Warlord 2

by Chen Ran

  The prey had finally arrived!

  Chapter 142 - Song of Hope

  Lan Qi jumped angrily onto the shore. Behind him, the raft had completed its final mission, and had finally split into seven or eight logs. They were carried downstream by the rushing river, and then buried in the raging current, until they turned to dust and disappeared along with the river into the great crevasse a kilometer away.

  The White-headed Eagle sat on the wet riverbank. A mutated shrub beside the river twisted and turned, then extended its sharp sawtooth leaves towards it in an attempt to cut off Lanqi's body. Lan Qi snorted. He pulled out a military knife and nailed the leaves of the restless shrubs to the sand. The leaves of the shrubs writhed, then split in two, but were able to break away from Lan Qi's sword. It retreated back into the main thicket, and the whole thicket moved a little more than ten meters to the side to avoid Lan Qi, who the plant judged to be a dangerous object.

  This kind of thing was not rare in the Death Ridge, so Lan Qi didn't have the extra strength to find the dismal changes in the shrubbery. In fact, his journey from Lamassen River to Lamassen River was not smooth sailing. For example, on the first night, the sudden explosion of the Death Canyon's flames had caused the mutated fish in that part of the river region to become lively.

  The Giant Tooth Fish that were constantly floating in the air from the river gave Lan Qi quite a bit of trouble. Especially after he woke up from a similar hibernating state, the recovery of his body's functions allowed the Giant Tooth Fish to detect his biological heat energy. Thus, a group of Giant Tooth Fish attacked him. After killing more than half of the Giant Tooth Fish, Lan Qi decisively chose to come ashore. This was because his actions were quite sensible, because not long after, the two Triangular Crocodiles came swimming over after smelling the river's bloody smell.

  In the Lamassen River, the Triangle Crocodiles were equivalent to a Cretaceous Tyrannosaurus Rex, they were definitely the kings of the river. The Horned Crocodile's large and sharp horns would easily disperse the raft. If Lan Qi fell into the water, then what would test him would be the sharp teeth of the Three-Horned Crocodile, as well as its nibbling power that was close to a ton.

  Some scholars have done experiments before, the bite force of Triangular Horned Crocodiles can slightly damage and twist a piece of composite armor material. Lan Qi knew that his body wouldn't be able to withstand this sort of test. Therefore, it was best to stay far away from these kings of the river.

  Afterwards, he spent the night in the forest beside the river. It wasn't until the second day when the Lamassen River regained its peace that Lan Qi once again dragged the raft into the water. Until today, the closer they were to the downstream areas, the harder it was for them to control the movements of the Lamassen River. Ten meters for a dangerous beach, five meters for a landing spot, let alone a raft, even a professional rubber dinghy couldn't withstand this kind of torture.

  If it weren't for Lan Qi's experience, his raft would have disintegrated long before the Hundred Miles River was formed. How could it still be able to hold on here?

  This short distance of one hundred miles through the river had nearly drained all of Lan Qi's energy. He had no choice but to close his eyes and use his heavily trained breathing technique to speed up the recovery of his vitality.

  He could hear the strange sounds coming from the river not far away. It sounded like a whistle, but it also sounded like the sound of the wind. It was the sound produced by the impact of the massive fifty meter drop on the reefs in the river. Because the reefs in the lower reaches were so numerous, the sound passed between them and made a sharp whistling sound.

  It was fine during the day, but at night, it could be described as the wailing of ghosts and the howling of wolves. It was precisely the Lamassen River's steep terrain that prevented ordinary caravans from travelling through relatively safe water paths, and created a mountain road from the edge of the vast forest in Death Ridge, which then passed through large cracks to leave this forbidden land with their lives on a artificially constructed cable bridge.

  At the moment, Lan Qi only wanted to rest for a day. He was proficient enough to choose a sniper position downstream, where he would wait for three days. If Zero had not appeared, Lan Qi would have chosen to leave, regardless of whether he was dead or alive. Although he had patience to wait a few more days, food was a troublesome problem, especially for clean water. He did not bring much with him, and some of them even fell into the Lamassen River.

