Chapter 213: The Helping Shishou, a Stone and Water Colliding Across the River

The warriors responded from afar and jumped out from behind the carriages one after another. Aoniweier and the others, who were in the lead, immediately grabbed the sloppy fellow who was exceptionally conspicuous under the Lighting Orb.

This sloppy Bandit still wanted to twist his body to escape, but Aoni threw his left-hand Shield to Weier, freed both hands to grab the man's limbs, and lifted him straight up.

"%%￥! %%￥——!"

The man could not break free in the air, his mouth full of foul language. Aoni frowned upon hearing it, while Weier took Aoni's Shield and gave the man's face a hit, flattening his nose and knocking out several teeth.

After being beaten, the man became much more obedient and hung down as if resigned to his fate.

As for the side, it was much livelier. Many of Jier's human Warriors were helpless against the giant tail of the living crocodile Monster that kept thrashing on the ground. Because, don't look at the fact that this thing had been severed from the Monster's body; its massive size and powerful movements not only beat back several nearby Warriors but also ground clearly visible indentations into the soft riverbank.

Everyone was at a loss for what to do with it for a moment, and obviously couldn't intervene in the battle with the even larger and more formidable crocodile Monster, so they could only loosely surround the Monster's tail.

"Move aside, move aside! Watch us!"

More than a dozen Dwarfs ran over without wearing their thick armor, but these Dwarfs didn't come empty-handed. They grabbed quite a few Ropes from Jier's carriages, made a slipknot at one end, and after spotting an opportunity, four or five of them pounced on it, using their own bodies to pin down the tip of the Monster's tail.

The Dwarfs were far stronger than Humans and not light in weight either. Don't look at their short stature; their weight was not much less than that of a Human. After a few of them boldly yet skillfully pinned down one end of the crocodile tail, the other Dwarfs immediately and nimbly looped the slipknot onto the tail, which was covered in sturdy bone plates.

With a tug of the hand, the slipknot tightened, and now the Monster's tail could no longer do as it pleased.

Because more than a dozen strong Dwarf Warriors pulled the Rope together, they pulled the tail straight and forcibly dragged it toward the Yingdi.

"Quite a method!" Xueya Site praised. He had just finished calming down the accompanying Caravan and came over to see the Dwarfs working together to subdue the Monster's massive tail.

Everyone had seen a lot along the way, so they weren't scared off by the crocodile Monster's huge tail at this moment. They pushed aside the carriages to store this trophy of Knight Jier. Of course, many people were still concerned about Jier's battle, so they continued to gaze toward the south, hoping to see something or be able to help in some way.

However, the pitch-black night swallowed their vision, and Jier clearly had no spare time to release another Lighting Orb to illuminate the battlefield. So they could only hear the sounds of fighting but were unable to step into the darkness to help Jier with anything.

It would be fine if it were daytime; everyone could support Jier with bows and Crossbows to help distract the Monster's attention. But at night, they couldn't really do that. After all, when using bows and Crossbows, it is difficult to hold a Torch while doing these things. As for sticking a Torch on the ground nearby, or having others hold one specifically for lighting, they didn't have enough manpower, and it wasn't very safe.

Don't end up not helping, but instead causing many hindrances for Knight Jier during the battle. They were all Warriors with some combat experience and naturally knew that if one's strength was insufficient, one must never force oneself into a battlefield that didn't suit them; this would only bring trouble to their own side, not help.

Jier was fighting very enjoyably because, unlike human enemies that died at a touch or Mud Monsters that couldn't be fought in melee, this nameless crocodile Monster had thick skin and flesh and tenacious vitality. No matter how he fought, Jier could let go and battle.

This made him feel extremely satisfied!

"Ha!" With a loud shout, Jier dodged the Monster's giant bite, and at the same time, his left hand threw the Hunting Sword, letting the heavy Long Sword spin and plunge into the Monster's right eye.

This Monster also had extremely strong combat experience, or rather, combat instinct. It closed its blinded eyes the moment the Long Sword was thrown, and could detect the direction of this counterattack just by the disturbance of the air.

But it was a Monster after all, and it never expected that a human's tiny metal 'limb' would be so powerful.

On its tightly closed eyes, there were two layers of protection. One was a translucent eyelid that allowed it to see underwater without being harmed. The other was the thick eyelid outside the eye. This thing on its body was actually two fingers thick; the outermost layer was sturdy and flexible greenish skin, and inside there was an even more flexible subcutaneous muscle layer with a cushioning effect.

But these defenses, which were sufficient for most situations, failed to stop the ten-plus kilogram Hunting Sword's strike.

