The Creatures That We Are

Chapter 734: All Trash

The five-colored rope exploded into countless sharp, thin wind blades, cyan fire, tadpoles of purple lightning, white ice shards, and heated red light particles.

Can hurriedly evaded but still ended up hit. Clothes tattered, she was covered in burns, cuts, charred spots, and injuries left by electricity. Like a flying bird hit by a firework, she plunged to the ground covered in blood and smoke, landing near Gao Yang.

[Nine Frost: Can! Get up! Run!]

Nine Frost’s voice dove into her head, waking her short-circuited brain.

While her condition looked bad, most of the injuries were shallow. She clenched her teeth as she crawled to her feet, trying to draw the energy in her body.

Zero Hatred, hovering above her, didn’t give her the chance. He extended an index finger and aimed it at Can. A red energy orb swirling with electricity emerged from his fingertip.

A ray of red deadly ray was about to shoot through Can’s chest the next second.

Zero Hatred didn’t intend to kill Can cleanly. He finally got a prey to toy with. He would torture her slowly and hit different parts of her body with rays of different elements, turning her into a sieve.

“Agh!”

Gao Yang shouted while lying prone on the ground, using the last of his energy to use Wave of Serenity.

It was to save Can and to save himself. Can and Zero Hatred's entrance into the battle hadn’t interrupted Yan Liang, and the old man picked himself up before continuing to use Heartstealer at Gao Yang.

Hum.

A wave of sacred, serene white energy shockwave rippled out in a hemisphere, cleansing all lifeforms within five hundred meters in radius.

Everyone’s energy sputtered out and became silenced for a second.

Zero Hatred’s and Yan Liang’s attacks were interrupted.

Can climbed to her feet. The energy numbed her for a moment yet cleared her muddled mind. She quickly went invisible.

When Zero Hatred realized it, Can was already gone.

Yan Liang and Zero Hatred looked at Gao Yang. The young man lying on the ground was already on the verge of death.

They attacked at the same time. It seemed that neither wanted to miss the chance to kill the Divine Scion with their own hands.

“Hahahahaha—”

Then a rough, hearty laughter resounded and rang.

Yan Liang, Zero Hatred, and even Flower Turtle—combined with Six Rime and Xiao Xin—and Small Luo in the sky were compelled by a sudden fury to locate the owner of the laughter and kill him.

...

Forty seconds ago.

[Nine Frost: It’s still checkmate with the poisonous gas dispersed.]

[Gray Bear: Ha, don’t let Can hear that.]

[Nine Frost: I blocked her.]

[Lithe Snake: Plan B.]

[Nine Frost: Help Captain escape. Anyone can die, but not him.]

[Lithe Snake: Agreed, but he won’t run.]

[Nine Frost: It’s not for him to decide. We’ll do our best to disperse the poisonous gas and draw all the enemies away.]

[Lithe Snake: The chance of success?]

[Nine Frost: Sixty percent.]

[Lithe Snake: Leave it to me.]

Lithe Snake and Gray Bear dragged their poisoned bodies to the Starcatching Pavilion as quickly as they could, but they were slowing down noticeably, and elite monsters came every now and then to block their way and further slow them down.

As they drew close, Gray Bear got a better look at the ruins ahead. A great sorrow hit him in the head.

How did this happen?

The Nine Scions were just getting bigger. It seemed that everything was going in the right direction, yet it all turned to ashes in two minutes.

Dead, everyone was dead.

Was this the everlasting night? Was this the darkness that no light of dawn could penetrate?

No...

This wasn’t how the Nine Scions should turn out!

We walk a path of justice and shed warm blood. We give it our all. We deserve the light of dawn!

Even if the light won’t be shining on my face.

“Ugh...”

Gray Bear dropped to his knees while groaning, holding onto the injury on his abdomen.

“Trash!” Lithe Snake stopped to support him. “Don’t stop here. Keep running!”

“I...I can’t go further...” Gray Bear grabbed Lithe Snake and suddenly took out a shot of Medicine D to inject Lithe Snake’s forearm.

“You...”

Lithe Snake started and jumped away in time, but a small dosage of Medicine D still entered his body.

“Remember to bring me alcohol when you visit my tomb!”

Gray Bear stood up and rushed in another direction.

Putting in his all to run two hundred meters, he extended his arms and tipped his head up.

“Hahahahaha!”

“Hahahahaha!”

“This isn’t targeted at anyone! I’m telling you, all of you—”

“You’re all trash!”

At that moment, Gray Bear cemented his determination. Beastly reached level 7, and level 4 Jeer jumped to level 7, too.

Gray Bear suddenly came to a realization: Talent outside of the top 100 could reach level 7, but it didn’t follow the usual progression. A Talent within the top 100 must first reach level 7, then the breakthrough would act as a fuse and light up the other Talents.

He didn’t know why that was, and he didn’t care.

The level-ups filled him with more energy, helping him endure the poison and the cold.

“Hahahahaha!”

Gray Bear continued to laugh. The enthralling laughter drew the aggro of all enemies within a kilometer—his companions were no exception, but at half the efficiency. They had to do their best to tamp down the urge to kill Gray Bear.

Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh.

In ten seconds, countless elemental arrows rained upon Gray Bear, turning him into a multicolor target.

However, level 7 Beastly granted him enough defense to endure the damage.

Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh.

About a dozen vines snaked along the ground and wrapped around Gray Bear, strangling him at full power. Then a spiderweb covered in spider venom descended upon him to envelop him.

Gray Bear was completely trapped and stripped of mobility, yet he was still laughing.

“Hahahaha! Trash! You’re all trash!”

“Hahahahaha!”

[Nine Frost: Can, disperse the poisonous mist.]

[Can: Copy that!]

[Lithe Snake: Don’t. Yan Liang didn’t get taunted. He won’t give you the chance.]

[Nine Frost: Let me check... He hasn’t moved! He’s resisted Jeer!]

[Lithe Snake: Run away at once, Can.]

[Can: I’m going to save Uncle Bear!]

[Lithe Snake: You can’t save anyone. Live and take care of Captain.]

[Can: But...]

[Nine Frost: Can! Get the hell out now! Come find me!]

“Hahahaha...”

At the center of the road, Gray Bear suddenly stopped laughing.

His right eye was blinded by a stab, and his thighs and abdomen had been pierced by sharp elemental spears. He cracked his bleeding left eye open, seeing Lithe Snake walking the walls and dodging Zero Hatred’s elemental arrows as he came up to Gray Bear.

The left arm injected with a small amount of Medicine D had been sliced off, held in Lithe Snake’s right hand.

“Fuck off!”

“Get the fuck away! I don’t need you here!”

Gray Bear growled furiously. “Don’t fucking take my spotlight!!”

Lithe Snake ignored him and continued to dash. He jumped and landed before diving behind Gray Bear.