TWG Chapter 5 : The assassin girl
“ Eh ? Humans ? “
Just when Li Zun has just finished his month-long training, he detected human figures entering the outskirts of the forest with his divine awareness.
“ Mm..15 in total, looks like they are all chasing a single person. Haii..my first meeting with humans in this world and from the looks of it, they are all cold blooded killers.. “ Li Zun shrugged at the thought of it.
Back on his world, he had once read an extremely famous fantasy novel where the main character was in a similar situation as him. However, at his very first encounter, the main character in the story ended up meeting a beautiful girl which he saved from a monster, causing the girl to fall in love with him.
Although he is no longer a hot-blooded youth, Li Zun cannot help but secretly harbor such fantasies within his heart. Of course, that fantasy had been crushed mercilessly by this world.
“ Can't my life be a bit more like fairytales ? “ Li Zun smiled wryly, he thought that his cursed life would take a turn for the better here, but it seems that his accursed luck still remained..
“ Oh well, let's check them out anyway “ muttered Li Zun, looking quite curious. He had been living in the forest for a whole month but he had not meet any humans in the forest until now. Not to mention outside the forest, since he had never travelled outside.
If an ordinary person was reincarnated to a different world like Li Zun, the first thing they would do is to probably search for any trace of human civilization. But Li Zun? How could he, a person rejected by society for 30 years be looking forward to be rejected again?
With a thought, Li Zun initiated his Divine Energy and teleported several kilometers away.
Within the blink of an eye, Li Zun reappeared at a shrub close to the humans. He congealed his Divine Energy around his body, causing light to refract around him making him invisible to ordinary people.
This was another use of Divine Energy, by congealing their bodies with Divine Power, Gods could appear in a different form or even invisible to mortals.
When he learned how to make himself invisible, Li Zun teased the little pup all day long. Because of his teasing, the little pup was in a bad mood for that whole day. It took Li Zun a hearty meal and a nice flight around the forest to make the little pup finally forgive him.
As the 15 people got closer to Li Zun’s location, one of the chasers finally broke the silent chase.
“ Hey Wuxi, just how deep are you planning to go in? Would you rather be eaten by beasts rather than being killed by us ? Kahahaha!! “ One of the men shouted loudly.
" Gehehe, give up Wuxi. Although half of your face is burned, at least your body is good enough, Gahahaha “ Another one laughed lewdly. Just by looking at his face, one could already tell what he is planning to do.
The black clothed Wuxi, the person in question sneered in disdain.
“ Hmph, I would rather die eaten by beasts then being caught by you trashes “ Gritting her teeth, she sped up into the forest. The other 14 men following close behind her.
As they were running, they did not bother to hide their cultivation levels and unleashed their aura, causing nearby magic beasts to be too afraid to approach them.
This was, after all, the outer area of the Mythical Beast Forest. The beasts that lived here couldn't possibly compare to the beasts that lived in the inner areas.
But suddenly.. Wuxi felt a tinge of pressure looming over the area, a pressure that normal magic beasts do not give off.
" This presence.. a 5th Grade Magic Beast! “ A look of surprise covered her face, although half of her face was covered by a mask, her widened eyes had practically revealed her surprise.
“ That's weird, these rank of beasts would usually not bother coming out to the outer area, did something happened? “ She thought, confused.
Because of the Earthly Oak Tree, the Heaven-Earth Qi was gathered to the center of the forest, creating a distinct hierarchy in the forest. The outskirts and the outer area would usually only contain beast at the 1st realm of cultivation while the inner area would be filled with beasts of the 2nd realm. And last but not least, the center area...which only peak level beasts could have the privilege to live there.
For 5th Grade Magic Beasts to appear in the outskirts? These beasts usually wouldn't have even bothered coming out to the outer ranges, much less the outskirts of the forest.
" Forget it, what matters more right now is to escape these guys, with this beast coming here, I have an even higher chance of escaping. “ Her eyes gleaming, Wuxi dropped her shoulders by a bit as her two hands came closer to her tights, ready to take action at any time.
“ Ru Wuxi, Surrender now and we'll leave you an easy death to honor our.. “ The leading man of the 14 people shouted, but before he could finish his sentence, Ru Wuxi made her move.
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She suddenly turned back against the 14 men chasing her and unleashed her 5th rank cultivation power, taking out 2 dark, shimmering flying daggers in the process.
“ Twin Shadow Picking Stars! “ She muttered softly in her heart.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
The two flying daggers moved like shadows at night, none of the 15 men could react in time, not even the 5th rank leader. In an instant, the two flying daggers had already reached the two men that ridiculed her earlier on.
Pfft!
A cold light flashed by before a thin line of blood appeared on the two men's forehead. A second later, blood suddenly gushed out of their heads as they slowly fell to the ground.
The two of them couldn't even react at all and were slashed directly in the head. It was instant kill!
The two of them had looks of disbelieves at their death, they did not even have time to shout out in pain..
The other 12 pursuers were immediately shocked senseless.
“ Ru Wuxi, you..you have actually been hiding your true strength all this time !! “ One of the men in black shouted furiously.
Except for their leader, they were all at the 4th rank of cultivation, they did not expect that Ru Wuxi actually hid her 5th rank cultivation!
