Chapter 403
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Chapter 403: The First Time With Michelle
"Hey, hey, can you understand what I’m saying?"
"Yes, I can."
"Let me introduce myself, I’m Michelle Hope."
"Hello, Michelle, my name is Yagyū Simozi."
"This is really useful."
Michelle felt curious. They couldn’t understand each other’s language before, but now they could communicate.
After teaming up with Yagyū Simozi to defeat a confident ancient god residue, the enemy disappeared and left behind a pair of earrings and a feather.
By wearing the earrings, they could translate their words to each other. They didn’t know how it worked, but communication was not a problem for now.
"What are you planning to do next?" Michelle asked. She was actually feeling a bit hungry and thirsty.
Dragonborn was strong, but it also required a lot of energy. To maintain her figure, Michelle had to eat and drink throughout the day, with constant snacks. Her favorite was carb bombs, and she avoided protein powder because she was afraid of waking up one day with six-pack abs. If that happened, Mr. Devil would definitely have to say goodbye.
Yagyū Simozi, using Guan Ling’s body, was also experiencing physical exhaustion. She had to sit down to catch her breath.
"I plan to continue hunting some of the strange creatures nearby. On the way here, I saw a giant that killed many people. If we can defeat it, this generation should be safe. Then we can search further."
"Shouldn’t we think about how to escape?"
"This is an island, surrounded by the ocean. It’s impossible to escape," Yagyū Simozi said. "Every second counts, maybe we can get some answers from these monsters after defeating them."
"Then let’s change our approach and find some food."
"I have some chocolate and biscuits here." Yagyū Simozi handed her the snacks she didn’t need. "This is all I have."
"I feel so embarrassed."
"You’ve helped me a lot just now," Yagyū Simozi said. "It’s no big deal. If we can’t find any other food or water source here, we might not last more than a few days. I don’t think you’d want to eat those monsters, or…"
She glanced at the nearby corpse, covered in blood and guts.
"No way!" Michelle said firmly. She ate a piece of chocolate to comfort her stomach and continued, "Drinking human blood doesn’t help either, though it provides some hydration. It only makes you thirstier."
Yagyū Simozi’s mouth curled slightly. "Just kidding."
She felt something magical at this moment. It was strange that she had experienced many unusual encounters since leaving home a few days ago. She met Guan Ling when she was performing, then she had a body swap, and later found herself at a music festival. Afterwards, a thick fog transported her to a completely unfamiliar place where she had a bizarre fight with a group of unknown creatures. She also met a girl from Europa, and they were able to communicate without any barriers.
She really wanted to tell her older brother about everything that had happened these past few days.
Both of them sat on the couch and chatted about some things. His reaction would surely be interesting, so she was determined to go back.
Yagyū Simozi had a strong desire to confide in someone. As soon as this thought arose, it turned into a determination. She held the sword in her hand, which she had found nearby. It was a bit blunt, but better than having no weapon at all.
"Don’t you want to take a little rest?" Michelle looked up.
"We have wasted too much time, and we won’t be able to finish everything. Besides, I heard a sound," Yagyū Simozi said.
Michelle placed her palm on the rocky ground and felt a slight vibration getting closer. "Indeed. Well, if we can’t defeat it, I’ll immediately pull you away and escape. It’s not worth losing our lives here."
Both of them hid in place, preparing to find a suitable position to launch an attack. The giant’s body was too large, so rushing directly towards it would easily be detected and intercepted.
When facing such a large monster like the giant, it was as if he held a long spear, with long-range capability. On the other hand, she only had a dagger, which was for short-distance attacks. The difference in attack range also meant that the giant could raise its hand and attack faster, as well as perform positional maneuvers. Therefore, they needed to quickly launch a surprise attack and lying in wait for the opponent to approach would be the best choice.
They held their breath and patiently waited for an opportunity, but the one-eyed giant stopped in its tracks, just a hundred meters away from them, and stood still.
"What’s going on?" Yagyū Simozi whispered.
Michelle turned her head and secretly glanced at the one-eyed giant, noticing that its eye was tightly closed and a beam of light seeped through the gap beneath its eyelid. It also bent down with its palms pressed against the ground and its feet touching the earth, but without raising its back, as if preparing for something.
Michelle’s eyes widened in shock. She knew what this particular action meant. Many movies vividly described and portrayed the Dragonborn, even the lowest-ranked bipedal dragons had similar movements when it comes to exhaling fire. Before exhaling, they would take a deep breath, allowing the dragon’s flame to accumulate and react within the fire sac. The highly compressed dragon flame magic could be charged up, and the longer it was charged, the more powerful it became.
"Quick, retreat!" Michelle shouted.
The warning came a moment too late.
Keeping their hands and feet close to the ground was to stabilize their bodies, just like how large caliber coastal defense batteries needed to be fixed in place with cement.
The one-eyed giant opened its eyelid, and within the depths of its pupil seemed to swirl a vortex of abyss. The energy gathered and instantly released, erupting into a beam of light that extended for thousands of meters. It curved as its head rotated, sweeping through like a quantum light blade.
