Chapter 9 (1/2)

Translator: Nyoi_Bo_Studio  Editor: Nyoi_Bo_Studio

It was late at night, and it was gradually getting colder.

During this cold night, a desperate battle was taking place.

One side of the battle was an army of skeletons that seemed to be the embodiment of the endless evil of the black woods; the other side was a group of villagers who settled in the black woods, and made every effort to protect their homeland and their lives.

The fighting process was somewhat dull and monotonous. The skeletons rushed forward continuously in an attempt to undermine the wooden fences surrounding the village, while the villagers slung burning sticks out through the gaps in the fences, beating and burning the approaching skeletons. They dispersed the magic on their bodies with flames, so that they temporarily became harmless bones.

Seen from Sui Xiong’s side, the black tide was constantly surging toward the village surrounded by wooden fences, and then it was stopped by the red flame. The tide constantly fluctuated. With every fluctuation, there would be one or several skeletons reduced to bones, then scattered on the ground to form small gaps. Other skeletons soon followed up to fill up the gaps and continued their assault.

This was a simple and repetitive process. At first glance, the villagers’ defenses seemed impeccable. No matter how many skeletons came, they could only be stopped outside the wooden fences and rolled all the way back underground after sunrise. However, Sui Xiong did know that the balance of victory had completely tilted, and the failure of the villagers was impending.

The reason was simple; they were tired.

They needed to push back the skeletons that had rushed in front of the fence with every round of assault, and this was the only way they could prevent the skeleton’s attack on their defences. The strength of skeletons was, however, not to be underestimated. Each time they were pushed back, a lot of effort was exerted. Villagers had probably pushed their troops back hundreds of times since the skeleton army came to their fences.

More than a hundred of times did not seem to be much, but in fact, pushing back so many times was more than enough to tire an ordinary muscular man and make his body sore. Before the space travel, Sui Xiong had done physical workouts, and he could do fourteen to fifteen barbell presses for every set. But he only did four sets per day and no more than sixty reps, and it was almost his limit. However, these villagers must have had a higher “exercise intensity” than he did. Given the large numbers of repetitions and no rest, their stamina was quite admirable for Sui Xiong because, until now, no one had collapsed because of exhaustion. However, these villagers were not men of bizzare strength, and now they were sweating. They were now only dragging on.

But looking at the sky, Sui found that although the moon was to the west, it was still long before the sunrise.

“It seems that it is almost time for me to present myself?” Sui Xiong announced to himself. As he planned to suddenly emerge and make an impressive debut, things changed again. The atmosphere that Sui Xiong hated and shrouded the village every night had become powerful. Without warning, it rushed to the skeleton army like a wave from the sea.

The crackling sound came together, and all the skeletons close to the fences were instantly disintegrated, and turned to pale-colored bones that spilled over. At the same time, Sui Xiong heard prayers. Many prayers joined together in a strange rhythm to promote the atmosphere’s growth.

He was surprised, and only recovered after a long while; This world was not the earth, so it had supernatural forces such as those skeletons. In the face of the attack of these forces, of course, it should be the supernatural forces that should be used to defend.

Perhaps this was the real defense of the village, right?

Facts proved that Sui Xiong was wrong again.

Just when he was shocked, four young girls wearing black robes walked out of the stone house, each carrying a wooden cage covered with black cloth. They each walked to one side of the village, leaving the wooden cage to the four bulky men who had been there for a while. They cautiously took the cage, and forcibly threw it out over the fences and into the army of skeletons.

Moments later, a shrilling roar sounded in the skeleton army. Four monsters, whose origin was unknown, unexpectedly appeared in the skeleton army, crazily raging.

These monsters had the heads and wings of chickens, but had human-like torsos. Their sturdy limbs showed that they had an extraordinary strength, and their chicken-like hands and feet were very sharp. When they touched the skeletons, the skeletons fell and were broken as though they were frail! The monsters were also very tall, with the shortest being the height of three strong men combined and the tallest one even being the height of five people combined.

“Strange! Where did these monsters come from?” Sui Xiong was stunned as he watched what was happening. He could swear to Marx. When he observed this village over the past times, he never found any traces of these four monsters. He would have to have been blind to miss something so big! So, where did these four big guys come from?

No, this was not the point. The point of the problem was that with the four big guys guarding the gate, the skeleton army seemed to be incapable of doing anything to this village.

Sui Xiong did not have much fighting experience, and could not accurately evaluate how strong the four monsters were. But as they seemed invincible among the skeletons, and the monsters seemed to have gained the upper hand in battle. Although the skeletons had sufficient support in that they were endless, the skeletons of infinite numbers could not win against the four powerful monsters that could defeat a large amount of skeletons by simply waving their arms.

Sui Xiong could not help but sigh. After all, he had underestimated these villagers who could settle down in the black woods! But within a short time, he found that his previous estimation was correct; this village was not actually that strong.