Chapter 79 – Fire Lance (2/2)

Almost at the same time that Shao Xuan finished his words, fiery-red vines drilled out from the earth.

Luckily, Shao Xuan had a quick reaction. He leaped high as he shouted out the warning, and he leaped higher with the help of the trees nearby.

“It’s the Fire Lance!”

“Run, Ah-Xuan, run!”

The others quickly withdrew from the trees.

“Careless!” Ta pulled out a stone axe from his waist and tossed it towards the vine.

Crack!

It was the sound of stone chopping on a piece of wood.

The bloody-red vine that came after Shao Xuan was as thick as an adult’s arm, but it got chopped down into two pieces by the axe. Blood-like liquid poured out and sprinkled on the ground.

However, it had only dislocated the Fire Lance’s tip, and the “bleeding” vine was still chasing after Shao Xuan. What’s more, there were more than ten vines drilling out from the ground. According to Shao Xuan’s estimation, at least fifty vines had drilled out in the air, aside from those thin and short ones. No one knew how many more of them were still hiding beneath the earth.

When the warriors had withdrawn, Shao Xuan’s pressure decreased. His ability was still quite limited, so there was no chance that he could take the tough attacks from those tough vines.

Even though they were merely vines, they were totally different from the red vines that Shao Xuan had seen earlier. The ones Shao Xuan had seen could only sweep away the prey, and they were much less aggressive. However, the one that they were dealing with now was much fiercer. They stabbed directly as if they were spears.

The tree that Shao Xuan leant on for resting earlier had already been stabbed through at least three times. And all of that happened in the blink of an eye.

It was the Fire Lance. The tips of the vines were as sharp as spearheads, while the tiny hair-like extrusions on its body would dance like fire while moving. It deserved the name, one hundred percent.

Every single hair-like extrusions on the vines were used for absorbing. They could absorb a plant’s liquid, as well as the fresh blood of humans.

The experienced warriors, who had hunted a long time in this green land, were all familiar with this plant, so Ta and the others knew well enough how they should be handled.

When Shao Xuan was dodging the attacks, he paid extra attention on Ta’s moves. There was much to learn under such circumstances, especially from those experienced old warriors. He needed to take the chance.

As for the experienced old hunters, although they might lack the fit movements or fancy actions, every single move of theirs was quite prominent. All of the moves were acquired during hundreds or even thousands of tough fights. Sometimes, their conditioned reflexes could be much faster than their thoughts. It was almost an absolutely instinctive reaction, but it was a simple and practical killing move.

All the warriors soon withdrew and entered combat status. Promptly they began to cooperate with each other, their fighting power surged. They had a momentum that could almost beat the Fire Lance. Every warrior had his own weapon. Constantly, they swept their arms, and struck those Fire Lance with the weapons in their hands. All their strength went through the weapons and was hammered down on the vines. The attacks were fluent and kept hitting on the vines in waves.

If any one of them had a small lagg, or made a slight mistake, they would risk losing their momentum. They had to rely on the momentum, even if they were not fighting with a ferocious beast.

It all happened in a short period of time, and the ground was dyed red.

The danger was about to pass, but “banging” sounds emerged from underground.

It turned out that the other vines underneath had drilled out as well, while the part that was above the ground had grown twice as large. It seemed that the Fire Lance was about to put up a desperate fight.

More to Shao Xuan’s misery, most of the newly drilled-out vines were coming after him.

“Move away, Ah-Xuan!” Ta shouted over at him.

However, right after his shout, Ta found that the running away Shao Xuan, turned around and was heading back!!

Ta was so furious that he almost spat out some blood seeing that. What the hell? You were clearly told to run farther, but now you headed back? What’s your plan? To drag the team’s feet?! Did you feel that it was not sticky enough over here?!

Normally, Ta wouldn’t choose to continue the tangled fight with the Fire Lance. Instead, he would probably take the team away from it. However, there were many Green Thief seedlings nearby, the things that he was not willing to give up. Clearly, the other warriors all shared his opinion, and none of them had any intention to withdraw. They were nearly crazy in the combat. It was understandable, for it was never easy to encounter the seedlings of Green Thieves, but they were disturbed by the Fire Lance. What’s worse, the Fire Lance had destroyed many trees nearby, which made the search for seedlings even more difficult. And, oh yes, some boy was putting himself in the middle of chaos, on purpose!

Great fury flashed in Ta’s eyes. He suddenly stamped his feet, and stepped on a very thick vine. The plant beneath his feet immediately got scattered as if were attacked by some very heavy thing. Earlier there were some hair-like extrusions tangling around Ta’s feet. Now they were all broken in the blink of an eye. Ta grasped the stone axe, and repeatedly chopped. Sounds of cracking resounded, as if many pieces of cloth were torn apart in the air, and many pieces of hard-wood were chopped apart at the same time.

At the same time when he chopped, Ta moved quickly towards Shao Xuan’s direction. He wanted to kick Shao Xuan out of this mess immediately. The one he hated most was someone who stalled the team.

However, only two steps closer to Shao Xuan, Ta found that there was a similar giant Fire Lance chasing after Shao Xuan. The newly drilled-out vines were running after Shao Xuan like spears filled with a lust for killing. They were coming this way.