Chapter 118: First Battle As A Warrior
Outside Crimson Moon Mountain, on a high ground by the lake.
“As expected! It is exactly as the gang leader guessed, this Watu has been hiding his strength for years!” Captain Mans watched Watu slaughter players along the way and could not help getting excited. “Obsidian Martial Arts Hall is completely finished this time. With martial artist level strength, no one below martial artist can catch up to Watu. As long as Watu kills that Lin Qi, Obsidian Martial Arts Hall will be done for.”
“Captain Mans, isn’t that Lin Qi also a martial artist?” the Dark Guard Captain beside him asked in confusion. “Since they are both martial artists, I am afraid Watu will not be able to easily deal with Lin Qi in a short time, let alone kill him on Crimson Moon Mountain. If Lin Qi drags Watu down, plus those experts from Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, Watu might not even be able to escape.”
“You do not understand. Even among martial artists, the gap is huge, even greater than the gap between ordinary people and quasi-martial artists.” Mans smiled. “The gang leader guesses that Watu has been a martial artist for at least ten years. In these ten years, Watu has already reached the top tier among beginner martial artists and is likely not far from intermediate martial artist. Otherwise he would not dare to covet Patrol Night Town.”
“Patrol Night Town, after all, belongs to the child of that association senior official. Those children of senior officials might be disappointing, but they are genuine beginner martial artists.”
“Facing two beginner martial artists, even if Watu is a martial artist, he would not dare harbor any thoughts with ten times the courage. So it is very likely that Watu is close to a breakthrough to intermediate martial artist, using the capture of Patrol Night Town first to quickly break through to intermediate martial artist in a short time. That way, even when facing two beginner martial artists, he would not fear them in the slightest.”
“I have already investigated Lin Qi in detail. He should not be originally a vagrant from City of Light Chasing, and until not long ago he was just an ordinary person. For him to have his current strength, even suspected to be a martial artist, it is highly likely he obtained a gene potion, which is why he broke through so quickly.”
“But gene potions have many drawbacks. They can quickly raise someone to quasi-martial artist level, even allow an impact to become a martial artist, but because their potential is exhausted, they will be stuck at beginner martial artist level for life, let alone just having become a beginner martial artist.”
After hearing this, the Dark Guard Captain understood.
Both being beginner martial artists, one has only just become a martial artist, the other has been one for many years. Their strength gap can reach nearly double. With such a disparity, Watu indeed can kill Lin Qi in a short time.
While Mans and the others were overjoyed, Xia Ling, watching by the bridge, looked grim.
“A martial artist! He is actually a martial artist!” Xia Ling looked at Watu slaughtering all around on the mountain and could not help looking at Estina not far away, questioning her in a low voice. “Estina! Did you always know that old ape was hiding his strength?”
“I knew a little.” Estina nodded, her voice very gentle. “But I did not expect him to be hiding so much. With that kind of power from ten meters away, even just punching the air, his strength should have reached more than 1500 kilograms. Combined with Watu’s many years of combat experience, this battle should be over very soon.”
“He has already reached top tier beginner martial artist?” Xia Ling’s expression grew even gloomier after hearing this. She even somewhat understood why Estina came to support Watu.
A normal beginner martial artist was cherished by big gangs in the suburbs like theirs that had no martial artists, but for a martial artist great family like Estina’s, they were nothing special.
There were quite a few martial artists in City of Light Chasing, but most were beginner martial artists. Such martial artists were rare in the suburbs but the lowest tier in the city proper, and for martial artist great families whose ambition lay in the city proper, they were simply unnecessary.
But if Watu’s current strength had already reached top tier beginner martial artist, and he was likely not far from breaking through to intermediate martial artist, then he had value.
Once he became an intermediate martial artist, his status would be incomparable to a beginner martial artist. In the suburbs he could establish his own sect or faction, and even the martial artist universities in the city would hire him as an instructor.
“All right, I have watched this farce long enough. It is time to go back.” Estina looked at the unhappy Xia Ling, smiled, and prepared to turn and leave.
“Miss, are we leaving too?” the butler looked at Xia Ling and asked in a low voice.
“Wait a little longer. Lin Qi will not necessarily lose.” Xia Ling could not help looking at Watu, who was already close to the mountain, still believing in her heart that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall was not that simple, especially since Lin Qi was a genius martial artist. Facing Watu, he did not have no chance of victory.
Estina only shook her head slightly at this, stopped paying attention to anything on Crimson Moon Mountain, and walked directly toward a flying transport vehicle parked in the forest on the other side of the bridge.
A top tier beginner martial artist is not so easily defeated by a siege.
And everything went as Estina expected. The unleashed Watu on the mountain path could not be blocked by any player at all. If they were not blown away by a single punch, then the battle saber in his hand, carrying bone-chilling cold, opened a path.
Facing the cold air on that battle saber, even if players used the internal force of Lightning Palm to reinforce their weapons, they could not withstand it. The instant they touched it, a layer of frost enveloped their weapons and hands, leaving them unable to continue fighting.
Even Fang Zhen, Yi Ye Fu Yun, Zhao Hu, Zhang Qing Wei, and Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang, who rushed to the battlefield, all felt Watu, this great ape, was incredibly difficult to deal with.
Even when they used martial artist-level martial skills together to attack, Watu could shatter them with a single distant slash, and his reaction speed was so fast they could only barely track and block him.
