The Only Player in ‘Child of Stardust’
Chapter 160 - 118: Fierce Beast Tattoo

Chapter 160: Chapter 118: Fierce Beast Tattoo

"Zhang Tai’s life tokens have shattered."

In the inner world, seven figures stood atop a residential building. Among them, an old man dressed in a bloodstained robe, with disheveled hair and a grimy face, frowned as he held several wooden tokens inscribed with names in his hands.

The tokens silently split open, and the names that shimmered with a faint light faded in color, bisected by cracks, indicating the deaths of these individuals.

Moreover, they were killed at the same time.

"Zhang Tai’s team was annihilated?"

"That shouldn’t be possible..."

Their brows furrowed, and their expressions turned grave.

Zhang Tai was one of the candidates for the twelfth Saint Heir of the Land of Truth. Being a candidate, his strength was undoubtedly formidable. For this mission, he was accompanied by two third-rank extraordinary beings, capable of retreating safely even when encountering a fourth-rank.

Those three members of the Holy Crow Church absolutely did not have the ability to counterattack.

Did they run into people from another organization? But who could so easily annihilate them?

Or is it... a "great white shark" had entered the inner world?

But they hadn’t sensed the presence of any fourth-rank or higher extraordinary beings, and the detection tools hadn’t issued any warnings.

"Stay vigilant, someone beyond standards has entered."

The leader of this team was a woman with a hoarse voice, seemingly poisoned in the throat.

She was tall and dressed extremely provocatively, with only a bandeau on top and ultra-short denim hot pants below, holding a katana with a blood-red sheath that faintly emitted a bloody scent.

A ferocious beast tattoo sprawled across her back, winding from her shoulder down to her calf. The beast, as described in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, was the sinister Qiongqi, sized like a cow, shaped like a tiger, and with wings on its back.

The tattooed Qiongqi, with its sharp fangs, bared claws, and four crimson eyes that constantly scanned the surroundings, emitted a terrifying aura of savage ferocity, eager to pounce.

The figures behind her shivered uncontrollably, quickly stepping aside.

"Qiongqi sensed a total of thirty-three extraordinary beings nearby, divided into five teams, and one powerful lone wolf. Judging by the position, it must be him who killed Zhang Tai’s team."

The tattooed woman cast her cold, sharp gaze in a certain direction.

Zhou Yuan, who was sprinting through the shadows of buildings, suddenly sensed something, instinctively looked up, and made eye contact with the tattooed woman on the rooftop over a distance of more than a thousand meters.

[Tang Qingsha, female, 27 years old, third-rank extraordinary being, master swordsman, katana user, dresses provocatively. Aoneng: lucid mind.

Steward of the Land of Truth, her swordsmanship is superb. With a Qiongqi tattoo on her back, she obtained terrifying power and, at crucial moments, could materialize the tattoo to assist in battle.

Abilities granted by the Qiongqi tattoo: beastly sense, bloodlust, swiftness, monstrous strength, evil Qi impact, evil Qi erosion, Qiongqi phantom.]

"Interesting."

Zhou Yuan immediately felt himself locked onto by a chilling and savage will, an ability known as "beastly sense." Even if he hid in the darkness, he couldn’t escape unless he left her sensing range.

However, once within range again, he would still be locked onto.

In this state of being locked onto, the special effects of the Shadow Assassin Cloak’s skills couldn’t be activated.

The ability to instantly kill six extraordinary beings, including those of the third rank, relied on the coordination between the Shadow Assassin Cloak and the Avenger’s skills. Missing either would make it difficult to replicate such results.

Therefore, unless he killed that woman, Zhou Yuan would no longer be able to stealthily capture heads in the shadows.

Just as his murderous intent surged, the tattooed woman and her team’s figures all vanished from the rooftop.

They ran.

"You ran fast enough." Zhou Yuan snorted coldly, continuing to follow the sense from the mark on his hand towards the three Holy Crow Church members.

In an open area.

The figures of the tattooed woman and her team reappeared. The old man in the bloodstained robe was about to speak, wanting to ask why they hadn’t directly killed the lone wolf, but then he noticed the fine layer of sweat on the woman’s body, cold sweat continuously seeping out.

What was going on?

"Such terrifying killing intent."

The tattooed woman took a deep breath, releasing the fragments of the Group Teleportation Talisman that fell from her palm.

She wiped the sweat from her forehead with the back of her hand. From the brief, distant confrontation of spirituality, she roughly gauged the gap in power between them: "That guy was only a second rank, but if we fought one-on-one, I wouldn’t be his match.

Even if we all attacked together, we might not have been able to kill him completely."

From him, I sensed a trace of dragon’s might. No wonder he was able to annihilate Zhang Tai’s team. He’s probably a monster secretly nurtured by the Holy Crow Church, having undergone inhumane training, very likely a rare dragon descendant."

The figures behind her looked at each other in bewilderment: "So, what do we do now?"

"It’s simple, we follow him." The tattooed woman said, "He was sent by the Holy Crow Church for a rescue mission. Following him, we’ll definitely find those three."

However, our strength alone isn’t enough. Spread the news, tell everyone."

We need to thoroughly muddy the waters to have a chance."

"Understood."

"Wait." A middle-aged man dressed like a black mage suddenly spoke, looking at the scene in the crystal ball in his hand, his face full of disbelief, "I divined the location of those three."

"Oh?" The tattooed woman squinted her eyes.

"Their Concealment Spell, Anti-Divination Spell, and other techniques all seem to have failed."

The black mage’s expression was peculiar: "This mistake is so elementary. Could it be a trap?"