Pretending To Be A Boss

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The Zudun Holy Tree must have sensed me, but it cannot sense me in great detail.

Tang Xian calmed down. Akasi and Tang Suoye, upon seeing Tang Xian's expression, did not speak, thinking that he was calculating something.

"The two test subjects have succeeded."

"The Soul Crystal of the Zudun Holy Tree has been stolen."

Plants are different from animals; they do not need to be killed to harvest their Soul Crystals. However, also, plants will not die immediately after their Soul Crystals are removed.

"The beasts haven't acted out yet, it seems the Zudun Holy Tree hasn't informed the beasts. Does that mean, even the Zudun Giants don't know that two humans have infiltrated?"

A disaster-level boss creature is about to go into a rage, yet Tang Xian's focus at this time was entirely on something else.

"These two guys must be dealt with. Equipment can't be brought in here, which means they relied on their abilities to infiltrate the beasts and steal the Soul Crystal."

[This is the last warning, respond to me! Otherwise, this land will be your burial ground!]

The hazy red light began to flash more frequently.

In an instant, Akasi and Tang Suoye could feel that the gaze of all the beasts was no longer wary but was tinged with a certain hostility.

A dense intent to kill spread between heaven and earth.

Tang Xian still did not respond to the Zudun Holy Tree.

In the annals of history, the Zudun Holy Tree, though wise in its juvenile years, was not fully sound.

It sensed me and thought that the ones who stole its Soul Crystal had been sent by itself.

But it could not pinpoint my exact location.

"These creatures are still restraining themselves, the flashing red light must represent a signal."

"The Zudun Holy Tree is still capable of holding its breath, mostly because of me. Tsk, my face really is quite significant."

Tang Xian discovered that the more powerful the boss, the more polite they were towards him.

He then turned his attention to another point.

Remnant of the First Civilization?

This sounded like a certain race.

The Zudun Holy Tree did indeed refer to themselves this way.

Perhaps this name could explain some of the mysteries surrounding me.

Like these bizarrely styled talents.

But Tang Xian never opened his mouth. He was convinced that even if he did, the ancient tree would not be able to hear him at this distance.

The other could communicate in my mind, but I was just a human.

In primitive areas like the mining district, transportation was basically by foot, and communication was basically by shouting.

"It's a pity, I was determined to steal the Soul Crystal today. I can't expose my position."

[Foolish human! Greedy remnant of the First Civilization! Do you think you can escape? You will suffer the retaliation of the forest!]

Tang Xian cleared his ear, whispering:

"We don't need to go any deeper."

Akasi, puzzled, asked:

"Why?"

"The two test subjects have already triumphed, and the flashing red light is the precursor to the Zudun Holy Tree's impending fury. A huge disaster will soon befall the Red Earth Forest, a real natural calamity."

"Should we evacuate?" Akasi didn't understand how Tang Xian came up with these conclusions.

But he would not question them.

Tang Xian shook his head, saying:

"Of course not. If two test subjects can rob the Zudun Holy Tree, we'll rob them."

A myriad of thoughts flickered through Tang Xian's mind at that instant, beginning to deduce the abilities of the two test subjects.

It wasn't simply invisibility.

Because there was no scent.

The Holy Tree could not sense me, but it couldn't be that it didn't sense its own Soul Crystal at all.

"In this vast Red Earth Forest, with the two of them leaving no trace of their scent, how can we find them?"

Tang Xian said:

"Their abilities are very likely some sort of shielding barrier, such power drains quickly, they can't hold out for much longer…"

Tang Xian hadn't finished speaking when the earth shook once again.

Tang Xian, Akasi, and Tang Suoye, being very close to the source of the tremor, nearly stumbled and fell.

Akasi reacted the fastest, quickly finding his balance.

With one look, his eyes were filled with horror.

The beasts began to stampede.

Whether it was the enhanced creatures, the elite beasts, or the perfect beasts, all began to charge wildly in all directions.

This trembling in part, came from the onslaught of the beast horde.

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On the other hand, the forty Zudun Giants arranged in a circular formation finally dispersed, moving their mountainous bodies as they began to rush in every direction.

The violent tremors sent dirt and rocks flying.

In Akasi's line of sight were countless huge boulders floating in the air.

