novelraw Chapter 131: Guess What?
Chapter 131: Guess What?
The battle begins!
"Attack!"
Xie Xi charged out first, her Scythe of Destruction dragging a trail of dark red afterimages.
The blade swept toward the foremost Bone Corruptor.
The monster's six bone whips instantly twisted into a defensive net, but three were severed the moment they made contact with the scythe blade!
"Sssss—!"
Black blood sprayed everywhere.
The other two Bone Corruptors had already flanked them from the sides.
Feng Jue swept his Startling Swan Sword horizontally, the silver-white sword light arcing like a crescent moon, neatly cutting through the incoming bone whips.
But one bone whip slipped past the sword net, lashing viciously across his waist."Cough!"
Feng Jue grunted, his flesh torn open where his clothes were ripped.
Liu Ziming's palms flashed with lightning: "Net!"
An interwoven lightning net temporarily trapped the two Bone Corruptors.
But one of them actually tore through the lightning net directly, the bloody maw splitting open on its abdomen snapping down toward Xu Hao's head!
"Slow!"
The golden light of Su Zhan's Abyssal Gaze blazed intensely.
The Bone Corruptor's movements instantly slowed by half a beat.
Seizing the opportunity, Xu Hao teleported to safety, simultaneously plunging his dagger into the monster's eyeball.
*Squelch.*
Black blood splattered everywhere.
Xie Xi's scythe became a bloody whirlwind, shattering every bone whip in its path.
But her spiritual energy was depleting too quickly; her breathing had become heavy and labored.
One Bone Corruptor seized an opening, its bone whip wrapping around her ankle and yanking hard.
"Boom!"
Su Zhan leaped forward, his blade chopping into the Bone Corruptor's knee joint; the sound of cracking bone was clearly audible.
The monster knelt.
Xie Xi's scythe descended from above, cleaving it cleanly in two!
"Five left!"
Liu Ziming shouted, the lightning in his palms already growing dim.
His right leg had been grazed by a bone whip, the wound deep enough to reveal the bone.
Feng Jue suddenly changed his sword technique.
A blinding silver light erupted from his sword tip, directly piercing through the abdominal core of one Bone Corruptor.
But the other four seized the chance to launch a fierce assault.
Bone whips came strangling from different angles!
"Accelerate!"
Bone whips came attacking from different angles!
The movements of the three abruptly sped up, barely avoiding the fatal attacks.
Su Zhan's head grew increasingly dizzy.
A consequence of continuously using his Life Soul.
Xu Hao suddenly teleported behind a Bone Corruptor: "Die!"
He viciously stabbed his dagger into the monster's back.
The Bone Corruptor turned in fury, the large mouth on its abdomen biting down hard on his right arm.
"Ahhh—!"
The sound of shattering bone echoed once more.
"Haozi!"
Liu Ziming's eyes nearly bulged from their sockets with rage. He charged forward recklessly, slamming his lightning-charged hands against the Bone Corruptor's chest: "Die for this master!"
The point-blank explosion shattered the monster's chest to pieces.
The blast wave also sent him flying several meters.
The final four Bone Corruptors let out piercing shrieks, attacking the faltering group like madmen.
Xie Xi gritted her teeth and swung her scythe; the impact of blade against bone whip split the skin of her palms.
Feng Jue's sword grew slower and slower, blood continuously seeping from the wound on his left shoulder.
Cracks had already appeared on Su Zhan's twin blades, the golden light of his Abyssal Gaze flickering intermittently...
"Back to back!"
Su Zhan roared loudly.
The five instantly formed a circular formation.
The bone whips struck again.
Feng Jue's Startling Swan Sword clashed with the bone whip of the Bone Corruptor facing him.
The whip, which should have been severed, suddenly softened, wrapping around the blade like a python and yanking fiercely.
Another Bone Corruptor on the right seized the opportunity to thrust forward, its six bone whips fanning out in an arc.
"Slow!"
Blood-flecked foam trickled from the corner of Su Zhan's mouth.
The bone whips slowed to a crawl just ten centimeters from Feng Jue.
Liu Ziming's lightning net enveloped them just in time, the electric current traveling along the whips, scorching the monster's arms.
Feng Jue seized the chance to spin and pull his sword free, the blade tracing a silver arc that severed two of the eyeball tendrils.
Xie Xi, however, was locked in a desperate fight.
Her scythe bit deep into a Bone Corruptor's shoulder.
The monster didn't dodge or evade, allowing the blade to lodge firmly in its bone.
