Chapter 528

Chapter 528: Island of Devil’s Maw (34)

There was a seductive drawl in the woman’s voice, it was meant to invoke some kind of pink bubbly thoughts in men’s mind, but... the gap between reality and imagination was often as wide as heaven and earth. The group triangulated the location from the voice and they soon found the source of the voice. And the thing that entered their line of sight... was a large strange butterfly. Her appearance was completely similar to the small butterflies that the players encountered in the tunnel earlier but this butterfly was as large as a normal person and when the wings beside her body was expanded to its full size, it would reach up to several metres.

“Once the creature is enlarged, they do look quite disgusting...” Feng Bujue mumbled under his breath.

“It does not matter anymore...” Ambitionist answered. “After experiencing ‘the Uncle Worthless incident’, this kind of contrast barely register as a punch to my mind anymore.”

“Hey... what do you mean by ‘the Uncle Worthless Incident’?” Uncle Worthless demanded with a twitching lips. “Can you not add a strange label to what has happened to me on your own?”

“You people sure are courageous...” The Blade Butterfly Queen had no idea what the players were yapping about. As a quintessential mini boss whose sole purpose was to block the players’ path forward, there was no side quest that could be triggered from her, her responsibility from being created and programmed was to fight. Therefore, her thought and lines were all designed along that plot line, “You dare to comment on my beauty and say such slanderous words within my earshot...” Her tone suddenly turned gruesome before it eventually turned into a howl. “Do you wish to die?!”

As the howl ended, she opened her mouth like a snake extended its jaw and sprayed out a blob of dark green stinky substance at the direction of the five players. The five reacted quickly. In less than a second, they separated and jumped away from the range of this attack. The blob of sticky substance flew through the air quickly before it finally landed on the crystalline floor. It gave off sizzling sound and then it was followed by the rise of a white smoke that carried a strange smell with it...

“Careful not to be splashed by her saliva. That kind of corrosive effect is not to be trifled with.” Uncle Worthless warned loudly.

“He he... that was just a greeting.” The strange butterfly smirked coldly before saying, “I have plenty of ways... to kill all of you!” Then, she opened her giant bug mouth again. The familiar puf ta puf ta echoed in the players’ ears again... the strange noise came from inside the butterfly queen’s stomach. The next second, a large amount of black shadows rushed out from her mouth.

“So it was you who was behind the wave of butterflies earlier?” While Pegasus spoke, one hand already moved to the area around his waist while the other hand was raised up high to assume the posture of a tiger’s claw. “Damn villain! In this open space, I do not need to hold back to deliver justice anymore!” With his pose assumed, and the appropriate lines announced loudly, I believe dear readers would be able to guess what our Pegasus was about to shout next...

“Pegasasu Ryūsei Ken!” With the shout of his signature move, the punches showered like meteors. They lashed like lightning and the collective force was as strong as a tsunami that could swallow a mountain. Be it in terms of speed or power, the Pegasasu Ryūsei Ken this instant was far more powerful than the one used by Pegasus while they were still inside the tunnel. Blade Butterfly Queen was not a pushover either. She managed to discern with first glance that the attack by Pegasus was not that weak and it was not something she could take head on. Therefore, she instantly flapped her giant wings and manoeuvred into an evasive movement. Instantly, the giant butterfly wings swept out a powerful wind, the queen used the rebound force from this wind to glide backwards and slightly upwards into the air. The shadow butterflies that she unleashed earlier had already all become cannon fodder that blocked off some of the damage from Pegasasu Ryūsei Ken.

“So you are travellers from another world....” When the Blade Butterfly Queen saw the skill, the identities of the players dawned on her immediately. “This is so boring...” She said as she opened her mouth to unleash her third skill. But this time it was not a liquid or physical attack, it was an invisible sound wave attack.

“yin—” A high decibel shrill shot out from the queen’s mouth. Like a cut of invisible blade, it rippled through the air, heading rapidly towards Pegasus. Pegasus was already in battle mode, his focus was trained on the combat. Even though the sound wave travelled very quickly, he was able to avoid it with even and stable response. With a slight move of his shoulder and a gather of force in his knees, he easily teleported more than a zhang away.

