Chapter 158: There Will Be No Discussions
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
In the woods of the Land of Heritage, a lizard and a man were chasing after a lizard and a snake.
Considering the enemies’ higher combat power, Vigilante A kept a distance from them and waited for a good time to strike.
As the snake and the lizard left the forest and made a turn toward the hills, Fang Ning realized they were not heading toward the walled city in the valley but another direction…
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King cobra and Forest Lizard were discussing their next move with telepathy.
Forest Lizard said, “Sir Shaz, why aren’t going straight to the walled city? With my power, we won’t need help from other people.”
Its thought was simple. ‘The more demons involved in this, wouldn’t there be more demons to share the Faith of Indian people with? It would be better if fewer demons get a share of the Faith. The best case scenario would be if Shaz died in the hands of the Chinese…’
Shaz said, “No. There’s a fire dragon around, it has a way to break through the demons I control, as well as wielding a combined skill with the Chinese. The attack range is huge, and it’s powerful. Even I would be hurt trying to take it head-on. If you were to use your spells, you won’t be able to evade, and that skill will kill you on the spot.”
Forest Lizard was stunned hearing that. ‘Shaz was already so strong on its own. I knew about its vicious ways and how it improved itself so quickly, but even then, it gave the enemy such high praise, it must not be lying to me.’
Forest Lizard asked quickly, “Sir, do you know what skill that is? Can we even overcome that?”
Shaz’s eyes reflected a glint of cunningness before its coarse voice said, “They’ve announced the name of the skill, it was Vanquishing Slash of Tiandao or something. I’ve already thought of a way to nullify that skill. Don’t ask so many questions, just follow what I say, and you will know how I plan to overcome it…”
The cunning king cobra must not have thought that the name Vanquishing Slash of Tiandao was coined out of feigning badassery and sounding cool. The real skill name would only appear in the system notifications…
Forest Lizard said in an attempt to flatter, “How idiotic can someone be to call out their own attacks? No wonder you could immediately think of a way to counter it.”
Hearing the compliment, Shaz’s eyes glinted with a cruel grin before it looked up to the sky.
As of that moment, a microscopic black dot was darting about in the sky…
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Simultaneously, at the walled city.
At an empty space in the valley, but quite far from the walled city, a market full of mixed races was going on.
After a few days without berserk monsters, the valley started calming down again.
Many demon tribes that were used to trading with the Chinese people were brave enough to begin selling wares again, seeing the battle was over.
They had heard about the battle that happened in the recent past.
The Chinese had just been evicted from their lands by king cobra’s entourage. They would definitely need plenty of supplies, and more importantly, food and medicinal pills.
Luckily, these things were abundant in their tribes.
Even though the Land of Heritage was small, their Vitality was rich, allowing plants to mature quickly in addition to growing bountifully.
It was not clear why, but none of the tribes could prosper more than the others. That was why there was always an abundance of supplies for everyone, to the point that many had rotten. Wars seldom happen among tribes because of that, keeping the Land of Heritage relatively peaceful.
Due to that, the Chinese were able to develop without problems for a dozen years until the Indians came in and broke the balance.
The three elders of the Truth Department did not stop the market from happening.
According to the true dragon, the upcoming battle might be a protracted war. Now that they had lost contact with the outside world, it might be best if they could replenish their supplies from local sources.
It had been relatively sunny in the recent past. With drones covering every corner of the place, they would be informed as soon as danger approaches.
With tribes starting to flock in, the market bustled with noise and liveliness.
After a while, an adult Whitetail Monkey led a group of its tribesmen of differing ages. Each of them had a big basket on their heads filled with fruits and vegetables as they marched through the market.
“It’s the Whitetail Monkey Tribe,” said a young demon as it stared enviously at the monkeys. They were one of the Four Great Tribes in the Land of Heritage with more population, more land, more wares to offer, more money…
Some of the black-uniformed members of the Truth Department in charge of market trades had approached the group of monkeys for their wares.
Due to being one of the friendliest tribe toward the Chinese, the black-uniformed men were extra enthusiastic toward them.
At the end of the day, work is work. The men in black checked everything carefully and realized that the wares are of the highest quality and freshly picked.
They started calling for support and wheeled the basket of crops away in a cart.
Another team of humans wheeled in another cart, filling the emptied baskets with colorful toys and books.
Some of the younger monkeys started playing with the toys, causing young demons from other tribes to be jealous of them.
The more mature monkeys immediately thumbed through the books. The books were all titled XXXXXXX 1 Freshly released with fifty extra chapters, the monkeys were eager to read them.
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Vigilante A had followed behind the king cobra for half a day, not doing anything. Rock Lizard was behind him without complaining even once.
Bored, Fang Ning asked in the System Space, “Sir System, why are you still holding the battle? Are you waiting for a specific timing?”
The System replied, “I’m waiting for it to arrive at a suitable place. I don’t know why, but I think the snake seemed to be taking precautions. Look at the paths it chose, they were all in between trees and full of rocks and boulders. It’d be hard to hit them from the sky or on land.”
