novelraw Chapter 662 - 317: Lure, Rivalry, Joint Kill (Part 2)
Chapter 662 - 317: Lure, Rivalry, Joint Kill (Part 2)
However, unfortunately, this rare resource is equally beneficial to Leader Wolf Ao at the Tier Two Peak, so the Three-headed Desolate Wolf Beast doesn’t get a chance to meddle with it.
But for Wolf Two, this was a relief because if Li Hao hadn’t made an unexpected breakthrough and was killed by Wolf Ao, he would inevitably become Wolf Da’s trophy.
Thereby helping him breakthrough to Mid-Tier Two, significantly outpacing the other two wolf siblings, securing the victory in this candidate competition for the throne as the flourishing king.
Then Wolf Two and Lang San would either be suppressed forever or directly become the fodder for Wolf Da’s ascension to the throne.
Now the situation has changed again and again, and Wolf Ao has been severely injured. He will inevitably need Li Hao’s Tier Two Late Stage corpse to restore his depleted primordial energy, with absolutely no chance of rewarding it to Wolf Da.
For Wolf Two, this is the best opportunity to catch up with the opponent!
So at this moment, while extremely excited, Wolf Two still has to suppress the excitement in his heart to avoid attracting the attention of competitors like Wolf Da who are hundreds of meters away.
But this is the biggest mistake he has ever made in his life.
Without informing Wolf Da and the main forces of the wolf pack, and being consumed by the thrill of the hunt, Wolf Two directly lunged towards the Early Stage Tier Two Rock Horse Warrior on the mountainside.
To prevent the situation here from being leaked, Wolf Two deliberately hid his own emitted blood and qi to avoid being detected by Wolf Da.
And his deliberate concealment also allowed the lure plan devised by Han Tao and Xu Wanfeng to be perfectly executed.
Just as he ran to the halfway point of the mountain, Han Tao saw the giant wolf appearing and without any hesitation, came to an abrupt stop, and then turned around and started running back.
He was just an ordinary Tier Two Early Stage Evolver, still not wearing the Rock Horse Armor as a Rock Horse Warrior, and his strength was only slightly stronger than the Church’s ordinary Second-tier Priest. If not for this deep penetration into the mountains teeming with Evolved Desolate Wolves, Han Tao would have definitely brought the Rock Horse Armor.
Now wearing standard power armor, Han Tao’s combat power was simply no match for the Desolate Wolf Beast, which had a higher Evolution Level than him.
In the instant of contact between the two sides, the Desolate Wolf Beast only needed to open and close its mouth full of Fine Steel Wolf Fangs to directly tear Han Tao apart like chewing on brittle bones.
So Han Tao did not hesitate for a moment and ran towards the mountain top as if his feet were oiled.
As long as he reached the backside of the slope, using Xu Wanfeng’s harassment on the way down the mountain, preventing the Desolate Wolf Beast from turning around quickly at high speed, it would create the best opportunity for Lin Feng at the top of the mountain on the opposite side.
Everything was going according to plan, but Han Tao made a critical misjudgment...
That is, as a Rock Horse Warrior, regarding the various attraction his existence posed to a Desolate Wolf Beast eager to enhance itself.
At this moment, Wolf Two had already unleashed his full potential, not only entering a Frenzy State but his speed had also increased to over two hundred meters per second, enough to match the Mid-Tier Two state.
And even with the augmentation of power armor, Han Tao’s speed could barely approach two hundred.
After all, he was only a Tier Two Early Stage Evolver himself, with a movement speed just breaking one hundred meters per second, and the power armor’s boost was based on the wearer’s own attribute strength, naturally offering little additional help.
Seeing the Desolate Wolf Beast closing the distance in just a few seconds, even knowing that Xu Wanfeng was nearby to assist, and Lin Feng was providing support from afar, Han Tao still felt an intense threat of death.
The giant beast’s opened maw, exhaling heavy, blood-scented breaths, fully displayed its urgent predatory desire.
And the murderous intent in those blood-red vertical pupils overflowed with an intense craving.
It was a pure look at delicious food.
But it awakened the bloodline instinct from the Rock-Horned Horse genes inside Han Tao, the fear of the Desert Wolves.
When Han Tao crossed more than three hundred meters and returned to the mountain top, the Tier Two Desolate Wolf Beast behind him was less than two hundred meters away!
A single leap and it could pounce right in front of him, and the closest teammate, Xu Wanfeng, was still three hundred meters away, rushing at two hundred meters per second.
