TOMWDET Chapter 192.2

Open Fire (part 2)

 

The giant rhinoceros, whose eyes had long been enhanced by elements to see night as clearly as day, watched with its own eyes as that massive dark element spread outward.

 

Elemental vibration – a very simple combat method to intimidate enemies.

 

Monster beasts of any level could use it.

 

This was just the simplest skill to display one’s strength.

 

But this simple demonstration had become the last straw that broke the camel’s back at this moment.

 

The monster beasts, who were already struggling to dodge under the damage of the artillery shells, were all stunned by this strike.

 

It was unclear whether the attacks from the distance caused more damage, or whether the [Tiger]’s sudden action caused more casualties.

 

Speaking of the other side.

 

The moment the [Tiger] appeared, all the humans were shocked.

 

The monitoring screen, which was already far from the Queen’s Palace, was filled with the entire giant tiger’s silhouette in just the blink of an eye.

 

“This is also a monster beast?!” Diz exclaimed, knowing that monster beasts had large builds but never imagining they could be that large.

 

“Stop making noise.” Julius pressed the vein on his forehead. “Not long ago, Clemens’s original form was clearly described to you all.”

 

Each one acted quite convincingly.

 

Don’t look at how this group of people now displayed various expressions – some fearful, some shocked, some frowning, others lost in thought… Under all these expressions and attitudes, what was hidden was all the same thought of wanting to kill Clemens like mad dogs.

 

Kill him kill him kill him kill him kill him kill him kill him kill him kill him kill him kill him kill him kill him kill him kill him, absolutely absolutely absolutely must kill him!

 

The enemy was very powerful, powerful to the degree that made one’s heart tremble, but just thinking about how even a small cold and fever would require Su Li to lie down for an entire day, suffering to the point of looking half-dead, the others couldn’t help but think darkly about letting that young man face such an enemy…

 

The world must have gone mad, right?

 

Thus, everyone’s thoughts became incredibly unified at this moment.

 

Absolutely cannot leave such an enemy for Su Li!

 

“Increase firepower, all personnel begin action!” Euphia directly waved her hand, and the extremely cooperative and obedient ten-thousand-member mercenary group instantly lined up behind the mobile elemental cannons, ready for preparation.

 

Euphia squinted and said, “Ten thousand people is indeed too few. Let our fastest, Cyril, go back to find the Pope and the Dean. Tell those two old men to gather another 990,000 people for me during this period!”

 

“Don’t talk about those people as if they’re tools that can be summoned with just one sentence, okay? Besides, is it really okay for you to directly call them old men?” Cyril said with twitching mouth corners.

 

“Don’t worry about these details.” Euphia stared intently at the [Tiger] with bright eyes.

 

The best way to describe her current state was like a group of newbie players seeing a boss that would definitely drop divine-level equipment right in front of them.

 

Whether to fight or not fight, there was no need to hesitate.

 

They had already cheated and grabbed the divine-level equipment in advance.

 

Was there a problem with reasoning from result to cause?

 

Euphia felt there was no problem!

 

“Defeat him, conquer him, make the monster beasts of this world never able to target Su Li again! Then, let us bring Su Li home!”

 

“Ohhhhhhhh!” Willard was the first to respond.

 

This group of people gathered because of Su Li, after hearing from Adonis what Su Li’s pure human blood meant to monster beasts, didn’t produce any mocking thoughts.

 

They only felt heartache.

 

Now there was such an opportunity to demonstrate strength and push everyone to the position of supporters behind Su Li – obviously no one would choose to miss it.

 

Attack him!

 

Straightforward to the point of needing no prefix description.

 

High in the sky.

 

The three Winged Tribe monster beasts, who had finally escaped the friendly fire from their allies, had just rushed to where the humans gathered when they were hit in the face with dust by Cyril’s action of running toward the Winged Tribe remnant forces’ gathering place.

 

After all this back and forth hassle, the three monster beasts who originally wanted to demand justice now only felt mentally exhausted.

 

But the humans didn’t think so.

 

With backgrounds that seemed to be burning with flames, Adison showed a confused expression and asked, “What’s wrong with you all…?”

 

“Nothing’s wrong,” replied Julius, who still maintained rationality and calmness.

 

“Everyone just wants to kill the [Tiger], that’s all.”

 

The three: “???”

 

The three: “!!!”

 

“Are you sure your brains are still clear?”

