I Live on the Land in Global Games
Chapter 181 - 180: Counterattack

Chapter 181: Chapter 180: Counterattack

Before he could finish speaking, Mu Ying slashed his neck.

"You, you, you—we told you, we were coerced. How can you have no sympathy at all!" another person said in panic.

"No matter the reason, what’s done is done. Rest assured, if you take your time on the road to the underworld, you might even meet your master," Mu Ying said, her tone utterly unswayed, as she ended his life with a knife.

Coerced? Had no choice?

Did they really expect her to understand their plight?

No matter the reason, the fact remained that they intended to harm her. Everyone must take responsibility for their actions. Since they had chosen to be Zhou Hongfei’s lapdogs, they should have anticipated this bloody end.

"Gungun, let’s go!"

Mu Ying took out her flying broom; these two were just underlings. Zhou Hongfei was the real culprit.

He was leading a group, setting up an ambush on the road to Spirit Dragon Gorge.

Mu Ying flew through the air, her black, wide cloak concealing her figure and features.

Following the stone path, she searched for traces of Zhou Hongfei and his men.

Eventually, Mu Ying spotted them near a traveler’s lodge, guessing they thought she would definitely pass this way and decided to stop here for a brief rest.

They were clearly only wary of threats from the ground, choosing well-concealed spots to hide, but from the sky, they were still easily detectable.

Including Zhou Hongfei, there were twelve people in total, six hidden on each side of the stone path.

"This position is really well chosen. Do they not know that these vines are cast by me? And just these few people, with only Zhou Hongfei as a Spellcaster—do they underestimate her?"

Mu Ying’s first thought was to enter the traveler’s lodge herself; the Binding Vine could form a shield around her, becoming her aide.

But as she landed and sneaked into the lodge from the back, she discovered several barrels inside, all filled with kerosene.

It seemed they knew the Binding Vine was hers; perhaps they wanted to force her into the lodge and burn her alive?

After all, Zhou Hongfei’s signature spell was the Small Fireball Technique!

It was said to be a rare spell, a weakened version of the third tier Fireball Technique at second tier, and according to forums, he was the only Mage who had acquired this spell.

And he had also recently advanced to level four.

Bringing a dozen people along, he was probably hoping to deplete her Mana Value.

Mu Ying collected all the kerosene. After all, she decided not to harm the Binding Vine she had painstakingly cultivated.

She cast a full set of enhancement Spells on herself, including Tree Skin Skill, Divine Movement Technique, Enhanced Attribute, and Spider Walk Skill, then dove back into the woods.

Racing through the trees, she silently approached several people hiding on the left side of the stone path.

They were roughly a dozen meters away.

Turns out she was within her Spell Casting range—and perhaps theirs too—though it was uncertain if any of them were Spellcasters. The one she needed to be most wary of, Zhou Hongfei, was crouching on the opposite side of the stone path.

Zhou Hongfei was planning on exhausting her Mana Value, and she was thinking the same.

She unleashed the binding Enhanced entanglement technique; the second tier power of the entanglement technique made the tree branches and vines even tougher to escape from.

In an instant, several people hiding in the bushes were tightly bound and lined up in a row.

Mu Ying had her bow fully drawn, and an Energy Arrow whooshed out, leaving a bloody hole between the brows of the man on the end.

As the first arrow vanished, a second arrow was already taking shape.

This feeling of being tied up as targets, dying one by one every second, unable to free themselves from their bonds, only able to stand there waiting for death, was enough to drive anyone to mental breakdown.

The first few didn’t even realize what was happening before they were gone. The ones behind barely managed to cry out for help, alerting the people across the stone path.

Zhou Hongfei and his men, hearing the cry, rushed over, shocked and enraged to see Mu Ying’s involvement.

How did she circle around here?

How did she know about our ambush?

Is this the Druid’s entanglement technique that’s so easily defeated? Several level 3 professionals can’t break free at all?

How dare she!

Zhou Hongfei’s spellcasting range couldn’t even reach the edges of Mu Ying, too far!

He could only target the vines that were entangling his subordinates.

With a burst filled with explosive energy, a fireball the size of a volleyball was thrown, exploding with the force of a hand grenade.

The vines conjured by the entanglement technique were instantly shattered.

Mu Ying: "..."

Thanks for taking care of my opponents for me.

This Small Fireball Technique blasted away the remaining two people she hadn’t managed to shoot yet, leaving them horribly maimed.

The remaining few surrounded Zhou Hongfei, protecting him.

Mu Ying leaped several times through the forest, getting closer to them, "Snow Rainstorm!"

Zhou Hongfei saw her approaching, not alarmed but rather pleased, and also threw out his second Fireball Technique.

The fireball charged straight at Mu Ying. As soon as Mu Ying finished casting her spell, the fireball reached her front. She instantly leaned back and hung upside down from the tree branch using the Spider Walk Skill. The fireball missed and exploded on the ground behind her, and Mu Ying was only slightly affected by the blast’s aftermath, completely unharmed thanks to the Tree Skin Skill.

Zhou Hongfei and his five subordinates were already having a hard time in the storm.

Although not severely injured, they shivered with cold, their limbs stiffened, and their bodies were covered with frost and snow.

Only Zhou Hongfei was slightly better off, having propped up a shield that blocked some of the storm, but the shield could not keep out the pervasive cold air.

At this moment, he deeply regretted having previously despised enduring elemental damage as useless, hence not learning it, focusing entirely on the Small Fireball Technique.

Mu Ying dodged the fireball and began casting again, "Summoning Lightning Skill!"

"Boom!"

Dark clouds gathered, lightning twisted, and a bolt struck down right on Zhou Hongfei.

His shield shattered upon impact.

It was then that Zhou Hongfei truly woke up.

Challenging level 3 with level 4 and level 4 with level 5 are not the same concept at all.

A Druid not adept at attacking also had such powerful attack spells.

The effects of other control spells were not inferior to the attack spells either.

Mu Ying was much more powerful than he realized, not only in strength but also mentally. Since appearing, she had not spoken a word, killed four to five people without hesitation, and acted purely with the intention of taking lives, nothing like a young girl who had just left school, but rather like a Female Killing God.

At this life-or-death moment, he wished he could slap his self-righteous past self awake.

But then the second bolt of lightning came.

In his panic, he hastily summoned a shield to defend himself and shouted to his subordinates, "Quick, come protect me!"

After several minutes, the snowstorm and thunder clouds finally dispersed.

"Your Mana Value must be low now as well! Let’s talk!" Zhou Hongfei shouted.

The snowstorm and thunder clouds appeared once again.

"You!", Zhou Hongfei cursed under his breath, but hope rose in his heart, as the Shield Skill was only a second-circle spell, which definitely consumed less energy compared to her two third-circle spells. Once her Mana ran out, wouldn’t she be just a tiger without its teeth?