Chapter 50 (1/2)

SPO – Chapter 50

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Chapter 50: The Tiger Loses Its Tail

This male tiger was incredibly quick!

Just when the tiger was a hair’s breadth from being squashed by the huge rock, it lowered its body and pounced forwards.

The male’s tiger body was huge, but extremely nimble. The charge took it about four or five meters and away from the rock’s impact zone. However, although it managed to save its head and body by the skin of its teeth, its tail did not escape the huge rock that had fallen from the sky. Its forward momentum was powerful, but since its tail was trapped beneath the rock, the tiger flew up diagonally instead.

Then, a roar followed.

Even when the tiger was one or two kilometers, its roar was both powerful and forceful, much less now when the beast was right in front of him. The roar was extremely unpleasant and grating on the ear; even the puddles on the ground inside the pa.s.sage were rippling from the roar. If it wasn’t for the urgency of the situation, Yue Qiang would’ve pulled the plug on his speaker already. Yin got it even worse, crouching on the ground and covering her ears in pain.

Thankfully, the tiger’s tail was trapped beneath the rock, preventing it from moving about.

Without its agility, the greatest obstacle to victory for Yue Qiang, even a fierce tiger was nothing but a lump of moving experience points.

This was the perfect opportunity to beat the cur while it’s drowning!*

*meaning to attack something or someone while they’re impaired by a certain predicament.

Yue Qiang equipped his iron rod, activated his Run skill and charged forwards.

It was only when he closed the distance that he was able to sense the tiger’s ferocity more clearly. Its body was at the least twice as big as that dead female tiger. The tiger pounced forwards repeatedly, but because of its trapped tail, it was forced to stop midway every time.

Naturally, Yue Qiang would not let got of such a golden opportunity. He placed himself just outside the tiger’s attack radius and attacked continuously.

He was in a fine position, literally and figuratively.

Both the tiger’s claws and teeth were just out of reach of him.

The male tiger’s attacks were extremely ferocious, and its aura was extremely shocking. Its claws contained the force of a thousand cattie*, and Whenever it grazed the pa.s.sage and cave walls it was always able to knock off some stones and bits of wood.

*The catty or kati, symbol 斤, is a traditional Chinese unit of ma.s.s used across East and Southeast Asia; equivalent to about 600 grams.

Yue Qiang’s iron rod might be slightly ugly and weak, but it had one point of advantage.

Length.

In view of the situation, Yue Qiang lost his urgency completely and jabbed the tiger with his iron rod again and again. The beast’s HP bar was gone, but more and more blood flowed out of its body and its injuries grew more and more severe. Moreover, the iron rod was imbued with poison damage. As long as he ground it down slowly, he could definitely kill it without taking any damage.

Just as Yue Qiang schemed to fight his protracted battle to the end, the male tiger’s tactic changed.

It retreated backwards continuously until it reached the furthest end of the corner. Then, it pounced forwards abruptly!

This pounce was different from the countless pounce it did earlier. It was both stronger and faster.

Yue Qiang heard a loud, shredding noise and…

The tiger’s tail was torn apart!

One must understand that a lizard losing its tail and a tiger losing its tail were two completely different things. A tiger’s tail contained more than twenty vertebrae, and it was as huge as a human adult’s upper arm! Because of the tiger’s struggle to break free the thick tail was torn apart.

The choice it made was no different from that of a powerful man grabbing his own left arm with his right and pulling it right off his shoulder!

One could see just how vicious this tiger was.

The male tiger let out a terrible howl in great pain. Now that it was free, its claw slapped down down Yue Qiang as quick as lightning!

Yue Qiang activated Run LVL 2 without the slightest hesitation, but he still failed to dodge the blow.