Swallowed Star

by Alexander Buchanez

  "Halt!" the skinny captain rose his hand and everyone else stopped.

  The captain of the tiger fang squad said in a small voice: "Everyone listen up, we only have one target this time--the already injured silver moon wolf! So while we're here in the city, make sure you don't mess with any of the other monsters! If you can hide, hide. If you can run, run. Try not to fight them, and it'll be troublesome if you get injured!"

  The other five members nodded seriously.

  This is a "high level commander level" silver moon wolf. The amount of money you could make is even greater than hunting dozens of low level commander level monsters.

  "Also..... once we catch up to the silver moon wolf! This silver moon wolf is extremely wounded, so we only need to hit it two or three more times to kill it. So never try to fight it head on. Let me remind you guys again, do not, DO NOT try to fight it head on and drag it out! If we really start fighting this silver moon wolf with everything, at least one or two of us will lose our lives!"

  Everyone nodded their heads with serious expressions on their faces.

  A high level commander level monster, and the king of the wolves: 'silver moon wolf'. Even when injured, if it stakes its life for revenge, it's possible that most of the tiger fang squad will get killed.

  "We just have to keep injuring it and let it bleed; torture it to death!" laughed the captain of the tiger fang squad with confidence, "A country level area like this has a very low chance of attracting a wargod fighter squad. There are probably just a few teams in this city, and with a team like ours, we should be the strongest ones in the city. So we don't need to worry about someone stealing it away!"

  Usually, stronger warlord level fighter teams are more active in the urban level areas. There's more of a challenge, and there are more independent commander level monsters!

  For example, there's a reason why the fire hammer squad came to this country level area. And that's because--Luo Feng is a rookie!

  Otherwise, the fire hammer squad would also enter an urban level area, and not a country level area.

  "Captain, if there actually is a fighter squad that actually tries to steal....." said the one eyed middle aged man as he wrinkled his eyebrows.

  "Relax"

  Zhang Ze Hu laughed on the side, "Even we don't dare to stick too close to that hunter! And most of the fighter squads in this city are warrior level! One warlord level fighter squad would already be pretty good. And if they try to fight the silver moon wolf? They'll probably get torn to pieces immediately by the silver moon wolf".

  "Yup"

  The captain of the tiger fang squad nodded, "They don't have the ability to steal the silver moon wolf away. If they do..... kill them!"

  "Yes!"

  The other five nodded.

  "Let's go" the captain of the tiger fang squad waved his hand and the six of them swiftly moved forward silently.

  The wilderness isn't like a headquarter!

  Headquarters are cities controlled by humans, where there's law! Where there's a government!

  But in the wilderness, monsters rule the area. Here, dark, chaotic, and bloody cases are everywhere. For a prized corpse of a monster, there are many cases where fighter squads have killed each other over it! Of course, most of the time it's a stronger fighter squad stealing from a weaker fighter squad.

  Many fighters in the wilderness die to monsters. However, quite a few fighters die to other fighters too.

  ����

  Midnight. The six members of the fire hammer squad ate a lot and were well rested, and all of them looked through their binoculars and had them pointing downwards.

  "We already saw two commander level monsters in two hours" said Wei Tie helplessly, "Sadly, each of them have a gigantic amount of soldier level monsters surrounding them! Looks like the urban areas are still better. Even though there are many commander level monsters, and sometimes even a 'horde leader level' monster there... Most of the regular soldier level monsters are all focused around the horde leader level monsters and the powerful commander level monsters. Many of the commander level monsters are independent".

  Before, Chen Gu had fired two shots from his sniper rifle!

  However, they didn't get so lucky this time.

  These two shots were fired at the two commander level monsters. One of them barely had any effect at all, and while the other one was heavily wounded, it didn't die! Most importantly, they have tons of soldier level monsters protecting them.

  "That's the bad point of a country level city. Even a regular commander level monster has a huge amount of monsters under its control" sighed Zhang Ke.