However... the sound wave attack was not as simple as it appeared. When the invisible sound wave hit the crystal columns behind Pegasus, it was refracted by it....

......

“Yin—yin—yin—” At the same time, the Blade Butterfly Queen hovering in the air unleashed three more sound waves. Before the first sound wave dissipated, three more were added to the layers of attack. This time, the players were caught by surprise. Due to the different sizes of the crystal columns, it meant that the refraction angle of the sound waves against the crystal formation could not be predicted at all. And they could not tell how many times the sound waves would refract before they lost their power.

Under that circumstance, standing inside that maze-like geographical location, trying to avoid these high moving projectiles that had no trace to their trajectory at all was incredibly difficult. Therefore, Uncle Worthless, Atobe, Ambitionist and Pegasus all made the same instinctual reaction—jump into the air.

On the surface, this appeared to be the most correct choice. After all, there was poisonous fog in this crystallize maze, using the wider open air to conduct the battle was the logical choice. However... what they did not expect was, this reaction was exactly what the Blade Butterfly Queen wished for them to do. It was a trap that she had laid down for the players...

Tsk la—

“What is going on?” Just as Uncle Worthless leaped slightly higher than the boss’ head, he felt he ram into something... it was material that was invisible and incredible soft but tough, it was like a mosquito net that was hung in the air but it was simply not visible to the naked eye. Once he gained contact with that layer of material, Uncle Worthless found that he was unable to move his whole body at all; he was like a mosquito stuck onto a paper fly trap. One side of his body was stuck firmly to the material and he was unable to pull himself away from it.

“Very well, then I will save you last.” After Feng Bujue heard the encouragement from Uncle Worthless, this was how he replied the man. After hearing that, Uncle Worthless could not help but feel a little bit regret for exposing his secret. But after he gave it some thought, he soon understood brother Jue’s meaning... If like the mini boss said, ‘she’ was already on the way here. Then... feng Bujue perhaps might not have the time to save all of them. Under that premise, naturally he would save the person who had the means to save themselves last, it was the logical thing to do.

“Very good, the military shovel can cut through the web, it is just that the web is quite sturdy so it will take some time to saw through it.” At that moment, even though Feng Bujue tried to keep his tone light, his action was swift and hurried, he did not take any break. “Based on this speed... I should be able to remove you from this web in about another 5 minutes.” The first person Brother Jue rescued was Atobe because Atobe’s weapon was perfect for sawing. Once he made him loose, the rest of the process would be much simple. Brother Jue had even figured out the plan already... He would carry Atobe and jump to a perfect height and then order this young man to use his fan to cut through the spider web.

“By the way, what exactly did you do earlier?” While Brother Jue was cutting through the web, Atobe asked with curiosity. “How did you manage to avoid all those rebounding sound waves?”

“Haven’t I told the boss earlier?” Feng Bujue replied in an even tone without stopping the movement of his hands. “I did not avoid them.” He paused before continuing, “I initially wanted to avoid them but I failed... luckily, my equipment managed to absorb most of the damange.”

“Hah?” Atobe was stunned. “Your armor is that good?”

“Yes, why are you so surprised?” Feng Bujue replied expressionlessly. Actually... they were not that good, his armor was that powerful until they could completely absorb the damage from the attack of a boss level monster. There were two reasons why he could take on those sound waves... number one was because Artemis’ Embrace could greatly reduce the damage of all long-ranged attacks and number two was... because Echo Armor had the hidden property of the ability to resist most sound wave-based attacks.

Even though Echo Armor’s actual item description did not point out this special effect, it was heavily insinuated in the item remark: “After collecting the whispering from Blackbolt, Dr. Doom used the powerful energy to create this equipment. After activating the belt, the user will obtain invisible armor made from ‘echo’.”

