Blackback guessed that Gary might have been the one that killed Venny, or why would Wendevorr be supporting these four humans?One of these four humans had to be the one controlling the spiders, or so he thought.Along this reasoning, he had chosen to attack Gary as a group and use his numbers to his advantage.Leah and Sesi were stepping forward, but Gary told them, “Stand back. I’ll deal with them.”“There are over a hundred of them,” Leah said.“It’s fine,” he replied. Gary’s focus was not on the minions but only on Blackback. He didn’t wait for the opponents to come to him. He rushed to them, using the strength of his newly formed core. He was able to blitz through their ranks and reach the boss in no time.“What?” Blackback was the only one who was able to see Gary’s movement.Gary’s fist shone a golden light as he threw it at Blackback like a missile. “Glorious Punch!”Blackback couldn’t even raise his guard and properly block the attack. Gary’s fist struck him in the chest and
After Blackback’s death, the other jackals ran away without any hesitation. Their fears overcome their loyalty, and so they didn’t even look back as they fled for their lives.Rowan kept hearing messages pop up before him.Thanks to him defeating someone who was leveled more than twice as himself, Rowan leveled up six times, and so he reached 111 now. Sesi also leveled up once and reached 107. Leah also reached the same level as Sesi.Gary did not level up initially, but after he absorbed the energy from Blackback’s body, he leveled up once.He also attained the skill Jackal’s Jolt. A red lightning attack, which he was able to use right away.Seeing the red lightning come out of his hand, Sesi was greatly surprised.“What a cheat. I guess the hero does have so many ways to keep growing stronger.” She looked jealous and salty because her hair was cut. Even though she was able to grow her hair to normal length as her ability allowed for it, she still didn’t like the fact that Blackback
Later that day.Gary helped the spiders track down the jackals and kill them. Except for a few jackals that ran away to other territories, they managed to kill every single jackal that was in Blackback’s territory.Blood spilled everywhere in the place where the jackals briefly ruled for the past few days. The jackals had thought they were going to expand their territory or occupy a larger territory, but now,they need to worry about not dying. After all, the monsters in other territories wouldn’t be kind to them, especially because these jackals would always harass others in groups. Nobody had a good opinion on them.So, the news that Blackback had been killed didn’t even reach the other territories, as the jackals that survived did not dare reveal that news, fearing that they might get targeted even more.Gary, on the other hand, searched everywhere in the jackals’ territory and did not find any living humans.There were only trees everywhere. What shocked and disturbed him was that
The territory that was to the north of the Blackback’s territory was where the brown lizardmen lived.They were the weakest race among the lizardmen and averaged around level 80s, so Gary thought that they would be the perfect targets for his team to level up.However, the issue was that these lizardmen operated very differently from the jackals. They rarely roamed in groups and were very tight with their surveillance. And their territory was also not that big.So, one mistake, and all the lizardmen would be alerted.So, Gary and others set out with the mission to silently kill all the lizardmen in the territory before they could even realize what’s happening.Gary told the spiders to be on standby behind every team member and only be a support when necessary.Gary stopped everyone once they spotted the two lizardmen who were on the watchtower.“They built towers already?” Rowan was shocked. “How are we going to get up those towers without being seen by them?”“Their eyes are very sen
Gary grabbed both the lizardmen by their necks and jumped from the watchtower. He tossed them down. The spiders swiftly laid webs and caught the lizardmen without making any noise.Gary didn’t need a web to cushion himself because he had the ability of spider-hopping. So, he didn’t even need to use aura to land without making any noise.“That was so cool,” Sesi commented.“If it’s you, then you can kill these lizards by yourself,” Rowan said. “But even with the three of us together, we won’t be able to kill them.”“Don’t talk like that, Rowan,” Gary patted his shoulder. “Have some confidence in yourself. Two women are also in our team, but they’re not speaking like you, are they?”Rowan pursed his lips and took a deep breath. “Yeah, you’re right.”Gary then told Wendevorr to do his job.Wendevorr took the two lizardmen over into the distant bushes and then tortured them until they secreted glazing liquid onto their tails. This wouldn’t have been possible if Gary hadn’t paralyzed them.
For the next couple of hours, Rowan and others used the same tactic to kill more and more lizardmen.When the shine on one of the tails ran out, they used the second tail, the backup tail which they had carefully preserved.Thanks to this, they were able to kill more of them.Leah’s new skill Shadowless Sword was no joke. She was able to pierce the opponent and cause them to die without even making them bleed. The more she used the skill, the more she understood its capabilities.Sesi also unlocked a skill called Fire Strand Hanger. With this skill, she was able to send a rope of fire and choke the opponent to death. She only needed to use one strand of hair to do this. This improved her confidence because the strength of her hair was also increasing, which was exactly what she wanted for the time being.Rowan, on the other hand, also earned a skill called Stench Bearer. It was a Low-Grade skill. Rowan naturally wasn’t satisfied with it because his Jackal’s Recovery was a Proper Grade
Gary went to check on his teammates. Since Sesi was the closest to him, he went to her first.Sesi was on a roll, mercilessly killing the lizardmen. They couldn’t even touch her because her hair was not only perfect at defending, she was also able to counterattack by grabbing the spears and breaking them.She poked the lizardmen’s eyeballs with her hair. She didn’t even ask for the spiders’ help. She fought on her own and was doing a fine job.“It looks like I didn’t have to worry about her,” Gary thought and then went to check on Leah next.To his surprise, she was using the spiders to distract the lizardmen, and then she dealt them critical blows with her sword just as an assassin or an experienced warrior would.Gary very much loved what Leah was doing. Because she used the spiders that were available to her, she was able to kill more lizardmen than Sesi had.Wendevorr was still guarding her as ordered, so Gary didn’t bother them and went to check on Rowan next.To his bafflement,
A few minutes later.Rowan opened his eyes slowly, but he quickly sat up and looked around. The lizardwoman was lying on the ground, with a hole in her chest.Gary was standing next to her.Rowan was a bit depressed to see that. “So you killed her…” Was he saved again by Gary?“No, you killed her,” Gary said.“I did?” Rowan was surprised to hear that.“Yeah, she tricked you and got behind you,” Gary explained him. “But then you sacrificed your left arm and then saw her off with a punch to her heart.”“I did that?” Rowan was only remembering it now after Gary had explained him. He then looked at his left arm, which was hanging loosely as it had many broken bones.“Luckily, your arm wasn’t cut off,” Gary added. “Or, I’m not sure if it can be reattached or not.”“I have a recovery skill, so I think my arm will heal by itself,” Rowan said. “It might take an hour though since this injury looks nasty.”“Did you level up ?” Gary asked him.“Let me check,” Rowan quickly checked his stats. “Ye