Doom Lord

Chapter 118- Shock The Audience

Complicated emotions flooded Yuan Jianze’s heart as he stared at Cheng Yang.

Originally, he had thought that he had already appraised highly of Cheng Yang by assuming he was as a high-order magician apprentice. After all, the apocalypse had just begun, becoming a high-order magician apprentice was already beyond the norm. If it wasn’t for Cheng Yang having the attack power to spike a warrior with a health of 30 points, he really wouldn’t had believe that Cheng Yang has the power of a high-order apprentice.

But now, it seems he still greatly underestimate the other side. So far, Yuan Jianze has yet to find a solution to breaking the opposition’s defense.

The only explanation for this was that Cheng Yang’s defense was very abnormal. If the issue was merely abnormal defensive equipment, then it would had been fine as long as they attack the places the equipment didn’t covered. But contrary to expectation, Cheng Yang was still harmless after the attack was over. Equipment wasn’t capable of doing this.

If he wasn’t a high-order magician apprentice, then what was he? A peak-order magician apprentice? Yuan Jianze didn’t dare to consider this.

According to the forum, after a successful promotion to mid-order apprentice, all the stats would doubled. This evolution could be described as a game-changer, separating the elites from the rest.

If the same thing were to happens from mid-order to high-order and from high-order to peak-order, then what kind of situation would a person find themselves in? Wouldn’t that mean a person would have a defense of 8 points, and an attack power of 40 points?

If you also included the skills and equipment, the stats would be even more frightening.

Now he finds himself caught in a dilemma. If the fight continues on like this, they would soon lose. However, those shameless words he had thrown out, how could he take them back? At this moment, Yuan Jianze deeply regretted letting Liu Xiyue slipped away, otherwise grabbing Liu Xiyue and making her a hostage would’ve been an excellent choice.

Unfortunately, Liu Xiyue had already ran to a distance 200 meters away. Does he still have a hope of catching her?

“Commander, looking at the way Liu Xiyue is dressed, she shouldn’t be a warrior. Moreover, just now she chose to escape instead of helping her partner fight, so her strength is likely to not be that strong. Should we send a couple of people with speed talent to catch her back?”

Seemingly aware of Yuan Jianze’s inner struggles, Old Wu standing by his side immediately suggested a piece of advice.

Yuan Jianze’s eyes glinted as he decisively said: “Give chase!”

Old Wu immediately began to arrange the manpowers; soon 20 warriors from the team flushed out towards Liu Xiyue’s direction.

Regarding Yuan Jianze and his subordinates’ petty tricks, Cheng Yang could see it as clear as day. However, the only thing he did was gave a moment of silence for those 20 warriors, and then no longer paying attention to this side.

In just 10 seconds, Cheng Yang has already slains over dozens of people. Some of these people wanted to rush over to save Zhao Xun and the others, but Cheng Yang was very reluctant to let them succeed. Any profession that tried to get close would immediately become the focus of his attention. After seeing multiple people killed, no one dares to have such an idea again.

Zhao Xun and the rest were also scared stiff. Like frightened sheeps that was about to be slaughtered, they kept their body horizontal to the ground, as countless magic arrows and magic missiles whistled over their head, for fear of accidentally being hit with one. They were especially fearful of Cheng Yang’s ice thorn. That was a skill that was capable of wiping out a dozen people at once, but also instantaneously. Faced with such threats to their livelihood wasn’t a joke. No one dared to move an inch.

At this moment, Liu Xiyue and the 20 pursuing warriors has already ran far out of sight. No one knows what their current situation was like.

As Yuan Jianze watched the countless soldiers surrounding Cheng Yang being killed at a rapid pace, his heart began to deeply regret his actions. Perhaps, he shouldn’t had ordered the attack on Cheng Yang.

However, the bridge that has been crossed has now been broken.

Should he send more people up and rely on human waves tactics to flood the other side? It wasn’t that Yuan Jianze didn’t want to do this, but that he was apprehensive about not knowing where Cheng Yang’s bottom line was at. If there was no pub, grocery store, or the appearance of the other buildings, Yuan Jianze might have thought of using such a method. After all, a person’s mana was limited. Even if he had potions, the number that could be carry wasn’t much. However, the other day he discovered something in the grocery store that made him green with envy. It was an item called the storage ring.

With Cheng Yang’s formidable strength, he definitely have the potential to clear large groups of monsters. Therefore, gathering 10,000 points of power value shouldn’t pose too big of a problem for him. This also means, Cheng Yang was likely to be in possession of a large quantity of mana potions. Unless, he deployed all of the professions in the main city, the chance of consuming all of the mana potions would be very low.

Seeing this situation, should he just surrender? Yuan Jianze was rather unreconciled towards this result. He couldn’t imagine what kind of situation he would faced after admitting defeat. Now the battle between two parties was rising hot, and it was obvious that Cheng Yang was the one that accounted for the advantage. If traded with him, he was unlikely to make such a decision.

Moreover, if he chooses to throw in the towel in this circumstance, his prestige would also suffer a major hit. At that time, how would he manage the main city? Perhaps, from then on he would become an object of ridicule spoken behind his back around the entire main city.

During Yuan Jianze’s moment of hesitation, Cheng Yang had killed nearly 30 people. From his standpoint, these men that besieged him were just too vulnerable and fragile. There was no worth in killing them.