 

“Clear?” Julius sneered back, and when Adison showed a frightened expression due to his strange expression, Julius said coldly, “Protecting Su Li requires what clarity!”

 

“That thing over there – as long as we defeat him, the openly strongest monster beast, then the entire monster beast society will never again dare provoke Su Li. Of course, flirting is also not allowed!”

 

Julius’s eyes revealed madness, like a person who had been hungry for three days suddenly seeing meat.

 

“…Have you gone mad?” Adison murmured in a low voice.

 

“Whether they’re mad or not, I don’t know.” The snowy owl looked toward the Queen’s Palace direction. “But I’m very certain that some monster beast has definitely gone mad.”

 

Like the giant rhinoceros.

 

The humans were too far away, so the [Tiger]’s habitual intimidation all hit his own people.

 

Even if the giant rhinoceros had the strength to break free, he understood that whether breaking free from artillery shells or from the [Tiger]’s claws, he faced a life-and-death crisis.

 

The difference…? Before it was an enemy that made him furious, now it was a king that made him have no heart to resist at all.

 

“I don’t want to die here.” The giant rhinoceros’s face uncontrollably showed an expression of fear.

 

Clemens, who had originally raised his paws and wanted to walk toward the forest where the humans were located, stopped his advancing steps.

 

Fear…

 

Even more dark elements gathered in the air, and those elemental light bands contained even more dark elements.

 

At this time, the finally “awakened” Clemens realized what he had done.

 

He certainly didn’t care about his own actions.

 

The [Tiger] was just somewhat annoyed that he had chosen the most destructive method with not particularly good results.

 

Commonly called wasted effort.

 

“Retreat.” The voice from a hundred meters above was given an ethereal quality.

 

That ethereal feeling weakened the original meaning of being high and mighty.

 

The giant rhinoceros was so overjoyed at this moment that he almost cried.

 

But…

 

The mobile elemental cannons that still hadn’t stopped attacking in this direction continued.

 

This time, the land monster beasts believed that as long as Clemens was there, no attack couldn’t be blocked.

 

But the result surprised them greatly——

 

Beside the mobile elemental cannon, Euphia forcefully patted Diz’s shoulder. “Although I know that even if your power increased ten thousand times it still couldn’t compare to Clemens–who made humans always know that the elemental characteristic of dark elements and light elements mutually restrain each other?”

 

“Go ahead, give everything you have to the mobile elemental cannon!”

 

“So when exactly did you learn to speak such inflammatory words?” Diz looked away, unable to bear watching.

 

But he still followed what Euphia said, and together with the group of light elementalists who followed him, inputted all their power into the mobile elemental cannon.

 

Pure white – not as brilliant as the golden sun, nor as gentle as silver moonlight.

 

The characteristic of pure light represented by light elements had always been incompatible with dark elements.

 

After the mobile elemental cannon fired this elemental shell condensed by ten light elementalists, the light element directly illuminated this place that had been wrapped in pitch-black night.

 

Knowing that she and others had been exposed, Mavis squinted her eyes looking at Diz, whose expression was exhausted and who nearly fell to the ground.

 

The latter lay on the ground, directly covering his face with both hands.

 

At that moment, Diz felt that what he had illuminated was not the night, but the eyes of many people who could clearly see what he had done.

 

Fortunately, that attack accurately hit Clemens…

 

Unlike Su Li, who had previously dealt critical damage by targeting weak points, this purely external attack had its effect directly blocked ninety percent by the dark element’s protective shield.

 

The remaining force that impacted the body was also completely negligible…

 

But was this really the case?

 

No.

 

What made the giant rhinoceros most desperate was that he saw the curled fur on that giant tiger’s tail.

 

The compressed light element had extremely pure light force.

 

From ten kilometers away, super long-distance tail fur burning…

 

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Under the Son of Light’s expression of not wanting to live, Clemens, who was hit head-on by this attack, actually didn’t become furious as the humans had expected.

 

The [Tiger]’s fur wasn’t as simple a concept as just hair.

 

Curling wasn’t just the effect of high heat either.

 

Although this shell’s damage was nothing to Clemens – not even one percent of the damage Su Li had previously caused him – this was still an attack that broke through the elemental light bands and could harm him.

 

Humans…

 

Clemens kept chewing on this term representing another species in his mouth.

 

Su Li’s figure was deeply etched in his memory, with no way for his brain to blur and ignore it.

 

That was the only creature in nearly a thousand years that had made him bleed – not a monster beast, but a child who was considered young even among humans.

