The thick stench of blood permeated the area around the dilapidated residential building where numerous massive monster corpses lay; the previous slaughter had momentarily kept other beasts at bay, resulting in a brief, eerie silence. Then, Luo Feng burst out from the second floor of the building, and the two flying daggers embedded in the ground immediately zipped back to their sheaths beside his legs.
“Two War Gods; they probably won't be long before they engage the High-Tier Lord, Iron-Armored Dragon. I need to find a good spot to watch the fight!” Luo Feng glanced at the two largest corpses—the Lion-Mastiff leaders—and sighed, shaking his head. “The War Gods cleaned those two corpses out quite thoroughly, extracting the two most important materials.”
Luo Feng had initially hoped to salvage something useful himself.
Whoosh!
Luo Feng transformed into a blur and sped rapidly toward the south.
“The Iron-Armored Dragon’s lair is ten miles away, at that Carrefour. Fine, I’ll pick a residential building three miles from there,” Luo Feng decided while running. In this city of concrete and steel swarming with monsters, even a Psychic Master couldn't afford to be too reckless.
He alternated between sprinting and pausing to scout. Overall, his speed remained impressive. Ten minutes later, Luo Feng entered the sixteenth floor of an eighteen-story residential building!
Swoosh—
Two streaks of dark light spun and settled back into the sheaths on his legs. Luo Feng smiled and gently pushed the door of a unit on the sixteenth floor. The door was shut tight, but his invisible psychic energy easily manipulated the lock, opening the main entrance completely.
“This room's lock is secured; it hasn't been forcibly broken. It seems that in the thirty to forty years since the Great Nirvana period, no martial artist or monster has entered this room,” Luo Feng commented after stepping inside, casually closing the door. Indeed, the room’s furnishings were neatly arranged.
A glass cabinet, a sofa, a marble dining table, a forty-two-inch television. Everything was styled from before the Great Nirvana period.
“Hah!”
Luo Feng pulled off a blanket draped over the sofa; the leather beneath was still relatively clean. Taking the blanket, he immediately went to the balcony, wiped down the glass, and opened the window.
“What a view.”
“From here, the monster lair ahead is completely in sight.” Luo Feng tossed the blanket aside and leaned on the railing, looking down three miles into the distance. There, dense smoke billowed, completely obscuring the monster lair centered around the Carrefour supermarket; the interior was invisible to the naked eye.
However, it was daytime, and under the sun's illumination, visibility was much better than usual.
Picking up his binoculars, Luo Feng focused closely on the smoke-shrouded area. Around the edge of the billowing smoke, massive pig-like monsters were visible everywhere—some lying on the ground, others walking slowly, and a few seemed to be sparring, repeatedly crashing into one another.
“Not a sound. Where are those two War Gods?” Luo Feng scanned the surroundings intently but couldn't find any trace of the two War Gods.
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While Luo Feng was searching for the two War Gods, inside a room on the twelfth floor of a residential building about five hundred meters away, Wang Tong and the giant Li Kan sat cross-legged, sipping water to replenish their fluids.
“A’Kan,” said Wang Tong, who resembled a handsome youth, after taking a small sip. “When the time comes, we will storm directly into the core of this monster lair and deal with that Iron-Armored Dragon… Of course, its two subordinates, the two ‘Low-Tier Lord’ Fire-Scaled Tri-Horned Pigs, will certainly aid their leader. At that time, A’Kan, those two pigs will be yours.”
“Mm,” the giant Li Kan responded in a low voice, casually waving his spiked mace twice as if it were a twig.
“Fire-Scaled Tri-Horned Pigs are number one among pig-type monsters! They are extremely difficult opponents. Your task is only to keep the two of them occupied; don’t worry about killing them,” the handsome youth Wang Tong stated gravely.
The leader Iron-Armored Dragon and the two Fire-Scaled Tri-Horned Pigs! This combination was undoubtedly qualified to dominate the suburbs of City 003. If the most powerful creature, the Iron-Armored Dragon, hadn't recently given birth, suffering a severe drain on its vitality and a drop in strength, Wang Tong wouldn't dare to charge in like this.
“Brother Li, I’m ready,” the giant Li Kan stood up.
“Good.”
Wang Tong also stood, observing the distant, fog-covered area with cold eyes. “Let’s go, move out!”
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Two figures leaped directly from the twelfth-story window, like human grasshoppers, spanning nearly a hundred meters to land on another structure. After a slight bounce, the two men swiftly darted through the forest of concrete and steel... and their speed surpassed the speed of sound!
Rumble—
By the time Luo Feng heard the sonic boom, he turned his head just in time to see two blurry phantoms vanish into the smoke-shrouded area.
“They’re already inside? So fast!” Luo Feng dared not be careless now, watching the area covered by smoke intently.
