Chapter 239: Rescue on the Firing Line
The Holy Child’s expression was a little weak, but he still nodded firmly.
“Alright. If nothing unexpected happens, I’ll try my best to wait for you here.”
Chen Ran was surprised by the Holy Child’s resolute gaze. He had some admiration for this boy who was so delicate that he even looked like a little girl. Children of this age rarely had such a steady feeling.
The image of the light bird disappeared on the spot…
Chen Ran’s consciousness finally returned from a hundred miles away. Looking at Nicole and the others who were looking at him nervously, he said without dragging his feet, “I found the Holy Child. He’s fine now, but he’s in a high-risk area and needs us to save him. Follow me!”
After hearing Chen Ran’s news, Nicole breathed a sigh of relief. Looking at the confident look in Chen Ran’s eyes when he turned around, she always felt much more relaxed, so much so that she was stunned for a while.
It wasn’t until she found that she had fallen far behind everyone that Nicole came back to her senses. A flush appeared on her cheeks, and she hurriedly caught up.
The dangers on the road were endless. Except for some guys who couldn’t be shaken off, Chen Ran and the others moved toward the direction where the Holy Child was as fast as possible, occasionally dealing with some magical beasts that didn’t have eyes.
The Black Swamp was full of dangers, especially in the direction Chen Ran and the others were heading, where there were unexpected dangers.
Chen Ran also knew the intention of the Holy Child being in such a place. Only in such a dangerous place could he better shake off the trackers behind him. But if he faced the Holy Child with only individual strength, the Holy Child could at least ensure that he would not be easily caught in a one-on-one situation by relying on the power of inheritance. But it was not ruled out that he might get lost.
Chen Ran didn’t dare to go too late. In the place where the Holy Child was, there were many powerful tenth-tier magical beasts, and battles could happen at any time. But he couldn’t advance without any obstruction either. Some creature colonies in the Black Swamp were not something they could easily deal with.
They were about a hundred miles away from where the Holy Child was. Because they had just experienced a wanton slaughter not long ago, there were no monsters obstructing them on the journey they had just started. But as they gradually entered the high-risk area, their journey was forced to slow down.
In the pitted swamp forest, it was difficult to guess what danger would suddenly appear. There were various creatures with hidden colors here, and even the trees could devour flesh.
Except for Seiya, who had nerves of steel, Nicole and Dongfang in the team both felt nauseous to a certain extent. Especially when they saw a toad more than three meters large, with various colorful tumors on its back, the two big and small girls only bombarded it with long-range spells. They, who liked cleanliness, didn’t want to get close at all. The juice splashed by the big toad was not only disgusting, but also full of highly toxic poison. More importantly, it was soft-bodied.
The section of the road Chen Ran chose was already the fastest choice to the direction where the Holy Child was, avoiding the chance of colliding head-on with the vast majority of powerful creatures in the swamp forest. It wasn’t that he was afraid, but just to save time. But even so, they inevitably encountered some eighth- or ninth-tier creatures.
Although for Chen Ran, these were all great opportunities to level up, it was not the time to think about this now. Save the Holy Child safely first. Remember this precious experience place first. There would be plenty of time to come back and harvest later.
With the acceleration of Wings of Light and the quick killing along the way, Chen Ran and the group of four got closer and closer to the place where the Holy Child was at a faster speed. In nearly a day, they finally reached the vicinity of that area when night fell. It could be said that they advanced at full speed. The faces of the group of four all had a trace of fatigue.
Chen Ran checked the positioning map. After seeing the Holy Child’s whereabouts, he couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief. But at the same time, he saw that the Holy Child was fighting with several conspicuous large red dots…
“Quick, the Holy Child is fighting with the creatures of the Black Swamp. Everyone pay attention and be ready to enter battle at any time.”
There was still a distance of two or three miles. Chen Ran gave instructions and at the same time asked Dongfang to transform into the Nine-Life Cat form to check first.
Dongfang, armed with the Cat Spirit, had terrifying speed under Chen Ran’s support. She disappeared without a trace like a wind, instantly pulling away from the crowd, and rushed toward the place where the sound of battle was heard not far away. Nicole followed closely behind, her steps flying. Chen Ran and Seiya, the two short-legged turtles, tried their best to keep up…
The traces of battle became more and more obvious, and bursts of sharp explosions followed.
Chen Ran saw that a group of Black Swamp ogres were launching an attack on the Holy Child in the field. The Holy Child was forced to retreat continuously. Fortunately, with Dongfang’s containment, part of the pressure was attracted. Until Nicole joined, the horn of counterattack was sounded.
Most of the ogres had huge physiques of more than two or three meters. They had a horn on their heads, a mouth full of sharp teeth, and a layer of dirt as thick as armor on their bodies, which could reduce a lot of physical and magic damage.
The ogre clan had extremely strong melee strength, and was extremely brutal, eating everything. It was a biological population that was extremely difficult to provoke in the swamp.