Actually, Cheng Yang could had charged forward and grabbed Yuan Jianze, and in one move catch the king, ending the match in a splendid checkmate. However, very quickly he shook off this idea. About the turmoils and complexities of Xiangcheng city’s main city, he had heard plenty about it in his past life. The various forces within have great ambitions of one day occupying the main city. It wasn’t as simple as it look on the surface. If he take Yuan Jianze as a hostage, perhaps someone might jump out to provoke his anger causing Yuan Jianze to die.

Even though he didn’t care about Yuan Jianze’s fate, but if he died, the various forces of the main city would be left unchecked. And unless he give the main city a big purging, it would be difficult to change it.

Cheng Yang didn’t want to be in a place where countless people does nothing other than thinks about stabbing his back with a knife, day and night .

Therefore, Yuan Jianze shouldn’t die, at least for now. This was Cheng Yang’s thought, which was why doesn’t intends on making a move on Yuan Jianze now.

Lu Gaofeng, head of the second militia at this moment was standing next to Yuan Jianze. He was also a crafty person. Even though he was filled with anger when first greeted with the scene of dozens of his own men slains dead on the floor. but now he had calm down. Rather he has no choice but to calm down, because Cheng Yang’s strength was not something he could shake.

As a crafty businessman, observing people’s facial expressions could be said to be the most basic skill. At this moment, he could see the concern written on Yuan Jianze’s face.

“Commander, shouldn’t we try to make peace with the other side now? Also, I only have about hundred men remaining containing the other side. If we thoroughly provoke his rage, all of my men would certainly lose their lives.” Lu Gaofeng softly whispered in Yuan Jianze’s ear.

Yuan Jianze’s heart trembled, he immediately released a loud shout, “Everyone stop! Retreat!”

The emerging voice was like the sound of fairies in the ears of the attacking professions, quickly they retreated in succession. Cheng Yang didn’t continue the pursuit, but with a calm face looked at Yuan Jianze.

Yuan Jianze looked at the not far away instance portal, and through gritted teeth said, “Cheng Yang, you are very strong. This battle for the instance portal, count it as my loss. I won’t fight for it anymore. However, I have a condition. Those men you’ve captured, you must return them back to us. This matter will come to an end with that, otherwise even if I don’t find you for trouble, the tens of thousands of professions in my main city won’t let you go.”

Cheng Yang laughed in response, “Commander Yuan, it seems you aren’t aware of your situation! Maybe there really are tens of thousands of profession in your main city, but why do I have to confront them head-on. I only need to hide in the darkness and snipe them off. I bet after a few days of doing this, those tens of thousands of professions of yours wouldn’t even dare to take a single step out of the main city.”

Yuan Jianze was flabbergasted and speechless. He had to admit that what Cheng Yang had said was very reasonable. However, in his heart he also somewhat despises Cheng Yang. As a master, incredibly he didn’t showed one bit of a master’s demeanor.

If Cheng Yang knew Yuan Jianze’s thought, he would laughed until his sides hurt. This was the end, at this time who cares about the type of demeanor a person possessed.

“What do you want to do?” The type of situation a person find themselves in tends to shape them. Since Yuan Jianze has already decided to take a step back, there wasn’t too much psychological pressure for him to another step back.”

Cheng Yang chuckled and said, “ It’s simple. I feel that the existence of your force is a huge threat to me. Therefore, as long as you dissolve your team, I will let you go. In addition, I’ll let the rest go, too.

“That’s impossible!” Yuan Jianze face’s was livid as he roared. This was practically removing the firewood from underneath the pot. Once he dissolved the army, could he still be called a commander? What would be the condition of Xiangcheng City’s main city be in without his control? He didn’t dare imagine the aftermath.

Did Cheng Yang really want Yuan Jianze to dissolve his troops? Of course not, if he really has this thought, he would had directly kill Yuan Jianze, then the main city would immediately become a mess.

As the saying goes, sit down and haggle, Cheng Yang deeply understand this truth. He calmly said, “Apparently, Commander Yuan is still not convinced. In fact, I didn’t want to do this at first. Originally, I just want to make you withdraw from the competition for the instance portal, but you just had to force my hands. Just so you know the fee for my actions is very high, it’s to the extent that you can’t afford it. Do you really think you still have room to bargain with me?”

After saying that, Cheng Yang’s body instantly flashed forward, and before Yuan Jainze could react, he had approached the 30 meters mark. Then an ice thorn fell to the front of Yuan Jianze.

When Yuan Jianze finally responded, he was frightened backward. Only after retreating a few steps that he realized that Cheng Yang was just giving him a warning, and didn’t intend to kill him.

“You …” Yuan Jianze felt that today was absolutely the worst day of his entire life. He understand the truth now. If Cheng Yang wanted to kill him now, he wouldn’t be able to resist.

Following the release of the ice thorn, Cheng Yang had already flashed back to his original position. In a leisure mood, he said, “Do Commander Yuan understand his position now?”

Yuan Jianze’s face turned purple as veins appeared on his forehead, he said: “I can’t dissolve the army. The hundreds of thousands of people in the main city still rely on us for their protection. Without us, they will degenerate into the food of the enchanted beasts. As for other conditions, you….you can raise them.”

Cheng Yang’s heart was filled with relieved, all this acting, wasn’t it just to hear this sentence?