 

And now, a second person capable of causing him “harm” had appeared among humans.

 

——Who was it?

 

Diz, who had originally been lying on the ground, instantly felt a bone-chilling sensation.

 

Just as he hastily climbed up from the ground to sit properly, somehow the person controlling the monitoring device operated it, and the monitoring screen was finally no longer Clemens’s pure black back fur.

 

The screen was replaced at this time with the [Tiger]’s frontal face.

 

The “王” character glowing with dim light was clearly visible.

 

But what made the humans most speechless was: “Those eyes don’t look like a creature’s eyes at all, but like some kind of stone.”

 

The Lion’s Club leader commented thus.

 

“Never mind that, intuition tells me he’s staring at me!” Diz’s body was trembling.

 

“Come on. You weren’t the only one inputting light elements into the same mobile elemental cannon. Even if he’s staring, the [Tiger] would also see other elementalists.” Willard rolled his eyes.

 

“Alright, stop talking about this.” Euphia interrupted the conversation that might continue. “Now, what we should do is launch continuous attacks.”

 

Adison spoiled the plan, “What nonsense? What you should do now is retreat.”

 

“That’s Clemens. You yourselves said that there are too many people, and even with the entire Winged Tribe’s power, you can’t bring hundreds of thousands or millions of monster beasts in one round trip. You can’t possibly say that now with your ten thousand plus people, you’re hoping we three can bring you away safely.”

 

“Hah?” Euphia was puzzled. “Who would think like that?”

 

“Retreat? Even if this word has always existed in the human dictionary, it would absolutely never fit ‘No One Understands Su Li Lord Better Than Me’…” She even added a number, “2.”

 

Adison: “…”

 

Unavoidable retreat was called tactical withdrawal.

 

Irresistible offensive was called avoiding the enemy’s sharp edge.

 

Having to go even with gritted teeth was called absolutely no retreat.

 

Now was the time for absolutely no retreat.

 

If they retreated, then in the monster beasts’ eyes, no matter how powerful Su Li was, this group of transformed monster beasts who would never learn to respect humans would only regard him as a foolish human who wasted his bloodline value.

 

“Fight! I absolutely will not allow us to need to retreat when the enemy hasn’t even reached us.”

 

“If reality is this terrible, how can we support Su Li?”

 

“That’s right!”

 

“I won’t let Su Li continue being looked down upon by a bunch of beasts.”

 

“Although….but still, everyone is Asgari!”

 

The snowy owl patted the butterfly spirit’s shoulder.

 

Asgari comforted Adison, “Rather than considering the possibility of failure, why don’t you also try putting all your body’s power through the mobile elemental cannon for compressed firing.”

 

“At least anyone can see the damage that human power causes to monster beasts after compression, let alone you who are originally a monster beast.”

 

Adison nodded bitterly. “…I understand.”

 

He stepped toward the mobile elemental cannon. This strange device looked very much like Su Li’s style at first glance.

 

In the depths of Adison’s heart, there was an expectation that even he himself hadn’t noticed.

 

Compared to the elemental power that required multiple humans to unite to produce, purer wind elements were injected into the mobile elemental cannon.

 

In an instant, cyan-green light pillars illuminated the black night. The power that didn’t waste even a bit only made Adison, who was operating the elemental cannon from behind, feel the wind brought by that power due to inertia the moment it rushed out.

 

The wind blew everyone’s hair into disarray, and countless rays of light rushed straight toward Clemens.

 

The studied power was enough to shock monster beasts’ hearts.

 

This method of easily quantifying attacks that humans needed to rack their brains to compress and fire out felt troublesome even to Clemens.

 

There would always be times when humans became stronger.

 

There would always be special materials that could bear more humans inputting elements together.

 

This thing that looked very ordinary now – what degree would it develop to later?

 

No one knew.

 

Facing attacks that fired toward his body like violent wind and sudden rain, Clemens didn’t choose to dodge but decided to take them head-on.

 

In the capacity of the Beast King, in the name of Clemens.

 

He decided to accept all challenges from humans.

 

Although the cost was being extremely disheveled all over.

 

Fur curled, hair wetted by water, his whole body filled with the smell of burning…

 

The word “humans” still repeated in his mouth.

 

Those eyes like stone truly lit up again for the first time in years.

 

Great amounts of power – unless it was like Su Li’s type that passed through the body without remaining – no life could ignore such power.

 

While life controlled power, it was also always possible to be controlled by power.