FreeBooksOnline Chapter 216 - 135: Scale Leader Galasha
Chapter 216 - 135: Scale Leader Galasha
But before the Lin Ye of today, these death-defying aliens were as fragile as paper.
Lin Ye didn’t even have time to use any specific Gun Blade techniques.
Just the simplest, most direct sweeps and thrusts!
Every swing of his Gun Blade was guaranteed to unleash a shower of blood and gore.
Empowered by [Horizontal Slash], every one of his attacks became a small-scale storm of death.
Wherever the Gun Blade passed, severed limbs flew through the air, and the dark green blood nearly soaked the path before him.
However, the poisoned arrows rocketing toward him from all directions grew more numerous and dense.
PING! PING! PING!
A dense rain of poisoned arrows fell upon him.
With a thought from Lin Ye, purple crystals instantly covered his entire body.
All the poisoned arrows were deflected by the sturdy crystal armor, creating a series of crisp sounds.
Lin Ye’s charge grew even more ferocious.
The valley exit was just ahead!
As long as he could break out of this gourd-shaped valley and enter the great, sand-swept rift, he could use the terrain to shake off his pursuers.
However, at the very instant Lin Ye’s foot was about to cross the valley’s exit...
A bone-chilling dread that sprang from the depths of his soul seized his heart without warning!
It was as if the path ahead wasn’t an open escape route, but an Abyssal Maw capable of devouring everything.
This powerful intuition made Lin Ye perform an almost instinctive, unbelievable move.
While in a full-blown charge, his advancing figure came to a sudden, screeching halt!
His feet dug into the ground like nails, the powerful inertia even plowing two deep furrows into the earth.
Surrounded by countless members of the Shadow Scale Race, he had actually stopped running.
And it was just as he had suspected.
The very next moment after he slammed on the brakes...
The clear stream he was about to cross, that seemingly harmless body of water, suddenly flared with a jet-black radiance that devoured all light!
A black streak, too fast for the naked eye to follow, shot up from the water and swept past, grazing the tip of Lin Ye’s nose!
The shriek of tearing air trailed belatedly behind the black light’s passage.
Whether it was hard rock walls or thick tree trunks, everything was sliced apart like tofu before this black light.
A distant mountain cliff was directly plowed open, leaving a terrifying, immeasurably deep fissure!
A drop of cold sweat trickled down Lin Ye’s forehead.
’If I hadn’t stopped just now, even if I wasn’t sliced in two, I would have definitely lost a huge amount of Life Value.’
Lin Ye stared intently at the "river" before him.
The stream dissolved into an illusion as a suffocating shadow slowly rose from the water.
That wasn’t a stream at all!
It was a creature’s tail!
"Human..."
A voice, incredibly hoarse and full of a metallic, grinding quality, rang out.
It spoke in a broken Great Xia tongue.
"You have... much nerve... to dare... come here..."
The river water parted as a gigantic creature, three to four meters tall and covered head to toe in ink-black Scale Armor, slowly straightened its body.
The edges of its scales shimmered with a crimson metallic luster, like flowing lava.
Atop its head, three menacing, bony horns curved backward like a demon’s.
Most eye-catching was its thick throat.
There, a gland pulsed with an eerie blue light, flickering like a heart with its every breath—a thoroughly bizarre sight.
The muscles of its forelimbs were gnarled and powerful, ending in claws half a meter long that glinted coldly.
Its hind legs were as thick as pillars, planted firmly on the ground.
And that terrifyingly long tail, which Lin Ye had mistaken for a river, swayed slowly. It was longer than the creature’s body, and its tip forked into two sharp blades lined with serrated barbs.
In Lin Ye’s vision, a glaring orange-red marker appeared above its head.
[LV.30]
[Scale Leader Galasha (Lord)]
[Evolutionary Tier: 1.51]
A Lord-class existence as determined by the system!
At that moment, Galasha raised its thick right arm.
A simple gesture, yet it held supreme authority.
All attacks aimed at Lin Ye ceased instantly.
The sky-filling rain of arrows vanished.
The entire valley once again fell into a dead silence.
Four elite Warriors, though much smaller than Galasha, were still far taller and stronger than the average member of the Shadow Scale Race. Clad in fine bone armor, they stood like the most loyal guards, surrounding Galasha.
At the same time, the members of the Shadow Scale Race that had poured out from all corners of the valley had completed their encirclement.
A black, oppressive mass of them sealed off the valley exit completely.
Lin Ye sighed internally.
’I expected this might happen. After all, infiltrating and assassinating an entire tribe by myself was always a near-impossible mission.’
But as he scanned the surrounding Shadow Scale Race warriors, who were eyeing him like predators, he felt a slight sense of relief.
’I overestimated the size of this tribe. I thought there were at least three or four hundred of them, but now, aside from the ones I’ve already killed, there are only a little over a hundred with any real combat ability left.’
’It makes sense, though. If this Shadow Scale Race tribe were any larger, given the Ninghai Military’s level of control, how could they have allowed such a massive threat to develop and grow in the heart of the occupied zone?’
’A population of one to two hundred is probably the result of the military deliberately keeping them in check.’
"I admire... your courage."
Galasha’s golden, slitted pupils were locked onto Lin Ye.
"I like... to... fight... your strong ones."
It stared at Lin Ye and took a few steps, each one causing the ground to tremble slightly.
Then, it let out a low roar in the language of the Shadow Scale Race.
Lin Ye couldn’t understand it.
But he saw the four elite Personal Guards, along with all the surrounding members of the Shadow Scale Race, retreat in unison upon hearing the roar, clearing a large open space.
Lin Ye understood instantly.
’The chieftain of this Shadow Scale Race wants to fight me one-on-one.’
Galasha twisted its thick neck, producing a series of loud CRACKS from its bones.
It bared its maw, revealing a mouth full of dense, sharp fangs, and finished its sentence in broken Great Xia tongue.
"But I much prefer... the feeling... of crushing... your tiny little heads."