116 Charcoal VS The Parasite (1/2)

There were countless parasites emerging from underneath the Xia Temple as they moved along. They then headed towards the south gate of the Xia Temple’s ruins and drifted away towards Xiaoxia City.

Leech pods dispersed in the air resembled purple clouds beneath the sunlight.

Those at the Xia Palace Ruins did not find this phenomenon peculiar. Instead, they opened the camera page on the Heart Network to capture this breathtaking scene but strange things began to happen. The leech pods began targeting the crowd as their hosts.

Only a small number of people noticed this and started running away.

The Life Light in the host bodies were quickly consumed and they fainted.

However, this was just the beginning. More and more leech pods drifted away from the Xia Palace Ruins towards Xiaoxia City and spread to larger areas…

Beneath the Xia Palace Ruins, the battle between Charcoal and blood-colored vine had intensified.

Charcoal eventually gave up the ranged attack using dragonflames and moved closer to the blood-colored vine after noticing the increasingly powerful aura of the blood-colored vine. Soon, they became tangled with one another.

Charcoal had a very sharp mouth claw enabling it to directly tear off a section of the blood-colored vine.

It was even more powerful when it used its dragonflame within such a short distance.

Charcoal launched consecutive attacks and caused the blood-colored vine to growl in pain; all counterattacks were useless because of Charcoal's strong defense.

Charcoal was finally showing the immense power of the dragonkin in battle.

Its sharp claws looked like pliers made of steel. Each time Charcoal stabbed the blood-colored vine using its claws, deep gashes would be formed. Its teeth were so terrifying that whenever Charcoal bit it, the blood-colored vine’s body felt like it was being ripped into pieces.

Charcoal was a natural combat machine. It had wicked wings on its back that could cut and kill in a flash.

The blood-colored vine almost collapsed when Charcoal engaged in close combat with it. It tried to tie Charcoal with its vines but Charcoal was too powerful and broke free.

It indeed had amazing healing abilities as it healed each and every wound on its own almost instantly. As its aura grew stronger, its body gradually gave off a faint silver glow.

”We're in trouble now. It has upgraded to silver-level…”

Lin Huang panicked when the blood-colored vine upgraded to silver-level because its abilities would become significantly stronger and Lin Huang had no idea if Charcoal could stop it.

”Xiao Hei, any idea how we can kill this parasite?” Lin Huang was worried because unless his combat ability was stronger than Charcoal’s, there would be no way to kill it.

”The cards you have now cannot solve this problem.”

”What about in the card pieces mall?” Lin Huang asked.

”The most effective card right now would be the Primary Kill Card. It can kill any creature with combat abilities below that of a transcendent.”

”Redeeming one for the first time will require one million card pieces. You do not have enough card pieces.”

”Other than that, are there any other solutions?”

”The Primary Kill Card would be your best choice. The rest would require even more card pieces and you can't use them anyway.”

Lin Huang frowned after listening to Xiao Hei’s explanation.

”Perhaps we should retreat and come back when Charcoal and I are stronger?”

Xiao Hei heard Lin Huang mumbling and gave him a new reminder.

”This would be the best time to kill the parasites or else, you may not have a chance to kill it again.”

”How could it be? I've been upgrading very quickly and perhaps I can upgrade to a transcendent in a year. Charcoal could probably upgrade once too…”

Before Lin Huang could finish his sentence, Xiao Hei interrupted...

”The growth of a parasite is faster than other creatures because it feeds off of the energy of the host. Based on a research on the life cycle of a parasite, it takes them less than 20 days to grow to its current form and it needs at most two months to upgrade to a transcendent. Even after that, there's a chance of a third of mutation.”

”It has achieved bronze-level rank-3 in less than 20 days and had been mutated twice…” Lin Huang never thought the parasite would grow this rapidly since they lived underground.