Tang Suoye's eyes blazed with blue light, as countless pebbles fell like torrential rain.

But Tang Xian and Akasi were unharmed. The soil and stones, whether they were bulky, hard, or sharp, all stopped in their tracks and hovered in mid-air as they neared Tang Xian and Akasi.

The three of them came back to their senses and realized that they were no longer standing on solid ground, but on a massive boulder, with an endless abyss beneath their feet.

The world had been turned upside down.

Now Akasi understood just how terrifying the true cataclysm Tang Xian had spoken of was.

Mountains and rivers, dirt and wood, all began to break apart.

Along with the very earth itself.

And the beast herds seemed to have experienced such events before, as they sprinted among the floating rocks in the air, relentlessly hunting for prey.

It was like climbing and leaping through a reversed space.

But they weren't aiming for Tang Xian and the others.

Hundreds of black-spotted monkeys, accompanied by a troop of gemstone tigers and iron tree giraffes, whizzed past, completely ignoring Tang Xian, Tang Suoye, and Akasi.

On the other side, spike pigs and iron can hogs collided furiously with blood howl panthers.

In the sky, night eagles and golden fierce birds began to let out aggressive cries, the rulers of the sky angrily diving down!

Tang Xian and the other two watched all of this from a rock covered with plant roots, as Tang Suoye's terrifying telekinesis kept them, and the massive boulder they were on, suspended in the air.

They did not continue to fall.

But many fierce beasts had already begun to plummet into the abyss.

Even so, the herds seemed utterly crazed.

Suddenly, Tang Xian turned his head to look back.

The cracking of the earth and the reversing of heaven and earth seemed to continue, spreading out toward the outskirts of the Red Soil Forest.

Tang Xian shouted,

"Song Que and Li Zheng are in danger, these people have no more strength, many are still unconscious, this level of collapse will take their lives! Akasi! Take good care of Li Zheng and Song Que! Tang Suoye, you and Akasi together, use your abilities to protect everyone else!"

"What about you?" asked Akasi in surprise.

"I won't die."

Tang Xian was very worried about Li Zheng and Song Que.

Especially Song Que.

In moments of crisis, people often lose their sanity, but there are also those like Tang Xian, whose minds work even faster the more critical the situation.

He finally understood the meaning behind the clown's words.

The clown's fearless gaze was because of Song Que.

He had caused some kind of irreversible harm to Song Que through mental erosion.

But thankfully, Song Que led a group of people to hold these beings at bay.

Otherwise, the top hunters of the human faction might have been killed by the beast herds by now.

The dragon-slaying heroes could one day become the evil dragons that people fear.

Song Que was going through some kind of struggle.

The clown believed he would ultimately fall.

In the midst of the world collapsing and the cosmos reversing, Tang Xian suddenly thought of this.

"Take care of Li Zheng and Song Que! Go!"

Tang Xian had little faith in human nature, but he trusted Song Que, even if the road to redemption was perhaps more brutal than imagined.

Seeing Tang Xian's unchangeable resolve, Akasi no longer hesitated, scooping up Tang Suoye.

At the fastest speed, almost as if possessed by Lei Xiao, he weaved through the floating rocks in the sky. He was like a streak of silver light, while the boulders were like mirrors reflecting light.

In the blink of an eye, he disappeared from Tang Xian's view.

The massive boulders began to fall.

Tang Xian watched the abyss beneath his feet, silently making calculations.

"I've been hit by a bullet before, a UAF sniper bullet travels at 1400m/s. And a standard NATO 7.62*51mm bullet weighs around 24 grams. At that time, the pain it caused me was only slight. Assuming that the sensation of pain caused me 5 percent effective damage."

"The gravitational acceleration in the mining area and that of the Pyramid World are actually the same. So, taking into account my current falling speed and air resistance —"

"I probably wouldn't die even if I fell from the atmosphere, right? At worst, I'd just lose an arm or a leg."

"Not bad, I probably haven't miscalculated, let's give it a try by falling."

Tang Xian's expression became calm, as if falling into the abyss from mid-air was no big deal.

But man's calculations are not as good as Heaven's. Just as Tang Xian prepared to find a comfortable position to fall,

a gigantic foot, the size of a soccer field, appeared above his head.

"Damn, I've only lived through 106 chapters, and it looks like I'm going to die."