Chapter 107
Chapter 107: A hysterical ambush down to the most minute details
One had to say, Trunks was truly familiar with the terrain of this area. He was like another magical creature when he was on the back of his manticore. He had extraordinary abilities to begin with, add to that the help from the manticore, and his overall knowledge of the entire terrain, he was a top notch expert in every sense of the word.
If it hadn’t been for surveillance from Han Shuo’s original demons, the group would’ve been at a loss on how to deal with Trunks’ attacks. They would’ve surely suffered serious casualties in the dark of the night. After all, none of the seven adventurers present, including Han Shuo, would be able to take many of Trunks’ attacks if they fought him alone.
However, with complete end to end surveillance from the original demons, all this had changed. Originally the hunter, Trunks would possibly become someone else’s prey for the first time.
“He’s coming.” Han Shuo, sharing the same tent with Odysseus, suddenly opened his mouth.
Odysseus didn’t express too much curiosity with regards to Han Shuo’s remarkable perception. He only grasped the longsword in his hand tightly after hearing Han Shuo’s words and stared at him, “How should we handle this?”
“Don’t worry, Trunks is currently observing us. Let’s go into action when he makes his move.” Han Shuo closed his eyes and crossed his legs, opening his mouth in explanation.
Trunks was as agile as a monkey on several trees surrounding the area. He leveraged the pliable branches to pile up boulders between several trees and didn’t make any noise. No one could’ve noticed him within the darkness.
There was still a bit of distance between the manticore and the camp. It was now slowly circling the tents. As an animal exceedingly adept at hunting down prey, he was a hunter with quite a lot of patience, just like Trunks.
Trunks slowly landed on a tree above the tents of Han Shuo and the others. He looked down coldly at the tents below him, as if debating how to proceed.
Of Odysseus and the two swordsmen, Gordon was sent to Nia’s side as the remaining two rushed towards the manticore and started using fighting aura to attack it. When Odysseus approached the manticore, the fighting aura that he’d gathered to its peak was destroyed with a slash of its claws. Odysseus himself was sent flying far into the distance. The other swordsman took advantage of the opportunity to stab the manticore, but he only left a small cut on the manticore and rather further enraged it instead.
The furious manticore raised his claws and attempted to smash the swordsman near him to death. At this moment, the purple light that’d disappeared briefly abruptly reappeared to suddenly stabbed at the tail of the manticore.
The manticore sensed the danger and dashed forward with a leap. The swordsman closest to it barely managed to hold onto his life, but although the manticore had dodged in time, the Demonslayer Edge had already sliced down its back and the frigid Mystical Spellfire surged into the manticore’s body.
Madly furious roars suddenly emitted from the manticore’s mouth. Since Han Shuo was manipulating the Demonslayer Edge, he could feel its wrath. He immediately focused all his attentions on manipulating the Demonslayer Edge, attempting to kill it where it stood.
“Damn it, you dare hurt my companion!” The limping Trunks had an arrow sticking out his butt. He was dripping wet due to the water dragon attack on his chest. Because he’d also been electrocuted, part of his hair was burnt and his original bearings had completely vanished. Blood also trickled unendingly out his mouth. He appeared completely bedraggled.
“I’m even going to harm you, much less than your pet.” Han Shuo said after snickering coldly, the Demonslayer Edge still doggedly hanging out the back of the manticore.
A shrill whistle suddenly sounded from Trunks’ mouth. When the extremely maddened manticore heard the whistle, it immediately retreated and ran off into the distance. Trunks looked hatefully at those assembled after his sharp whistle and also fled swiftly in a direction opposite to the manticore.
“You stay where you are, I’ll go after him.” One had to take someone’s life when they were down. Trunks was obviously heavily injured and Han Shuo naturally knew how to take advantage of an opportunity. When he saw Odysseus, who had been sent flying by the manticore, crawl up from the ground spitting blood with no danger to his life, he immediately chased in the direction that Trunks had fled.