Vol 2 Chapter 81: Snake Rat Naval Battle (7)
There was no light in the night, save for the sound of war drums and war cries.
The young man listened carefully, it was the sound of his heartbeat and the flow of his blood.
What lay hidden in the darkness ahead? Is it man, god or……a monster?
There was no such thing as the best road, because the journey beneath one’s feet is limitless!
Introduction
Infinite Bloodcore – People are different.
The more superior the bloodline, the easier it is to control power. Ordinary people without supernatural bloodlines can only occupy the bottom rungs of society, unable to achieve anything even if they try their best.
Humans are different from other races.
Humans aren’t as good at magic and archery as elves. They aren’t as good at casting metal and brewing alcohol as dwarves. They don’t have the physique of orcs, and they don’t have the freedom of merpeople underwater.
However, if humans had a blood core, everything was possible.
Human: “Oh my god, what a noble bloodline. You are the glory of mankind!”
Elf: “I’ve never seen a magic genius like you.”
Dwarf: “No matter what kind of casting, it is easy for you.”
Orc: “You are the pride of us orcs. You are the most talented warrior in a millennium. You should be the Emperor of the Orcs!”
Merpeople: “Son of God! Boohoo, the Son of God has arrived!”
Prologue
Book 1: The Beast Knight
A lush rainforest.
The scorching sunlight pierced through the small interstices in the leaf layers of the canopy, illuminating the ground below. The air, sultry; because of the abundant rain, the vegetation here was exceedingly verdant. Vines twisted and roots tangled, forming arduous hindrances.
Zi Di, a young girl, was rushing through this rainforest with all of her might.
She had curly black hair and wheat-coloured skin. Her exquisite facial features delineated her extraordinarily beautiful visage. Her most attractive feature was her large purple eyes that were as translucent and resplendent as amethysts.
But at this moment, those eyes were filled with fear and panic.
Huff!
Huff!
Her mouth was wide open, gasping heavily for breath, her chest already faintly aching.
She was drenched in sweat and had many bandaged wounds over her body; because of her strenuous sprinting, scarlet blood stained the white bandages.
“Faster, run faster!”
“I must get far away from this place with haste!!”
Zi Di encouraged herself, however, her maximum velocity was limited.
Because there was a thick hemp rope around her shoulders that dragged something heavy, this greatly encumbered her speed.
“Ahh—!”
Suddenly, a loud wretched scream resounded from afar.
Soon after, the sound of a wolf howling followed.
The young girl’s body trembled as if she was agonised by electrocution.
Then, like a monster’s claws, a feeling of crisis and urgency ferociously grasped her heart.
At this instant, there was only one voice left in her head: “Run! Run! RUN! Leave everything behind, don’t care about anything else. Otherwise, you will be killed by that fiendish wolf, just like those guards that were sundered to shreds, chewed into mincemeat, and then finally swallowed into its gut!”
The young girl’s complexion was ash-white, and her gaze showed panic. Yet when her eyes glanced behind her, she grew firm again.
The rear end of the hemp rope she dragged was firmly attached to a stretcher. On the stretcher lay a young boy.
For an unknown reason, the youth’s eyes remained closed in unconsciousness, however, with his dazzling golden hair and handsome appearance, he gave off a naturally noble aura.
The youthful boy was undoubtedly a burden to her.
To still drag such a burden heavier than herself at this critical moment that determined life and death, she really was digging her own grave.
Gazing at the boy on the stretcher, Zi Di gritted her teeth in pain.
Thenceforth, she restrained the panic and nervousness in her heart and continued to drag the stretcher, advancing staunchly while withstanding the impending pressure of death.
After pushing vines aside and using her tender body to barge through walls of shrubbery, the dense wilderness around her became sparse and dispersed, disclosing the azure sky.
The sound of running water grew clearer, and not long after, a small river appeared in her view of sight.
With a visual estimate, she knew the river water was likely to only reach up to her waist.
However, she dared not wade through the river so easily!
“Danger lurks on every corner of this isolated island. I definitely must not use common sense to gauge it. I’m almost certain that this small river is hiding a vicious crocodile or a large shoal of piranhas!”
Originally, she was attended by as many as sixteen bodyguards, but now, only she and this youngster were left. During the journey, her bodyguards had sacrificed themselves one after another, elucidating the terror of this isolated island forest.
