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Chapter 146 - Desperation
Hei Yingjie did not let the alpha steel back wolf initiate the first attack. Instead, he sprinted forward and attacked first. He swung his saber with an intense speed and slashed at the Alpha wolf.
"Haa-!" Hei Yingjie shouted.
The Alpha steel back wolf did not flinch from Hei Yingjie’s approach but instead looked at him closely. It stared until the very last moment when he was just a meter away from it. Then just when the attack was about to reach it, the Alpha steel back wolf disappeared.
"Huh, What?!" Hei Yingjie exclaimed as he saw his foe disappeared.
"Where did it go?" he spoke as he looked around.
But just as he was about to move, Hei Yingjie suddenly felt danger from his back. His spirit sense immediately spread around and he saw what was approaching him. It was none other than the Alpha steel back wolf.
The Alpha wolf had increased its speed exponentially and was now coming towards Hei Yingjie. Reacting at the very last moment, Hei Yingjie leaped to the side to avoid the attack. The Alpha steel back wolf missed its target and flew ahead.
It landed on the ground and dug some trail marks as it exerted force to stop itself.
~Growl~
The Alpha steel back wolf turned around and growled at Hei Yingjie. Deep malice could be seen in its eyes and one could tell that it was incredibly infuriated. It lunged at Hei Yingjie once again, but this time he used his saber to block its attack.
~Clang~
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One by one the steel back wolves started dying under Lin Mu’s blade. Finally, the time arrived when no more wolves were coming forth to attack them. Lin Mu looked around and saw that only a couple of the steel back wolves were now left fighting.
Most of them had fallen under his hands, while the rest had been handled by the members of the Hei corps. They were covered in injuries from head to the toe and were extremely exhausted. Everyone except for Lin Mu was now nearly out of spirit qi.
"Aargh!!"
Just as Lin Mu was looking around, the sound of a painful shout was heard. He looked to the side and saw that Hei Yingjie now had a large claw wound that extended from his right shoulder over the abdomen all the way to the left side of his waist.
The diagonal injury was caused by the Alpha steel back wolf and could be evidently seen as its claws were dripping with blood, Hei Yingjie’s blood. Hei Yingjie flinched in pain and was knocked back. The Alpha steel back wolf took advantage of this vulnerability and lunged at him again.
Hei Yingjie rolled to the side but dropped his saber in the process.
"No!" Lin Mu shouted as he sprinted towards them.
The distance between them was now far though, as they had moved away while fighting. They were over a hundred meters away from each other. Lin Mu knew that he won’t be able to reach Hei Yingjie before the wolf attacked him.
Lin Mu gave up on hiding his skills and just decided to use them. He thought that it will be worth it even if he ended up exposing himself. Lin Mu thus used blink and moved forward ten meters in a second. During this period the alpha steel back wolf had attacked Hei Yingjie again.