Chapter 302 (1/2)

Book 3, Chapter 38 – Carnage

Outside the Dust Bowl Lodge, a

Out in this chaotic ht came whether you wanted it or not, it wasn't discussed So, sometimes it was for no reason whatsoever It didn't matter, bodies in the dirt and rivers of blood were a coht once the world was destroyed

Nothing to be done This was the wastelands, after all

Autu sun or the fear that gripped her, but she was drenched in sweat Her fists were clenched at her sides, eyes glued to the scene below

The sun was reflected off the yellohite sands, forcing her to squint Dozens of men had started to close in around Cloudhawk – alone in a sea of angry faces

Autumn didn't doubt Cloudhawk's abilities… but would he be able to defend hiainst so many at once?

The lame drunkard hobbled his way to Barb's side The hunched boozer supported hi hi Barb seemed safe for the moment, but was she really? No one was sure whether the drunkard was a friend or foe As for Autu, she was under Bonobo's protection But how long would that last?

The wastelanders looked at her with eyes like fire Sooner or later, she was going to get burned

Autu more uneasy by the second

In battle, everyone understood the concept; the mantis throws itself heedlessly at the cicada, unaware that the finch would close in at the first opportunity Everyone wanted to be the finch, but that wasn't how things worked Someone had to make the first move

Whoosh!+

Someone with a massive shi+eld tried to bash him in the face It was dented and scarred fro dark had stained a part of it, and no ao away Blood, from someone who's life the shi+eld claimed

They were finallytheir move

Alright I haven't had a good fight since I left hell's Valley

Cloudhaas a wastelander It didn't ed in conflict This was going to be a fine chance for him to see how much he could really stretch

Cloudhawk spun through the air, catching the shi+eld with a dropkick

Clang!

The several-hundred kilo away

A huge man, easily two and a half meters tall, stepped out froish, his eyes dience But his skin looked as tough as a rhinoceros, and he was further protected by a set of extremely thick armor His weapon was the massive shi+eld Cloudhawk had just kicked away, as well as a giant maul

Most of the croasby the look of theely constitution-based

Men like this had skin tough as ani them and they didn't blister, scorch them and they didn't burn Even in death their flesh was hard as iron Ordinary weapons couldn't do a thing, it was like they were forged froh any enemy

The brute snatched thedown For astraight for his head He was sure that if it caught him, he'd been smashed flat

Cloudhawk scrambled backward

His enormous opponent didn't rush to follow up He knocked his harin spread across his rigid face The look on his face was proof enough that this guy wasn't good forJust then, a tiny handpopped up from behind his shoulder, and a dith the body of a child no older than eleven or twelve scrambled onto his back Sht in a shriveled and tiny body like the world's oldest prepubescent

“You're going to remember us, elysian I aly dwarf seeence, as opposed to the brute he rode He clung to the bigits h, I doubt it's strong enough to break through my little brother's shi+eld!”

Cloudhawk chose to respond with his sword

With a screech, the sword left a mark across the brute's shi+eld, albeit one that was not to odeep Little Rock didn't move one centiuy's defenses were going to be a probleht not even be enough to break through his shi+eld

The dwarf tittered sickeningly on his brother's shoulders “Hehehehe! You shouldn't e my brother Your sword hardly left a scratch! Little Rock, show this asshole what you can do”

Little Rock bounded forward His enored at Cloudhawk like a feral beast

Large as he was, Little Rock was anything but slow With all the force he put behind it, his shi+eld was a weapon of treo head to head with a bull and the poor beast would have every bone in its body splinter For someone like Cloudhawk, a full-on impact would turn him into paste

So far, no one had been able to stand up to Little Rock and his brother Both of them were sure Cloudhaouldn't be an exception

While the larger one charged, Locust wasn't idle either His tiny hands were flung in wide arcs, throwing poison-drenched concealed weapons before theht that Locust ood coth and constitution, Locust was a metahu with incredible speed, coated with lethal poison that would take a life with a mere nick of the skin

Cloudhawk suddenly found hiht in a rain of poison steel