Chapter 686 – Counterattacking with a Quarter of Us at Death’s Door
Translated by: Berrrybunz
Edited by: TN and DeAndreR
Shan Mao walked to the front of the formation.
Before joining the Saint Blood Army, he had never interacted with mechanical spirit weapons, much less bloodmeridians weapons. But Shan Mao was rich with experience and had the spirit of studying meticulously, quicklygrasped the brand new type of war machines, and not long after, had become a well known figure in the entire army.
Liu Ya Zhi quickly realised that this adjutant that was not well liked, but held outstanding balance sense, acute battleintuition, and was a natural mechanical martial artist.
Shan Mao’s strength far surpassed Liu Ya Zhi, and his grooming in tactics was not something Liu Ya Zhi couldcompare to. The Blood Weapons Group was just an external organization of Onyx Soul, while Shan Mao was a highlevel disciple groomed meticulously by the Honorable Martial Group.
Without saying a word, Liu Ya Zhi threw the entire Saint Blood Army to Shan Mao, and immersed himself toresearch and developed a brand new type of blood meridians weapon.
“Ya Ya said that we need to defeat the opponents with one charge, anyone has any good idea?” Shan Mao saidlanguidly.
No one uttered a word, Shan Mao was a definite figure in the Honorable Martial Group. From the well knownadvocate for strictness and discipline of the Honorable Martial Group, Shan Mao’s casual character, his frivolouspersonality naturally did not receive much attention from the rest. All the soldiers all had no idea on what to do withtheir superior.
In a day after entering the army, Shan Mao had been reminded by 17 soldiers to watch his etiquette.
Shan Mao was naturally someone who did things his way, and did not have any intention to change, and gradually,everyone else got used to him. But the strictness and discipline of the Honorable Martial Group had long beeningrained in their hearts.
So to them, this superior of theirs was an eyesore.
No one cared about him, but Shan Mao was equally indifferent, after yawning,&nb
sp;he whined: “After the fight, I want tohave a good sleep.”
“A group of boring people.” Shan Mao stretched his limbs: “Alright, then we will finish it in a charge. Prepare for theDuck Assault Formation!”
The faces of the soldiers turned black, every time they heard the tactic name, their expressions would become ugly.~Duck Assault Formation? Are we male prostitutes? Isn’t the name Saint Radiance Hammer Assault Formationbetter? Even if you have no creativity, at least all of us can accept the Honorable Martial Assault Formation.~
(TN: Duck and male prostitutes are the same in chinese.)
But the tactic was formulated by Shan Mao, and because of that, he was extremely pleased to have the authority tocall it whatever he wanted.
Although the majority of the faces of the people inside their blood meridians weapons were black, they stillcompleted their formation without hesitation. Three lines appeared behind Shan Mao, forming a cone formation,the two wings were thicker, impressively appearing like a white duck that had expanded its wings.
Inside [Saint Blood], Shan Mao’s playfulness disappeared and he became serious.
It was his first time leading the Saint Blood Army into battle, and was also the first time he was utilizing the tacticthat he had created. ~This army was formed by Cl
an Elder An’s effort and money, with all of Liu Ya Zhi’s convictionand faith, everyone had worked so hard for so long, wasn’t it meant for this battle?~
He suddenly sort of understood Liu Ya Zhi’s thoughts.
Liu Ya Zhi admittedly had the intention to compete against the Frost Mountain Army, but, the extremist andfanatical man wanted to use this method to tell the entire Heaven’s Road...
Saint Blood had arrived!
~Alright, the Bullhorn Army is weaker, but still considerably reputable.~
Shan Mao’s expression became serious, the blood in his body started to boil, the True Power in his body resonatedwith [Saint Blood], lighting it up with white light, the familiar Honorable Martial aura caused him to become slightlyindifferent, entering a weird state of mind.
His gaze turned extremely cold, like an unstoppable war machine that had no emotions.
Wrapped in his Honorable Martial Aura, it quickly extended his sixth sense across the entire battlefield, causing hismind to be clear on the entire situation. His originally serious Saint Blood Army became deadly silent, every [SaintBlood] was enveloped with white light, the terrifying aura pervading throughout the field, yet none of them seemedto be alive.