“Damn it, if only I could still use magic…”
The young girl observed awhile. Biting her lip, she decided to cross the river!
Behind her, the giant wolf was likely pursuing to devour her like an incarnation of the god of death.
Although the girl was panic-stricken, she never lost her rationality completely; she still maintained her clear-headedness and judgement of the situation.
She dragged the heavy stretcher and followed the river.
After a moment, her eyes flashed with light.
She saw a small tree growing on an incline, its trunk extended from this bank, rose into the air and stretched over to the opposite bank.
After a cautious examination, the girl discovered that: there were no venomous snakes or thorns hidden in the tree. However, the tree trunk was covered in moss and lichen, making its surface extremely slippery.
Even if it were just her climbing this tree trunk, even the slightest inattentiveness would drop her into the river.
To say nothing of…her additional burden.
The eyes of the youth lying on the stretcher were shut tight, he was in a deep coma.
Perhaps…she should abandon this youth.
It would be too risky and arduous to carry this unconscious youngster across the river.
The young girl gritted her teeth and quickly untied the hemp rope around the stretcher. She then put the young boy onto her back and tightly wrapped the rope around their bodies.
After that was done, the girl took off her boots and stuffed them into the crevices between the rope and their bodies.
Finally, she inhaled deeply, and with the unconscious youth on her back, she began to venture onto the tree trunk.
The moss on the trunk became more slippery when rubbed against.
“I can do it, I can do it!”
“Zi Di, oh, Zi Di, you must not fall here.”
“You are the president of the Wisteria Merchant Alliance. You still need to avenge Father!”
The brave girl boosted her morale constantly.
Doing her utmost to creep across the tree trunk, advancing ceaselessly; her purple eyes gazed forward, filled with resolve.
Eventually, she successfully climbed across.
Because of the weight of two people pressing down on the small trunk, when the girl reached the opposite bank, the trunk was pressed all the way down to the ground.
This made it easier for the girl to land on the ground.
Without two people repressing it, the tree flung back up, swinging its branches and leaves with it, stirring a whooshing wind.
Carrying the youngster had exhausted the girl’s stamina, for a moment she almost collapsed and was powerless to rise back up, she could only kneel on the ground and prop herself up with her hands.
Her entire face was pale and her head felt slight vertigo. Sweat quickly dropped from the tip of her nose and chin, falling onto the rank grass.
The young girl gasped for a while to catch her breath, and the dizziness gradually subsided.
An intense feeling of joy spread through her heart.
“I can’t believe it! I actually did it!”
“I really climbed across.”
However, shortly afterwards, she sensed her limbs beginning to indicate signs of numbness.
This was the repercussion of exhausting all of her strength.
Howl!
A wolf’s howl resounded loudly, following this, a silhouette as large as a calf sprang out ferociously from the dense underbrush.
The young girl’s body and mind shuddered as she subconsciously turned around to see a gigantic dark blue wolf.
At this moment, her pupils tensed up, she felt as if she had fallen into an icy abysm!
The giant wolf bared its teeth, there were still morsels of fresh flesh between them.
The wolf’s eyes were red as it stared at the girl, filled with tyrannical murderousness.
The young girl fell on the underbrush of the bank.
She had turned around to look back with such hastiness that had forgotten about the youngster still on her back.
His weight brought strong inertia, causing the girl to fall to the ground.
Their feebleness and wretchedness further aroused the wolf’s vicious nature.
Nevertheless, the wolf still remained on the opposite bank.
It cavorted in place, paced back and forth, and looked at the burbling river; its fear was unmistakable by its actions.
Upon seeing the wolf act like this, the girl immediately understood how wise her prior actions were.
However, thereafter, the wolf also saw the tree trunk. It then unexpectedly did the same as the young girl as it stepped onto the tree that extended across both banks of the river!
Without a doubt, this tyrannical and ferocious giant wolf also had intelligence that would horrify people.
Although the huge wolf had a muscular body, it controlled its balance superbly and went across somewhat faster than the girl.
Amidst her shock, the girl seemed to be electrocuted. In a flurry, she took out a dagger, sliced the rope around her body, then jumped back up and charged into the overhanging tree trunk.
The tree trunk was struck and immediately started to sway from the impact.
Although the tree did not sway too much, it nonetheless brought sufficient inconvenience to the giant wolf.
With its balance broken and having almost fallen into the river, it was forced to retreat back to the bank miserably.
Howl!
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