I Can Gain One Skill Point Per Second

Chapter 985: Chapter 985: Are These Four Guys All Essential?

Right now, the Seven Heroes could only plan for retreat.

”We’ve already stalled them for this long. I figure they’ve already moved everything that needed moving by now.”

The dragon claw crushed space, temporarily blocking the advance of the Four Great Corpse Kings.

”Next up is retreat. We can’t leave any traces behind. These Four Great Corpse Kings are heading straight for my Dark Rising Headquarters, so nine times out of ten that’s an Immortal King’s doing. We’ve got to swing wide, lure the enemy away from the location of our new headquarters. Tremble, next you take Blood Dance and Breaking Array, hold three of the Corpse Kings off for a while. We’ll set up a Teleportation Array.”

Sure enough, combat experience is tied to age.

Every time the situation got tense, the Dragon Queen could always step out and make sound arrangements and plans.

”Alright, Dragon Queen, you guys go ahead and set up the array. I absolutely won’t let the Four Great Corpse Kings bother you one bit.”

With that, he lifted his own aura and once again threw himself into battle with his comrades.

The Four Great Corpse Kings had different paths to getting stronger; Jiang Chen was the only exception, the only one who could strengthen himself by absorbing the target’s essence blood.

The other three didn’t have to go to such trouble.

So from the very beginning, they hadn’t planned to kill the Seven Heroes, only to buy that girl Luo Bingxin more time.

By now they’d dragged it out for close to an hour; the other side should be wrapping up too, right?

Just as the Drought Demon was getting ready to take everyone and leave, the Four Great Corpse Kings simultaneously received a distress signal from Luo Bingxin.

”That girl’s weaker than I thought, huh. So what now? Ying Gou, you go give her a hand?”

The extreme high temperature that came with the Drought Demon would be pushed to the limit once she fully unleashed her combat power.

An opponent that could give Luo Bingxin and Old Xuan trouble wasn’t going to be many; sending the Drought Demon might actually put pressure on that girl Luo Bingxin.

Hou Qing’s curse aura could to some extent weaken the enemy’s strength, and Jiang Chen’s invincible flesh was needed to tank damage.

Counting it up like that, they could only send Ying Gou to support.

”Alright, then you stall them a bit more, I’ll be right back.”

Ying Gou’s sudden departure left Tremble a bit at a loss.

What was that supposed to mean—did he just not take him, this opponent, seriously?

The Dragon Queen watched the direction Ying Gou left in and immediately realized something.

As the person in charge of Dark Rising’s personnel deployment, the result of the information system’s transport should have been reported to the Dragon Queen.

But after fighting for so long, the Dragon Queen’s ring hadn’t received any related status updates, which made her suddenly catch on to what the Four Great Corpse Kings had come to Dark Rising Headquarters for.

”This is bad. The members transporting the information system must be in trouble. They haven’t reported for so long, they’ve definitely run into something. Look at the direction Ying Gou is heading!”

Hearing that, the Divination Genius immediately activated his ability, cast a hexagram, and his expression went ugly on the spot.

”There’s a traitor in our ranks. The information system has been intercepted.”

At those words, a shadow also crossed Gongshu De’s face.

The information system was something Gongshu De had poured decades of effort into before perfecting it to its current state. Its intactness didn’t just tug at his heart; it concerned Dark Rising’s future operation as a whole.

Dark Rising’s rings were powerful in function.

They weren’t just entry permits for Dark Rising Headquarters, and they didn’t just have Teleportation Array, database, mission system and the like built in; they were directly tied to Dark Rising’s normal operation.

That a tiny ring could have so many functions wasn’t because the ring itself was so powerful.

For Dark Rising members’ rings to have these functions at all required complete support from Dark Rising Headquarters’ information system.

Without the information system, all those functions would fail.

”Damn it, we can’t let that guy get through. The members responsible for transporting the information system are absolutely no match for Ying Gou—we have to stop him!”

At the Dragon Queen’s order, the War God Blood Dance and the War God Breaking Array immediately turned around, unleashing their fastest speed as they charged toward Ying Gou.

Too bad the two of them had barely taken a few steps when one red and one black figure blocked off Blood Dance and Breaking Array.

”Hey, what’s going through your heads? You really think we’re short-handed here? Whatever Ying Gou went off to do isn’t something you get to interfere with. Just stay put and keep us company. Don’t worry, we’re not interested in wrecking your stuff—we just want to borrow it for a bit.”

The Drought Demon’s withered arm swept out, and a massive fire net appeared out of thin air, completely sealing off Blood Dance and Breaking Array’s path forward. The scorching temperature instantly kicked the whole Dark Rising Headquarters’ ambient heat up by several dozen degrees.

The Drought Demon seemed to have endless power; the fire net she’d conjured kept expanding its coverage, faintly giving the feeling of an Array about to blanket the entire Dark Rising Headquarters.

Hou Qing wasn’t idle either.

To prevent the Seven Heroes from going to support, this time he didn’t hold back. The tens of thousands of怨灵 hidden in his body rushed out one by one, coiling around Hou Qing and filling every route Blood Dance and Breaking Array would have to take, completely sealing off the path to reinforce.

A streak of pallor appeared on Blood Dance’s flushed cheeks.

In their battle with the Four Great Corpse Kings, she hadn’t been main offense, but her Source Power expenditure had barely ever stopped. Attacking while supporting at the same time was quite draining.

Now the Divine Power and Source Power in her body were already half spent, and seeing the Corpse Kings still brimming with vitality, she couldn’t help but feel a thread of despair.

”Heh, is this your attitude when you ’borrow’ something? It’s just a damn fire net—break for me!”

Breaking Array wasn’t discouraged. After telling Blood Dance to buff him up, he charged straight at the enemy.

”Eat my hammer!”

The muscles on Breaking Array’s arm swelled, a jet-black aura condensed along his hand like a stream; just one look, and it was full of explosive power.

The next instant, the giant hammer in his hand swept up a vicious gale as he hurled it at the Drought Demon’s face.

”Oh my, little brother, so ruthless? With my frail little body, I’m afraid I can’t handle you tossing me around like that.”

The Drought Demon gave a sweet smile—which didn’t look the least bit seductive. Pairing that smile with her face that was all dry bone, it was downright creepy.

As her words fell, the Drought Demon moved her mind; the flames behind her turned into a gigantic hand that firmly caught the oncoming black hammer.

At once, a bad premonition surged up in his heart.

Breaking Array wasn’t weak. Judging by how he’d just been, he’d really gone all-out.

Under those circumstances, how could the hammer he’d thrown feel so soft and powerless? That didn’t make sense!

”Drought Demon, look up.”

Hou Qing spoke then.

His tone held a faint tremor.

Following the direction he mentioned, they saw above their heads a gigantic black hammer punching through the clouds and poking down.

Judging by eye, that hammer had to be several hundred meters long and weigh dozens of tons.

If that thing came crashing down, even with the Drought Demon’s and Hou Qing’s level of physical toughness, they’d still get pounded dizzy and lose combat capability for a while.

Right now, the remaining three Corpse Kings were acting separately. Jiang Chen, with the strongest body, was being held up by Tremble and couldn’t spare a hand to help, while Ying Gou, famed for his overwhelming strength, had already rushed off to another battlefield.