Chapter 262 – The Battle Begins (2/2)
Rumble…!
At this moment, the distant town wall swayed again. Another monster was coming out from underground.
“Damn it!” Luo Kun was infuriated. A cyan light flashed from his body, then a wide blade light sliced through the air towards the Mutated Fire Kite.
“Screeech!”
Remaining still in its spot, the firebird let out a long screech. Fire swirled around its body before taking the shape of a miniature version of it several dozen meters long that hurled towards the blade light.
Boom!
The fire was smashed to bits. The Mutated Fire Kite wailed and glided backward, the fire on its body grew fainter. As for Luo Kun, he repeatedly stepped back, leaving two lines of deep footprints on the ground.
“Retreat!” Luo Kun shouted the order to retreat. The enemy was too cunning. It lured them out so the earth monsters could attack the wall from underground.
The NPC army withdrew methodically. While they were able to kill quite an amount of monsters, their casualties weren’t any better. Neither side had gained the upper hand in this battle.
“Be a good boy, don’t run.” Another bolt lodged into the Underground Worm’s body. The boss was on its last breath as it struggled to flee to the surface.
Fatty originally planned to return the Dark Unicorn into its mount egg state, then use the Brutal Saddle to control the worm. However, the monster was already half out above the ground. If he used the Saddle, the worm would be completely out before he could subdue it. When that happened, Fatty would be exposed in the middle of a monster herd and become the subject of a gang beating.
With his back against the wall, Fatty loaded the last bolt and shot it at the worm.
Boom! As the sixth bolt struck, the Underground Worm trembled. Then, its yellow armor softened and dispersed into yellow gas. At the same time, the worm limply fell on the ground, no longer moving.
Harvest.
Fatty tossed the skill. A ball-sized orb appeared on his palm.
Underground Worm Inner Core – Earth
“Hahaha, nice!” Fatty laughed in satisfaction. He placed the core in his inventory and continued to Harvest.
Whoosh. It was still a ball this time, but only the size of a goose egg.
“This is… a pet egg?” Fatty couldn’t be happier. The tiny bit of regret for being unable to subdue the Underground Worm as his mount was resolved by this egg.
“Screeech!”
Suddenly, an ear-piercing scream resounded above. With a rumble, the tunnel where Fatty stood collapsed.
“Fudge!” Fatty cursed angrily. Having no time to pick up the drops, he vanished with Earthwalk and reappeared at the foot of the town wall.
The fact that Fatty had just killed a powerful underling of itself greatly angered the Mutated Kite Fire. The bird opened its mouth to spit, and a huge flame shot out screaming.
“General, help!” Fatty screamed miserably as he flew up with the Zephyr Wings.
“Hah!” A blade light swept out from the wall. The flame was sliced in half and slowly dispersed.
“That scared me to death!” Fatty landed on the wall and patted his chest in relief.
“Squeak squeak…” Only now did Wheat pop out from underground. The rodent sneakily glanced around before scurrying towards the wall.
“Not bad, you actually killed a high-rank Yao boss.” Luo Kun nodded approvingly.
“It’s just luck.” Fatty wanted to be humble, but his face abruptly changed. “Ahhh! My bolts! Wuwuwuuu, my sixty thousand gold coins is gone!”
After Fatty slew the Underground Worm, he was so preoccupied with Harvest that he forgot the drops as well as the six bolts in the monster’s body.
“Heh, it’s only sixty thousand gold coins. After this crisis is solved, I’ll compensate you for everything you’ve lost.” Luo Kun laughed.
“Ahh? Then thank you, General.” Fatty was overjoyed.
“General, if we set out to battle, there will be monsters coming to destroy the wall. But if we don’t, the monsters will tightly lock us in here. At this rate, the town will fall sooner or later. What are we going to do?” An officer worriedly remarked.
“What a bummer. If we still have enough magic stones to operate the Magical Crystal Cannon, we can blow up this damn Mutated Fire Kite with one shot,” said another officer resentfully.
Hearing this, Fatty finally understood. No wonder this town only had a high-ranked general stationed here. Of course, in such a remote place from the Imperial Capital where the number of high-rank Yao monsters couldn’t be counted, a mere townlet wouldn’t last long without such a powerful weapon.
“Don’t think too much.” Luo Kun swung his arm. “Tomorrow, I’ll restrain the firebird. You guys split into two groups, one will defend the city, the other must break out from the monsters’ encirclement at all costs and report to the Imperial Capital.”
“General, is there really no way to fix the Teleportation Portal?” Fatty suddenly thought of this.
“It’s not about whether it can be fixed. Basically, we don’t know what the problem is at all.” Answering Fatty was a mage; from the looks of it, a space mage.
“You don’t know what the problem is?” Fatty knitted his brows.
“That’s right. From what we can see, the Portal isn’t damaged at all. It’s completely fine, just that we can’t get it to operate.” The mage furrowed even harder than Fatty.
“So, we suspect that someone is using a spatial tool to cut off our connection to the Imperial Capital,” Luo Kun said with a solemn expression.
Spatial tool! This reminded Fatty of something Lucas had said.
Lucas said that if Fatty wanted him to set up a Teleportation Portal that could teleport other people as well in Sky City, he would need a spatial tool, and a Divine one at that.