Chapter 28: Return
“Sister Wu?”
“This is insane! Is this the strength of a Sword Saint?”
The Twilight of the Gods members in the rear stared, dumbfounded, at Luo Wu Shang blocking four arrows in one breath from a distance, hardly able to believe it was real.
Although they had long known that Luo Wu Shang, the vice president of the Heavenly Might Guild, who held the title of Sword Saint, was not simple, seeing that scene with their own eyes and claiming not to be shocked was impossible.
“Normal.” Fang Zhen beside them remained calm, smiling as he explained, “In Pilgrimage, Luo Wu Shang is called One Sword Cuts Water, Ten Thousand Rivers Cease Flow. That is not bragging. She really cut a river with one sword in Pilgrimage and made the river water flow backward.”
“Here in High Martial Arts Descend, the virtual degree is 100%. Her body attributes are far inferior to her Sword Saint self in Pilgrimage, and the physics engine is more realistic in every way, but her control over her body and her reaction are even better.”
“It is just four arrows. If she could not block them, that would be the joke.”
“Right.” Twilight of the Gods nodded, feeling he had overreacted.
A Sword Saint of Pilgrimage, standing at the absolute peak among players; if she had to struggle desperately in the very first plot battle of a game, that really would insult the title of Sword Saint.
However, Fang Zhen and Twilight of the Gods’ comments left Lin Qi at the side not knowing what to say.
Look at that.
Just four arrows?
Failing to block them would be a joke?
How is that something a human says?
Still, Luo Wu Shang’s stunning performance had truly shocked Lin Qi, even making him feel he had picked up a treasure.
At this pace, he was being carried to an effortless win by experts.
But the Winged Tribe nomads opposite them were not so easy to deal with. After their brief shock, the four winged youths immediately fired madly at Zhang Qing Wei and Luo Wu Shang. Even if all the arrows were blocked by Luo Wu Shang, they could drastically slow the two women’s advance.
“Hao Tuo, use the trump card!”
The Winged Youth Leader gritted his teeth and shouted as he watched Luo Wu Shang and Zhang Qing Wei getting closer.
“Coming.”
A winged youth over two meters tall, with a large metal box on his back, put it down and took out two electromagnetic grenades.
These two electromagnetic grenades could be said to be the trump card their team had saved up for with more than half a year of income.
With this trump card, even if they encountered a Quasi-Martial Artist, they would have enough confidence.
But now they all understood they had met true experts. If they did not use it, the entire team would be in danger.
After speaking, the winged youth raised the two electromagnetic grenades and quickly rushed to the window, ready to cooperate with the four archers’ attacks and blow the two women to pieces.
“Damn, if these NPCs can’t win fair, they start cheating?” Zhang Qing Wei’s expression turned ugly as she looked at the winged youth, only about twenty meters away, holding two big treasures.
Blocking arrow attacks was not a problem for Luo Wu Shang, but blocking the blast of grenades was absolutely impossible.
“Die!”
Staring at Luo Wu Shang as she prepared to block the arrows again, the winged youth threw both grenades.
Whoosh.
With just one sharp sound of air being cut, a pitch-black arrow struck one of the grenades, triggering an explosion that engulfed everything nearby in endless flame and lightning. The heatwave and shockwave made it hard for the six Winged Tribe nomads in the building to stand, and large sections of the walls were destroyed, exposing the six inside.
“Brother Zhen is insane. That far, that dark, and he still hit it.” Twilight of the Gods stared at the erupting flames, unable to stop exclaiming in admiration.
“It is nothing, just over a hundred meters.” Fang Zhen dismissed it lightly. “For professional competitors from Mecha Continent, this does not even reach the assessment standard.”
While Twilight of the Gods and Fang Zhen were chatting, the six members of the White Feather Gang in the ruined building were stunned.
“How is there another expert?”
“What kind of gang is this?”
“Could they be a Quasi-Martial Artist team returning to the city?”
Someone who could block arrows from four people at once, and someone who could hit a grenade at night from over a hundred meters away; aside from Quasi-Martial Artists, they could not think of any other explanation.
“No, if they were really a Quasi-Martial Artist team, why would they be driving a tricycle?” The White Feather Gang’s young leader shook his head, looked directly at Luo Wu Shang and Zhang Qing Wei rushing up from below, and said coldly, “Their team just has two experts. Do not let them scare you. Do not forget we are also experts of the White Feather Gang. They only have two experts. No one knows who will live and who will die.”
With the leader’s words, the other five calmed down again, their fighting spirit reigniting.
Whether it was Luo Wu Shang or Fang Zhen, they were indeed astonishing, but in the end they were still vagrants like them. Just from their speed, it was clear they were only quasi-apprentices like themselves. Once the real fight began, who would win was uncertain, and they had the advantage in numbers.
