Astonishing Luo Xia

Dawn was just breaking as Wan Dong, his body rather exhausted, walked forward through the sealed Monster Town.

Though his body was tired, he wore a smile. After a night of fighting, his results were impressive—he had killed a full fifty-one monsters!

Suddenly, Wan Dong frowned.

His Gene Force-enhanced sense of smell sharply detected a bloody smell.

"Why is the bloody smell so strong..."

Muttering to himself, Wan Dong cautiously headed toward where the smell was coming from.

Before long, after turning onto another street, he reached his destination.

The moment Wan Dong saw the sight before him, he froze in shock.

Within his line of sight—

Monster corpses had been piled into a small mountain.

The blood of all kinds of monsters had practically dyed the entire street a dark crimson.

And at the very top of that mountain of corpses sat a man covered in blood and gore. A Silvermoon Series long sword lay casually beside him, likewise stained with all kinds of blood.

The man atop the mountain of monsters glanced at Wan Dong when he saw him approach.

In an instant, Wan Dong shuddered. He felt as though he had been targeted by a savage monster, and his heart skipped half a beat!

Wan Dong opened his mouth, wanting to speak, yet it seemed that merely doing so allowed him to breathe more easily.

"Woooo... Woooo..."

Suddenly—

A series of piercing sounds rang throughout the town. At the same time, a deep voice broadcast through loudspeakers across the entire town—

"Time is up. All Quasi-Warriors, report to the town exit immediately!"

Wan Dong came back to his senses and subconsciously glanced toward the town exit. Then, a tap sounded beside his ear as the man sitting atop the mountain of monsters leaped down and landed beside him.

Gulp—

Wan Dong swallowed as he watched the blood-covered man slowly pass by him and head toward the town exit.

He could see that the man's backpack was stuffed full of monster left ears!

"Luo Xia..."

Softly murmuring the other man's name, Wan Dong felt an extremely complicated surge of emotions, as if countless bottles of seasoning had been knocked over at once, leaving every possible taste in his heart.

Yesterday, I really overestimated myself...

Mocking himself inwardly, Wan Dong looked back at the mountain-like pile of monster corpses, shook his head with a bitter smile, and headed toward the town exit as well.

At the exit of Monster Town.

One Quasi-Warrior after another emerged from the town, every one of them stained with blood. Some of it belonged to monsters, while some belonged to themselves.

Suddenly, the crowd stirred.

The Quasi-Warriors who had originally been gathered together subconsciously parted to make way. Then, a man reeking heavily of blood slowly walked out with a backpack full of monster ears on his back.

"Damn, who's that? The bloody smell on him is so strong! Is it his own blood, or the monsters'?"

"Look, his backpack is full of monster ears! How many monsters did he have to kill for that?!"

"S-So amazing!"

The Quasi-Warriors all looked at the blood-covered Luo Xia with admiration and awe in their eyes.

After last night's battle, they all knew just how powerful monsters were.

Some of them had even died during the assessment.

Yet Luo Xia had hunted an entire backpack full of monsters by himself! What an astonishing record!

"Xia!"

Others might not have recognized Luo Xia, but Luo Feng recognized his younger brother at a glance.

When he saw Luo Xia approaching, covered in blood, his heart jolted. His heart pounded violently as he feared that something had happened to Luo Xia. He hurried over, looked him over from head to toe, and nervously asked:

"Xia, are you okay? Are you hurt?"

Seeing his eldest brother, Luo Xia smiled and replied casually, "Eldest brother, I'm fine. The blood on me belongs to the monsters. I'm not hurt!"

Only then did Luo Feng let out a sigh of relief.

He looked at Luo Xia's stuffed backpack and asked in astonishment, "How many monsters did you kill? Your backpack can barely hold any more..."

Luo Xia thought for a moment, then said uncertainly, "I didn't count carefully. Probably more than a hundred?"

Last night, he had waited for prey on that street.

As more and more monster corpses piled up on the street, the bloody smell grew increasingly intense. Many monsters had been drawn over to fight Luo Xia.

At first, Luo Xia had counted how many monsters he killed.

But later, too many monsters came, and he no longer had time to count them.

Luo Feng sucked in a cold breath. "More than a hundred?!"

"Probably..." Luo Xia said.

Luo Feng looked at his younger brother with a bitter smile. "What did you even do last night? How did you kill so many monsters?"

Just as Luo Xia was about to speak, one heavy truck after another drove out of the town. The trucks were piled full of monster corpses!

"Hey, these are the corpses of Quasi-Warriors. Someone come claim them."

One of the heavy trucks stopped nearby. On it were the corpses of Quasi-Warriors, some of them already incomplete, clearly having been partly eaten by monsters.

Soldiers carried the corpses down from the trucks one by one and laid them on the ground, waiting for the Quasi-Warriors' acquaintances to identify and claim them.

"Ah!"

"A'gan!"

"Xiao Yin!"

Some Quasi-Warriors cried out when they saw acquaintances among the corpses. Some even threw themselves onto the bodies and wailed bitterly.

"What are you crying for?!"

An Officer's cold voice rang out.

Some of the Quasi-Warriors glared angrily and looked toward the Officer.

The Officer's gaze was stern. Facing the angry stares of the Quasi-Warriors, he still spoke in an icy voice:

"When fighting monsters, how can there be no deaths?!"

"You chose to walk the path of a Warrior, so be prepared to die!"

"Why does Human Society grant Warriors privileges?"

"It isn't for you to enjoy yourselves. It is because you kill large numbers of monsters and render service to humanity that you are granted those privileges!"

"For this trial, the monsters arranged for you were the weakest ones, and they weren't even the types that moved in groups. If you can't even pass this trial, do you still expect to survive once you enter the Wilderness Zone?"

After those words, everyone fell silent.

Clap, clap—

At that moment, another Officer stepped forward and clapped his hands. He said to Quasi-Warriors like Luo Xia, "All right, go hand in the monster ears you hunted!"

Upon hearing this, the Quasi-Warriors gathered themselves and went to the side, handing over the left ears of the monsters they had hunted as proof of their kill count.

"Two monster left ears. Next. Left arm injured."

"Lu Fang? Mm, three monster left ears. Not bad. Next."

Before long, it was Luo Feng and Luo Xia's turn.

The three seated Officers were somewhat surprised when they saw the Two Brothers, especially Luo Xia's bulging backpack.

"You Two Brothers did pretty well. Your backpacks are so full—you killed quite a few monsters, didn't you?"

One of the Officers asked with a smile.

Luo Feng modestly replied, "Not that many."

The other Quasi-Warriors were all watching Luo Xia and Luo Feng now, wanting to know how many monsters the Two Brothers had killed.

Whoosh—

Luo Feng tipped over his bag, and a large number of monster left ears poured directly into the metal basin beside him. There was a small heap of them, filling more than half the basin!

"So many?"

"How many monsters did he hunt?!"

The Quasi-Warriors watching from afar were greatly shocked.

Meanwhile, the assessment Officer counted the monster ears one by one. A moment later, he smiled and looked at Luo Feng.

"Very good. There are thirty-six monster left ears in total. So far, you've temporarily killed the most monsters in this batch. Mm, and you weren't injured either."

Luo Feng smiled.

Actually, he had been busy using monsters to train his Movement Technique last night. Otherwise, he could have killed even more.

"All right, next. Luo Xia, right? It seems I was right to use the word 'temporarily' just now. How many did you kill? It looks like you have even more than Luo Feng. Your backpack can barely hold them all."

The assessment Officer looked at Luo Xia's backpack and asked in surprise.

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