novelraw Chapter 315: Weird Luck
Chapter 315: Weird Luck
The Aberrant Purge Division team members followed orders, forming into squads.
They began carefully searching within this sealed space.
Su Zhan hid in the darkness, eyes tightly shut, his breathing almost stopped.
He relied completely on the Time Abyss Pupil's future warnings to capture the gradually approaching dangers in the dark.
The deathly silent, absolute darkness was broken by a sound.
It was the sound of hard carapace scraping against rock, and a low-frequency hissing.
"Mist Creatures, as expected."
Ling Shuang showed no surprise. "Maintain formation, prioritize elimination."
Slender, hideous outlines emerged from the darkness one after another.
They possessed hindquarters similar to giant scorpions, covered in obsidian-like smooth, hard carapace, their tails held high, each ending in a constantly flickering snake head with a darting tongue.Their front halves reared up like king cobras, even more robust, covered in fine, dark scales.
The multiple pairs of jointed legs on these monsters moved in utter silence, able to firmly grip steep rock walls as if walking on flat ground.
Their eyes were a ghostly blue.
Their serpentine upper bodies twisted flexibly, locking onto the Aberrant Purge Division team members.
Shadow Viper Scorpions... High-risk level.
There were about thirty or more, mostly at the lower tier of High-risk.
Assassins in the dark, their venom capable of corroding spiritual energy and flesh...
Su Zhan recognized them.
He could clearly sense that these monsters exuding icy killing intent showed not the slightest pause in their gaze as they swept past his hiding place.
All their aggressive desire was poured towards the Purge officers.
"Hmph, insects!"
Han Xiao raised his hand and swung it, a gold-red spear light flashing out.
It cleaved a pouncing Shadow Viper Scorpion cleanly in two from head to tail.
The hard carapace was like paper before absolute force.
Han Xiao's steps never faltered, as if strolling through a courtyard.
Wherever he passed, spear intent crisscrossed.
Any Shadow Viper Scorpion that came within several meters of him.
Whether emerging from the ground, the rock walls, or the shadows, was instantly torn apart.
Ling Shuang gave a light flutter of the crystalline ice wings on her back, countless ice-blue feather needles, fine as ox hair, shot towards every Shadow Viper Scorpion that appeared.
No matter how they moved, the feather needles always froze them, turning them into ice sculptures that then shattered into ice crystals.
For the two of them, clearing these Mist Creatures was as simple as sweeping away dust, utterly incapable of posing any substantial hindrance.
The real trouble lay in how these monsters interfered with the ordinary team members.
"Ah!"
A team member was slightly careless and had his arm grazed by venom spat from the tail-snake of a Shadow Viper Scorpion. His protective spiritual energy was instantly corroded, and a heart-piercing pain shot through his arm.
"Watch out for the venom!"
"This damn thing's light is making me dizzy!"
The ghostly blue light constantly flickered in the absolute darkness, severely disrupting the team members' vision and concentration.
Appearing and vanishing attacks forced the team members to respond with full effort, completely disrupting the rhythm of the search.
Han Xiao and Ling Shuang had to spare a portion of their focus to look after team members in trouble and clean up those that slipped through the net.
This prevented them from locking all their perception and energy onto the hidden Su Zhan as they had before.
This momentary chaos and distraction was exactly what Su Zhan wanted.
He minimized his own presence to the lowest, taking advantage of everyone's attention being drawn by the suddenly appearing Mist Creatures, accelerating his stealthy advance towards his intended direction.
Han Xiao and Ling Shuang dealing with these monsters was only a matter of time;
he had to race against the clock.
Right at this moment.
A terrifying pressure abruptly descended from a certain direction within the mist.
"Hisssss—Gaaa—!!!"
Along with the heavy sound of jointed limbs striking rock.
As if some colossal entity was approaching from the depths of the darkness.
The previously rampant High-risk Shadow Viper Scorpions, as if encountering their sovereign, instantly ceased their attacks, trembling as they prostrated on the ground, even their ghostly blue light dimming.
The expressions of both Han Xiao and Ling Shuang changed simultaneously, their previous ease and casualness vanishing without a trace.
"This aura... Special-risk level."
Ling Shuang's ice-blue eyes looked towards the direction the pressure came from, cold air spreading around her body, condensing into thick frost on the ground.
Han Xiao tightened his grip on the Blazing Plains Blood Spear and cursed, "Damn it! Chen Qing's luck is really fucking weird! Special-risk level, and third tier at that. The probability of a monster of this level appearing given the current global mist intensity is lower than winning a million-dollar lottery!"
He wasn't wrong.
Mist Creatures appearing in mist incidents are growing stronger, but this comes with the passage of time.
According to the current global mist intensity, the appearance of a peak High-risk monster is already the absolute limit.
Special-risk level, especially one that has reached the third tier of the Abyss Realm, is one in ten thousand.
Reality didn't give them much time to think.
Ahead in the darkness.
An enormous outline manifested.
It still had the form of a Shadow Viper Scorpion, but its size was magnified at least threefold.
Like a small fortress, its obsidian-like carapace was covered in dark golden patterns.
The snake head at the end of its scorpion tail had split into three, each one hideous, spewing poison mist of different colors.
Ink-green that corroded flesh.
Ghostly purple that eroded the soul.
Ghastly white that froze spiritual energy.
The serpentine front half it reared up had ghostly blue light at the top like two small blue suns.
Special-risk third tier, Three-Headed Shadow Viper Scorpion!
"ROAR—!"
The monster let out an ear-splitting roar, its three snake heads lunging forward to bite with speed surpassing the limits of visual capture.
A massive scorpion claw carrying the force of ten thousand jun hammered down towards Han Xiao, who stood at the very front.
"Join forces! We cannot hold back!"
Han Xiao roared.
He thrust with his spear, like a thousand troops and ten thousand horses charging forth.
Boldly meeting the enormous scorpion claw.
Ling Shuang also didn't dare be negligent. The light wings on her back fully unfurled, converging into a slowly rotating ice-blue lotus, the edges of its petals razor-sharp.
It spun, cutting towards the three lunging snake heads.
"BOOM—!!!"
A terrifying collision at the Abyss Realm level erupted within this sealed space.
The energy shockwave spread outwards like a tsunami.
It sent the prostrate High-risk Shadow Viper Scorpions flying, and scraped a thick layer off the hard rock walls.
The other Awakened individuals weren't faring any better.
Han Xiao and Ling Shuang's bodies shook violently, both sliding back several steps simultaneously, their faces somewhat pale.
The gap in realm was real and substantial;
even though they were geniuses with the ability to fight above their tier.
Their strength was at the first tier of the Abyss Realm.
Facing a Special-risk monster two tiers higher, they felt pressure.
The Three-Headed Shadow Viper Scorpion shook its massive body, then let out another furious shriek, launching an even more ferocious attack.
Han Xiao and Ling Shuang were forced to go all out, engaging in fierce combat with this powerful Special-risk monster.
They no longer had any attention to spare elsewhere.
All their focus, all their power, had to be used to deal with this deadly monster before them.