Chapter 1008: Wolfpack
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Lin Weiwei and her people looked through the darkness in confusion, and Han Sen did not say anything more.
It didn't take long for her face to change and exclaim, "Han Sen is right! Many creatures are fast approaching."
Lin He heard the patter of paws on the forest floor, growing louder as the creatures moved towards them. He was surprised to learn that Han Sen had noticed them a whole ten seconds before he did. Lin He had already opened seven gene locks, and for Han Sen to have better awareness, he must have had a higher number unlocked. How such a thing was possible, he could not guess.
Lin Weiwei looked at Han Sen with shock now, too. She was just as surprised as Lin He was, to learn Han Sen was quicker to notice the incoming threat.
The phantom prowlers were drawing nearer, and the sound of footsteps could now be heard by all of them. Stricken with nervousness, the fighters summoned their beast souls and began to sweat.
They did not know what was coming their way, and they did not know how they'd fare when the battle commenced.
Soon, a green shadow flickered through the nearby underbrush. A pair of emerald eyes gazed at them from out of the black.
More flickering shadows appeared, and their silhouettes outlined by the green cracks and snaps of electricity.
"Daddy, I want to play with the cats," Bao'er professed, clapping her hands with sudden exuberance.
"They aren't cats, Bao'er. They're wolves." Han Sen had a wry smile, as he determined the shapes to be that of wolves on the prowl. Han Sen attributed Bao'er's interest in the animal figures to her fondness for bright lights.
The others were not half as relaxed as Han Sen and Bao'er were, though. There were at least three hundred of those green wolves, but fortunately, they did not look too strong.
Still, the environment did not do the humans any favors. In this dangerous forest, the trees themselves could be considered enemies. Once the wolves attacked, they'd have to watch their step, and it'd be too dangerous to take off running. If they ran smack into a tree, they'd be incinerated and killed in a frighteningly painful manner.
Roar!
A lightning wolf cast a bolt of electricity at a person on the team, which was quickly repelled with a fist ablaze with fire.
Pang!
Fire and electricity collided in the air. The block was successful, but the man had to take several steps back to maintain his guard.
Everybody was now very alarmed at the sudden violence.
The man that deflected the lightning bolt was called Chen Hu. He was not the strongest in the party, but he had unlocked five gene locks and his fitness was just over fifteen hundred. Although he managed to repel the attack, it was not a flawless deflection. The wolves were strong, it seemed, and Han Sen wagered they were mutant class creatures.
The wolf that attacked looked identical to the others in its pack, and this told Han Sen one thing; they were all the same strength. They were all mutant class.
The party of humans was a strong collective, but they could hardly face down the three hundred wolves that had shown up to chew them all to pieces.
The wolf in the front howled, and they jumped towards Han Sen.
Han Sen was happy this was going to happen, though, and he thought to himself, "Finally, it's my time to shine. I'm getting tired of Weiwei making me look like a noob. How can she have the audacity to make me look like a noob?"
Han Sen rolled up his sleeves, ready to fight. But before he could make a move, Lin He brought out a longsword and screamed to the high heavens. One moment later, two of the wolves were dead, and a few were injured.
The swing of that longsword was fast and cruel.
Whimper! Whimper!
The wolves fell back, the injured ones limping away while whimpering.
Lin He was delighted, learning he was powerful enough to kill them. As good as this was for him, he feared his team wouldn't be up to the task and would fail to repel the invaders.
So he decided to step forward and attack before the wolves could retaliate. He wanted to let the wolves know their passage shouldn't have been disturbed, and they were not a company of travelers to mess with.
The wolves had most certainly been spooked. Despite their visible fear and trepidation, however, they seemed determined not to leave.
Lin He thought about trying to flee with his people, but all of a sudden, a louder howl sounded. The trees around them shivered with lightning that lit up the sky in response to that announcement.
Everyone looked in the direction the howl came from, and they saw a giant blue wolf perched on a rock. Blue lightning flashed around it as its howl ended.
Everyone's face dropped in misery.
They might have been able to kill the three hundred mutant creatures, and they were confident enough to try. But when the alpha wolf showed up, that confidence evaporated, leaving them to tremble in fear.
"It's a sacred-blood creature!" Han Sen frowned. He was not afraid of doing battle with a sacred-blood creature, but he was unsure what it would be like to deal with an alpha wolf that was sacred-blood.
Many alpha wolves were smart, and if the humans couldn't kill it quickly, they'd have a lot of trouble going forward.
Han Sen had once encountered a sacred-blood fox king in the First God's Sanctuary. It was able to control its entire tribe of foxes, and dealing with it was a monumental task for Han Sen.
When the subordinate wolves heard they were being backed up by their alpha, their fear vanished. With hearts renewed with courage, they leapt forward.
"Fly, you fools! I will draw their attention," Lin He commanded, as he ran towards the wolves with his sword in hand. He was determined to take down that alpha.
Chapter 1009: Wolfpack Gone Stupid
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Han Sen looked at Lin He with great respect. He knew he would most likely never see the man again, but he admired his willingness to give his life and draw the wolves away so that the rest could escape.
Han Sen did not believe he himself could perform such a courageous and selfless act.
The alpha wolf looked disdainfully down at them. It acknowledged the ploy and howled, commanding the wolves to ignore the old man and go straight for Han Sen.
