Chapter 1027: Battle Begins (2/2)
Zou Qing continued to sense with rapt attention. “Grand Patriarch Bone Crusher seems to be the only grand patriarch on that starship. All the rest are a bunch of eighth grade Bonebrute soldiers. I assume the odds will be against me if I were to fight Grand Patriarch Bone Crusher myself. But if can get someone to help me...” He went on with his calculation.
Before he could finish, Sikong Cuo called out, “Elder Fan!”
SHEW!
Fan Wen arrived in a flash.
“Can you cast Void Travel and get us out of this realm now?” Sikong Cuo asked with a grim face.
“I can cast Void Travel. That won’t be a problem. But I won’t be able to keep the spatial rift open longer than a few seconds.” Fan Wen said, looking a bit awkward. “Besides, I’ve also sensed the aura of a Bonebrute grand patriarch. If he somehow interrupts me when I’m casting Void Travel, the spatial rift will become unstable. The result will be unpredictable.”
Face even grimmer, Sikong Cuo asked, “So what are you saying?”
“What I’m saying is I can cast Void Travel, but I can only get about half of your people out of here,” Fan Wen answered, looking self-possessed. “Also, you’ll have to make sure that Grand Patriarch Bone Crusher doesn’t interrupt me in any way.”
Anger instantly filled Sikong Cuo’s heart as he asked coldly, “Are you sure that there isn’t a way for all of us to leave this realm?”
“I’m afraid so,” Fan Wen answered. “But the way I see it, the incoming Bonebrutes aren’t that formidable. Staying and fighting might not be a bad choice. Also, if I have a few more days to recover my strength, then I’ll definitely be able to get all of you out of here with Void Travel.”
“How do I know that more outsiders aren’t on their way here?” Sikong Cuo blurted testily.
“The choice is yours.” Fan Wen didn’t want to waste her breath. “If you want me to cast Void Travel now, I’ll do it. But I can’t promise how many of you will be able to leave through it.”
Sikong Cuo pondered for a long while before fixing Zou Qing with a deep look. “Do we have a chance at winning this battle?”
“I think we do,” Zou Qing answered.
“Alright then. Now that we don’t really have a choice, let’s prepare for battle!” Sikong Cuo made his stance clear.
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Not just Sikong Cuo, but Grand Patriarch Bone Crusher, who was standing on the incoming bone starship, also found the situation undesirable.
He ordered the starship to be berthed.
At this point, he had also sensed the auras of Zou Qing and the other Saint domain experts.
He had thought that he was finally going to catch Pei Qiqi, Nie Tian, and Huang Jinnan this time. Who would have thought that he would find a group of powerful humans instead?
Three Saint domain experts, and more than a dozen Void domain experts. Even he didn’t have confidence in crushing them in battle.
“What should we do now, grand patriarch?” Pergson asked.
“There’s a Son of the Stars down there, but we seem to have lost track of the three we’ve been chasing.” After a moment of hesitation, Grand Patriarch Bone Crusher added, “Try to get in contact with the others, as well as the Phantasms and people from the Nether Spirit Society and the Death Curse Sect. See if any of them are in this area. If they are, tell them to find the closest teleportation portal or spatial rift, and come to us as soon as possible.”
Pergson nodded and asked, “Do we fight them now?”
“Of course!” Even though Grand Patriarch Bone Crusher also had worries, his fighting spirit was much higher than Sikong Cuo’s. “You stay here. The rest of you are going down there with me! We don’t have to win the battle within a short time. We just need to stall them long enough for our reinforcements to arrive. Then, the final victory will be ours!”
As soon as he said these words, one eighth grade Bonebrute after another appeared on the deck of the starship made of bones.
“Kill as many of them as you can! Don’t hold back!” Exclaiming these words, Grand Patriarch Bone Crusher leapt off the starship and plummeted towards the earth like a mountain of translucent, sparkling bones.
The eighth grade Bonebrutes jumped off after him. Each and every one of them emanated a strong aura of death as they dove out of the sky.
Face cold, Pei Qiqi gazed off into the distance at a dead realm that was only the size of a fist. “The battle has started.”
Even though she couldn’t see the Bonebrute ancient starship from such a long distance, she had learned from Fan Wen that Grand Patriarch Bone Crusher had made a move.
“Dammit. Why do they have to be Bonebrutes, but not people of any other race?” Nie Tian complained.
“What difference does that make?” Pei Qiqi asked, looking puzzled.
With a pitiful face, Nie Tian explained, “If they were outsiders of other races, like Demons, Phantasms, Birdmen, or Blackscales, I’d be able to harvest their corpses after the battle and make significant use of them. Even though dead Bonebrutes will also contain residual flesh power, since it’ll be mixed with death power, it won’t be of much help to me.”
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