Incarnation Of Gods: Endless War - Chapter 269

Third-person POV

Zhang Wei immediately bent down and twisted his body to avoid the attack that was coming for him from behind. Bing Wen dashed to Zhang Wei’s behind while aiming his arrow at the attacker’s head. The attacker instantly went down as soon as the arrow made a hole in his head.

Zhang Wei glanced around and clenched his jaw when he saw there were still outnumbered by the enemy. Even though they could knock off a few attackers, nevertheless they used quite an amount of energy to take down a couple of them. At this rate, Zhang Wei and Bing Wen would tire out quicker than usual since they hadn’t had their meal yet.

“Ah Wen, you stay behind,” Zhang Wei raised his hand to stop Bing Wen from rushing forward.

“But, Your Highness…” Bing Wen was hesitant to let Zhang Wei advance alone.

“Protect Princess Rong and watch my back,” Zhang Wei firmly commanded Bing Wen.

Bing Wen pondered for a moment and nodded his head. He ran towards Rong Ai’s side and loaded his bow with two arrows. He focused his Qi on his right arm thus he could pull the bowstring further behind.

Zhang Wei leaped into the air and landed behind the attacker that seemed to be the leader of the group. And his guesses were right as the latter skillfully avoided his attack unlike the other who was easier to take down.

They clashed and caused the trees around them to be sliced off into halves. While the two of them were engaged in their battle, Bing Wen and Rong Ai were warding off the others that were using this as an opportunity to attack Zhang Wei.

However, as Bing Wen and Rong Ai were too focused on assisting Zhang Wei, they didn’t pick up a presence that had been lurking behind them until he was only two feet away from them. At breakneck speed, Bing Wen used his bow to strike the man’s hand that was holding a sword.

But the man swung his other fist across Bing Wen’s jaw and sent him flying to a tree. The blow on his jaw was so hard that it almost causes him to knock out, Bing Wen guessed that the man used a huge amount of Qi on his fist. Although Bing Wen was still conscious, he could barely open his eyes or even move his finger.

Rong Ai immediately sprinted to Bing Wen’s side and did a quick check on him. With that quick check, Rong Ai perceived that Bing Wen’s jaw was visibly dislocated and his jaw bone may be cracked a little bit but she wasn’t sure about that.

After making sure that Bing Wen’s life wasn’t on the point of death, she turned her eyes to the man that attacked Bing Wen previously. However, the moment Rong Ai’s eyes landed on the man, it was too late for her to avoid the blade that swung towards her.

She shut her eyes and braced herself for the impact, yet it had been a few second, not a thing happened to her. She slowly opened her eyes and saw Zhang Wei stood protectively in front of her.

“Take Ah Wen away and go find Auntie Meiyun. She must have been looking for us.” Zhang Wei said hurriedly and blocked another attack from the leader of the group.

Rong Ai noticed a thin stream of blood flowed down from Zhang Wei’s forehead. Her breath hitched as she struggled to carry Bing Wen on her back while fighting off the remaining enemies that were coming for her head.

Zhang Wei’s halberd was trembling as he started to lose his power from blocking all the man’s attacks. He gritted his teeth and used his full power to push the man a few feet away. Fortunately, Zhang Wei’s sudden burst of power caught the man off guard and successfully made the man flung quite far away.

“Zhang Wei ran to Rong Ai’s side and was going to take out something from his sleeve when the leader of the enemy group managed to stand up in a split of second and landed a hit on Zhang Wei’s arm.

The hit caused the thing in Zhang Wei’s hand to flung away and roll down the steep surface of the ground.

“Brother!” Rong Ai exclaimed and swung her left hand across the air as an enormous iceberg pierce through the forest.

The man quickly took a few steps back, however, both of his left limbs badly injured from the collision with the biting cold iceberg. He bit his lips as his left hand and leg were numb to the point he couldn’t feel anything from it. He used his other hand to rummage around his chest pocket and took out a bottle of pills.

He poured in half of the content into his mouth without thinking twice about the effect. Zhang Wei who at first saw this as an opportunity to kill off the man immediately changed his mind when he recognized the pills that the man just consumed.

“Rong Ai! Run!” Zhang Wei commanded and cast a barrier to block Rong Ai from coming closer to him.

