LIGHTNOVELSTORY Chapter 46 - Each More Freakish Than The Last!
Chapter 46: Each More Freakish Than The Last!
The column of light surged unstoppably.
Thunder exploded.
Boom!
The entire miniature world shook under the impact of the Mammoth’s Rage.
Except for the three elders who protected the Stone Isles with an energy barrier, all other isles shifted position.
Lei Bao and the mysterious man clad in a purple cloak, whose face could not be discerned, both stood up.
They could ignore the oncoming shockwaves, but they had to use their innate abilities to discern the truth amidst the chaos of the Obsidian Platform.
It was hard to tell how much time had passed.
The storm gradually subsided.
On the Obsidian Platform, Man Huang, in great pain, struggled to support himself on his elbows.
He felt pain everywhere, every bone in his body making unbearable creaking sounds.
Since activating his talent at the age of six, Man Huang had never felt as weak as he did now.
Men of the Highland Family were renowned for their robustness.
Possessing the talents of the Mountain’s Obsidian and the Mountain Giant war beast, Man Huang had once fought a rival of equal combat power for three days and nights straight, yet he had never felt as weakened as he did now.
On the other side,
Tie Zheng, his mouth dripping with blood, was also trembling as he tried to push himself up.
He struggled to stand upright, but his body swayed uncontrollably, struggling to find balance.
The surface of the Obsidian Platform in front of the two men was shattered, creating two deep craters.
Several meters deep.
A sight horrifying enough to strike one’s heart.
What puzzled Man Huang and Tie Zheng was why a thin, intact strip of the platform remained preserved between the two craters in front of them.
What was going on?
They looked up.
And both looked forward.
Then, to their shock, they discovered that Long Ying, previously thought to be behind, was actually still ahead.
Clad in shattered heavy armor, she stood firm, her giant sword deeply embedded in the arena floor, pinning her in place.
Unlike Man Huang and Tie Zheng, who were knocked back at least twenty meters by Li Ao’s punch through the air, Long Ying had remained steadfast at the forefront, unmovable.
This meant that she, dressed in heavy armor and wielding a giant sword, was the main force resisting Li Ao’s ferocious Mammoth’s Rage punch.
At her feet lay a terrifying ten-meter-deep crater, stretching from in front of Li Ao’s fist all the way to her feet…
“Terrifying!”
The new trainees were horrified by Long Ying’s incredible defensive strength, wondering how she managed it.
Almost single-handedly, she bore the brunt of Li Ao’s Mammoth’s Rage.
Man Huang and Tie Zheng were merely affected by the shockwave.
They were dizzy.
Unsteady on their feet.
And Long Ying was only ranked nineteenth on the challenge board; what kind of monsters were they dealing with on that list?
“Pain only makes me stronger!”
Long Ying slowly pulled out her now serrated giant sword, tremblingly raised it with both hands, and pointed it again at Li Ao: “I challenge you to a duel!”
“Come!” Li Ao beckoned her with a finger.
“I am fearless!”
The armor on Long Ying was actually her war beast, the Steel Guardian, which immediately bestowed its strongest power upon its master when she signaled her readiness for battle.
In an instant, Long Ying’s heavy armor glowed with a dark light, rapidly transforming into the optimal combat form as she leaped.
As Long Ying soared and slashed down at Li Ao, the dark light even wrapped a layer of formidable Qi around the giant sword.
Long Ying leapt into the air and slashed down.
Her strike was like splitting a mountain.
Irresistible.
The newcomers were dazzled.
Did you not know what pain was?
Was your body made of iron?
You, a woman, took Li Ao’s Mammoth’s Rage head-on and still managed to launch an attack; what were Man Huang of the Highland Family and Tie Zheng of the Iron Clan Family supposed to do?
In fact, when Man Huang and Tie Zheng saw that Long Ying was still ahead of them,
They immediately straightened up.
How could they, as men, let a woman outdo them? Where would they put their faces?
The giant sword plummeted from the sky, and Li Ao, with one hand, caught Long Ying’s full-powered strike, barehanded, under the watchful eyes of the crowd.
A terrifying slash appeared instantly in front of and behind Li Ao, stretching dozens of meters.
Yet, Li Ao himself was completely unscathed.
Not a single mark.
The newcomers were nearly in despair. How strong are you exactly?
How is it that you come out of a relentless group assault without a scratch?
Could it be that you’re really the reincarnation of a great demon king?
“Lion King Earth-splitting Fist!”
Lie Feng, who had previously been rescued by his war beast, energetically rushed forward again.
He leaped high into the air and launched his attack while Li Ao and Long Ying were locked in combat.
Li Ao, holding the sword in one hand, sent Long Ying, who was mid-air, flying away.
