Chapter 104: Brutal Strike

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

After killing the insect-like monster, Zhou Chen began to move towards the scroll shop. He wanted to see if the white-bearded old man was still around and if he could obtain the ring.

While running, Zhou Chen encountered a few other blood-red monsters, but he felt that these monsters were ordinary. Moreover, they did not attack him but instead wreaked havoc in the city. He ignored them and continued on his way.

“Where’s the city administration? They should have reacted by now.”

Looking at the scene of monsters wreaking havoc, Zhou Chen was speechless at the city’s lack of response. Up to now, he had yet to see any resistance that looked like an organization. Only some scattered extraordinary humans were fighting passively after they were targeted by the monsters.

As for the guards who liked to accept bribes, he did not see a single one of them fighting monsters. No, he saw a few, in the form of broken corpses.

Thanks to the chaotic situation and his speed, it was not long before he arrived at the scroll shop. This place was not yet invaded by the blood-red monster army, and only a small number of monsters were moving in its periphery.

Zhou Chen saw that the door of the scroll shop was closed. He sensed that there was no one inside through the Bloodthirst passive skill.

Bang!

Suddenly, a monster that looked like a two-headed snake was drowned by dazzling lightning and turned to dust in the blink of an eye.

“The old man is there.”

Zhou Chen immediately saw the old man not far away from the flashing lightning. He was holding an open scroll wreathed in lightning sparks, and he was carrying several more scrolls on his back. Clearly, the attack just now had been launched by him.

Zhou Chen immediately approached.

“I’m here to take the ring!”

Zhou Chen shouted to him.

“Wait! I need to eliminate the monsters nearby!”

The old man also noticed him and shouted back.

“Alright! Leave the two little ones over there to me! You can deal with the rest!”

Zhou Chen did not want to wait here for the old man to kill the monsters, and planned to help.

His figure flashed, and he quickly appeared on a street a hundred meters away. There were two three-meter tall blood-red monsters that looked like sharp-toothed monkeys wreaking havoc on the street.

They used their thick arms to blow up the doors of the buildings, pulled out the trembling residents, tore them apart, and stuffed them into their mouths.

“Die!”

Zhou Chen’s figure suddenly appeared behind a blood-red ape monster. He stabbed his spear into its back and out of its chest. The ugly and ferocious face of the blood-red monster immediately showed pain and anger. It ignored the spear that had pierced through its body and turned around to attack Zhou Chen.

However, Zhou Chen’s strength and agility were high. He nimbly pulled out his spear to dodge this monster’s desperate counterattack. He even managed to stab a few holes in its body with his spear; this ferocious monster quickly died with grievance.

“As expected, there’s no passive skill.”

Then, he spent some effort to kill the other similar ape monster and went to support the white-bearded old man.

The old man had already used several magic scrolls to instakill a few monsters. The rest were attracted by the flashes and explosions, and began to surround him fearlessly.

Fortunately, the old man was now surrounded by a few summoned stone giants, and was not in danger.

Bang!

There was another loud sound. Zhou Chen saw a crab-like blood-red monster that had been locked in battle with the stone giant suddenly swing its claws and break the stone giant into two. Then, it charged towards the white-bearded old man who had just instakilled a monster with a scroll and was about to take out another scroll.

“Your opponent is me!”

Zhou Chen accelerated and took the initiative to attack the huge crab-like blood-red monster.

On one hand, he was doing this to reduce the pressure on the old man. On the other hand, he felt that this monster was somewhat different. It might have a passive skill.

When Zhou Chen jumped on the blood-red crab monster and stabbed it with the spear, the monster’s attention was immediately attracted. Its long claws struck at its back. It only looked like a crab, but it was not a crab. It did not have the weakness of a crab that could not attack its back.

Zhou Chen quickly jumped away. After pulling some distance, he spat out a mouthful of flames towards this somewhat slow monster.

After this monster was hit by the flames, its entire body immediately quivered. It immediately began to move its thin legs to dodge the flames, and charged towards Zhou Chen at the same time.

Zhou Chen observed that the monster’s thin legs were likely to be weaker than its other parts. He lowered his head slightly and adjusted the direction of the flames towards its many legs.

This strategy quickly proved to be useful. Zhou Chen’s flames only burned it for a second before its many thin legs were burnt black. It was no longer agile, and its already slow moving body became even slower.

Zhou Chen immediately used the Holy Light to burn it from a distance.

After ten seconds, the monster died.

[Passive Plunderer triggered: You have stolen the Giant Claw Demon Insect’s passive skill, “Brutal Strike II”. Do you want to absorb it?]

“It really dropped a passive skill. Let me see its effect.”

Zhou Chen was delighted when he heard the system announcement. He quickly moved to a relatively hidden corner and checked the introduction of this new passive skill.

[Brutal Strike II

Type: Mid bronze passive skill

When you use all your strength in close combat, there is a 15% chance of stimulating your body’s potential and causing 2.5 times physical damage.]

“Isn’t this a critical hit? Absorb!”

Zhou Chen understood immediately. This was a passive skill that increased explosive damage.

After quickly completing the absorption, Zhou Chen charged towards a huge monster that was fighting the old man’s stone giant.

The monster looked like a rhinoceros. It looked extremely tough, and it was exchanging minor damage with the stone giant.

After Zhou Chen quickly approached it, he immediately stabbed it with his spear.

His attack succeeded. He stabbed into the rhinoceros monster’s skin, but it only entered a few centimeters. Such a depth was like scratching an itch for such a huge monster.

Although his attack was weak, the monster still reacted to his attack. Its two legs that were thicker than a person kicked at Zhou Chen consecutively, but Zhou Chen nimbly dodged them. Then, he approached it and stabbed it again.

Suddenly, Zhou Chen felt additional strength erupt from his body, making the spear he stabbed directly sink into the monster’s hard body, reaching a meter deep!

“This is the feeling of the Brutal Strike? Not bad!”

Zhou Chen thought to himself as he quickly pulled out his spear to dodge the injured and furious monster.