pertwk Chapter 128 Trapped Beast
Chapter 128 Trapped Beast
The beast howled, and the crossbow bolt pierced through its wing, flying several meters before embedding itself in the ground—only a few meters from Geb, startling the halfling.
The woman braced herself with her hands on the ground and performed a backflip to escape from under the manticore.
The beast's bat-like wings drooped instantly, the bones at the base visibly broken by the impact of the crossbow bolt. It lost its ability to fly and frantically clawed at the ground in agony. Fortunately, the female knight had jumped away early; otherwise, she would surely have been torn to pieces by the scorpion.
Matthew was thrown back by the recoil of the siege crossbow bolt, landing on the ground with his helmet flying off. He quickly scrambled to his feet, grabbed another arrow, and frantically began to load it.
The manticore stood there enraged for a few seconds, then shifted its attention to the thing that posed the greatest threat to it—the siege crossbow. It braced its hind legs and launched itself forward in an instant!
"Obak above!"
As the soldiers carrying the siege crossbows watched the manticore pounce on them, one of them turned and ran!
"Come back! You coward!" Matthew roared. Before he finished speaking, one of the soldiers ran away, the siege crossbow lost its balance, and crashed to one side! The soldier who hadn't escaped couldn't dodge in time and was slammed to the ground by the heavy machinery!
"Ugh!" The man let out a muffled groan, his chest caved in.
Matthew was also knocked down by the falling siege crossbow. He was about to get up, supporting his knee, when a huge shadow flashed in front of him and a huge impact knocked the siege crossbow over!
Bang!
Crash!
"Obak is..."
boom!
The sheriff, crossbow and all, was sent flying, tumbling several times on the ground before crashing into a tree. His body went limp immediately.
The manticore struck the soldier, who was half-dead on the ground, with its claws, tearing his face apart. Then it vented its resentment over losing its wings on the man's abdomen.
On the other side of the battlefield, the soldiers who had been thrown out earlier had lost all will to fight. Some fled, while others, wounded and unable to run, simply pretended to be dead. Only the swordswoman grabbed another javelin, gritted her teeth, and prepared to throw it at the manticore.
Suddenly a hand grabbed her arm.
"What are you doing?!" The swordswoman turned her head, but there was no one in front of her. She looked down and saw Gebu staring at her with a serious expression.
"Still fighting?! Are you stupid? Get out of here!"
The swordswoman wrinkled her nose, glanced at the rampaging manticore, and then looked back at the narrow canyon.
After venting its anger on the unfortunate soldier, the manticore turned around, saw the female knight who had injured it, snorted, and charged at her!
Without further hesitation, Dove grabbed the half-man from his waist and sprinted into the canyon with his long legs!
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"Ma-G-Nu-Bi-Ye!" Gebu was lifted up by the woman and tucked under her armpits, making him feel uncomfortable.
"Shut...shut up!" The woman leaped between the rocks like a goat, using the narrow terrain to evade the manticore's pursuit. Although the beast's wing was injured, its speed was by no means slow; its powerful limbs could leap more than ten meters in a single bound. The woman with the sword exerted all her strength, but she could only maintain a few seconds' distance from it.
Seeing the urgency of the situation, Gebu took out a magic scroll from his dimensional bag—this manticore possessed wild magic, and any magic directly targeting it or its vicinity would have unpredictable consequences.
However, those who aren't aiming at him probably won't!
Gebu spotted a sharp bend in the canyon ahead, with a three-meter-wide opening that was the only way through. He timed it perfectly, casting [Greasy Spell] on the ground at the opening the instant the woman's foot left the ground!
"Adipem invoca!"
The magic scroll activated instantly, casting an orange-yellow magic circle on the ground. Then, scorched black grease gushed from the sand and filled the entire opening!
The manticore pounced on the grease spell as soon as it finished casting the spell. It landed right in the area of the grease spell, lost its grip, lost its footing, and fell heavily to the ground, sliding forward!
"Turn the corner!" Geb shouted!
The swordswoman braced herself against the side cliff, launched herself forward, and spun around the sharp corner. A second later, the manticore's heavy body flew over and slammed hard into the rock wall at the corner!
boom! ! !
The impact was so great that the rocks were shattered, and the debris fell from above, crashing onto the manticore's body and burying it halfway in a corner.
The swordswoman and Gebu used this time to create some distance between them. The manticore got up from the rubble, shook its head, roared, and continued to chase after the two!
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"Damn it! It's a dead end?!" the swordswoman cursed angrily.
"We're doomed, we're doomed, we're doomed—" Gebu's heart sank. In their panic, the two of them rushed headlong into the ruins where they had previously found the boarman's corpse.
The road ahead of the ruins was getting narrower and narrower. Gebu originally thought that if he and the woman squeezed through the narrow passage here, the scorpion lion would not be able to get in, and they would be safe. But when he got closer, he found that the narrow passage was a dead end with no exit. If he went in, he would be trapped!
