Cave Refuge

Even if most people have forgotten the specific knowledge they once studied, they should still remember that heavy objects gain more force as they fall, especially when used in this type of scenario. Even an ordinary person, through training, can sever a horse's head with one strike.

It is precisely because of this that those soldiers of ancient times who wielded halberds not only had broad shoulders and stout waists but also possessed great arm strength.

Although Robinson William's physique does not appear very robust at the moment, he possesses strong arms due to his cultivation of Martial Arts.

Nonetheless, when facing these agile enemies, Robinson William still opts for a downward chop as his initial attack move.

Practically all of Robinson William's teammates who use the halberd as their weapon tend to choose the downward chop as their initial stance.

Just as the matchman rushing toward him is about to close in, entering the striking range of the halberd in his hand, Robinson William decisively executes his initial attack.

Because the enemy is about to approach him, Robinson William doesn't use his full strength for this attack, though he does use about seventy percent of his power.

Seeing the halberd appear between the opponent's legs, a smile unconsciously creeps across Robinson William's face; when the halberd is positioned between the enemy's legs, under normal circumstances, it means the enemy can't possibly dodge the attack.

This time, the attack does not go amiss. The halberd heavily strikes between the matchman's legs. If the matchmen were partly male or female before, then the one facing Robinson William now, following the draw of the blade, has a very clear cut between its legs.

Although Robinson William's attack successfully hits the target, the result does not satisfy him. According to his original plan, although this strike might not cut the opponent in half, it should at least cause severe damage.

But with the downward chop as his starting move, just as he cuts between the enemy's legs, the hand grasping the halberd immediately feels as though he has struck an extremely solid boulder, the powerful rebound almost causing Robinson William's grip to loosen, threatening his hold on the weapon.

Realizing that his attack did not achieve the expected result and that the matchman in front of him is still mindlessly charging towards him, Robinson William decisively lets go of the halberd handle and quickly pulls out the Three-section Staff strapped to his back.

When he grabs one end of the Three-section Staff behind him and swings it with force around his surroundings, the scattered sections, originally connected by chains, merge in the blink of an eye to form a Long Stick again.

Watching the matchman about to reach his side, Robinson William doesn't change his move, directly swinging the just-merged Long Stick mightily onto the opponent's slender body.

As the Long Stick hits the opponent's body without surprise, Robinson William realizes that the opponent's body is extremely lightweight. Swinging the Long Stick in his hand feels like swinging a baseball bat to hit an approaching baseball, sending the matchman who was originally charging towards him flying far away.

The matchman rushing towards Robinson William is flung into the air without a struggle.

When the Hunting Group hears the loud noise produced by the Long Stick striking the matchman's torso, they unconsciously glance in Robinson William's direction.

As they see Robinson William fling the matchman in front of him, it's as if they collectively have an epiphany, and everyone takes out their Long Sticks to replicate Robinson William's action, sending the matchmen charging at them flying far away.

Even though Robinson William has personally demonstrated the technique, there are still some mishaps from those who attempt to copy his moves.

Several of them might not have used enough force when swinging their Long Sticks, so not only do they fail to take out the approaching matchmen, but they also cause the matchmen to charge at them with even greater speed.

When the first matchman gets close to a Hunting Group member, everyone instantly understands the matchmen's intentions.

The matchman reaching the Hunting Group member envelops them like a long-lost friend, delivering a tight embrace to the Hunting Group member in front of them.

Although the Hunting Group member very decisively dropped the Long Stick in his hand and directly grabbed the matchman's slender torso, intending to use brute force to pull away the matchman clinging to him,

Regrettably, ideas are beautiful, but reality is cruel.

Once the matchman successfully clung onto the Hunting Group member, its originally slender body and limbs, akin to thin poles, immediately grew dozens of tendrils, which in the blink of an eye, encircled the member at the center, forming a massive sphere.

Before everyone could react and prepare to rescue, the sphere wrapped in vines, just like time reversing, began to rapidly shrink back in the same order they appeared.

But when all the tendrils had retracted and disappeared, the matchman that was initially at the center holding onto the Hunting Group member vanished, leaving the member alone standing on the spot.

Although the entire process took less than a minute, Robinson William was among the few who had watched the whole process completely.

And Robinson William observed the process very carefully; even as the tendrils retracted back like time reversing to the central area, he didn't relax at all.

Indeed, under Robinson William's careful observation, he sharply noticed that the tendrils didn't return to the side of the Hunting Group member and transform back into a matchman.

Instead, they seemed to be directly absorbed, vanishing right beside the Awakener.

Noticing this detail, Robinson William immediately shifted his gaze to the Hunting Group member.

Fortunately, as soon as Robinson William sensed something was amiss and redirected his gaze, he noticed that as the tendrils gradually disappeared, the member of the Hunting Team who was previously affected, had his flesh-colored skin enveloped by a green transparent membrane, covering all of his skin in green.

But this situation only lasted for a brief two to three seconds, after which the green that covered him, just like melting snow, actually seeped into the skin.

Aside from the abnormality on his skin, Robinson William also keenly sensed something wrong with his eyes; under normal circumstances, even if one were sleep-deprived or in another state, the most one would see are a few red blood vessels in the whites of the eyes.

But when Robinson William looked at the member's eyes just now, the eyes within the sockets didn't look like human eyes at all, but rather like two decorative wooden balls.

Perhaps sensing Robinson William's Peeping Tom gaze, the member started to blink continuously, and with each closure and reopening of the eyes, the originally wooden ball-like eyes gradually showed a hint of agility, and as the eyelids continued to open and close, the pair of eyes in the sockets gradually transformed into human eyes.

By this time, the member scanned his surroundings with his eyes, trying to locate the Peeping Tom who had been watching him closely.

However, such blatant action naturally couldn't detect Robinson William, a professionally trained veteran.

Apart from him, the fates of the other survivors who had been held by the matchmen were almost identical; if other people were in the midst of combat, perhaps only a very few nearby would notice this condition.

But Robinson William's accidental action of knocking the matchman away was replicated by other people present, who directly knocked away the matchmen that got too close to them.

At this point, those matchmen that were able to cling onto Hunting Group members were actually those members whose tactical mimicry had just failed.

For this reason, not only Robinson William but also other people saw the changes in those few to some extent.

If it hadn't been detected, others might not have noticed the anomalies in those individuals, since at this moment, judging only by appearance, there seemed to be no changes in their facial features or attire.

Yet at this time, the absence of change is precisely the biggest problem.