Chapter 193 – Stopping (1/2)

Edited by Ilesyt

There was lots of brushwood in the surroundings. After every few steps, there would be bushes.

“Back up.” The leader saw that the environment in this place was unfavorable to them and made a prompt decision, ordering the other people to retreat along the original route. Although he had no idea of what kinds of traps were set all around, at least there must be no traps along the route they had passed by.

As he thought so, he heard another two screams.

Two warriors fell to the ground: one was stabbed by a poisonous needle as the one before, while the other was cut on the throat.

Sha~ Sha~ Sha~ Sha~

Someone was moving quickly in the bushes.

The leader lifted his feet and went after the man quickly with a ferocious face. Yet he was not careless and even tried to figure out the movements of the figure in front, almost stepping on the same place where the other set his foot down. But many people following him behind were not that lucky: all seemed to be entangled by something and had to cut that thing with a knife; after a few steps, they got stuck again and fell down, not getting up again.

Hearing the sounds behind, the leader guessed the plight which his subordinates may be faced with. He didn’t stop, but speeded up instead of slowing down, catching up closely with the figure in the bushes ahead.

He squeezed out a hideous smile on his face. Found you at last. Go to hell now.

Cutting the head of this man and taking it back would earn him rewards and perhaps he could also get some fire crystals for advancing; maybe he would level up to a senior totem warrior. He had already made numerous contributions and any senior totem warrior who was only one step away from the senior level could be advanced as long as he did another deed of merit and got some rewards. His status in the tribe would be higher and he would be able to get more women, food, resources and rights.

At this thought, he got more excited. The totem tattoos on his face made him look far more hideous. Adding force to his feet suddenly, he waved his right arm with a stone blade in his hand, creating winds with his sword.

Noticing the wind behind, Shao Xuan stamped on the ground with his right foot violently. The ground under his feet made a small “bang” sound, sounding like a tough and solid dirt clod being shaken loose, while he himself turned around unexpectedly and rushed towards the opponent using this force.

Only at this moment did the leader see what Shao Xuan looked like exactly.

He never saw the totem tattoos on Shao Xuan’s face and was also surprised at the young age of Shao Xuan. But all of these were not important, what he needed to do was only to kill him.

He was about to figure out where the next attack would come according to the changes on the movement of Shao Xuan’s body again, when he caught Shao Xuan’s eyes. In this instant, he couldn’t help shuddering.

Shao Xuan’s eyes made him recall the moment when he hunted in this forest with some other tribe members several years ago: they ran into a ferocious beast, which was not only strong but also good at hiding and cunning. They were unable to evade even if they played dead. Those entering the forest were all senior totem warriors who were once arrogant outside, but more than half of them were killed by that ferocious beast, the ones remaining were those who ran away fast.

That ferocious beast at that time also looked inconspicuous and small, but it frightened them so much that they didn’t even have the courage to resist.

If he hadn’t run away, he would have been dead. This was his only thought at that time, which was also a nightmare lasting for many years. This time, hearing the rewards and believing that his strength had improved a lot, he decided to go into the woods once again.

But now, the same thought as he had in that year came to him again.

In that instant when he caught Shao Xuan’s eyes, he had an illusion that the situation at that time, when they encountered the dreadful ferocious beast, seemed to reappear.

The leader had an extremely short pause for an instance, a clamor in his heart resounded, “Run. Run fast. Run away from here.”

In this kind of either fight or flight, the least negligence would mean the difference between life and death.

“Blow the whistle.”

Only having time to say these words, he was penetrated by a stone sword.

Killing one man, Shao Xuan didn’t stop but stretched out the other hand, grabbing a wrist.

Another man followed behind the leader. In view of strength, perhaps he was no match for the leader, but he could equal the leader in terms of speed.

Just now, he obviously saw the leader was in an unfavorable situation, but he didn’t help. Instead, he chose to use the chance to make a sneak attack, but got caught unexpectedly.

Shao Xuan added force to his hand, cracking sounds rang up and the bones of the wrist holding the sword were crumbled.

“Aaah~!

With the strong pain from the wrist, the man couldn’t help but scream miserably. Certainly he couldn’t hold the ivory sword in his hand any longer.

Shao Xuan caught the white-polished ivory sword in one hand and held the stone knife on the other hand, cutting upward in that position at the other side.