Chapter 196: Chapter 98: Elite Five-Man Team
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The Demon Corps probably never expected a human would be bold enough to light a beacon tower and then rush towards the next one.
Leonard Churchill stealthily moved at full speed and encountered no obstacles along the way.
The second beacon tower was lit with no problems.
Third, fourth, fifth…
The events unfolded exactly as he had predicted.
Leonard not only gained 4000 contribution points for lighting the beacon towers but also collected an additional four Demon Horns and some equipment.
After clearing up a few places, he figured out the arrangements of the Demon
Corps.
Each beacon tower was guarded by about 2-3 catastrophe-level demons.
A group of them always guarded the tower.
The rest were sent to block the path of humans.
Thanks to his decisive actions, Leonard smoothly lit five Beacon Towers.
However, his plan to light over a dozen towers was off the table.
By the sixth tower, the Demon Corps had latched on to his strategy.
Leonard encountered a heavily guarded beacon tower.
There were more than just one C-level catastrophes like the Dark Elf Shooter.
So, he couldn’t afford to let his guard down.
Though he could disperse and kill small groups to seize control of the sixth
Beacon Tower.
He chose not to do that.
He didn’t dare to.
Leonard came up with another plan.
He estimated the time.
And set up a trap near the sixth Beacon Tower, then he went into hiding.
This time,
He hoped to lure humans instead of demons.
After all, lighting a Beacon Tower alerted the entire Sawtooth Forest with a lighthouse-like blue light.
Not only did it draw attention from demons,
Humans would notice it as well.
Especially the members of the Lionheart Family.
They were probably very surprised. An ordinary hired hand hunter could light a Beacon Tower?
If there was such a powerful figure among the hunters, the Lionheart Family would inevitably send men to investigate.
Whoever was lighting the Beacon Towers was doing so in a consistent order from nearest to farthest, a pattern that could be traced.
If he were in the Lionheart Family, he wouldn’t find it hard to locate the person lighting the Beacon Towers.
Experienced hunters know it’s more important to guard against other hunters in the Alternate Dimension than it is to guard against monsters.
Things mostly went as Leonard had predicted.
It didn’t take long for five figures to appear in the forest.
They all wore cloaks made of light-absorbing material.
This was not magic equipment but a product of technology.
The strategist of the Fierce Beast Legion had studied all the rules of the space thoroughly before entering.
To ensure the Ninth Young Master’s safety, they had prepared as fully as possible, within the bounds of the rules.
The five men were able to dodge the demons and quietly cross the Sawtooth Forest thanks to these Invisibility Clotheses.
Their mission was to capture if they could, kill if they couldn’t, and eliminate any risk factors that could influence their Young Master’s test.
All five men were elite guards from the Fierce Beast Legion.
Suddenly, they stopped.
One of them made a gesture,
The remaining four immediately understood: the target was in the ten o’clock direction, about three hundred meters away.
Upon discovering the target, one of them took off his invisibility clothing and disappeared into thin air.
This Curse Card Master, a member of the Assassin sequence, was a common scout in the army.
The assassin went first.
The remaining four men quietly advanced in a ‘121″ formation towards the front.
The Black Knight in front, a battle doctor and Magic Type in the middle and a Beast Walker behind.
Under such formation, they had their back covered and didn’t need to worry about assassins targeting their weak card master.
There shouldn’t be any problem with their tactic for five men.
But they had no idea that a pair of eyes had been waiting for them in the darkness.
The stealthy assassin quietly approached.
He took a look at his special compass and quickly confirmed that the target was on the tree trunk.
This experienced assassin even climbed the tree without making a sound.
Stepping on the branch, he looked at the well-camouflaged “human” in front of him, then quietly drew out his dagger.
However, he didn’t notice that when he stepped on the tree trunk, he left a
faint footprint on the thin layer of developing powder spread on it. In the void above his head, a sharp surgical knife also revealed a cold gleam.
“Whoosh!”
The sound of the dagger cutting through the air was heard.
It plunged into the “human” hidden in the tree trunk.
However, almost at the same time, the dangling scalpel in the void stabbed into the assassin’s back, and quickly pulled downwards.
The leather armour did nothing to stop it, the sharp edge of the knife cut through in an instant.
Cutting through bones and muscles, it left a twenty-centimetre-long wound.
Leonard suddenly appeared, severely wounding the approaching assassin with a single stroke of his knife.
in that instant, he confirmed his suspicions: the Demon Horns do reveal your position!
When Leonard couldn’t put the Demon Horns into his storage ring, he guessed there’s something about these things. They were valuable but could be a potential risk.
This was a spatial rule, not a limitation of the item itself.
It clearly encouraged participants to rob each other.
Previously, as he was moving constantly, Leonard wasn’t afraid of being tracked.
But now, hiding in the forest, with these items on him, he risked revealing his position.
It was as expected, upon seeing the assassin.
The assassin finding his exact location confirmed that the Fierce Beast Legion had a way to locate the Demon Horns!
Leonard didn’t think that if he were captured by the Lionheart Legion, there would be room for negotiation.
If there was a fight,
He must ensure the enemy was weakened as quickly as possible.
That’s when Leonard came up with the plan to use the “Demon Horn” as bait..