Chapter 1363

It seemed to be responding to Tang Ruan.

The metal blades on the giant Shi Laimu's body increased once more, all the way up to twenty-four.

Like enormous blades stuck into a giant jelly.

The next moment, the twenty-four blades hacked over at high speed.

"How do you have more blades than Qiyue?"

Tang Ruan raised her shield.

Bang bang bang bang!

Bang bang bang bang!

Crash!

The shield, with over four thousand durability, shattered—blown apart in a single round.

Its attack power really is strong.

However…

The giant Shi Laimu let out a shrill cry.

"Squeak—!"

At the same instant, twenty-four deep blade wounds appeared on the giant Shi Laimu's body as well.

Streams of metallic slime bubbled out, flowing all over the ground.

It dealt over four thousand damage to the shield, and in return, it was also reflected for over a thousand points of damage.

That much damage was no easy matter even for a giant Shi Laimu.

But then again, it truly is a giant Shi Laimu.

The twenty-four cuts were closing rapidly.

The wounds grew smaller and shallower.

"Keep hacking me."

Tang Ruan took down another steel Mystic Maiden Shield and held it in front of her, thrusting her spear with force.

The wounds that were healing were pierced open by the spear, and metallic liquid flowed out once more.

However, Tang Ruan no longer had the strength left for another Lunge.

She could only attack with ordinary spear thrusts, one at a time.

But such power couldn't keep up with its recovery speed at all.

She could only watch helplessly as it kept regenerating.

Immediately after, the Shi Laimu's body surged once more, and the sound of metal grinding came from within.

Another six metal blades drilled out from its body—thirty hiltless greatswords in total, gleaming with silver light.

"Honestly, my lord will have to make yet another shield."

Bang Bang Bang!

The steel shield exploded once again.

The Mystic Maiden Battle Armor also bore numerous slash marks.

Tang Ruan pulled out her last steel shield.

And the giant Shi Laimu once again had thirty deep cuts appear, liquid draining at high speed, its body shrinking a full size.

But, just like before, the cuts were rapidly regenerating.

Tang Ruan had this kind of regeneration ability herself, and knew she couldn't take it down.

If it were a large metal Shi Laimu, it would probably already be dealt with by now.

But this one is giant.

For now, she could only stall.

If the shields and armor were all broken, she could still keep stalling with the Jade Armor.

Fortunately, the female spearmen nearby had achieved good results.

They had already taken down several hundred low tier metal Shi Laimu.

"Tang Ruan, we're here."

"Little Tang Ruan, move aside!"

Two voices—one clear and bright, one mature.

Both were voices she trusted.

But both carried a barely concealed hint of spring.

She turned her head and saw Qiyue, weary and dazed, and Zhuang Ya, her whole body scorched black but biting her lip.

Tang Ruan also said, blushing: "Perfect timing—its whole body is wounded, we can take this chance to finish it off!"

Zhuang Ya tossed out several bottles of fire oil and ignited them midair.

"Tang Ruan, scoot over a bit more."

"Okay!"

The fire oil exploded in midair.

Zhuang Ya absorbed it all.

Her body lunged forward, her palm plunging into the Shi Laimu's wound.

Her palm spread open inside it.

"Evaporate for me—Sea of Fire Art!"

Great flames surged forth.

The enormous Shi Laimu seemed to have turned into a red lantern, flames churning within its body.

Qi Yue's four steel blades slashed down simultaneously.

Psh-psh-psh-psh!

Four massive wounds appeared, and flames burrowed out from within them.

"Pchi!"

That was the metal Shi Laimu's final words.

Tang Ruan felt exhaustion all over her body.

Healing light and red threads kept descending from the sky, once again healing all the female soldiers.

The remaining metal Shi Laimu were wiped out through the combined efforts of the reinforcing blade soldiers and fire mages.

"Did you lot finish up over there?" Tang Ruan looked to the side.

"Finished." Qi Yue gave a soft sigh.

"You really are fast." Tang Ruan remarked sincerely.

Zhuang Ya panted: "With Qi Yue here, and Zhao Chi constantly boosting energy for us, of course we killed fast. You're amazing too, Tang Ruan — you actually held off this strongest-attack metal Shi Laimu for several whole minutes, and not a single female soldier died."

Tang Ruan said: "It's not that I'm amazing, it's that this gear is amazing, and… my lord was also boosting energy for me the whole time, and my stats are pretty high too. But these Heavenly Maiden pieces took a ton of damage for us — though that just means my lord has to work harder making more."

Zhuang Ya laughed: "My lord won't mind — as long as we can win, he'll be happy."

Tang Ruan looked around and found no enemies left.

"Did we win?"

Qi Yue shook her head: "No idea — my lord hasn't given any new orders."

Zhuang Ya said: "Let's go, we'll head back and ask what's going on."

Zhao Chi was feeling puzzled.

All the Shi Laimu should have been dealt with — so why had he neither seen the Slime King nor received any battle-victory settlement message?

Faced with these questions, Su Qin was also shaking her head.

She had never fought a monster lair before either, and had no idea what was going on.

Su Qin rubbed her about-to-give-out arm and said: "Do we need to go inside the enemy's lair to take a look?"

Zhao Chi nodded: "Yes, but for now let everyone rest a bit first — we'll head over later. Everyone's expenditure is pretty serious right now."

Su Qin sighed: "Zhao Chi, I never dreamed that you were actually this strong… no, not just you — all your female heroes are insanely strong too… I estimate your combat power is around 8,000 points, but I'm not sure either, since these Shi Laimu were weakened and I don't know how much combat power they had. But your combat power definitely won't be below 8,000 points."

Zhao Chi nodded: "Don't tell anyone — not a word, not even to the Zhao family people, not even to Captain Li."

"Of course — I'm not stupid. No one can get any information about you out of me."

Zhao Chi believed that.

Back then, Xiao Ning had wanted to ask Su Qin about some of Zhao Chi's situation, but Su Qin hadn't said a single word.