A Card In Hand

Chapter 10: Thinking of Turning the Tables?

“Wow!”

Prince Jinxi covered his eyes in pain and screamed miserably.

Although his body had no external injuries, the death of his vision-sharing summoned beast caused him to instantly lose his sight.

What Prince Jinxi did not expect was that his soul’s sense of pain was inexplicably magnified a hundredfold.

The death of the Purple-Tentacled Evil Eye caused him to suffer a hundredfold backlash, making life unbearable.

The Light-Feathered Golden Eagle reacted the quickest.

It spat out a light arrow.

Speeding towards Li Ao, who was disguised as a mysterious figure in a silver cloak, wielding the Shadow Halberd.

Roar!

The Flaming Gold Lion was also quick to react.

It roared furiously, and amidst a burst of flames, it leapt up, its ferocious mouth viciously snapping at the enemy in front of it.

Li Ao casually twirled the giant halberd in his hand, deflecting the rapidly approaching light arrow towards a Large-Eared Shadow Bat swooping in from the right.

Silently, he merged into the shadows and disappeared without a trace.

The Flaming Gold Lion bit the air.

At this time, Li Ao.

He had already used the Boots of Shadows to appear behind the Steel Golem.

Once again, the giant halberd slashed down, and in a shower of sparks, the Steel Golem’s right leg below the knee was brutally chopped off.

Prince Jinxi, in agony, clutched his right knee and screamed again… Not only that, his steel skin, due to the curse, flaked off like iron scraps, and the extreme itching almost overwhelmed the hundredfold backlash of the Steel Golem being injured.

The Steel Golem lost its balance and crashed to the ground.

The hard ground melted.

Like a quagmire.

The Steel Golem, half-submerged in the rock, was frantically dragged by the Stone Giant beneath the ground.

Despite losing a leg, the Steel Golem’s combat power was still above that of the Stone Giant.

It struggled a few times, its palms suddenly burst forth with a shockwave, instantly disrupting the muddy rock vortex.

The Steel Golem, with its arms, pushed itself back up, its violent movements causing the shattered ground rocks to fly.

The Stone Giant again created a rock vortex.

Forcibly dragging the Steel Golem back underground.

The Steel Golem once again broke free with a shockwave.

Brutally breaking free from the ground.

The rock vortex reappeared.

…

The two colossal beasts repeated their actions in such a cycle.

These mindless creatures, driven by instinct, would continually exploit their tactical advantages on the battlefield until one of them completely exhausted its Source Energy.

Prince Jinxi continued to wail miserably.

In unbearable pain.

Disguised as a mysterious figure, Li Ao casually walked towards Prince Jinxi.

Suddenly, a wind blade swiftly cut towards Li Ao’s side.

The cunning Hunting Hound, adept at wind attacks, retreated immediately after its sneak attack.

It knew this enemy was formidable, completely outmatched; a direct confrontation?

Better leave that to the main combat forces like the Flaming Gold Lion and Light-Feathered Golden Eagle!

However, it did not anticipate the vengeful Li Ao, who never let go of any enemy who ambushed him.

The giant halberd swung from below upwards in a reverse hook.

Silver moonlight flashed.

Howl!

The swiftly incoming wind blade was forcibly redirected by the giant halberd, forming a counter wind blade that flew back towards its owner with increased speed.

The Hunting Hound couldn’t dodge in time, and the reverse wind blade slashed across its back, cutting a deep wound with skin and flesh peeling back to reveal bone, blood spraying… The Hunting Hound yelped in pain, scattering its legs in a desperate attempt to flee the battlefield.

However.

In front of his sight.

A mysterious figure draped in a silver cloak was already waiting.

The Hunting Hound tried to stop, but it was too late.

A giant halberd conjured a flurry of blade petals, and the Hunting Hound, after dashing several tens of meters, disintegrated into a dozen chunks of bloody flesh.

As his war beast perished, Prince Jinxi let out another agonized scream, his body convulsing uncontrollably.

His screams still echoed in his ears.

Li Ao had already flashed to a spot on the top of the cave wall.

The Large-Eared Shadow Bat, having narrowly escaped being hit by a reflected light arrow just moments before, was terrified to find a giant halberd waiting in front of it.

It flapped its wings furiously, diving down and then circling back in an instant to flee, only to find the giant halberd precisely in its path, cleaving downwards.

The desperate Large-Eared Shadow Bat was split in two.

Fresh blood splattered.

Screech~

The Silver-grade Light-Feathered Golden Eagle let out an extremely shrill cry.

It suddenly gave up on continuing to attack Li Ao and snatched up Prince Jinxi, who was convulsing and wailing ceaselessly.

Like lightning, it dashed toward the cave opening.

