Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales
What made things worse was the fact that even more Gargoyles were flying out of the open windows of the Black Church. These Gargoyles were an entire size larger than the ones before and were even more ferocious in battle.
Thus, the battle slowly started to tilt from a stalemate to a landslide.
As time passed, a new monster appeared.
A creature with a lion’s body, eight legs, a pair of black bat wings and a scorpion tail climbed out of the window. Its entire body was greenish-gray as if it was a sculpture. Its size was several times that of an ordinary lion, but it was far more agile, moving across the Black Church like a lizard. It didn’t take long for it to scale the tower at the top of the Black Church.
“Ao! ”
A roar rang out and the manticore spread its wings to leap down from the tower. The Gargoyles frantically scattered, as if terrified by this creature.
Goddammit! Wei Xiao Bei finally felt like this was some sort of game when he saw this happen before his eyes. Gargoyles? Manticores? What else was next?
Whooo!
The manticore charged into the formation of the Shing Wong soldiers in the blink of an eye and started slaughtering the troops.
Its massive jaws would instantly clamp over the head of a soldier when it opened. A light bite and the soldier would be turned into a headless corpse. At the same time, its scorpion tail would land upon several soldiers, like a dragonfly skipping across a pond, causing the soldiers to immediately die of poison.
In just a few minutes, over a hundred soldiers had died at the hands of the Gargoyles led by the manticore at the very front. The Shing Wong’s Border Patroller had no choice but to divert his attention to dealing with the manticore. His red longsword pointed at the beast and a blade of light shot forward. The manticore was an agile creature and its body twisted to the side. It not only dodged the blade of light but even tore the guts of a soldier as it did so.
This momentary diversion in the Border Patroller’s attention caused the red light radiated from his sword to become thinner and the might of the soldiers started to falter.
This only worsened their situation.
At this rate, the Border Patroller would be the only one who would escape alive.
Wei Xiao Bei frowned at the sight of this.
He didn’t exactly think too much of this Border Patroller. He would much rather spit in his face. The fellow was just too arrogant, with a stone-cold expression always fixed to his face, as if he was the ruler of the entire universe.
Then again, though Xiao Bei had not interacted much with the Black Church, he naturally disliked them just from the shady behavior of the Dark Priest.
Moreover, the Shing Wong Temple was a local force to some extent, as compared to this Dark Priest.
Get him!
Wei Xiao Bei was already raring to go. The High-Temperature Birds’ death at the hands of the Gargoyles already irritated him immensely. Now, he had finally found a reason to join the battlefield.
Wei Xiao Bei should still have no problem escaping alone if things go awry.
He leaped out of the ditch and extended his right hand. A silver-white spear appeared in his hand.
A few hundred meters was nothing with his speed. It wasn’t instantaneous, but it didn’t take long either.
He held the spear straight and stabbed at the mighty manticore.
The manticore was truly a skilled monster. The spear had just been thrust forward and it had already sensed the approaching threat. It quickly turned and charged into the swarm of Gargoyles.
The dozens of Gargoyle immediately obstructed Wei Xiao Bei’s vision.
Wei Xiao Bei had no choice but to turn the thrust into a sweep and smash a few of the Gargoyles away.
These Gargoyles could not bear the tremendous strength from the sweeping motion and started to crumble from the point of impact, before quickly shattering into rocks.
Whooosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Several sweeps came again, smashing even more of the Gargoyles to pieces.
At Wei Xiao Bei’s level, dealing with the Gargoyles was an easy matter. He would achieve the same effect by spear or with the metal Jian. Any slight contact with the Gargoyles would cripple them and any direct hit would kill them. There was no third outcome.
A blank space quickly appeared in front of him after a few seconds. All the Gargoyles that dared to step in his way were reduced to pebbles and blown away. Even Gargoyles that were standing too close to the victims were injured by the scattered debris before they could respond.
Wei Xiao Bei’s appearance and his excessively violent fighting style were far too eye-catching. It had attracted the attention of most of the Gargoyles.
Thus, the Gargoyles surrounding the Black Church scattered and dove down upon Xiao Bei like a massive net.
The Border Patroller wasn’t a fool either. When he saw a mysterious person emerge and draw the attention of the Gargoyles, he immediately let out a battle cry! The light from the longsword intensified and directed the soldiers to attack the Gargoyles with reckless fury.
In truth, the Shing Wong’s Border Patroller wasn’t too powerful himself. However, his divinity and godhood, paired with the weapon bestowed upon him by Lord Shing Wing allowed him to be almost equal to Wei Xiao Bei in power.
However, he might even be weaker than the executioner in solo combat. Most of his strength came from his ability to enhance the might of the soldiers.
As such, the manticore quickly set its sights on the Border Patroller. It was a sly creature and did not strike hastily. It hid within the group of Gargoyles until Wei Xiao Bei had almost slaughtered the lot of them. It was then that the manticore beat its wings and pounced at the Border Patroller.
