Chapter 303: Saving the Townspeople (2/2)
”True. Let’s focus on a single Hellhound and run away after we kill it!”
The Iron Palm That Surfs On Milk swung his spear and struck a half-health Hellhound with Flame Thrust and Blaze, dealing 2985 and 3456 damage respectively.
It was a respectable amount of damage. Warsky Alliance was definitely not an opponent we could afford to underestimate!
Unfortunately for them, they were a couple seconds too late. They were now completely surrounded with nowhere to escape!
Of course, I had no intentions of saving them. Warsky Alliance was my enemy, so why would I pity someone I was going to kill eventually? Warsky Alliance was no wolf, and I am no Dongguo.
”I can’t hold out any longer! Iron Palm, we’re dead!” Commit Suicide shouted.
The Iron Palm That Surfs On Milk replied angrily, ”It’s fine, we’ll grab our men and come back later! I refuse to believe that these Hellhounds could stump the Warsky Alliance!”
He barely managed to finish his sentence before the Hellhounds finished both of them.
The second they died, I immediately rushed into the open and charged the foremost Hellhound. Once I had gotten into position, I immediately launched a Thousand Mirage Slash!
Boom!
The Hellhounds screeched in pain and lost almost all of their HP. When they charged toward me with bloodshot eyes, I immediately followed up with a devastating War Crush!
Bang!
A thunderous blow later, all the Hellhounds had been burned into ashes!
The Hellhounds dropped a couple of equipment and magic stones. I only grabbed the equipment and used Death Plunder on their corpses to obtain another dozen or so Rank 7 pelts. It was exactly the kind of resources Mamate needed to rank up his Armorsmithing skill and make us even better armors.
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The souls of The Iron Palm That Surfs On Milk and Commit Suicide appeared not far away from here. I was sure that they would be able to revive very soon. I wondered how they would feel after seeing the floor of dead bodies?
Oh well, who cares? I have a quest to complete!
This time, there were no more distractions as I made a beeline for Dry Town. A couple of NPC guardsmen immediately walked up to me when I arrived, and a middle-aged warrior with a thick beard let out a laugh. ”Finally, the adventurer sent by the garrison officer is here! Dry Town is currently being besieged from all directions, and we’ll be evacuating 100 civilians in 5 minutes. Your job is to escort these 100 civilians safely to the temporary supply camp! Brave warrior, we leave Dry Town in your capable hands!”
I nodded. ”Got it. Leave it to me!”
”Thank you!”
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A few minutes later, a group of civilians and eight soldiers appeared at the town entrance. The soldiers were only Level 90, so it was questionable if they could even fight a Hellhound one on one. Naturally, it was up to me to protect all 100 civilians from danger!
A countdown appeared on the system window, and the civilians took off when it reached 0. Just like before, I set the Sky Obsidian Greedy Wolf to follow me only because its level was too low to do anything. The good news was that there was almost no chance it might attract any aggro, so I shouldn’t need to protect it unless it got really unlucky.
The townspeople moved slowly, so I could only wander around and wait for something to happen. And it did. Not longer after we took off, the first Hellhound appeared at a distance and pounced toward the townspeople!
I immediately activated Charge!
Whoosh!
After that, I followed up with Ice Ray + Desperate Gambit + basic attack!
5489!
6734!
4950!
It was dead after one final attack. The Hellhound’s Defense and HP were practically non-existent before my insane damage!
The quest continued. With my Attack, protecting these civilians shouldn’t be a problem.
Speaking of which, I had changed my attack mode to ”righteous” mode. This meant that my attack would only injure mobs, but not NPCs or players.
Beep!
It was at this moment He Yi sent me a message: ”How’s it going, Lu Chen?”
I brought up the chat window and replied, ”I’m doing pretty well. I got a quest, and I’m using it to level up my Sky Obsidian Greedy Wolf. What about you girls? Do you want to join me on my quest too?”
He Yi giggled. ”It’s okay, Beiming Xue, Mingyue and I are actually doing a quest right now. It’s an A+ Rank quest!”
”Oh, I see. By the way, is there something you want to talk with me about?”
”Of course! You should check out the level ranking!”
”Oh? Did they finally update Sky City’s Heavenly Ranking?”
”Mn!”
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