With a *splat*, the Long Sword pierced through the Monster's right eyelid without any obstruction, directly popped the Monster's right eye, and fiercely stabbed toward the depths of the Monster's head. But unfortunately, this crocodile Monster was too large. If it were the size of an ordinary crocodile beast, the result would have been the eye and brain both destroyed in one blow, but for this giant Monster that was over five meters long excluding the tail and over two meters tall when standing up—

The strike of the Hunting Sword from the eye deep into the interior of the skull failed to reach the Monster's brain.

But even so, this caused the Monster unbearable pain, and it began to spin crazily on the spot, performing a classic crocodile skill without prey—the death roll.

If a prey were bitten, being subjected to such a death roll by a crocodile would result in the prey's limbs being torn off at best, or the entire body being ripped to pieces at worst.

But at this moment, this guy was just moving wildly because of the excruciating pain.

Jier stepped back a few meters, held the axe with both hands, and watched with excitement the chaotic scene where it was spinning wildly, sweeping away and sending flying the large and small Stones by the river.

He occasionally swung the axe quickly to deflect the flying Stones coming at him, his eyes judging the timing of the Monster's movements. Then he lunged forward; this was just the moment when the Monster turned its side toward him. The wild rolling made it impossible for the Monster itself to maintain balance for long, and it needed a brief moment to pause.

And this was the timing Jier was looking for. The blue radiance of the axe flashed by. The heavy strike swung by Jier himself had a power very different from the axe spinning and flying in the air on its own.

With Jier's current strength, as long as the weapon could hold up, he could slash fiercely even at a solid rock wall.

Just like now!!

Woo————

Before the short sound of the axe blade breaking the air reached the Monster's perception, the heavy axe had already slashed down. The thick skin and muscle of the crocodile Monster's leg, which could only be pierced by a ballista, were opened up by Jier in a single axe stroke, and the tough, thick leg muscle inside was also split. But the Monster's leg was truly too large; the one-meter-thick giant leg was like a giant stone pillar of a temple. Even if Jier's axe was indestructible, it was, after all, a Two-handed Axe held by a normal person.

The axe face was no more than twenty centimeters, and after breaking through the Monster's thick skin and muscle, it only left a deep wound on the Monster's right hind leg.

"Ha, underestimated you!"

Jier stopped while he was ahead. After one axe strike, he immediately retreated, not being greedy like a Lumberjack standing in place and swinging his axe continuously at this giant 'tree trunk' in front of him.

Jier's judgment was correct. The next moment, the crocodile Monster felt the pain and continued to roll. When its hard bone plates collided with the Stones on the ground, it could even crush the hard riverbank Stones entirely, not to mention its own heavy and massive body. This thing was a weapon in itself; its huge size and heavy body were naturally the best weapons in nature.

Being crushed by such a size, even Jier would be crushed to death miserably.

Of course, Jier had legs, and he wasn't stupid; he wouldn't be crushed by a Monster of such size.

Boom—, this time the crocodile Monster went even more insane, spinning wildly on the spot. All the large and small Stones by the river were sent flying, and the rushing river water had to retreat and give way when facing the crazed Monster, diverting its flow around the Monster.

And Jier watched as the Monster's severed tail and the wound on its right hind leg were losing blood crazily during the frantic spinning. If the Monster stayed still, it would naturally only need to contract the muscles at the wound to spontaneously reduce the loss of blood.

Once the wound was sealed, it would only need to move slowly to return to its lair with low damage.

But now, this crocodile Monster kept rolling. Although it made it difficult for Jier to make a move for a moment, such a frantic self-preservation measure was hard to sustain.

Jier retreated another dozen meters, watching with a smile on his lips as the Monster bled itself to death.

Once this Monster exhausted its physical strength due to blood loss, that would be when Jier easily won.

But just at this moment, a Stone weighing several tons was thrown from the north side of the riverbank and smashed directly onto the crazed, spinning Monster. The Monster felt the pain and was knocked rolling backward continuously, its entire body submerged by the river water.

"Who? Who is interfering with my great Hunting!"

Jier asked subconsciously, then knew he had asked a stupid question. After all, in the entire caravan, there was only one person capable of throwing a multi-ton Stone at the Monster.

"Shishou! You guy, why are you interfering randomly! This is my battle!"

Jier called out in dissatisfaction.

A Dwarf Warrior wearing sleeveless metal armor was walking over from the messy north side of the riverbank, carrying a bundle of armor tied together.

He didn't talk nonsense either, directly throwing the human armor equipment in his hand to Jier, while he himself found another Stone of suitable size on the ground, lifted it, and threw it with all his might at the crocodile Monster that was staring at him viciously in the river.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh——

The huge sound of breaking air resounded on both sides of the river. The Water-Spraying Crocodile soaking in the river naturally saw it, and it subconsciously seized the opportunity to spin its body in the water, preparing to use its powerful and fat giant tail to swat away that Stone.

