Chapter 58 - Continued. (1/2)

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Kuo stood at the entrance of the cave listening to the sound of the massive monster getting chocked by something. Whatever it was, it was strong enough to not give the T.Rex a chance to even fight back.

”Jin, come here. I'm going out to take a look at the surroundings, stand guard in the meantime,” Kuo said without turning around and silently disappeared from the entrance.

”Damn it, why do I get stuck with the grunt work,” Jin mumbled and walked out of his tent and sat in Kuo's place. He looked out in the dark night and frowned, ”Is it them?” he whispered to himself and for the first time on this journey, his expression turned serious.

Kuo stopped using Qi completely and moved only with his raw physical power. And for someone in the Spirit realm that was a lot. They could jump dozens of meters straight up into the air without a problem.

He moved like a shadow, jumping from one branch to another, following the noises that had almost stopped. He landed behind a tree about 6 meters away and slowly peeked around to see what was happening.

His expression changed the second he saw the almost comical scene unfold before him.

A humanoid hooded figure of barely 5 meters in height was holding down a high-level spiritual beast of more than 20 meters down onto the ground with his bare hands. And from the looks of things he wasn't even using his full power.

”There are no warrior tribes here, who the hell this monster?” he thought looking at the man.

”Damn it, this was supposed to be a simple mission, we lost our captain and now someone new shows up? What the hell is going on?” Kuo took out a short dagger from his storage ring and starting moving closer and closer to the figure.

The figure had no idea and was still holding the giant beast down and basically strangling it with his bare hands.

”He he he, shout louder you filthy animal,” he said with a crazed laugh, completely lost in the moment.

Kuo was now just three meters away from him. ”Now or never,” he said inwardly and suddenly shot at the figure at the speed of sound with the dagger aimed at the figure's heart.

*Sqwelp*

The dagger penetrated into the man's flesh and Kuo was overjoyed, that is until something shot out from under the cloak and hit him in the shoulder and throwing him more than a dozen meters away.

”What the hell?!” Kuo was baffled. He felt the dagger enter the man's body, he should be dead! Unless...

”Impossible! What the fuck are you assholes doing so far in the Kingdom of Mei?!” Kuo shouted at the man.

*CRACK*