Chapter 8 – The Alliance
A bright spark blinked in front of his eyes. Wu Qi flipped his body backwards and performed 18 somersaults by instinct, instantly hiding himself behind the archery tower.
‘Shoo’, a deep yet subtle sound. A thumb sized sharp as a needle prickle about 1.5 meter long flew past Wu Qi’s body closely, then penetrated into the ground 7-8 feet behind him. When the object flew past him, Wu Qi was able to smell a sweet yet stinking aroma. It was obvious that the prickle was poisonous.
Among the villagers, two ripped men were too late to evade; the prickle penetrated into their bodies. In just a few breaths of time, these two ripped men’s bodies suddenly turned black, and then they died on the spot. Their bodies were violently cramping. The two more than 2 meters tall and ripped men soon shrank down to the size of an ordinary kid. Blood poured out from all seven apertures, and it quickly stained a large part of the dirt.
Wu Qi felt pins and needles all over his scalp after witnessing this. The poison on these prickles was too strong.
On the other side of the river, there were at least 700-800 barbarians approaching while screaming. They carried strong bows made from rattan, and kept shooting out prickle after prickle. Together with the sound of laughter, several prickles fell down from the sky like rain, leaving the villagers close to the suspension bridge in a sorry stage.
The 30 barbarians who were running the fastest, in just the time it took to release two or three rounds of prickles, they had crossed the floating bridge and had come closed to the side of the suspension bridge.
The village elder who was talking to Wu Qi just now suddenly raised the stick in his hand high up into the air. All of his five fingers on his left hand curved a little, forming into a symbol. He suddenly took a deep breath. The short and skinny elder raised his chest up high, and then he roared with a deep voice as he tightened his fist. He did not loosen his fist until he stopped roaring.
A wild wind swept across out from nowhere, covering more than 50 meters’ radius of area.
Another round of prickles fell down from the skies at the same time. The wild wind scooped up the prickles and shot them towards those barbarians who were starting to close in on the suspension bridge. Those 30 barbarians who were the quickest were so scared it felt like their hearts were going to jump out. They threw away the strong bows in their hands and jumped into the river for their lives. Prickles impaled deeply into the bodies of a few barbarians who were too slow, and in the blink of an eye their bodies turned black and died.
Wu Qi’s eyes lit up as he stared at that elder. This skill was included in the ‘Scroll of Stealing’, it was amongst the most foundational and basic Five Elements skills, a Wood Element skill called ‘Wind Summoning’. The elder’s cultivation base was not strong, and the wind that he summoned could only cover around 50 meters’ radius of area.
A strong ‘Wind Summoning’, once it is used, it can even change the climate in a radius of ten thousand miles. However, this was not something an elder from this remote village could accomplish.
The sharp noise of something piercing through the wind sounded out from above. The villagers on top of the few archery towers had started readying their crossbows. Dozens of arrows shot out together with a loud sound. The heads of those barbarians who had jumped into the river just now emerged from the water. The powerful arrows had penetrated deeply into their bodies, killing them all on the spot.
The barbarian leader surrounded by black gas on the other side of the river let out an angry roar. He raised both his hands up high and screamed in an odd fashion, and then he twisted his body and started moving in a weird rhythm. The dark green skull within the black gas opened its mouth and spat out another green fireball.
The elder shouted loudly, those villagers who were near the suspension bridge started evading on after another. The villagers who were standing guard on the archery tower were pulling the suspension bridge up with all their strength, trying to retract it. However, the fireball flew right onto the archery tower that was connected to the suspension bridge. With a loud bang, the green fireball exploded. The explosion destroyed most of the archery tower, and the villagers who were on top of the archery tower tore into pieces by the explosion. The suspension bridge forcefully fell back down.
The barbarians screamed out, they threw away their strong bows, and then they drew their huge blades and swords from their back. While shouting ‘awawawaw’, the pushed through the floating bridge.
The leader of the barbarians proudly let out a wild cry towards the skies, and then another large group of barbarians emerged from the forest behind him. The barbarians were totaling nearly a thousand, and they were all carrying some sort of weapon in their hands. They screamed out with excitement as they started pushing through to the village entrance.
Rapid footsteps sounded out from behind, the young men in the village had heard the alarm from the horn. They grabbed their weapons and rushed to the village entrance. The Meng Village had a large population, there were nearly 1300-1400 young men gathering, and all of them were strong and capable.
Doggie grabbed two long swords and passed one to Wu Qi.
“Big brother Wu Qi, you be careful! Damn it, both the Qifu Barbarians and Huazu Barbarians… These two tribes have allied! Hey, if they didn’t, where would they find the guts to attack our Meng Village?”
Wu Qi took the long sword, and his arm instantly sunk down. He gazed at Doggie while gritting his teeth; Wu Qi was smiling bitterly in his mind.
This sword was almost 1.6 meters long, and it had the width of an adult’s palm. The thickest part of the sword was nearly 1 1/3 inches, and it weighed nearly 50 kg. It was a perfect weapon for those ripped men in the Meng Village, their strength and size was just perfect to cause the maximum damage with this sword. However, for Wu Qi, this sword was too heavy, too long, and too bulky. He could almost use this sword as a shield!
With a bitter smile, he stabbed the sword into the ground. Wu Qi looked around, and then he pulled a prickle that was used by the barbarians out from the ground.
The prickle had the diameter of a thumb; it was about 150 cm long, and it weighed not more than 1 kg. It was pretty solid. Wu Qi tried bending it with his finger, but it was almost as hard as raw steel. This thing, it was just perfect for Wu Qi, and it already came with poison. The damage it can cause is not any less than that of the huge sword.
Doggie gazed at Wu Qi with a surprised expression; he shook his head doubtfully.
“Sigh… Big brother Wu Qi, your strength is weak! In our Meng Village, you won’t be able to find a woman!”
Doggie’s words did not have any bad intentions; it was simply a sneer with good intentions. However, Wu Qi’s face still blushed. He looked at the huge sword on the ground once again, and then he shook his head yet again. This weapon, he really does not have the ground to use it. Although he had inherited the ‘Scroll of Stealing’, he has not had the time to cultivate it systematically, and he does not have the ability to transform into a superman just by shaking his butt.
Taking a deep breath, Wu Qi held the prickled in his hand as he stood next to Doggie. In his hand, the prickle held steadily. In addition, a cold briefly swept across the surrounding area. Wu Qi slowly injected the prickle with his Innate Water Energy. A thin layer of water reflection emerged on the tip of the prickle.
Another round of rapid footsteps, thousands of women from the Meng Village were emerging from the village while holding strong bows in their hands. They held their position on the high ground behind the archery tower, or on the rooftops, or on the top of some rocks, or on the top of some trees. They pulled their bows and started shooting arrows.
Screams were heard everywhere. Those barbarians who were like raging beasts immediately suffered over 50 casualties. The arrows with diameters of an adult thumb had penetrated deeply into their bodies and come out on the other side of their bodies. However, there was no blood.
Those barbarians who were struck by the arrows screamed and cried. After some violent cramping and trembling, their bodies turned hard, and then they died. Just like those barbarians, the arrows made by the Meng Villagers were fed with poison as well. Those hit by arrows, even if they did not hit anything vital, they would certainly die.
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