Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Balls of fire sailed across the air towards Jia Ru, interrupting him before he could finish his monologue.
The Winged Thunder Ape roared, its loglike arms now crackling with electricity.
It reached for the incoming balls of fire and simply popped them like balloons as soon as they came into contact with the electrical barrier around its arms.
Wisps of flames hissed through its fingers harmlessly. The WInged Thunder Ape threw a condescending look at Flamy. Weakling, it thought.
“Attack!” shouted Gao Peng and Huang Ya in unison.
Dumby and the Horrifying Murderous Female Spider rushed forward at the same time, their massive bodies whipping up a powerful gust of wind behind them.
A powerful aura exploded from the spider. At that moment, the wail of the wind around it sounded like the cries of restless spirits trying to claw their way out of the pits of hell.
The Winged Thunder Ape let out another roar. The ground beneath its feet cracked as it sprang out, driving an electric fist towards the spider’s head. If the spider had taken such a hit from the Winged Thunder Ape, it would probably have been killed on the spot.
As both of them were on the same level, either one of them could have landed a fatal blow on the other’s weak spot.
The Horrifying Murderous Female Spider lowered its head instinctively and swiped at its opponent with its deadly claws.
The Winged Thunder Ape twisted its body away and slammed both its arms into the ground, stopping itself before it ran itself into the spider’s claws.
Its fur stirred in the wind that the spider had whipped up. It glared at the spider, its yellow eyes filled with deep hatred.
Dumby’s Heart of the Bloodseeker was now beating wildly against its chest as the Winged Thunder Ape rushed towards the Horrifying Murderous Female Spider. The blood-red heart shrank and swelled rhythmically, pulsating.
Its heart was beating so loudly that everything around it was vibrating at the same frequency. It now seemed to be resonating deeply with the souls of everyone listening to it.
Boom!
Dumby had transformed.
At that moment, the Wood Peacock took a step to the left and let its thick canopy hang low to the ground. Vines rolled out of it, barring Dumby’s path.
However, Dumby was able to tear through the vines without much difficulty.
It was about to reach its mark when it began slowing down…
No matter how easily Dumby was able to rip through them, the tree’s vines were still able to slow Dumby’s speed.
Suddenly, there was a sharp cry from overhead. Dumby immediately stopped in its tracks. A huge brown tree fell from the skies and landed in front of it, its gnarled bark reminiscent of dragon scales.
If Dumby’s reaction time had been a few seconds slower, it would have been crushed beneath the tree.
The white flames in Dumby’s sockets burned fiercely when it saw the 15-foot-wide crater created by the tree’s landing.
It slowly reached behind itself with its right hand.
With a low moan, it pulled out its tail bone, which looked like a long, ivory sword, and held it in its hand. A crimson thread was bound around the bone, straightening it as much as possible.
Dumby sprang forward, slashing through the endless vines before it. When it finally came out on the other side of the vines, Jia Ru was nowhere to be found.
“Above you,” said Gao Peng through his blood contract. He could see a human shape perched atop the Wood Peacock’s canopy.
Dumby looked up at the monster’s thick canopy.
As the canopy was a part of the Wood Peacock’s tail, it had both animalistic and plantlike properties. Dealing with it wouldn’t be an easy task.
There was a sudden movement in the bushes beside Gao Peng. Before he had time to react, branches came out of it and entwined around his ankle.
Gao Peng instinctively lifted his other foot and stamped on the branches.
So it can manipulate all plant life around it, he thought, frowning.
This was bad. They were now in the middle of a forest, where all the trees around them could turn on them at the Wood Peacock’s whim.
Things would be a lot of easier if we were in a desert…
Desert?
“Flamy, burn the trees down!” ordered Gao Peng.
Environmental protection was a thing of the past. Ever since the Cataclysm, the trees had grown hardier. Even if they were all burned down, they would grow back in a matter of weeks, as if nothing had happened during that time.
Flamy took a few steps back and spewed fire at the surrounding plant life.
The undergrowth seemed to be somewhat resistant to fire. However, thanks to the levels it had gained, Flamy’s firepower had also received a huge boost. Burning the forest to the ground wouldn’t be a problem for it.
Jia Ru immediately knew what Gao Peng was trying to do. “Oh, you poor, naive child, do you really think that’s going to work? Wood Peacock, send in the burning trees to attack both of them.”
In the next instant, Huang Ya saw a tree brandish one of its burning branches at him.
His face flushed as a gust of hot wind hit him.
Bam!
Huang Ya was sent flying in the opposite direction by the tree’s branch. There was a flash of yellow light as he conjured a barrier over his body just in time to soften the blow.
The yellow barrier had shielded him from the flames, yet he could still feel the branch slamming heavily into him.
Another tree brandished its branches at Huang Ya, who immediately ran away from it.
Dumby and the Wood Peacock entered a stalemate. Even though the Wood Peacock was weaker than Dumby, it had a complex attack pattern and a high regeneration rate. The vines that were torn down by Dumby grew back almost instantly.
On the other side of the forest, the flashes of lightning and sound of thunder intensified as the the Winged Thunder Ape backed the Horrifying Murderous Female Spider into a corner with its attacks.
“Fight’s over,” said Jia Ru with a smirk.
He had managed to restrain his opponents’ strongest familiars all by himself.