CH 363

First, use a large scale attack on the hiding monkeys, then use long-distance fire magic to burn the monkeys… although Yao Zi looks dumb, but she demonstrated her superior intellect and astute judgment in combat, which caused everyone who belittled her to be taken aback.

Not just that, but as expected of the one with the wizard’s bloodline as she was able to successively cast two seventh-level magic without even taking a breath. It was like it was as easy as cooking for her.

Naturally, they didn’t know that Lin Xiao secretly taught her these magics, and her strategies were also a part of his plans.

That’s right, the siblings were just acting.

Xiao Tian didn’t see any monkeys, he was just lying!

Before they left, Lin Xiao drew up a simple map of the canyon and told him to stop the group at designated spots, and this was one of them.

His cries and warnings were all lines that Lin Xiao taught him, and his cooperation with Yao Zi was all rehearsed!

But this show was rather effective…

It was like the flaming snake was alive as it slithered from Yao Zi’s hands and rushed into the shrubbery ahead instantly igniting a sea of fire. The miraculous thing was that it didn’t ignite any of the vegetation and specifically targeted the monkeys lying on the ground and burnt them to charcoal.

The monkeys were already dead two days ago, that’s why Lin Xiao got Yao Zi to cast fire magic so that the evidence would be destroyed and it would seem like the monkeys just died.

“Sister, is it going to be okay? I didn’t see where the monkeys were… I better not get exposed later!” Xiao Tian quietly asked Yao Zi.

“I’m not sure but there seems to be something ahead, let’s just trust Lin Xiao.”

Yao Zi calmed herself a bit and let the fire snake to continue burning for a while, after a bit, she exchanged a look with her brother, to signal for him to continue the plan.

“Those monkeys were surely burned to death, let’s go!” Xiao Tian called out while pulling Yao Zi and going ahead first. Caesar didn’t delay and beckoned everyone else to keep up.

They didn’t have to walk long before they came before a sea of burnt corpses. Everyone had their doubts in the beginning, but after seeing the corpses, they all trusted her.

Without Lin Tian’s warning and Yao Zi’s long-distance attacks, the ambushing monkey would have dealt a fatal blow. But with those siblings, they didn’t even see their shadows before all the monkeys were already burnt to charcoal.

“So strong…” The sixth-level magician exclaimed.

It seems like their small group of magicians won’t be of use, just Yao Zi alone was stronger than their entire team…

“But why does it feel a bit strange?”

Everyone was exclaiming at how strong Yao Zi and Lin Tian were, but something felt off to Caesar. He couldn’t really explain it, so he could only just keep following them.

“Strop!” Lin Tian’s warning came again.

With experience from last time, everyone stopped without hesitation. Caesar started looking around to try and find the enemy.

“Look, there’s a large spike in the shrubbery ahead!”

“I see… my god, that’s from a seventh-level demonic beast, phosphorous skin poisonous scorpion!?”

Yao Zi’s cry threw the entire group into a panic.

“What? Seventh-level demonic beast?”

“Their spikes are extremely poisonous and fatal, it’ll be hard for us to deal with it!”

“I can’t believe there’s a seventh-level demonic beast… Caesar, should we temporarily retreat…”

“Retreat? Quiet! Magic team, prepare the defense and everyone else stay vigilant!”

In the crucial moment, Caesar used his loud voice to drive away the panic. Hearing the orders, Archer lead the magic team to quickly construct a large magic shield, everyone else readied their weapons to prepare for a fight.

And yet…

“Strange, I still don’t see anything.”

Was he blind? How come Yao Zi and Lin Tian were able to spot the enemies right away, yet he couldn’t see anything?

They said there was a large spike… but all he sees ahead was a large blackish stick, and couldn’t tell that there was a seventh-level demonic beast hiding there!

