Chapter 564: [ Fallenheart Grass ]
Si Mulan had her brows creased together as she watched Qin Han and the rest’s behavior, while Bu Fanyi, on the other hand, had her arms crossed with an amused yet alert expression. Her manner was as if she was watching a group of stray dogs fighting over food.
"Why aren’t you collecting these herbs as well?"
Alkrasha asked without emotion while turning towards Bu Fanyi. In her mouth was a piece of Fallenheart Grass and some other. It seems like she had taken a liking to the taste of the Fallenheart Grass.
Bu Fanyi snickered. "For some reason, I lost interest the moment I saw so many people fighting over them!" As she spoke, she lifted his nose ever so slightly, her gaze landing suddenly on a large stone at the valley’s entrance.
Si Mulan let out a sigh. "I still feel that something isn’t right with so much Fallenheart Grass growing here," she quietly explained.
Celty’s expression suddenly changed. "You’re correct. Heh, we’ve got trouble coming our way, fellas!" her lips arched into a mischievous smile.
After saying that, the groups gazes turned towards Qin Han and the others who were running towards them. They seemed to have been in combat due to the blood splattered on their clothes.
“Protect the mistresses!!”
The twin foxes; Li Tian and Li Lian immediately stood in front of Layla while the other servants did the same as well, surrounding the group with vigilant expressions.
At nearly the same moment, countless numbers of black dots shot towards them from behind Qin Han’s group. Just what the heck are they doing…?
Pah pah pah pah….
It was like a heavy rainstorm that covered the heaven and earth.
A series of soft bestial howls rang out as spirit beasts emerged from the area around the valley one after another while releasing a surge of spirit energy. A macabre atmosphere pervaded the entire valley. Within the herd of bestial figures, there were at least a few hundred beasts and monsters.
Si Mulan’s complexion had become extremely pale. As her gaze swept over the bestial figures, her eyes were filled with despair.
She did not think… She really did not think that the temptation of the Fallenheart Grass would be so great that it would actually attract so many spirit beasts.
There was a disparity in the strength of the spirit beasts. They were mostly fifth-grade spirit beasts, but there were over a dozen sixth-grade spirit beasts among them as well. With this kind of line-up, Si Mulan and even Bu Fanyi would not be able to survive even if there were ten of them.
"Se… Senior Sister… Why is this happening? Why are there so many spirit beasts?”
As Si Mulan’s large eyes swept across these spirit beasts, both of her legs suddenly started to tremble.
If she knew there were so many spirit beasts hiding within the Valley… She would never have come!
On the other hand, there was not much change in Bu Fangyi's expression. She only slightly frowned as she scanned the surrounding spirit beasts in astonishment.
"The Fallenheart Grass is filled with a dense amount of spirit energy and has a huge enhancement effect to the evolution of the spirit beasts. Therefore, its attractiveness to the spirit beasts is tremendous," Alkrasha solemnly said as her gaze landed on Si Mulan and Bu Fanyi. Although she didn’t know much about it, she had treated the grass as snacks. Thus, she knows more than anyone present just how rich energy does Fallenheart Grass possess.
If the Spirit beasts and monsters were crazy about it, then it would be understandable!
In fact, she was also tempted to gather them—but she refrained from doing so, after all, it was troublesome and shameful to act like a hungry dog pouncing over a bone. In any case, what these humans get, half of them will turn to them—isn’t it?
Alkrasha’s thoughts were like that. If Qin Han and the others know that they were treated as servant gatherers, they would surely vomit in blood. ‘
These are not for you! These are for ours!’
—they would surely cry out like that.
Alas, power makes things right…
“Let’s run! A horde of monsters is coming this way! Let’s immediately escape!” Qin Han screamed frantically the moment she arrived in front of the others. His face pale and panic covered his eyes.
The others behind him looked similar to him—however; Layla and the others immediately noticed that the originally seven people were now reduced to five. One man and woman was not among the group—either they split up or…
Pitiful...
