Chapter 254 – Encounter (1/2)
Chapter 254 - Encounter
Taisi was lying on the bank of a river with his limbs stretched out, showing the whites of his eyes towards the sky.
Although he had already become a Senior Magus, his body was still as weak as that of an ordinary Novice Magus. Having rushed for only hundreds of miles, Taisi went so out of breath that he nearly puked his internal organs out.
Yu Mu was carefully looking after a bonfire, which had a few mud balls buried under it. Wrapped in those mud balls were freshly hunted wild chickens. This cooking method he had learned from Si Xi. Lately, Yu Mu was quite obsessed in wrapping all kinds of food materials in mud and grilling them with the bonfire.
Shaosi, Man Man, and Feng Xing were sitting in a line on a flagstone, staring at Yu Mu’s bonfire. Wiping the drool off from the corner of her mouth, Man Man murmured that all the chicken legs should belong to her. Feng Xing narrowed his eyes, while silently determining that he would certainly seize at least one chicken leg.
Taisi was still lying on the river bank, but none of the others gave him even a glance. Especially Shaosi. She didn’t even want to talk a word to this older brother of her, who had made her so embarrassed. It had only been hundreds of miles, even Man Man, that little girl covered it easily.
“Whoo, whoo, be careful! If you dare to run, I’ll just kill you for good!”
Ji Hao was riding on the back of a pure black muscular tiger, swiftly rushing out of the woods, like a gust of gale. This three zhang long tiger was breathing rapidly, with white saliva spurted out from the corner of its mouth from time to time. Occasionally, it would let out a roar, and every time after that, Ji Hao would immediately throw a heavy punch to its head.
Ji Hao’s punches nearly knocked this powerful beast down. Finally, its limbs couldn’t support its body anymore and it fell on the ground.
Mr Crow instantly cawed out, spurting out a thin stream of flame, right on the head of the tiger. The tiger howled out, stood up while staggering. With shaky legs it moved towards the river as Ji Hao ordered it to.
“Drink! Animal, can’t at least understand something that I say?” yelled Ji Hao while throwing another heavy punch on the tiger’s head. The tiger lied nicely down beside the river, soaked half if its head into the river and gulped the ice-cold water in big mouthfuls.
It was the third day after they had joined Huaxu Lie’s special army.
The apprentices of the Magus Palace had separated up long time ago, in countless small teams, disappearing in this vast Chi Ban Mountain.
Unlike those ordinary warriors, who knew nothing besides waving their weapons as hard as they could, amongst these apprentices, even the weakest one had mastered a special subject, such as medicine making, magic talismans making, magic formations, or spell using, as well as communicating with mysterious creatures. They could manipulate animals and poisonous creatures, or even control the natural elements like the wind, or lightning and snow. These abilities allowed every single Magus Palace’s apprentice to be more powerful and effective in battle, than tens of, or even hundreds of ordinary warriors who were at the same level as them.
Thousands of carefully selected Senior Magus level apprentices were pushed into the Chi Ban Mountain. It seemed like a handful of small stones had been thrown into the ocean, not even worth one more glance, but these kids were actually amazingly destructive.
Not to mention the others, only Ji Hao’s six-people team had destroyed tens of pioneering squats of those non-human race monsters within the past three days, and killed over a thousand slaves.
The six of them corresponded perfectly with each other, none of them was especially weaker than the others and needed extra protection. If insisted on picking up the weakness of this team, it would be that Taisi’s physical strength and body condition were both too weak, even if he was already a Senior Magus, he still was so weak that it nearly drove the other teammates speechless.
Therefore, Ji Hao used this short break time and went into the deep mountain and captured this strong tiger, which was about to break into the level of Senior Magus.
“Taisi, Taisi!” From a long distance, Ji Hao laughed out and yelled, “I got you a riding animal, check it out! Very nice, like a furry big cat!”
Grabbing the skin of the tiger on its neck, Ji Hao directly pulled the tiger’s head up and swayed it towards Taisi.
Taisi, who was still gasping, raised his head, saw the tiger and his eyes instantly began glowing. He hurriedly stood up, happily walked into the river, looked at Ji Hao, laughed and said, “Aha, ha, Ji Hao, I knew it! You’re the only one who is nice to me!”
“Hm?” Man Man glared at Taisi while showing her little teeth.