Ruthless Extermination

Blondi lay motionless in a shallow pit amid the shrubs, the dirt and grass clippings on his body blending him seamlessly into his surroundings.

He had been lying there for nearly half an hour. If the enemy did not appear, he would keep holding this position until one passed by, even if it took an entire day or longer.

The newcomers could enter the forest first, and only half an hour later would the people from Blood Canyon come in. Blondi guessed that the assassin who was likewise of Dark Shadow rank would definitely act alone, just like him.

After an unknown length of time, Blondi's ears pricked up. His body did not move, only his eyes shifting toward a patch of shrubs to the south that stood taller than a man.

There was someone there, and they had only just crept over. Blondi was one hundred percent certain. After hundreds of assassination attacks, he had an acute sense for killing intent, and he was sure he had not misjudged.

The forest was deathly silent. Blondi lay on the ground without moving, and there was not the slightest sound from that side either.

It should be that assassin. Blondi felt a little excited. His hand brushed over his waist, and a pitch-black blade instantly appeared in his grip.

Blondi could feel the excitement and agitation in his heart, but he still suppressed the urge to creep over quietly and waited in silence.

Second by second, time passed. Suddenly, Blondi heard a rapid rustling from within the shrubs, followed immediately by a scream. His heart tightened, and he no longer dared hesitate. His body shot out like an arrow loosed from the string, darting behind the shrubs in the blink of an eye.

With just one look, Blondi froze.

A magical beast he had never seen before stood behind the shrubs, its long tailbone skewering a corpse and holding it high in midair, its eyes full of brutality and savagery as they stared at Blondi.

Blondi went cold all over. That corpse was none other than the assassin he had to face. At the same time, he also saw a wound on the magical beast's abdomen, green blood dripping continuously onto the fallen leaves on the ground and giving off wisps of pale smoke.

A Wind Shadow assassin skilled in ambush and assassination was actually ambushed and killed by a magical beast! A chill rose in Blondi's heart, and his hands and feet turned ice-cold.

Just then, he heard footsteps. Blondi crouched with his blade in hand, his eyes fixed firmly on the strange magical beast, while from the corner of his eye he saw the person approaching. His heart immediately relaxed.

"Uh, I stole your job." Li Junshan walked over lightly and smiled faintly at Blondi, then recalled the slightly injured alien. The assassin's corpse fell to the ground with a thud.

Under Blondi's complicated gaze, Li Junshan bent down and searched the assassin a few times. Aside from a dagger forged of refined iron, he found nothing at all.

"Sigh, looks like everyone drawn out to have an Elimination Match with us is the worst off." As Li Junshan spoke, he shook his head, summoned another alien, mounted it, waved at Blondi, and drove the alien southward.

Blondi stared in the direction where Li Junshan had disappeared, standing there with a complicated expression for a long while before finally following after him.

Receiving the mental communications sent by several aliens spread out in the woods around him, Li Junshan urged his alien into a southward sprint. Before long, he heard the sound of magic being cast ahead. He stopped, the corner of his mouth lifting into a faint smile.

Looks like everyone bumped into each other here. Li Junshan pondered inwardly. He was in no hurry to go out. He had the other eight aliens spread out to form a circle, then quietly crept forward.

Through the dense shrubs, Li Junshan saw the scene in an open clearing ahead, and a smile appeared in his eyes.

The water-element Magician Tommy stood on the ground, currently trading magic with the wind-element Magician in the air. Water Arrows, ice spikes, wind blades, and wind bullets flew all over the sky. Whenever either side failed to dodge in time, ripples shuddered across their magical shields, bursting out in a series of light sounds.

On the ground, Robin's body radiated a yellow battle aura shield as he protected Tommy and Bertha with a grave expression. Opposite him was a blond middle-aged man riding a python over thirty meters long, commanding six Bloodthirsty Wolf Spiders and two Golden Muntjacs to harass Robin from time to time.

