Chapter 489: The New Inferno Hell
Translator: Oneshotwonder Editor: Hitesh_
Wang Tong and Duo Lun returned to their post after the tournament was over, and no one paid much more attention to them, since everyone, including House Lie, was convinced that their victory was a setup.
However, this trip back to Battle Wolf’s camp was deemed to be a tumultuous one from the very beginning. In the afternoon, everyone felt a discernible vibration coming from the ground, and there could only be one cause: Zergs.
Guan Dongyang could have flown to the sky and gotten a better view of the situation, but he didn’t, fearing that he might give away his whereabouts to the Zerg scout. Instead, Guan Dongyang charged up his soul energy and scanned the surroundings. However, the Zergs were still far away, so his soul energy couldn’t reach far enough. When he was wondering what he could do other than waiting, Wang Tong’s voice rang beside his ears.
“Three dark ones, and about two thousand Zergs… They must be searching for the lost shipment.”
Guan Dongyang marveled at the convenient way Wang Tong spoke to him without exposing himself, so he decided that he would have to learn it from him.
Seeing that everyone was waiting for his instructions, Guan Dongyang repeated the information that Wang Tong had told him. Lie Wushuang and Lie Xuan looked at each other with astonishment. They, too, had searched the surroundings with their soul energy, and had failed to reach a conclusion due to the far distance from the Zergs. However, Guan Dongyang had done it.
“Are you sure?”
“Yes. Well, since we are already here, might as well finish them off. Three dark ones mean three more energy crystals.” Guan Dongyang cracked a smile.
Guan Dongyang gave an order to his men, and the driver quickly drove the cargo truck into a cave while the rest of the soldiers ran up to the top of a hill and hid behind tall bushes.
“Dongyang, don’t you think it’s a bit too risky? We don’t have a lot of guns.” Lie Xuan asked. Although she preferred direct confrontation, she never walked into any situation without assurance for success.
Without Wang Tong, Guan Dongyang would have heeded to Lie Xuan’s warning, but since Wang Tong was among his rank, he was convinced that they would prevail.
Wang Tong delivered another instruction to Guan Dongyang. The latter turned to Lie Xuan and Lie Wushuang and then said, “Lie Xuan is right. We don’t have enough men to handle the dark ones and the Zergs at the same time. Could you two please slow down the three dark ones for us? I need a little bit of time to prepare for a spell.”
“Hehe, no problem. I always wanted to see your Mastery skills with my own eyes.” Lie Wushuang announced. However, he was not without doubt about Guan Dongyang’s daring move against the Zergs. Guan Dongyang’s tone suggested that he was going to face the two thousands of Zergs by himself. It could be a suicidal move without knowing the levels of these Zergs. However powerful the mastery spells would be, it was questionable that they would be enough to deter two thousand Zergs.
Truth be told, even Guan Dongyang was not one hundred percent sure about “his” plan. The Zergs had adapted to the power of mastery very quickly, and recently, he found that each battle he fought was getting harder than the last.
When the Zergs were close enough, Guan Dongyang flew out of his hiding spot and hovered at the top of a hill. He then let the soul energy flow out of his system. The Zergs suddenly stopped and looked in Guan Dongyang’s direction, waiting for attack orders from the dark ones.
The three dark ones acted immediately as they attacked Guan Dongyang with a three-prong formation, and the rest of the Zergs followed suit.
Lie Xuan and the warriors of House Lie channeled out their soul energy and charged at the three dark ones. As soon as they closed in onto the main Zerg force, they saw the Zergs cover the slope beneath them like a thick carpet of deadly claws and fangs.
They could only hope that Guan Dongyang’s plan would work.
Despite the difficulties ahead, Lie Xuan was not concerned about their lives. Unless there were Elite Zergs among the enemies’ rank, they could escape the Zerg attack with ease if the situation got hairy. Elite Zergs were special Zergs that were bred to fight against high-level human warriors. They consisted mostly of suicide bombing Zergs and the ‘Grey Mantis’, both of which could inflict huge damage by exploding themselves.
These Elite Zerg Unites were humans’ biggest concern in today’s battlefield. Due to the Queen Zerg’s incredible reproduction ability, any hive could produce an army of such deadly Zergs in a matter of weeks.
The energy crystal topping Guan Dongyang’s Mastery staff pulsed with energy. Guan Dongyang knew that he wouldn’t be able to rely on the staff, since it was only half full after many uses without charging up. He wondered if even the “Inferno Hell” could clear the battlefield with only half of its effectiveness.
