375 Chapter 375: Rescue Hostage (1/2)

\”You can go in the front, all guns blazing, then withdraw. Don't just stay there, make sure they come to you. I need you to lure as many of them away as possible so that my team can extricate your sister.\”

\”Considered it done,\” Bu Fan said automatically, grinning malevolently. Then he blinked, a little startled. \”Wait…your team? What team?\”

\”My Soul Beasts. The guys I summoned. I know they are extensions of myself, but I still refer to them as my team.\”

\”Makes sense.\” Bu Fan nodded, and then he cracked his knuckles. I sensed the immense mana buildup as he began to cast his intermediate fire spells. The guy was now an intermediate mage…wait, wrong story. \”All right, I'll begin right away.\”

\”Wait!\” I raised my hand and summoned a Constellation spirit that I had been preparing all this while. \”Lupus will help you.\”

The gigantic wolf materialized beside me, growling. Bu Fan cocked his head to the side, staring at my new Constellation spirit curiously.

\”A…wolf? Why a wolf?\”

\”Because you are Bu Fan, so I thought a wolf summon would be more appropriate.\”

\”Why would a wolf summon be more appropriate for me?!\” Bu Fan demanded. Evidently he had not watched Versatile Mage. I took my smartphone, sent him the link to Webnovel's translated Versatile Mage comic series, and also added Tencents' link to the currently three seasons of the anime adaptation. Bu Fan stared at his smartphone for a moment, and then scowled at me. \”I don't have time to watch dongman and donghua!\”

\”Watch those with your sister after you rescue her. You'll be surprised how much she enjoys that series.\”

\”How would you know about what Xin Chun likes?\” Bu Fan snapped suspiciously, but then shook his head and pulled away. \”I'm wasting too much time arguing with you. I'm going to go create the diversion now. You had better save my sister…\”

\”Yeah, I'll get her out. I swear. Lupus!\”

Before Bu Fan could react, Lupus bounded right into the warehouse's territory, surprising the two sentries. They immediately raised their hands in reflex when the gigantic wolf landed right in front of them, hastily casting spells.

But Lupus had finished casting his spell before they did.

\”Lupus, Yang Mun!\”

The jaws of the great wolf yawned and a sonic howl erupted ferociously, washing over the two sentries and hurling them into the bowels of the warehouse. All around the huge structure, glass shattered and windows broke from the sheer impact.

\”What?! What's going on!?\”

\”Enemy attack! We're under attack!\”

\”It's a monster!\”

The kidnappers who had been napping all this time were rudely awoken by the deafening noise, scrambling frantically to respond. Bu Fan hurried after Lupus, crusing under his breath when he realized that my Constellation spirit had beaten him to the first punch.

\”Damn it, you stole my thunder!\”

Considering that he couldn't howl like my Lupus, I doubted he would have made an equally thunderous entrance. Then again, he was capable of intermediate lightning magic, or powerful basic lightning magic at the very least, so he might just be capable of unleashing thunder and lightning upon his foes.

\”Let's go, Wolfy!\” Bu Fan yelled as he burst into the scene, hurling colossal fireballs at the kidnappers who were rushing out in force, still bleary-eyed from their disturbed sleep and dazed over what was happening. Another huge explosion rocked several off their feet, and set them ablaze. Screaming, the incinerated foes ran smack into the wall and crashed down, desperately rolling on the floor to put out the flames.

\”His name is Lupus, not Wolfy!\” I shouted at him, but true to form, Bu Fan blatantly ignored me. That was fine, Lupus was going to ignore him if he tried to call him something other than his true name. In the background, I could hear the song, Huan Meng (Calling Dreams), being sung by Inory.

\”Why the fuck are they playing the opening theme for Versatile Mage season 3 here?\” I wondered out loud, irritated. Well, whatever. As long as they didn't play Jue Di by Drunken Snow (Zui Xue) during the ending credits, I couldn't care less. Honestly, I liked Jue Di better, but I wasn't doing a promotional chapter for Versatile Mage, the donghua adaptation. I swear.

Anyway, I left the diversion to Bu Fan and Lupus. When things got dicey and more of the kidnappers poured out in force, Lupus automatically withdrew, luring the bulk of the abductors away. He had been instructed by me, and I was still keeping a tight mental rein on him.

\”Hey!\” Bu Fan hollered, annoyed at being \”betrayed.\” I did tell him beforehand to pull away and lure kidnappers away from the warehouse so that I could rescue his sister. It was his problem if he refused to stick to the plan. I didn't care if he was super-confident of defeating all the kidnappers by himself. The further he baited the damned abductors away from the warehouse, the less of a chance they would get to use Xin Chun as a hostage.

The idiot was putting his own sister at risk if he didn't stick to the plan.

\”Damn it!\”

Bu Fan realized that he couldn't handle over a dozen enemy mages on his own, and he reluctantly retreated, following Lupus.

While they were luring the dudes away from their hideout, I executed my rescue plan. Using the eyes of my Lepus, I saw that two of Xin Chun's captors had stood up to check what was happening, leaving just one guard in the room. True to form, and unable to resist the curiosity that was so ingrained within human nature, the guard stared out at the door.

While his attention was fixated on the noise above, my Constellation spirits sprang to life. They waited until the other two guards were quite a distance away, falling for the decoy that was Bu Fan and Lupus and pursuing them along with the other kidnappers. Then they burst from the ventilation shafts, just like the xenomorphs from the movie, Aliens, taking the guard completely by surprise.

\”What the…?!\”

That was the only thing he managed to spit out as he grabbed for his weapon, the sword that was lying by his chair.

Unfortunately, he didn't make it. One of my Lepus landed a drop-kick into his face, the hare twisting in midair to deliver a powerful strike. The guard grunted before he crashed into the table where he was playing cards earlier with his friends, sending the deck flying into the air. He scrambled for his weapon, which clattered several feet away along with his toppled chair, but an Ursa Minor stepped on it, pinning it to the ground.

\”You…\” the guard growled as he lowered his hands from clutching his broken nose, only to see a whole bunch of rabbits and teddy bears standing over him. His jaw dropped.