Chapter 208: Section 208: Charge to Death!


    Watching the crowd gathering around him, the young monster smiled.


    However, his form was terrifying at that moment, far removed from anything human. To call it a smile would be closer to a grimace.


    He let out a low growl, pointing up at the ceiling, “The Empire’s flag is planted up there, the glory of the Nobles envelopes it, and perhaps even the Divine has bestowed its favor upon it.”


    “But up there lies our path to survival! The Treasure we seek! Charge with me!”


    The young monster roared, taking the lead out of the safe Domain and into the raging lightning.


    “Charge!” The Half-Beast followed closely behind.


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    “Dad!” The Big guy took huge strides, starting to run, causing the ground to tremble slightly.


    “Kill them!” Even more people shouted, surging forward.


    “Damn it! They’ve really been bewitched by the substitute, they’re all charging here.” Jia Sha’s face turned ashen, undoubtedly facing the worst scenario.


    Zhenjin could not see the third floor’s scene, but he could hear the crowd’s charge. Confirming with Jia Sha’s words, he turned frantic and yelled, “What are you doing? Are you rebelling? Do you want to be enemies with the Holy Temple Knights, with the priests of the Holy Emperor? Do you want to be wanted, to be executed? The lightning will strike you dead!”


    As if to prove his words, in the next moment, someone within the young monster’s group was struck by lightning, dead on the spot!


    Yet, anticipating this, not a single person halted their charge, not even for a brief moment.


    In fact, their pace quickened even more.


    Screaming, shouting, at this moment they seemed more like a pack of wild beasts than humans!


    “Why, why is it always like this?!” Jia Sha burst into a fit of angry shame.


    At that moment, it was as if he was back in the past.


    He saw a young guard attempting to elope with the daughter of the City Lord.


    He saw a mob resisting the Lord.


    “You low-class people! Weeds, pests! Why can’t you ever see reality?”


    “Without me, you would have been devoured by the beasts long ago. I brought you here, into the Alchemy Factory! Is this how you repay my kindness?!”


    “The strong rule the weak, the Upper-class rules over the Lower-class, yet you want to resist?”


    “What can you possibly resist? You will all die, all of you!”


    As a response to his words, the chaotic lightning continued to ravage.


    Crack!


    Fat Tongue’s eyelids trembled, only reacting after the lightning had struck.


    Just a few steps away from him, a muscular companion turned to char. Dead, with no chance for a struggle.


    Without the aid of Fighting energy, Magic, Divine Arts, no one could resist a strike of lightning. Even the substitute youth was no exception, let alone the others?


    “Run, run!”


    Fat Tongue kept encouraging himself, while internally shouting, “Chairman Zi Di, I’m coming to avenge you!”


    Despite his efforts, his obesity caused him to slowly fall behind.


    But the last to remain wasn’t him.


    The elderly Cang Xu strained to run but still ended up at the back. He watched helplessly as the distance between himself and the main group grew wider, panting and lamenting in his heart, “How troublesome for an old man like me.”


    The companions of the young monster fell one by one to the lightning.


    At this moment, it wasn’t about fighting strength, but pure luck.


    As such, this charge seemed all the more brutal.


    But no one turned back!


    Because their charge this time wasn’t for glory, it was for survival. Not following behind some big shot, but for themselves.


    The lightning was like a baptism, a baptism of the soul.


    As they neared the staircase to the fourth floor, their faces revealed fierce, excited, fanatical, and ferocious emotions.


    The beast within is unpredictable.


    Hearing the footsteps of the crowd drawing nearer, Zhenjin panicked completely.


    “Father! This is really bad now!”


    “It seems the lightning hasn’t killed most people. Most crucially, the substitute is still alive!”


    “I told you, he’s incredibly powerful, and terrifying! I saw with my own eyes how he slaughtered an entire troop of leopards, an entire troop!”


    “That was slaughter, and it was easy for him, just a drop in the bucket!”


    “Run, establish the Teleportation Gate, let’s all leave together!”


    “Shut up, you useless thing!” Jia Sha’s face also twisted fiercely, filled with both rage and horror.


    But he was helpless.


    He still couldn’t open the Teleportation Gate; if he could, he would have done it already!


    “Just a little more, just a little.”


    “These damn Sinners! I should never have had any expectations for them, I should not have saved them then, I should not have given them Divine Arts’ enhancements and healing!”


    “Guardian Knights, go down there, block the staircase to the fourth floor, they must not be allowed to come up.”


    “I need time, just a little time!”


    The four Guardian Knights, however, hesitated unusually.


    Like Zhenjin had said, the young monster was mighty, but they too were made of flesh and blood.


    Moreover, the fourth floor was the central hub, unaffected by weather, but the third floor was prone to random lightning strikes.


    The stairs leading to the fourth floor were also under the jurisdiction of lightning.


    “If we don’t stop him, we all are doomed, definitely doomed!” Seeing the hesitant Guardian Knights, Zhenjin shouted urgently.


    “Go, I won’t let you die in vain!” Jia Sha also roared, simultaneously invoking his authority and lifting a crucial restriction.


    The four Guardian Knights were overjoyed, no longer hesitated, and together they blocked the stairway entrance to the fourth floor.


