Chapter 31: I Refuse (Fourth Update, Monthly Ticket Bonus)
Boom. Boom.
Dense attacks landed on the spot where Su Xiao had been standing, dust billowing up.
Whoosh.
A figure rushed out from within the dust cloud. Su Xiao raised his blade and charged toward the Blood Blossom Adventure Group.
As long as he got close to these people, it would be his domain. However, one thing bothered him: the leader of Blood Blossom had barely made a move.
Ten meters, five meters. He was about to plunge into the crowd.
At this moment of imminent victory, Su Xiao’s figure came to an abrupt halt. A prickling sensation shot up his spine.
The staff in Leng Yue’s hand had vanished at some point, replaced by a metal bow of a similar color.
The front of the metal bow was inlaid with a row of milky-white gems. Leng Yue hooked two fingers around the bowstring, drawing it into a full crescent.
“Moonlight.”
Twang.
A silver-white energy arrow shot forth, leaving a trail of silver light as it flew toward Su Xiao.
He couldn’t dodge it. Even though the arrow wasn’t fast, he couldn’t avoid it.
This feeling appeared suddenly, and Su Xiao made a quick judgment.
Since he couldn’t dodge it, he wouldn’t bother trying. Su Xiao raised his blade to meet it, slashing directly at the energy arrow.
Boom.
An explosion rang out as the energy arrow burst apart.
A wave of dizziness hit him. The arrow’s explosive power wasn’t strong, but it generated a nauseating shockwave.
Everything in his vision became blurred, and at the same time, a barrage of attacks came flying in.
Su Xiao rolled sideways to evade most of the attacks as the dizziness gradually subsided.
It was an arrow with three effects: tracking, explosion, and control. The leader of Blood Blossom was no pushover.
Her staff and mage robe had led Su Xiao to mistakenly think she was a wind-element mage, but now it was clear she wasn’t. She had transformed from a mage into an archer as if she were a different person.
His gaze locked onto Leng Yue, and something even more surprising happened. The bow in her hands quickly dissolved, turning into two rapiers in an instant, one in each hand. The hilts of the rapiers were embedded with blue gems.
This woman might have three combat forms: mage, archer, and swordsman.
Leng Yue, wearing high heels, dashed toward Su Xiao at a brisk pace. The heels flashed with a blue light—they were clearly a piece of blue-grade equipment.
With dual rapiers in hand, Leng Yue wasn’t slow. In a few steps, she was right in front of Su Xiao.
Su Xiao raised an eyebrow. This woman actually dared to get close to him.
He swung the Dragon-Slaying Flash down with heavy force. Su Xiao’s highest attribute was Strength, a full 20 points. Leng Yue quickly crossed her two rapiers in front of her to block.
Clang.
A sharp metallic clash rang out, sparks flying high. Leng Yue’s high heels sank into the stone slabs of the ground.
“So heavy.”
Leng Yue was clearly struggling to withstand Su Xiao’s slash. In her current state, her Agility attribute was higher, so her body was slightly hunched.
Su Xiao pressed his free left hand onto the back of the Dragon-Slaying Flash. That wasn’t all—since Leng Yue’s body was hunched, the blade was roughly level with his chest. He directly lifted one foot and stomped onto the back of the blade.
“Hmph.”
Leng Yue let out a muffled groan. Her fair knees hit the ground, her face turning deathly pale. For this proud woman, this might be worse than death.
Su Xiao pressed down with his full body weight. The edge of the Dragon-Slaying Flash kissed Leng Yue’s collarbone, and blood immediately seeped out. Leng Yue was on the brink of death.
He exerted more force, and the blade continued to cut downward. Leng Yue stubbornly lifted her head. Even with death looming, her gaze showed no sign of surrender.
Su Xiao knew he couldn’t kill her now. Her teammates weren’t just watching—a hail of bullets and skills were already flying toward him.
“Die!”
A spear tip gleamed as Blood Rose thrust her spear at Su Xiao’s throat.
He tilted his head back, kicked off Leng Yue’s shoulder, and retreated.
Bang.
A sniper bullet lodged into Su Xiao’s lower abdomen, the impact pushing him back two steps.
Blood gushed from the wound. Su Xiao only glanced at it before ignoring it. He was used to this kind of pain; the battle was steadily strengthening his willpower.
He was fairly injured now, but he had dealt with the leader of Blood Blossom. She wouldn’t be bothering him for a while.
Taking a deep breath, Su Xiao charged again toward the Blood Blossom crowd, his target the control team.
The female contractors with control skills broke out in a cold sweat, flinging one control skill after another.
Rolling, leaping, forced immunity—Su Xiao dodged several control skills in succession.
Three meters. He had reached the front of the Blood Blossom group.
“Spread out the formation.”
Leng Yue’s arm hung limply. Blood Rose chased after Su Xiao desperately, but as a Strength-type, she was far too slow compared to him.