Roooar!!
Right after Ru Wuxi killed the two men, a huge roar sounded out. A blue scaled reptile like beast appeared, except for Ru Wuxi who had already anticipated that this beast would appear, the rest of the 12 men were utterly shocked at the appearance of the beast.
“ Damn! It's actually a 5th rank Wyrr Drake !! What is that thing doing all the way out here in the outskirts?! “
" Get out ! It's heading this way! “
Panic and chaos filled the air as the Wyrr Drake roared ferociously and charged towards them.
Magic Beasts of the same rank had always been stronger than humans of the same rank because of their advantage in their physique. The beast that appeared this time is at the 5th rank of cultivation! One should know that out of the 14 of them, only their leader was a 5th ranker!
“ 6 of you stall the Wyrr Drake and the rest follow me to chase after Ru Wuxi!! “ The leader shouted furiously. Whether or not he succeeded in capturing Ru Wuxi today, he had already suffered a big loss.
He had bought 13 experts of the city with him to kill Ru Wuxi but she had actually managed to kill two of them under his watch! This was a big slap in the face for him !
Meanwhile, Ru Wuxi had already took advantage of the moment the beast appeared and ran away to the side, avoiding the Wyrr Drake.
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Not far from them, Li Zun stood on top of a tree, looking over at the situation.
“ Mm..that girl, did she actually sensed that lizard beast was coming ? “ Li Zun muttered in interest. Unless the girl had some sort of technique to detect the beast, there was no way she could have timed her attack so perfectly.
From his observation, Li Zun knew that the other 14 men did not notice that beast was arriving, even the leader who seemed to be as strong as her did not notice it at all. Thus, he figured that it was a special ability of the girl.
“ Well, I've got the gist of the situation. Let's see....I could do that I guess. “
With a thought, Li Zun disappeared once more.
Because of the beast attack, those men in black did not realize that one of them had somehow disappeared along with the wind..
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Bum Gumsu had always lived an extravagant life. In his childhood, he was discovered to have immense talent in the path of warrior cultivation and was acclaimed as the city's number 1 prodigy.
Because of that, he was given special privileges and attention by the city lord. Wealth, power, women, he had it all. However, it could be said that he had wasted his talents, as he had only broke through to the 2nd realm of cultivation at the age of 28, while it is considered as a not so bad achievement in Floating Cloud Continent, with his talents and resources, he should have broke through a long time ago.
In the path of cultivation, there were mainly 3 realms that one would traverse to achieve supremacy. The 3 realms are then further divided into 3 ranks each realm, every advancement in a realm would have a huge bottleneck preventing most people to be unable to advance.
That is why, a 2nd realm practitioner were highly valued by any city. Hence, although he could be said to have wasted the resources given by the city, he was still valued as one of the city's experts and his pleasant life continued to go on.
However, because of the recent war with a neighboring city, he had been deployed in the front lines to defend against the other experts of the opposition. Usually, there were very few experts who are willing to go into the front lines to directly fight because no matter how strong 2nd realm warriors are compared to normal, 1st realm soldiers, if they were surrounded and attacked by a hundred troops they would still end up dead.
But since Bum Gumsu could be said to have owned the city a debt, he had no choice but to be deployed into the front lines.
But during his deployment at the front lines, back in the city, an earth shaking incident occurred!
One of the Kingdom’s 40 Royal Experts, the Black Wind Ru Wuxi betrayed the city, assassinated the City Lord and escaped.
She took advantage of the war and assassinated the lord when the number one expert of the city, the 6th ranked Blazing Warrior was away watching over the war.
Although the lord's family tried to suppress the news from reaching the ears of the masses, they were a step too late and the news quickly broke out.
The death of the lord had caused a major impact. The morale of the soldiers who are in the middle of war dropped considerably, allowing their neighboring cities to rally their forces, taking 30% of their land.
Although the kingdom did not fall, the damage was extremely large. The late lord's enraged wife ordered 14 of the 40 Royal Experts to chase after her, Bum Gumsu was one of them.
At first, things went on very smoothly, after 15 days of searching, they managed to uncover the trails of Ru Wuxi and chased her into the Mythical Beast Forest.
Actually, with their leader’s advantage as a 5th rank warrior, it should not be too hard for him to catch Ru Wuxi who was hiding her strength as a 4th ranker. However, they deliberately slowed down their speed to pressure her to escape into the forest. Their intentions were extremely clear.
Even if Ru Wuxi’s face is half burned, her looks are not disgusting and her exceptionally fit body was something that other women could only dream of. During their time as the kingdom’s 40 royal experts, Ru Wuxi had always been cold and indifferent, just like an ice cold princess.
The thought of conquering such a girl had burned their flames of desire, of course, Bum Gunsu was one of them who were eagerly expecting it.
But things did not go according to their plan at all. Ru Wuxi had actually hid her strength as a 5th rank warrior and killed 2 of their comrades by catching them off guard with her superior strength. Then, a 5th Grade Magic Beast had actually appeared almost immediately after, creating havoc all over the place.
But Bum Gumsu would have never imagined that in the middle of that havoc...He had actually been kidnapped !