Fang Ning asked again, “If it already discovered us, why didn’t it just turn around and hunt us down?”
The System said, “That’s because it couldn’t catch up to us. I’ve already discovered its fatal flaw when we were going to all the herb bases before. Its speed is much slower than the eagle’s, not to mention us. The fastest it can go would be about the speed of a motorcycle. I’m looking for a good terrain to kite it and just let the eagle and the lizard support on the outside. With its speed, I can attack it at a range with only Vigilante’s Flying Book. That way, there’s no risk for me.”
Seeing there was no difficult battle ahead, only a time-consuming one, Fang Ning began lazing off again…
However, this was no time for games, so he started chatting with the System.
Fang Ning said, “Speaking about speed, I recalled that Xue Feng is the fastest person we know. When he brought us to the small island in the Pacific Ocean last time, we arrived there in half an hour. In an hour, he might be able to traverse up to ten thousand kilometers. I think only rockets that launch satellites can be faster than him. Those are about seven kilometers per second, maybe faster, so they probably can reach several dozen thousand kilometers per hours.”
The System said, “Oh, that’s not his own ability, he was using this skill called Sword Handling Technique and he was just pilot the sword, essentially. Remember when you asked me to learn something like that? It would be useless for me to learn anyway, because I would need an extraordinary sword to go with it. After the few times we’ve traveled on Xue Feng’s sword, I already understood how it works.
“It was engraved with a powerful formation and was forged with rare materials. I’m guessing the Truth Department had pooled their resources together to research and create that thing, or they wouldn’t have only one of it.”
Fang Ning nodded after giving it a thought, “I see. Let’s ask the Truth Department to make us one next time. After all, you’re rich. With that, we wouldn’t need to keep asking them for help. I was embarrassed to ask for help so many times…”
The System said, “Actually, I’m dirt-poor, so I can never be able to afford it… What if you lend me some money?”
Fang Ning thought he hallucinated that and asked, “What? Sir System, you have more than a billion in your account, why would you borrow money from me? I’m the poor one.”
The System said, “That’s right, you’re poor right now, but you will probably become richer than me in the future… The spiritual sense control mode in the Battle of the Beasts game would allow your inmates in the Draconic Penitentiary to make tons of money. Now, we should focus on finishing this battle and build the farming spot so we could come once in a while to farm them.
“After leaving this place, the cheaper Vitality crops should be able to go on the market. After all, with Vitality boosting their growth, we should be able to harvest plenty of herbs. I can just synthesize some junk pills for them to sell. It wouldn’t take me much time to synthesize those at all.”
Fang Ning was really proud, “Hah! Looks like a miser like you can finally see the money-making potential of gaming. Remember you used to tease me about wasting my life away playing games…”
The System said, “I won’t laugh at you now. When you were talking to Long Fan, I heard everything. He said the spiritual sense mech arena would be released after March. When that finally drops, it would definitely have more opportunities to make money. After joining the Dark Tournament, I knew how much you humans love violent entertainments… Don’t change the subject, let me ask you again, will you, or will you not, lend me money?”
Fang Ning said after pretending to think, “Oh, hm. I have to discuss with my wife.”
The System was confused. “Hm? Do you even have a wife?”
Fang Ning replied, “Exactly, so there will be no discussions…”
The System paused and said, “You want to find a wife to discuss with her? That’s impossible. The most I can do is to wire you some money secretly. After all, all the inmates were captured by yours truly, so I should be given a share…”
Fang Ning put his hands around his head having suffered a blow. “How can you be so shameless? You said this before, and I quote, ‘the money you earn through gaming is yours to keep; I’m a Great Hero that will never lay a finger on your money!’ Are you going to break your heroic promises? Aren’t you concerned for your heroic attributes being lowered?”
The System said, “Hm? You remember that… That’s a shame. I thought you would’ve forgotten about it after so many days has passed…”
Fang Ning said helplessly, “I will never forget something as important as that… Wait a second, we’ll talk about lending money later. Why are these system notifications so weird?”
System Notification: [Black-uniformed Liu X was envious of the System and the envy turned into fury, aggression increased sharply.]
[Black-uniformed Liu X was extremely embarrassed about being furious at the System, aggression disappeared.]
[Black-uniformed Wang X was envious of the System and the envy turned into fury, aggression increased sharply.]
[Black-uniformed Wang X was extremely embarrassed about being furious at the System, aggression disappeared.]
[…]
Similar system notifications kept appearing on the screen.
The System asked, “What is going on?”
Fang Ning frowned and yelled, “Sh*t! We were lured away by the spadehead! We have to get back to the walled city in the valley, if I guessed correctly, it would attack there again tonight.”
The System said, “I don’t know what you’re talking about, but I didn’t see anything wrong. Let’s turn back.”
Vigilante A abandoned the chase. He gave Rock Lizard some instructions to flee from the area.
He then leaped into the air and turned into Fire Dragon before charging toward the walled city at high speed.