The alpha wolf looked at Lin He himself, and as it did, the blue light around it increased in intensity.
Lin He knew he would be unable to one-hit kill the alpha wolf. He just wanted to pull the attention of all the wolves onto him, so his people could get away.
He did not expect the alpha wolf king to be so smart, though. The wolf king knew better than to command its pups anywhere near Lin He and his drawn sword.
Lin He wanted to run back now and help his people against the legion of wolves. But before he could, the wolf king leapt off the rock and fired a bolt of blue lightning at him.
Seeing all the mutant wolves headed their way, the faces of the people changed. They knew things had taken a dire turn.
"Kill as many as you can!" Lin Weiwei ordered, before fearlessly running forward to meet the wolves in battle.
Chen Hu and the rest followed without delay, bravely submitting themselves to the grievous combat.
"Give me a chance to perform." Han Sen opened his Dongxuan Sutra and used it to wipe out all the senses of the wolves in the area.
While Han Sen was in the valley, he had practiced the Blood-Pulse Sutra primarily. When he reached the ninth tier, and there was no more progress to be made, he turned his attention back to the Dongxuan Sutra. With it, he managed to reach the fourth tier.
The fourth tier, unfortunately, did not stifle the eighth sense of others as Han Sen had believed it might. All it did was increase the radius of the other abilities he was already able to perform. It was fairly disappointing.
That wasn't to say Dongxuan Aura was ineffective, though. Upon its casting, Han Sen transformed all the blood-thirsty wolves into canine-like relatives of headless chickens. They started to flail around aimlessly, unsure of what was happening or what they could do.
Unfortunately, while it worked wonderfully on the legion of lesser wolves, it wasn't strong enough to debilitate the wolf king. That meant the wolf king, much like the monkey king, had opened its eighth sense.
Lin Weiwei believed she was running into one last valiant battle, where she'd most likely fall. But all of a sudden, the wolves in front of her lost their focus. They wonkily remained in place, as if they were spaced out.
The humans initially believed this to be a scheme of the wolves, but when they lunged forward with their weaponry, the wolves failed to evade them. They were able to cut down the wolves with ease, and there seemed to be nothing the wolves could do to protect themselves.
The wolves acted as if they had been robbed of their brains. It seemed as if they did not even feel pain, and they all just stood there, allowing themselves to be killed.
A couple of the wolves were jumpy and spat out lightning. But those bolts only ended up striking their allies and incinerating them.
Han Sen went to join in with the mutant wolf-slaying, but felt it was unnecessary. His mutant point tally had been maxed out, so it was pointless for him to do this.
When all of their senses were blocked, their sight and hearing were blocked as well. Their sense of touch was disabled, too, and that meant they couldn't feel pain.
The wolves were allowing themselves to be killed, or so it seemed. And swiftly, thirty of the blighters had been cut down.
Although the humans on the field were unsure of what was going on, they were delighted, regardless. Lin He was ecstatic.
When the wolf king noticed something was wrong with its subordinates, it howled to rally them.
But the wolves, of course, could not hear a thing. They either stood still, trying to maintain balance, or walked around in circles aimlessly.
Seeing the wolves get mowed down with ease, the wolf king decided to flee the scene despite the grievous loss. Its speed was blisteringly quick, and it managed to disappear from sight in no time at all.
Lin He turned back to rejoin his allies, and side-by-side with Han Sen, got to work on killing all the wolves that had once sought to eat them up. All-in-all, the group managed to kill just over a hundred of the furry fiends. Fortunately for many of the ones in the back, they managed to wander away and have their lives spared through sheer luck.
"Are those wolves retarded?" Chen Hu said.
Everyone looked happy. After fleeing their home and fearing for their lives for weeks on end, it felt tremendously good to kill their enemies without worry. Their adrenaline was pumping, and their murderous rage had flared.
They had hunted sacred-blood creatures together in the past, but such fights were extremely difficult. They were long and tiring, and one had to exercise caution at all times. To mindlessly hack and slash enemies, to kill carefree, was a joyous experience.
"Uncle San, what happened to those wolves?" Lin Weiwei believed it was Lin He who had done this.
But Lin He shook his head, indicating he didn't know what had happened, either.
Lin He looked to Han Sen, then. He knew his people well, and he knew of all the abilities they possessed. The only person he didn't know well was Han Sen. What's more, Han Sen had somehow managed to detect the presence of the coming wolves before even he could.
"Han Sen, you did this, didn't you?" Lin He asked.
Han Sen nodded and said, "Yes. I can snuff out six of their senses."
Han Sen did not dare say he could actually block seven of them. That would have given people quite a shock.
Lin Weiwei was just about to say it couldn't have been Han Sen, as he had just become a surpasser. But now, she had her breath taken away. She could hardly believe it.
Everyone now looked at Han Sen in a different way.
"It is no wonder President Ji would allow you to marry his daughter. You saved all our lives here." Lin He gave Han Sen a pat on the shoulder.
"Good job, Brother Han." Chen Hu gave him two thumbs up.
Lin Weiwei looked at Han Sen as if she did not know him.
"Little Sen-Sen, why didn't you tell me you could do something like this?" Lin Weiwei asked Han Sen, which made him feel awkward. Fortunately for him, she wasn't mad, and she didn't feel as if she had been insulted.