266 Bandits 2 (2/2)

Garen tore off his shirt and noticed that the milky skin on his elbow was now turning green. A little wound of rotting flesh had also appeared there.

This terrifying rotting ability, if it had happened to a normal person, their whole elbow would have rotted off by now. Garen toughened his heart before hooking a finger into the wound and digging out the rotting flesh.

At the bottom of the hill was a vast field. Not far away was a forest with patches of yellow and green-leafed coniferous trees. There were also lakes of various sizes that looked like mirrors, except that they were grey and seemed abnormally gloomy.

There were two little dots on the slope, one yellow and the other grey, that were going down the slope and rushing towards the field.

The yellow dot was moving at a rapid speed, and rushing down in an S-shaped path.

The black dot was much slower, and in front of it was a black python as thick as a fist, spanning the length of seven to eight meters, slithering forward. The black python lifted its head up suddenly, and shot a green light out of the third eye between its brows, straight ahead at Garen.

But not once did the green light manage to hit its target.

”Wandaxi, kashura!” The black robed man shouted angrily as he lunged forward and chased his opponent. He held a short black stick in his hand and kept pointing it at the yellow dot in front.

Both of them dashed forward, one in front and the other behind, before finally landing in the vast field.

Garen dived into the coniferous forest. After turning a few times, he jumped and braced himself against the tree trunk and somersaulted into the foliage. After that, he noticed the little lake in front and jumped down into the water. His whole body was submerged in the muddy water as he continued to swim deeper, holding his breath as he went.

The water in the lake was muddy and filled with soil and dust. However it was quite shallow, maybe only seven or eight meters deep. The bottom of the lake was mostly black mud.

Garen’s body shook slightly as he gently fell unto the mud, but it wasn’t a great fall as most of the mud remained in its original position. He lay face up with his body against the bottom of the lake and moved his shoulders carefully, unearthing some of the mud in the process and using it to cover himself.

A rustling noise emerged from the grass, as a large cluster of weeds were pushed aside.

The leader of the black robes rushed over angrily as his eyes scanned the entire area.

”Nuwataman!” He roared furiously.

The three-eyed black python was curled around his shoulders once again, and raised its head and made hissing noises.

It bowed its head slightly as its third eye suddenly shot out a ray of green light.

Tch!

The light shot onto the water in front, as well as the wild grass around the lake. The grass, soil, and stones all turned into a green sticky mess after being corroded by the green light.

The man in the black robe surveyed the area with his black python and walked around the lake for good measure, before running off to the area in front to continue his search there.

It was obvious that he was using the footprints on the ground as clues. Garen had jumped down directly from the tree, ensuring that not all of his footprints would be on the ground. The man was convinced that something wasn’t right, and decided to continue his search by crawling military-style instead.

The black robed man spent some time investigating the forest but failed to find anything. Suddenly, he raised his head and looked upwards.

Chirp!

There was a black hawk circling the sky and calling out in a ear piercing voice. The black hawk looked abnormal, because it had a red cockscomb growing out of the top of its head.

Garen continued to hide at the bottom of the lake, making sure to stay as still as possible. His aura could sense movements within a radius of slightly over two hundred meters in this area, and he could now feel the current location of the black robed man.

Bang!

Suddenly, a strong quake-like sensation shook the ground down to the bottom of the lake.

It seemed like a battle was going on outside. The sound of a hawk’s cry could also be heard vaguely.

A few minutes passed before the ground finally stopped moving again.

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Jefferson held the cockscomb black hawk in his right hand, as his eyes bore into the surrounding forest.

Some dark blood stains had seeped into the ground, and strips of black cloth were strewn all over.

In the fight just now, the leader of the black robes had been chased by him, and was heavily wounded. At this moment he was hiding somewhere and had left without a trace.

”Consider yourself lucky!” He said coldly, as he turned to leave.

The black robed man leaned against a tree trunk and panted heavily. His whole body was covered in a yellow-green sheen, the perfect camouflage colour.

He retrieved some medicine from his lap and hurriedly applied it on his shoulders. His forehead was filled with sweat droplets.

In an opening in the undergrowth nearby, he noticed that Jefferson could not find him, and had finally retreated, and was now walking away in a faraway direction. He assumed that the man was probably going to reunite with his other squad members.

The man in the black robe sighed in relief, and wiped the beads of sweat off his forehead. Only when Jefferson had finally disappear did he turn around and walk in the opposite direction. The sound of his footsteps were abnormally quiet, and he staggered when he walked, implying that he had suffered serious injuries.

He continued to turn back and check behind him as he walked. Suddenly, he heard a soft splash coming from the direction in front of him.

The black robed man felt his whole body stiffen, as his head turned around sharply to face the front.

Garen was standing in front of him with an expressionless look on his face.

”May the Gods become one, and may their divine punishment rain down on you!” He took a deep breath, as all the muscles on his body enlarged and expanded in an exaggerated manner.

Phoo!

A gust of wind blew over, and Garen’s physical body instantly leapt a few meters upwards. His palm came into direct contact with the middle of the man in the black robe’s forehead.

In a blink of an eye, everything quietened down.

His palm and the other man’s forehead were in direct equilibrium, and all noise ceased. In that moment, it seemed like everything in the world had become silent.

Bang!

The ground began to shake violently.

The platinum aura swept everything up, causing the blue light to explode in the middle of the black robed man’s eyes.

”Ahhhhhhhh!!!!”

The black robed man’s whole body began to emit black light, as his face distorted with every scream that escaped his mouth. After he was forced backwards, his eyes and mouth began to spurt out fresh blood unceasingly.

The spot where Garen had targeted was the wound where the man’s white luminescence had spilled out and had yet to heal.

Without any hesitation, Garen leapt upwards as his body emitted light and caused fragmented shadows to form. He shot as far as over ten meters away.

Rumble!

A thunderous noise sounded behind him, and a semi-circle shaped green light rippled in the distance and enlarged rapidly into an expanse of over a hundred meters. All of the areas within this vicinity became corroded into a puddle of sticky, green liquid.