The sound of wild beasts' footsteps grew closer, and the two of them didn't have much time left—Gebu gritted his teeth, grabbed the swordswoman, and ran into the ruins!
The two men walked past the boar-man's corpse, paying it no heed. They rushed into the ruins. Through a doorway on the cliff side was a rectangular colonnaded hall, at the far end of which was a tightly closed, rising stone door.
The woman with the sword and Gebu quickly went to find the mechanism to open the door. Gebu had sharp eyes and immediately spotted the gears on the side of the door that were covered in dust.
Gears, handles!
Gebu followed the gear mechanism and found the handles on both sides of the door. It seemed that two people needed to press them at the same time for the door to open.
"Knife Girl, go to the other side!"
Dove followed Geb's instructions, and the two of them, one on each side, pressed down the lever with all their might—
Boom!
The stone gate shook, dust billowed up, gears roared, and then it slowly rose.
"Hurry up! Hurry up!" Gebu used all his strength, his face turning red—his mask's duration was about to expire, but at this moment, how could he care about such things?
"Aaaaaah!" The swordswoman used both her hands and feet, pulling down the lever with all her might.
At this moment, the door was only a crack of about ten centimeters open and was still rising, just enough for two people to go in—when suddenly, with a click, the gear, which had been in disrepair for many years, got stuck!
"Aww!!"
At this crucial moment, the manticore's face peeked in from outside the doorway!
"Magnubier's penis!" Geb was frantic. He ran to the gear and cast a greasy spell on it!
Lubricate! Get moving!
At the same time, the swordswoman rushed over, forcefully inserted a javelin into the gear, and pried it open with all her might!
Boom! Crack crack crack crack—
The door rose a few centimeters, and the woman with the sword grabbed Gebu by the neck and, like a bowling ball, rolled the half-man through the crack in the door!
The manticore roared and charged forward—the door rose slightly, but since no one was holding the handle anymore, it began to descend again!
"Knife Girl!" Geb had just rolled into the doorway and was sprawled on the ground when he turned back and shouted—he spotted the door mechanism, and a wizard's hand grabbed it, buying the Knife Girl half a second!
The female knight crouched down and rolled to the side, while the manticore pounced on the stone gate!
The wizard's hand can't hold on!
boom!
boom! ! !
The stone gate has been lowered!
Dust billowed up!
The sound of the manticore crashing against the wall came from the other side of the stone door, a furious display of the beast's impotence. Even the most powerful monster couldn't break through that foot-thick stone slab.
Gebu's eyes were blinded by dust, and it took him a few seconds to regain his vision—something hard bumped into him, making him feel uncomfortable.
The moment Geb was thrown through the door, he transformed back into a goblin. A goblin and a female knight rolled together on the ground.
"Ha...ha..." The two men were panting heavily, still shaken. They were covered in sand and dirt, looking utterly disheveled.
Let's see the wealth of people one by one.
There's nothing to complain about... as long as I'm alive, that's enough.
"My face... my butt... could you be a little gentler next time?" Gebu touched the scraped skin and said with a grimace.
The swordswoman was amused by the goblin's little green face.
"...You look so miserable."
Gebu's ears drooped down, and his face was covered in scrapes and dirt.
"You're not much better..." Geb retorted.
The woman's gleaming armor lost its shine and became covered in scratches. Her moment of majesty lasted only a short time before she reverted to her appearance as a poor mercenary.
The swordswoman stood up and reached out to the goblin.
"Tsk, your plan... doesn't seem very promising?" she said sarcastically, her lips curled into a smirk.
"It's good that you're still alive..." Gebu reached out and grabbed the woman's hand.
This woman's hands were hard and rough, not at all like a girl's... yet they gave off a reassuring feeling.
It's like the reassuring feeling of someone who can carry you on their back and run away in a critical moment.
Having a companion wouldn't be bad, Gebu thought. Even though he had a bit of a temper.
Whoosh—Pfft!
The woman with the knife suddenly tightened her grip, almost breaking Gebu's hand—her expression changed, her body lurched forward, and she pounced on Gebu.
"Huh? Huh! So heavy!"
Gebu put his arm around the woman, using all his strength to support her, and when he touched her back, a warm, wet sensation seeped into his fingers.
Huh? Blood?!
Gebu quickly followed the direction of the blood flow and reached up, grabbing a sturdy wooden pole—sometime during the incident, an arrow had been deeply embedded in the swordswoman's back!
"A swordswoman?!"
The woman let out a soft moan, her legs completely giving way, and she collapsed to her knees. Gebu couldn't catch her and had to let her fall to the ground.
Behind the woman, on the roof beam at the far end of the room, a pair of antlers peeked out from the shadows.
The half-deer man, Soton, drew his bowstring again and fired at Gebu!