Contrary to its action, the Flaming Gold Lion threw itself at Li Ao in a life-forsaking charge, intending to use its own life to win enough time for its master to escape.

A Shadow Giant Wolf pounced out from the shadows of the rock wall.

It was just right.

It skillfully avoided attacking the Light-Feathered Golden Eagle, which had no counter attribute, and instead bit down on Prince Jinxi’s calf, forcefully dragging him back to the ground.

Although the Light-Feathered Golden Eagle was not yet a mature combat beast, it was after all a Silver-grade combat beast.

Seeing that a Bronze-level Shadow Giant Wolf dared to challenge it, it was extremely enraged. With a slight spread of its wings, thousands of light arrows fell like rain.

Upon seeing this, the Shadow Giant Wolf was immediately terrified and fled into the shadows.

On the other side, another Shadow Giant Wolf leapt out from the shadows and sneakily bit Prince Jinxi.

This completely enraged the Light-Feathered Golden Eagle, whose eyes burst with golden light, and its entire body instantly transformed into a fierce miniature sun.

The ground thundered ominously…

The terrifying surge of blazing light swept through the entire cave.

The second attacking Shadow Giant Wolf had no time to dodge and was blown away by the burst of light unleashed by the Light-Feathered Golden Eagle.

Its body was thrown dozens of meters away.

In a complete disarray.

This brief obstruction, however, bought Li Ao enough time to arrive.

He easily traversed past the Light-Feathered Golden Eagle and Prince Jinxi using the Shadow Pathway, dragging a giant halberd behind him, standing coldly and mercilessly at the mouth of the cave.

He extended his left hand.

His index finger half-bent.

He crooked his finger at the Light-Feathered Golden Eagle.

Seeing no way forward, the Light-Feathered Golden Eagle immediately scooped up Prince Jinxi and flew backwards, retreating to the side of the Flaming Gold Lion that was several pounces away.

“Ah!”

Prince Jinxi’s face twisted in agony as a flicker of clarity returned to his mind.

Realizing the danger he was in, he endured the pain and pulled out a purple card.

To Li Ao’s slight surprise, Prince Jinxi didn’t use his own Source Energy for the summoning.

Instead, the incredibly intelligent Light-Feathered Golden Eagle bestowed upon him a pair of light wings.

Using the light attribute Source Energy from the wings, it helped its severely weakened master summon a new war beast.

Could it truly communicate with Prince Jinxi’s mind?

Superficially separate.

Yet, were they actually a symbiotic war beast?

Li Ao suddenly realized.

No wonder, in his past life, even though Prince Jinxi possessed the Flying Dragon Split Wind Spear, his real combat strength still lay with the Light-Feathered Golden Eagle.

Looking further, the war beast summoned by the prince with the aid of the eagle was a Shadow Leopard.

At this moment, even Li Ao, as an enemy, couldn’t help but extend a thumbs-up to the Light-Feathered Golden Eagle… Clever!

The Shadow Leopard could penetrate the Shadow Dimension to intercept the Shadow Giant Wolves.

Competing for control over the Shadow Path.

With its interference.

Li Ao’s ability to perform shadow jumps wouldn’t be as smooth as before.

If a person had thought of this countermeasure, Li Ao wouldn’t be too surprised, but the fact that it was an eagle’s idea!

Shadow Leopard’s body gradually became transparent.

It merged into the shadows.

However, it was immediately forced out by two Shadow Giant Wolves working together.

In the material world, Shadow Leopard was more powerful than the two Shadow Giant Wolves, but it was evidently at a disadvantage in the Shadow Dimension.

After all, the Shadow Giant Wolves were war beasts originating from the Shadow Dimension, which was their home field.

“Screech~”

The Light-Feathered Golden Eagle emitted another sharp, piercing cry.

“Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!”

Prince Jinxi, with blood gushing from his mouth and nose, seemed to understand its meaning as he struggled to prop himself up and pulled out an orange card.

Still powered by the Light-Feathered Golden Eagle’s source energy, a black light surged like the abyss within the cave, suddenly whipping up a sandstorm tornado.

The fierce black light enveloped the entire battlefield.

Boom, boom, boom…

Once the black light sandstorm had completely dissipated.

A monstrous creature made of rocks and sand towered in front of Li Ao, standing fifteen meters tall with a fierce and unimaginably ugly face.

Li Ao recognized it as the Rock Sand Beast, a demonic beast from the earth elemental plane, a natural nemesis to earth attribute war beasts like the Stone Giant.

Its summoning.

Not only does it grant its master the body of rock and sand.

The Rock Sand Beast itself can also replenish its battle-damaged parts by absorbing the earth’s energy. 

As long as it’s in contact with the ground, this type of Rock Sand Beast is almost an undying entity.

Summon the Rock Sand Beast?

Could it be that you’re planning a counterattack?