Chapter 79
Chapter 79 – Fire Lance
Translated by Sunyancai
When Shao Xuan came down from that tree, he was immediately surrounded by the others, for all of them had heard Ta’s words.
“Is this the seedling of the Green Thief?” Tuo had sparkling eyes, and stared still at the young bud in Shao Xuan’s hand, which was smaller than his finger.
“Is that eatable?”
Keke pushed the others in front of him away. As he was about to reach out his hands to take that young bud from Shao Xuan, he was stopped by Ta, who blocked him with his arm.
“Let me have a look at it.” Said Ta.
Seeing that Ta was here, Shao Xuan passed the bean-sprout-like young bud to him. As for Keke’s earlier question about whether it was eatable…Shao Xuan guessed that the answer might be positive.
When Shao Xuan was dodging the attacks, he paid extra attention on Ta’s moves. There was much to learn under such circumstances, especially from those experienced old warriors. He needed to take the chance.
As for the experienced old hunters, although they might lack the fit movements or fancy actions, every single move of theirs was quite prominent. All of the moves were acquired during hundreds or even thousands of tough fights. Sometimes, their conditioned reflexes could be much faster than their thoughts. It was almost an absolutely instinctive reaction, but it was a simple and practical killing move.
All the warriors soon withdrew and entered combat status. Promptly they began to cooperate with each other, their fighting power surged. They had a momentum that could almost beat the Fire Lance. Every warrior had his own weapon. Constantly, they swept their arms, and struck those Fire Lance with the weapons in their hands. All their strength went through the weapons and was hammered down on the vines. The attacks were fluent and kept hitting on the vines in waves.
If any one of them had a small lagg, or made a slight mistake, they would risk losing their momentum. They had to rely on the momentum, even if they were not fighting with a ferocious beast.
It all happened in a short period of time, and the ground was dyed red.
The danger was about to pass, but “banging” sounds emerged from underground.
It turned out that the other vines underneath had drilled out as well, while the part that was above the ground had grown twice as large. It seemed that the Fire Lance was about to put up a desperate fight.
More to Shao Xuan’s misery, most of the newly drilled-out vines were coming after him.
“Move away, Ah-Xuan!” Ta shouted over at him.
However, right after his shout, Ta found that the running away Shao Xuan, turned around and was heading back!!
Ta was so furious that he almost spat out some blood seeing that. What the hell? You were clearly told to run farther, but now you headed back? What’s your plan? To drag the team’s feet?! Did you feel that it was not sticky enough over here?!
Normally, Ta wouldn’t choose to continue the tangled fight with the Fire Lance. Instead, he would probably take the team away from it. However, there were many Green Thief seedlings nearby, the things that he was not willing to give up. Clearly, the other warriors all shared his opinion, and none of them had any intention to withdraw. They were nearly crazy in the combat. It was understandable, for it was never easy to encounter the seedlings of Green Thieves, but they were disturbed by the Fire Lance. What’s worse, the Fire Lance had destroyed many trees nearby, which made the search for seedlings even more difficult. And, oh yes, some boy was putting himself in the middle of chaos, on purpose!
Great fury flashed in Ta’s eyes. He suddenly stamped his feet, and stepped on a very thick vine. The plant beneath his feet immediately got scattered as if were attacked by some very heavy thing. Earlier there were some hair-like extrusions tangling around Ta’s feet. Now they were all broken in the blink of an eye. Ta grasped the stone axe, and repeatedly chopped. Sounds of cracking resounded, as if many pieces of cloth were torn apart in the air, and many pieces of hard-wood were chopped apart at the same time.
At the same time when he chopped, Ta moved quickly towards Shao Xuan’s direction. He wanted to kick Shao Xuan out of this mess immediately. The one he hated most was someone who stalled the team.
However, only two steps closer to Shao Xuan, Ta found that there was a similar giant Fire Lance chasing after Shao Xuan. The newly drilled-out vines were running after Shao Xuan like spears filled with a lust for killing. They were coming this way.
No wonder the lad chose to run backwards.