This ogre team had a total of more than twenty, five of which had already fallen to the ground. The leader was actually a mutated blue two-headed ogre. From the way he breathed fire, it seemed that he also possessed the innate power of fire source.
The blue two-headed ogre discovered Chen Ran, extended his fist, and a circle of flame ripples gradually flashed…
Before he could even react, a flame fist instantly hit the Holy Light Shield where Chen Ran was. The Holy Light Shield shook violently, and Chen Ran couldn’t help but fly backwards, hitting the tree behind him heavily before stopping.
“So fast…”
Chen Ran realized the consequences of his careless positioning. He hadn’t expected such a big ogre to have such keen observation, aiming at the guy who looked the easiest to bully in the team at a glance. And its instant spell really gave Chen Ran enough surprise. If Chen Ran hadn’t been used to opening his holy white eggshell in advance before the melee, which reduced the vast majority of the impact, that blow just now would have been enough to make him kneel.
Ogres wielding giant clubs kept attacking Chen Ran and the others. Every club was extremely domineering, with strong winds attacking. It wouldn’t be fun to be hit by one. It was estimated that only Seiya, a knight-type profession, could withstand such a frontal impact in the field. But even so, shield support was needed. Now, the little black knight using a two-handed sword could only rely on skills to deflect most of the force or make an emergency dodge, and then block and counterattack.
The scene was extremely chaotic. The frontal impact of more than a dozen ogres was terrifying. Although they were mostly seventh- to eighth-tier existences, the momentum of the impact was not weaker than the charging force of ordinary knights in formation. If it weren’t for Chen Ran’s terrifying attribute enhancements, they really wouldn’t have been able to defend.
Nicole was best at entanglement. She alone held back the most damaging ninth-tier two-headed ogre in the field, interfering with his attack, making his powerful and domineering attacks unable to land, and he could only roar.
And the Holy Child also caught his breath. It could be seen that in order to delay time, he had consumed a lot of his energy and could hardly continue to fight. He could only occasionally use the power of the Heavenly Wheel Mirror necklace on his neck to hit the ogre heavily with dreamy heavenly wheels with colorful colors, exploding a canopy of brilliant fireworks.
Chen Ran casually cast a series of support statuses on the Holy Child, but found that there was not much effect. But fortunately, the scene was stabilizing step by step, and the number of ogres was decreasing one by one…
Until all the ordinary ogres were dealt with, the “blue fatty” with two heads finally realized that something was wrong and wanted to rely on his strong physique to slip away. Chen Ran, who had suffered a loss, naturally wouldn’t be polite. A Heavenly Lock spell was released in time. Taking advantage of the two-headed ogre tripping and falling to the ground carelessly, the pursuing Seiya neatly struck out a sword ghost stab, piercing through the ogre’s hard body and piercing his heart. Before the ogre fell to the ground, he completely nailed it to an ancient tree.
The two-headed ogre let out a miserable howl of pain. Thick and smelly blood plasma flowed from his heart, but it couldn’t stop his passing life force. The struggle became smaller and smaller, his limbs relaxed, and he finally lay down forever.
The battle finally ended, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Looking at the rich blood essence value, Chen Ran was pleasantly surprised. He quickly sucked up the rich blood essence escaping from the bodies of the ogres that had just died in the field. Just this one battle, these more than twenty ogres provided him with 30% of the blood essence, getting closer to the next level.
Until he finished absorbing the blood essence, Chen Ran and Nicole finally came to the Holy Child.
Nicole bowed respectfully. “Your Highness the Holy Child, sorry to keep you waiting.”
“Sister Nicole, no need to be so polite. Just call me Livens…” The Holy Child’s slightly dirty little face had a faint smile. He nodded. “It seems my prayers were useful. You finally arrived when I was about to hold on no longer.”
Dongfang in red, who had recovered from the cat spirit transformation, walked over. Finding that the Holy Child was actually a child about the same age as her, she immediately became interested. She specially walked to the Holy Child’s side and compared her height. “Wow, you’re not even as tall as me. How old are you this year?”
“Thirteen,” Livens answered truthfully.
“Oh… same as me… No, I’m a little taller than you. I should be the big sister. Remember to call me Sister Dongfang too…” Dongfang patted Livens’ head and said loudly, “Big sister will protect you well.”
“Girl, don’t be rude…” Amidst the little girl’s “ah,” Chen Ran pulled the integrity-lacking Dongfang aside. At the same time, he said to the Holy Child whom they had finally met, “Your Highness the Holy Child, what exactly happened to you before? Where are the others who were with you?”
Speaking of this, the young Livens began to explain some of the situations that happened at that time.
Because of the church’s mission, they needed to kill a special magical beast in the Black Swamp to obtain a material. The church sent him and a team capable of completing the mission to the Black Swamp, and they successfully completed the mission.
