157: Warriors Duel

Wani braved the flames, relying on his powerful physique, to charge through and barely escape with his life.

His body was charred black in some places and burnt in others.

He looked up and saw the Snake-Person Great Elder, his face beaming with surprise. “Great Elder, did your side succeed?!”

But then he focused and saw the Great Elder alone, and his excited heart instantly sank again.

“You… your side, also encountered an ambush?!”

Seeing that the Great Elder didn’t answer, Wani knew the truth.

Just as the two were meeting up and preparing to approach each other, a heavy, fine iron warhammer suddenly descended from the sky, striking between them.

“Stop, or die!!”

The two looked up, only then realizing that on the second-story platform, several meters high, a group of iron-barrel-like strange people had appeared. Each held heavy-handled weapons, and the iron-barrel-like strange person in the very center was especially tall. Even with Snake-Person Chieftain Wani’s build, he felt as if the man was a city wall.

His right hand was empty; clearly, the warhammer had been thrown by him.

The others weren’t as impressive as him, but they also looked sturdy and reliable.

However, at this moment, the unfortunate truth was that they were all enemies!!

Wani, disbelieving, moved a step towards the Snake-Person Great Elder.

Bang, bang, bang!!!

Armor-piercing bullets, fired almost simultaneously from three different directions, precisely crisscrossed and struck Wani’s snake tail, entering him where his scales had been lost.

Intense pain surged through his mind like a tide.

But he only dared to grunt and endure it.

These steel monsters would truly shoot him dead on the spot!!

Seeing Wani’s predicament, a hint of relief flickered in the Snake-Person Great Elder’s eyes.

Fortunately, he hadn’t moved just now, or he would have been the unlucky one.

Then he heard a cold voice continue from above.

“Originally, you could have both survived, but now, someone isn’t listening, so this captain is very displeased.”

“You will duel!!”

“The victor, I will let him return to the tribe. As for the loser, hehe, he will stay here forever!!”

Following the instructions from his earpiece, Wang Iron Hammer repeated these words with a feigned aloofness, feeling an unprecedented sense of satisfaction.

He was so damn cool!!!

It felt even better than when he had just swung his steel hammer to pulp the small group of snake-people who hadn’t been roasted.

However, as much satisfaction as he felt, that was how much suffering the Snake-Person Great Elder and the Snake-Person Great Priest were experiencing right now!!!

Damn it, why was it a warrior’s duel now?!

But they didn’t dare to take it lightly, hearing the faint sound of bullets being chambered in their ears.

A fierce glint flashed in the Snake-Person Great Elder’s eyes, and he attacked first.

Spiritual power surged up his staff, and three ice crystal arrows rapidly shot out from the second light-blue crystal at the top of the staff, aiming at Snake-Person Chieftain Wani.

Wani hadn’t expected the Snake-Person Great Elder to act so decisively and quickly. Caught off guard, he was struck by two of the ice crystal arrows, and half of his body was covered in a layer of light blue frost, making him stiffen instantly.

He agitated his remaining blood and qi to shake off the frost.

Under the crisis of life and death, he could no longer consider the Snake-Person Great Elder’s status.

Once he regained mobility, he immediately swung his snake tail, holding his scimitar, and charged at the Snake-Person Great Elder.

As a result, his foot slipped, and he almost crashed into the wall next to him.

At some point, a layer of Frost Nova had spread from the Snake-Person Great Elder’s direction.

The ground was slippery and cold.

It numbed Wani’s snake tail.

With the Snake-Person Great Elder gaining the initiative, Wani’s situation became very passive.

He couldn’t get close to the Snake-Person Great Elder at all.

Facing the Snake-Person Great Elder’s continuous attacks, he could only act as a living target, passively dodging the Snake-Person Great Elder’s ice crystal arrows.

Unbeknownst to him, he had been hit by several arrows.

Even his eyebrows were tinged with the color of ice crystals.

His whole body was translucent blue, like an ice sculpture.

His breath also became faint.

On the highest platform, Lu Yang watched for a while and said, “That’s enough. Shoot the spellcasting snake-person on the left. I’m very interested in the staff in his hand.”

Lu Yang, with his spiritual power at the second-tier professional level, was very sensitive to spiritual power fluctuations.

He could clearly feel that the Snake-Person Great Elder’s spiritual power was not strong, yet he could release attacks of considerable strength. This was not due to the Snake-Person Great Elder’s innate talent, but entirely to the scepter in the Snake-Person Great Elder’s hand.

Or rather, it was due to the crystals with special patterns embedded in his scepter.

Each crystal had a different pattern.

So the effects were also very different.

Lu Yang was very interested.

He currently had spiritual power but no means of attack, so this was a good opportunity to study it.

And under Lu Yang’s command, the Snake-Person Great Elder, who had been at an advantage, suddenly felt a gust of wind. The water elemental shield, just deployed, popped like a bubble.

His entire head exploded like a watermelon.

Red and white splattered everywhere.

Wang Iron Hammer carelessly dropped his hammer, took off his gauntlet, and picked up the staff.

Then he said to the dying Snake-Person Chieftain Wani, “You won, and you’ve earned a chance to live!!”

“If you answer the questions well later, you’ll have a chance to go back alive.”

Wani, having narrowly escaped death, had no thought of remaining loyal.

He nodded repeatedly.

He wished he could answer right now.

Without resistance, he was dragged like a dead fish and locked into a cell.

The moment the door closed, Wani let out a long sigh of relief.

Finally, he could live again!!