  "However, country level cities are safe"

  Gao Feng laughed, "Out of the entire country level city, there are only one or two high level commander level monsters. And all of them are surrounded by a gigantic amount of normal monsters, so we wouldn't even touch them. As for the regular monster hordes, with our squad's strength, we can wipe them out if we really wanted to! We aren't afraid of suddenly getting surrounded by a few commander level monsters".

  In the cities, there are many commander level monsters, so it's easy to get surrounded by several of them.

  "Hm?"

  Luo Feng looked through his binoculars, "This, this is a commander level monster?"

  Around ten monsters appeared on the edge of the street, and all of them had spots. They gave off the feeling of a tiger, the 'ocelot race' of the cat type monsters. All of these ocelots had large bodies, and one of them even had two tails!

  "Two tails? Commander level?" said Luo Feng excitedly.

  In the ocelot race, two tails means a low level commander, three tails means a medium level commander..... five tails, low level horde leader..... seven tails, high level horde leader...... eight tails, already surpassing the horde leader level, and is one of the strongest existences in the ocelot race.

  And out of all the cat type animals, nine tails..... is the Nine Lives Demon Cat (Nine Lives Cat King), which is one of the most horrifying monsters on earth.

  "Captain, look, a commander level ocelot" yelled Luo Feng.

  "Ocelot?"

  In a moment, the other five rushed over and looked for it with their binoculars.

  "It's really an ocelot! Looks like the fact that ocelots don't like large groups isn't just a rumor. There are only 16 regular soldier level monsters surrounding the commander level ocelot" laughed Gao Feng, "Guys, get ready for action".

  "Only 16 regular monsters, I can handle them alone" laughed Chen Gu, so all the other members were relaxed.

  "Let's go!"

  Under Gao Feng's command, Luo Feng and the others left the rooftop one by one. This time, they didn't fire in advance..... for if they fail to kill the ocelot, it might run away! For a commander level monster to only have around a dozen monsters with it is very rare in a small country level city.

  Chapter 48: Do It

  Luo Feng followed the five veteran members of the fire hammer squad as they quietly went over the wall and into a residential home on the side of the street. The walls of this residential home were mostly collapsed, the corners of the walls that were left had moss growing all over them, and the concrete walkway has been covered with weeds ages ago.

  "The fat sheep is ahead". Wei Tie went through a gap in the collapsed wall and looked around on the street outside, "We're pretty lucky. This ocelot is searching for prey with its underlings in a relaxed manner".

  Luo Feng also looked outside through the gap in the collapsed wall.

  Around 50 meters away, the commander level ocelot was leading its group of ocelots on the street.

  "Remember guys"

  Gao Feng said in a small voice, "First, your mission is to kill those regular ocelots. As for the commander level ocelot, just stay away from it and try not to get hit. Just leave it to me. If it's one low level commander level ocelot, I can handle it alone. Next, Chen Gu, don't fire your machine gun. It's not too late to fire until after something unexpected happens..... onc
e you start firing, we'll have to flee the battlefield".

  "Understood"

  Luo Feng and the others nodded seriously.

  Gunshots attract monsters easily. If you're on the rooftop of a high building, then the monsters can't pinpoint your position with just their ears. However, shooting on the ground exposes your position easily. Soon after, large amounts of monsters will be attracted and will surround and attack. As time goes on, more and more monsters will keep getting attracted.

  Last time, when they were trying to retrieve the corpse of the 'bloodthirsty tank', everyone started running for their lives once Chen Gu started firing.

  "Alright, this time we're gonna make this quick! Let's go!" Gao Feng waved his hand.

  Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

  Six shadows flew out at practically the same time, and even Chen Gu had a machine gun in his left hand and a short dagger in his right.

  Six people, as if six blurred images, all charged at the group of ocelots.

  "ROAR~~" the hairs of the two tailed ocelot, head of the ocelot group, all stood up and it immediately roared out of anger. The 16 surrounding ocelots also started to give out an enraged roar one by one. These roars kept echoing between the two sides of the streets and the sound shook the sky. Each of the strong, burly ocelots crazily charged at the humans in front of their eyes.

