Chapter 1353 - City of the Decisive Battle (10) (1/2)

Shing! Shing! Shing!

Blade rays shuttled across the air at top speed. Little Five drifted through the air leisurely and in front of her, the blustering shadowy giant split apart, howled, and collapsed to the ground in pieces. Soon after, the giant’s shadowy fragments scattered on the ground, disappearing like melting snow. At that moment, Little Five nodded in satisfaction, flipped the sword over her back, and sheathed it. Then, she walked up to Catherine, who stood at the side blankly, pulled out a lollipop from the armful of snacks, and licked it all over. Catherine swallowed her saliva as she had watched the battle earlier and didn’t move an inch.

“This is so boring, and those monsters are so stupid to block our way… Hey, Catherine, what do you think we should do now? Mr. Rhode ran off somewhere and we’re the only two left now. There are also those troublesome monsters everywhere, and we can hear those…”

Rumble…

Before Little Five finished her sentence, a thunderous explosion boomed in the distance and the earth trembled. Soon after, they witnessed the tower shaking, debris falling like rain, and another tower collapsing onto the ground. And at that moment, Little Five pulled Catherine away hurriedly, which was how they avoided being crushed. But even so, they were covered in dust and sand that raised from the ground. Fortunately, they fled into the next alley in time, which kept their clothes from looking like the rags of refugees.

“Cough, cough… What a sick world… I miss my little nest… Then again, where the hell is Mr. Rhode? Really, why didn’t you bring him along when you ran up the stairs? Why did you have to go up there all by yourself? Besides, wouldn’t it still be useless even if you went up alone? Never mind, you’re my shopping cart now anyway, so everything’s good. Hold the snacks properly, especially the blue bag; I had a hard time finding it.”

“Ahahaha…”

After hearing Little Five’s complaints, Catherine nodded with a forced smile and didn’t say anything more. Rhode didn’t know how Little Five won her fight, but Catherine was well aware of it. In fact, when Catherine first witnessed the fight, she was concerned. The opposing Little Five didn’t talk much, but she attacked fiercely and looked quite strong. But perhaps due to the fact that Catherine had arrived at the top floor, Little Five didn’t want to embarrass herself or knew that things wouldn’t end up well if she continued to avoid fighting, so she rose up and fought back against her other self. But eventually, she still covered her head and sneaked away like a rat.

But when God closed a door on one, he also opened a window at the same time. Little Five didn’t have much talent in terms of battle. But in terms of chattering, her talent was at its peak. So even though she was being beaten up and fleeing, her mouth wasn’t idle at all. Unlike Catherine’s nagging, Little Five grumbled, mocked, and scolded her other self. She was apparently running away from her opponent and yet, she mocked her opponent for not knowing how to fight in the slightest, which was simply asking to be beaten up. Meanwhile, her other self, who wasn’t good with words, got so furious that she stomped her foot.

As a result… Her other self accidentally revealed her weakness after she was mocked too much by Little Five. In an instant, Little Five, who was jabbering on like 3000 quacking ducks, flourished her sword and punctured her other self, thus emerging as the winner. The plot twist was so drastic that it surprised even Catherine. If Rhode were here, he would certainly lament that summoned spirits were indeed summoned spirits; be it how unreliable they appeared, their attacks were still lethal whenever they were serious.

However, this move by Little Five was considered a deadly and indiscriminate AoE weapon that simply ignored the targets. In that battle, even Catherine who stood at the side also felt giddy from her constant babbling, not to mention Little Five’s other self. What was worse was that Little Five wasn’t only making a din, but her complaints were all clear and distinct. Unless one were deaf, otherwise one couldn’t possibly ignore her.

Perhaps that was why Little Five didn’t take this approach earlier. On one hand, the shadowy monsters couldn’t understand the human language and on the other, maybe Rhode would have slashed her with his sword before the shadowy monsters were even dead. One could only wonder where on earth she got all that talk from.

“It is noisy and messy all around, Mr. Rhode is nowhere to be seen, and I don’t know what’s going on with the others. This is just awful… Things will get worse if those guys are on our tail. By the way, Catherine, let’s go over there!” Little Five said and clapped her hands together as though she recalled something. Then, she pointed at the tower with a mental crystal emanating at the top.

Upon seeing her action, Catherine nodded without saying a word. Even though they had absorbed one personality each, their personality didn’t change greatly. Thus, as usual, Catherine let Little Five make the call just like how she let Rhode do it. Now that Rhode wasn’t around anymore, she could only rely upon Little Five.

It could also be said that… Both of them didn’t grow at all.

Fortunately, Rhode didn’t know about that. Otherwise, he would be entirely speechless. And now… He didn’t have the time to care about Little Five and Catherine any longer. Because he was also facing the same problem.

“These guys are everywhere.”

Looking at the trio that surrounded him and Eleanor, Rhode couldn’t help but curl his lips. This was already the fifth ambush and he didn’t know where this team found such patience or hatred to target him for so long. And he also didn’t know if it was due to the fact that his team had fewer members than them, but they no longer fled after failing their ambush like they did in the beginning.

On the contrary, they shamelessly opted for a siege, attempting to make him and Eleanor expend their energy. Unless absolutely necessary, they would never leave. Rhode also realized that these three mental projections had no intention of retrieving any mental crystals either. Instead, they seemed to be stalling for time, which felt quite strange.

Logically speaking, all mental projections would choose to attain their three rightful mental crystals in the shortest amount of time possible. However, these three seemed to be oblivious to that and had no similar thoughts or plans at all, which Rhode found to be a bit strange. No, really strange. He even wondered if they had some inside information that compelled them to do this. But no matter how he asked, they just wouldn’t say a word. Left without a choice, he could only continue his actions. After all, that was the only thing he could do.

At this thought, Rhode collected his scattered thoughts and exchanged a subtle glance with Eleanor who leaned on his side. Then, he dashed ahead abruptly, flourishing mighty blade rays across the air that glowed like a large, blooming flower. The massive blade ray transformed into a violent storm that slashed his targets. Facing this attack from him, Dona, who stood opposite him like a wild beast, advanced instead of retreating. In a loud bellow, she extended her claws and pounced on Rhode.

Cling! Cling! Cling! Cling!

Although Dona was unarmed, she waved her arms cleverly to resist the thrust-out sword from Rhode, forcibly stopping his assault. But Rhode wasn’t a fool either. After his attack was nullified, he pulled back his sword and withdrew all the blade rays, coalescing them into a solid barrier, which he dragged downward. At that moment, the weapon in his hand didn’t look like a sword at all, but rather a hammer that came down at Dona heavily.