The Creatures That We Are

Chapter 356: Skirmish 2

Her Talent was Slow, serial number 94, Poison-type.

With the slowing agents inside her blood, anyone coming into contact would become unusually slow for ten seconds to three minutes. However, the effect couldn’t be applied to the same target within an hour.

Citrus wasn’t one for melee battles. To utilize her power, she opted to prepare water balloons beforehand with her blood added to the water.

Her Slow was only level 3, and the blood content was low, resulting in lesser debuff. As a result, the slaughterers were only slowed down for six seconds.

The six seconds, however, were precious time for their companions to come to their aid.

Two throwing knives buried into the eyes of the two slaughterers with precision, the blood splattering all over Gray Bear’s face.

The slaughterers didn’t even cry out in pain since their sense of pain had been dulled and slowed as well.

Swoosh.

Gao Yang teleported over to grab the two knives buried into the slaughterers’ eyes, pushing them further until the blades pierced through their heads. Then he followed that up by shooting flames out of his palms, the fire instantly devouring the monsters’ heads and pushing them off their feet.

With their heads still on fire, the slaughterers collapsed on the ground, unmoving.

Gao Yang turned to offer a helping hand to Gray Bear, who accepted the help and stood up.

They didn’t waste their time talking. Gao Yang immediately teleported away, while Gray Bear wiped the blood off his face and charged toward where the slaughterers were most densely packed. “Sons of bitches, your grandfather is back!”

Team Seven Shadow seemed to be struggling.

Gao Yang, Nine Frost, Gray Bear, Lithe Snake, and Green Tea wouldn’t really be threatened if they took care of only themselves, and Can could go invisible with Ronnie to survive.

The rest of the awakeners, however, were too weak in a holistic perspective, and they were in great danger as the slaughterers swarmed them in a chaotic fight.

Beside a car, Three Strings were sneaking toward a dead slaughterer, planning to activate Corpse Herder.

A slaughterer came out of nowhere and jumped onto the top of the car, leaping down to lunge at Three Strings.

In the split second, Old Seven fired an air bullet at the ambusher. His bullets, however, had become weaker due to the prolonged fight.

While it hit the slaughterer in the chest, it failed to stop the monster’s attack, but only offset the impact.

A second later, the bladed arm easily pierced Three Strings’ back, lifting his body upward like a harpooned fish before going through the chest completely.

Three Strings’ blood streamed down the slaughterer’s thick arm as more blood splattered like a fountain, raining down on the slaughterer.

It tipped its head up and opened its mouth to enjoy the crimson shower.

“Three Strings!” Green Tea shouted with rage and pain, but occupied by two slaughterers, he couldn’t make it to his companion in time.

“Bastard!” Old Seven screamed, raising his hands to fire two air bullets at the enemies. Before he could do that, however, his eyes were momentarily blinded by the light reflected off a monster’s blade, descending from above. When he realized it, his arms were already gone.

He cried out as he collapsed, blood spurting out of his cut arms. “My hands! My hands...”

“Old Seven!”

Citrus, who had gone invisible with Can, failed to control her emotion, and her shouts allowed three slaughterers to locate Can’s general whereabouts; the monsters rushed toward them.

“Yiyayiya, yiyayaya—”

Ronnie knew it was time for him to use his Talent.

The moment the scale tipped toward their enemies, he used his Disorientation to break up the fight forcefully.

Afterwards, the awakeners would be able to recover and make a move a second earlier, allowing them to turn the tide.

Amid Ronnie’s strange high-pitched scream, all awakeners and slaughterers stopped fighting, disoriented.

In less than ten seconds, Ronnie’s voice stopped. He wasn’t able to keep his Disorientation going for long.

And he had exposed himself, Can, and Citrus as a result.

Unfortunately, the tide of the battle didn’t turn. The three slaughterers quickly recovered and resumed their charge at the three of them. None was coming to their rescue.

Everyone was trapped in their own fight, too occupied to help their companions.

There were too many slaughterers. Their offense, defense, agility, and explosive power were all impressive. Without a wide-range Talent with great damage output, it would be impossible to kill them all quickly.

“Run!”

At the last moment, Can reached out to push Ronnie, who was on her left, and Citrus, who was on her right, away.

Due to their targets suddenly scattering, the three slaughterers paused for a second, failing to get into their next moves immediately.

Having killed a slaughterer, Gao Yang teleported to dodge the other slaughterers in his area and threw three fireballs Can’s way. That was the most he could do to help them.

While the three fireballs weren’t that strong, they drew a lot of attention, and the three slaughterers dodged on instinct, their flows broken again.

Seizing the few seconds, Ronnie quickly reloaded his gun and emptied the magazine at the slaughterers.

While the bullets failed to penetrate their sturdy armor of scales, they did inflict some damage and stop the monsters from closing in.

Then Citrus threw the water balloons with her blood again, hitting two slaughterers and slowing them down.

The three of them knew that they were merely buying time, delaying their eventual death a little.

“Everyone!”

The voice of a young man came from above.

Gao Yang looked up to see a figure hovering in the air.

Heavenly Dog!

Right, he had disappeared at the start of the battle, but things had been too hectic for Gao Yang to dwell on it.

Heavenly Dog splayed his hands at the battleground below with clumps of light gray energy swirling around his palms—a sign that his energy was overflowing from his body.

“Duck!” he shouted.

Knowing what Heavenly Dog’s Talent did, Gao Yang was the first to lower himself, and he repeated, “Duck down!”

Many had been too caught off guard to react to Heavenly Dog’s command, but Gao Yang’s following shout managed to reach them. Disregarding the slaughterers they were fighting or the other sources of dangers, they flattened themselves to the ground without exception.

“Spatial—Dissection!”

A second later, Heavenly Dog used Spatial Dissection on an incredibly wide area.