Chapter 68 Goss <TOC> Chapter 70 Beast of Darkness
Translator: SumTLMan
Goss obviously didn’t want to let the two of them leave just like that. He commanded the blood beasts in the underground cavern with a strange and sharp tone, launching an attack towards Li Mu and Shen Luoyan.
Only a level three manipulator awakened in the system of control could control these frenzied blood beasts on such a large scale. But Goss apparently had a power beyond his own level due to some kind of mutation.
The blood beasts that were too afraid to leave the cavern because of the statue of the Lord of Souls seemed to have broken through some kind of limit.
They responded to Goss’s sharp voice and growled deeply, walking out of the darkness.
Among these blood beasts, most of them were low-level bloodthirsty beasts. A level five strengthening awakened person, without relying on heavy weapons, could usually easily deal with a bloodthirsty beast one-on-one. Some awakened people could handle two to three of them, and those stronger could take on five to six enemies, which was already the average level.
Shen Luoyan could probably handle around ten bloodthirsty beasts, already considered a master among the same level.
But here, there were nearly a hundred bloodthirsty beasts, twenty or so of the more difficult blood beasts.
Li Mu’s face looked a little ugly. He didn’t expect Goss to be able to command the blood beasts on such a large scale.
With these blood beasts entangling them, it was not so easy for them to leave.
“You watch out for the monsters in the source blood pool, I’ll deal with these bloodthirsty beasts.”
Li Mu naturally wouldn’t foolishly use only cold weapons. He inserted his large sword into the ground and directly took out a disposable rocket launcher from the Exile Realm. Speaking of which, this rocket launcher was also a gift from Nomu.
Although bloodthirsty beasts were difficult, they could still be easily killed with thermal weapons since they didn’t have a black membrane.
In the faint light, Li Mu aimed at a very difficult-looking blood beast and pulled the trigger directly.
The rear flame of the rocket launcher flashed, and the armor-piercing warhead inside shot out.
In order to deal with highly mobile mutant creatures, the flying speed of the PT08 rocket launcher’s warhead was extremely fast, reaching a speed of 600 meters/second upon leaving the tube. However, the load on the shooter was very high.
Before the Cataclysm, the joint forces of humanity had eliminated various types of rocket launchers and grenade launchers previously equipped.
Even the RPG-7, which had a relatively fast flight speed, had a speed of only 295 meters/second after the second-stage booster, while high-speed grenades were worse, with only 220 meters/second. The speed of ordinary disposable rocket launchers was only 120 meters/second.
These weapons were enough to deal with human enemies, but they were too slow to fight against the descenders and were very easy to dodge.
“Boom!”
The warhead hit the target directly, and Li Mu could clearly hear two very short interval explosion sounds. The first level of the destruction warhead used a conical shaped energy-gathering explosive, which could open the target’s defense with a high-temperature metal jet, while the second level of high-explosive combat department drilled into it and detonated it.
The strange blood beast exploded like a can heated in a microwave oven, with half of its body blown to pieces.
Astonishing amounts of blood spurted out from the remaining half of its body.
The violent explosion drove these frenzied blood beasts into madness, like a raging tide surging towards Li Mu.
After discarding the disposable launcher, Li Mu switched to a grenade launcher. The rocket launcher was too slow, and with such a short distance, these blood beasts only needed a few seconds to pounce on him, during which time he could only fire one more shot at most.
He pulled the trigger and fired all twelve armor-piercing grenades from the drum of the grenade launcher at the fastest speed possible.
In the dim cave, brilliant fireballs lit up the surroundings. The exploding armor-piercing grenades blew off limbs in the swarm of blood beasts.
Li Mu consciously aimed at the weaker bloodthirsty beasts. Although the shooting was hasty and not all of the grenades hit their targets, it still caused considerable damage.
At this point, the blood beasts had already rushed to him, and the strong smell of blood and decay almost made him dizzy.
“Roar!”
He gripped the hilt of his sword with one hand and let out a dragon roar. The angry roar sounded like thunder and echoed throughout the cave.
The charge of the blood beasts was halted by the power of his roar.
Li Mu pulled out his big sword with both arms and swung it with all his might.
The sword blade of the curse blood iron greatsword was not very sharp, but its destructive power was astonishing under his brute strength. The sword passed through and cut neatly through the nearby blood beasts. After comprehending energy, these bloodthirsty beasts that were originally difficult to kill with one strike were as fragile as paper.
A bloodthirsty beast stepped on the bodies of its kind and pounced, but Li Mu directly gripped its throat with his left hand, and with a flash of electricity, it was directly stunned.
Li Mu held the body of the bloodthirsty beast in one hand and the curse blood iron greatsword in the other, dual wielding, charging towards the blood beasts alone. He consciously avoided the mutated blood beasts with huge bodies and used the restless bloodthirsty beasts to block them.
The first bloodthirsty beast to come at him hadn’t even had a chance to open its mouth to bite when it was smashed in the forehead with a single sword strike.
He drew his sword with one hand and swung the bloodthirsty beast in the other, directly knocking back the blood beasts attempting to surround him.
He thrust his sword directly at a blood beast with a horse body and three heads and full of sharp teeth, piercing it through, cutting off one of its three heads, and then cutting off half of the nearby bloodthirsty beast’s head.
A cunning bloodthirsty beast sneaked through its companions’ corpses and circled around behind Li Mu.
It showed a sly smile on its face, leaped out from the pile of corpses, and bit towards Li Mu’s neck from behind.
It was beheaded at the waist by the spinning blade before it could pounce.
After killing seven or eight bloodthirsty beasts in succession, Li Mu found himself surrounded. All around him were bloodthirsty beasts eager to pounce, and even giant blood beasts were pushing aside the bloodthirsty beasts in front of them, trying to charge forward.
He squeezed the bloodthirsty beast that had already broken all its bones in his left hand and threw it with all his might.
The bloodthirsty beast, which weighed more than sixty kilograms, flew out like a cannonball, directly knocking down several blood beasts.
“Roar!”
The roar thundered again, and the blood beasts that were already unstable from being knocked down were pushed back by the power of the dragon’s roar and fell into even greater chaos.
Li Mu gripped his sword with both hands and plunged into the midst of the beasts.
The first bloodthirsty beast was directly smashed into pieces by the sword, and the brutal force of the sword squeezed out the blood from its body like a juicer.
Its body crashed into the blood beasts, preventing them from regaining order.
The cursed blood iron greatsword was stained red with blood, turning into a blood-red windmill, tearing apart the blood beasts in the chaos.
As he looked ahead, Li Mu realized that he had already broken through.
The giant blood beasts were still frenzied and angry, but the ordinary bloodthirsty beasts had already become timid.
He wiped the dirty blood off his face, continuously exerting his strength. His strengthened arms could still bear it, but everywhere else was sore.
He took out his bottle and drank deeply from the Sun Spring water.