Chapter 116: Come, Let’s Begin The Second Round
On the battlefield, the series of inhuman screams directly made the previously confident Great Ape Gang members stop in their tracks one after another. They stared fixedly at Luo Wu Shang and the other nineteen people, their faces filled with deep dread.
“Internal force!”
“Am I dreaming? Have they all actually mastered internal force?”
On the mountain, Flo stared at the twenty Great Ape Gang experts who had been sent flying and at those ruined arms, his eyes almost popping out.
Internal force is generally a method only martial artists can master, and for those beneath martial artist level who want to grasp it, they can only do so by learning martial artist-level martial skills.
Previously, during the death match between the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall and the White Feather Gang, several experts who had mastered internal force did appear, which already shocked the various wilderness gangs.
Now it was even more terrifying.
This time there were directly twenty internal force experts who had mastered martial artist-level martial skills. With so many internal force experts, even the number one wilderness gang would not dare to dream of such a thing.
“With such a foundation, no wonder they dared to launch a night raid on the Great Ape Gang without hesitation.”
In the distance, Mans, who was using a telescope to observe, gasped sharply, unable to believe this was real.
Martial artist-level martial skills are not easy to learn. Even with someone teaching, learning them without being a martial artist carries a high chance of problems arising during practice. Once such problems appear, at best they cause serious injuries, at worst death. This is why few people in the wilderness have mastered martial artist-level martial skills.
Anyone who can successfully train in them is without exception a figure famed across an area of the wilderness, someone who can battle above their level.
“What are you afraid of! Kill! They only have this few people, you can bury them with sheer numbers!” Watu suddenly shouted loudly. “Anyone who disobeys orders will be dealt with entirely according to gang rules afterward!”
With Watu’s roar, the Great Ape Gang members, who had been somewhat panicked, now all showed madness on their faces and once again surrounded and attacked Luo Wu Shang and the others. Even if Luo Wu Shang and her group sent people flying with a single palm strike, killing them beyond doubt, the Great Ape Gang members behind still did not stop advancing.
“Qi Ke, you go too. Even the elders cannot suppress those people; only you can confront them head-on.” Watu glanced at the three vice gang leaders beside him and said in a low voice, “At a critical moment, I permit you to use those electromagnetic grenades.”
“Yes.” Qi Ke and the other two vice gang leaders nodded in agreement, but felt a stab of pain in their hearts.
Electromagnetic grenades are of little use against wilderness monsters, but they are deadly weapons against people. Therefore they are restricted by all major cities and are very difficult to obtain. Moreover, when used against experts, they will almost certainly cause massive friendly casualties.
Once an expert spots an electromagnetic grenade, it is easy for them to dodge; in one second they can run twenty to thirty meters away. Electromagnetic grenades need more than two seconds to detonate, and their blast radius is only a bit over ten meters. To use them, the enemy experts must be unaware, and someone must be able to hold those experts in place.
Right now, the only ones who could hold Luo Wu Shang and the others were the gang elders.
But Qi Ke and the others were still thinking too simply. Luo Wu Shang and her companions, who had already reached quasi-martial artist level, completely crushed opponents of the same level.
Luo Wu Shang’s sword qi swept in all directions. Even the quasi-martial artist elders could not get close and could only send gang members to exhaust her internal force, while coordinating with large numbers of archers to barely hold on.
One Great Ape Gang elder even tried to trade injury for injury with Luo Wu Shang. His strike stabbed into her armor, but Luo Wu Shang only stepped back once, as if nothing had happened.
By contrast, Luo Wu Shang’s backhanded stab, without even using sword qi, struck the elder’s armor and the terrifying impact directly made him cough blood, his combat power sharply reduced.
This made the surrounding Great Ape Gang members gape in shock. They could not understand what Luo Wu Shang’s body was made of, to be even tougher than their own burly gorilla-like physiques.
Yet compared to Luo Wu Shang’s terror, the most stunning on the battlefield was Ye Qinglu, who in the crowd was simply a killing machine.
The five A6-grade long swords floating around her body could block and deflect both arrows from long range and apprentice-level martial skills from several advanced apprentices nearby. Each sword, driven by over a thousand kilograms of strength, could block and redirect, while Ye Qinglu, wielding two swords in her hands, seized every chance to deliver the finishing blow.
In just two to three minutes of fighting, more than twenty Great Ape Gang experts had died at Ye Qinglu’s hands.
As for Yi Ye Fu Yun, Fang Zhen, and the others nearby, although they could also kill with a single move, the dozens of arrows from afar forced them to evade and block. They had to find an opening to kill any Great Ape Gang expert, so their killing speed was much slower.
Slightly faster than them was only Li Ranxing. The A6-grade spear in his hands, with a casual thrust, sent a spear aura piercing through ten meters, indistinguishable from an ordinary thrust in motion, leaving those trying to block him unable to defend in time and forcing them to avoid every single stab.
But Li Ranxing was already a quasi-martial artist, and with his spirit strengthened by the Stellar Explosion Meditation Technique, even quasi-martial artists of the same level found it extremely difficult to keep up with his basic attack speed, let alone apprentice-level experts.