  "Kill!"

  "Scum, die!"

  Luo Feng watched the ocelot fly towards him like lightning, and stepped a meter away to the side. The ghost blade in his hand used this position to draw a cold light that went straight for the throat of the ocelot! The charging ocelot growled in a low voice and lowered its head to use its chin to block Luo Feng's attack!

  "CHI!"

  The ghost blade cut the fur of the ocelot's chin and even cut half a cm into the jawbone.

  "This ocelot reacts quickly, much faster than the lion mastiff monsters" when Luo Feng landed, a blood scented wind came as another ocelot's mouth was already wide open and ready to bite Luo Feng. Luo Feng first stepped back for some more space and then directly used his shield to block and his blade to stab!

  The ghost blade delicately slid across the shield and stabbed through the charging ocelot's chin in an instant.

  Luo Feng ferociously pulled his blade out and stepped back.

  "Pu~~~" fresh blood sprayed wildly, and the large ocelot fell to the ground. It swayed three times and then fell down to the cracked concrete floor with a howl.

  "Watch out!"

  A huge voice suddenly shouted!

  [KUANG]

  The nearby brothers Wei Tie and Wei Qing were suddenly hit and thrown into the air. Wei Tie's entire body smashed against one of the walls on the street and, with a boom, the poorly maintained wall instantly shattered. Wei Tie fell down and spit out a mouthful of fresh blood.

  "ROAR~~" the twin tailed cat that instantly smashed into the brothers Wei Tie and Wei Qing was in front of Luo Feng at almost the same time.

  "Too fast!" Luo Feng was startled and instantly side stepped.

  "Just barely!"

  Clearly, his dodging speed wasn't fast enough, and as he saw the claws of the twin tailed ocelot about to latch onto himself, he used his shapeless spiritual force to move himself away. The speed of his sidestepped increased by a significant amount and the twin tailed ocelot's claws just barely touched him.

  "CHI!"

  Luo Feng also used this chance to unleash an uppercut! The blade slashed against one of the twin tailed ocelot's forelimbs, but the sharp blade actually made a "CHI" sound as it slashed against the fur. It couldn't even break through a single layer of fur on the twin tailed ocelot's front claw.

  "The speed and defense of a commander level monster is just too horrifying" said Luo Feng out of shock.

  "PUCHI!" The twin tailed ocelot landed on the ground and its sharp claws caused the concrete floor to crack open.

  "SCUM!!!" Gao Feng, whose carelessness led to his comrades' injuries, rushed like lightning and ferociously rammed towards the twin tailed ocelot with a hideous look on his face. The two gigantic, heavy hammers spun like a windmill as they smashed into the twin tailed ocelot. The twin tailed ocelot, completely unaffected by Luo Feng's blade, turned towards Gao Feng like a huge truck and rushed towards him!

  "PENG" "PENG"

  The hammers and the claws clashed.

  Both Gao Feng and the twin tailed ocelot staggered, but Gao Feng used his left foot to charge at the twin tailed ocelot again. Gao Feng gave the twin tailed ocelot no chance to attack his comrades again! And the bones in one of the twin tailed ocelot's limb were fractured by the heavy hammer, so it could only rely on three of its legs to stand.

  In their struggle, it seems that Gao Feng has the advantage!

  RUMBLE~~ The heavy hammers kept smashing!

  ......

  On the rooftop of a six story residential building around five hundred meters away from this scene, the six members of the tiger fang squad were using their binoculars to look around.

  "Captain, it seems that there are quite a bit of monsters around, so it'll be difficult to not agitate any monsters within a ten mile radius of the location of 'the hunter'" said the one eyed middle aged man as he frowned. The skinny captain of the tiger fang squad also frowned. Suddenly, his gaze landed upon the fire hammer squad that was battling the ocelot monsters far away.

  "It's the fire hammer squad" said the captain of the tiger fang squad as he raised his eyebrows, "They came to this country level city too?"

