With the interference of the spirit energy magnetic field from the Other World and the radiation from the crystal mines and the ridiculous amounts of activity from microorganisms working together, the speed at which living beings rotted and became spoiled was faster than the speed on Earth. It was also more intense. Even if something died, it could easily turn into another living being that was even more difficult to deal with.
Humans could turn into zombies.
Monsters and superbeasts also had a certain chance to turn into all sorts of horrifying undead.
But usually, corpse transformations happened from six to twenty-four hours after a monster’s death.
Shao Jianqing and the other three had never seen a superbeast’s carcass turning into an undead within a few minutes.
Besides, the Will o’ the Wisp Dragon that the Fire Feather Dragon had turned into was completely different from the ones they had seen in textbooks.
The cold, dark green flames surrounding its body burned stronger, and its broken bones were sharper. A large number of red, vine-like things continued squirming about in the abdominal cavity, which made it even more monstrous compared to a normal Will o’ the Wisp Dragon.
Thud!
It did not give up on Xu Sheng even after he fled. It fired a Fire Breath, which was the undead version.
Xu Sheng was too slow, and his legs were devoured by the green flames.
The undead version of Fire Breath was not as hot as the one of a living Fire Feather Dragon, but it was incredibly corrosive.
The mechanical prosthetics Xu Sheng had created using super alloy let out creaking sounds, and in an instant, holes appeared in them due to the corrosion. Rust covered them, and they became incredibly brittle.
“Is the Will o’ the Wisp Dragon’s Fire Breath supposed to be this corrosive?”
The four were shocked.
The Will o’ the Wisp Dragon before them was much more agile than when it was alive, and it charged straight at its target.
Xu Sheng could only grit his teeth and activate his automatic ejecting system. He fired his broken right arm and legs at the Will o’ the Wisp Dragon and turned them into metal shards that could interfere with its attack trajectory.
His body, which had only one arm left, was launched in another direction. With the magnetic absorption system, he landed on a spider fighting vehicle, and with a click, he fused together with the fighting vehicle. It became his second mechanical body, which could move at high speed and was suitable for running away.
“I’ll lure it away! Run!” Xu Sheng shouted at the other three as he moved the six limbs with wheels installed in them.
Usually, undead creatures had microorganisms stimulating their nerves and viruses stimulating their cells, so their attack patterns were even more bizarre than when they were alive.
This was especially the case for the mutated Will o’ the Wisp Dragon, which they had never seen before. The four of them simply did not know its weaknesses and how they should fight it.
It was not a good idea to fight such a creature head-on while they were exhausted and their spirit energy was drained.
Xu Sheng turned around and ran.
The Will o’ the Wisp Dragon chased after him.
Shao Jianqing and the other two might not have intended to cast aside Xu Sheng and run, but they needed valuable minutes to catch their breath or take gene medicine which would replenish their spirit energy to the point where they could create spirit energy magnetic fields and release a major move.
During that incredibly dangerous moment, the Will o’ the Wisp Dragon’s claws tore apart Xu Sheng’s spider fighting vehicle and ripped off his remaining left arm.
A lone figure appeared from the fog in front of him.
That figure did not carry any firearms nor had a strengthened exoskeleton or biochemical beasts. The person did not have unmanned fighting vehicles or remote fighting vehicles surrounding him either. His face was relatively young, and Xu Sheng could tell at first glance that he was not a university lecturer, an army instructor, or veteran hunter. He was just like them, a naive freshman.
Xu Sheng felt his skin crawl. He groaned in his heart and screamed as loudly as he could, “Danger! Run!”
The person heard him, but he remained standing calmly. He did not seem to care about his warning at all.
“I’m Xu Sheng!” Xu Sheng shouted again. “I have an undead Will o’ the Wisp Dragon that is at least Grade Three behind me. You can’t handle it! Run!”
The person tilted his head to think, as if he was wondering just who Xu Sheng was and why he thought that others would definitely recognize him just because he announced his name.
But the phrase “an undead Will o’ the Wisp Dragon that is at least Grade Three” caused him to stop thinking. An interested smile bloomed on his lips.
Then, he slowly pulled out two sabers.
The lights of the youthful version and flagship model of Surging Lightning intersected with each other and illuminated his sparkling eyes.
“Meng Chao?”
Not far away, Shao Jianqing stood up. Her expression was strange.
As for Wu Wu, she sighed in relief. She brought her Ghost Leopard to the side and started treating her wounds with complete ease.
Han Xing scratched his head. He had heard of Meng Chao’s name before and knew that this person’s Ultimate Style had been really famous lately, but wasn’t the Ultimate Style meant to fight against normal monsters? The creature before them was an undead, which was at least Grade Three, so it was much more difficult to deal with than normal Nightmarish Beasts!
Behind Meng Chao, Sun Ya and the rest of the Four Great Kings from Agricultural University’s martial arts course stumbled out of the fog.
They immediately saw the fleeing Xu Sheng, and they were instantly shocked. Everyone knew that he was one of the four specially recruited students for the fighting courses in the alliance of the five universities, so he was someone who could do whatever he wanted in Shattered Starlake. Who could possibly have burnt him so badly and covered him in wounds? He had even discarded his human-shaped mechanical prosthetic limbs and now looked like a grotesque half-human, half spider.
Then, they heard Xu Sheng’s shout, and they felt chills down their spines at the phrase “an undead Will o’ the Wisp Dragon that is at least Grade Three”.
When they saw the Will o’ the Wisp Dragon charging forward like a fiend, they were scared out of their wits.