Shan Mao extended his hands out, gathering the light aura in his hands, forming a long white congealed handle andlight hammer.
All of the [Saint Blood] behind him also retrieved out a long handle light hammer, while the [Saint Blood] situated atthe wings held long handle light axes.
Shan Mao raised the Light hammer in his hand.
Whooosh, all of the [Saint Blood] squatted down, and the white light aura surged like a tide, forming into one body.
Jerome did not know what monsters were in front of him, he had never heard of blood meridians weapons before,but the frantically surging terrifying aura from them made him feel like he was under constant attack.
The terrifying white light was extremely dense energy, and even the air in his vision started to contort.
~Is that the Honorable Martial Group’s secret weapon?~
Jerome took a deep breath and suddenly shouted out loud: “All of you should be afraid, right!”
Upon hearing their commander shouting out loud, all the nervous soldiers became startled.
“I am afraid too.”
Jerome admitted, attracting the attention of the soldiers, ~What is the commander trying to say?~ All of theBullhorn Army soldiers deeply respected the commander in front of them.
“But, I cannot bring you all to surrender.” Jerome’s voice sounded out from his armor: “Because the people in frontof you are intruders. I know, we cannot stop them, I know, Taurus Constellation is about to reach its end, I know,none of us can save ourselves from this desperate crisis. We will be destroyed like the Aquarius Constellation.”
The soldiers were shocked, ~the Taurus Constellation is going to doe? Aren’t we an Ecliptic Palace Constellation?Aren’t we an enormous figure? Why are we suddenly going to be destroyed?”
But, everyone knew that their commander was not bluffing, the army that held the Honorable Martial Group flagdid not hide anything.
Everyone were still feeling remorse over the destruction of the Aquarius Constellation, feeling remorse that therichest Constellation had been destroyed just like that.
为什么？
~Why?~
~The Taurus Constellation and the Honorable Martial Group did not have any grievances? So why?~
Grief filled the air, all the young soldiers could not help but cry. The other lower ranked officers were lost, theirexpressions were of defeat, they knew much more of the matters that concerned the higher ups, and felt despair.
“I cannot bring you all to surrender. Because I want to leave some face for our Kingdom. I do not want for others tosay that this army did not dare to even retaliate when they talk about the destruction of the Taurus Constellation. Ido not want other people to say that the men of the Taurus Constellation are not brave at all. We have a duty toprotect our home, and this is my last responsibility. If you are willing to, stay, if you are not, leave.”
His voice resonated in the sky.
Everyone calmed down, but no one left.
They did not know why, it might be from the pride of being an Ecliptic Palace Constellation, it might be from whatJerome had said, it might be from the dissatisfaction and anger, but no one left. All of the soldiers recovered fromtheir grief, and became determined.
But, the disciples of the noble families of Pristine Gravel City were completely different.
“Jerome has gone crazy, he has truly gone crazy, oh my god, the Honorable Martial Group! That is the secretweapon of Honorable Martial Group!”
“We are not their opponents, we need to run!”
Their faces were filled with panic and fear, only hating that they were born with two legs, they ran frantically likebirds scattering. They only had one thought in their minds, it was over, completely over, and run.
Jerome could not be bothered to care about them, he was quickly disseminating their tactic to his soldiers, the opponent were far stronger than what they could imagine, and not any formation could be effective.
“They will definitely think of ending us in one attack. We must let them know, if they want to swallow us whole, they have to be careful of bones. Remember our building blocks training daily, our enemies are stronger than us, they will definitely not want to drag the battle out, and will definitely use a full force offense. We will use our building block training to spread their destructivity, after our formation dissipates, it will be a battle for yourselves. Remember, do not fight by yourself, we are not their opponents, quickly gather together and fight as groups.”
