The Creatures That We Are

Chapter 633: Three Heads Six Arms

Wait...wait!

Why am I getting slower?

Gray Bear looked down and realized to his shock that the green leaves hitting him had latched onto his body rather than falling off, and they radiated a cold chill—it was the energy of Frost!

Can’t be! Why would Forest Crane have Frost?!

Gray Bear didn’t have the time to figure it out. A green leaf bloomed into a beautiful crystal on his chest. Then the other leaves followed. In an instant, the ice flowers enveloped his body.

“Aghhh...”

Gray Bear hadn’t given up. He clenched his teeth and continued to run forward, but his steps slowed gradually and his body grew heavy as ice flowers continued to bloom all over him.

No, I can’t die here!

The Nine Scions is just getting started. This isn’t the time yet!

Is this really the end for me? I’m the one who’s going to die a trivial death?

In five seconds, thousands of ice flowers bloomed all over Gray Bear, piling layer upon layer to form a beautiful ice coffin. A cutting chill permeated the entire street.

Trapped in the ice coffin with only his head unsealed, Gray Bear could no longer take even one step.

Fuck. He swore silently, tipping the only still mobile head to laugh at the sky.

“Hahahaha!”

At his last moment, he activated Jeer once more to mock fate.

He died with a smile.

His giant body was entirely frozen. The ice, nearing absolute zero, quickly deprived his body of all heat, and his blood froze, the chill seeping into his internal organs and bone marrow to turn him into a lifeless amber.

Growl.

The lionman crashed into the coffin on all fours, injury be damned. Gray Bear’s body shattered like ice and scattered all over the ground in parts. His head, covered in a layer of frost, rolled to Flower Turtle’s feet like a frozen watermelon.

Flower Turtle looked down at Gray Bear’s body. There was no joy in his gaze for the victory, but only lamentation.

Back in the Qilin Guild, he was quite close to Gray Bear even though they didn’t belong to the same team.

Flower Turtle’s daughter had an inherited heart condition. Two years ago, she had surgery, and it was only with Gray Bear’s connection that he got a famous surgeon to operate on her. It was a favor he hadn’t had the chance to repay.

Yet tonight, Flower Turtle killed the man with his own hands under the provocation of Jeer.

“Release us already,” Forest Crane urged from Flower Turtle’s left back side.

On his right, Six Rime maintained her usual impassive expression, but it was clear that she didn’t like their current situation either.

Flower Turtle had merged with Six Rime and Forest Crane with level 3 Three Heads Six Arms. As the name of the Talent would suggest, it granted the union of the three awakeners a 20% boost in defense, and they could use all three of their Talents, their power formidable.

However, there was no hierarchy in their minds and energy, meaning there was no main controller among them. Thus, it was important that they already had great teamwork. If three strangers came together for the first time, the whole could be lesser than the sum of its parts.

Two seconds later, golden light shot out from Flower Turtle’s back, and the three of them quickly separated, becoming independent individuals again.

Six Rime looked down at the pile of frozen body parts, emotionless as always.

Just then, three elite monsters rushed out of different buildings. The two devourers and one freerider rushed toward Six Rime’s group.

With a simple wave of her hand, Six Rime conjured three ice spears.

Whoosh, whoosh. The spears pierced the elite monsters’ chests, pinning them to a wall. As they struggled, thorned vines climbed along the wall and enveloped them, the thorns turning into steel needles and burrowing into them, sucking them dry. It took no time for the three monsters to turn into corpses.

“This is a distraction.” Flower Turtle had recovered his calm. “We were taunted by Jeer.”

“Let’s head back.” Six Rime turned around and ran.

The other two quickly caught up with her, rushing to Dr. Jia’s mansion.

...

Front yard of Dr. Jia’s mansion, a minute ago.

Three bone claws shot out of Wang Zikai’s right fist. He grinned, disappearing before Core East and Veggie—it was just that he was too quick for the two to catch his movement, but Azure Dragon could see him clearly from ten meters away.

Azure Dragon had come to a conclusion about Wang Zikai: his strength, agility, and defense were both top-tier, and as a fighter, he was almost as good as Azure Dragon.

However, he had two shortcomings.

First, he lacked systematic training, and he had almost no combat experience and techniques. Without a proper way of fighting, he left many openings to be exploited.

Second, Azure Dragon had Limitless Evolution. Endure a couple of attacks, and he could convert 3% to 5% of Wang Zikai’s energy for his use permanently, and Azure Dragon would acquire a 60% resistance to Wang Zikai’s melee attacks.

Then, Wang Zikai would lose.

Just when the thought flashed through Azure Dragon’s mind, Wang Zikai descended upon him from above, his three sharp bone claws glinting under the moonlight and radiating a strange red energy.

The moment Azure Dragon raised his left arm to block the attack, a chill ran down his spine. His keen six senses and battle instinct sounded a warning to an unexplainable danger.

Whoosh.

There was a flash of three dark red arcs. Azure Dragon retreated at the last moment and pulled his left arm back, but three long gashes were already left on his forearm. His blood gushed out and drenched his left hand.

Azure Dragon maintained a calm front, but a storm was rising in his head.

He had almost forgotten the last time he was hurt by a weapon. He had thought his physique was strong enough to resist most physical damage and Black Gold weapons, yet Wang Zikai had managed to cut him easily with his unassuming bone claws. If Azure Dragon hadn’t pulled back in time, he might even lose his forearm.

“Come on! Don’t be a wuss!”

Wang Zikai rushed toward Azure Dragon, making a flurry of slashes and big swings, his attacks wild and violent.

Azure Dragon didn’t take the attacks head-on but dodged and retreated to buy time.

Half a minute later, he frowned slightly. Why hadn’t Limitless Evolution been triggered?

He seized an opening to dodge an incoming attack while sweeping his leg at Wang Zikai’s feet. Wang Zikai jumped back and easily evaded the kick.

They drew apart, at a standstill.

“Consider yourself lucky, Azure Dragon!” Wang Zikai shook his hands to shake off the blood on his claws. “My brother told me not to kill you. I’m gonna stop after crippling you.”

Azure Dragon came to a realization. So Seven Shadow had taken into consideration his trump card. Instead of panicking, the realization eased him.

“Then you’re the one getting unlucky.”

Azure Dragon clenched his bloodied fists, his eagle-sharp eyes glinted a gold light.

“I’ll show you the gap between a man with the determination to kill and a man without.”