qing became anxious at once.
“Captain Qin, no matter what, Ye Ze is still a student. How can you let him face the leader of the beast tide alone?”
“That’s right, Captain Qin!”
Zhou Huahua’s face was grave. “Especially since Ye Ze even left his summoned beast behind to help defend us.”
“If a Summoner has no teammates at his side, he’ll definitely be at a disadvantage!”
Qin Cheng knocked back the Level 30 beast king in front of him and immediately felt at a loss for words.
To be honest, he had thought the same thing just moments ago.
That was why, before returning to defend the carriage, he had decisively turned back to support Ye Ze, thinking that at the very least, two people could look after each other.
But the moment he turned around...
He had sensed a terrifying aura beside Ye Ze—savage, unruly, and violent!
It was like a ferocious beast that had lurked in silence for ages and was now searching for prey.
At that instant, he had realized...
Ye Ze’s hidden trump card was far more terrifying than anything they had seen so far!
He wanted to tell Zhou Huahua:
Your mental perception was actually pretty accurate...
That sense of danger you felt earlier was probably not an illusion at all!
And one more thing.
Whether or not Ye Ze would be at a disadvantage was hard to say, but the leader of the beast tide was probably about to suffer badly!
...
“A jackal. A rare intelligent beast.”
The moment he spotted that figure in the distance, Ye Ze immediately recalled the relevant information.
Jackals were similar to wolves, but aside from their unusually high intelligence and spirit, their other attributes were average, and they were also quite rare.
As for the Rare-grade Nightshade Jackal, it ranked among the five rarest species in the wastelands near the East China Region.
Ye Ze instinctively activated Eye of Insight...
【Nightshade Jackal (lv.30)】
Type: Rare☆☆☆☆ magical beast
Attributes: Strength 140, Constitution 140, Agility 160, Spirit 270.
Skills: Shadow Raid, Night Concealment, Poison-Rending Claw, Mental Assault.
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Ye Ze had not even finished reading half the information fed back by Eye of Insight when, in his vision, the Nightshade Jackal with its dark black fur abruptly turned and prepared to slip away...
It was trying to run!
“What sharp spiritual awareness.”
Ye Ze did not panic in the slightest. He even praised it.
The stronger a creature’s spirit was, the stronger its sense of danger and early warning would be.
Clearly, this Nightshade Jackal had already vaguely sensed danger approaching and was trying to abandon the beast pack and flee on its own.
But prey that had been marked by the Void Hunter... never escaped!
“Stop it!”
At Ye Ze’s command, the Crimson-Eyed Mantis vanished from where it stood in an instant.
Nearly a thousand meters away, within the forest, the slender Nightshade Jackal with black-violet fur was fleeing for its life.
But in the very next moment, it hurriedly slammed to a stop.
In front of it stood a mantis that looked like some monstrous creature stepping out of a spatial rift.
An invisible pressure settled over the Nightshade Jackal.
Its two eyes, like deep-violet orbs of light, suddenly contracted, while its slightly protruding claws and lower jaw drew into a warning posture.
“That look is a bit like Blue Poison Beast...”
Ye Ze arrived at the same time, with the squirrel crouched on his shoulder, poised to strike.
Caught in a pincer attack from front and back, the Nightshade Jackal let out a strange cry.
A moment later, two Night Wolves came charging in from either side!
【Night Wolf (lv.30)】
Type: Elite-grade beast.
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“This Nightshade Jackal actually knew enough to arrange bodyguards for itself?”
Though surprised, Ye Ze also felt a trace of suspicion.
How could a single Nightshade Jackal’s spirit possibly be enough to control so many Level 30 beasts?
Even if the Nightshade Jackal’s grade was a little higher, it still did not make much sense.
Then, at that moment, the Nightshade Jackal actually spoke.
“Human, if you leave now, we can part in peace!”
Its voice was low and obscure.
It seemed that after gaining two helpers and making it three against two, it believed it had gained a slight advantage. Even its tone carried more confidence now.
Ye Ze smiled.
He had been afraid the enemy would be too weak to let him test the Void Hunter’s true strength.
Looking at the Nightshade Jackal, he said mockingly, “Come. Let me see what other surprises you can give me.”
Anger rose in the Nightshade Jackal’s eyes. As an intelligent creature, it had taken the initiative to seek peace, only to be met with such contempt and provocation!
Then die!
Night Wolves grew even stronger under the cover of darkness, with both their speed and lethality multiplying.
Two Level 30 Night Wolves, fighting in darkness, would at the very least leave an ordinary third-rank Class User severely wounded if they attacked together.
But at that moment, both wolves chose the mantis as their target.
Just as the two Night Wolves swung their claws and were about to pounce, the mantis’s body suddenly turned illusory.
It was as if it had entered another dimension entirely, leaving only a projection behind in this place.
Void Traverse!
At the instant the attack was about to land, the mantis shifted its body into the Void Plane, completely avoiding the enemy’s assault.
“What an outrageous skill...”
Even Ye Ze could not help complaining, “Unfortunately, humans might not survive in the Void. Otherwise, I would want to copy it and try it myself.”
The claws of the two Night Wolves struck empty air, and their bodies lurched forward with inertia... Before they could even react, the mantis’s body reappeared in the same place.
Rip—!
The scythe-like Arm Blades on both sides traced a line of blood through the air.
The two Night Wolves, one on the left and one on the right, were severed at the waist in an instant!
Night Wolves were not earthworms. Once their bodies were split into upper and lower halves, they quickly lost all vitality.
【Night Wolf killed. Experience +270!】
【Night Wolf killed. Experience +270!】
The Nightshade Jackal’s confidence vanished in an instant, replaced by outright terror.
Because in its eyes, the Void Mantis had killed two Level 30 Night Wolves in the span of a single breath without suffering so much as a scratch.
The sheer strangeness of its methods was completely beyond anything it had anticipated.
Even it knew absolutely nothing about Void Creatures.
It had to think of something!
Its eyes shifted, and almost instantly, the Nightshade Jackal lunged toward Ye Ze.
It could not escape, and it could not win in a direct fight... It seemed that its only chance of survival lay in seizing the Summoner!
But Ye Ze did not panic at all.
In front of him, the Spirit Shield granted by the Spirit Pact Cloak was permanently active.
【Shield Value = (Summoner’s Spirit + Constitution of all summoned beasts) * 1000%!】
Now that he had three summoned beasts, that Shield Value had reached a staggering 5320 points!
Even if Ye Ze simply stood still and let the Nightshade Jackal attack him, it would need a very long time to break through.
But sadly for it, the Nightshade Jackal did not even get the chance to trigger the shield.
The instant it lunged at Ye Ze, the mantis swung the Arm Blade on its right hand, and Void Slash activated!
At that very instant, space itself seemed to tear apart.
A purple fissure of the Void carved through the air, and wherever it passed, space twisted and let out a deep, low hum.
If Panda, who wielded Taiji, was peerless in close combat, then the mantis that wielded the power of the Void was the ultimate assassin and hunter.
With a thud, the Nightshade Jackal’s corpse, split cleanly into left and right halves, dropped to the ground.
【Rare magical beast Nightshade Jackal killed. Experience +750!】
【Ding! Your level has risen to: Level 8!】
【Talent — You have gained one ‘Infinite Golden Traits’ draw chance!】
【Hunter — Crimson-Eyed Mantis has slain a powerful enemy and can now evolve one body part!】