The women of Blood Blossom quickly scattered, but it was too late. Su Xiao charged straight into their control team.
With one slash, he killed a female contractor whose face was full of terror. His long blade danced, his eyes utterly calm. Three seconds later, six corpses lay at his feet.
The members of Blood Blossom scattered like refugees fleeing a disaster. Su Xiao gave chase, blade in hand.
Their main tank had only lasted one slash before dying, let alone these control-type contractors.
A tiger among sheep was the most vivid metaphor now.
One contractor after another fell before they could run two steps.
Seven seconds later, Su Xiao had killed all the exposed control-type contractors. He shifted his gaze to the healer protected at the center of the group.
Candy’s breath caught. This girl felt like the whole world was against her.
Candy was bitter, but she shouted it out loud.
“I’m not a healer!”
This shout made Su Xiao pause. Was she insulting his intelligence?
“Don’t you dare hurt my sisters anymore.”
Leng Yue suddenly appeared behind Su Xiao. His pupils contracted sharply.
Did she teleport?
He immediately dismissed that thought. Blood Rose was now at Leng Yue’s previous position—they had swapped places.
Leng Yue’s rapier sank into Su Xiao’s rear shoulder. The thrust was aimed at his heart, but he had dodged it. His Heart Sense had detected the attack from behind, and since dodging was impossible, he had reacted instinctively.
Once the rapier entered his body, a bone-chilling cold spread.
[You are being eroded by ‘Moon’s Chill.’ In three seconds, you will be implanted with ‘Moon’s Cold Poison.’]
The situation was bad. Su Xiao reversed the Dragon-Slashing Flash, gripping it in a reverse hold and stabbing at Leng Yue’s throat.
Leng Yue instinctively dodged, pulling the rapier out of Su Xiao’s back.
The stab missed, but Su Xiao didn’t give up. He leaped backward.
Pfft.
The Dragon-Slashing Flash pierced straight through Leng Yue’s flat abdomen. Su Xiao’s back pressed against her chest, and he could even feel her soft body.
Gripping the hilt with both hands, he dragged the blade forcefully to the side.
Leng Yue let out a pained groan as a large amount of blood stained her white mage robe.
The sensation of cutting through flesh appeared, but it vanished as quickly as it came.
Su Xiao turned his head to see Leng Yue’s body radiating a pure white moonlight. She seemed to transform into a moon goddess, exuding a holy, untouchable aura.
He pulled the blade back and retreated, breathing heavily, covered in blood.
Though he was seriously injured, he had killed all of Blood Blossom’s control contractors.
Pulling out a [Type-C Battlefield Injector], Su Xiao stabbed it into the side of his neck. Injecting it into a vein worked faster.
With his right hand holding the blade and his left hand pressing a metal injector into his neck, his body drenched in blood, Su Xiao looked exceptionally fierce.
The grudge between Su Xiao and the Blood Blossom Adventure Group was absurd to him. It all started with the Queen and her two companions trying to assassinate him.
Though these female contractors were all beautiful, and the leader Leng Yue was stunningly gorgeous, Su Xiao would still kill them without hesitation. They were in a fight—women had no privileges. In battle, there were only enemies, not genders.
Su Xiao gradually steadied his breathing. Leng Yue and the remaining women of Blood Blossom regrouped.
Fighting Su Xiao was a nightmare for the Blood Blossom women.
He simply didn’t fall for control skills. Those he could dodge, he dodged; those he couldn’t, he forced through with sheer will.
And his long blade was too sharp. Aside from their leader Leng Yue, no one had survived a single slash.
They couldn’t control him, couldn’t tank him, and his speed was bizarre. Several magic skills had hit him, and he didn’t even flinch. How were they supposed to keep fighting?
Under the deliberate cultivation of Reincarnation Paradise, Su Xiao’s identity as a Hunter was beginning to bare its fangs.
Hunters were meant to hunt down Violators. It would be laughable if their ability to fight contractors wasn’t strong.
“Continue.”
After recovering some of his injuries, Su Xiao slowly approached the women of Blood Blossom.
“Stop right there, you madman.”
Leng Yue shouted.
Su Xiao looked at her with slight confusion.
“You want to negotiate a truce?”
“Yes. The deaths of our members can be written off, but from now on, you can’t actively oppose us. If we keep fighting, you won’t come out ahead either. This is a Peace Mode derivative world—there’s no Scarlet Card reward.”
Leng Yue made the most rational choice. If they continued, even if they killed Su Xiao, Blood Blossom would be nearly wiped out.
“Hah? After all this, you still want to negotiate? No wonder you’re in the same adventure group as the Queen—your style is very similar. But…”
Su Xiao wiped the blood from his chin, his gaze fixed on Leng Yue.
“I refuse!”
Um…
Ahem, let’s get one thing straight—don’t hit me in the face, okay?
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