Death System - Chapter 30 Chapter 29

“Huu”

Breathing out slowly, Zuyuan stepped forward and on the next second, his body blurred and disappeared. Another moment, the group of five and behead them.

A volley of rocks as big as fits flew at him. Moving in unbelievable speed once more, Zuyuan dodged all of them and materialized his phantom dopplegangers. All of them quickly spread out and deal with the orcs rather easily. Although their speed wasn’t enhanced by Ghost Walk nor their swords not as sharp as Estgard that was covered with Phantom’s Sword technique, the increase on Zuyuan’s strength status allowed them to clash head on with the orcs handaxe.

Moving left and right while parrying two flurry of assaults by two warrior orcs on both sides, Zuyuan filled Estgard sword with more Qigong. As if sentient, Estgard hummed each swing and after a few more blows, Zuyuan found one gap between the attacks and immediately countered. The sword slashed deep into the area between the armpit and made the orc concentration break off from the pain.

Didn’t willing to waste the chance, he gathered Qigong in his feet and directly kicked the other orc with all his strength. The orc quickly crossed his arms and blocked the strike as expected, but that kick had made the orc bounce back a meter. With just a blink of an eye breathing room, Zuyuan used the short burst speed and swiftly cut the injured orc into two.

Not stopping on his momentum and changing the sword direction into a stab, he stabbed the last orc right through his heart as he was stunned from his comrade’s death. Breathing in and out, he tried to calm his Qigong’s flow inside his body and catch a breath. Truth to be told, his anger wasn’t because he felt pity for the goblins. The main reason was the way the orcs toyed with the weak reminded him very clearly of his memories when he was still a weak boy that was tortured and verbally abused everyday without even being able to lift a finger for retaliation.

“Oy. Could you stop that, Mister?”

As Zuyuan moved his gaze around to look for another orc, a shout that was directed to him sounded from his back. Turning his head, he saw male human with goggles glasses, black leather jacket with flames design all over, coming out from the bushes and staring at him. The man smirked from afar as he pointed the missile launcher on his right shoulder at Zuyuan, “Otherwise, it will look bad on us.”

Shooting the missiles without hesitation, they flew at Zuyuan who had a bewildered face. Soon, he furrowed his eyebrows and moved in a zigzag way to approach the man and avoid the missiles. Apparently, some of them were homing missiles. Zuyuan let those homing missiles get near before he used the short burst movements, dodging them completely.

“Tsk!” Seeing that his missiles didn’t work, the man shouted, “Big Bro!”

A rumble sounded below the ground with a small earthquake at the same time. Pupils contracted, Zuyuan stopped on his track and jumped fifteen meters behind. A humanoid giant with height of twenty meters rose up. The giant was made of rock with the eyes only two empty sockets, along rock with shape of nose and lips.

“Gargantua?” pondered Zuyuan the moment he saw the giant. He remembered he saw one of the Gargantua races back then in the assessment room. Not to mention, on his trip to explore more of the sanctuary, he saw a bustling street full of Gargantua race everywhere.

“I’m not one of that stupid race!” quickly denied the giant when he heard Zuyuan’s exclamation, “I’ll help you, bro!”

Pulling his fist as his empty eyes staring at Zuyuan, he prepared to punch Zuyuan with all his strength. Furrowing his eyebrows, Zuyuan definitely didn’t intend to let his enemy do whatever they wanted and charge at them, “Too slow.”

The giant’s lips parted as if he wanted to shout while attacking. But when his fist still on its way to Zuyuan, Zuyuan already crossed their distance and would arrive in front of the giant anytime soon.

The fist landed on the ground, which Zuyuan easily dodged. But the force behind that punch couldn’t be underestimated at all as it penetrated deep inside the earth and made a tremor on the ground.

Zuyuan makes use of the giant’s outstretched hand to climb up to the giant’s shoulder. Before he could reach the shoulder area, he had thought the distance already enough and leaped at the giant’s neck.

His sword began to glow a bright light that covered the sword. The light on the sword’s tip grew longer and longer until it reached four meters. Zuyuan swung his sword right into the giant’s neck. After battling with many kinds of enemies in the Hall of Fame, he created this skill in the middle of the battlefield as he was lacking for medium range attack.

A head as big as a boulder rolled to the ground. Spinning his body in the air as he descends, he strengthens his body with Qigong and minimizes the impact.

“Bro!”

The man with the missile launcher shouted anxiously as he pointed his launcher back at Zuyuan.

Furrowing, Zuyuan didn’t think he defeated that giant so easily. Taking a stance with his sword at his chest length, while grabbing the hilt with both hands and tilting his body a little to the direction of his last opponent, another voice sounded above him.

“Don’t pretend to be dead, Zuko.”

A man with a red T-shirt and jeans torn on his knees was floating. As soon as his words ended. The giant that had collapsed to the ground lifelessly rose up with his head regenerated at a visible speed. After his head completely recovered, he said with an unhappy tone, “Enough watching?”

“Yeah, this guy is strong.” said the man as he looked down at Zuyuan, “You are pretty good. I felt like I had seen you somewhere, who are you?”

Flicking his sword and pointed it to the man, Zuyuan answered curtly, “None of your business.”

“Oh, feisty one, aren’t you?” chuckled the man as he felt superior to Zuyuan. Although Zuyuan sword skill and movement were indeed something to be feared, he noticed a glaring flaw when he observed him silently.

Zuyuan couldn’t fly.

Raising both of his hands, every rock, weapon, tree, and more in the radius of fifty meters flew by themselves towards his direction and gathered behind him. They were suspended in the air while the man was still facing Zuyuan with a haughty expression on his face. Slowly, he muttered under his breath.

“Eat this.”