    Concerned about the lightning, they never set foot on the stairs.


    The monster youth was always at the forefront of the charge; he was the first to set foot on the stairs.


    Without any hesitation, he looked up and collided head-on with the four Guardian Knights.


    Bang!


    With a muffled sound, the monster youth was actually repelled and slammed forcefully onto the tiles of the third floor.


    “Fighting energy!” The monster youth was seriously injured, his eyes blood-red as he quickly stood up. sea??h thё N?velFire.nёt website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.


    Indeed, at this moment, all four Guardian Knights were radiating with the brilliance of fighting energy.


    They each had Black Iron Level strength, and four Black Iron Knights capable of wielding fighting energy formed an extremely solid defensive line.


    For a long time, low-level magic and fighting energy were forbidden on Mysterious Monster Island, and high-level Magic Tools could only exert minimal power.


    But now, Jia Sha had lifted the restriction on the fourth floor, allowing the four Guardian Knights to deploy their fighting energy.


    Fighting energy… once the very thing the monster youth desperately sought after, as it could transform him qualitatively, aiding him in slaying man-made magical beasts beyond his level.


    And now, the enemy wielded fighting energy, while he turned into a monster that was suppressed by fighting energy.


    “Black Iron fighting energy, Black Iron Level gear…” The monster youth caressed his scorpion armor which had been marked by slashes. His scorpion armor was Silver Level, but without the enhancement of fighting energy, it was still easily nicked.


    The monster youth snorted coldly and stood up again.


    At this stage, what else was there to think about?


    He charged again!


    Halfway up the stairs, his body surged with red light, and his head transformed into that of a green lizard. He opened his mouth and sprayed out a mass of Corrosive Acid Liquid.


    The acid was directed at the four Guardian Knights.


    “Be careful!”


    “It’s the acid of a green lizard.”


    The Guardian Knights uttered a low cry, instantly recognizing the details of the youth’s attack and swiftly raised their Shields.


    The Shields blocked all the acid; the liquid corroded the surface of the shields, emitting a sizzling noise and small plumes of white smoke emerged.


    The Shields remained steadfast.


    To completely corrode the Shields, the acid would need to be sprayed hundreds more times!


    There was no time to allow for that.


    After all, lightning was striking chaotically, and the stairs from the third to the fourth floor were also under the fierce assault of lightning.


    The monster youth continued his charge.


    He canceled his green lizard form, the red light flashed and vanished, and his head transformed into a bat monkey.


    The next moment, the bat monkey screamed, its powerful sound creating ripples visible to the naked eye in the air.


    The sound waves surged to the fourth floor, ravaging the eardrums of the Guardian Knights.


    But the Guardian Knights stood unshaken, their figures as solid as iron, not trembling in the least.


    Black Iron fighting energy!


    In a critical moment, they all used Black Iron fighting energy to protect their eardrums.


    The sound waves were ineffective against them, but instead, Zong Ge and the Big guy, who arrived later, were affected, each letting out a subdued groan, expressions twisted in pain.


    “Damn it!” The monster youth was forced to cancel his bat monkey head.


    The sound waves were an area attack, at most the youth could enhance the sound waves in one direction, but he couldn’t stop the spread of the sound to the surroundings.


    Continuing would only harm his own people.


    Both the acid and the sound waves were ineffective.


    But at this moment, the monster youth had once again rushed to the front of the Guardian Knights.


    He raised the Silver Spider Blade in his hand high, at the same time tightening his muscles, releasing electricity.


    The blade slashed down fiercely, sparks of electricity flashing on its edge!


    The four Guardian Knights coordinated tacitly, two holding Shields to block the Silver Spider Blade, while the other two thrust their Black Iron swords from either side toward the monster youth.


    As the Silver Spider Blade struck the Shield, the swords of the Guardian Knights also slashed the youth’s scorpion shell.


    The youth bellowed, and with his other hand, he wielded another Silver Blade and brought it down hard.


    The Guardian Knights’ Shield was tilted by the strike, the defensive line wavered, revealing a gap.


    The youth suddenly canceled the Silver Blades and his left hand swiftly transformed into a bear’s paw.


    The bear paw glowed like red-hot iron, extremely hot, seizing the gap and jabbing towards the Guardian Knight in front!


    The Guardian Knight couldn’t bring his Shield or sword back in time to defend and had no choice but to muster all his fighting energy, concentrating it in his abdomen.


    A black light of Black Iron instantly appeared on the surface of his abdomen.


    The youth’s Silver Level bear paw stabbed into this black light but couldn’t penetrate!


    However, the tremendous force meant the Guardian Knight couldn’t neutralize it completely and was knocked back.


    The defensive line formed by the four Guardian Knights suddenly had a massive breach.


    The monster youth’s eyes blazed, seizing the chance, ready to surge through the gap.


    But the other three Guardian Knights quickly pressed their swords and Shields onto the youth, pushing together.


    Meanwhile, the youth’s legs mutated, taking on the form of the powerful thighs and hooves of a Strong Life White Rhinoceros, generating strong stomping force.


    Instantly, both sides were locked in a contest of strength.