The Creatures That We Are

Chapter 210: Heated Fight

“You didn’t honor your word.” Yellow Butterfly scoffed, but there was little surprise on her face.

Gao Yang retorted, “Why would I when dealing with someone who just ambushed her companions?”

Gray Bear’s and Black Sparrow’s death must not be in vain. He would avenge them here and now!

Without wasting any more breath, Yellow Butterfly made a powerful leap from the water tank, rushing straight at Gao Yang with the dagger in her hand aimed at his throat, her movement viciously efficient.

Clang!

Gao Yang quickly drew a shortsword and parried the blade Yellow Butterfly wielded midair. Making use of the counterforce, Yellow Butterfly made a leap over Gao Yang’s head and, while landing behind him, she swung the dagger at his back.

Halfway through the swing, her gaze darkened. Despite facing away from her, Gao Yang had sneakily tucked a hand under his armpit.

“Fire!”

Another blazing torrent swept over Yellow Butterfly.

“Ah!”

With a scream, she fell to the floor.

“Fire!”

Gao Yang didn’t give her a chance to react. His other palm joined in and shot level 3 Fire at full force. The two blazing streams converged to mercilessly burn the woman at his feet.

Two second, three second...

Gao Yang was confident that if he managed to burn her for more than five seconds, there would be no escaping for her. Only someone without a sense of pain would be able to maintain rationality and the ability to think under such terrible torture.

Swoosh!

Three deep violet bone stings broke out of the fire, thrusting straight at Gao Yang’s head.

Shocked, Gao Yang stepped out of the way, his fire dispersing.

One bone sting managed to leave a gash on his left cheek. Gao Yang felt a stabbing pain. He was bleeding.

The burning left a charred patch on the floor where Yellow Butterfly had been. Her frayed hair ran messily down her shoulders, and her clothes had almost been completely burned, leaving only precious few pieces of cloth covering parts of her body, which was littered with burns of different degrees.

Gao Yang hid his surprise. For any regular creature, the fire would’ve melted the skin, yet she only looked burned.

Stranger still, the three four-meter violet bone stings were her three fingers; or extensions of her three fingers, to be more precise.

Swoosh!

The three bone stings retracted back into her fingers.

Gao Yang raised his guard. He would have to be careful about getting into her proximity. A moment of distraction would be enough for her to put holes into him.

“I didn’t want to show you this side of me.”

Yellow Butterfly raised her right hand and yanked off what little fabric covering her, exposing her sensuous, voluptuous body.

Gao Yang didn’t look away for propriety’s sake.

Of course he wouldn’t!

If he looked away for even a fraction of a second, he would surely die.

Soon, though, even propriety was no longer a concern. Slimy, tough violet scales quickly grew out of Yellow Butterfly’s body, covering her entirely like seeds sprouting in time-lapse. In the blink of an eye, Yellow Butterfly was covered from head to toe in violet armor, including her face.

“You are dying here today, Seven Shadow,” Yellow Butterfly said with a hint of anger.

“That’s my line.”

Gao Yang took out the fingerless tactical glove from his pocket and put it on his right hand.

[Warning, Luck acquisition rate increases to 2500 times.]

—Ah, you’re finally back, system. I’d never missed you so much.

—2500 times. That’s troublesome, but I have a chance of winning.

Yellow Butterfly rushed toward Gao Yang at an impressive speed.

Gao Yang raised his hands to activate Fire, but swoosh! Her charging at him was merely a distraction. Her right hand fingers turned into bone stings and stabbed at Gao Yang’s left chest, abdomen, and right leg.

Having foreseen that coming, Gao Yang quickly jumped up to avoid the bone stings coming for his abdomen and thigh. While he couldn’t get away from the one stabbing at his chest, he managed to parry it to the left with the shortsword in his hand and threw himself to the right with the counterforce..

Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!

Yellow Butterfly’s left hand transformed as well, the three bone stings thrusting at Gao Yang.

Again, Gao Yang saw the attack coming, and he rolled to dodge it. The three stings stabbed into the concrete floor, sending sparks flying.

Yellow Butterfly had made all the ranged attacks she could. She quickly retracted her six bone stings.

Seizing the opening, Gao Yang dove into her space and shot out fire from his right hand. With the glove amplifying his Talent, the fire was stronger and quicker than before.

It was clear that Yellow Butterfly had underestimated him, and she ended up hit.

However, the scales protecting her made her impervious to quick burns. In less than a second, she left the fire’s range with a double jump. As soon as she landed, she leapt in the opposite direction, lunging at Gao Yang.

This time, six bone stings shot out of her two hands at the same time, stabbing at Gao Yang from above, below, left, right, and front. Foregoing making a fatal attack, she aimed to cut off all possible escape routes.

Gao Yang was surprised by how swiftly she changed tactics.

Bending his legs, he jumped up and twisted his torso at the same time, dodging the three bone stings aimed at his lower body. Then he parried one with his shortsword and grabbed another with his right hand.

Unable to dodge the last, it hit him in the left shoulder.

“Ah!”

The concrete wall was right behind Gao Yang, and the bone sting pinned him to it. The other four bone stings burrowed into the wall as well, while one was still held in Gao Yang’s grasp.

Yellow Butterfly dashed at Gao Yang, perfectly coordinating the speed at which she retracted the bone stings and her advance. It almost felt like she was sucked in by the six bone stings.

Two seconds later, she was only half a meter away from Gao Yang.

As she continued to exert her power, the bone sting Gao Yang had grabbed onto with his right hand inched toward his chest.

Despite the violet scales covering her face, Gao Yang could still make out her beautiful facial features. Her deep violet eyes were crystal clear, and they were captivating under the moonlight.

“You’re not my match, Seven Shadow.” Yellow Butterfly had clearly lost some control over her emotions after transforming into a monster. Gone was the calm and composed look on her face. She looked bloodthirsty and murderous.

“You’re right...that I’m not your match...now.”

Gao Yang tightened his grip around the bone sting almost stabbing into his heart, his lips tugged into a smile. “But the next second...things will change.”

[You have accumulated 854 Luck points.]

During the fight with Niu Xuan, Gao Yang had accumulated at most a few dozen points. However, since entering the Rune Cave, the two hours spent fighting rune corpses had earned him close to 800 Luck points—all because the acquisition bonus considered only the level of danger and how long it lasted, and no other factors.

With Gao Yang rendered a regular human without Talent, the bonus dependent on the level of danger had stayed around 500 to 3000 times as he faced the rune corpses, as well as Li Zhuanghu and Xiang Xiaoqin as their respective Rune Circuit manipulated them.

That was the perfect embodiment of high risk, high reward.

—Max out my Strength, Agility, and Willpower! Put the rest of the points into Constitution and Endurance until the end of the fight!

[Understood.]

[Constitution: 344 Endurance: 344]

[Strength: 500 Agility: 500]

[Willpower: 500 Charisma: 97]

[Luck: 454]

Gao Yang had never increased his stats by this much at once. The change to his body even brought about a physical phenomenon.

Swoosh!

As soon as Gao Yang made the instruction to his system, a strong current burst out around him like the air was resonating with the energy quickly awakening inside his body.

The powerful gust messed up Yellow Butterfly’s hair and even forced her to close her eyes.

Shock and confusion flashed through her mind. What had happened to Gao Yang?

Crack.

With a cold, assured smile, Gao Yang shattered the bone sting in his grasp.