Volume One, Chapter Seventeen: Shall We Charge Forward While You Launch a Counterattack?
The turkey's actions acted like a fuse, instantly igniting the conflict between the two sides.
The members of the Broken Blade Demon Hunting Squad were always arrogant and disrespectful. With Lin Yao being so domineering and overbearing, there was no way they would treat him politely anymore.
As soon as the turkey made a move, another beast tamer, who had long held a grudge against Lin Yao, immediately followed, lunging fiercely at him!
To these five members of the Broken Blade Demon Hunting Squad, Lin Yao might have some skill, but they had already eliminated many beast tamers with abilities like his.
“Whoosh—”
A sharp sound pierced the air. Before the turkey could get close, the scarlet-hued ability throwing dart in his hand shot forth, streaking like a red beam straight at Lin Yao!
This scarlet ability dart was laced with a deadly poison. If Lin Yao’s skin was even slightly grazed by it, he would be poisoned instantly and die.
The turkey relied on this sneaky, underhanded tactic of poisoning to swiftly finish off multiple beast tamers who were caught off guard.
Yet, facing the poisonous dart that came in a flash, Lin Yao remained calm and composed, his expression serene as usual.
He stood tall and unmoving, not even bothering to dodge the turkey’s petty trick.
Seeing Lin Yao make no move to evade, the turkey’s heart leapt with joy.
“Haha! Trash!” he sneered. “I actually thought you were something special, but you’re just this level!”
“Die!”
Confident of success this time, the turkey believed Lin Yao was surely doomed.
When a beast tamer dies, their beast companion inevitably suffers backlash, sometimes even dying on the spot.
In other words, if Lin Yao fell, the battle would be over.
Captain Zheng Hong at the rear, seeing Lin Yao apparently planning to take the dart head-on, also assumed the fight was decided.
“So he’s just an arrogant fool with no real skill. I thought he was a hidden master!”
However, before Captain Zheng’s thought was complete, an unexpected change unfolded on the battlefield that utterly shocked them!
“Hum—”
A low, resonant hum suddenly sounded.
Around Lin Yao, an invisible, colorless ripple spread out, as if the very air around him rippled like waves.
The ability dart sped toward him but slammed into this transparent ripple and abruptly stalled, easily blocked.
The damage from the dart was mysteriously shared among Lin Yao’s ten shadow wolves through some unknown link.
Besides its incredible speed, the turkey’s dart itself wasn’t very powerful.
Its true lethality lay in its poison.
Since the dart never touched Lin Yao, its poison had no chance to take effect.
Yet, this ability dart had another use…
“Boom!”
The turkey let out a sudden roar and detonated the expensive ability equipment.
“Bang!”
In an instant, a blazing orange-red fireball exploded fiercely in front of Lin Yao.
“Turkey, well done!” President Zheng, drawing his bow and aiming from afar, praised without reserve.
Taking such a powerful explosion up close—even if Lin Yao didn’t die, he would surely be gravely wounded.
Yet in the next moment, a scene that stunned the turkey and Zheng Hong unfolded!
Lin Yao emerged from the fiery blast and smoke with an indifferent expression, utterly unscathed!
Logically, even if such damage was divided among ten shadow wolves, they should have shown obvious wounds.
However, under Lin Yao’s “Attribute Multiplication” talent, the wolves’ attributes were boosted tenfold.
Their defense, physical strength, and self-healing ability were all enhanced ten times over.
Combined with the damage being split into ten small portions, this impact was but a gentle breeze to the shadow wolves.
Clad in a black robe, Old Wang gasped, then shouted angrily.
“What are you waiting for?!”
“This guy is suspicious. Everyone, attack together with full force!”
Old Wang’s shout snapped the remaining four Broken Blade Demon Hunters back to reality.
They instantly abandoned any hesitation and launched their strongest attacks at Lin Yao with reckless abandon.
As the turkey and Zheng Hong’s four comrades charged, Old Wang also surged forward.
But Old Wang did not confront Lin Yao head-on; instead, he employed a tactical masterpiece—a reverse attack inspired by the five-star general MacArthur’s tried-and-true trick.
While Zheng Hong and the others were fooled into desperately surrounding Lin Yao, Old Wang used every displacement skill at his disposal to vanish without a trace in moments.
Old Wang wasn’t really afraid of Lin Yao’s strength; he feared not knowing how strong Lin Yao truly was, nor understanding his mysterious defense.
Besides, even an ability device detonating at point-blank range couldn’t harm Lin Yao…
Facing such a beast tamer, why risk a direct clash? Better to disappear quietly.
However, Old Wang had a fallback plan: where he once stood lay a palm-sized gargoyle figurine.
This too was an ability device, allowing Old Wang to monitor everything happening on the battlefield in real time.
From his smooth set of moves—first tricking his teammates into charging, then launching a reverse attack himself, and finally leaving the “watching gargoyle” on the field—it was clear this was no first time he pulled such a stunt.
Meanwhile—
“Bang!”
With a muffled sound, Lin Yao casually threw out an energy orb with all attributes enhanced tenfold.
The orb slammed into the turkey, who felt as if hit by a close-range shotgun blast.
“Crack! Crack!”
Cracks rapidly spread over the turkey’s energy armor.
Without this protective energy armor, he would likely have suffered severe injury.
Though hit by the orb, the turkey immediately shouted important information to his comrades.
“Don’t be afraid! This little bastard’s strength is only about level 16 to 18!”
“Don’t hold back, kill him!”
As the turkey yelled to Zheng Hong and the others, Lin Yao’s second energy orb was already hurtling toward them.
This time, the turkey was prepared, instantly raising a transparent blue energy shield that blocked Lin Yao’s attack.
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