  "The fire hammer squad probably did this because they brought that rookie Luo Feng" said the one eyed middle aged man, "The guy with the twin hammers is clearly Gao Feng. Gao Feng sure is powerful, he's going at it with a low level commander level monster. I heard that his strength is already at the level of an intermediate warlord, but it's just that his speed is a bit lacking. Seems like they weren't just rumors".

  Carrying a gigantic machete on his back, Zhang Ze Hu's eyes flashed. He grabbed his binoculars and looked towards that direction and said joyfully, "It actually is the fire hammer squad, and that Luo Feng kid is actually here. Seems like he's performing well!". A savage light passed through Zhang Ze Hu's eyes.

  "Captain, it's this tiny rabbit that made me lose a whole one hundred million!" said Zhang Ze Hu, "Let's use this chance to kill him". One hundred million was a large sum of money to Zhang Ze Hu. Since he's only at the advanced warrior level, he has to risk his life for two years to earn one hundred million.

  "Kill him?"

  The other members of the squad were slightly surprised.

  The captain of the tiger fang squad frowned, and then laughed: "Good idea! Xiao, Dong, you two use your snipers to deal with the most important members of the fire hammer squad, and then immediately fire at the two monster hordes near them! We're far away, so the monsters won't be able to tell where the sudden shot came from".

  "These normal monsters have very low intelligence: once they get hit, they'll only attack the humans they can see!"

  The captain of the tiger fang squad laughed coldly, "At that time, the two monster hordes will be attracted to the fire hammer squad and will surround them! The gigantic slaughter will attract large amounts of monsters over there, which will lower the amount of monsters in the other areas. When that happens, we can easily go through miles of land!".

  The other members of the tiger fang squad were silent.

  It's not like they haven't killed other fighters before. But they usually only did that to steal monsters' corpses, but to just do it in this case.....

  .....

  "Dong, aim on that Luo Feng and kill him in one shot to relieve my brother" said Zhang Ze Hu as he clenched his teeth.

  "Do it!" ordered the captain of the tiger fang squad.

  "Yes, captain".

  The two heated weapon using members didn't delay. On the border of life and death, they had too much experience killing monsters and humans.

  "Hmph hmph, Luo Feng" Zhang Ze Hu stood on the edge of the rooftop a
s he watched the fire hammer squad that already succeeded in killing the twin tailed ocelot. He let out a cold smile as he said, "You dare mess with my money, I'll take your life! Go regret it in hell!".

  And the two sniper rifles were already set up.

  The two heated weapon using members were in front of their sniper rifles, and they chose to use a special, powerful armor piercing round. They started to aim and adjust for elevation, etc. and then they nodded to their captain, showing they're ready.

  "HU!" the captain of the tiger fang squad waved his hand.

  The two members pressed the triggers simultaneously!

  "PENG!"

  "PENG!"

  The two low sounds rang and the two bullets instantly split through the space and headed towards the fire hammer squad that was currently getting the material from the twin tailed ocelot's corpse. The sound rang, but the bullets moved at a couple times faster than the speed of sound, so the bullets arrived before the fire hammer squad could even hear anything!

  Chapter 49: Deadly Situation

  "The tendon of a ocelot monster's tail is worth quite a bit". With a "CHI" sound of Luo Feng's ghost blade, it drew across the tail and took out the transparent tendon. Luo Feng looked at Wei Tie beside him and laughed, "Brother Tie sure is strong. With that collision with the twin tailed ocelot just now, brother Tie was spitting out blood. It scared me, but it seems like brother Tie is perfectly fine now!"

  "Are you stupid? Should I just force the blood back down instead of spitting it out? The damage will be even worse that way!" said Wei Tie jokingly as he laughed.

  "Alright, let's get these one by one" laughed Chen Gu.

  The six members of the fire hammer squad were in quite a good mood. Gao Feng squatted next to the twin tailed ocelot while dissecting it. Of course, the twin tailed ocelot's corpse was the hardest to dissect.

  "Luo Feng brought luck to our squad. It's our first day and we killed two commander level monsters in a row" laughed Gao Feng as he dissected.