Nonetheless, Guan Dongyang believed in Wang Tong’s plan, so he started to prepare for the mastery spell. Lie Xuan and Lie Wushuang could sense the energy rippling out of Guan Dongyang’s direction. Lie Wushuang furrowed his brows: the intensity of the spell was clearly not enough to handle that many Zergs, at least not yet.
Suddenly, the sky darkened and bubbling black clouds appeared out of nowhere, unfolding like a giant wool blanket. Soon, thunder and lightning followed suit. Guan Dongyang’s hair was tossed up by a wild gale, and around him, shimmering energy of all colors formed stands that twisted and weaved into each other.
Even dark ones that were mired in the battle against Lie Xuan felt the sudden surge of power behind, so they turned their heels and charged toward Guan Dongyang.
Lights beamed out of Guan Dongyang’s eyes, and he repeated spells intensely in his mouth. He looked nothing like the Guan Dongyang everyone had known for years; he was a different person.
No one but Tan Bu and Duo Lun had noticed that Wang Tong was missing. But, they didn’t tell anyone, and no one was interested either.
The promise of seeing another new Mastery spell from their leader elated the warriors of Battle Wolf.
Everyone was too distracted by what was happening to notice that Guan Dongyang’s movement was slow by half a beat. It was the result of him following Wang Tong’s instructions. Although the onset of the Mastery spell looked like the one Guan Dongyang had always used, its power was on an entirely different level.
Guan Dongyang followed Wang Tong’s instructions to the letter. He knew that he was performing an extremely deadly spell, whose exact power still escaped him.
“KOM!”
The ground opened up under the Zerg’s claws, and fire sprouted out from the cracks and crevasses like tongues, licking the Zergs and melting their hard shells like rubber. Above the Zergs’ heads, thousands of red specs appeared in the sky, falling down on them as they increased in size. In a blink, these specks grew to the size of smoldering boulders, and smashed directly into the mass of Zergs. Visibly even from a distance, giant Zergs were smashed into pulp, leaving a gooey clump of green mass on the ground.
If the Zergs had their interpretation of hell, this was it.
Standing on top of a hill at some distance away from the battlefield, Lie Xuan still felt the heave waves. She wondered what type of mastery Guan Dongyang had used.
Had Guan Dongyang already advanced to the legendary level?
When everyone was mesmerized by the shower of Zerg flesh and blood at the foothill, the dark ones turned around and sneaked out of the battlefield. Their goal of the mission was to find out the whereabouts of the lost cargo shipment, and they had succeeded.
“Don’t let them ran away!” Lie Wushuang shouted and then rushed down the hill after the dark ones. He charged up his GN force and channeled it out from the tip of his blade as blade aura beamed at a dark one. The strike hit home, and one of the dark ones slumped to the ground and didn’t get up.
Lie Xuan caught up with one of the other dark ones and used her Seven Flame Kicks on him. The seventh kick landed on the dark one’s head, and the force sheared the large head off the dark one’s shoulder like a pair of scissors. The rest of the four warriors from House Lie swarmed the last dark one and chopped it into pieces.
When they were done, they looked around the battlefield and saw piles of charred Zerg bodies. Their green blood had formed little streams at the bottom of the piles. Warriors of the House Lie doubted if even Michaux’s spell could have topped the power of the one used by Guan Dongyang. No wonder their house leader had valued Guan Dongyang’s loyalty above anything else.
While floating in the air, Guan Dongyang felt that his sea of consciousness was near depleted. Even with the help of the energy crystal, the mastery was too taxing on his system. As he was about to fall from the sky, he felt a warm flow of energy appear in his body, supporting his body and rekindling his will.
Guan Dongyang’s mind was whirling. He had never thought that anyone could have channeled soul energy into another individual through air, but Wang Tong had done it! The entire theory of mastery was based on the fact that everything in the world, humans included, had a unique soul energy. But, Wang Tong was able to bypass the difference and lend his energy to Guan Dongyang; it was outright impossible!
Guan Dongyang conceded that he wouldn’t be able to understand the inner workings of Wang Tong’s technique for a while, so he let the matter rest for now.
After some time, the battle was finally over. Everyone saw the piles of Zergs and then looked at Guan Dongyang as if he was the god of war. Wang Tong was also very pleased with the results, as Guan Dongyang had lasted longer than he had thought.
When Guan Dongyang finally landed on the ground, his face was as pale as a piece of parchment paper. “Let’s move out of here, quick!” He spoke with a feeble voice.
“Hey, furface, what was the mastery called?” Duo Lun asked curiously.
“Hehe, let’s call it the new Inferno Hell.”
“Do you know captain well?” Tan Bu asked.
