At the mont the Ant King fell, dozens of bullets and overwhelming long-range attacks rained down on Mizaki, Old Smoke, Chen, and others, courtesy of the over one hundred contractors watching the battle.
Pushing these contractors to leave before the fight was indeed a good option, but doing so would only force them to band together, which would create even more trouble.
Mizaki and the others anticipated this situation. Instead of rushing toward the Ant King’s corpse, they retreated a bit.
"This is our chance, charge forward, grab it while it’s chaotic!"
"Leader, let’s go."
"Wait, let those loners act as the cannon fodder first."
The chaotic shouting filled the palace courtyard, accompanied by a ss of footsteps.
Among the over one hundred contractors, at least eighty to ninety surged forward, relying on their numbers to snatch the heart.
Did Mizaki and the others give up? Of course not; they were waiting for those contractor spectators to rush forward, or rather, only when chaos ensued would they not be focused on, and individual power differences would be more pronounced.
Faced with similar snatching, Mizaki and the others weren’t new to this; they were experienced.
The sounds of urgent running rged, and nearly a hundred contractors were all staring at the Ant King’s corpse. Surprisingly, they didn’t attack the body but unleashed skills near the corpse.
Boom!
A fireball landed, and as it hit the ground, an invisible figure appeared—a concealed assassin intending to sneak near the Ant King to seize the entire heart.
However, the descending fireball blasted him out of concealnt; as soon as the assassin beca visible, he was bombarded with skills, his form distorted, likely activating a life-saving skill.
Yet in the next mont, the assassin’s body burst with blood, his ability forcefully interrupted, bombarded by dozens of attacks, not even having the chance to scream before being directly shattered.
A large crowd of contractors rushed towards the Ant King’s corpse, and as they moved forward, the long-range firepower started to thin out because they themselves were the source of that firepower.
"Mizaki, the timing is about right, keep an eye on Chen’s side, I’ll keep an eye on Bai Ye’s side, get the Frost Giant in forcefully."
Old Smoke shouted, but received no response.
"Mizaki?"
Observing the surroundings, Old Smoke shouted again.
"Look over there, this... seems a bit intense."
Old Smoke turned his gaze in the direction Mizaki pointed.
"Damn."
Old Smoke’s eyes bulged, seemingly stunned by the scene in his view; at that mont, a light blue energy blade flew towards Old Smoke, no, it was Su Xiao’s blade aura.
Old Smoke’s shoulder expelled a puff of smoke, forcibly pushing him aside, the blade aura flew past his flank and finally slashed into a half-collapsed wall, severing it completely, and the blade aura flew out of sight.
Clang, clang, clang...
The crisp sound of slashing echoed nonstop; at this mont, Su Xiao was only about five ters away from the Ant King’s corpse, surrounded by contractors whose eyes were bloodshot, boiling with killing intent.
Dozens of counter shields floated around Su Xiao, as he held Dragon Slash, quickly surveying his surroundings.
Su Xiao was already surrounded by a large number of contractors; it was clearly not possible to take the Ant King’s heart now, he needed to at least drive the surrounding contractors back.
"Where did this guy co from?"
A dozen contractors were blocked by Su Xiao, sizing him up.
"He jumped down from the watchtower, seems like that firepower-expert sniper."
"Bullshit, since when do snipers charge to here?"
"Huh~"
"Doesn’t matter who he is, kill him, the Ant King’s corpse is right in front, kill whoever blocks, this concerns our life and death."
Under the threat of forced execution, all contractors began to desperately unleash their potential, aiming to snatch the Ant King’s heart.
Getting even a small piece could save their lives, a bigger piece and they’d be set for life, this temptation was impossible to refuse.
Their numbers emboldened the contractors, but alas, Su Xiao was adept in such chaotic fights.
"Charge!"
About twenty contractors surged forward in front of and besides Su Xiao; he didn’t imdiately deal with them but waved his arm, sending dozens of counter shields to envelop the Ant King’s corpse a few ters away.
As the Blue Steel Shadow level increased, the maximum distance for counter shields from Su Xiao was three ters. Exceeding that would sever the energy connection, causing rapid shattering. However, if Su Xiao actively severed the connection, the shields could exist independently for one minute, regardless of distance.
This ti, Su Xiao used the counter shields not to protect himself but to prevent anyone from grabbing the Ant King’s heart while he engaged in battle.
These people didn’t exert any effort while fighting the Ant King; now that the Ant King was dead, they surged forward, so naturally, Su Xiao wouldn’t show rcy, not that he ever did.
Screams of battle reached Su Xiao’s ears; he stamped on the ground, a red aura emanating from his body, causing the twenty-plus contractors charging at him to pause.
"What’s with this guy."
At the forefront, a contractor with a parted hairstyle stopped in place, holding a heavy sword, clearly a power type.
"Don’t block the way."
A main tank bumped into the back of the parted hair contractor, forcing him to move a few more steps forward; he, in fact, didn’t want to continue charging.
The sound of wind-breaking approached, a figure appeared in front of the parted hair contractor, instinctively raising his entirely black heavy sword.
Clang!
Sparks flew several ters high, a long knife clashing onto the heavy sword.
[Warning! Warning! Weapon severely damaged!]
[Warning! Weapon already damaged!]
The close combat contractor didn’t have ti to heed Reincarnation Paradise’s warning as he was handling imnse pressure in his hands.
Before weapons clashed, he thought he could leverage his weapon’s heft, his heavy sword weighed a massive 270 pounds, a heavy weapon, but actual combat proved otherwise.
Not to ntion parrying, the mont the weapons collided, his knees nearly buckled to the ground.
"Power type..."
The parted hair contractor’s words cut short, he felt a lightness in his hands, thinking the enemy had retreated, until realizing his weapon was actually severed.
Splurt.
Blood gushed abundantly, an arm and most of a shoulder flew off, anguish surged, nearly driving him insane, not only that, his body was completely numbed, despair evident in his eyes.
Splurt.
The pain vanished, his head detached.
Su Xiao, with two slashes, killed a close combat contractor, a result not surprising as the contractor’s attributes were ordinary, not true attributes, the gap clear.
Just after killing a contractor, Su Xiao tilted his upper body to dodge a bullet, his intuition already warning of its approach 0.4 seconds earlier.
The surrounding contractors were stunned, witnessing Su Xiao kill with two slashes, the first severing the weapon, the second decapitating.
Instinctual fear caused the lee contractors to retreat; one slightly slower main tank abruptly appeared in front of the crowd, seemingly challenging Su Xiao.
Su Xiao’s gaze focused on the main tank, a burly individual, glaring at Su Xiao.
"Get out of the way."
The main tank stepped forward, unlike other nearby elee fighters, unfazed by high attack ability contractors, in fact, main tanks were the nesis of such contractors.
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