Chapter 225: The Sword That Fell From The Sky
White Feather Gang stronghold.
Inside the cave, nearly one hundred fully armed captains of the city guard surrounded the arena, each of them watching the two fighting on the stage with both amazement and admiration.
The White Feather Gang members guarding on the outer ring stared at the exchange between the two and were utterly dumbfounded. Their eyes could not keep up with the movements of the two in the arena at all, and they could not even catch their figures.
Only when the spear and saber of the two on the arena finally clashed and the solid platform under their feet cracked inch by inch did they stop.
“Jia Long, I didn’t expect that after some time apart, your strength and speed have improved so much again.” Stepping down from the arena, a crystal race man, nearly three meters tall, holding a battle saber as long as his body, with an emerald gem on his forehead, glanced at Jia Long and sighed. “You three-eyed tribe really live up to your name as a powerful race. You actually have so many resources that can be redeemed at will.”
“It’s okay. My base strength has only just reached 5,500 kilograms.” Jia Long looked at the crystal race man and said calmly, “But you, after some time apart, actually trained the second level of the advanced martial skill Mountain River Split: River Break to perfection. If I hadn’t recently had a breakthrough and also pushed Flood Dragon Kill to second level perfection, I really wouldn’t be able to block your River Break.”
“I originally thought that by pushing River Break to perfection during this period, I could leave you behind. I didn’t expect that as soon as we fought today, you two also trained your second levels to perfection. Being in the same batch as you two is really unlucky.” The crystal race man then looked helplessly at the half-scale race man sitting to the side, over two meters tall, with a jet-black tail.
The City of Light Chasing Defense Group was never stingy in the cultivation of talent, but among the captains of their batch, aside from these three, the result was that the resources were split into three parts.
And the crystal race man’s words left the nearly one hundred captains of the garrison watching nearby at a loss for words.
Three-eyed tribe’s Jia Long, crystal race’s Men Luo, half-scale race’s A Liu Si.
These three great monsters of the City of Light Chasing Defense Group had always pressed down on the heads of all the captains, and so far, none of the captains could even get close to these three. The only thing they could compete for was fourth place.
The three great monsters were simply far stronger than the other captains who were advanced martial artists.
Normally, an advanced martial artist captain would only master the first level of a single advanced martial skill. The truly powerful ones, such as those in the top ten of the major competitions, would generally master two advanced martial skills, one for attack and one for footwork, or at most a defensive advanced martial skill.
But the three monsters were different. Not only did they each master three advanced martial skills, they had trained the first level of all three skills to perfect level.
Once a martial skill was trained to perfection, it became a qualitative change that strengthened the body to a certain extent, let alone an advanced martial skill.
Now, the three had become even more terrifying. They had even trained the second level of advanced martial skills to perfection. Combined with their physical fitness, which was already far beyond that of advanced martial artists, even though they had not entered the Bone Forging Realm, they were probably almost there. They could be called genuine monsters.
Once the three of them successfully broke through to the Bone Forging Realm, their strength would probably instantly be comparable to intermediate Bone Forging Realm martial artists, gaining great influence within their races. This was also why these captains were willing to follow them.
If beginner Bone Forging Realm martial artists still needed some advanced martial artists to help, such as when hunting in the wilderness and dealing with mid-level monsters so that they could focus on high-level monsters, then once they reached intermediate Bone Forging Realm, advanced martial artists became completely useless.
Experts of the intermediate Bone Forging Realm did not care about high-level monsters at all; their targets were always junior lords. But junior lords were often surrounded by high-level monsters. Ordinary advanced martial artists could not hold those off for long, while high-level monsters could not withstand even a single punch from an intermediate Bone Forging Realm martial artist. With advanced martial artists involved, the Bone Forging expert might even have to split attention to protect them, making it entirely not worth bringing them along.
Unless they were trusted followers who had been with them for a long time, intermediate Bone Forging Realm martial artists would not bring advanced martial artists. Normally, they cooperated with martial artists who had just stepped into beginner Bone Forging Realm for hunting.
Just as the three monsters were chatting, a sudden commotion came from outside the cave.
“So noisy. What’s going on outside?” Jia Long, still pleased from the sparring, frowned as he looked toward the noisy cave entrance.
The three of them had not had a proper spar in more than half a year. Although these sparring sessions could not be fought with full strength and every move was held back, it was still far better than training alone.
They had only gone one round and were far from satisfied.
A White Feather Gang apprentice ran in from outside in a panic, said something to Mans, and Mans’s expression changed slightly before he quickly ran toward Jia Long.
“Lord Jia Long, something has happened outside. People from the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall have come to kill us.” Mans reported in detail. “They have brought roughly over forty martial artists this time. Hall Master Lin Qi has not been spotted. They are now less than one kilometer from our stronghold and will reach the cave entrance in at most twenty seconds. Our people and those rogues have gone to block them, but I’m afraid they won’t hold for long.”
