Chapter 179 Battle of Liyang - Part 9 (1/2)
Chapter 179 – Battle of Liyang - Part 9
Although it took Tong one second to kill and leap to another target, Huangfu Song and his men managed to react after Tong killed the 10th archer.
Soldiers with shields in front surrounded him to limit his movement. Spearmen on the second line held their Javelins and were ready to toss them to Tong.
”Brat! Surrender! You're surrounded!”
Tong looked around and noticed that he was surrounded so fast. He laughed.
”Wow! I'm impressed. You have amazing disciplined soldiers, and they even moved without order! Should I say, as expected from the elites of the elites?”
”If you knew it, you can surrender! Unlike those scoundrel friends of yours, I promise I will give you another chance in life!”
Tong nodded in admiration. This person's psychological persuasion was also good. He checked his system map to see who the commander was. The name ”Huangfu Song” appeared on the location of the speaker.
'Jackpot!'
Tong laughed out loud by reflex after realizing that one of the grand commanders of the three armies was here.
”Has he gone insane?”
”He's lost it.”
”Well, that's obvious. Any cornered rat will show its true inner side.”
The shield bearers gossiped after they saw Tong's reaction. On the other hand, Huangfu Song did not think that way.
'His eyes and his expression aren't clouded with fear! That's not a despaired laugh!'
Huangfu Song had a bad premonition. From his ability to read people, Tong did not reveal a hint of an insane person or a despaired prisoner.
He trusted his instinct. This young man had to die right now.
”Men! Kill him now!”
”HAHAHA! It's too late! You can't escape! [Time Stop]!”
Though Tong wanted to scream ”ZA WARUDO” as the skill activation, he was afraid that one of the [???] sins would act up again. Every time he acted like a chunnibyou, this [Sin] always got stronger.
<click>>
<time stop=”” activated.=”” you=”” have=”” 10=”” seconds=”” remaining=””>>
The world became colorless as everything in this dimension was paused.
”I wish I have a road roller in my inventory …”
Tong leaped over the shield formation that surrounded him and landed in front of Huangfu Song.
As usual, Tong took out a sharp blade and sliced his neck in one slash.
<you have=”” 8=”” seconds=”” remaining=””>>
He gazed at the boiling grease in his inventory menu. He wanted to burn everybody here again as he did in the other day. However, he felt terrible for the people in Puyang Region since they had nothing to do with this battle.
If Tong used the grease fire again, the innocents in this area would suffer as the wind still blowing southwest.
”But I have other ways to kill all of you!”
Instead of using grease fire, Tong ejected hundreds of cubic stones into mid-air from his inventory. These cubic stones moved by the discharged force and came to a stop. These over-a-ton stones hung over their heads, waiting for the time stop effect to run out.
”I guess I should call it the mini-road-da-roller-da!”
<you have=”” 2=”” seconds=”” remaining=””>>
”Whoops! Time to bail.”
Tong started running away from this location to hide in the shadow of the trees nearby. He had not planned to retreat to his camp until he farmed all lifespans from these men.
<you have=”” 1=”” second=”” remaining=””>>
Tong snapped his fingers. 'Zero!'
<the flow=”” of=”” time=”” shall=”” resume=””>>
”Huh?”
”What!?”
”Where did he go?”
Tong frowned from listening to the voice of the panic soldiers. A-hard-object-hit-the-meat sound, crushing impact sound, or bone cracking noise did not come. Aside from the soldiers' voice, it was silence.
'What happened!? I thought I used those boulders to crush them. Why!?'
”General!”
”General is dead!”
The soldiers already noticed that Huangfu Song's neck was sliced open. He already fell on the ground and stopped breathing.
Even though Tong stocked another 20,000 lifespans for the final reward of his soulmate quest, he was not happy with this development. Something was wrong during the last few seconds when he escaped back into the woods to hide.
'Dammit! If those stones killed the soldiers, my [Time Stop] skill would have been leveled up!'
'What exactly is going on?'
Tong took a peek to see the situation outside as his radar map was filled with red dots.
What he saw astonished and shocked him. The cubic stones were floating upward instead of falling. In mid-air, a white-haired old man in a Daoist robe was standing on one of the cubed rocks.
'Who!?'
Tong looked at his radar map by instinct, yet the system map did not show him on it.
'How!?'
”You must be thinking [How is this possible], right?” A haughty female voice sounded behind Tong.
Tong sensed terrifying killing intent aura from the voice behind him. He leaped to the side by reflex.
”I'll repeat your words, little demon. It's too late. You can't escape!”