Elvis brandished his slender sword like a fire serpent, fighting a roaming battle with an enemy Grand Battle Master, and it was impossible to tell who was stronger or weaker. The enemy's other Grand Battle Master stood below the wind-element Magician, his expression wary.

The six Bloodthirsty Wolf Spiders and two Golden Muntjacs suddenly scattered. "Hiss..." The Mystic Water Yin Snake, which had been brewing for a long while, opened its enormous maw and spat out a cloud of black mist, enveloping Robin and the others.

Before the black mist even reached them, Robin smelled a foul stench assailing his nose. He hurriedly warned Tommy and quickly changed direction with Bertha. Tommy was even faster than them. He forcefully endured a wind blade striking his magical shield and released a water snake more than a meter long, using it to carry himself in another direction.

"Whoosh!" Seizing this chance, that wind-element Magician released a sixth-level spell—Tornado Whirlwind. A powerful stream of air swept up dust and grass clippings all over the sky, forming a vortex more than ten meters across, and flew toward Robin and the others with astonishing momentum.

Tornado Whirlwind churned up dust and grass clippings everywhere, and with the black mist spat out by the Mystic Water Yin Snake, the field instantly turned dim.

Now! Without hesitation, Li Junshan released the black dragon alien, while at the same time issuing an order for the other eight aliens to attack.

As soon as the black dragon alien appeared, it lowered its head and let Li Junshan stand on it. With a flap of its wings, it instantly appeared in the air above the field.

"Roar!" The black dragon alien lowered its head and let out a furious roar. Under its overwhelming dragon might, that seventh-level magical beast, the Mystic Water Yin Snake, twisted its body and tried to flee outward. The other eight sixth-level magical beasts seemed frightened out of their wits, trembling with rustling sounds, without even the thought of escape.

The black dragon alien opened its mouth and gave another furious roar. At the same time, with a flap of its wings, it struck the wind-element Magician who was trying to escape like a rubber ball, sending him flying into the trunk of a giant tree and falling to the ground. On the ground, two aliens leaped high to meet him.

The black dragon alien did not stop either. At the same time, its long tailbone suddenly lashed out, the cold gleaming tailbone piercing down with a pfft, pinning the Mystic Water Yin Snake's huge head and the summoner on top of it firmly to the ground. The Mystic Water Yin Snake let out "hiss hiss" screams, its thick body thrashing desperately, sending mud flying and knocking down great trees. The field turned even more murky yellow.

Tommy was right beneath the black dragon's feet. As he watched this scene, he felt his heart turn icy cold. They would never forget the deaths of their two companions. He had originally thought that after this Elimination Match, the young master would openly challenge this summoner to take revenge, but after seeing this powerful, bizarre magical beast, Tommy immediately gave up that idea.

"Whoosh..." The black dragon alien flapped its wings once, its tailbone still pinned in the Mystic Water Yin Snake's head. Its head lowered and fell beside the unsettled Tommy, then its bloody maw opened wide and bit down.

Oh no!

Tommy was instantly scared out of his soul. He wanted to fly away right then, but how could he possibly make it in time? His body, wrapped in a magical shield, was instantly bitten into the black dragon alien's mouth. Amid cracking sounds, his magical shield was torn apart by the black dragon alien's sharp teeth like a rubber ball, and in just a few bites, he turned into a pile of flesh and blood and went down the black dragon alien's stomach.

After swallowing Tommy, the Xenomorph Black Dragon opened its mouth and spat down a cloud of black mist. It was almost impossible to see people in the field.

"What is that?" Terrified, panicked voices rang out from within the black mist, followed immediately by continuous screams.

"Why hasn't the young master come out? Where is Mr. Tommy?"

As early as when the black dragon appeared, Robin had grabbed Bertha and rapidly retreated to one side. Bertha saw only darkness before her eyes, unable to see Tommy, and also did not see Elvis come out. She could not help asking Robin anxiously.