When Mans finished, all the captains of the garrison present laughed.
If Hall Master Lin Qi of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had come, they would have taken it more seriously. But it was just over forty martial artists.
Even without counting the three monsters, their nearly one hundred captains alone could easily deal with these people from the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
At the side, Men Luo hefted his battle saber and asked Mans, “Have the two who killed Steel Bone and Sharp Tooth come?”
“I didn’t see clearly, but they should be here.” Mans replied cautiously. “There are only so many martial artist disciples in the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall. With more than forty martial artists here this time, the possibility of their participation is very high.”
“Since they are here, we should go meet them.” A Liu Si of the half-scale race also stood up, shouldering a B6-grade greatsword as he walked straight toward the cave entrance, not waiting for Jia Long and Men Luo.
When the half-scale race captains saw this, they all followed, walking out of the cave.
“This battle maniac can’t hold back anymore.” Jia Long looked at A Liu Si striding out quickly and could not help but smile.
The three of them all liked to fight, but A Liu Si was a true battle maniac. With few worthy opponents in the City of Light Chasing Defense Group, he would from time to time go to frontline towns to cross hands with experts of other defense groups.
He had already been warned by the leader many times because of this.
“Let’s go as well. We can’t let him take all the credit.” Men Luo finished speaking and immediately went after him.
Jia Long could only follow helplessly, and Mans quickly followed too, wanting to see how the two female disciples of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall who had killed Steel Bone and Sharp Tooth would fare against these three monsters.
Back then, the two female disciples of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall treated Steel Bone and Sharp Tooth like adults dealing with children. The two sides were not on the same level at all.
Now that the three great monsters of the defense group were here, this battle might very well become the peak battle below the Bone Forging Realm in the City of Light Chasing.
Outside the White Feather Gang’s cave.
As the people of the defense group came out, they saw that a chaotic battle had already erupted outside.
Hundreds of elite members of the White Feather Gang and over a hundred strong rogues, although cooperating well with both ranged and melee combat and equipped with many B2-grade arrows and B2-grade weapons, had almost no resistance against the forty-plus martial artists of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
The disciples of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall did not take the rain of arrows seriously at all. Amid the storm of arrows, they dealt with the fully armed quasi-martial artists and limit apprentices with a single punch each, or they grabbed White Feather Gang elites as shields to block the arrows.
In barely more than ten seconds of fighting, most of the hundreds of White Feather Gang elites and rogues lay dead.
If not for the nearly one hundred members of the defense group in the stronghold, each of them would have already fled.
To the defense group, forty-plus martial artists might not be much, but for any faction in the suburbs, they were not someone that could be provoked.
Let alone forty-plus; even just over a dozen would be unbeatable, and giving them B2 battle armor would not help. After all, each of these Obsidian Martial Arts Hall martial artists wore B4-grade battle armor, and the strength of a casual strike was close to four thousand kilograms. Without using any martial skills, they completely crushed quasi-martial artists whose strength was below one thousand.
Mans, who had exited the cave, was not surprised at all.
Though he felt heartache over the loss of these elites, this stronghold had to be defended. There was no way they could allow the battle between the two sides to take place within the cave.
Battles at martial artist level were like artillery bombardments, especially when fully armed advanced martial artists fought.
If they fought at full power inside the cave, the entire cave could collapse, and the things the White Feather Gang secretly kept here would be exposed.
By then, not only would the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall move against them, but even the members of the defense group present would not be able to resist making a move on the White Feather Gang.
“Mans, the gang leader has given orders. This time we must capture one alive and force out the secrets in Crimson Moon Mountain. Do not forget.” The Dark Guard Captain of the White Feather Gang quietly came to Mans’s side to remind him.
“Don’t worry, I’ve already arranged it.” Mans looked at Jia Long and the others in the front row and chuckled. “As long as they take care of those two from the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, the rest of the martial artists will know they are no match and will definitely try to escape. I’ve already informed all the martial artist elders in the stronghold. When the time comes, they will use secret techniques and quickly join forces to seize one. The defense group people will never know.”
Hearing this, the Dark Guard Captain was relieved.
Although it was a bit difficult to quickly subdue martial artists of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall in front of the numerous defense group members, if the elders who had learned the secret techniques acted under their effects, accomplishing this would not be hard.
While Mans and the Dark Guard Captain were talking, the elites of the White Feather Gang and the hired rogues outside the stronghold had been mostly wiped out by the players. Only then did all the captains of the city guard gather, quietly watching the players still fighting, which made the newbie mercenary trainees watching from afar grow solemn.
