Chapter 372: Mob

Chapter 372: Mob

Instantly, a cluster of strange energy flickering a gold light emerged under White Tiger’s feet. Like living paint, it spread quickly across the floor and climbed onto the walls and ceiling.

The entire 52nd floor was covered in the energy barrier of Absolute Defense.

Two seconds later, Lilia attacked.

If someone were standing by her side right now, they would see that the air around the woman hovering high in the air was tinted with a red, flowing light.

A great beam of deadly red light burst out of her palms, casting the space between heaven and earth in a bleak dark red.

Bam!

The light devoured the 52nd floor whole, hitting the lower floors as well. The upper floors of the White Lake Hotel instantly melted, leaving behind a large cavity, under which was the awakeners’ dorm rooms, cut diagonally in half. From the bed, one would see the night sky and stars without any cover.

Awakeners gathering on the 52nd floor, however, survived.

Although the deadly ray had melted the other floors, the space under the protection of Absolute Defense remained intact.

The translucent golden square hovered in the sky like a spaceship, the passengers unhurt.

Lilia still had the same faint smile on her face, unfazed.

She wasn’t in a rush to make the second wave of attack, but instead waited quietly and patiently. Although she didn’t know the details of White Tiger’s Talent, she knew that the irrationally unbreakable defense wouldn’t last long.

She wasn’t in a rush. Time was on her side.

Qilin knew that too, so he made the decision quickly.

“Take everyone and leave, White Tiger,” Qilin said without turning around, his gaze calm. “Dragon, X, let’s go.”

“Okay.” Dragon had risen to his feet and walked up to Qilin, sounding composed.

Clang. X crushed the empty beer can with one hand. “Let’s see what she’s got!”

Total Defense allowed no entrance, only departure.

The three men left the barrier and stepped on air, falling quickly to the ground.

Their fall slowed before they reached the ground, and they landed gracefully.

“Thank you.” Qilin smiled. With his limp, it would be difficult for him to land with grace from such a high place. As the temporary leader of the awakeners, he needed to maintain some dignity before the leader of the pride monsters.

Countless tentacles and bone stings flew toward them from ten meters away, only to be stopped five meters away like someone had hit the pause button.

Dragon slightly looked up as he walked.

The over hundred tentacles and bone stings pulled back, and many monsters reverted back to their human forms. Two seconds later, their eyes widened, put in a strange possessed state.

Then they dropped to their knees at the same time, bowing to Dragon with their hands on the ground like devout followers.

A few seconds later, the dozens of elite monsters died quietly while maintaining the posture of deference.

There were a good number of freeriders on the buildings in the distance as well. Their chest bulged and their throats shifted before they shot out green deadly rays, aiming at the three men.

A dark wind swept by suddenly.

Upon closer inspection, it wasn’t wind, but a poisonous current of countless black particles. The moment the particles flew past the freeriders, the deadly ray charging in their mouths went out.

They fell from the buildings and hit the road, holding their necks with both hands and struggling with a pained look on their faces. The first to pop up were the blisters. Then pus leaked out and flesh rotted. In less than half a minute, the monsters seemed like they had died for more than half a month.

Pestilence, serial number 8, the top Poison-type Talent.

One of the Talent’s abilities was to summon a current of poison. Hit for more than two seconds or inhaled for more than half a second, all organisms would die.

In only a short minute, the hundred and some elite monsters were wiped out, while Qilin, Dragon, and X continued to march toward Lilia.

Finally, there was only ten meters between them.

Qilin started a conversation with a surprising opener, “Must we fight?”

“We must.” Lilia nodded, her voice clear and frosty.

“Haven’t we been staying away from each other the past Crimson Tides?” Qilin argued.

“It’s time to turn in the answer sheet,” Lilia said concisely.

“You’re an awakener too,” Dragon said. “Why did you betray humans?”

Lilia paused, seemingly remembering something from a distant past.

Broken out of her thoughts, she smiled with youthful innocence and sorrow. “Because being a human makes one unhappy.”

They were taken aback by the response. Her answer seemed earnest, but absurd in its trivial nature.

“What...are you now?” Qilin frowned slightly.