Chapter 246: Do I Look Blind to You? (2/2)

The Hyena-men might be strong and ruthless, but they are only strong and ruthless to the other nonhumans.

None of them had ever witnessed a terrible sight such as this!

Hence, what remained of them were split in two.

One was the bottom-feeders. They realized that the enemy had both strength and numbers, deciding that advancing did them no good other than dying and hence lost all will to fight, and began retreating to flee the battlefield.

Others were ascended specimens such as elites or warriors, with some such as Hyena-men priests that had grasped supernatural abilities.

Their will were stauncher compared to the normal hyena-men—they were not frightened at the sight the cannon fodders’ horrible deaths, but became more cautious instead.

Using their innate abilities, the ranked Hyena-men would force their fellow tribespeople forward to continue wearing down the Players while they searched for an opening, waiting for the chance to ambush the Players.

And that naturally caused chaos on the battlefield.

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Nonetheless, the chaos didn’t affect the ranked Hyena-men’s chances of winning.

It was actually helping them instead.

With the normal cannon fodder Hyena-men having limits to their fighting capabilities, they could have encircled or ambush the Players if they had been alone. But with them fighting together, they wouldn’t be interrupted or be cut off into fighting alone for a long time. As such, the cannon-fodder no longer holds value whether they exist or not—instead, it would be them, the ranked Hyena-men who decide the outcome of this fight!

One must mention here that ruthlessness seemed to be carved into the Hyena-men’s DNA even after they had ascended. When most ordinary species ascend, their change would present themselves in size, color or the growth of certain special organs. Even the most casual ones would have a few stripes added, right?

But that’s simply not the case for Hyena-men. There was just no difference in their ascended forms or unascended forms! Because they couldn’t see that there were ascended forms hidden amongst their opponents, many champions who fought packs of Hyena-men would ultimately be ambushed in the beads and die!

That was why the present confusion in battle was the perfect chance for the ranked Hyena-men to hide for an ambush!

One particular Frenzied Hyena-men’s reddened eyes caught sight of a Player’s buttocks and smiled. It slipped amongst the cannon fodders and sneaked towards him, before promptly charging its poisonous claws that it gained after ascension and charging towards the player’s vulnerability at lightning speed!

Say goodbye to your family jewels!

And yet, the human seemed to have an eye on the back of his head—he promptly turned and raised his sword, blocking the Frenzied Hyena-man’s claws with ease.

Then, before the Hyena-man could react as it was staggered by the parry, the Player swung his sword again and decapitated the Frenzied Hyena-man.

“Woah there. Trying to ambush me when ‘elite’ is written so large over your head? Do I look blind to you!?”

The Player spat a mouthful of spit at the disappearing corpse of the Frenzied Hyena-man, cursing as he continued to cut down other Hyena-men…