Michelle and Yagyū Simozi both dropped to the ground and crawled, surviving the onslaught of destruction as it swept past. Within a several-kilometer radius, anything higher than two or three meters was shattered. Even some pillars of rocks that emerged from the ground were crushed into rubble.
Several ancient gods’ residual spirits were swept away and vanished. Some unsuspecting people who were originally walking suddenly felt bewildered.
Indiscriminate AOE damage covered Yagyū Simozi and Michelle with dust and boulders.
"Phew!" Michelle raised her head after the vibration stopped. "Are you okay, Yagyū?"
"Hmm." Yagyū Simozi moved the stone pressing on her shin. "I’m fine, just a minor injury."
"I think it’s better for us to keep pretending to be dead," Michelle thought, realizing just a glance at herself wouldn’t cut it.
"I agree, we should observe first," Yagyū Simozi nodded. Who would have thought this one-eyed giant could kill with its gaze?
"But what could make it suddenly use this move from such a distance?" Michelle was curious, lifting her head from the pile of stones.
The next moment, a violent gust of wind buried her head back down.
A huge dragon with a wingspan of over twenty meters flapped its wings and descended, causing an astonishing gust of wind. Its scales seemed like steel, and it walked on four legs.
It swooped down from high above and immediately tangled with the one-eyed giant, entering into a battle for territory.
"A dragon… it’s actually a dragon," Michelle whispered, four-legged and winged, unmistakably showing the characteristics of a dragon. The more wings and heads it has, the more powerful the dragon becomes.
"It seems like it’s not alive," Yagyū Simozi said. "Look at its abdomen, it has already been hollowed out, only leaving some skeletons."
Michelle examined carefully and confirmed, "It’s dead. Once it’s dead, we don’t have to expect it to show any mercy. It, just like this giant, is a mindless monster… Let’s hurry and leave, once we get involved, our lives won’t be enough."
She hurriedly climbed out of the stone pestle and pulled Yagyū Simozi to run in the distance, not even caring about the sense of direction. They ran in the opposite direction of each other, but the dragon shook its wings violently, making a feint and bypassing the one-eyed giant, also bypassing Michelle. It hopped back, creating distance, and flew a hundred meters in an instant. For it, a hundred meters was just a moment, but for Michelle, it would take at least several seconds.
Michelle’s expression froze now, with the dragon corpse in front and the one-eyed giant behind, sandwiched between the two.
"No, it’s, it’s fine," she forced herself to say calmly. "As long as we quietly leave."
She took another step to the left and saw the gray-white eyeball of the dragon corpse and the dark-colored eyeball of the one-eyed giant both fixated on her.
Michelle bit her lip and muttered in frustration, "Damn it!"
"Can you perform the traditional arts of the Ming Country?" (Translator: it means dirty words)
"Driven by emotions!" Michelle’s back lit up with a golden light, her second-level Blood Rush filled with dragon blood vigor.
Yagyū Simozi had grown accustomed to deadly battles, given that in her visualization practice, she faced challenges from RashoMon and Tengu swordsmen, dying multiple times every day.
Michelle couldn’t adapt to suddenly risking her life. She didn’t have the strong will to fight nor a compelling reason to do so. The weight of life and death was too heavy for her. The differences between the two girls were clear in a rush. From combat prowess to combat quality, there were obvious disparities. The psychological readiness to face unexpected situations could also determine life or death.
The ancient dragon corpse and the one-eyed giant seemed to have reached an agreement to crush these two individuals.
A critical moment, about to happen in an instant.
Faced with an unprecedented crisis, they only heard a loud roar suddenly coming from the ground, as a horizontal lightning bolt streaked across Broken Paradise.
With a powerful swing, her robe sleeves came crashing down on the ancient dragon corpse. A flash of the blade and the seemingly indestructible dragon scales shattered like fish scales.
The dying ancient dragon corpse was minced like fish meat before this single strike, easily sliced apart.
If Ishida Kiyoshimasa sees this sword, he would definitely exclaim "monster"! After practicing the sword for fifty years, he finally understood the essence of "Iaido." But now, it easily reappears in the hands of this person with a completely different interpretation.
The Japanese samurai sword emphasizes poetry, even when used for killing, it tries to convey some emotional and poetic feelings. It represents the sorrow between life and death, which is why there are actions like "blood shake and sword sheathing" in Iaido. But the slash from Bai Wei’s sword only exudes grandeur and solemnity. It tears and shatters everything in its path, be it mountains or ancient dragons.
This one sword strikes the dragon’s head, directly beheading it. The ancient dragon dies once again, falling to the ground. Hunting down the ancient dragon is an achievement that would rank within the top ten dragon slayers in history.
Stepping on the dragon’s corpse, Bai Wei takes a breath, as if a white Qi jet erupted from his back, like a radiator starting up.
Having defeated a remnant of the ancient dragon, Bai Wei feels quite good about himself, and his swordsmanship level has also improved.
Immersed in a sense of joy, he looks at the fleeting giant one-eyed creature but chooses not to pursue it.
Bai Wei holds the Crouching Tiger Sword in his hand and sits on the dragon’s head. He looks down at the two girls below, about to greet them, but in the next moment, he is shocked.
He never expected that his first encounter with this girl would be in such a situation.
What an unexpected fate, Michelle Hope…