Chapter 243: First Blood of True Martial Realm Expert! (1/2)
Chapter 243: First Blood of True Martial Realm Expert!
”This is bad!”
Seeing the halo, Wang Chong and Miyasame Ayaka's faces darkened. They immediately realized that they had picked a difficult opponent. The 'Halo of Bog' was a type of halo unique to Goguryeons. While it was, in essence, a strength-type halo, due to the unique geographical terrain of the Goguryeons, it carried the effects similar to a bog, thus limiting the movement of their opponent while boosting their own strength.
This halo would only appear in the hands of a few rare elites among the Goguryeon warriors.
Initially, Wang Chong had wanted to start out with a slightly stronger opponent, but Miyasame Ayaka seemed to have made a mistake in her selection of opponent.
”Gongzi, be careful!”
At this moment, Miyasame Ayaka had also noticed her mistake. The enemy was clearly much stronger than her.
Most likely, the other party had been staked out in waiting for them.
”Hahaha, you two pesky brats. Recently, more than ten warriors have disappeared from the first base. If I'm not mistaken, the both of you are the culprits, right?”
The one-eyed fatty chuckled as he examined Wang Chong and Miyasame Ayaka with his only eye. This time around, he spoke in the tongue of the Central Plains.
He was no fool. Considering how the two fellows intentionally provoked him and drew him here, there was a good chance that they were involved in the consecutive disappearance of their men a while back.
”Die!” With a savage grin, a powerful might roared around the one-eyed fatty, and instantaneously, it seemed as though Miyasame Ayaka and Wang Chong had sunk into a heavy, viscous bog.
The halo of a True Martial realm expert wasn't just for show. Harnessing the law of nature, they allowed one to tap into the natural energy of the environment to bring out might far greater than their own limits.
And with his enhanced strength, the one-eyed fatty was completely suppressing Miyasame Ayaka and Wang Chong.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
At the same moment that he activated the Halo of Bog, the one-eyed fatty charged up toward Wang Chong and Miyasame Ayaka with his three sabers.
He had intentionally waited for Wang Chong and Miyasame Ayaka to come into proximity before activating his halo so as to catch the both of them off-guard. Wrapped around in the power of his halo, the both of them would find themselves panicked and unable to escape.
For at least ten breaths from now, Wang Chong and Miyasame Ayaka's foot movements were sealed, and this was more than enough for him to clear them up.
”Pay for the lives of those warriors with your own!” Three sabers fell frenziedly toward Miyasame Ayaka and Wang Chong as though a storm, and in an instant, the both of them were put in an extremely difficult position.
Both Spectre Steps and Phantom Steps were extraordinary secret arts, but it just happened that the one-eyed fatty's Aura of Bog was a perfect counter against them.
Like an ordinary human wading through a marsh, even taking a single step forward was highly difficult for them at the moment.
A swift leopard falling into a marsh would find his fighting prowess reduced exponentially, and Wang Chong and Miyasame Ayaka were in the exact same position.
”Yiiii! ——”
Suddenly, a piercing shrill sounded from the distance. Wang Chong's heart jolted. This was the signal that he agreed on with King Song's master archer.
As long as he replied to that signal, the master archer would immediately offer his long-range cover.
And with that archer’s strength, this Goguryeon elite could possibly be severely wounded in the first encounter.
But Wang Chong didn't want to do so.
Master archers tended to be proud people, and this was more likely to be the case the more formidable the master archer was. If Wang Chong were to be defeated in his first fight against a True Martial realm expert, the master archer might end up underestimating him, and such thoughts would damage his credibility. The lack of trust in Wang Chong's ability might hinder the master archer from following his orders in future operations.
And Wang Chong would require his help on many affairs in the future!
No matter what, I've to find a way to defeat this Goguryeon warrior. I'll only engage the help of the master archer when it reaches a desperate situation!, Wang Chong thought.
The master archer was an important person in his plans, and Wang Chong had decided only to mobilize him when needed. Besides, if the master archer were to act contrary to his instructions in crucial moments, that could prove to be fatal.
Sou!
Wang Chong activated his Single Character Consecutive Slash and dashed forward. By just a hair's breadth, he dodged the one-eyed fatty's sabers, and in the midst of doing so, he even shot out surges of Sword Qi of Massacre, but the both of them ended up being negated by the other party's saber qi.
The other party's Aura of Bog was indeed formidable, and its effects on Phantom Steps was huge. Fortunately, Phantom Steps wasn't the only footwork technique that Wang Chong knew, and Single Character Consecutive Slash happened to be less affected by the aura.
On the other hand, despite Miyasame Ayaka's higher cultivation, her movements were bound even more tightly than Wang Chong’s.
Peng!
Shadows flashed, and under the one-eyed fatty's control, the air bog crushed down heavily on the ground, creating a loud rumble. Drenched with sweat from the pressure, Miyasame Ayaka staggered for a moment, and before she could react, 'chi!', she was struck on her left shoulder by a saber qi before she could even react. The saber qi cut through her clothes and etched a deep laceration on her shoulder. Fresh blood spurted out profusely.