Rags to Riches: The Rise of a Dual-Talent Prodigy-Chapter 545 - 537: Damn! It’s an Epic Level Advanced Magic Beast!
"What is that?"
Qian Qi looked up instantly, her pupils reflecting a massive black shadow striding through the air—a giant tiger Magic Beast covered in gilded patterns raised its head and roared, the air surging through its teeth like a tsunami, sweeping over the entire city, reducing all remaining ruins within to rubble.
Qian Qi only felt a drumbeat in her eardrums, and something warm gushing out. She touched it and realized it was her own blood.
The system scurried out in a panic: "Crap! It’s an Epic Level Advanced Magic Beast! Qiqi, run!"
An Epic Level Magic Beast is a level above an S-Class Magic Beast, possessing eight Epic Level Magic Beast Skills, each capable of overturning an entire city.
The Fire Stream Dragon is an Epic Level Intermediate Magic Beast, already a cataclysm for humanity, yet this Black Tiger Beast before them is an Epic Level Advanced Magic Beast, showing just how troublesome it is for humans!
Beside her, Su Ang suddenly tightened his grip on Qian Qi’s hand, "Qiqi, let’s get out of here!"
Dragged by him, Qian Qi flew swiftly with the wind into the distance. Her gaze was momentarily dazed, stupidly staring at the blood traces on her hand, only realizing after a while that she couldn’t hear anything.
That roar just now was a sound wave type Epic Level Skill!
She couldn’t help but open her mouth, wanting to warn Su Ang, "Su Ang..."
The silver-haired young man seemed not to hear, just desperately fleeing with her. She could only shake his arm, "Su Ang!"
Su Ang seemed to finally hear and turned back to look at her, "What’s wrong?"
As he turned, Qian Qi only then realized Su Ang was already bleeding from his seven orifices, bright red blood flowing down his fair and handsome cheeks, yet he seemed oblivious, gazing at her nervously, "Your ears are bleeding, does it hurt? I’ll take you to find a Blood Stopping Magic Potion!"
Su Ang, like her, possessed A+ Level defense, but he was injured more severely right now, clearly due to months of rushing on the battlefield, which had degraded his physical condition, and he hadn’t recovered yet.
He didn’t have spare energy to face an Epic Level Magic Beast.
And as for herself...
Qian Xiaohun had just left her consciousness, and Qian Qi could hardly guarantee whether it could appear a second time.
Unlike yesterday’s daytime experiment, there were no S-Class Magic Beasts then, even if she really fainted, the system would protect her well. But now, if she were to experiment with whether Qian Xiaohun could appear a second time on an Epic Level Advanced Magic Beast, unless she didn’t want to survive, she wouldn’t do it.
"System, are there any S-Class instances nearby that we can tackle?"
Qian Qi could only pin her hopes on the system.
"None!" the system typed frantically: "Even if there were, without Qian Xiaohun, with only A-level spiritual power, you’re just a weakened S-Class Illusion System Awakener. Even ten of you and Su Ang combined couldn’t defeat the Gilded Black Tiger Beast!"
"Then if we want to defeat it..."
Is the only strategy a sea of blood, then?
"Leave it to the Seven Great Families; it’s their fate!"
When the Fire Stream Dragon appeared, the Awakening Army of the Seven Great Families should’ve already perished in the battle.
Qian Qi opened her lips but then tightly closed them again.
Turning her head back toward the sky, she didn’t know why, but what filled her vision was not the towering Gilded Black Tiger Beast but mountains of corpses and a sea of blood.
She couldn’t help but feel nauseous again.
Forcing herself to look away, Qian Qi tried hard to adhere to her survival principle, which was to avoid taking uncalculated risks without any preparation, to stay alive first.
But as her fleeing figure passed by a toy store, and her peripheral vision inadvertently caught sight of a white wolf plushie in the window display, her pupils suddenly contracted as she remembered—
"Xi Pingzhe is still in the camp!"
That child who, despite knowing it’s dangerous, still chose to protect the infant in swaddling clothes, bravely and fearlessly facing two B-level Magic Beasts alone...
She didn’t want him to die.
She abruptly stopped, "Su Ang, Xi Pingzhe is still there."
Su Ang felt himself being pulled, turned his head, and seeing that Qian Qi said nothing, he realized something. He pointed to his ear and conveyed with his spiritual power, "I can’t hear."
Qian Qi lowered her head and wrote in his palm: Xi Pingzhe.
Su Ang instantly understood her meaning.
Of course, he was aware of the risks of turning back to face the Black Tiger Beast now, but seeing Qian Qi’s worried eyes, Su Ang knew in his heart that he couldn’t bring himself to persuade her to prioritize her own survival first.
"Do you have a plan?" Su Ang’s gaze regained calmness, and the demeanor of an S-Class Commander quietly emerged, "It’s not easy to deal with."
"Not yet, but that doesn’t mean I won’t soon."
Qian Qi turned her head to the side, "System, purchase the data on the Gilded Black Tiger Beast, all of it."
"..."
"Really can’t do anything with you."
The system sighed, bringing up the information on the Gilded Black Tiger Beast.
In the system’s precise calculations, there was absolutely no way for Qian Qi and Su Ang to kill the Gilded Black Tiger Beast on their own, even with the possession of Qian Xiaohun, the two of them couldn’t necessarily defeat it.
But...
The system is ultimately just a system, not a human, and the creativity of humans... sometimes, a system created by the main god itself might not think of.
Qian Qi, what method will you come up with?
Under a piece of rubble, Qian Qi frequently furrowed her brow at the air.
Su Ang protected her side, always paying attention to the movements of the Gilded Black Tiger Beast in the distant sky, although he didn’t understand why Qian Qi was pummeling seemingly at nothing, she must have her reasons.
And the battle in Qian Qi’s mind was also extremely tense.
The Gilded Black Tiger Beast’s combat strength is self-explanatory; it’s a beast that gathers sound wave and metallic attack skills, they’re fierce and proud, and their territorial awareness is no weaker than draconic Magic Beasts. Once they find a favored plot, the first thing they’ll clean is the most numerous and the most threatening species on their territory.
Qian Qi could easily conclude that this Epic Level Gilded Black Tiger Beast, once it sets its eyes on the land beneath her feet, the first it would kill must be humans!
But.
Coincidentally, due to consecutive months of war, most residents of Qing City have already fled to air-raid shelters, with only the army still fighting on the border.
Although humans remain the most populous species in terms of numbers, a tiger wouldn’t bother with ants, as long as humans disguise themselves as weak and harmless ants to hide, in the short term there wouldn’t be too many sacrifices, buying time for evacuation of residents from cities around Qing City...
This equates to ceding land to keep peace, which seems cowardly, but with a mountain still there, there’s no fear of running out of firewood, the most important thing right now is to avoid unnecessary sacrifices.
And all of this is on the premise that humans won’t actively attack the Gilded Black Tiger Beast.
"Boom—"
The ground suddenly shook, and Su Ang’s voice inconveniently echoed in Qian Qi’s mind, "The Gong Family Army just used thermal weapons."
Qian Qi: ...
Ok, fine, the plan to play weak is shot.