This invisible ‘echo’ armor naturally had the same essence as sound wave. And the voice of ‘Black Bolt’ was naturally the king of all sound waves attacks. This boss... would be able to level more than 10 square feet of land with just a few sentences, he could bring down a planet if he shouted and if he yelled at the top of his lungs... he could even cause a dimensional tear.

With the double buff of these two armors, Feng Bujue barely managed to survive the attacks from the Blade Butterfly Queen’s sound wave attacks...

Of course, the man himself was indispensable in this effort as well. If not for his use of zero-time simulation to try his best to make the evasion to the best of his ability and successfully counted the timing that he would be able to narrowly slip through the gap in the attacks, then the result might be completely different... Even if his armors happened to perfectly counter the enemy’s attacks, if he suffered two to three such attacks in quick successions, his armor might be broken as well.

“So you never intended to jump up from the very beginning?” Atobe was a clever person, he was that brazen to inquire after the armor that Brother Jue had on so he changed the subject.

“Well, that was not true.” Feng Bujue replied, “The reason I did not jump had nothing to do with my armor but because I thought the boss was acting a bit strangely...” He licked his lips and continued to explain. “Pegasus’ Pegasasu Ryūsei Ken has an upward trajectory and it does not cover that big of an angle. To evade this kind of attack, the most effective evasive manoeuvre is to follow the trajectory of the attack pattern and fly directly upwards. With the boss’ speed and ability, the most effective solution for her was definitely to fly immediately perpendicularly upwards. But... she did not do that but she chose to flutter backwards and then upwards at an angle. The feeling that she gave off was... she did not dare to burst at a high speed directly into the air.”

Brother Jue paused for two seconds before he resumed, “What happened next proved that I was right. When she was doing the evasion, the boss had figured out the plan and laid down the trap...” At this point, to adjust to the sawing angle, he slightly adjusted his hand that held the military shovel. “First, she retreated to the extreme height that was closest to this web... as the local creature on this island, she naturally knew where this limit was. And then, she unleashed her ultimate...”

“Wait a minute, how did you know those sound wave attacks were her ultimate?” Ambitionist at the side interrupted to ask.

“That is very simple. From all the skills that she has shown, the sound wave is definitely the strongest...” Feng Bujue answered. “if she has any other ultimate, she would have used it when I was close to her earlier.”

“Hmmm...” Ambitionist nodded. “You have a point.”

“In any case... she used this super powerful skill to try to force us to jump into the air.” Feng Bujue continued. “Under normal circumstance... if one is going to get involved in an aerial battle, the battle instinct will push the person to move to a higher altitude than the enemy to gain the advantage... even I have this kind of habit, that can’t be helped because even power is just to hover in the air, it is not flying in the actual meaning of the word. Unless we are able to fly to any direction like Superman, or else, this is the kind of reaction we will all have.”

“Yes, because we need to factor in the distance that we will eventually drop to the ground.” Uncle Worthless added, “The higher you jump, the longer you will hover in the air, that is just basic conceptual knowledge.”

“And the boss used this habitual instinct of ours... to lay down this extremely cunning trap.” Feng Bujue said with a hint of admiration. “The combo will work almost every time... those who remain on the ground will be crushed by the sound waves and those who jump into the air will run into the web. The only survivors will be those who jump to the same height as her and stop... but for us ‘outsiders’ who do not know about the presence of this big web, naturally we would not do that.” He titled his head to look at his teammates. “Naturally, earlier i... did not factor in so many factors, I merely... saw all of you have jumped up into the sky so I decided to take a risk to verify the suspicion in my heart.”

“Hah... Only a narcissist like yourself will be able to do something like that.” Ambitionist chided. “based on a bit of uncertain suspicion to do such high risk commitment...”

“That is not true... actually, if you consider all the extenuating factors, you will be able to grasp my action.” Feng Bujue replied. “The situation at the time was... I did not know about the trap in the air, I only suspected it... so the path I had laid before me were two, one was to stay on the group and face the threat that I already know; and two is to jump into the sky to face a sky that might not exist and unknown.”