“Hao Tuo, in a moment you and I will tie up that woman who blocks arrows.” The Winged Youth Leader issued orders directly. “The others go kill that sneak-attacking archer girl.”
By this time Luo Wu Shang and Zhang Qing Wei had already reached the ground floor. A fierce battle was inevitable.
As for escaping, that was impossible. After fighting to this point, it was clearly to the death. If they ran, they would only become moving targets for the enemy. Better to use the terrain advantage of the ruined building and take down the two women first.
“Yes!”
After hearing this, everyone moved into action.
The captain and Hao Tuo were already Limit Quasi-apprentices, only a step away from becoming apprentices.
With such strength, they ranked among the top experts in the White Feather Gang. The two of them working together to suppress a sword-wielding quasi-apprentice should be easy. As for the other four, although they were only ordinary quasi-apprentices, dealing with an archer forced into melee range
would be a piece of cake.
In an instant, the White Feather Gang leader and the winged youth named Hao Tuo charged down to the first floor, directly engaging Luo Wu Shang as she rushed up, while the other four members of the White Feather Gang jumped down from above, circling around from behind to surround Zhang Qing Wei just as she entered the building.
“You two dared to rush straight in. I will give you that. But this is where it ends. In melee combat, Hao Tuo and I will not lose to a sword expert like you, and that archer companion of yours will have a hard time resisting my four companions.”
The Winged Youth Leader addressed Luo Wu Shang as she charged, trying to distract her with concern for her teammate and seize a chance for a sneak attack.
But when Luo Wu Shang struck, the Winged Youth Leader was stunned.
A sword?
Luo Wu Shang was not using a sword at all.
She was using a single arrow.
She had just used a single arrow to block all of the incoming arrows.
This made the Winged Youth Leader deeply question what kind of Human Race gang this woman came from. One moment she was carrying an alloy shovel, the next she was using an arrow as a weapon.
Was this really a proper gang?
Before he could think further, the black steel arrow in Luo Wu Shang’s hand thrust forward.
Five thrusts in a row, forming a cross-shaped mark, black light flashing as it drove straight at the Winged Youth Leader.
This was also Luo Wu Shang’s signature technique in Pilgrimage.
Point Star.
Now, fused with the explosive power of Crushing Stone Fist, each thrust doubled her own strength. With Luo Wu Shang’s base strength already at 112 kilograms, each thrust carried 224 kilograms of force, reaching the level of a formal Martial Artist Apprentice.
Even though the Winged Youth Leader desperately tried to block with his spear,
the first touch alone sent pain shooting through his hands. The second and third thrust knocked the spear from his grip. The fourth thrust pierced his chest, snuffing out his life.
Even in death, the Winged Youth Leader could not understand how he had been killed by someone who used arrows.
As his eyes closed, the corner of his vision caught an unbelievable sight.
The bow-wielding Zhang Qing Wei was using her composite longbow to batter the four team members into constant retreat. Every swing knocked one of them back. The four of them were completely suppressed by a single longbow.
What kind of Human Race team was this?
Was there not a single normal person among them?
In less than three minutes, all six members of the White Feather Gang were lying at the feet of Luo Wu Shang and Zhang Qing Wei.
“So brutal.”
Lin Qi could not help but feel a bit of sympathy as he looked at the White Feather Gang members in the ruined building, especially the four who had fought Zhang Qing Wei and had practically been hacked to death by the longbow.
Of course, sympathy was sympathy; looting corpses was absolutely mandatory.
“No wonder they are the White Feather Gang. They are loaded.” Lin Qi sighed inwardly as he looked over the six people’s swept-up items.
A normal Unregistered Nomad’s total possessions probably did not even reach five hundred Bit, but these White Feather Gang members, aside from four A3-grade compound bows, each had an A3-grade spear. That alone was worth over fifteen hundred Bit.
But even more valuable were the smart watches on their wrists and the large box of Blood Essence Rice.
Even though the six were also using secondhand smart watches, six of them were worth six thousand Bit. The large box of Blood Essence Rice was estimated at around one hundred kilograms. It should be Blood Essence Rice the White Feather Gang members had just collected, intending to haul it back to the city to sell.
But compared to these items,
Lin Qi felt the greatest gain this time was the players’ performance in this battle. Just three of them had wiped out a six-man White Feather Gang team without a scratch. Such strength ranked high among Wilderness Nomads.
And once Luo Wu Shang and the others grew into apprentices and then Quasi-Martial Artists, who in the entire abandoned area would dare provoke the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall?
After all the loot was sorted, Lin Qi rewarded each of them with 200 Martial Arts Hall Points.
This left the four delighted. They had not expected such a generous harvest from a simple plot task.
“Let us go back to the martial arts hall.”
Looking at the collected drops, Lin Qi had everyone push the tricycle back toward the City of Light Chasing.