“Roar~”
“Awooo~”
Furious roars immediately erupted from within the smoke, as if chaos had descended upon the world. Outside the smoke, the multitude of monsters also rushed headlong toward the smoke, shaking the very earth!
“Are they fighting?” Luo Feng could only guess, staring at the smoke; he couldn't see what was happening inside.
...
The Carrefour supermarket, covered in dust and faintly stained with dried blood, was now deserted—it had become a paradise for monsters.
Hoo, hoo—
A colossal beast, completely covered in deep cyan scales, lay dormant inside the supermarket. Two wisps of foul-smelling smoke puffed from its nostrils, permeating the surroundings. The floor slabs between the first and second stories had long been smashed through, leaving the entire supermarket cavernous, with the ground floor now towering seven or eight meters high.
Suddenly, the frenzied roars of outside monsters were heard.
“Roar~” The behemoth slowly rose, its pair of fiery red pupils sending shivers down the spine. It stood about five meters tall, but its body length stretched over ten meters, with a tail that was an astonishing ten meters long as well! Its physique was relatively slender, and a curved, black horn protruded from its forehead. As it stood up, a massive cyan egg, nearly a meter tall, was revealed beneath it.
Boom!
The cyan-scaled monster moved, vanishing instantly within the supermarket.
...
The Carrefour supermarket was the core of the entire beast horde! Countless monsters were gathered around it.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Two figures flashed like lightning, rapidly stepping on the bodies of some monsters as they dashed toward the central Carrefour supermarket.
“Faster! Don't engage in drawn-out fights; be careful not to get bogged down by this swarm,” Wang Tong hissed.
“Understood.” Li Kan forcibly suppressed the violent impulses surging within him.
At the entrance to the Carrefour supermarket, towering monsters known as ‘Bloodthirsty Tanks,’ along with numerous single-horned wild boars, were gathered. Every monster in this group had scales much brighter and seemingly more refined than ordinary beasts. These huge creatures even seemed to possess a hint of intelligence in their eyes.
Yes...
The more than one hundred giant monsters gathered before the Carrefour supermarket entrance were all Beast General level monsters! They were the core strength of this terrifying horde!
In front of these more than one hundred Beast Generals stood two behemoths that resembled burning flames, inspiring even deeper dread. These two beasts were entirely covered in fiery red scales, without a single blemish! Especially their massive heads, each sporting three high, curved spikes pointing forward!
The Fire-Scaled Tri-Horned Pigs! The number one clan among pig-type monsters! The weakest Fire-Scaled Tri-Horned Pig was already a Mid-Tier Beast General, and these two were Low-Tier Lords!
“Roar—” With a heaven-shaking roar.
A blurred phantom appeared in front of the two Fire-Scaled Tri-Horned Pigs. Its form solidified, revealing a monster slightly shorter and leaner than the Tri-Horned Pigs, covered entirely in deep cyan scales. Two plumes of smoke erupted angrily from its nostrils, and its eyes were fixed deadly upon the two humans charging toward it.
“Vermin, die!” Wang Tong roared. A large number of monsters lunged at him, but Wang Tong pushed through, trailing a mist of blood, causing many monster corpses to plummet from the air.
The Iron-Armored Dragon sensed the power of the two humans approaching. It glanced back at the supermarket interior; its dragon egg was still there...
If this battle—a clash between a High-Tier War God and a High-Tier Lord—affected the dragon egg, it could easily be destroyed!
“Roar—” The Iron-Armored Dragon let out a low growl and suddenly bolted outwards, generating astonishing sonic booms as it ran.
“Just as I thought!”
Wang Tong and Li Kan were overjoyed. They had long suspected that the Iron-Armored Dragon, concerned for its newly laid egg, might abandon a decisive battle at its lair. If that happened, without the restraint of the massive monster force, Wang Tong and Li Kan’s chances of victory increased significantly.
Boom! Boom!
Wang Tong and Li Kan instantly accelerated to supersonic speeds in pursuit.
Boom! Boom! The two Low-Tier Lord Fire-Scaled Tri-Horned Pigs also sprinted to the speed of sound, chasing after them.
As for the more than one hundred Beast General monsters, only about thirty followed the chase out. The vast majority of the elite Beast Generals remained stationed around, protecting their leader’s lair. With nearly a hundred Beast Generals, including over thirty High-Tier Beast Generals in this formation... even a War God couldn't blast through quickly.
...
Up on the high-rise, Luo Feng stood on the balcony, peering intently through his binoculars. He watched one phantom, then two phantoms, and then another two phantoms consecutively rush out of the smoke-shrouded zone.
“Hahaha, they actually rushed out for a decisive battle!” Luo Feng’s eyes lit up with excitement. “Tsk tsk, all Lord-level and War God-level combatants!”
—————— Tomato attended the Qidian Author Salon and is late with the update, apologies everyone~~