Chapter 787: Counter

Chapter 787: Counter

“Hahhhh...”

Amon, the tall slim woman with long limbs, pushed Arm Strength to the max, holding up a Black Gold boomerang that was big enough to be a shield. After rotating it quickly in place for five seconds, she threw the boomerang in a volatile and fierce posture like a professional discus thrower.

Swoosh. The boomerang flew toward Nainai, leaving a faint golden trail in the sky. Enhanced by level 6 Arm Strength, the boomerang could automatically adjust its trajectory and track the target to some extent.

Small Luo came prepared, too. The robot toy hanging on her neck had been enchanted. It quickly transformed into a three-meter robot of translucent blue energy. Sitting in its cockpit, Small Luo controlled the robot’s two arms of antiaircraft guns.

Dense rows of oval blue energy bullets shot toward Nainai like countless footsteps left in the night sky.

Then a long-faced mustached man wearing a black hat the shape of a truncated pyramid and a yellow Daoist robe stepped forward, a large wooden case on his back. Wielding a cherry wood sword, he twirled it twice before pointing it upward, exclaiming, “Dou![1]”

Countless yellow talismans flew out of the wooden case on his back and flew toward Nainai, like living yellow birds.

He was Lin Fu, with Talent, Talisman, serial number 96, Element-type.

The Talent allowed one to manipulate talismans at will and granted them different powers according to their sigils.

“We’ll hit her!”

“Definitely hit her!”

“Go, go, go! It’ll hit her!”

A petite girl cheered with great enthusiasm. She wore a white cropped tank top, a short red skirt, and a baseball cap with two sparkly pom poms in her hands like a cheerleader.

She was Rewind, with Talent: Mental Suggestion, serial number 171, Psyche-type.

Through speech and gestures, she could make mental suggestion to her companions or enemies repeatedly to apply buffs or debuffs. Now, she was making it so that her companions would be more likely to hit their targets and for their enemies to have a harder time dodging the bullets.

As soon as Nainai received the order from Nine Frost, she fled toward the sky.

However, the boomerang Amon threw was moving too quickly, and with the Shooter Domain increasing its range by three times, the boomerang easily caught up with Nainai.

Nainai was too big to get away easily.

“Watch out!”

Chen Ying saw a flash of golden light about to cut Nainai’s chest. The Gale Nainai had copied with Shapeshifter was a weakened version, and she couldn’t conjure a wind shield to block the attack while flying. Twisting her large body, she barely stopped the boomerang from hitting her chest, but it still hit her left arm.

“Ugh...”

The boomerang sliced through Nainai’s left arm, tearing muscles and leaving a gash deep enough to reveal the bones. Blood splattered everywhere.

[Nine Frost: Nainai! Fly away now! Hurry!]

Nainai continued to rise, trying to get out of the enemies’ shooting range.

“Ah!”

An air bullet hit her in the thigh. Blood gushed out.

“Nainai!”

Held by Nainai’s arm, Chen Ying pushed all other thoughts aside and took a Medicine C from her waist—it was one of the Nine Scions’ two remaining Medicine C.

She was about to inject Nainai, but...

Pew.

A blue energy bullet hit Chen Ying in the shoulder. Her arm drooped, and the syringe fell out of her hand.

“Huhahhhhh!”

Nainai changed her tactic immediately and dove down at full speed instead, which substantially increased her flying speed and allowed her to quickly fly and dodge through the barrage of bullets shot their way.

Those shooting at her from the ground didn’t expect her to change trajectory so suddenly, and they didn’t immediately catch up.

Just when Nainai and Chen Ying were about to escape their range of shooting, Nine Frost’s voice sounded in their heads again.

[Nine Frost: Watch out ahead!]

Nainai and Chen Ying started. A yellow net had suddenly emerged fifty meters ahead of them, consisting of tens of hundreds of yellow talismans. It was Lin Fu’s Talisman at play.

The talismans arranged themselves neatly and continued to increase in number, creating a threatening web with no cracks.

[Chen Ying: Shrink down and escape, Nainai! Leave me!]

Face ashen, Chen Ying tried to break out of Nainai’s hold.

[Nainai: Preposterous! This Empress will not allow my subjects to be hurt...]

Nainai didn’t let go. She continued to dive toward the net of talismans with Chen Ying in her grip.

She knew one thing well: they would surely die if they slowed and stopped, but they might yet have a chance to live if they pushed forward!

1. One of the Nine Hand Seals—lin, bing, dou, zhe, jie, zhen, lie, qian, xing, which form a sentence that means, “soldiers descend and arrange yourselves in front of me.” Very often used for moves related to daoist or ninjutsu. ☜