At this moment, the screams in the clearing filled with black mist were shrill enough to shake the heavens. Li Junshan sat on the black dragon's back in the air, narrowing his eyes as he watched carefully. He snorted coldly in his heart and urged the black dragon alien to charge down at a figure wrapped in dazzling golden light darting northward.

That figure was none other than Elvis. Just as he and that Grand Battle Master had been fighting to a standstill, his vision was blurred by the whirlwind and the dust filling the sky. Immediately after that, he heard a magical beast's roar that shook heaven and earth. Before he could react, several aliens had already pounced over.

Elvis instantly understood that Li Junshan wanted to wipe him out completely. Shocked and furious, he had seen how formidable the aliens were. With his vision unclear now and not knowing how many were around him, he did not dare keep fighting and hurriedly retreated outward.

The other Grand Battle Master was unlucky. He met the three aliens pouncing at him and started fighting them. In the span of only two breaths, the Grand Battle Master used his sharp sword to force back the three aliens, only to be knocked to the ground by an alien leaping down from a tree. A large hole was stabbed through his head by the alien's tonguebone, while at the same time, his body was practically pierced into a sieve by the other three aliens.

From the corner of his eye, Elvis caught sight of all this, so tense he could hardly breathe. Before he could dart more than a few steps away, his scalp suddenly went numb, and he hurriedly used his battle aura to shift two steps sideways.

"Hiss!" An alien that had pounced down from a tree missed, its tailbone stabbing violently into the ground and piercing more than a meter deep.

Elvis rapidly circulated his battle aura through his whole body, his ghostly figure flickering again and again. He dodged several alien tailbones quietly probing toward him in succession, and he could no longer tell which direction was which. Twisting his body, he darted outward.

Just then, he felt a foul stench fill his nose. He saw a cloud of black mist descending over him, while four or five aliens were also surrounding him from all sides. No longer able to care about anything else, he separated out a thread of battle aura and poured it into a silvery-white necklace hanging before his chest.

All at once, a dazzling mass of golden light burst from Elvis's chest, enclosing his body like an eggshell as it shot straight toward the edge of the field.

The tailbone the Xenomorph stabbed at him struck that layer of golden light, yet could not pierce it in the slightest. Even the astonishingly corrosive black mist could not get near the golden glow, blocked off from a distance.

In the blink of an eye, Elvis crossed the dozen-odd meters to the edge of the field. He had not dodged at all during that time, and his golden shield had been struck by who knew how many of the Xenomorphs' tailbone thrusts. The golden light had already dimmed somewhat.

Every thought vanished from Elvis's mind, and he turned to run into the forest. He had only just lifted his foot when his sharp senses warned him something was wrong. The golden shield was flickering in and out now, and he did not dare take the hit head-on. He shifted slightly aside and swept the rapier in his hand backward, instantly slicing in two the tailbone a Xenomorph had extended toward him, then nimbly leaped aside to avoid the blood the Xenomorph flung his way.

Pshhk! Elvis's lightning-fast rapier cut off another Xenomorph tailbone that had silently snaked over from behind a tree, but this time he failed to avoid the green blood spraying out. The golden shield flared brightly, then finally vanished.

Frantically dodging the attacks of three or four Xenomorphs, Elvis caught sight from the corner of his eye of a massive magical beast flying toward him. With several swishing blades of battle aura, he forced back three Xenomorphs trying to encircle him, dodged the lightning magic one Xenomorph spat out, then raised his foot and kicked it flying.

"Help me," Elvis cried urgently when he saw Blondi walk out of the forest.

Blondi's expression changed. He quickly leaped behind him and used his sharp blade to force back a Xenomorph, saying crisply, "Watch one side each."

Elvis's heart eased. He turned around and focused on the Xenomorphs behind him, only to feel a chill in his chest. He lowered his head and stared at the blade protruding from his chest, his eyes filled with disbelief.

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