Chapter 13: CH 13

“Did he take the wrong medicine?!” Mio dumbfoundedly looked at the opposite side of the river bank; his chin almost fell from fright.

The Carat River wasn’t considered wide compared to other rivers, but its stream was rapid with numerous whirlpools. The tides were even more ceaseless during this period.

The numerous splashing waters created a layer of dense mist on top of the river, sometimes dense and sometimes faint. Everything on the opposite bank somehow appeared unclear.

A faint brown smoke rose from inside the bottle and dissipated on those guard troops behind Markoff. In the process of the dissipation, it was accompanied by some low buzzing sounds, resembling the bowstrings trembling under the wind –

Wrong! That basically wasn’t a smoke!

Kevin reacted quickly as he realized that the thing inside that bottle wasn’t smoke but flying insects!

When those flying insects gathered together, they faintly looked like smoke. Once they dispersed, they couldn’t be seen anymore; not known because they were too small or could camouflage.

Markoff’s guard troops were tall and strong, yet all reacted by twisting their limbs or stiffening their whole bodies when those flying insects spread; some had even obviously twitched and trembled. The hippogriffs under them had been used in battle all year long and trained for long, but they still created a minor riot.

The flying insects had gotten inside their body!

Seeing that kind of distorted and strange scene, Kevin got an idea in his head.

After a very short period, Markoff frantically held the bottle in his hand and said, “Go to the opposite bank to catch them or even just kill them!”

Kevin’s pupils abruptly shrunk. He waved his arm at the Wujin Iron Army. “Leave quickly!”

But people still needed time to react. Moreover, the one giving out command wasn’t Oswald. The Wujin Iron Army hadn’t turned around their ride, yet the people from the opposite the bank had already pounced over.

Perhaps they already couldn’t be regarded as actual people anymore. Real people wouldn’t be able to leap over with that kind of twisted posture, nor would they be able to stretch across the Carat River with only one jump. With that appearance, they looked more like a whirlwind containing great power with light and empty rubber skin. They directly screamed and came over.

“Shield wall!” Oswald shouted.

The Wujin Iron Army smashed the giant metal shield in their hands to the ground with several metal clanging sounds in succession, lifting the smoke and dust beneath them. Rows and rows of metal shield layers immediately formed a tall and thick metal wall.

As soon as the shield wall was erected, the rubber skins striking over couldn’t stop their momentums and knocked hard against it, causing the knocked shield to buzz and vibrate.

The ‘people’ faraway finally realized this blocking thing. They directly slipped out of their rubber skins in the middle of the air, revealing the spinning snake sands. The Wujin Iron Army were all brave fellows, but they also couldn’t help feeling disgusted when those discarded skins fell to the ground. However, those feeling wouldn’t influence their judgment and actions.

Following Oswald’s brief command, they wordlessly set up their bows and arrows and directly shot at the crowd of gathering sand snakes.

If they could strike the heart…..

Everyone held on to this sort of hope, but it wasn’t that easy. With this far distance, those sand snakes with weird stances only needed to twist their bodies to avoid the arrows.

However, nobody was willing to give up at this point. Even those Giant Beastman also took longbows and shot arrows one after another. If they resisted, perhaps there would still be a possibility to eliminate those things. If they turned around and directly ran, it was inevitable hopeless to even escape by then.

The steam above the Carat River had somewhat affected those sand snakes, and their movements were clearly not as fast as those in the Yachaofei Temple. But this could merely let them breathe for a few ten seconds more only.

“Already hit the target!” Under the rain of arrows everywhere, shouts from the armored soldiers came one after another, which significantly boosted their spirits!

The dense rain of arrows pierced several sand snakes. They instantly stiffened and turned into scattered sands, falling to the ground. But a good thing didn’t last forever, and there were numerous flabbergasted cries sounded before their cheer could finish.

As those lifeless sands fell, they were sucked in by the alive sand snakes into their bodies and became a part of themselves.

The remaining sand snakes became even more solid, and their speed also became faster.

