The slaves on the whole Northern Arena were devastated by the Blood Jackals. A gruesome scene was left behind. Pools of blood can be found within 100 meters, with almost all the corpses did not remain intact. Limbs, pieces of flesh, and bones can be seen scattered throughout the area. Even the strongest men will feel vomiting in this terrifying violence.
Out of more than 1,000 slaves in the northern area, about 900 already perished. Some tried to run, but the speed of the pursuers is more significant than them. Turning their back on the enemy also made them lamb for slaughter.
Meanwhile, chewing a dead human torso, the Blood Jackal King's hunger for killings did not stop. Setting its sights on the running slaves, it ran full speed ahead, followed by his tribe.
With so many slaves running towards the center arena, they are like breadcrumbs for the Blood Jackal King to follow. Seeing that there are more humans in that direction, it howled once again. Hearing the skill 'howl', the Blood Jackals that were following behind was empowered by it. Their strength and agility were boosted to almost by half.
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Led by William, with his passionate speech, the slaves' morale was high. Zane, however, was also moved, but he wasn't as excited and fervent as the others. Coming from the earth, for him, the words spoken by William was too cringe. On the other hand, he also appreciated William. With the slaves on the brink of mental collapse, he was able to lift up their spirits back to a 'ready to die for honor'.
Although he was not inspired by William's words, his primary motivation of not dying is enough for him to prepare for what is coming.
Preparing his bow and arrows, he looked far ahead; he can now see the Blood Jackal King's stats.
Name: Blood Jackal (King)
Vital Sign: Normal (Berserk)
Strength: 8.8
Agility: 9.7
Perception: 6.5
Constitution: 7.9
Mana Capacity: 0
Genetic Skill: Berserk
Active Skill: Howl Lvl 1, Piercing Claws Lvl 1, Dash Lvl 1,
Passive Skill: Command Aura Lvl 1, Blood Regen LVL 1
Looking around, he doubt that anyone can kill this beast. Even William, although he is at level 7 but compared to the overall stats of the Blood Jackal King he is very lacking. He will surely die in a few hits if they do battle one on one.
For him, the most dangerous ones are those with high agility. Furthermore, adding with an extremely sharp weapon, they are extremely deadly. It doesn't matter how hard you can hit if you cannot even hit the enemy with your weapon. With high agility, you cannot also outrun the enemy because they are faster than you.
With these thoughts in mind, he removed his hesitation in adding all his three remaining points to his Agility stat.
For the 1 point of unallocated Skill Point he received, he added it on 'Swordsmanship'.
At first, he was thinking of adding it on Archery to make it Level 2. However, the archery panel seems greyed out.
"Hmm, so I cannot forcefully increase a skill. Now I only left with two choices, Swordsmanship and Cleave."
Thinking about it, in the end, he chose Swordsmanship. Looking at his stats:
Name: Zane
Level: 3
Strength: 4.8
Agility: 8.7
Perception: 7
Constitution: 3.9
Mana Capacity: 0
Skills: Archery Lvl 1, Swordsmanship Lvl 1
Adding all the points, his mind and body trembled. He can hear that his heart is pulsing almost 200 per minute. His mind, also is being filled with all kinds of swordsmanship style and form, a massive headache came to him, making him one knee on the ground. For him, it felt an hour, but in reality, it only took 10 seconds at most.
After calming down, gripping his bow, with about a hundred arrows prepared next to him, he is now ready for what is coming.
Not sooner, he heard Williams voice.
'ARCHERS, READY!'
He breathed, readied his bow and arrow, looking at the upcoming beasts, pointing upwards.
"FIRE!!!" William roared the order
Zane released his arrow.
Above the 300 plus Blood Jackals, a blanket of arrows came. Many were able to dodge, but some were instantly riddled with arrows. Previously, when the Blood Jackal King used its skill of 'Howl' it increased the stats of all nearby allies to about 25% making them more dangerous.
With the Blood Jackal King at front, although they were hit by the arrows, none left the pack and continued their assault. Furthermore, the Enraged status of the Blood Jackals made them more even resistant to pain.
"READY"
"FIRE" The second valley came without delay.
This time around, the second valley was able to inflict casualties but with less than the first one, with many more Blood Jackals being able to dodge the second valley of arrows.
Before William can command the third valley, the enemies are already in their 10 feet.
"SPEARS!!!" he shouted.
Then the clash of monsters and humans happened. Blood and guts were spilled all over the front lines. Without surprise, the Blood Jackal King wreaked havoc, killing almost 25 slaves within 10 seconds. With its speed, none was able to defend one claw from it successfully.
Seeing that everything at the front is getting massacred, William armored himself with courage and sprinted directly to challenged the beast while holding his two swords. Old Zhao and the other higher-level slaves also followed him in order to try and support William.
Clashing head-on, William, with all his might, raised his left sword and tried to cut down the Blood Jackal King vertically. However, the Blood Jackal King raised two arms and defended. Seeing that there is an opening on the sides, his right arm slashed at the abdomen area. But before it can connect, the Blood Jackal King sidestepped, completely dodging it. Old Zhao throwing his axe, almost grazed the beast with his axe. At the same time, the others followed up with the frontal slash and cleaving.
Zane could not be bothered with the Blood Jackal King because the front lines were already penetrated. Although he wanted to help with the fight, he is too pre-occupied with the regular enraged Blood Jackals able to get through the circle.
If he doesn't plug this hole, many of the children and women in the behind will die. It will also collapse the whole formation. Well, at the same time, he is also have selfish reason. If they can come close to him, his life will be compromised, and his killing will be slower. He doesn't like betting his life on the line, rather be comfortable shooting his arrows and grinding some experience.
'+5 experience from killing Blood Jackal'
'+5 experience from killing Blood Jackal'
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Closing off his log box, he focused on his killing the Blood Jackals. Meanwhile, he found out that he is easily more fatigue than before. With the huge increase in Agility, he was able to draw and shoot more arrows than before, however, unfortunately his muscles and stamina cannot keep up.
Good thing that all of his stats were boosted by +1 when he leveled up. Otherwise, he doubts that he would be able to shoot continuously.
"Next time, I will need to pay in mind next. But overall, it is still not a loss, the boost in agility is still a need and an insurance if things really get dangerous."