The Creatures That We Are

Chapter 789: Stop Playing Around

Bang, bang, bang! In the moment of distraction when Wang Zikai put on a brave face to maintain the dignity of the world’s savior, a few blue energy bullets hit him in the chest.

The bullets threw him off his feet, but didn’t do much damage. An attack at this level was like a tickle to him.

The energy explosion that threw him off tore his shirt, too, revealing the lithe muscles and smooth lines of his torso. He flipped and stomped on the ground as soon as he landed, his reflex impressive.

Thud.

Half a second later, he was already before the robot Small Luo was piloting.

Wang Zikai had forgotten everything Nine Frost taught him. And he went back to the most basic tactic: going from attacking whoever was closest to attacking whoever had attacked him.

Bam!

Wang Zikai’s punch hit the blue energy robot. It shattered into countless energy shards like eggshells. And despite the robot around her shielding Small Luo, her internal organs still shattered under the force of the punch.

She didn’t even have time to react before she flew ten or more meters away, rolling to a stop and bleeding from all orifices to her death.

She was lucky. She died, but dodged the scythe of the blond grim reaper with her body still wholly intact. She would come back alive with the resurrection pill she had taken.

The others weren’t standing around, of course.

Jing Ke and Canary prepared for a combo.

Jing Ke was a tall, thin middle-aged man wearing a loose gray linen shirt with the chest on full display. With his messy long black hair, he looked like a wandering swordsman.

From his relaxed hands, two long, fierce white bone blades protruded from his palms like two katanas. His Talent was Bone Growth, serial number 91, Buff-type. It hardened one’s bones to an incredible degree and allowed one to grow and transform their bones at will.

Jing Ke was a formidable melee fighter, underestimated due to his Talent being lower on the list.

Canary was a skinny woman with red hair tied into twin tails. Her eyes were crimson, and her canine teeth looked sharp like fangs. On her face was a wild and vicious-looking red pattern.

Dressed in black sports wear, a circle was drawn on her shirt around the chest area, inside which was the word quan, dog, in wild cursive.

Like a beast, Canary lunged at Jing Ke and bit him in the shoulder, her sharp fangs piercing his flesh and injecting him with her Talent energy.

“Agh!!”

Jing Ke howled in pain with his head tipped up, frenzied crimson light shooting out of his deep brown eyes.

Canary’s Talent was Rabies, serial number 102, Poison-type.

Canary was host to “rabies viruses”, and she and those she bit could enter a state of frenzy with tripled explosive power for a duration. In exchange, the frenzy state came with a drop in intelligence, and in severe cases, they might lose their ability to differentiate between friends and foes.

The Talent was most suited for fighter-type awakeners since they relied more on instinct and reflex when fighting, not intelligence.

In a few seconds, Canary and Jing Ke turned into two “mad dogs” with crimson eyes, flanking Wang Zikai from both sides. More precisely, Jing Ke was charging at Wang Zikai on two feet, while Canary was lunging at him on all fours.

Having just dealt with Small Luo, Wang Zikia sensed two sources of killing intent. He quickly turned around. Jing Ke’s two slim bone blades were already swinging down at him.

Wang Zikai instinctively felt threatened. Rather than parrying the blades with his arms, he dodged them by bending backward. The tip of his nose stung. And a small red dot appeared on his skin. He had been cut!

Wang Zikai’s eyes lit up in excitement. Haha, finally someone who can fight. I thought you were all weaklings!

The rabies viruses Jing Ke contracted were in full action, and his explosive power surged. As soon as Wang Zikai kicked Canary as she lunged at him, he felt a gust of wind coming toward his neck. He dodged back. Then another current stabbed at his side.

Wang Zikai endured the pain and seized the bone blade, yanking it from Jing Ke. The bone blade fell out of Jing Ke’s palm, splattering some blood, but Jing Ke didn’t pay it any mind. He swept his leg toward Wang Zikai’s calf, a dagger-length bone blade shooting out of the tip of his foot.

Wang Zikai started. What the hell! Do you just grow bones for free?!

Wang Zikai tucked his legs and jumped to dodge the sweep. Then with a twist of his wrist, he stabbed at Jing Ke’s heart with the bone blade he had taken.

Jing Ke couldn’t move away in time, and he didn’t plan to.

Hiss. Wang Zikai didn’t manage to stab through Jing Ke’s chest. The man had grown more bones out of his ribcage to block the attack.

Crack.

Half a second later, the bone blade Wang Zikai wielded shattered into pieces like plaster.

Wang Zikai started again. Aren’t your bones supposed to be hard? Why is this one so fragile?

Actually, Jing Ke’s bones were only resilient when they were attached to him. They became as fragile as the bones of someone with osteoporosis once they left his body.

Wang Zikai didn’t know all that, of course, and he didn’t have the time or intelligence to figure it out. Jing Ke was already making a flurry of slashes at Wang Zikai again.

He could conjure bone blades from not only his hands and feet, but every part of his body. It was difficult to dodge all his hits.

Relying on his extraordinary reflex, Wang Zikai dodged and backed away, all the while keeping an eye out for Amon’s boomerang and Lin Fu’s strange talismans.

No, you can’t use your bone claws! That’s cheating!

Calm down, Wang Zikai. You can do this. Use the chance to practice the techniques Nine Frost taught you...

Wang Zikai tamped down the urge to fight back with his bone claws as he continued to fight Jing Ke, attempting to come up with a strategy.

However, he wasn’t given the chance. He suddenly felt a slight numbness in his limbs.

Not far from them, Colorless had secretly used Petrify on Wang Zikai.

Rewind hid behind Colorless and mumbled nonstop, “Petrify will work, immediately. Go, go, Sister Colorless. Go, go...”

With Wang Zikai, Jing Ke, and Canary’s intense fight moving the three of them constantly, Colorless had to not only track Wang Zikai’s movement but also avoid friendly fire. That compromised the effect of Petrify, and her power could only encroach on Wang Zikai gradually.

Soon, however, Colorless realized that it would be better to cook Wang Zikai in slowly heating water like a frog. Then when Wang Zikai realized that something was wrong, he would’ve already slowed down noticeably, giving Jing Ke and Canary a chance to kill him.

Wang Zikai didn’t like to think before acting, but he did have the ability to think.

He quickly realized that he had been ambushed by Colorless’ Petrify. He cursed inwardly, This is fucking cheating! Forget it. I have to stop playing around!