Chapter 128 - Pulling a Radish Out of the Soil (1/2)

God, why did you have to extinguish the fire of hope right after you gave us one!?

The six beastmasters watched blankly as Zhang Che “slipped” and fell off his flying mount, plunging into the pond several dozen meters below. Their faces turned ghastly pale, their hearts ashen.

There was no way he’d survived from falling from such a height, even if it was falling into water.

The six of them had given up on resisting, since they were all going to die anyway. It was only a matter of time.

Of course, it’d be useless even if they tried to resist the ferocious attacks of the water insects. The remaining subdued beasts turned into streaks of light and dissipated one after another, and their fragile, paper-like defenses were finally broken through.

The flat-bodied water insects at the forefront of the assault were floating on the muddy water. Their sharp legs paddled quickly, like they were in a dragon boat race, rushing towards the group of beastmasters ahead of them.

They could see the open mouths of the water insects were filled with several sharp, thin fangs, moving to the rhythm of their muscles, giving them the shivers.

“Ahh! I don’t want to be eaten by them!” The female beastmaster who originally had a determined look, referred to as “Qiqi” by her companions, finally couldn’t hold on any longer and crumbled. She whipped out her dagger, bringing it to her throat.

Rather than being eaten alive by these exotic beasts, she’d prefer ending it herself!

“Qiqi, don’t!”

The young man at her side quickly noticed this and slapped the dagger from Qiqi’s right hand. He held her tightly with both arms, turning her around and said with a firm gaze, “I don’t want to see you die before my eyes. If these insects want to hurt you, they have to get past my dead body first!”

However, Qiqi didn’t see the resolute look on his face. Her mouth was agape, looking ahead incredulously, as if she just saw something unthinkable.

“Qiqi, I have always wanted to tell you this-”

Feeling their impending deaths approaching, the man finally mustered his courage and was about to tell her those three words that he never had the courage to, but Qiqi suddenly pushed him away, cheering, “We’re saved, we’re saved!”

It was like having to clench his butt tight at the crucial moment just as a big number two was coming. The man’s face experienced multiple changes as he turned around stiffly and saw a bolt of purple lightning shuttling back and forth around them. Every time it flew by, the ferocious water insects rushing towards them were cut in half, green juices splattering everywhere.

-What happened? Is someone else coming to save us?-

“Gods! That person is fine, we’re saved!”

“I’m alive… I’m alive!” someone sobbed

A couple of the beastmasters cheered excitedly, while some others wept in happiness. On the other hand, the man’s face was strangely mournful… -The confession that I finally had the courage to say… It’s gone, just like that…-

Before Zhang Che made the jump, he had already given the order to the Purple Jade Condor, telling it to save these beastmasters as quickly as possible. As such, it activated the Wing Blade skill while it was still diving, aiming at the bunch of water insects and beginning a one-sided slaughter.

Before the one-minute limit was up, the group of beastmasters discovered, to their astonishment, that the dozens of water insects around them had been wiped out, shredded to pieces, and their carcasses were strewn everywhere in the swamp.

Even though they realized beforehand that this ferocious purple flying beast was strong, they didn’t expect it to be so powerful.

This group of powerful water insects that had chased them to no end was actually wiped out within a minute!

After venting the happiness from pulling their feet out of their own graves, the beastmasters suddenly felt something was amiss.

“Shit, that person still hasn’t surfaced after falling into the pond! Save him, quick!”