Chapter 99 - He Who Strikes First Prevails (1/2)
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Han Jian was quite obviously on Qin Feng’s side.
“What’s the matter? Has the time come to take credit for the kill? It’s not like you guys actually took him out, is it? Even if we were to get our share of the reward, there’d only be ten million for us each. Y’know what, how about I just pay you that measly amount to keep your mouths shut?”
While Han Jian was expressly talking about money, it was a roundabout statement of how incompetent yet greedy these people were.
“Han Jian, don’t you forget that you are also one of those who joined the attack on the Emperor Knight!” Liu Ba yelled out in an attempt to point out the hypocrisy of Han Jian’s statement.
“So what of it? This whole thing involving the Emperor Knight was just something that I stumbled onto back when I was in Chengbei colony.”
Out of the five people at the scene, only Qin Feng and Han Jian were from Chengbei colony. The other three were from separate regions so going by the majority, it became apparent to whom most credit was due.
It was at this moment that Qin Feng interrupted with a laugh.
“If I were you guys, I wouldn’t be frolicking around here for too long. Have you forgotten the fact that the Dark-Robed Ripper is still out there, waiting to strike?”
Qin Feng’s words struck them like lightning.
“This is bad!”
Back there, Lin Zheng alone faced the Dark-Robed Ripper, and none of them were willing to redirect their forces to aid his battle, the reason being that the Emperor Knight was showing signs of weakness. No one wanted to give up on the battle just yet.
Who would have thought that the credit of bringing down the Emperor Knight would be s.n.a.t.c.hed away by Qin Feng. Now, they were left to face the Dark-Robed Ripper who was the main ent.i.ty supporting this spatial pa.s.sage as well as where the most important task lay as of now.
What remained of the group hurried back where they came from.
Unknown to them though, the situation involving the Dark-Robed Ripper was not as good as they had expected!
The Dark-Robed Ripper possessed dark abilities which allowed it to escape from the grasp of its enemies much easier than the Emperor Knight. Not to mention the fact that king-tier beings had intelligence on par with humans; upon breaking away from Qin Feng’s attacks, the Dark-Robed Ripper had gone on to ama.s.s an army of zombies.
Hidden amidst the formation of its corpse soldiers, it was practically impossible to be able to discern which was which.
Lin Zheng’s expression darkened. He had predicted that the scene would turn mult.i.tudes uglier especially after Qin Feng had defeated the Emperor Knight.
Even the ability users who hurried over were visibly hesitant in their every action.
Apart from Deng Nian, there was an E-tier earth ability user as well as a fire ability user of the same tier.
All three of them stood by to observe the situation for a while and only after confirming that things were stable did they start moving forward. After all, ability users were extremely precious a.s.sets on the battlefield and to lose even one was too much a price to pay. While these users possessed extremely strong powers, fighting detached without any support was the last thing they would want.
“It seems that our chances of finding that Dark-Robed Ripper is pretty much nil now!”
“Now that there are so many zombies on the mountain’s peak, the gunners should just carpet bomb the area to thin out the herd or at least take some burden off our hands!”
“Even if we do not find it, orders are orders. The Emperor Knight’s dead now and there’s no guarantee that the ripper won’t bring out some overpowered monster from a new spatial pa.s.sage or whatever the h.e.l.l it has up its sleeve.”
“Agreed!”
Victory or defeat now hinged upon their actions and no one was willing to give up just yet. Without delay, they each started relaying information to the gunners.
However, the people on the receiving side of the information were left speechless.
“Cough cough, Qin Feng!” Deng Nian opened up first, calling out to Qin Feng.
“Princ.i.p.al!” Qin Feng replied as he walked up to the person calling out to him.
“Do you need me to cover your retreat?”
Deng Nian was no young chap. Fighting on the frontlines detached from the main fighting force without backup was just too risky for a man his age.
“No I’m not calling out to you for that. Qin Feng, have you locked down the gunners on the battlefield using your consciousness? We’ve decided to wipe out everything that moves on top of the mother mountain and they’re hoping that you can withdraw your consciousness!”
While speaking to Qin Feng, Deng Nian looked up and down his body as if to appraise him. The old man felt impressed by how Qin Feng turned out to be a fine young man. Still, he could not help but feel that he had grown just that little bit older and weaker.
Whatever talents that resided within Qin Feng was truly too strong for him to comprehend!
He did not expect that Qin Feng was able to suppress E-tier gunners using his consciousness alone.
And while that was happening, Qin Feng had been continuously engaged in different battles but still came out on top. His strength was truly something to be reckoned with.