It was obvious that the purpose of the Border Patroller in the army had been discerned by the manticore, or more precisely, the Dark Priest controlling the manticore.
Kill the Border Patroller and the soldiers would become like loose sand.
The manticore had the right idea and it was now in the right position. By the time the Border Patroller realized the manticore was lunging at him, it was already too late to dodge.
The barrier of light that naturally appeared around him was instantly shattered by the manticore’s tail.
It seemed as if he would be severely injured at the very next instant.
At this key moment, Wei Xiao Bei ignored the Gargoyles lunging at him and turned to throw his spear!
Whooo!
The sound of the flying spear had yet to even reach the manticore, but the tip of the spear had arrived within one meter of it! It was shocking how fast the spear was.
The manticore reacted quickly, pressing its body downward in an attempt to roll over and dodge the projectile. However, it was too late. The spear shot across and severed the manticore’s tail!
The weakest part of the manticore had to be this scorpion tail. It was almost the same as its eyes and caused it immense agony when it was severed. The manticore let out a pained howl, before turning and charging at Wei Xiao Bei. It opened its mouth and a fan of flames blew forth.
This bastard can breathe fire?
One had to admit that the manticore was a sly creature indeed. If it wasn’t for the agony driving it mad, it would probably still be concealing this ability and saving it until the enemy was caught off-guard. It would have been a devastating sneak attack,
Of course, Wei Xiao Bei could no longer dodge the flame now and was instantly enveloped in the fire.
All his clothes were burnt to cinders in an instant.
The manticore clearly still understood its priorities. Upon seeing Wei Xiao Bei enveloped in flames, it turned and lunged at the Border Patroller again.
However, just then, Xiao Bei charged out of the flames, with sparks still burning on his body. The spear had once again returned to his right hand. The strength in his entire body erupted, his blood circulation accelerated and in the blink of an eye the spear shot forward once more.
This time, the manticore was no longer as lucky. It hurriedly dodged when it sensed danger. The spear that was aimed for its neck pierced into its abdomen instead, creating a massive hole in its body.
Having endured such a severe blow, the manticore no longer had the energy to lunge at the Border Patroller. The Border Patroller was no weakling either. He was already frustrated at almost falling for the claws of the manticore earlier. There was no hesitation in his mind when he saw this manticore injured before him. He waved his longsword furiously and a few sword blasts flew forward and landed on the manticore, slashing it into a few separate pieces.
Fuck! Your! Mom!
Wei Xiao Bei watched with his mouth agape.
You bitch! Was this Border Patroller the legendary kill stealer?
The manticore might have died from those slashes, but Xiao Bei had not obtained any evolution points to speak of.
When Xiao Bei summoned the spear back into his hands and joined the fray once again, the Border Patroller behaved completely unlike his usual self. He ignored the intense battle that was raging around them, sheathed his sword and put his hands together to bow at Xiao Bei: “This god thanks you.”
“There’s no need for thanks. ”
Wei Xiao Bei couldn’t be bothered to talk with this guy. He grabbed the manticore’s corpse and stuffed it into his Storage Bracelet. He then charged back into the battle, wreaking havoc as he went, much like Zhao Yun when he charged in and out of the enemy ranks during the battle of Changban.
Wei Xiao Bei’s lack of courtesy caught the Border Patroller off guard for a moment. Fortunately, the man had a dull, old-fashioned personality. He didn’t pursue Wei Xiao Bei’s behavior and instead drew his longsword to join the battle again.
With the participation of Xiao Bei and the death of the manticore, the tides of the battle turned in the favor of the Shing Wong forces.
The Gargoyles could not endure Wei Xiao Bei’s killing spree and their numbers shrank at a shocking rate.
Wei Xiao Bei felt much better after retrieving the manticore’s corpse. Though the contribution points from these Gargoyles had been cut short, they were numerous. A single one of them might give only eighty points, but a hundred of them were eight thousand points!
In just this short while, Xiao Bei had slaughtered his way in and out of the horde of Gargoyles and over a hundred of the creatures had died at his hands.
This was heaven for grinding evolution points!
Wei Xiao Bei pumped himself up and prepared to kill another few hundred Gargoyles. Yet, just then, the Gargoyles started to turn and escape toward the Black Church.
The soldiers reacted quickly and chased after the Gargoyles.
Naturally, Wei Xiao Bei wasn’t about to let them go either. He straightened his spear and pursued the monsters.
However, upon arriving outside the plaza of the Black Church, Xiao Bei felt an unknown premonition of danger that caused all his hair to stand on ends.
“Danger! Retreat! ”
Wei Xiao Bei called out to the soldiers and fled in the opposite direction. There was nothing he could do when the soldiers did not listen and continued chasing after the Gargoyles.