If the few of them had not worked together, Watu could have taken out any one of them in two or three moves.
“This boss is so strong!” Yi Ye Fu Yun looked at his broken weapon and his frozen, immobile arms, and exclaimed, “With this kind of reaction and strength, without Sister Wu and the others coming to help, before his qi and blood runs out, we probably would not be able to do anything to him.”
His Spiral Demon Spear Kill had been broken by Watu with a single distant slash, cutting the A6-grade spear he had picked up into two halves. He was sent flying on the spot, his hands completely ruined, and he could not suppress the cold in his body.
Facing such a powerful boss, the only way was to pile up people and fight a war of attrition. There was simply no other solution.
“Wu Shang and the others will probably still need some time to get here. We need to hold out a bit longer.” Zhang Qing Wei spoke and unleashed a Rippling Wave Saber light toward Watu’s back.
With nearly 4000 kilograms of strength, the blade light split metal and stone, but Watu did not even bother to look. He simply raised his B2-grade battle saber, and the cold-filled blade directly deflected Zhang Qing Wei’s blade light, cleaving the rock wall beside them into two.
Immediately after, Watu struck out a distant punch. The speed was so fast that Zhang Qing Wei almost failed to react. She hastily raised the A6-grade battle saber she had picked up. She felt her entire arm go numb, and she was sent flying several meters away.
A simple punch, yet it had an effect like a martial skill, leaving the players present utterly shocked. They had not expected a martial artist to be this strong.
Surrounded and attacked by more than a dozen limit apprentices and quasi-martial artists, Watu treated them as if they were nothing and continued forward, even managing to injure them in return. He was simply more terrifying than monsters in the wilderness.
Just as Watu charged to halfway up the mountain and Flo and the others were preparing to act, a figure appeared in front of Watu one step ahead, and a sword slashed down fiercely.
Watu reacted extremely fast and swung his saber to meet it.
Boom!
A booming sound echoed halfway up the mountain.
Watu stepped back half a step, while that figure took one full step back.
“You really are a martial artist!” Watu looked at that figure, shock and astonishment in his eyes.
Because that figure was none other than Lin Qi, the hall master of Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
What truly shocked Watu was that when Lin Qi clashed with him head-on just now, his strength was only slightly inferior.
Watu was quite proud of his own strength. He had already reached more than 1800 kilograms, not far from the 2000 kilograms of an intermediate martial artist, and he already had few rivals among beginner martial artists.
Yet this Lin Qi, who had been considered only suspected to be a martial artist, was only a little weaker than him in strength. He was clearly not someone who had just become a martial artist.
“Such strong strength.” Lin Qi looked at Watu, whose body was a full three meters tall, and could not help being shocked.
He knew very well that his nearly 1500 kilograms of strength was already outstanding among beginner martial artists in City of Light Chasing, yet there was still a considerable gap compared to Watu, which showed how formidable Watu’s strength was.
“You are good at hiding like me, but you must die today!” Watu looked at Lin Qi, whose strength was impressive, and became even more determined to kill him. So young and already this strong, if he let him go today, he would definitely become a huge future threat.
As he spoke, Watu suddenly raised his saber and slashed with the wind.
Martial artist-level martial skill: Cold Moon!
A blade light of more than 6300 kilograms of force instantly swept out.
Lin Qi did not hold back either. With a flick of his B2-grade long sword, a bolt of lightning shot out.
Advanced martial artist-level martial skill: Thunder Flash!
With triple strength stacked on it, nearly 6000 kilograms of lightning force crashed into the blade light.
Bang!
The moment they collided, space seemed to explode. The terrifying impact could be felt by people within a radius of hundreds of meters. At the point where blade light and Sword Qi clashed, the ground was left with a trench several meters deep, and at the center, a pit over three meters in radius was blasted out.
This terrifying clash also forced both Watu and Lin Qi to take several steps back.
“Are you insane?” Watu stared in shock as Lin Qi, seemingly fine, swung another sword at him.
With his clearly superior strength, a martial artist-level martial skill should only widen their gap, yet Lin Qi was completely unharmed after taking his attack.
He himself felt his internal organs suffering from the previous impact. Forcing another use of a martial skill would only worsen his injuries. Lin Qi, being weaker, should logically be hurt even more.
To use another martial skill regardless of the cost like this was pure madness.
But Watu had no better choice and could only grit his teeth and use Cold Moon again.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Within three seconds, the two clashed six or seven times in a row. Watu could not help but spit out a mouthful of blood, while Lin Qi’s expression remained normal. The astonishing effect of the Body Strengthening Secret Technique meant the impact barely affected him. He swung his sword once more.
“Is he made of iron?”
Seeing Lin Qi unleash Thunder Flash yet again, Watu did not dare to collide head-on anymore and dodged aside.
But that dodge also left his body in midair, and Lin Qi, as if he had been waiting for this moment, followed up immediately with a Lightning Palm.
Bang!
By the time Watu realized it, it was too late. In his poor state, he could no longer use a martial skill and could only meet it with a punch infused with internal force. But an ordinary punch was no match at all for a Lightning Palm with nearly 4500 kilograms of force.
Watu’s arm and internal organs were shattered. His whole body was smashed into the rock wall. With more air going out than in, he soon collapsed to the ground.
The gang leader of the Great Ape Gang!
A top tier beginner martial artist!
Dead!