Fortunately, Han Tao had a stroke of genius at this moment and jumped up at the mountain top, leveraging gravity to fall towards the bottom of the slope.
During the rapid descent, Han Tao used the thruster device of the power armor to successfully lift his head upwards.
The original face-down straight posture turned into one with legs down, so that upon landing, there was at least a slight buffer zone.
Though he might face a fracture, it would be better than being caught by the Desolate Wolf Beast behind him.
Seeing his target so ruthlessly and decisively jump straight down from the mountain top, Wolf Two immediately withdrew the thought of relentless pursuit.
After all, if the airborne time exceeded one second, the huge body in mid-air obviously couldn’t make agile maneuvers like humans.
Without a force direction, the trajectory in mid-air was already fixed and could easily be successfully ambushed by humans.
Previously, Leader Wolf Ao suffered severe injuries because, in order to capture Li Hao, he took the risk to fight a life-and-death battle against the Lord Bishop of humans and was unfortunately hit from a thousand meters away.
Now with the same opportunity before him, Wolf Two had learned his lesson and would not give humans any chance.
Moreover, the height difference of this mountain slope was four to five hundred meters, and the wolf two, with a body nearly twenty meters long and weighing nearly a hundred tons, would suffer fractures or other falls if not careful.
Choosing to cross in two or three steps and land steadily was the most prudent decision.
And on the side, Xu Wanfeng saw that this Desolate Wolf Beast did not lose its head during the hunt and became anxious as well.
After all, if Lin Feng didn’t have the right opportunity to make a move, it could greatly affect the final outcome.
If not precisely hit, not only would it expose his own existence but also attract the nearby Wolf Race army, putting the Salvation Army in a military quagmire.
So to create an opportunity for Lin Feng, Xu Wanfeng directly accelerated, arrived behind the Desolate Wolf Beast, and first activated the firearms system loaded in the power armor.
Nine 40mm mini rockets from his shoulder were launched one by one.
Because these rockets had a large payload, the damage was sufficient, with each one having close to two hundred points of lethality, lethal to lifeforms below Tier Two.
They also posed a certain threat to beings at the Tier Two Middle and Early Stages.
Therefore, they were quite expensive, with each priced at thousands of points internally.
Calculating nine of them, it was at least over ten thousand points.
At this moment, Xu Wanfeng fired all his treasured weapons to effectively contain and obstruct the target.
With a series of explosions, fireballs blossomed on the surface of the Desolate Wolf Beast, successfully weakening Wolf Two’s outer defenses.
Blasting off a large amount of Fine Steel Mane revealed the already metalized wolf hide inside.
Several rockets hit the same spot, already tearing the Fine Steel Wolf Hide and exposing the underlying muscle tissue.
Wolf Two, hit and unable to suppress an angry howl, didn’t expect this ordinary human Evolver to have such powerful weapons capable of causing damage to him from a distance.
Although not fatal or greatly threatening, if the shelling continued one after another, it would still cause Wolf Two to lose a significant amount of life force for nothing.
So, to avoid being slowly weakened by the enemy and to quickly end this battle to get the Rock Horse Warrior he desired...
When Wolf Two advanced to the mid-mountainside, he saw that the Rock Horse Warrior had landed and, due to a fracture to his legs, was slow in action and decided to take a gamble.
After all, now just two hundred meters remained to the bottom of the mountain, and even if there was impact, it would be barely bearable for Wolf Two.
So with Xu Wanfeng relentlessly in pursuit, applying continuous pressure, Wolf Two leapt.
At this moment, four hundred meters away from the two men and the beast, at the mountaintop on the opposite side, Lin Feng was already prepared, aligning the crosshair of the aiming scope of the Thermite Annihilation Cannon with Han Tao’s figure.
Wolf Two’s target was him.
At this very moment, even if you placed an Armor-Piercing Wolf Spear at the throat of the Desolate Wolf Beast, it would swallow the Rock Horse Warrior without hesitation.
As long as it wasn’t a fatal wound, other injuries could be repaired with reserved nutrients, but the opportunity for evolution by devouring the Rock Horse Warrior was right now, only once.
As Lin Feng pulled the trigger.
The Annihilation Cannon within the barrel aimed at a spot less than two meters in front of Han Tao at supersonic speed.
At the same moment, a strong premonition of death surged in the hearts of both Han Tao and the Desolate Wolf Beast!