The bloody maw splitting its abdomen snapped viciously toward Xie Xi's head.
She had no choice but to abandon her scythe and flip backward.
With an empty grasping motion, the Scythe of Destruction vanished from the Bone Corruptor's body and immediately reappeared in her hand.
The next second.
She threw the scythe.
The Scythe of Destruction pierced through the monster's abdomen, dark red spiritual energy exploding from the blade tip.
It blew half of this Bone Corruptor's body to pieces.
The upper and lower halves separated.
The upper half crawled a few paces on the ground.
Before being blasted apart by a supplementary thunderstorm from Liu Ziming.
Su Zhan analyzed the battle situation.
Three dead, three left.
The one Feng Jue had stabbed through the abdomen earlier wasn't dead after all; Fog creatures were tenaciously hardy.
But what about them?
After continuous, relentless fighting, their spiritual energy was almost depleted.
The remaining three Bone Corruptors gathered together.
Their bone whips intertwined into an impenetrable cage.
They attacked in sync, like hunters who had cooperated for years.
Countless bone whips blocked all escape routes, closing in to strangle the group.
"Can't dodge..."
Countless bone whips blocked all escape routes, closing in to attack the group.
The state of her other teammates wasn't much better.
"Dammit, go all out!"
Seeing this approach was futile, Su Zhan made a crazy decision.
He abandoned all defense, plunging his twin blades, infused with his remaining spiritual energy, into the abdomen of the nearest Bone Corruptor.
"Accelerate!"
Su Zhan's movements became a blur, his blades churning madly within the monster's innards.
As the monster fell, howling in agony.
Three bone whips also pierced through Su Zhan's abdomen.
Two left!
"Brother Su!"
Liu Ziming's eyes were bloodshot, veins bulging red.
By now.
Su Zhan had already broken their coordination.
Xie Xi's dark red blade light traced an elegant arc.
Cutting one Bone Corruptor in half at the waist.
Feng Jue used his last ounce of strength to hurl his sword; the Startling Swan Sword, trailing silver light, impaled the final Bone Corruptor through the chest.
Xu Hao teleported incessantly, his dagger leaving hundreds of wounds on the Bone Corruptor's body.
...
The battle was over.
Everyone had reached their limit.
Xie Xi's Scythe of Destruction vanished, the flesh of both her palms a bloody mess.
Feng Jue knelt, coughing up fragments of internal organs.
Liu Ziming lay on the ground, completely exhausted.
Su Zhan lay in a pool of blood, three holes torn open in his abdomen.
Xu Hao stumbled over painfully, pressing torn cloth against Su Zhan's wounds: "Brother Su, hang in there..."
Liu Ziming also came forward, using his hands to staunch Su Zhan's wounds.
His fingers became sticky and slippery, soaked with Su Zhan's blood.
He couldn't help but voice his worry: "Shit! Your intestines didn't spill out, did they?"
Su Zhan gave a weak smile: "Don't worry, I won't die."
After Liu Ziming's comment, he felt an impulse to curse at him.
"Here, cough cough... healing potion."
Liu Ziming pulled a potion vial from his chest.
"Thanks."
Su Zhan unscrewed the cap and drank it in one gulp.
A cool liquid slid down his throat.
A fine, tingling numbness immediately spread from the bloody holes in his abdomen.
New flesh visibly intertwined at a rapid pace, sealing the wounds.
It wouldn't completely heal the injuries.
But at the very least, it stopped the bleeding instantly.
As an Awakened, such injuries weren't insignificant, but with a healing potion, they were certainly not fatal.
Especially since Su Zhan also had the regenerative ability of his Aberrant form.
But his teammates didn't.
Trading a minor injury to eliminate a Bone Corruptor wasn't a bad deal.
The ground began to tremble slightly.
Su Zhan looked at his teammates.
Their physical condition was already precarious, their spiritual energy nearly exhausted.
"Brothers, there's no other way."
Su Zhan said seriously: "When I yell 'run,' you all just..."
"Shut up, Brother Su."
Xu Hao suddenly grinned: "Lines like that... usually mean the person dies right after saying them..."
"Everyone, guess what."
The lightning around Liu Ziming crackled as he pointed toward the increasingly clear silhouette in the fog: "This time... is it male or female?"
The group was stunned for a second, then they all laughed.
The lightning around Liu Ziming crackled as he pointed toward the increasingly clear outline in the fog: "This time... is it male or female?"