As people who aimed to become cosmic mercenaries, they might not have fought many great battles, but after long-term contact with many mercenaries, they could more or less see a person’s level.
With the overly realistic nature of High Martial Arts Descend, they understood at first sight that these people from the defense group were absolutely ruthless characters who had experienced countless life-and-death battles, even more than those veteran cosmic mercenaries. With equal physical fitness, they could absolutely crush them.
NPCs this powerful being called elite monsters by Yi Ye Fu Yun and the others was fair enough, but now nearly a hundred of them had appeared…
Even they, who did not play much virtual games, knew there was definitely something wrong with this game’s dungeon difficulty.
So many elite monsters, even if replaced with veteran mercenaries who had gone through many wars, under the same level and numbers, would probably still lose.
On the other side, after watching for a while, the three of Jia Long could not help but sigh, a hint of regret in their eyes.
“Seeing this lineup and they still haven’t appeared. It seems Hall Master Lin really didn’t come.” Jia Long gave a casual order. “But there are a bit too many from the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall. Go clear out some first. I don’t want people interfering when we fight later.”
When Jia Long finished, the captains of the three-eyed tribe charged forward directly.
Seeing Men Luo and A Liu Si nod, the crystal race and half-scale race captains also followed closely.
In an instant, nearly one hundred fully armed advanced martial artists surged forward. The Blood Qi erupting from each advanced martial artist merged together, forming a terrifying pillar of Blood Qi soaring into the sky, making everyone present feel an instinctive fear.
“Nearly a hundred elites. Has this dungeon gone insane?” Yi Ye Fu Yun sucked in a sharp breath as he watched nearly one hundred advanced martial artists suddenly rush toward them.
Under normal circumstances, since most of them had not even reached advanced martial artist level, they were definitely no match for those elites.
Especially since the enemies all wore B6-grade battle armor, which boosted strength by 1,600 kilograms more than B4-grade armor.
With advanced martial skills erupting, their strikes carried nearly twenty tons of force.
Such power could only be reached by strength system mid-level martial artists using Lightning Palm at perfection combined with Reverse Star Hand.
Alternatively, mid-level martial artists who had trained the first level of a body strengthening secret technique to perfection, raising physical fitness by 30%, could also erupt with such strength.
Among them, fewer than ten people had reached first-level perfection in a body strengthening secret technique. They had originally thought that having thirty or forty elites was already formidable.
But now it was directly nearly one hundred elites, a completely different magnitude.
Of course, shock was shock, but they still had some ability to fight back.
“There are more elites than expected. Switch to plan B. Spread out as much as possible, and at the same time, draw their elites together.” Luo Wu Shang looked at the nearly one hundred peak high-level martial artists gathering opposite them and was quite surprised.
They had thought that having thirty or forty elites in this dungeon would be good enough. They had not expected nearly one hundred. If they tried to fight head-on, they would absolutely lose; they could be worn down to death.
But with so many elites, the loot would also be astonishing.
If split among them, Heavenly Might could get nearly twenty sets of B6-grade battle armor, which was a huge haul.
If they exchanged that with the Martial Arts Hall, they might be able to raise Chiyue Town’s reputation to respectful in one go.
In the resources collection tasks for Chiyue Town, complete battle armor at B4 grade and above was on the list.
Contributing a complete B5-grade battle armor would reward 5,000 contribution points plus an extra 200 reputation points.
Contributing a complete B6-grade battle armor would reward 10,000 contribution points and 500 reputation points.
Raising reputation from friendly to respectful only required 3,000 reputation points, so just six sets of B6-grade battle armor would be enough.
When Luo Wu Shang finished, the teams led by Yi Ye Fu Yun, Fang Zhen, and Lu Fanchen exchanged looks, then each charged toward a different direction on the opposite side, ignoring the other members of the White Feather Gang.
“What are they trying to do? Run away?”
“Didn’t expect that those Obsidian Martial Arts Hall disciples known as a bunch of lunatics would also flee. Seems you really can’t believe all the rumors.”
The nearly one hundred captains laughed as they watched the players scattering, though they could understand it. After all, they themselves were nearly one hundred captains; they could conquer an entire town, let alone a single Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
But as they mocked, they saw a woman from the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall standing in the center suddenly raise her long sword with both hands. A faint sword qi on the blade gradually became brilliant, growing larger and forming a phantom greatsword tens of meters long.
Before they could react, the woman swung down fiercely.
Transcendent Martial Skill: Absolute Heaven!
In an instant, the phantom greatsword descended. Before the captains could respond, the entire sky, from a distance, looked as if it had been torn in half. A massive rift valley appeared on the ground, more than ten meters deep, over twenty meters wide, and more than six to eight hundred meters long.
In the rift below, more than fifty captains of the defense group lay dead, beyond saving.
