Chapter 637

Zhao Chi raised his hand to stop them: "Everyone halt. Hold position at the edge of the forest."

"Yes!"

The female soldiers naturally obeyed completely.

Zhao Chi wasn't too clear on Lang Hu's fighting style.

But tiger-people — they were surely skilled at close-quarters combat.

With trees blocking the way in the forest, a fight could get too chaotic.

Tiger-people's charging power should be very strong; Zhao Chi feared that if he wasn't careful, he might miss a tiger-person hiding behind a tree and get rushed at close range.

Death wasn't scary — after all, it was virtual.

But what mattered was losing the match.

So he simply waited on the spot, fixing the battlefield on this flat grassland.

About a minute or so passed.

He could see figures appearing in the forest on the opposite side from afar.

Gu Qing was a little surprised: "Huh? My lord, why is the other side all people?"

Zhao Chi saw it too.

On the opposite side, forty people were advancing as a group.

Among them, Lang Hu wore iron armor and stood right in the center.

Two female elves wore iron armor and held longbows, one on each side of Lang Hu.

There was also a goblin carrying a short sword and a light crossbow, walking at the very back.

The remaining thirty-six people wore leather armor but carried no weapons.

Quite a bit of hair grew on their faces, in various colors.

Some were yellow mixed with white, some black mixed with yellow, and some were entirely yellow.

They looked like foreigners with full, bushy beards.

These thirty-six were the tiger-people.

"Look carefully, Gu Qing. The thirty-six with abundant hair are the tiger-people. They haven't transformed yet — once they do, their Zhandouli Society will skyrocket."

Gu Qing laughed: "This really is my first time seeing a race that can transform. I must observe them closely later."

Tang Ruan widened her eyes and pointed at one of them: "My lord, are there women among those tiger-people too?"

"Of course. Tiger-people also reproduce through male-female pairing."

Tang Ruan asked, puzzled: "Then when they're born, are they little babies, or little tigers?"

Gu Qing laughed: "I guess little babies, right? Tiger-people are, in the end, still people — isn't that right, my lord?"

"Correct. Although it's a bit strange, they're essentially human — they just can transform into a tiger form."

Gu Qing laughed: "If I could transform, I'd turn into a fox spirit and enchant you."

Zhao Chi said: "Fox spirit isn't exactly a compliment."

Gu Qing said playfully: "I don't care about that. As long as I can enchant my lord, that's enough. You two become little fox spirits too."

Tang Ruan and Qi Yue hadn't expected themselves to be involved.

Tang Ruan nodded: "Okay."

She agreed quite readily.

Qi Yue laughed: "Sure!"

The excited Qi Yue agreed even more readily.

Zhao Chi sighed: "Fine, then you three little fox spirits, all perk up. The tigers are coming — don't let them scare you."

Lang Hu, in the distance, saw Zhao Chi waiting at the edge of the forest and understood his intent.

It was clearly a signal that the decisive battle would take place on the central battlefield.

Lang Hu sneered: "Everyone transform and use skills — it seems the enemy wants a frontal slaughter with us, which suits me perfectly. But all of you, be careful of those women — they're far stronger than they look!"

"Yes, my lord!"

The two female elves and the goblin all glowed at the same time.

As the light shot forth, all the tiger-people were strengthened.

Immediately after, those tiger-people stood in place, eyes wide and round, looking as if in great pain.

The next second, their pitch-black pupils turned yellowish-brown.

Hair grew rapidly all over their bodies, completely covering their skin.

Their bodies swiftly grew larger and thicker.

Their arms thickened and lengthened.

The leather armor on their bodies was stretched open but didn't burst — he didn't know what material it was made of.

If it were the bear-leather armor on the female soldiers, it would surely have been torn apart.

In just a few seconds, their height had already exceeded two meters.

Each one had become a giant man with a tiger's back and a bear's waist.

This build meant their leg strength could no longer support their entire bodies.

Accompanied by a great deal of roaring, they collapsed to the ground one after another.

"Roar~~"

"Aow!!"

"Wuuua!"

The transformation was complete.

Up ahead, thirty-seven fierce tigers appeared.

When he had been watching the fight from outside the field earlier, he hadn't felt this way.

But once he was on the battlefield himself, Zhao Chi suddenly realized these tigers were even more dangerous than ghouls.

If ghouls were sixteen- to seventeen-year-old, powerfully built street youths wielding cleavers, then naturally they would be extremely dangerous.

They struck without restraint, hot-blooded and reckless of the consequences.

Add to that their powerful builds, and every strike was a killing blow.

Every slash was lethal, with devastating killing power.

Then these tiger-men were like thirty-year-old big brothers, each one two meters tall, fat-over-muscle physiques, a dagger in each hand.

Although these big brothers couldn't be said to win for certain against the street youths.

But apart from the length of their weapons, they were almost crushingly superior in every other respect.

Height, weight, presence, strength, stamina — all were more advantageous.

If these fierce tigers fought it out with the ghouls, the tigers would probably still take heavy wounds.

But in the end, the ones to win would most likely still be these fierce tigers.

Gu Qing's brows knit.

"My lord, you should retreat a little further back. Those fierce tigers can pounce very far — don't leave the tree line."

Zhao Chi nodded: "I understand. Everyone use your skills one more time to refresh the skill duration."

"Got it!"

Lang Hu's side had finished transforming.

Zhao Chi's side had also finished re-casting their skills.

Then let's begin the fight.

"Tang Ruan, Qi Yue, advance steadily! Gu Qing, watch the healing — you can scatter the blood ahead of time."

"Yes!"

The three heroines who had been chatting and laughing moments ago were now deadly serious.

Tang Ruan was still at the very front, with ten female spearmen on each side of her.

Qi Yue stood alone on the far right, with twenty female swordswomen lined up behind the female spearmen, ready to rush in and slash at any moment.

Zhao Chi was at the very back, with Gu Qing and six female archers beside him.

The tigers on the opposite side had already begun to charge.

Their momentum was truly like a rainbow.

A hundred meters of distance covered in just a few seconds.

"Come at me, all of you!"