Without waiting for Qin Han’s orders, his groups passed by Layla and the others and run away like fleeing dogs. Only Qin Han had stopped and warned them—these people, even Si Mulan and Bu Fanyi who were among their group felt embarrassed by their shameful behavior.
“Well, this valley is the shortcut to where Allen was… so we can’t retreat,” Liu Muxiao shrugged her shoulders.
“…besides, aren’t they just monsters? I had slaughtered over a thousand of them before~” Celty muttered confidently.
“I guess, we have to sweat before meeting him, huh…”
“Protecting the mistresses is our duty…”
Both Li Tian and Li Lian had summoned their magic weapons for defense…
The others did as well. Celty summoned her halberd with a white shaft, constantly emitting a cold air and twirled it in the air. Her face brimming in cold murderous intent.
Liu Muxiao and Xue Ling called out their weapons as well—Liu Muxiao was a long double-handed sword while Xue Ling was a pair of short swords. Layla on the other hand, was much flashier compared to others as she summoned four funnel-shaped drone units behind her. They are equipped with small beam cannons, and an energy cell to propel the funnel when it is operating.
They are one of the most leading magic-science hybrid technology based on Allen’s design and had been strengthened by many of Bianchi’s personal scientists and engineers. They were also equipped with FFF, also called Fin-funnel Field—influenced by a giant robot anime.
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This can help her attack enemies, support others as well as protect herself from all kinds of attacks.
As a rear and support type Superhuman, it was the most fitting equipment she could have!
“[ Speed Boost ] [ Physical Boost ] [ Regenerate Amplify ] [ Damage Amplify ] [ Damage Receive Reduction ] [ Curse Receive Reduction ] [ Mental Guard ] [ LightSpeed ]…” Layla cast one buff one after another towards the others, including Bu Fanyi and Si Mulan, shocking the two women.
“This is…?”
“I can feel the power coursing through me… unbelievable!”
They look at their bodies that were glowing in dim golden light and felt in disbelief.
Their powers doubled… no, tripled?
This is amazing…!
After casting so many spell buffs, Layla felt exhausted and large beads of sweat poured down from her forehead. She sat down on the ground, with a huge smile on her face. “Now then, I can heal you and bring you back from near death but make sure not to overdo it, I can’t resurrect a dead,” she said with a faint smile. Her tone was teasing.
“Thanks, Sis,”
“No problem… the finishing line is just beyond this valley, you better be careful~” Layla smiled warmly. Her tone and behavior were too casual it looks extremely cool. It's as if the flood of monsters is not anything in front of them!
“That’s obvious, I still have some scolding to do waiting for me,”
“I missed my husband…”
“These monsters aren’t enough to stop me in seeing that idiot,”
The women are pump up but poor Qin Han left behind them. He wasn’t included in the spell buffs, probably because of how his companions acted, slightly irritating Layla. But in any case, seeing the girl’s pumped up in a fight, he gritted his teeth and run along with them—he was still a Spirit stage Cultivator, after all!
RrroooOOOaaaAAArrRRR--!!
RrroooOOOaaaAAArrRRR--!!
RrroooOOOaaaAAArrRRR--!!
The powerful waves of howls were from a large number of various beast packs, and they all rolled forward like a tidal wave to surround them.
Those who were more timid had already been scared to the point that their faces were drained of color and their bodies shivered. Even before the disciples were able to react, all sorts of noises could be heard in the forest—it was a tide of beasts.
Rumble rumble rumble….
Rumble rumble rumble….
Rumble rumble rumble….
Before anyone was able to speak out, the beasts had already arrived. The front was headed by a pack of red-eyed Barbarian Buffaloes that were built like small hills, their twin horns shaped like two sharpened spears.
They dashed towards the group, and although this pack of Barbarian Buffaloes did not have a very strong overall combat prowess at just four ranked, they did possess some extreme raw strength.
With the power of their charge, their momentum was astonishing.
The group would only need to simply avoid the charge under ordinary circumstances, but such a thing wasn’t possible this time.