  If Zero was still alive and hadn't appeared for the past few days, then Lan Qi could only attribute it to be the distance of zero. He didn't mind letting his guard down first and then sending a sniper attack on him in the wilderness outside of Death Ridge. As far as Lan Qi knew, after leaving the Death Ridge, there would be a windmill town located about 300 kilometers north of the highway. It was the closest resupplying base to Death Ridge. If Zero didn't die, he would definitely go there. Then, what would be welcoming him would be Lan Qi's vulture.

  Only, Lan Qi knew that Soren didn't have much patience left, and the people from the Parkland family probably knew of this matter as well. Based on old Brent's character, he would have directly thrown himself into the army and killed Zero with absolute superiority. But who knew how much Lan Qi desired to personally kill Zero. Only by doing so would he be able to show mercy to his dead son.

  After all, revenge couldn't be replaced.

  As Lange was planning on how to kill Zero, he suddenly heard another sound in his ears.

  In the midst of the surging waves, another sound rang out. It was hard for Lan Qi to classify it. It was like singing, but it also seemed like meaningless notes. However, it was undeniably very pleasing to the ear, just like the sound of nature itself.

  However, this heavenly voice caused Lan Qi to feel a chill run down his spine.

  That was a signal of danger!

  The White-headed Eagle suddenly opened its eyes and saw a light wheel flying towards it. Needless to say, Lan Qi knew that it was definitely not some pleasing object, but more likely a life threatening weapon.

  He immediately bounced off the ground and rolled behind a cedar tree. That wheel of light carried a strange shriek as it whirled past the place where Lan Qi was at just moments ago, and slashed through the cedar trees before flying towards the side of the river near the Lamassen River.

  A figure flew out from a rock by the river. He firmly pulled the wheel of light and rushed forward. His speed was so fast that Lan Qi couldn't catch him. Lan Qi only knew that when she stood still, the Lamassen River was still covered in afterimages.

  The cedar tree fell with a squeak. The smooth cut made Lan Qi break out in a cold sweat. If he hadn't dodged it quickly, the one that was cut in half wouldn't have been the cedar tree, but himself.

  Looking back, the person who attacked was a black girl. From the look of it, he was not very old. After the silver light wheel in his hand faded, Lan Qi could clearly see that it was a half moon shaped wheel saw. One side of the crescent moon was covered with sawteeth, so it would definitely not be a pleasant task for it to cut its body.

  The young girl's entire body was enveloped in a layer of blurry silver light. The melodious sound that Lan Qi heard came from the silver light, as if there were invisible angels singing in it. Lan Qi suddenly thought of an ability that was very similar to the one he saw in front of him.

  The Second Class Power of the Elemental Su Domain Light Element, Song of Hope!

  Chapter 143 - Taelice's Legs

  Everyone knew that the YuanSu Region was one of the Five Great Domains, the domain that placed the greatest emphasis on talent. The abilities of the Meteor Domain included the earth, fire, water, wind, lightning, light and dark elements. However, not everyone could use the concoction to create the abilities of the Meteor Domain. The ability awakening in the Meteor Region required those who had the ability to sense a certain kind of Meteor Shower. Furthermore, they would be able to sense and sense the will of the Meteor
Shower.

  Amongst the seven elemental Su s, the ones whose will was the easiest to come into contact with were the fire, wind, and thunder elements, because they represented the will of anger, freedom, and power respectively. Usually, one would be able to see their inner hearts and personalities from the abilities a Element Domain Capable knew, because the type of soul they were able to grasp determined their system's abilities.

  For example, Lafite, who had been killed once, was a water transformation and ice attribute ability user. His personality was extremely dark and cold, and as for Soren, who had clashed with Zero, the ability of Fire Element Su he had grasped had exposed his weakness, which was his rashness and irritability. With Phoenix City and Zero, who had participated in the King Slaying Operation, he used the Dark Element Su, a person whose personality was as dark as the power he had grasped.

