Chapter 31: The Destruction of the Ice Dragon
“What is going on?” The first one to lose his cool was Young Master Nan Gong who was holding up his long sword and panicked as he asked, “How did that wolf die? What is it there below the ground?”
“Young Master, do not panic, I am here.” The old man promptly soothed him.
His words were very effective as Young Master Nan Gong slowly moved closer to him. In the case that he was to meet danger, he would still be protected.
I squinted my eyes, secretly overlooking their behavior.
That’s right. The smart friends have already figured out that I am not really dead, only pretending to be dead so.
What is the highest state of pretending to be dead?
It is when even you yourself think you have died.
This is my original skill, it has nothing to do with the System.
And my mood right now?
It was like a girl yearning for love: there are some expectations, some nervousness, and also some shyness, not daring to express the complex feelings within her heart.
What I meant to say was——You guys can all go die now!
“Retreat, hurry up and retreat!” Long Aotian loudly shouted.
However, it was already too late.
A rapid string of “Bang bang bang” sounds burst from the ground. The snowflakes on the ground fluttered as numerous white insects flew into the sky.
Old man Zhang’s face immediately changed: “Spirit Sucking Insects!”
He picked up Young Master Nan Gong by his clothes and called out: “Wind G.o.d Flas.h.!.+” and immediately turned around and ran away without trying to fool around.
It needs to be said that the wind-type martial artists running ability were considered top cla.s.s. Even if he were to drag along his children from a previous marriage, he would still run faster than Long Aotian could.
TL Note: Idiom for useless baggage
The rain-like spirit sucking insects fell on the bodies of the mercenaries, Long Aotian and old man Zhang.
The old man Zhang held his long sword in his right hand while his left hand carried Young Master Nan Gong. The long sword was wielded by him had no holes in its defenses as dozens of spirit sucking insects were cut shortly before they reached their target.
Wind-type martial artists walk upon the path of being quick and skillful, his sword-play was extremely fast. Long Aotian was Ice-type and lifted his two meters long sword, but it was impossible for him to stop all of the spirit sucking insects. One of the spirit sucking insects fell onto his body and buried into his chest until it was about halfway inside.
Long Aotian hurriedly used his left hand to pull it out.
But this one distraction allowed even more spirit sucking insects to fall onto him.
He hurriedly shouted: “Black Ice s.h.i.+eld!”
A protection cover made of ice crystals defended him.
He might have thought that he could protect himself this way, but I looked as the spirit sucking were able to directly drill through his s.h.i.+eld.
“Leader Long, don’t use any spiritual power type defenses! Spirit sucking insects can break through your spiritual power defenses! You can only kill them!”
Old man Zhang took a look behind him and loudly yelled.
If there were only a few spirit sucking insects, then old man Zhang wouldn’t be fearful of them, but thousands and tens of thousands of them?
He isn’t an Innate master, so he cannot fly. No matter how many spirit sucking insects there were, he could do nothing but run.
A few spirit sucking insects fell on me, but they speedily shot away from me. This pesticide was pretty good, in critical times, it was simply even more useful than an Acquired Ninth Level master.
Even those two Acquired Ninth Level people were hard pressed by the spirit sucking insects, the mercenaries that only had average strengths didn’t even need to be mentioned.
Besides two Acquired Eighth Level masters and one Acquired Seventh Level master that was covered in a golden light who were somehow able to resist the spirit sucking insects, the rest of the mercenaries were unable to fight back against the spirit sucking insects in any way whatsoever.
A small portion of them were killed while they were in the air by the mercenaries, while most of them all into the mercenaries bodies.
When the spirit sucking insects launched themselves to your arm, they would bury into your arm, when they shot to your thigh, that was where they would bury themselves. When they catapulted themselves to your stomach, your stomach would be buried into. When they went to your chest, they would rapidly dig themselves in. When they flew to your head, they would enter your skull…… the mercenaries tiny bits of defense was like paper mache in front of these spirit sucking insects.
One stab and they all broke.
I watched the mercenaries holding their heads or holding their stomachs as they writhed along the ground in pain with their intestines rotting before death finally hit them.
Watching this horrible scene made my fur stand on end, and my body feel weak all over.
I’m really frightened to the ground.
