Chapter 235: The Blood Snake Vertebrae (1/2)
Chapter 235: The Blood Snake Vertebrae
Translator: CynthiaEditor: CakeHermit
Huge amounts of elemental energy exploded within the limited space of the sinkhole. The scene was spectacular.
Boom!
It was as if the whole city had been struck heavily by a hammer deep underground. The earthquake knocked many people to the ground. From the sky, horrifying fissures could be seen stretching into the distance like old tree roots.
Flames and lights gushed out of the sinkhole like a volcanic eruption. They rushed into the night sky and lit up Central Pine City.
Everyone was stunned by the scene.
Even the flaming ape, mayor, and dean stopped fighting.
The ape suddenly looked afraid. It was not afraid of fire, but that soaring flame had awakened an instinctual fear.
It turned tail and ran.
The flaming ape’s reaction was totally out of the mayor and dean’s expectations. By the time they realized what had happened, they could only see the ape’s receding back. Even though it was escaping, its speed was no slower than their flying speed. Seeing its momentum, the elementalists along its escape route didn’t dare to stop it.
In the blink of an eye, it had rushed to the city’s defensive wall. Without slowing down even a little bit, it directly crashed into the wall.
Boom!
It knocked a big hole in the wall. Having rushed out of the city, the flaming ape looked back for a second and then disappeared into the darkness.
Most people gave a sigh of relief.
Elementalists of the earth and wood attributes hurriedly rushed to the big hole. They needed to repair it before the blood fiends attacked. The ape could break the wall so easily only because it had crashed into the wall from the inside. If it had been the other way around, then the wall would have been much more difficult to break.
The city defense had played an important role so far. Without it, the situation in Central Pine City would have been far more difficult.
Tian Kuan was dumbstruck. This was the first time that he had seen a battle that involved so many elementalists.
He looked at Ai Hui deeply. That guy was as outstanding as he’d expected.
Then Tian Kuan silently disappeared into the darkness.
Wang Zhen floated down from the sky and went to look for Ai Hui. He believed Ai Hui’s reminder had been the key to the battle. If the blood fiends had rushed into the city on a large scale, then the city would have been in great danger.
He believed more and more that Ai Hui was like the Ye Baiyi of that time.
In such a chaotic and dangerous situation, it was not easy to find an opportunity within such a limited timeframe. Even Wang Zhen himself hadn’t thought of using a diving attack, which had proven to be very effective.
As a veteran, Wang Zhen was sensitive to the tiny changes in the battlefield. The elementalists in the sky were all smiling proudly now.
He nodded and remarked on their status in his heart.
Morale was up!
So far, this was the most successful battle in Central Pine City. None of the elementalists who had participated in the diving attack were hurt or dead. Such a brilliant result definitely boosted the elementalists’ morale.
After the fight, Ai Hui, who had been the key to the whole battle, became well known throughout the city.
He was no longer an insignificant young student. The speed of his transformation was even higher and the process was even shorter than that of the blood fiends.
Heroes always emerged in trouble times. People would only show their startling brilliance at critical moments.
Each time he thought of this, Wang Zhen would feel his own age and weakness, but he was fortunate to be able to witness the splendid beginning of such a promising youth in this world.
As he had been looking for a long time without finding Ai Hui, he turned to someone nearby and asked curiously, ”Where is Ai Hui?”
The elementalist looked jubilant. He answered, ”He went to clean up the battlefield.”
”Won’t it be dangerous?” Wang Zhen was concerned.
”No.” The dean also landed. He smiled and said, ”It should be safe now. The sinkhole is like a huge stove; everything inside should have been roasted.”
Hearing what he said, Wang Zhen also smiled.
Even iron and steel would have melted under such a terrifying attack.
It was a pity that such tactics could not always be used in the battle. If it were not in the special environment of the sinkhole, it would not be so powerful.
Ai Hui never fell behind the others when it came to battlefield cleanup.
While others were still worrying if there was still any danger, he had already jumped into the sinkhole with Lou Lan. Inside the sinkhole, it was sweltering hot. The earth was permeated with traces melted things and a burning smell.
Lou Lan was totally unaffected by the choking smells and smoke while Ai Hui didn’t care about them. He had seen worse cases when cleaning up battlefields before. Compared to the possible spoils, this adverse environment was not worth mentioning.
Most of the sinkhole had collapsed, but luckily there were still passageways for them to walk through. The sinkhole that the sandworms had dug was large enough.
Ai Hui walked carefully. As both of them could see in the dark, they noticed the dead bodies of sandworms everywhere on the walls of the passageways. The bodies were already scorched, but a tiny spot of red light like sand were left beside them.
”What is this red light sand?” Ai Hui asked.
Yellow light flickered in Lou Lan’s eyes. ”They are the blood crystals of the sandworms. To be precise, they cannot be counted as blood crystals yet, but are something like a blood crystal that has just formed. Ai Hui, these sandworms must have blood-transformed not long ago.”
”Not long ago?” Ai Hui was surprised. Confusion flashed across his eyes.
”Yes. Therefore, the blood crystal sand is not valuable,” Lou Lan explained.