With his other hand, he swept across the fighting platform.
The scattered stones around the arena suddenly returned as if summoned, morphing back into a gigantic rocky arm.
Lie Feng, seeing the anomaly from the sky, had no other choice but to continue his meteor-like punch downwards, with the image of the Lion King shimmering brilliantly above his head.
Li Ao met fist with fist.
The giant rocky arm clashed head-on with the Lion King Earth-splitting Fist.
Boom!
The reformed rocky arm cracked slightly.
However, Lie Feng was struck by a powerful punch that sent him flying like a meteor, shooting towards the sky, unstoppable even as he reached a thousand meters high.
In the moment the shockwave spread.
Li Ao, with a fierce flick, swung the slightly cracked rocky arm.
The flames burning on it strangely transformed into a ten-meter-long Flaming Long Sword, held in the hand of the rocky arm.
Qian Nian watched, dumbfounded.
How is this possible?
The flames were clearly powered by my source energy?
Even if it was a transformation, this transformation speed was too fast, wasn’t it?
Li Ao swung his sword with the Rocky Arm towards Long Ying, mercilessly returning her a strike…
Long Ying held her giant sword with both hands, but she was not confident in taking this strike.
Just as she was enveloped in despair, Yue Sha, who had been hiding behind Ling Long and shivering in fear, suddenly appeared in front of Long Ying.
She opened her delicate little hands and raised them to the sky.
In the sky.
A pair of indescribable, huge silver wings appeared above her head.
They drooped slightly, intertwining left and right, gently offering protection to their owner, and at the same time, enveloping Long Ying below as per the owner’s wishes.
The Flaming Long Sword slashed down.
Heaven and earth shattered.
Sand flew and stones scattered.
Yet, those silver wings remained unshaken.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom… Li Ao slashed at those silver wings ten times before people saw a single silver feather slowly fall off, turning into a silver glow that leisurely drifted back into Yue Sha’s body.
“Pfft!”
The abnormal defensive power of these wings made Supervisors Dou Guang and Chang Chi spit out water in disbelief.
What kind of monsters are you all?
How old are you?
Li Ao was fifteen this year, and Yue Sha was even younger at just fourteen, technically not even of the standard age for the newcomer’s trial.
But the combat power you all displayed, was it really appropriate for your age group?
No, every newcomer on the challenge list was a monster among monsters!
One more monstrous than the next!
None of them were normal!
“No wonder Li Ao said she could make the top three, if not for her timidity, just this defensive power alone could drive one to despair!”
Qian Nian and Qiqu couldn’t help but wipe off a cold sweat, wondering with this kind of defense, could they even break through?
What a joke!
After the ten slashes, the power of the Flaming Long Sword greatly diminished and began to dissipate.
Before it completely vanished, Li Ao…
He hurled it towards Man Huang and Tie Zheng.
With a loud bang.
The two giants, renowned for their physical robustness and strong will, were blasted into a disheveled state, covered in dust and ash.
Dagger.
It swiftly passed across Li Ao’s neck.
Not until after the ambush was completed did Wu Ying of the Silver Moon Clan reveal herself behind Li Ao’s head.
She hung upside down in mid-air, her hands reaching around to Li Ao’s front, delivering a lethal slash with her invisible throat-slitting technique.
Striking successfully.
Wu Ying immediately vanished into the void.
Li Ao, with a dagger still in his neck, also disappeared into an afterimage clone.
Just as Wu Ying, having traversed through the void, lightly touched the ground near the edge of the Obsidian Platform, she bristled like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.
However, before she could vanish again, a hand reached out from the shadow behind her and precisely grabbed her throat.
Li Ao, holding Wu Ying by the throat and lifting her up, had only a slight scratch on his neck but no break in the skin.
So far.
The only one who had managed to make Li Ao move from the center of the platform was Wu Ying, despite her failed sneak attack.
Even though she hadn’t succeeded, her strength was recognized by everyone; even someone as strong as Li Ao had almost been cut by her.
Others might not have been able to dodge such a stealthy void assault.
Youjin, who also used a dagger, nervously swallowed.
As a fellow assassin, he knew how close that strike had come to succeeding, but also how terrifying Li Ao’s counterattack was.
If it were him.
Better at poisoning, but nowhere near Wu Ying’s level in traversing the void, he probably wouldn’t have even escaped the Shadow Dimension before being caught and killed by Li Ao in the endless void.
Thinking this, Youjin trembled as he put himself in the midst of the fight.
“Swap!” Ling Long pointed with her jade finger.
The body of Wu Ying, held by the throat by Li Ao, instantly turned transparent.
By the time he grasped her again, the Wu Ying in his hand had already changed into a bewildered jelly person, Zhao Kong, who also had no idea what had just happened.