Chapter 244: Jian Chen’s Action–A Fast Sword (1/2)
Chapter 244: Jian Chen’s Action–A Fast Sword
The area around Wake City had already become a bloody battleground with 200,000 mercenaries and armored soldiers fighting by the city gates. They had already speared their way through a few kilometers and were soaked with the blood of a few magical beasts.
In the back, many of the support soldiers streamed about the battleground with stretchers so that the fallen could be brought back to the city to recover. The entire battleground was dyed red with blood as the greasy smell of battle wafted through the air and into the noses of everyone fighting.
Although the battle had only gone on for a small amount of time, the ground was littered with the corpses of magical beasts and humans alike. Every second a person would get injured while the next second another person would die.
A hundred Class 4 Magical Beasts and a few dozen Great Saint Masters were fighting against each other, but the situation wasn’t looking to well for the humans. A Class 4 Magical Beast required two Great Saint Masters to fight against, but at the moment, each magical beast was fighting against one Great Saint Master. For a short while, the Great Saint Masters would be fine, but if time dragged on for too long, then the situation would be hard to tell. Since magical beasts had a natural superiority, humanity could only rely on their Saint Weapons to fight against the magical beasts, but when that ran out then their lives would be in extreme danger.
The ten Magical Crystal Cannons on top of the city walls never stopped firing, so the air was filled with the tremors and ear deafening blasts of explosions that claimed the lives of multiple magical beasts whenever they slammed against a group of them.
As the war went on for a longer period of time, the amount of injured people increased as well. The stretchers of men continued to weave in through the city gates with the injured men laying on them crying out in pain. Many of them were missing an arm or a leg, and so the amount of people fighting against the magical beasts began to lessen. Thus, the pressure began to increase on everyone; if this were to go on for any longer, then the surrender of Wake City would only be a matter of time.
On top of the walls, lord Yun Li looked at Jian Chen and the two envoys with a troubled look. “This magical beast wave has more magical beasts than before and even more Class 4 Magical Beasts than anticipated. Their numbers far outweigh our Great Saint Masters, and if this goes on for any longer, then even if the Class 5 Magical Beast doesn’t attack the Class 4 Magical Beasts will trample Wake City.”
“I’ve looked at the records of the past magical beast waves and I’m afraid that this wave is definitely the most serious one. The amount of Class 4 Magical Beasts has never gone over fifty, but there are well over several hundred of them. Goddamnit, could all of the Class 4 Magical Beasts from the Magical Beast Mountain Range have come running over?” Yun Li wiped at his eyebrows to clear away the sweat.
The two envoys didn’t say a word so Yun Li continued to speak. “Senior envoys, do you have any solutions on how to deal with this situation?”
Katata shook his head with an equally serious expression, “I’ve none. Right now we shouldn’t make a move yet. That hidden Class 5 Magical Beast is extremely strong, so my brother and I must remain here and save up our strength until the moment of its appearance to ensure the best chance. If we waste our energy now, then when that Class 5 Magical Beast attacks, we won’t have a chance of defeating it.”
Yun Li’s face grew whiter and whiter as he listened to Katata’s words. His entire body began to shake as he observed the battle ground below them. His eyes couldn’t help but widen and tear up a bit as he muttered, “Could it be? Could this day be the last day for my Wake City?” The two Earth Saint Master envoys were the greatest stabilizers to Yun Li’s heart, but with Katata’s words revealing that it would be difficult to deal with the hidden Class 5 Magical Beast even if he and his brother joined hands, those words were like a clap of thunder to Yun Li’s eardrums. By now, he was feeling a great deal of despair.
Seeing the look on Yun Li’s face, Jian Chen let out a breath of air. “Then I’ll go down to help. The threat of the Class 4 Magical Beasts is far too big for us to ignore anyways.” With that, Jian Chen leaped down the fifty meter tall city wall. In midair, Jian Chen’s body began to speed up somehow like a speeding bullet toward the Class 4 Magical Beasts
The new member of the Flame Mercenaries, Duo Kang, was currently fighting against a Class 4 Magical Beast. This Class 4 Magical Beast was a three meter long black cheetah with extremely fast movements. Both of its paws swished through the air as the extremely sharp talons flew at Duo Kang. Along with the claws, the cheetah roared loudly with a jaw full of blood from the various times Duo Kang was hurt.
The black cheetah’s eyes were crimson with bloodlust as they glared at Duo Kang almost as if he were its prey. Growling with an angry snarl, its entire body suddenly disappeared in a blur as it shot toward Duo Kang. In that instant its sharp talons glistened in the sunlight as it flew at Duo Kang’s chest.
