Chapter 44: Song of Decay

Looking at those records about Farrah, Xiao Fen’s heart moved, and he clicked on detailed query. Sure enough, the time Farrah finally disappeared was 1888.

Historically, Farrah had a terrible battle with Jack here. No one knew where Jack went later, and now, Xiao Fen already roughly knew Farrah’s result.

This Legendary Awakened known as the Neutralist mostly died in the battle with Jack, but the World Tree deliberately concealed this ending.

Just at this moment, a miserable roar suddenly came from the battlefield. This sound had completely mutated by the end, just like the cry made by a Monster.

Just listening to it made Xiao Fen’s whole body feel very uncomfortable. He even felt that this sound had turned into a sharp saw, slowly cutting his body.

If Xiao Fen didn’t have enough concentration, just this sound could cause him heavy damage. Even so, Xiao Fen also felt his blood surging and his eyes going black.

The priority of Spirit upgrades showed its problems at this moment.

Feeling more sensitive and accurate meant that the damage caused by these external impacts became greater.

In contrast, those Constitution priority upgrades had a lot more resistance to such sonic punctures.

After a few seconds, Xiao Fen, enduring the chest tightness and irritability, slowly moved to one side of the balcony to see what changes had occurred on the battlefield.

Over there, Jack’s head had been completely chopped off.

The dagger in Farrah’s left hand had now turned into the shape of a short machete, just passing over Jack’s neck.

Standing in Xiao Fen’s position, one could vaguely see above that dagger, an existence like a human eye;

And this eye seemed to have discovered Xiao Fen too. In the huge black rain of blood spraying from Jack’s neck, this eye blinked at Xiao Fen.

In an instant, Xiao Fen felt his body was like falling into an ice cave. The calm killing intent filled in that eye made him shudder.

However, there were two other people who didn’t see this eye.

Compared to Xiao Fen’s calmness, Li Ruran, whose eyes were already dazzled by the bag on the ground, couldn’t see the real situation of the battlefield at all.

In his eyes, Farrah had completely finished off Jack. He had to collect this bag before Farrah collected the spoils and cleaned the battlefield.

As for that terrible fierce blade in Farrah’s hand, Li Ruran also felt some itching in his heart.

Now a decision had to be made, how to snatch that bag from that Awakened?

Thinking of this, Li Ruran turned his head to look at Sayena and asked in a low, hurried voice: “Is there a way to get that bag?”

Sayena shook her head slightly and said: “We don’t even know the background of this Awakened. Even if we want to negotiate, I’m afraid there won’t be any results, unless we grab it directly. But looking at this situation, that Awakened is still not something we can deal with.”

Li Ruran gritted his teeth suddenly and said: “In order to enter the core of this block without being attacked, we used the Negotiation Jade the Master gave us just now. This thing can only last for 20 minutes, and it will shatter after use. If we don’t get a return, the Master will tear us apart for sure.”

Sayena still stared at Farrah. After a few seconds, she said in a low voice: “It’s not completely impossible either. Young Master, look, that Awakened’s body seems to have dropped a lot in defense.”

Li Ruran shifted his gaze, which had been staring dead at the leather bag, to Farrah. At first, he did not notice the problem, but after a while, when Farrah slowly retreated from Jack’s body, seeming a little tired, Li Ruran understood what Sayena meant.

The surface of Farrah’s body could no longer easily resist the attacks from the ropes above as it had just moments ago. On Farrah’s main body, which the lingering black flames could not cover, several ropes had already pierced through.

Although these ropes quickly turned black and shattered, this already proved that Farrah’s defense had dropped to the point where the ropes could break through it.

“What is the attack power of the Web?”

Seeing this scene, Li Ruran could not help but breathe rapidly and asked in a low voice.

“Around 50, basically that is the value.”

Li Ruran nodded slightly and said, “In other words, this Awakened’s main body defense is at most 55. He can defend against the vast majority of ropes, but he cannot resist the few rope attacks that have an attack power burst.”

Sayena nodded in response and said, “That is exactly it, Young Master. As long as we have manufactured weapons, both my attack power and yours can break 70. Breaking the Awakened’s defense is not difficult. If we can kill with one strike, we will gain more.”

Li Ruran stared once more at the cruel weapon in Farrah’s hand. His body suddenly became excited. His originally handsome face twisted due to this excitement. He tried his best to lower his ferocious voice and said, “That is exactly right. Let’s do it.”

Sayena looked at Farrah’s back and added, “This Awakened has been staring at the corpse over there. I estimate his main attention is still on guarding against any changes in that corpse. Added to that, he is heavily injured, so he should have no mental guard against us, and his resistance will be lower. As long as there is enough energy, influencing his brain waves is not a big problem.”

Pausing for a moment, Sayena pointed in another direction and said, “I will go behind him and try my best to interfere with his brain waves. This can give him at most 15 seconds of trance time. As long as you can launch an attack within this timeframe, Young Master, we will have a success rate of around twenty percent. If you can find the Awakened’s vital spot to attack, this success rate can rise to fifty percent.”

Li Ruran frowned and thought for a moment, then said, “A fifty percent success rate to kill an Awakened is already high enough. It is decided then. We will act separately. Once we succeed and return to the Real World, it is only a matter of time before you become the Chief Strategist of the Li Family.”

Once the two had agreed, they did not speak further. They slowly approached Farrah, who was still facing away from them, from two different directions.

Xiao Fen stood on the second floor, watching the two guys whose eyes were blinded by greed walking toward their doom. He looked at the eyes on the knife that seemed to have started smiling and sighed secretly in his heart. For some reason, a strange smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

The ropes in the sky continued to fall, crackling as they struck Farrah’s body. Gradually, more and more ropes broke through Farrah’s body defense and penetrated inside.

Although they could not cause further damage and would automatically turn into ashes, such a scene gave Li Ruran and his companion even greater encouragement.

Their movements clearly sped up, lacking the caution and carefulness from the beginning. In just a few seconds, Sayena stood not far behind Farrah.