Chapter 1410 - 32: The Fang

Chapter 1410: Chapter 32: The Fang

Su Xiao and his assistant stood against the wall, inside a collective dormitory, it’s eight in the evening, with at least hundreds of soldiers inside.

Their unusual actions immediately attracted the attention of nearby soldiers, who got up from their beds, looking at Su Xiao and the assistant with curiosity.

"Hey, what are you two doing."

A soldier picked up his bedside pistol, chambered a bullet, and other soldiers began pulling out various firearms from under their beds.

At this distance, Su Xiao was not afraid of these soldiers holding firearms.

"That’s an order from the commander!"

The assistant suddenly shouted.

"An order?"

The soldiers exchanged glances; they had never heard of a punishment of standing in military practice.

"Don’t waste words with them, that guy looks suspicious anyway."

A soldier aimed his rifle at Su Xiao and met his gaze. At that moment, for whatever reason, the soldier felt a chill from head to toe.

"Pumpkin with concentrated sugar is the best!"

The assistant yelled, and the soldiers around were stunned, wondering if the assistant’s head had been caught in the door.

"Commander, I can’t hold it any longer, what should I do~"

The assistant spoke softly, with a pained expression.

"Put your hands on your head and squat down."

Su Xiao moved his fingers, his gaze scanning the surroundings.

"You two, stop whispering! Hands on your head, squat down!"

A soldier holding a heavy machine gun roared. If Su Xiao and the assistant weren’t wearing Sun Kingdom military uniforms, the soldiers would have opened fire. Mistakenly killing their own inside a fortress is a grave offense, potentially causing panic.

Under the dual orders of Su Xiao and the Sun Kingdom soldier, the assistant put her hands on her head, squatted down, and curled up in the corner.

"You too, squat down, or I’ll shoot."

The soldier holding the heavy machine gun lifted his gun, signaling Su Xiao to put his hands on his head and squat.

Su Xiao’s hands slowly raised, and his left index finger hooked.

Buzz~

A metal wire popped out, wrapping precisely around the heavy machine gun. Simultaneously, Dragon Slash appeared in Su Xiao’s hand.

Celestial blue blade aura flew out, slicing through the bodies of dozens of soldiers before they could react.

With a bang, a large number of beds collapsed, and dismembered limbs fell to the ground, blood spraying everywhere.

A soldier in a gray shirt instinctively tried to raise his firearm, but there was nothing in his hand, or rather, he no longer had hands.

Clang.

A silver-blue thread flashed across this soldier’s face, plunging his vision into complete darkness.

The blade aura flared, and Su Xiao’s few strikes slaughtered the surrounding soldiers. Against the Legendary Level +13 sharp blade, these men were like vegetables being chopped, with blood spraying in the air before it hit the ground as Su Xiao rushed through the crowd.

"Enem..."

Swoosh, the long knife slashed through the air, and before he could raise his voice, the speaker had already fallen straight down.

Su Xiao wove through the crowd with his long knife dancing left and right, severing limbs and heads. After unleashing numerous blade auras, the soldiers rising from their beds were left in a daze.

Clang.

The metal-made second-tier bunk bed was sliced into halves by blade aura, the upper half crashing onto the ground with a clang.

Slashing marks appeared on the surrounding walls, and the vast majority of the dorm was filled with blade aura, with nothing able to block it except for the Patterned steel-crafted firearms.

Bang, bang...

Intense gunfire sounded like popcorn bursting but stopped shortly after.

The assistant squatted in a corner, hands on her head, as a dark and hard object flew towards her, finally hitting her with a thud.

The assistant in the corner groaned in agony, and with a bang, a heavy machine gun fell on the floor. The assistant looked up, seeing what lay before her, her pupil shrinking swiftly.

"Ka～"

The assistant made a meaningless sound, and with a screech, sparks flew, as a hanging chandelier swung in the air, the collective dormitory appearing as though it had been swept by a typhoon.

Drip, drip...

Blood dripped down the tip of the knife, as Su Xiao flung his long knife, quickly walking towards the assistant.

"Don’t just stand there, hold this thing, and keep squatting."

"Oh, oh, okay."

The assistant held the fallen heavy machine gun in one hand and squatted in the corner, not understanding why she was doing this, but knowing that with the commander wielding a long knife, he was terrifying by dozens of times more than usual.

Blood spread across the ground, with hundreds of soldiers dead tragically. If they had gotten organized earlier, holding firearms, Su Xiao wouldn’t have held his ground against them, but in close combat, they couldn’t stir up any storm.

Su Xiao pressured his abdomen, using fingers to push. A bullet slowly squeezed out from the wound.

Ding~

The blood-stained bullet fell to the ground; the gunshot Su Xiao suffered was from a pistol, otherwise, it would have been a penetrating wound.

Su Xiao grabbed the knife single-handed, standing upright with his back to the wall, as dense footsteps sounded in his ears.

Buzz, buzz...

The piercing alarm sounded, causing Su Xiao to view the Sun Kingdom troops’ alertness with regard. This alarm wasn’t for the situation on the fourth floor, but sensing a crisis on the second floor.

The footsteps grew closer, as the assistant with arms on her head opened the safety latch on the heavy machine gun, ready to give incoming reinforcements from the enemy a burst at any time.

"3, 2, 1."

Su Xiao stepped beside the assistant, stretching his hand forward as a 700-point strength energy shield appeared in front of him—his most solid form of energy shield.

The energy shield had a unique shape, L-shaped, capable of blocking impacts from below and in front.

As soon as Su Xiao formed the energy shield, large groups of soldiers assembled on the second floor of St. Limen Fortress.

"Quick, find out what it is!"

A bishop shouted angrily, sensing the crisis emanating from Apollo. This feeling was noticeable even to ordinary people, representing Apollo’s greatest weakness.

Su Xiao had hidden Apollo very discreetly, plus he had set up a trap there.

The soldiers on the second floor began turning boxes upside down in search, the increasing crisis feeling causing their eyes to bloodshot. Inside the fortress, fleeing was a death sentence.

A soldier holding a metal device stood at the bottom of the second-floor staircase. He glanced at the metal device in his hand, surveying the lower staircase area. Deepest below the staircase, an apple-sized gelatinous material was slowly expanding and heating, causing the surrounding walls to scorch.

In front of this gelatinous material, there was an animal trap, significantly noticeable. As long as one’s eyes weren’t blind, avoiding this well-crafted ’animal trap’ wouldn’t be difficult.

"Found it!"

The soldier shouted loudly, having discovered Apollo. He cautiously refrained from touching it, but the metal device he held invited his demise—it was a probing instrument.

Snap, snap...

The subtle sound of traps opening issued from Apollo’s front animal trap, as its metal sharp teeth stood erect; this item was called [Shooting Fang], with Gold Quality and the following functions:

Type: Disposable Item (Animal Trap)

Effect: Can deploy Shooting Fang at any location. After successful deployment, it enters a trap status. Once any target triggers it (excluding invincible status), Shooting Fang deals 600 damage points and forcibly immobilizes the target for 2–10 seconds, based on the target’s Power Attribute assessment.

Tip: Shooting Fang remains in optimal status for 120 hours after activation.

Tip: If Shooting Fang is detected, its internal traps fully activate, exploding and shooting metal sharp teeth within 10 meters around, totaling 31 pieces. Each tooth deals 120 damage points; if sealed, all metal teeth can eject 8–9 times, with each ejection enhancing metal teeth damage by 30%.