Duo Kang’s eyes flashed dangerously with no fear at all as the Saint Force enhanced weapon in his hands slashed at the cheetah. The sword and talons met against each other with a large ear screeching sound as the blast of the impact forced Duo Kang to fly back a few steps.
Duo Kang’s Saint Weapon wasn’t enough to cause any sort of damage to the cheetah. The cheetah was momentarily sent back before instantly bounding forward to slash at Duo Kang’s back from behind.
Duo Kang had not yet fully stabilized his footing after the cheetah had sent him flying backward, so it was hard for him to attack the beast with the same strength as before. Helplessly, he could only bring his sword across his body to protect himself against the claws.
The cheetah’s claws swiped at Duo Kang’s Saint Weapon, causing the sword to be knocked back a bit. With the sword firmly out of place, the cheetah suddenly opened its jaws in an effort to bite Duo Kang.
With his Saint Weapon out of the way, Duo Kang’s actions were severely limited. Seeing the wide open jaws of the cheetah, Duo Kang’s face suddenly changed and he abruptly swung his head out of the way.
With its jaws wide open, the cheetah emitted an ear deafening roar as it tried to clamp down its jaws onto Duo Kang’s chest.
Duo Kang’s face was extremely serious. This cheetah had been exceedingly clever when it had attacked him with its claws, leaving him unable to retaliate at all. It would seem that today would be a hard day to escape calamity, since this magical beast was even stronger than he was, and Duo Kang wasn’t able to fight against the cheetah with his Saint Weapon.
This time as Duo Kang dodged the fangs, he could feel some color come back to his face. If he were just one second slower dodging the fangs, then his chest would have become a bloody mess.
“What a troublesome matter this is.” Duo Kang had a look of despair. Right now he was almost at the whim of the cheetah. With the cheetah attacking at any time, it was getting harder and harder to dodge.
This time, a small child like sized tail suddenly wrapped around Duo Kang’s neck, making all movement impossible for him now.
Once more, Duo Kang’s face turned deathly pale as his eyes gleamed with despair. With his neck captured by the tail, he could no longer dodge the next strike from the black cheetah. Even his Saint Weapon; the most important item to his life wouldn’t help him here. He would sooner die than relinquish his Saint Weapon.
The iron scent of blood stung Duo Kang’s nose as the cheetah’s bloody jaw encaptured Duo Kang’s eyes once more.
Just before Duo Kang was ready to accept his death, a silver light suddenly flashed in the corner of his eyes. Startled, Duo Kang could only see a silver lightning like trail of light fly straight through the cheetah’s throat.
The bloody jaws of the cheetah immediately came to a close just an inch away from Duo Kang’s chest. The putrid scent of its jaws was so nauseating to Duo Kang’s nose that he didn’t dare breathe.
Duo Kang was instantly dazed, but the moment he saw the long blade insert itself deep within the cheetah’s throat, a look of pure joy appeared within his eyes. This blade was one he was extremely familiar with because he knew just who the owner was.
Duo Kang couldn’t help but feel extremely grateful after his narrow escape from death. Turning his head to look at the twenty year old youth to the side, he called out emotionally, “Captain!”. On this road between life or death, Duo Kang finally realized just how beautiful living was.
Although Duo Kang had been in many life or death situations, he had never been in such a perilous situation as this one. If Jian Chen was a second too slow, then his life would have been forfeit and his body a corpse.
Jian Chen slowly took the Light Wind Sword out from the cheetah’s neck and spoke out to Duo Kang, “Go help out the others, make sure our Flame Mercenaries lose as few men as possible.”
“Yes, captain!” Duo Kang immediately responded. Grabbing at the tail still enwrapped around his neck, he uncoiled it and cut away the ear of the cheetah. Then storing it into his Space Belt, Duo Kang immediately ran off to help out the other brothers of the Flame Mercenaries.
Jian Chen didn’t hesitate at all as he immediately ran off to the next closest Class 4 Magical Beast. This next one was a viper with six Saint Masters fighting against it. Two of them were injured, leaving the remaining four to weave in and out in attempts to protect themselves. Each strike was getting harder to dodge and they were already in a miserable condition. The viper’s poison that was spat out at them was enough to make all of the Saint Masters there afraid of coming into contact with it.
So the six Saint Masters could only try to run away from the viper. Suddenly, a silver arc of light streaked by them and immediately pierced into the vitals of the viper before it could even respond.
The viper immediately let out a miserable hiss as it collapsed down to the ground. Jian Chen’s sword was incomparably fast, so even a Class 4 Magical Beast like the viper wasn’t able to perceive the attack at all.