Rong Ai flinched when she heard how Zhang Wei called her name. Zhang Wei would only call her by ‘Rong Ai’ when the situation was very dire. She clenched her fist and focused her Qi in her legs to enhance her speed. She leaped from one tree to another like a wind.

After Zhang Wei couldn’t feel any of Rong Ai’s presence, he broke the barrier that he cast not long ago and faced the man with a face black as ink.

“You…” Zhang Wei gripped his halberd.

The man slowly lifted his head and Zhang Wei clicked his tongue as soon as the man’s face revealed. The vein on the man’s head seemed about to pop out combined with his bloodshot eyes that were hungrily staring at Zhang Wei.

‘Drug!’ Zhang Wei cursed inside his heart.

The man stumbled as he took every step like a corpse. Zhang Wei got on his defensive stance and breathed in deeply.

‘Don’t lower your guard no matter what.’ Weisheng’s deep voice resounded in Zhang Wei’s head.

“Yes….Imperial Father.” Zhang Wei mumbled under his breath.

In a blink of an eye, the man disappeared into thin air, only leaving the dirt floating in the air. Zhang Wei looked around in anxiousness as he couldn’t follow up with the man inhumane speed.

‘Control your breathing.’ Weisheng’s voice rang in his head.

Zhang Wei took a deep breath and calmed his heart. He finally could think thoroughly with a calm state of mind.

‘Sharpen your senses.’ One again, Weisheng’s voice resonated in his head.

Zhang Wei got into his full concentration state as his golden red-eyes shone brightly in the gloomy forest. His ear twitched and in a blink of an eye, the man materialized behind him with his sword enveloped in flame.

“COUGH!” Zhang Wei coughed out a mouthful of blood when the man’s sword came in contact with his halberd.

Zhang Wei managed to block the man’s attack however he was pressed down by the man’s Qi. Zhang Wei clenched his jaw and shifted his halberd slightly to the side to avert the direction of the man’s sword.

But this move caused Zhang Wei’s right shoulder to dislocate. Zhang Wei didn’t waste any second and ran deeper into the forest with everything he got. He knew that he wouldn’t be able to bring down the man with his current state. It was true that he was the strongest among the kids his age, he even surpassed many of the higher level warrior.

However, this man was not someone that he should mess around with because he guessed that the man was a leader of an assassin group. On top of that, the man consumed such a huge amount of the drug that Weisheng had tried to get rid of the black market.

The drug was not some average drugs, it was originally invented by Bai Huiqing in purpose to strengthen one’s body by supplying them an instant Qi without drinking blood. At first, it was produced for medical purposes but someone in the dark evolved the safe to use drugs into something completely horrifying.

If one consumed a pill of the evolved drug, their body would get tougher and bulkier while their Qi multiplied several folds. However, it could kill the consumer depend on how much the body could sustain.

That was the reason why Zhang Wei chose to flee rather than fight head-on with the man. Zhang Wei panted heavily as he ran while gripping his broken ribs with his left hand because he didn’t have the time to fix his disjoint shoulder.

He followed the flowing water sound hoping that he could find the way out of the forest. Yet, only an endless waterfall came to his sight.

“You have nowhere to run.” The man snorted and pointed his sword at Zhang Wei’s neck.

Zhang Wei took a step back every time the man took a step forward until he was at the end of the cliff.

‘Why does this feel familiar?’ Zhang Wei dazedly muttered in his head.

“Say your last word.” The man mocked and pressed his sword on Zhang Wei’s neck.

Blood seeped out from Zhang Wei’s neck, coloring the tip of the sword with his blood. Zhang Wei’s face remained calm, only his breath that got rougher and shallower than before. If not because of his shallow breath, one wouldn’t be able to tell that he was heavily injured.

The calm Zhang Wei infuriated the man even further, just as he was about to slash Zhang Wei’s neck, Zhang Wei parted his lips.

“F*uck you.”

His body fell backward into the endless pit. The man was shocked and rushed to the end of the cliff to see Zhang Wei vertically falling with an incredible speed. In a few seconds, Zhang Wei’s body vanished from his sight into the thick fog of the waterfall.

The man was suspicious but he couldn’t risk himself to go search for Zhang Wei’s dead body as there was one left to kill.

“Princess Rong, watch out for your head.” The man curled his lips.