The shield wall in the front row buzzed incessantly under the constant strikes of the sand snakes, and the shaking became even more intense.

Several sand snakes already went one step ahead and bypassed the two ends of the shield wall, directly sneaking inside the Wujin Iron Army’s battle formation.

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The whines of the hippogriffs and angry roars and cries mixed together. The scene in front of the Yachaofei Temple reappeared in front of Kevin again. At the same time, the concentrated sand snakes outside the shield wall finally managed to melt the thick shield wall into scrap iron with a heavy blow.

So many things happened in that short period of moments.

The shield wall shattered into pieces and exploded with a loud bang. The splattering metal pieces had sharp edges and were even more dangerous than the arrows. They immediately swept past the front row of the troops into a mess.

Kevin stood straight amidst the overwhelming fragments and golden brown sands like a lonely spear. He steadily pulled the longbow, squinted one eye, and aimed at Markoff on the opposite bank through the countless turmoil of fragments.

Meanwhile, the giant sand snake penetrated the shield wall and pounced on the troops. At that moment, the blind lion, who always maintained his beast form for so many years, moved his ears. He slapped away the screaming little lion, Ben, with a paw and suddenly got up on his hind legs.

His shadow stretched tall and elongated under the dim moonlight. In a blink of an eye, a tall giant heroically stood like a mountain obstructing the sand snakes.

That was Mac.

He faced the troops, his back facing the sand snakes. Both of his eyes were blind, and his right arm had shrunk. But the tight line on the corner of his mouth was still the same as ten years ago, filled with persistence and determination.

Kevin released the arrow from the bowstring.

Whizz –

The long arrow broke through the wind and passed through the cracks between fragments and sand grains. It was so quick that people’s eyes didn’t have the time to blink.

The glass bottle in Markoff’s hand shattered in response. The arrow wrapped in water vapor from the river didn’t stop after shooting through the glass bottle and directly pierced through Markoff’s body.

All the movement of the sand snakes controlled by him spontaneously stopped, and then they abruptly exploded into sand grains. The one nearest to Kevin directly splashed onto him.

Bang –

A severely spoiled iron shield suddenly appeared in front of Kevin, blocking the scattering sands. Kevin felt something tighten his waist, and someone suddenly hoisted him onto the hippogriff.

His back bumped against hard muscle, and heavy breathing hit his shoulder blade. Oswald’s roar caused him to grimace. “You should f**king take something to block! You really think your skin is thicker than a shield, don’t you?!”

While the astonishingly solid sand snake that sucked countless of its fellows turned into scattering sands everywhere, all of the sands were blocked by the back of the mountain-like Giant Beastman, Mac.

It should have been an extremely painful process, but the Giant Beastman’s former chief, who was accustomed to pain, didn’t change his expression.

He seemed to still be at a loss like before and yet clear-headed since long ago.

Perhaps he didn’t understand what river was behind him, whose territory was beneath his feet, and who was he protecting. But he knew this was a battlefield, and he was a warrior.

A warrior’s journey was always shorter because they always hoped that the alive people could walk a longer journey.

“No –” Ben cried out once and charged over.

When he fell to the ground, he changed his beast form to human form in the middle of the battle and firmly hugged Mac’s leg.

Actually, he was still an eight-or-nine-year-old child only and looked pitifully small compared to his mountain-like father.

Mac, who had been confused for too many years, was stunned from being hugged by him. He then raised his broad palm and patted his messy head. “You’ve grown taller again.”

His voice contained the hoarseness from not talking after a long time. However, his tone was calm and gentle, as if he had only taken a short nap and realized his son had grown up.

But in the next second, he pried Ben’s hand and fiercely pushed him away again.

At the same time that Shaw caught Ben, Mac completely turned into sands, leaving a tall empty shadow in the air. Then, the sands were blown away by the quietly arriving wind.

Oh, no…..poor Ben and Mac ˚‧º·(˚ ˃̣̣̥᷄⌓˂̣̣̥᷅ )‧º·˚

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