Strange, it was too strange…

Caesar didn’t mind letting the siblings have the limelight, as long as they could successfully complete the mission he could be a silent audience member too, but he hated this inexplicable sense of powerlessness. It was like only the siblings had eyes that could detect the hiding demonic beasts and the rest of them were all blind.

But… sigh, forget it, he wanted to see what else they had up their sleeves.

“Sister, it seems like they haven’t noticed us yet, so if we ambush it and bombard it with powerful magic, then we may be able to subdue it!”

“You’re right… now’s the chance!”

Yao Zi also nodded and moved her bloodline power to put on a spectacular magic show.

“Seventh-level magic… Flaming Meteor!”

No circuits or any complex preparations, Yao Zi just gently waved her hands and all the magic around her obeyed.

She remembered the demonstration Lin Xiao gave her and imitated him to call a meteor that came crashing down towards the shrubs in front of them.

The meteor fell with an earsplitting roar and burned up all the shrubbery that was obfuscating the view and revealed the hidden scorpion.

“What? There actually was one?”

Caesar was dumbfounded.

Everyone was dumbstruck as they fell silent and watched the scorpion get roasted.

“As expected of my sister! You knocked it unconscious!” Xiao Tian was loud, but he didn’t have much confidence.

Lin Xiao already guaranteed that the scorpion wouldn’t wake up, but it was still a terrifying seventh-level demonic beast! If it did, they would probably all be wiped out…

What he was worried about didn’t happen and everything went according to Lin Xiao’s plan. The scorpion didn’t wake up even as it was getting scorched, seeing that, everyone calmed down and tied up the scorpion.

At that time, there was a deafening roar that came from a nearby cliff.

“Look! It’s a scarlet flame tiger… based on its size, it’s the king!”

Xiao Tian immediately pointed at the large tiger for fear that they didn’t see it.

This time, everyone finally saw it.

“Look, there’s a couple of other tigers next to it… they ran? Haha, they were scared away, sister you scared them away!”

“Phew… that’s great, now all the demonic beasts that were blocking the way are gone!”

Yao Zi and Xiao Tian finished their performance while maintaining their awkward smiles.

Even though their acting skills were poor, but that large tiger did its part as it whimpered while it slipped away like it was actually scared by Yao Zi’s performance.

“They just escaped like that? That’s our win, right?”

“Yao Zi, you’re too strong!? You can actually scare the demonic beasts away!”

“Long live Yao Zi!”

The crowd surrounded the poor scorpion and shouted out Yao Zi’s name while celebrating their victory.

The scorpion was tied up and the tigers escaped, now there were no demonic beasts remaining to stop their advances.

This was all thanks to Yao Zi!

Grrr…

The tiger king that escaped looked back at that group of noisy humans and helplessly growled.

Humans are too simple… originally they should have left two days ago but the demon king ordered them to stay here and wait for the expedition team and cooperate with Yao Zi to put on a show.

But who would have thought that these tough demonic beasts would obediently play their roles as actors?

Even if Caesar had doubts, after he watched these tigers run away with their tails tucked between their legs, he started praising the siblings along with everyone else. He also arranged the aftermath and prepared for them to advance towards Gotham Kingdom.

“But sister… what’s going on? Did you really knock that scorpion unconscious? Also… how could those tigers possibly be scared away?”

Xiao Tian pretended to smile and dealt with everyone’s cheering and praise while he whispered to his sister.

Knocking the scorpion out with the meteor wasn’t impossible, but it needed precise magic control. They didn’t even know its exact location and just randomly cast it towards an area that Lin Xiao marked.

No one else knew about it, but they clearly knew… Lin Xiao killed those monkeys ahead of time! He also knocked that scorpion out!

As for the tigers… it was probably also arranged by him.

“Brother, from now on you shouldn’t get on his bad side… I’m afraid I can’t protect you…”

“I-I know…”

Their view of his knowledge and power of Lin Xiao has renewed again and the siblings were grateful…

They really just had to obediently listen…