The Building Block training, was the Bullhorn Army’s usual yet unique training subject, mainly used to train the mutual coordination between the soldier’s ability to cooperate. The soldiers would form groups and scatter from the formation, like many different building blocks. This formation would shatter upon being struck, but the most difficult part of the training was that upon being separated, the attack inflicted would be divided into the soldier’s bodies, and this required extreme coordination and ability to match with one another.
But this formation did not have any offensive capabilities, and upon being separated, the formation wouldcompletely crumble. In battle, the formation was the foundation of any tactic, a formation that had been completelyshattered would not be able to produce any effective attacks. That was why it was not usable in battle.
Facing enemies stronger than himself, Jerome suddenly thought of this completely unreliable and worthless tactic, he did not have any certainty of success, but he had no other choice.
The soldiers of the Bullhorn Army were extremely familiar to the Building Blocks training, the officers understood Jerome’s thoughts, but they felt that Jerome’s idea was too negative, and felt that despite the Honorable Martial Group being strong, it was not to the extent that they had to resort to such a method.
Luckily for Jerome, his prestige in the army was extremely high, and the officers were brought up by him, so theybelieved in him.
Just at that moment, the Honorable Martial Group Army was about to launch their assault.
And just then, all of the people that felt that Jerome was being too pessimistic no longer doubted his judgement.When all of the monstrous creatures started to rush, they then realised how terrifying it would be.
Ninth grade Snow Ape King, were tyrannical predators at the top of the food chain where only saints could handlethem. They had inexhaustible strength, and despite transforming them into blood meridians weapons, they hadcompletely kept that unique ability.
Every step they took were like deep bass drums, overlooking from the sky, and everywhere that their feet landed,large pits would form. Their bodies that were enveloped in white light had formed one big body, and rushed towardsJerome and his army, they were like a large light wall with overwhelming pressure.
The ground shook and the air frantically distorted, the white light were like flames, the ice cold emotionless SnowApe Kings were like fiendgods sprinting forward.
Jerome’s face changed, the True Power from his body started to become slightly sluggish, and they were completelysuppressed in their silver armors. It was not only him, the saints beside Jerome all looked on in shock.
They thought about the Frost Mountain Army subconsciously, their assault were equally unstoppable.
“Do you want us to block them?”
One of the Saints asked, the fearsome assault was something that the building block training could not even hold.
“No!” Jerome gritted his teeth: “I never thought of surviving, we must give them a greeting gift!”
The saints nodded their heads.
As both parties got closer, the pressure increased, as though Mt. Tai was suppressing their shoulders, causing manyof them to choke.
“KILL!”
Shan Mao roared, the light hammer in his hand lit up the entire sky and smashed down on the Bullhorn Army!
All the soldiers behind him smashed down their light hammers at the same time!
The white hammer auras plummeted down from the sky like a powerful tide, smashing straight into the troops ofBullhorn Army.
Countless bodies flew everywhere, blood splurted across the entire battlefield, before they had even landed, theblood would evaporate.
The two wings with long axes swept down like thunderbolts, instantly slashing across like lightning. Two enormousaxe auras swept horizontally across the Bullhorn Army.
Booom!
The entire Bullhorn Army split apart like Building Blocks, many of them were struck heavily, scattering all aroundlike flowers scattering from the Daughter from Heaven.
(TN: the daughter from heaven with the scattering flowers is an ancient story from China, google it! 天女散花)
Jerome’s eyes were filled with grief, all the figures flying out by his sides, half of them were already dead, and aquarter of them were crippled. Even the Building Blocks training was unable to scatter from the assault, it was tooterrible.
The situation had turned out even worse than he thought, from this one assault, the Bullhorn Army was left with aquarter of their soldiers, and none of them came out unscathed.
A truly terrifying assault!
Jerome’s eyes turned bloodshot, his arm drooped down, the bones inside had completely shattered into pieces. Heonly had six saints left around him, two of them were struck by the light hammer, another two were swept across bythe axe aura and died on the spot, the remaining were not without injuries.
~Counterattacking with a quarter of us already at death’s door…..this is truly miserable…..ha ha ha!!~
Die!
Like a crazy wild beast, he pounced onto the nearest [Saint Blood].