“Meng Chao, run!”
The Four Great Kings from Agricultural University’s martial arts course jumped up like terrified rabbits.
But Meng Chao ran in the opposite direction compared to them and Xu Sheng. He charged at the Will o’ the Wisp Dragon.
Whoosh!
He lowered his body to a great degree and used the weeds as well as fog to provide cover for himself. Then, he went for a slide and slid under Xu Sheng’s mechanical spider. After that, he brought his Surging Lightnings up and thrust forward.
The Will o’ the Wisp Dragon’s eyeballs had been destroyed, and its black eye sockets shone with a strange green flame. They could not see all the fine details like when it was alive, and it did not notice Meng Chao’s actions.
It was only when the two sabers swung upwards and stabbed its throat that it noticed Meng Chao’s existence.
However, at that moment, Meng Chao had already slid behind it like a human-shaped loach.
Slitthheeeeeer…
Red vines popped out of the Will o’ the Wisp Dragon’s wound at its throat and started healing it at lightning speed.
But Meng Chao remained calm. He brandished the sabers until they looked like two whirlwinds and turned into a spinning top. The saber glares surrounded the Will o’ the Wisp Dragon.
“He’s fast!”
“He actually has the guts to fight against the Will o’ the Wisp Dragon at close distance?”
“The Will o’ the Wisp Dragon is completely baffled!”
This was the first time the specially recruited students saw Meng Chao fighting at full strength.
They simply could not believe that the Will o’ the Wisp Dragon, which had caused them so much trouble when they fought against it with a party of four, would be held back so firmly by Meng Chao and his two sabers. Wounds deep enough to see bone were continuously left on its body. Blood and flesh flew in the air, and it looked a tragic sight.
Sun Ya and the other three had been thinking about running away, but now they were dumbfounded. Cold sweat broke out on their skin. They did not expect that the Ultimate Style, which they had thought was just a harvesting machine suited to kill mooks, would be so effective when fighting against a Nightmarish Beast.
In an instant, Meng Chao delivered three hundred and sixty slashes.
Even though the wounds he left were healed by the red vine-like things after a moment, he did not seem to care about the results. He only enjoyed the fight and patiently engaged in a tug-of-war with the Will o’ the Wisp Dragon.
It might be known as an undead creature, but it was not really dead. It was still restrained by biology.
As Meng Chao cut into it as if he was cutting mince meat, the Will o’ the Wisp Dragon’s healing became slower, and it gradually became agitated.
“Roar!” It turned its head around and released the undead version Fire Breath at Meng Chao.
The poisonous green flames grazed past Meng Chao and burnt some weeds to a crisp. Everyone in the area cried out in surprise.
But Meng Chao did not even bat an eyelid. He slowed down intentionally and drew closer to the Will o’ the Wisp Dragon’s mouth, which was still dripping with poisonous flames. He lured the Will o’ the Wisp Dragon to spit out the flames time and again, but not a single spark landed on his body.
“Is he… doing this intentionally?” Shao Jianqing and Han Xing looked at each other, and they saw the surprise in each other’s eyes. “He intentionally lured the Will o’ the Wisp Dragon into using Fire Breath, but it was only after he had planned out how he would dodge and counterattack. Did he turn himself into bait to make the Will o’ the Wisp Dragon spend its poison?”
It might sound simple, but if anyone truly took the risk to do this during a real fight, they would need a really stable mental strength index, great control over their muscle fibers and joints, and great understanding of the Will o’ the Wisp Dragon’s attack patterns!
While everyone was busy gasping in surprise, they suddenly smelled a tasty aroma.
When they turned their heads around, they found that Wu Wu had already finished bandaging herself and the Ghost Leopard. She had brought out two cans of self-heating MRE and was heating them up!
Shao Jianqing was stunned. “Wu Wu, what are you doing?”
“Make preparation to eat,” Wu Wu enunciated clearly.
“You’re eating now?” Shao Jianqing could not believe it.
“Meng Chao is here. I can do nothing except eat,” Wu Wu answered seriously.
Shao Jianqing found herself speechless.
‘Alright, even if Meng Chao’s movements are really agile, the Ultimate Style lacks a powerful move that can decide the fight in one go. At most, he can only exhaust the Will o’ the Wisp Dragon, and they’ll both be injured badly. Us specially recruited students will have to deal the fatal blow.’
Before Shao Jianqing could say those words, a shocking change happened in the battlefield.
For an unknown reason, the Will o’ the Wisp Dragon which had been raging around looked as if it had been struck by a petrification spell. Its movements turned stiff and slow.
Its flesh and the blood red vine-like things started swelling uncontrollably and turned into a round leather ball.
The limbs were really thick and short, and as the abdominal cavity continued swelling up, they could no longer touch the ground. The creature looked really stupid and ridiculous, and its agility was reduced by a large amount.
Meng Chao sensed a chance. The frequency at which he swung his sabers instantly increased to a whole new level. He left countless intersecting bolts of lightning in the onlookers’ retina and forced the Will o’ the Wisp Dragon to retreat repeatedly. Suddenly, with a thud, the Surging Lightning Youthful Version stabbed into the Will o’ the Wisp’s left eye socket and came out of its right eye socket. Meng Chao had managed to stab the brain.
Then, he raised the Surging Lightning Flagship Model and brought it high over his head. His spirit energy magnetic field and spirit flames surged.
Meng Chao shouted, and he looked like an angry titan who had lifted a demon subduing pole high in the air!