569 Chapter 569: Skeletal Vulture (2/2)

There were gasps from the spectators as they watched the battle in amazement.

”Awesome! That's quite the cool spell!”

”We might be able to win after all!”

”!!”

Wang Chui Niu turned pale when he realized that he had underestimated his opponent. Meanwhile, Xing Er Song continued to stand his ground smugly, and he snapped his fingers. With a flick of his hand, he pointed and another ice chain, with an icicle spike at its tip, swerved around to pursue the jinking Skeletal Vulture. Wang Chui Niu glanced upward in panic when he saw that his soul beast wasn't going to evade the spell in time.

”Watch out, Skeletal Vulture!”

Despite ascending rapidly, the Skeletal Vulture wasn't going to make it in time. The icicle chain hurtled forward at incredible speeds, and before it could dodge, the chain snaked about and coiled around its talons, binding it tightly. Ice began spreading across it claws and toward its bulky body.

The Skeletal Vulture gave out a furious caw, but Xing Er Song conjured another few spells and hurled azure globes at it. The flying soul beast yanked and fought against its retraints, but it was jerked back to earth before the freezing mana struck it.

Right in front of everybody's eyes, the Skeletal Vulture was completely frozen solid, entombed within a coffin of ice.

”Oh dear,” Xing Er Song remarked mockingly. ”Seems like your beast has been stoppd cold.”

”No…please…don't…” Wang Chui Niu stammered.

Xing Er Song merely smirked and pointed his index finger at the frozen Skeletal Vulture, almost as if he was pretending to shoot at it. Wang Chui Niu's eyes widened.

”No!!!”

The ice chains whipped about and dashed the frozen Skeletal Vulture against the ground with an impact so tremendous it left a crater on the ground. The ice shattered, along with a sickening crunch. Even though the Skeletal Vulture was finally free of its icy tomb and its body was still intact, it was motionless, its wings and neck bent at unnatural angles.

Black decaying feathers fluttered, still encrusted in frost, almost as if signifying the poor creature's demise.

”No…!” Wang Chui Niu was screaming as he sprinted toward his downed soul beast. ”No! No!”

Even as the ice broke to reveal frozen patches of blood on the monster's corpse, Wang Chui Niu fell to the ground, sobbing uncontrollably.

”My Skeletal Vulture…”

Why was he acting so dramatically? Oh, because he was copying the actions of some dude from some other story. Honestly, there was no need to cry like that because he could summon his Skeletal Vulture after a while. Maybe in a week…there was no doubt the damned thing was dead.

The Skeletal Vulture than exploded, dissipating into black and gray mana that curled around the arena like a fog.

”How pathetic,” Xing Er Song remarked, disgusted at the guy's sniveling. Even I found myself unable to pity him, especially after his arrogant attitude.

”Quit your whining and get out of here, kid,” Zhang told Wang Chui Niu. ”You've lost. Next.”

”That's…”

”Oh, you're just wasting time now…” Zhang impatiently waved his hand and cast a telekinesis spell thatsnagged Wang Chui Niu by his collar and flung him out of the beast cage. He had no time to deal with crybabies. ”Next!”

”Whoa…”

While Zhang was unmoved, all the specators in the stadium couldn't help but watch the whole thing in awe.

”The Skeletal Vulture has been defeated!”

”Amazing! That fatty is so strong!”

”We have a chance!”

”Whoa…you only defeated seven,” I told Wang Chui Niu as he slumped down in his seat. ”I told you that you will only defeat less than ten. What now? We haven't even reached half of our target.”

”Shut up!” he shrieked at me. ”Just…shut up!”

”Why should I?” I sneered. ”You were acting so arrogantly and looking down on everybody before, and now you couldn't even defeat ten people. And now you don't want to hear the cold, harsh truth? It's your own fault for letting your ego swell your head.”

”Dude, you shouldn't kick people when they are down,” Zheng Ying Shou told me sternly. I narrowed my eyes and pointed at Wang Chui Niu.

”Shouldn't I? This guy kicked Kanon Fodder when he was down, called other people losers or trash or useless…but when he gets defeated after all those arrogant stunts of his, we should coddle him? What kind of logic is that?”

”You're better than him,” Zheng Ying Shou told me. ”You can be better than him. Don't sink to his level.”

”Fine.” I left the despondent Wang Chui Niu alone. His pride had been shattered. It was unlikely he would boast again. Or so I hoped.

Watching Wang Chui Niu smugly, his ice chains still wrapped protectively around him. He then turned to look at the summoning students condescendingly.

”You guys should all come up together,” he taunted. ”So that you won't waste everyone's time.”

”His ice chains can only go after one target at a time!” the two remaining summoning students were discussing amongst themselves. ”If the two of us work together, we'll definitely be able to defeat him!”

”I wouldn't underestimate him if I were you,” I warned them. However, one of them rudely shoved me back.

”Shut up! You're just a fucking coward! You have no right to talk!”

”Excuse me? I fought against that guy before so I know…”

”Shut up! Stop lying! You're nothing but trash!”

”Trash should just behave like trash!”

What the fuck? What was wrong with these people? Why were they so obsessed with calling me trash? Was it because I was the protagonist? Did they seriously not know what I was capable of? Or was this main character syndrome? A…weird story disorder where everybody doesn't know the real powers of the main character and insist on calling him trash so that I could slap their faces later?

I shook my head and watched in dismay as the two of them continued down toward the cage, debating on their tactics.

This was so not going to end well for them.