Now that the group had been surrounded by various beasts, the best option was to stand back-to-back with one another in a circle in order to band together and face their mutual enemies. In this manner, not only would it prevent any sneak attacks from the flank, but it would also allow them to demonstrate their greatest potential.
Fortunately, one of the greatest supporters on Earth was present!
With her alone, she gave the others improved strength, speed, power, recovery, and healing while together. Each of their abilities somewhat doubled.
Li Tian and Li Lian summoned their armors, Fox Sovereign, gold with tinged blue colored leather armors, armed with gauntlets and footwears that works similar to Mireya’s X-gauntlets with retractable four sharp claws each. It also equipped with additional speed and strength effects.
Since Li Tian and Li Lian entered the battle due to Layla’s orders, the two other humans as well as Alkrasha’s personal servant replaced their position and stayed together with Layla from behind, protecting her.
“Frost Blizzard!!”
Celty ‘s hair swayed in the air and for some unknown reason, her brunette hair seemed to have been dyed by silver due to the magic power emitting from her, causing her to look like a silver-haired beauty.
Celty stabbed the tail of her halberd on the ground and the area within 20 meters range instantly turned into a freezing hell.
Celty’s attack became the beacon for the battle…
Woooosh….
There wasn’t any time for hesitation. Liu Muxiao and Xue Ling, who went together, armed with their swords, leaped out to the front where the Buffaloes had already arrived without care. Their eyes were red like blood, their horns as sharp as spears, and their howls like that of thunder. Their force was unblockable. But the girls did not try to block any of it. With precise coordination, they immediately jumped into the front with a single movement and—once Spiritual Qi had been poured into their weapons—they held their weapon with a murderous grin and attacked.
Liu Muxiao grinned as she turned her body like a spinning top, slashing straight into the pack. Immediately after, only the white specks could be seen along the blade’s afterimage.
Accompanying the blade light was the blue-colored malicious energy and the gold-colored flame.
The monster around her seemed to be intimidated by the sword’s malicious energy and their dashes seemed to slow somewhat.
The swords of Xue Ling had been swinging around suddenly arced towards the monsters on her side and—along with a ‘woosh’ sound—two blade lights followed a curved path towards the Buffaloes at the front.
Several monsters that were hit by these two blade lights could only let out low grunts before their blood was splattered-their flesh flying in all directions, like a grinding machine.
“Pull all the monsters here!”
Celty suddenly cried out from the rear, rushing towards a large group of monsters, swinging her halberd like she was making a home run.
"Oh, falling rain, I call upon you to scatter, and washed the evil before me with your unending mercy! [ Shower Ice Bullet ]!"
Celty chanted—though, she rarely does that with her abilities. However, aside from [ Ice Manipulation ], she had when using spells of the water system, she needed to chant before she uses them.
The water system is not her proper power, after all!
This is only made possible by the skill she had acquired from Eliade; [ Orkus Water Spell Grimoire ]—a magic book that gave her the abilities of Orkus, a magician from another world and his knowledge.
In an instant, innumerable drops of water suspend themselves aloft around her and then become bullets which tear through the area.
However, as the offensive power of this magic is quite low against monsters of this caliber, the monsters were barely kept at bay by this spell. Still, the people following her were Li Tian and Li Lian. One on the left, one on the right; finished those monsters that were still left alive like silent predators.
Behind them, Alkrasha was standing while muttering some kind of strange language.
In an instant, a massive Vine fill with thorns rose up and swept through the monsters. There were also many small glowing bugs rushing towards every monster and upon contact, exploded like a freaking grenade.
"Think it's about time, Sister Alkrasha?"
"Ah! I just got the spell finished—end it, Xue Ling!"
Ignoring the intense battle, Alkrasha and Xue Ling chatted in high spirits.
[ Thorn Vine Parasite ] one of Alkrasha’s ultimate move.
It immobilizes the enemies by making it coiled around them. However, it wasn’t that simple. As it was called Parasite, one the vine latched on the enemy, the life of the vine will also be connected to the enemy it had latched in and once the vine was cut, the enemy whose life was connected to it will also suffer the same damage!
It was surely a terrifying trap spell.