Chapter 101

Chapter 102: No Wonder He Is My Good Brother

Qian Qi lay on the System panel, watching the fight with full focus.

A true Elementalist Awakened fought nothing like her strength type style: Elementalists usually attacked from mid range, because they were fragile and safer at a distance.

But Li Hai Sheng, a Lightning Elementalist, fought boldly; using the long blade in his hand as support, he slashed left and right in an X pattern, sending narrow streams of white violet lightning crashing down on the frost wolves.

The frost wolves dodged fast; they had lived in the tall, dangerous gorge for years, so Magibeasts here were especially agile. Li Hai Sheng spat, then as a frost wolf leaped over his head, he swung up hard and cut at its belly.

It really was a D rank weapon: the sharp blade split the wolf’s hide, and it fell to the ground twitching. The other frost wolves arrived at once, and their long, sharp claws swept for his neck.

Li Hai Sheng jerked his head aside to avoid them, and the claws raked his Defense Armor, leaving several obvious scratches on the brand new suit.

Qian Qi hissed in pain for it and snapped at him: “My Defense Armor! Uncle, can you not? You could not even dodge that? Too useless!”

Li Hai Sheng stiffened: [???]

He thought, [My Defense Armor? Since when did it become yours?]

He raged inside, [And if you have the energy to talk trash, how about you come down here and fight yourself!]

Even as he cursed in his head, he did not dare lose focus. He lifted the blade and carved out several arcs of lightning like flower petals, a fierce thunderous attack that forced the wolves around him to back off. Their glowing green beast eyes watched him with tense caution.

Qian Qi watched with real interest and murmured with a grin: “I did not expect him to be this good. Chen Tong must have paid a lot to hire him, huh. Sigh, that kid spent big. Oh no, wait…”

She rubbed her chin and beamed: “I should say, no wonder he is my good son. He knew I was short on cash and rushed to honor me with money.”

[System: ???]

Down on the ground, seeing Li Hai Sheng was hard to handle, the frost alpha stood behind the pack and studied him with a cold gaze.

Black Mountain Gorge covered the whole dungeon, and finding food usually took days. The alpha weighed the cost. For one D rank meal, how much was the pack willing to pay?

While the alpha was still judging, the experienced Li Hai Sheng had already noticed there were no other packs coming. He decided to end it fast and give them no time to react.

He steadied his stance and roared: “All of you, die!”

His blade, more than a meter long, drew in a fierce Lightning Maelstrom that lit the dim gorge around them. Pebbles and sand shook and whirled up, then surged forward together with the storm of lightning toward the frost wolves.

After half an hour of fierce fighting, the pack broke and scattered with their tails tucked.

Li Hai Sheng did not let them run. To stop them from regrouping and coming back for revenge, he chased the runners and chopped off their heads without mercy.

As for the alpha, it took him more time, but he killed it too. He sheathed his blade, stomped the alpha’s skull under his boot, spat again, and cursed: “Beast, an E rank dares to seek death!”

Qian Qi had already landed. She ran over, clapped hard, and laid it on thick: “Wow, big bro, you are too strong. That was awesome. I was truly amazed. You are really powerful!”

She added with a happy sigh: “I should have saved you earlier. It feels so safe by your side!”

Li Hai Sheng looked back at the fake worship on Qian Qi’s face and, for some reason, felt an urge to smack her. Remembering that she had flown off alone a moment ago, he darkened and demanded: “Why did you not take me with you when you flew away just now!”

Qian Qi waved both hands fast and explained: “I had a reason. My Flight power has a time limit. I have to save it for key moments. Also, my sideways Flight is pretty slow. Even if I carried you, the wolves would keep chasing us. If I ran out of power then, both of us would die here.”

She patted his Defense Armor, fingertips brushing the scratches, and said with heavy earnestness and a pinch of heartache: “Big bro, trust me. I am a good person. Everything here wants your life. Only I am human, and only I can stand beside you. I will not set you up.”

Li Hai Sheng got a bit dazed by her rapid fire talk. He watched her with doubt, yet felt she was not wrong.

Only the two of them were in this dungeon now. If Qian Qi wanted to live, she had to team up with him. If she had any sense, she would not risk his life.

He frowned and said: “Fine. If we run into several D rank Magibeasts, you take me and fly. We need to save strength so we are not helpless when we face the dungeon boss.”

Qian Qi patted her chest and promised: “Of course. I will not leave you behind.”

Li Hai Sheng only half believed her. He looked at the frost wolf corpses and said with a frown: “We need to leave. The blood stink may draw other Magibeasts.”

Qian Qi slapped her palm and agreed at once: “You really have experience. Let us go this way.”

Li Hai Sheng followed without suspecting anything. They had not gone a full kilometer when they ran into more than a dozen E rank Windchaser Blood Steeds sniffing their way over.

Qian Qi yelped and scrambled onto the panel to take off, showing her cowardice in full: “Big bro, they look so scary. Hurry and kill them!”

Li Hai Sheng stared: [???]

He watched Qian Qi fly over the steeds, point down at him, and shout. Someone who did not know better would think she was on the steeds’ side, commanding them to attack him.

A vein throbbed on his temple. He forced himself to calm down by thinking that Qian Qi was a support Awakened with no fighting power. Even if she stayed by his side, she would not help. Then he steadied his breathing.

He drew his blade and resigned himself to fighting the dozen Windchaser Blood Steeds.

An hour later, staring at the Magibeast corpses, he wiped sweat from his forehead and muttered bitterly: “Damn it, wind type Magibeasts are the worst. They are so hard to lock onto.”

The gorge all around made running tricky, or he would not be this tired.

Qian Qi dropped to the ground and rushed up to flatter him: “Oh wow, big bro, amazing. You are truly amazing.”