I know that these insects would not bite me, but I still didn’t dare to move.
The scene was too horrifying. I could kill, I could easily face a scene of murder. But I really have the feeling that I’m watching a Hollywood horror movie at this moment.
Disgusting.
On the System Map, the small red dots had decreased by a lot, it was like they were all quickly being erased with an eraser.
“Hurry up and run! Rush out!” At the crucial point, Long Aotian stood out and defended the remaining three mercenaries.
At this time, even if I wasn’t willing, I would still need to stand up and make them stay.
If I let them run, how would I complete my System Mission?
I made consecutive black Ice Edges intended for a sneak attack. Long Aotian dodged two of them, but the remaining three mercenaries were not so lucky. They had already exhausted too much energy resisting the spirit sucking insects and two of the mercenaries were seriously injured as they couldn’t put up a guard quickly enough.
In this kind of situation, a serious injury meant inevitable death.
“So it was you!” Long Aotian regretfully said.
Although he knew I had intelligence, he never thought that I could ever get someone else to do my dirty work for me!
Especially when I haven’t been attacked despite standing in the midst of the spirit sucking insects, this was proof that the mercenaries utter ma.s.sacre was due to me!
With great difficulty, I managed to squeeze out a human-like smile and caused Long Aotian to be angered to the point of trembling.
Too bad he hadn’t turned crazy because of it.
Using my only ranged skill, under my constant hara.s.sment, the sole remaining subordinate of Long Aotian was also finally killed soon after.
The s.h.i.+eld on Long Aotian’s upper body was already slowly collapsing from the spirit sucking insects, being as thin as paper. Against these thousands and tens of thousands spirit sucking insects, the conclusion was inevitable.
“Even if this father is destined to die here, he will take you along with him!” With a shout, a bitingly cold air surrounded Long Aotian as he lifted his large sword before rus.h.i.+ng towards me. Within a flash, he was already before me.
I used Gale. Going against some desperate guy that was almost about to die, was not something I was stupid enough to try.
I considered my life to be very precious!
I only ran a few steps before I heard a dull “rumbling” explosive sound. Then, I was blown away.
Long Aotian self-destructed and the countless spirit sucking insects were all split apart. The surrounding one hundred feet was filled with a b.l.o.o.d.y fog.
Where was Long Aotian now you ask?
He was everywhere!
I lied on the ground, my whole body in numbed pain. One of my feet had almost been ripped off, only the tendon remained connecting it. The fur on my flank was completely gone and my pelt was b.l.o.o.d.y.
I haven’t been injured like this for a long time. If it weren’t for my miraculous bodily protection, I would by now be deader than death itself.
“Yao Yao, give me the best Healing Pellet!”
“Grade Six Healing Pellet, Atrocity Point cost one thousand!”
The pellet melted in my mouth and the moderate energy flowed throughout the veins of my whole body. Very slowly, my body came back to its senses, but this leg of mine, I hope it could would still connect!
I can accept losing half of my tail, but if I lost a leg, that would simply be a disaster.
I lifted my head and took a look at my surroundings. The people of the Ice Dragon Mercenary Group were all dead, old man Zhang and that fool Nan Gong had both disappeared, probably fled somewhere.
On the System Map, two red dots were rapidly disappearing as they ran past the map’s detection range.
The spirit sucking insects bit at those corpses and the corpses were covered with those fair and tender insects. By the time the insects buried back into the snow, all that remained were white human skeletons.
Although I sustained serious injuries, I did not have to worry about being sneaked attacked by any demon beasts here, at least I knew that old man Zhang definitely does not have the guts to come back.
Will they directly go back to the human world?
Thinking to this point, I felt my tooth aching.
Although I had dreamed of frightening them to the point of being terror-stricken at the news of me and causing them to retreat out of the snowfields.
But if they ran off, I might die.
The System Mission wanted me to kill them all. If they were to run into the human world, with only more than half a month’s time, how could I then be able to find and kill them?
That is the human’s home ground. Perhaps before I could even approach the city gate, I would already be shot to death!
While healing my wound, I also prayed that those two have an outstanding character and would shoulder the responsibility by obediently staying in the snowfield, waiting for me to kill them.
Was that even possible?