  As for the light element Su, who was facing the dark attributed Su, he was even rarer. It could be said that out of a million people, there was only one person who had the potential to control the light element Su. That was because of the turbulent times of the environment, everyone was trying their best to survive, doing everything they could. Although not all of these people were unforgivable, but they would never lack selfishness and greed.

  Light Element Su represented innocence, integrity, and even a pure heart. Its primordial spirit, Su's will, was in complete contrast to the human nature of this turbulent era. As a result, it was extremely rare. In this era, the place where most of the people with the ability of Light Elemental Su resided was the divine realm of the West Continent. Their pious faith in God made many believers of the God Kingdom touch upon the will of light. However, even with the power of the entire nation, the number of people who could wield the power of the Light Element Su was only a mere eighteen.

  Lan Qi never would have thought that he would meet someone with the ability of Light Element Su in a remote area of Death Ridge, and that person was even a survivor of the tribe that he exterminated.

  The individual combat prowess of a Light Elemental Su wasn't that powerful. The destructive power of a Fire Elemental and a Lightning Elemental was far greater than that of a Light Elemental at the same level. However, any nation or organization on the continent would definitely be willing to pay a far greater price than those who possessed the two types of ability to recruit Su. That was because of the special attribute to Su's light element ability, which allowed those with that type of ability to play a greater role in the group.

  Light Element Su's ability belonged to the auxiliary type, but it was the most powerful of all the auxiliary type. For example, the "Song of Hope" that Taelice was currently using. This ability could allow a capable person to improve all aspects of base Su's attributes, including physical strength, speed, strength and other aspects. The strength of the increase was 1. 5%. Between five and three times, and this is just a second-level ability.

  When this ability reached Rank 4, it would transform into a "Sacred Song" that could affect a group. When one reached Rank 8, apart from the enhancement from Basic Competencies, there would also be an additional recovery ability, the "Paradise Song". Other than the ability of the hymn element, the most common abilities of people with light element Su's ability are the Guardian, Judgement, Blessing and other elements. Amongst them, the twelfth stage of the Guardian System's ability "Yuan Su's Immunity" was almost the strongest defensive ability. During the duration that YuanSu was immune to all YuanSu's attacks, it could also provide a certain degree of defense against other domains or weapons' energy attacks. This meant that those who wanted to attack Su could only use physical means, but no matter which ability reached a high rank, they would always use energy attacks as their symbol.

  It could be imagined that if one side had the Light Elemental Su's ability to grant Yuan Su immunity, even if there weren't many units covered by this ability, it would be enough to become a Elite Armament on the battlefield.

  Therefore, when Lan Qi saw Taelice pouncing towards him with Song of Hope in hand, the White-headed Eagle felt a headache.

  Taelice's wheel saw once again glowed with a silver light. It was also a rank 2 ability, the "Sharp Blessing" from the Blessing Element. This ability will greatly increase the sharpness of the weapon. The disadvantage is that it can only be used on cold weapons, it has no effect on gunpowder or energy-type weapons. However, the wheel saw in Taelice's hands belonged to the range of a cold weapon, so Lan Qi could not ignore the destructive power it had gained from adding the blessing attribute.

  The wheel saw rotated and slashed at Lan Qi like a crescent moon.

  At the same time, Taelice took a detour in the opposite direction and cut towards Lan Qi. She was the one who, together with the wheel saw, had attacked the village from both the left and the right.

  Lan Qi was an expert on sniping, but he wasn't a close combat master. Although he and Zero both had fighting abilities, they were far from being able to match the real Fighting Domain. Back then, outside the Phoenix City, when Red Wolf was fighting against him, although the position of the leader of the bandits was not very high, Zero had almost died under his hands.

  And now, Lan Qi was in trouble as well.

  He was in even worse shape than when he fought against Red Wolf. Lan Qi did not have a handgun with the firepower of the M500 that could attack from close range. His vulture was powerful, but it was definitely not suited to be used in this kind of battle.

