Chapter 22

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The scorching sun hung in the sky, roasting the earth.

In the depths of the sultry and humid Shadow Forest.

Ye Chen panted heavily.

His four tiny claws were already trembling due to exhaustion.

On his triangular head, there were dozens of wounds of different depths.

As for his tail, it had already fallen off and was stuck on the body of the demonic beast in front of him.

In front of Ye Chen.

It was the body of a one-meter-long mantis demonic beast.

The ‘great blade’, the six highly sharp forelimbs in front of him, were now only left with three.

As for the other three, during the battle, they had all been eaten by Ye Chen.

Ye Chen panted for a while before finally regaining some of his strength. He crawled over and devoured the mantis demonic beast’s body.

Only then did he find a secluded corner and recover once more.

After a month, he was already quite far from the Elven Holy Land. However, he did not have to worry about getting lost.

Ever since he devoured the divine tree’s energy essence, he only needed to use his senses to sense the direction of the divine tree.

As long as he calculated the time, he would be able to find it when he was about to reach the three months he had promised the Elven Queen.

In the past few days, Ye Chen had already eaten six demonic beasts.

Although it did not bring him any new special abilities, the original special genes in his body had been strengthened a lot.

Right now, if Ye Chen were to meet the Bronze Knight again, he was confident that he would be able to take care of it quickly.

However, he would not find a Bronze Knight for him to try for a while.

Ye Chen could only wait patiently for his recovery before continuing to look for beasts and demonic beasts to devour.

However, he did not expect that the opportunity to meet a Bronze Knight would arrive so soon…

…

Ye Chen, who was in a deep sleep, was suddenly awakened by a burst of noise.

He hurriedly focused his attention and listened carefully. Soon, he could tell that it was an intense battle.

The human screams and the roars of the demonic beasts rose and fell one after another, slowly approaching him.

Ye Chen immediately climbed up to a higher spot and hid.

Soon, he found himself in the forest about 500 meters away from him.

A greyish-black demonic beast was battling fiercely with three Bronze Knights.

Seeing that demonic beast, Ye Chen’s pupils suddenly shrank.

A few days ago, he had also encountered that greyish-black brown bear snake-tailed demonic beast hunting for food.

However, it had given him too much pressure at that time, so Ye Chen did not dare to fight it head-on. Instead, he bypassed it from a distance.

According to his estimation, this brown bear demonic beast was even more potent than the one he had encountered before, which was a one versus two python demonic beasts!

Seeing that it had utterly crushed the three Bronze Knights, he felt even more fortunate that he had not acted rashly and run over to hunt the brown bear demonic beast.

Otherwise, Ye Chen would have been the one running away…

At this moment, the three Bronze Knights could only barely form a battle formation to protect themselves.

Not far behind them, a woman wearing a gray-white robe and hood was slowly praying with her palms pressed together.

Waves of white light shone from her hands onto the three Knights, healing their injuries.

Even so, the four of them and the beast were retreating as they fought, getting closer and closer to Ye Chen.

Ye Chen did not have any intention of saving them at all. Instead, he just wanted to wait until Boss Xiong finished dealing with them and see if he could leave some of his arms and legs behind.

However, the situation on the battlefield was changing rapidly.

When that Sword-shield Knight’s steel shield was utterly smashed, Ye Chen knew that they were done for.

Just as Ye Chen was excitedly guessing who would be the first to run away…

An unexpected scene happened.

The Sword-shield Knight who had lost his shield let out a loud shout, and his whole body was covered in rock armor.

Then, he threw away the longsword in his hand and threw himself at that invincible brown bear.

At the same time, he shouted, “Saintess, please run! Don’t let our sacrifice go to waste!”

The hooded lady, who was called the Saintess, was stunned.

The other two Knights also used secret techniques to consume their vitality crazily, and their strength increased by a large margin.

They surrounded the brown bear from the left and right. There was no fear of death in their eyes. Instead, they were firm and afraid of people.

The hooded Saintess saw that the three Guardian Knights had already released their irreversible secret techniques of sacrifice.

She could only use her last bit of psyche power to release a fantastic recovery art before stumbling into the depths of the forest.

Tears dripped down from the hooded Saintess’ head and onto the long robe on her chest.

Ye Chen looked at the three Bronze Knights severely as they fought with the brown bear.

These three Knights were the most worthy of the title of ‘Knight’ he had seen in the past few days.

Before this, those Knights he had met did not have the spirit of a Knight at all.

However, even though he was full of emotions, Ye Chen would not risk his life to go out and help.

After two months, when his power had significantly increased, he would turn back and eat this brown bear demon beast to avenge them.

Thinking about it, that brown bear demon beast should be very delicious…

Just as Ye Chen was staring at the battlefield, tears were flowing down his face.

That hooded Saintess, whose face could not be seen clearly, had already run to the tree where he was.

Then, the Saintess running away in a hurry suddenly tripped on the roots under Ye Chen’s tree.

Then, she fell heavily onto the ground, her eyes darting over…

Ye Chen’s mouth twitched as he looked at the Saintess lying on the ground with a helpless expression.

One thought after another kept flashing through his mind.

“Eat her? That can’t be right… she didn’t hurt me.”

Ye Chen was still a man of principle.

The humans he had killed so far were either hateful slaves or Knights who wanted to kill him.

This was also why he knew that if he ate humans, he would recover his human body.

But, he still did not eat those ordinary humans.

“Leaving her here? Then, in this deep forest, she will probably wake up with only bones left…”

Ye Chen hesitated for a moment. The brown bear beast had already turned both of them into meat pies.

Therefore, Ye Chen did not overthink it.

He directly climbed down the tree, carried the Saintess on his back, and ran from the brown bear beast in the opposite direction.

Ye Chen planned to save her for the time being. As for what he should do after that, it would be up to him later.

After running for more than an hour, Ye Chen finally stopped at the entrance of a cave.

He dragged the hooded saintess into the cave after biting the two tigers to death and eating them.

Then, he laid down at the entrance of the cave and continued to rest.

Before, he was woken up halfway through his recovery and ran for more than an hour with a woman heavier than him on his back.

Ye Chen was already exhausted.

Right then, he laid on the ground and soon fell asleep.