Chapter 389: Finally Arrives

While Obsidian Beetle was still dazed, it was struck again, adding two more scars to its back shell. From the intersection of the two wounds, cracks began to appear in its shell.

Fragments of its shell already flew from its wounds with the splattering. A few more overlapping blade energies intensified the wounds. It was about to seriously injure its flesh and blood.

This time, Obsidian Beetle was truly panicked. It couldn’t sense this man’s presence before, but why was the energy only so calm now, even when the man brought out a new weapon? It only sensed the crisis but did not anticipate the immense harm it would cause.

Obsidian Beetle had no time to feel angry now. Its advantage lay in its speed in flight and against ground. How could the opponent allow it the time to create distance? He relentlessly pursued, vowing not to stop until inflicting serious harm. Obsidian Beetle now could only delay time with quick wind blades.

Each wind blade it used was not at its limit. Each attack left behind some wind element. After clashing with the man’s steel claws a few times, it compressed all the wind elements it had accumulated into the wind blade it unleashed this time.

The compressed wind blade finally managed to block the man’s fierce attack with steel claws, and pushed him back fiercely, giving him a moment to catch his breath.

In the intense gaze of the opponent, waves of ripples emanated from Obsidian Beetle’s body, enlarging it several times in front of the human, its mouth parts moving up and down, with a fierce look in its eyes.

Unbeknownst to the man, the ferocious appearance of Obsidian Beetle was just a show for help, as reducing its size did not weaken its strength much compared to its normal size. Furthermore, the larger its size, the greater the risk of injury. The human figure moved like a ghost, faster than Zhang Mu.

Knowing that it wouldn’t have an opportunity to fly, Obsidian Beetle reached out to Zhang Mu through their mental connection, shouting loudly for help without any hope of luck.

“Zhang Mu, help me! I can’t defeat him! Hurry up, you fool! How many beast cores do you need to recover? Is this man after my life? He’s coming again!”

“Zhang Mu, you didn’t tell me it would be this dangerous…”

However, the complex and lengthy message, including angry cries and pitiful complaints from the insect clan, was reduced to a slight fluctuating short-wave signal by the time it reached Zhang Mu ten kilometers away.

“Sizzle… Sizzle…”

Sensing something, Zhang Mu turned to Hachikuju and two other strong second-rank warriors of the Red Flame Battle Rider next to him and said one sentence.

“My Obsidian Beetle sent a signal, indicating that the deranged killer appeared just now. We must hurry over to stop him and save the teenagers before he strikes.”

Zhang Feng is truly immobile, the other two evolvers from the different parts of the city are not here now. Counting Yuan Rui, there are five of us, the strongest force in the Ejin Horo Banner Sub-city. We aim to capture the insane killer alive and find out his motives.

Zhang Mu did not expect that due to Obsidian Beetle’s initiative, they are now in a passive and defenseless position. He may have anticipated a second-rank evolver in his plan, but did not consider the appearance of a premium weapon from the Era Store.

Physically, Obsidian Beetle can defend against a second-rank evolver’s attacks. However, any mental attacks will be transmitted to Zhang Mu through their soul connection, regardless of the distance. Therefore, he believes ambushing with Obsidian Beetle is a foolproof plan.

Hachikuju, who has been waiting anxiously, lifted the huge axe from the ground and hoisted it onto their shoulder before grunting heavily and gazing into the distance.

“Finally catching this guy, I thought he could hide longer. He’s so impatient at the sight of prey, seemingly underestimating me, Hachikuju. Publicly displaying his confidence, he must have a high opinion of his own strength. I wonder who he really is.”

Hachikuju’s words were merely a jest, saying the opposite. Challenging Hachikuju is challenging the entire Red Flame Wolf Rider, challenging the whole Ejin Horo Banner Sub-city. If this is his mindset, he must be very sure of himself.

In Hachikuju’s mind, that person is just a mere clown. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have bothered with those ordinary teenagers without any awakened abilities. He even thinks Zhang Mu is overly nervous, exaggerating. Both he and Zhang Mu could have handled this on their own, so why involve five second-rank evolvers?

However, Hachikuju hit the nail on the head. The deranged killer hunts here because he has the confidence to defy the entire Ejin Horo Banner Sub-city.

The whole Ejin Horo Banner Sub-city is his hunting ground, but it’s not the right time yet. Some things can’t be revealed too early, or it might affect the big plan.

“Okay, let’s go.”

After listening to Hachikuju’s words, the five people nodded and got on the horses together. Hachikuju brought two war horses for Zhang Mu Yuan Rui and let their owners hand over the reins to them. With Hachikuju’s Red Blood presence, they temporarily followed Zhang Mu’s orders.

The mutated war horses ran at full speed, and the ten-kilometer journey was completed in an instant.

But the scene Zhang Mu saw in front of him while riding the horse ignited the deepest anger in his heart.

He had never seen an Obsidian Beetle so severely injured before. It lay on the ground barely breathing, with half of its toughest back armor forcibly removed by some weapon, and one of its wings torn and tattered.

The man fighting with the Obsidian Beetle was so angry that he ignored the escape of the two pure Yang bodies, causing the already heavily injured Obsidian Beetle to be mutilated in this way.

Beneath the back armor, there was a blur of flesh and blood, constantly flowing down.

Above the flesh and blood beneath the Obsidian Beetle’s back armor, there were boots being worn by someone. Zhang Mu looked up to see the owner of these boots.

There was a man wearing sharp claws stained with fresh blood, which seemed to be from the Obsidian Beetle, slowly seeping into the claws.

He saw Zhang Mu and the others approaching, looking a bit surprised but unable to stop the wicked smile on his face.

In front of Zhang Mu, he inserted his claws into the flesh of the Obsidian Beetle again, tearing off a long strip, chewing it delicately in his mouth with closed eyes, as if savoring it.

The flesh hidden under the Obsidian Beetle’s carapace had been gruesomely hollowed out!

Zhang Mu was devastated seeing this, his eyes bloodshot, producing a beast-like howl in his throat.

As if sensing Zhang Mu’s presence, a faint but nonchalant voice echoed in Zhang Mu’s mind.

“You finally came… took you long enough…”

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