  Lan Qi could only rely on a small military knife in his hand. After parrying the slash from the wheel saw, the blade was immediately spun away by the spinning force. Lan Qi pounced towards the ground in an extremely sorry state and rolled away, dodging Taelice's whip kick that was enough to smash a tree.

  However, in the following attacks, Lan Qi understood that Taelice was not only a light element Su, he was also a close combat expert from the Fighting Domain, and had taken the rare route of becoming a leg expert.

  Fighting Domain was a broad range of abilities. Other than the most basic abilities such as strength, defense, agility, hot weapons control and other major skills, there were also fist warriors, leg experts, blade and sword masters, Sniper Specialist and other advanced abilities.

  Amongst them, the one who used all kinds of dazzling leg techniques as his main attacking method was known as the great master of leg techniques.

  Everything about the leg technique was balanced. Taelice used one leg to place her center of gravity on one leg while her other leg performed all sorts of explosive kicks. Lan Qi was sure that the wheel saw in the girl's hands was a tool to disrupt the opponent's line of sight. When the wheel saw was continuously thrown into the air by Taelice, its purpose was to harass the opponent, and let the opponent ignore the girl's true killing intent coming from her long legs.

  Just like at this moment, when Lan Qi who had lost his blade was busy using his vulture to block a cut of the wheel saw, Taelice's long leg, which could be said to be perfect, kicked straight at him with a storm. It was the basic move of the great master of leg techniques, "Mountain Breaking Kick", which was also known as "Mountain Breaking Kick".

  Of course, this was a bit of an exaggeration. But even if he couldn't break the mountain in one blow, he could still break Lan Qi's chest with a kick.

  Lan Qi, who had just blocked the strike from the wheel saw, lost his balance and was unable to dodge Taelice's kick anymore. He could only barely adjust his position as Taelice's smooth and rounded toes touched his shoulder.

  The huge force was like a flash flood, and Lan Qi was immediately sent flying by the explosive force of the kick. Amidst the intense pain, Lan Qi felt an even greater sense of danger.

  Danger had come from the other side of Lamassen River!

  Chapter 144 - Sonic Charge

  The moment Lan Qi sensed the danger, a cold light appeared between his eyebrows. And then, Lan Qi saw it.

  It was a sniper warhead, and it was spinning at high speeds to break the surging waves on the Lamassen River.
The wave that hit the reef was slapped high into the air, but was shattered by the sniper rifle's rotation. It split into countless spots of light reflected by the sunlight and then shot out a rainbow of colors.

  However, in this enchanting beauty, there was a thick layer of makeup to cover her death.

  Lan Qi absolutely believed that this bullet would accurately pierce between his eyebrows and destroy his life.

  If he didn't have that ability.

  Without any hesitation, Lan Qi couldn't care less about hiding his strength. The moment he activated his ability, he disappeared. The sniper rifle carried a huge amount of energy through where he was standing previously, but on the other side of the Lamassen River, there was a hurricane, causing Taelice to be unable to stand steadily.

  The warhead eventually left a cedar tree the size of a bowl, covered in cracks around the bullet hole. Finally, the cedar couldn't hold on anymore and fell down with a groan, landing horizontally on the ground.

  On the other side of Lamassen River, Zero's figure appeared between the reefs. With the help of the reef, he made his way to the other side of the river, where Zero finally picked up the warhead. The bullet, stained with blood and bits of powdered meat, had hit Lange. But the Parkland's killer still disappeared. The speed at which he left was so fast, he instantly disappeared into the forest and the wind he created. This meant that Lan Qi had entered the speed of sound in that instant.

  Zero could also achieve this kind of speed while in berserk mode, but the speed needed to be increased gradually. It was impossible to instantly reach the highest peak like Lan Qi did. From this, it could be determined that Lan Qi had an ability that Zero didn't know about. This made him feel as though the Adept world was very wide.