Of course, many of Li Ranxing’s spear auras did not hit vital points and could not instantly kill their targets, but they could still affect the target’s movements. He only needed to follow up with a second spear aura, so his speed in killing Great Ape Gang experts was only slightly inferior to Ye Qinglu’s and on par with Luo Wu Shang’s.
“Kill! They are using martial skills so crazily that their blood qi will not be able to support them for long!”
Qi Ke and the other two vice gang leaders, while entangling the three most difficult enemies—Luo Wu Shang, Ye Qinglu, and Li Ranxing—also commanded those nearby to continue draining the players.
But this insane human wave attrition shocked everyone watching, including Estina.
After more than thirty minutes of battle, the ninety experts from the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had been worn down to only three survivors.
That is right.
They were completely worn down; all eighty-seven deaths were due to their qi and blood being exhausted, and then being finished off.
But the Great Ape Gang’s losses were equally horrifying.
On the battlefield of less than six hundred meters in radius, the ground was now covered with Great Ape Gang corpses.
The original rocky road surface had been completely soaked with blood, staining the nearby lake red. The stench of blood filled several kilometers around, making even the vagrants hardened by slaughter in the wilderness feel a chill in their hearts.
“Damn! How many Great Ape Gang people have died here?”
“I’d guess over a thousand. Among them at least more than five hundred apprentice-level experts are dead. I really don’t understand if the Great Ape Gang has gone mad. With so many elite members dead, their overall strength is probably less than thirty percent of what it was. It is very likely they will be pushed down beyond rank thirty or forty. I really don’t know what the Great Ape Gang is thinking.”
“But this battle was still worth it for the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall. At the cost of eighty-seven experts, they crippled the Great Ape Gang. Even if a top-twenty wilderness gang gave their all, they might not be able to accomplish this.”
The vagrants in the wilderness looked at the only three remaining experts of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall on the battlefield and could not help but marvel at how terrifying the hall was.
If this war had been fought against any other top-twenty wilderness gang, the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall might have won, even decisively. But facing the current Great Ape Gang, which disregarded all cost, the hall, though defeated, lost with honor.
“Die!”
Coughing blood, Qi Ke threw the electromagnetic grenade in his hand into the crowd besieging Luo Wu Shang. At the same time, the other two vice gang leaders did the same.
Boom!
The three electromagnetic grenades exploded almost simultaneously. In an instant, scorching flames and lightning swept across more than ten meters around, turning that area into a pit three to four meters deep. Everyone within the radius was reduced to ash and charred remains.
“She finally died.” After confirming that Luo Wu Shang was indeed dead, Qi Ke glanced at his severed arm and let out a long sigh of relief.
The other two vice gang leaders were also in terrible condition, one missing a leg, the other with his abdomen pierced through. If not for their A6-grade battle armor, they would already be dead.
Using gang members to perish together with Luo Wu Shang, Li Ranxing, and Ye Qinglu was the only option left. Otherwise, not only would the three of them die, but even more people in the Great Ape Gang would have been killed.
“Did we still lose in the end?” Xia Ling, who was watching from not far away, let out a deep sigh.
The Great Ape Gang’s madness in this battle was beyond imagination. She had thought that once six to seven hundred of their people had died, Watu would give up and retreat, but she did not expect him to continue fighting without pause.
At this point, saying that the Great Ape Gang had suffered heavy losses would be an understatement. Of the more than four hundred remaining, there were fewer than two hundred apprentice-level experts. The three vice gang leaders were gravely injured, and of twenty-two elders only four remained. The gang’s strength had fallen to only about ten percent of what it once was, and they likely no longer had the power to maintain a top-thirty ranking.
The Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s defeat in this battle was not unjust.
“Qi Ke, organize the remaining people. We are going up the mountain!” Gang leader Watu looked at the finally wiped-out members of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall and let out a breath of relief, glad that they had not held the mountain path to the death. Otherwise, today’s battle might have had a very different outcome.
“Yes!” After simply bandaging his severed arm, Qi Ke immediately organized the remaining Great Ape Gang members.
After fifteen minutes of regrouping, Watu led more than four hundred gang members toward the gate of the Crimson Moon Mountain stronghold. Flo and the others on the mountain grew tense; it was now their turn.
However, at some unknown time, several dozen members of the human race wearing silver-gray long-sleeved T-shirts had appeared behind Lin Qi, who was watching from the mountain.
These humans were slightly fewer in number than the previous group, only just under eighty, but each of them had an aura at least at intermediate apprentice level. There were many advanced apprentices, and there were even two quasi-martial artists among them.
“How is this possible!”
“Where did these people come from?”
“Weren’t those previous experts already all of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s elites?”
The Great Ape Gang members stared at the humans on the mountain wearing silver-gray long-sleeved T-shirts, all of them stunned.
Looking at the dumbfounded Great Ape Gang members below, Lin Qi clapped his hands and said coolly, “The Great Ape Gang truly lives up to its name. You really are impressive. We lost the first round. Now, let us begin the second round.”
As soon as Lin Qi finished speaking, the nearly eighty players behind him once again charged down the mountain.
