Chapter 461: Chapter 47: Giant Skeletons

The old man noticed Guo Fengyan’s hesitation and said with wide eyes:

“Fengyan, when there are more people, it might change the outcome. Fortune-telling is just a minor art and can’t truly change anything.”

Guo Fengyan looked at his companions around him, took a deep breath, and said, “Even if we’re going to leave, we should at least give a warning.”

“I’m afraid if you go to tell them, we won’t be able to leave, and even now if we try to leave, we might not make it.” The old man hunched over, spoke softly.

This wisdom that people become more refined over time was evident in him.

Even though their bodies had been greatly enhanced, they still couldn’t completely withstand bullets.

With so many soldiers here, if they suddenly fled, they could easily be shot dead in the chaos.

However, since the formation was so long, they just needed to find a relatively weak spot to break through and escape from here.

Just as they were moving backwards, they witnessed the first horrifying scene.

“What is that!” Meng Yao exclaimed with her mouth wide open.

A giant skeleton stood in the wilderness, holding a bone saber. Under the dark fog, no one knew when it appeared; just a moment before, that spot had seemed empty.

One, two, three, four······

With one glance, over a dozen appeared.

“Ah!!”

Terror-stricken screams erupted from the crowd.

This was different from a horror movie; watching a horror movie, you know for sure you’re safe, but here, death was very real.

With tremendous force, the giant skeleton swung an axe into the crowd.

The ground was covered with a mess of flesh, shattered bones sprayed everywhere, the road was severed with one blow, and the formation was divided.

It tilted its head towards the crowd, silent and hollow.

A barrage of bullets poured in from all sides, hitting the skeleton but causing negligible damage. It wasn’t until a heavy cannon exploded on its chest that its body wavered, shedding a lot of white bone fragments.

In the skeleton’s eyes, ghostly green flames flickered, glancing at the tank aimed at it. It withstood another cannon round, approached, and split the tank in half with one blow.

In the face of such a monster, Guo Fengyan felt profound powerlessness, quickly retreated, while shooting with the rifle in his hands.

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The reconnaissance robots were all destroyed in an instant.

At the same time, squatting on the windmill, Su Changxing noticed these skeletons, guessing that they should be some type of summoned creatures.

“Bang~”

A bullet soared high into the air, gaining speed, and finally penetrated the skeleton’s skull, leaving a large hole.

The spiritual fire in its eyes extinguished, and it slowly toppled backward.

Su Changxing shot continuously, killing these colossal creatures one by one.

They simply couldn’t dodge the bullets, nor could they withstand a single shot’s power, making them just huge live targets for Su Changxing.

Several shots in succession.

Over a dozen giant skeletons were all shot dead, and before the crowd could cheer, new skeletons appeared again in the distance, approaching the formation.

Su Changxing felt troubled, as the opponent seemed unprepared to confront him head-on, making things complicated if it became a war of attrition.

Besides, continuously shooting would definitely expose his position.

Someone might already be approaching him!

Su Changxing immediately left his current spot, ran through the woods to the left, covering several kilometers, yet stopped shooting and quietly sensed the surroundings.

Someone was approaching him.

Amidst a stream of light, his head was nearly severed…

“Timing Prediction” was triggered.

Su Changxing’s pupils dilated sharply, he rolled forward, and a blade-like stream of light swept past his previous position.

“Dodged pretty fast, sniper…I thought this strike was a sure hit.”

A short-haired man, carrying a longsword and wearing a long brown coat, slowly walked out from the side of the woods, his scarred face wearing a smile:

“Indeed, under such a reputation, there is no false warrior. Now everyone thinks you’re the strongest here, and it’s not without reason.”

Dozens of evil spirits appeared in the space all around.

Su Changxing unflinchingly drew his revolver, stepped back a few paces, and said, “So, Sir, you are the ’Talo Butcher’?”

He appeared very relaxed, smiled and continued, “I want to know why you’re here to kill me. Is it because of that Naga Young Master, or something else?”

The man didn’t hurry to act, elegantly took a long, slender cigarette from the pocket of his chest and put it in his mouth, saying:

“Hmm, I’m not the ’Talo Butcher’, not such a crude person, Jerome, a tailor…as for why I’m here to kill you…why indeed… do you smoke?”

He tossed over a cigarette.

Su Changxing caught it, glanced at it, and put it in his pocket with a smile: “So, you’re saying I’m doomed.”

Jerome said with implication:

“We actually gave you a choice, if you backed out, nothing would happen. The strong often have privileges, you are different from them.”

Su Changxing noticed another figure appearing in the distance, and his expression unchanged, asked, “If I back out now, is there still a chance?”

Jerome spat out the cigarette, his face twitched, and he asked puzzledly, “What are you waiting for, just now you had a chance to escape.”

The next moment.

His body became an afterimage, disappeared from where it stood, two semicircular streams of light slashed towards Su Changxing from both sides.

[Moonlight Blade: a sword edge that flows like moonlight, greatly enhancing the speed and power of the strike, concealing the trajectory of the slash, specific power determined by the Power User’s swordsmanship.]

The blade traced through blood, like moonlight dyeing a scarlet rose.

Su Changxing’s body collapsed to the ground, without even realizing before his head was severed, life extinguished.

“Haha, did you just kill him like that? Didn’t we come all this way for nothing?”

A hoarse voice called out from the distance.

A man carrying a hook, stout, and with clothes stained in blood saw that Jerome had already killed Su Changxing, and he wobbled forward.

He was the “Talo Butcher”, the apparent number one in the death competition.

Though it didn’t prove he was the strongest, it showed he had killed the most people so far.

Jerome frowned, looked at the body on the ground, and said, “No, it shouldn’t have been this easy.”

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At this moment, seeing Su Changxing die so easily at Jerome’s hands, the spectators fell silent, but when Su Changxing’s ranking on the points board didn’t drop immediately, intense discussions erupted again.

“He’s not dead.”

“How is that possible?”

“Wonder if the ’Black Sword Tailor’ can find out.”

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“What is this? A duplicative ability, it seems no role possesses similar abilities.”

The people in the high seats asked the man carrying the Giant Sword.

They all could see that Su Changxing was a purely Extraordinary being, which made it even stranger.

The man carrying the Giant Sword thought and said, “Some obscure, unseen role perhaps, judging by this, his potential is great and worth nurturing.”

“Only pure Extraordinary beings can ascend to greater heights, he meets this criterion······”

The individual on the high seat was silent for a long time before saying, “But he is a native, a native from a lower-tier world.”

“Does it matter? In essence, all are human, heh, maybe their bloodline is purer·····and you and I shouldn’t harbor such bias.”

The man with the Giant Sword spoke unhurriedly, his voice echoing in the hall, causing the cups on the wooden table to tremble and crack.

“You are the supreme Sun Lord, and I am not.” The person on the high seat spoke self-deprecatingly, with a slightly shadowy gaze.

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