Chapter 112: Unexpected beast
Chapter 112: Unexpected beast
——(POV third person)——
“HAHAHA, now that is what I call a friend.” Cai ZhenKang said and slapped Li Huang’s back a couple of times with a force that could be considered spine shattering. Fortunately, Li Huang was trained by Li Long so he wasn’t winded by this level of friendliness.
“Sure, sure. Just don’t cling to me.” Li Huang said. He didn’t think Cai ZhenKang would be this grateful.
‘It seems that his master would have really killed him if he were to lose face for their sect…’ Li Huang thought.
“How about you give me some spirit stones as we are friends?” Cai ZhenKang asked Li Huang. He tried to use a friend card here to get his money back.
“Cai ZhenKang, as your friend of course I would not give you money.” Li Huang said with a friendly smile.
“Why wouldn’t you?” Cai ZhenKang was confused. He thought that maybe Li Huang would say no to him but he didn’t think that he would word it this way.
“Because you have a gambling addiction.” Li Huang said with a sad tone.
“Horse shit! I don’t have a gambling addiction!” Cai ZhenKang answered angrily. He knew he wasn’t addicted at all so he couldn’t believe that Li Huang would assume such a thing.
“I tell you what, I give you 600 high-grade spirit stones if you kill more beasts than me in the next hour, how about it?” Li Huang said.
“Great! I’m in.” Cai ZhenKang said excitedly.
“See, you have a gambling addiction.” Li Huang said and shook his head. The fact that Cai ZhenKang took the bait this time showed him that he definitely is addicted.
“…” Cai ZhenKang was stunned. He never thought he was addicted to gambling but apparently, he is.
“Come on, let’s get back outside.” Li Huang called to Cai ZhenKang. It was ironic that they have created a fort to be safe inside it but they have to go outside to keep it safe.
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“They just keep coming!” Cai ZhenKang said as he too switched to dual-wielding as they needed more speed in fights and the defense was less important in front of beasts of this level.
The mix of the beasts also increased as time passed and now hordes would contain at least 10 species and it would make it harder to fight them as each of them had their own fighting style and their own strong and weak points.
As a learning material, it was a great thing to every participant here as they have learned much from these fights but as it was real and not training, there wasn’t anyone that would stop the training if you were going to get hurt. The old man didn’t seem to care even if everyone here died.
“There is no rest for the wicked…” Li Huang said with a smirk. He didn’t know where he heard it from, but this sentence really reflected their situation.
Meanwhile, Jin Fen was teleporting every time that a horde got near him and had plenty of rest so maybe this sentence is not that right.
“You can rest here forever, Li Huang.” Cai ZhenKang laughed and said.
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“Did we have any casualty so far?” Zheng Jingyi, the chief disciple of the Sky Pillar sect asked his fellow disciples as he was fighting the beast horde in the southern side of the fort.
“No, senior brother. From the latest news that I got we only have 3 disciples that have some injuries that need a little rest and other than that we don’t have any big issues.” One of his teammates answered his question from what he heard from the wall.
“Good. Let us use 50 scrolls each and make the horde a little less crowded.” Zheng Jingyi said to his team. They had a finite number of scrolls so the decision-making was left to the team leaders such as Zheng Jingyi.
“”Yes, senior brother.”” The team members said in unison and got ready to attack. This is going to be a long day.
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“Senior sister, do you need anything else?” Yuan Yunyu, vice-leader of the White Moon sect disciples asked her leader, He Junli.
“Thank you Yunyu. Just tell them to keep it down a little as I didn’t sleep for more than a day.” He Junli said as she closed her eyes to sleep. She wanted to sleep as she has heard that lack of sleep can harm one’s skin and she didn’t want to strain her skin.
Yuan Yunyu just cupped her fists as she didn’t want to disturb He Junli and got back to overseeing the southern outer wall.
Every disciple there had to attack with less sound as Yuan Yunyu told them so and in turn, this resulted in decreasing the number of attacks from the walls to the beast horde.
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Li Huang and others were fighting for quite some time and tried the hit and run technique of Cai ZhenKang but this time they didn’t go to the end of the horde as the horde was much denser as they got further inside it so it was almost impossible to open a path forward with sheer power and it would be too wasteful to do so with scrolls.
After two hours of going back and forth every ten minutes, the horde was getting less crowded and everyone thought that the horde was coming to an end.
…How wrong they were.
From behind the horde, you could see some silhouettes coming toward the fort and with each of their steps, the ground would shake. Now everyone understood why these beasts were so hellbent on coming toward the fort. Their desire to kill the participants was one of the reasons but running away from these silhouettes was the main reason.
Almost 200 or so of these silhouettes were coming toward the fort and even from their shape, Li Huang, Hu Anjing, and Ye Ling guessed what these beasts were.
Everyone got to see the giant figures clearly as it didn’t take long for the silhouettes to enter their field of view.
“It is the Giant giant giant apes!” Hu Anjing exclaimed.
“200 of them at that too…” Li Huang was so deep in thought that he didn’t even respond to Hu Anjing when she called the gargantuan apes with the wrong name. He was thinking of a plan that would help them win this battle with the least energy used. They still had 15 hours to go and Li Huang didn’t like how the trial was throwing bigger monsters at them. If this trend continues, they soon would run out of scrolls to use on them.
Ye Ling who also remembered the fight with these 100-meter giants (A/N: ~330 ft) had a deep frown on her face as she knew first hand that these beasts are strong and they should be stopped before they can get to the walls.
“How big are they?” Li Wanrou who understood that Li Huang and others somehow faced this kind of beast, asked the main question as she was worried that they could pass the walls.
“Let’s just say that they are big enough that our walls won’t stop them at all.” Li Huang said as he was still formulating a plan in his mind. As he likes to plan for the possibilities, he obviously thought that some gargantuan apes might be in a horde but even in his wildest dreams, he couldn’t think of a scenario where 200 of them would show up together and in a single horde. Their walls stood at 120 meters but that height clearly wouldn’t stop any gargantuan ape from entering the fort.
“What is the plan?” Cai ZhenKang asked with seriousness for the first time as he knew the gravity of the situation and he knew from how fast Li Huang came up with the plan for this fort, he could find a plan to handle these gargantuan apes too.
Li Huang looked around him and thought of a plan for each disciple on this side of the wall. He had to work with what he had and finish the gargantuan apes before they could get to the walls.
“Hu Anjing, Cai ZhenKang, you two come with me.” Li Huang said and pointed at Hu Anjing and Cai ZhenKang.
“Wanrou, Ye Ling, and you there, you will be the second line and will kill any beast that we couldn’t kill.” Li Huang continued. The ‘you there’ was the second in command of the Heaven Reaching Spear sect disciples.
“Dai Bao, you will be in charge of our sect’s disciples until we are back.” Li Huang told Dai Bao who cupped his fists with seriousness evident in his eyes.
Li Wanrou got closer to Li Huang and he turned to face her.
“Wanrou, put someone in control of your fellow disciples when we charge forward.” Li Huang said although he know what she wanted to talk about.
“…Why didn’t you choose me for your team?” She asked as she knew that she is stronger than Cai ZhenKang.
“Because without you the second line won’t be able to get the result that they should…” Li Huang calmly explained.
Li Wanrou nodded.
“Good answer.” She said.