72: Chapter 72 Killing the Rock Beast

Yuan Shoucheng gritted his teeth. "Fine! You draw its attention from the front, but stay safe! Everyone else—"

He glanced at the twenty or so people still standing around him and tightened his grip on his blade.

"Brothers, let's charge together!"

The first one to rush forward was Yuan Shoucheng himself.

He was at the early stage of the fifth rank, the only fifth-rank Awakener in the Seventh Battalion, and the person most likely to severely wound this Rock Beast among everyone present.

Seeing this, Lin Mo immediately took a bottle of berserk potion from his spatial ring.

System notifications exploded in his mind.

[berserk potion: Upon consumption, all attributes increase by 30% for three minutes.]

[Side Effect: You will enter a weakened state after the effect wears off.]

His body began to burn.

Golden lightning erupted, shining even brighter than before.

On his attribute panel, his Strength and Agility rose again, instantly crossing the 200 mark and finally climbing to over 240 points, thoroughly stepping into the domain of the fourth rank.

Combined with the additional boosts from God Speed and Lightning Spark, Lin Mo's speed at this moment was second only to Yuan Shoucheng on the entire battlefield.

Lin Mo looked up at the giant beast and his figure vanished instantly.

In the next instant, he appeared in front of the Rock Beast and slashed down!

The Rock Beast raised its claws to parry. Blade and claw collided, sending sparks flying! The shockwave sent all the rubble within a five-meter radius flying!

Lin Mo was knocked back a dozen steps, but he had left a shallow white mark on the Rock Beast's claw.

It wasn't enough.

But it was still winnable.

The Rock Beast's claws fell again, and Lin Mo's figure vanished once more.

Void Step activated!

He appeared behind the Rock Beast and delivered another strike!

This time, he slashed at the joint of its hind leg.

The Rock Beast roared in pain, and its tail swept across!

Lin Mo vanished again.

The tail swept through empty air.

"Good!" Yuan Shoucheng roared.

"Everyone! Circle around behind it! While it's distracted, let's hit it together!"

The remaining men followed Yuan Shoucheng and charged.

The scales of victory began to tip.

The Rock Beast was pinned down completely.

Every time it tried to attack the others, Lin Mo would appear before it and slash at its most painful spots.

It wanted to kill Lin Mo first, but that guy was as slippery as a loach; it couldn't catch him at all.

Soon, the wounds on the Rock Beast's body multiplied.

Its stamina was draining rapidly.

After just two minutes, over a hundred wounds had been added to the Rock Beast's body.

Its movements slowed down noticeably, and its breathing grew heavier.

"Brothers! It's almost finished! Give it one more push!"

Yuan Shoucheng roared.

The twenty-plus men echoed him, their voices shaking the heavens.

Victory was in sight.

However, in the next second...

The Rock Beast actually went completely berserk.

It abandoned Lin Mo.

It suddenly turned and pounced toward the members of the third squad.

It was so fast that no one could react.

One swipe.

Two people flew through the air, silenced before they even hit the ground.

A sweep of the tail.

Two people were snapped at the waist; their intestines spilled across the ground, and they died after a few agonizing screams.

A single bite.

Another person was caught in its jaws; his entire upper body disappeared into that mouth, his legs kicked twice in the air, and then he went still.

In just a brief moment, six had died.

"Scatter!"

"Scatter, quickly!"

Yuan Shoucheng screamed.

But it was too late.

A berserk fifth-rank Lord was simply not something these fourth-rank Awakeners could withstand.

In less than ten seconds, the twenty or so people who had just been part of the siege suffered heavy casualties.

The corners of Yuan Shoucheng's eyes split, and blood flowed down his face.

"You beast!!!"

He lunged forward.

The remaining men lunged forward with him.

Seven people.

Yuan Shoucheng, Old Sun, Little Liu, Zhao Dadan, and three new recruits whose names he couldn't even recall, who had just been brought in today.

They charged, and one by one, they fell.

When Old Sun was struck by a claw, his entire body was flattened, and blood sprayed three meters high.

Little Liu was hit by the tail; his waist was broken, and his upper body crawled on the ground for two meters before stopping.

Zhao Dadan lunged to grab the Rock Beast's hind leg, stabbing desperately with his knife. After seven or eight stabs, he was crushed to death by a foot.

Those three veterans—

One was bitten to death, one was trampled, and one was sent flying thirty meters away, slamming into a wall and turning into a pile of mangled flesh.

In the end, only Yuan Shoucheng remained.

He stood before the giant beast, covered in blood. His left arm could no longer be raised, and his right hand still gripped his notched blade.

The Rock Beast looked at him.

He looked back at the Rock Beast.

"Old Wu," he said.

No one answered.

"Old Zhou."

No one answered.

"Old Sun. Little Liu. Zhao Dadan."

No one answered.

He smiled.

"Everyone's gone."

"It's time for me to go too."

Yuan Shoucheng gripped his long blade and unleashed the strongest strike of his life.

He charged.

The Rock Beast's claw came down.

But an instant before that claw landed on him, his blade sliced open the beast's abdomen.

Cutting in from the wound Wu Yong had left, he tore upward, carving all the way to its chest.

Crimson blood gushed out, drenching him.

The Rock Beast let out a heaven-shaking scream of agony as its claw slammed down.

*Bang.*

Yuan Shoucheng's body flew ten meters away, hitting the ground and rolling twice before becoming still.

He lay in a pool of blood, eyes still open, staring at the night sky.

The blade was still clutched in his hand.

Blood dripped from the edge of the blade, drop by drop.

Lin Mo stood twenty meters away, watching the scene.

His body was trembling.

Not from fear.

But from rage.

He had taken the berserk potion and distracted the beast, creating an opportunity for the others.

But they were all dead.

Wu Yong was dead.

Old Zhou was dead.

The second, third, and fourth squads were all dead.

And finally, Yuan Shoucheng was dead too.

The battalion commander, who hadn't given him a kind look from the very first moment they met, had died before his eyes.

Lin Mo looked up.

In his eyes, the golden lightning had turned blood-red.

His stamina had hit rock bottom.

The side effects of the berserk potion were about to kick in.

He gripped zhan chao and walked toward the giant beast.

The Rock Beast watched him as well.

A massive wound was carved into its abdomen, black blood was still flowing, and its intestines were exposed. It was already very weak, but it was still standing.

It was a fifth-rank Lord.

It would not fall before a second-rank human.

Lin Mo walked up to it.

Five meters.

Three meters.

One meter.

The Rock Beast raised its claw.

Lin Mo did not dodge.

He simply raised his blade, aimed at the bleeding wound, and thrust it in.

Then he pushed upward.

The blade sliced through flesh, through fascia, and through internal organs.

As the Rock Beast's claw fell, his body completely turned into mist.

The Rock Beast let out a low whimper. The light in its eyes began to fade, its massive body swayed twice, and then it crashed to the ground.

The ground shook three times.

The dust settled.

The fifth-rank Lord was finally dead.

Three seconds later, the effect of Misty Rain wore off, and Lin Mo's figure reformed.

He turned his head and looked toward Yuan Shoucheng.

The battalion commander still lay there, blade in hand, eyes open, staring at the night sky.

Lin Mo opened his mouth.

He wanted to call out "Battalion Commander."

But he couldn't make a sound.

He just lay there, looking at the corpse, looking at the blade, looking at the blood and shredded flesh covering the ground.

[Ding! Slayed early-stage fifth-rank Lord Beast: Rock Beast. slaughter value +8000 (Over-rank kill bonus +100%)]

[Ding~ Congratulations to the host for completing the achievement: Lord Hunter. achievement points +3]