Chapter 81: Go Down Together

Chapter 81: Go Down Together "A new day!" After a night had passed, Carlos’s Spiritual Essence began accumulating again—1297/12000. The speed was still blazing fast. Carlos was just about to head out for sword practice when suddenly a special fluctuation came through the soul link. "Huh? Redrose Shield Guard #6 ran into humans?" He thought for a moment, then decided to go take a look. In the depths of this Desolate Desert, running into human Psionics was pretty rare. Of course, they could also be human traitors, which would make checking it out even more important. With his subordinates’ strength attributes no less than 28 points and a full twenty-four shield guards, Carlos felt confident he could crush any force in the Desolate Desert. ... On the distant sand surface, the seven-person squad from Rock Sand City was running for their lives. Behind them were dozens of human traitors, occasionally launching attacks. However, since the seven-person squad was relatively fast, the distance between them was growing. If nothing went wrong, they’d soon shake off their pursuers. While running, Basse couldn’t help but cry out in frustration: "What rotten luck! Did we stumble into an army of traitors?" "So weird! I’ve never seen this many human traitors working together. There are dozens of them!" Sibel also felt incredibly unlucky. This Rock Sand City squad had just discovered when wiping out those six human traitors that the six were an advance party, with loads of human traitors behind them, including sublimation powerhouses with 19 spirituality. Seeing things were going south, the seven quickly fled in the opposite direction, leading to the current mess. Captain Lezhe thought silently, with a bad feeling in his gut. So many human traitors gathering together were definitely up to something big! The careful Demi suddenly noticed something strange about their surroundings and said puzzledly: "Weird? How come we haven’t run into any monster groups along this route?" Basse exclaimed: "Right! So strange! We haven’t seen a single organized monster group?" When they came in to investigate, they had been extremely cautious all the way but still kept running into monster groups and nearly lost team members. Now that they’d gone deeper into the desert, the journey was surprisingly peaceful. This was totally abnormal. "Too bizarre. What the hell’s going on in this area?" Lezhe frowned deeply. The back-to-back weirdness was putting enormous pressure on his mind. "Stay sharp at all times. Let’s hurry and lose these guys!" There wasn’t time to think too much. Not running into monster groups was currently a good thing—they could take advantage to ditch their pursuers. "Yes!" ... The group ran like their lives depended on it. Sibel, who ran the fastest, was the first to cross the giant sand dune ahead. The moment she crossed over, her body suddenly froze and her face went white as a sheet. "What... what is that!!!" The teammates behind her picked up the pace to catch up. Their pupils shrank in unison, their expressions absolutely grim. Below the giant sand dune was actually a thick mass of various monster groups—monster groups like a living sea. The number was definitely in the tens of thousands! What shocked them even more was that in the center of the monster tide stood a skeleton monster with a bone-chilling aura. Its heavy shield danced left and right, easily blocking the thick attacks from surrounding monsters of all kinds, like an unbreakable wall! Its massive red-patterned greatsword gave off menacing sword light. The seven could barely see the greatsword’s movements—they could only see terrible red lights slicing through the air. Right after, monster groups got cut into sections piece by piece, blood gushing, even the surrounding air turned into a red mist! Chunks of flesh and fresh blood inevitably splattered onto the skeleton monster’s bone body. Those red patterns lit up and absorbed everything in the blink of an eye, becoming even more wicked-looking! Tens of thousands of monsters in the tide—what a terrifying number! A Psionic squad would probably not last long inside before getting torn to shreds. But this skeleton monster showed no signs of wearing down. Instead, its momentum kept building. The ice-cold aura it gave off made even the seven people on the distant hill feel like daggers were stabbing their backs! "Mon... monster!!!" Loris pulled her black robe tighter, as if trying to block out the sinister chill rising in her heart. "How could the Desolate Desert spawn such a monster!!!" In their understanding, the most powerful monster in the Desolate Desert was the Hundred-Poison Human-Faced Centipede. Squads like theirs wouldn’t mess with it lightly, but they could still fight against it. But that terrifying skeleton monster below—the squad couldn’t even survive a single casual sword strike from it! Among the monster tide were many with hard shells, famous for their defensive power, but under that demonic greatsword, they seemed made of paper, completely unable to stop it. Thinking about the thin white and blue spirit gear on their bodies gave them no sense of security whatsoever. "What do we do, Captain? We can’t get through up ahead!" The monster tide of tens of thousands blocked their path. There was no way the group could get around it. Not to mention whether they’d have enough time, just making noise along the way and getting the monsters’ attention would probably get them torn apart by the monster tide before the traitors even caught up. Captain Lezhe’s face was stone-cold serious, his gaze locked on the skeleton monster in the monster tide. He was wrestling internally about what to do. The group quietly waited for their captain’s call. Captain Lezhe knew they couldn’t waste time. After several moments, he said grimly: "We can’t go forward. The path ahead is nothing but a death trap!" Although this was stating the obvious, in this situation, the group still nodded hard. Captain Lezhe’s voice continued: "We also can’t go back. Those dozens of traitors behind us—we can’t beat them!" "..." The six teammates looked at each other. So what should they do? The pretty hot-headed Sibel couldn’t help asking: "Can’t go forward, can’t go back? Are we just going to stand here like sitting ducks?" Captain Lezhe nodded. "Exactly! Stay here and wait for them to catch up! Let’s see if they’ve got the guts to fight us!" "???" Five people looked confused. Demi’s face showed understanding as she spoke: "The captain means that if they fight with us, there’s a damn good chance of getting the monster tide’s attention. Facing such a massive monster tide, plus that terrifying monster going berserk, they definitely won’t make it out either. Being smart about the consequences, they won’t dare make a move!" Captain Lezhe looked at her with approval. It seemed he could hand the squad over to Demi down the road. The other five suddenly got it. Loris asked quietly: "If... if they neither attack nor back off, what do we do?" "..." The atmosphere got tense. Basse suddenly spoke up, his expression fierce, his voice dripping with killing intent: "If they don’t back off, we’ll make them back off! Worst case, we’ll set off the monster tide and go down together with them!" "I’m with you!" "Basse’s got it right!" "..." Just like that, the seven stood on top of the giant sand dune, waiting for their enemies to show up... ...