It had a lot of experience with this type of attack because deep in the mountains on the south side of the river where it resided, there was a giant green-haired ape. That hateful guy especially liked to throw Stones from far away from the river to harass the Water-Spraying Crocodiles.

That Monster naturally knew that doing so wouldn't hurt the Water-Spraying Crocodile, but the purpose was to enrage them so it could sneak into the Water-Spraying Crocodile's lair and steal the Water-Spraying Crocodile's eggs to eat!

But this Water-Spraying Crocodile forgot that it no longer had its big tail, so when the Stone thrown by Shishou smashed into the water with a boom and incidentally knocked the Water-Spraying Crocodile to the other side of the river, it finally realized this.

This made it even angrier; that such a smaller 'Human' as Shishou could actually knock it flying! This was something it absolutely could not tolerate!

Therefore, the Water-Spraying Crocodile opened its mouth slightly, aimed toward the direction the Stone had come from, and spat out several short bursts of high-powered water jets from its mouth, like a heavy machine gun.

"Watch out!" Jier, having taken his armor, immediately warned after seeing this scene.

But Shishou had more combat experience; he had been staring at the crocodile Monster opposite him ever since he threw the Stone. Seeing it look like it was about to launch something, although he didn't know what this Monster was going to launch, Shishou, who had seen many similar Monsters, did not let his guard down at all. The moment the opponent intended to spray water, he had already dodged to the side in advance.

Pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft!

Every short stream of water that streaked through the air, reflecting the silver-gray moonlight of this night, struck the place where Shishou had just been standing, kicking up the mud on the ground, and small Stones were shattered instantly upon being hit.

If one were to probe the ground with a hand at this moment, one would discover that the soft mud of the ground had been blasted into holes over a dozen centimeters deep, all in an instant.

"The power is decent, but the speed is too slow."

Shishou commented, picked up a Stone from the ground, and casually threw it out. With his own immense strength, after being blessed with a Divine Art of strength by the Dwarf Strength God Priest in the team, a Stone the size of a fist was thrown with power comparable to a Heavy Crossbow.

The 'tiny' Stone carried a violent whistling sound as it smashed directly into the crocodile Monster's head, but the sturdiest part of a Water-Spraying Crocodile's entire body was exactly its head. Previously, a close-range direct thrust from Jier could actually be deflected by the bone plate on its head; at this time, deflecting a 'tiny' Stone was effortless.

"But the defense is at least hard enough."

Shishou commented again, then looked regretfully at his empty hands, feeling quite a pity that his usual greatsword was stuck in the Dwarf Secret Vault beneath Suishi Cheng.

He hadn't felt comfortable borrowing a companion's weapon when he came, so he could only use his bare hands to throw Stones to deal with this Water-Spraying Crocodile Monster.

"Jier, I don't have a suitable weapon, so I can only throw Stones to cover your fight, don't mind it."

Jier was hanging the leg armor on his thighs to the lower part of his Chest Armor, responding while hurriedly putting on his armor: "I'd only mind if you let this Monster solve me! You tangle with it first, I'll be armored in a moment! Damn it, you shouldn't have brought the armor to me; I could have handled it even in my casual clothes!"

Jier cursed, regretting why he hadn't put on his armor in advance in the lady's dream when he left the tent? Even if his subordinates thought it was strange for him to sleep in armor, it would still be more dashing than him having to find time to put on armor during a fight like this, right?

Hearing this, Shishou could only shrug his shoulders and pick up Stones of various sizes from the ground to throw at the crocodile Monster.

And the Water-Spraying Crocodile was not to be outdone; a spitting contest it was. If there was one thing they, the Water-Spraying Crocodiles, were not afraid of, it was this.

On one side were the continuously thrown whistling Stones; whether they hit the crocodile Monster across the river or not, they would emit a loud boom, the sound traveling upstream and downstream along the wide riverbank.

On the other side were the fierce water jets, short bursts or continuous cutting sprays; hitting the ground created a deep pit, and the continuous water cutting stirred up high, viscous mud. These viscous mud splashes hitting the surrounding shrubs could even shatter them; the force was not small. If one were hit by the water cutting, it would be even more miserable.

Fortunately, Shishou's movements were powerful and agile; although not as good as Jier's, dodging the slow-speed water sprays from a distance of several dozen meters was more than enough.

Xi'an is really too hot; how can it be thirty-five degrees and up every day, and even forty-degree weather is common. Didn't the weather forecast say it would rain for several days this week? Let there be a heavy rain that can cool down the weather; it would be best if it rained continuously for several days with a gentle drizzle.