In the original novel, when Ran along with all the girls came here. He was greeted by these monsters...and without understanding much about his opponents, he and all the other girls fought against these guys head-on.
but they didn't realise it until later in the fight that....these monsters were keep on increasing.
it was because these guys had the ability to call out their Allies when they feel like they are at an disadvantage....and because of this, the whole fight took hours...
the only way to kill these enemies is by killing them before they know what happened....
It means that we have to kill them with Stealth.
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(Zhong Li Lin POV)
As we were hiding behind the bushes, I noticed Xin's face was getting more and more distorted, and when I looked a little down, I noticed that he's grabbing a stone tightly.
' SCARY!!'
so I asked him...
"uh...Xin?"
then he finally noticed me and his distorted face turned normal...but I was still concerned..
'...it was just like before..'
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(flashback)
during the auction, when we were attacked....both me and Jia Li were easily defeated by one of the two martial artists, but after sometime, I was finally regaining my consciousness.... that's when I noticed...
"HAHAHAHA HAHAHAHA"
BOTH of the martial artists were defeated and Xin was attacking the other enemies while laughing like he's having the time of his life.
(flashback ended)
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He made this kind of face even back then....
after sometime, he looked at me and said something weird.
"can you snap someone's neck?"
"...what kind of question is that?"
"yes or no?"
".... I don't know....and why are you even asking that?.."
after taking a deep sigh, he continued.
"listen carefully, we're gonna use stealth..."
"huh? stealth.."
"yes.... we're gonna kill these bastards without letting them know what just happened"
it didn't took me long to realise, he's planning on snapping these monsters necks...
'...but I had never done it before..'
I was confident in my choke hold....but snapping a neck is a different story...
"uh....wait.... I don't know if I can-"
before I could finish my sentence, Xin interrupted.
"yeah, I sort of knew it.."
and then he threw something at my hand...it was a dagger...and the he continued..
"use this to shank the neck...uh...is something wrong?"
I just looked at him...almost speechless.
'this guy is scary...'
he then looked at me again...
"listen Li Lin.....do not hesitate...just think that...uh..that he's Xin... I mean the Xin that you wanted to kill and stab their neck."
"....uh.....alright."
"I'm going for the one at the left, you'll go for the right one...and remember, there are no second chances here....you must do it in one go..."
"I know that....stop making me anxious.."
after that, we both moved forward....while crouching down, moving as stealthy as possible.
after we both took our positions..the first one to strike was Xin.
he moved behind that monster and immediately snapped it's neck.
*crack*
noticing the sound, the other monster guard turned to look.
'do not hesitate, imagine that it's that bastard Xin...'
*STAB*
I stabbed the dagger in his neck and without missing a beat, slit the throat..
*pant* *pant*
I would be lying to myself if I say that this was easy but-
"BLERGH!!!!"
I vomitted as soon as I looked at the dead monster with slitted throat....
*cough**cough*
soon I noticed, Xin was patting my back.
"you did well....to be honest I wasn't expecting you to actually do it in one go..."
he then gave me a water bottle that he just picked out from his backpack.
"here take this."
Without giving a second thought, I gulped a little bit...
after sometime, I was finally back to normal.
'.... I used to thought that killing was easy...'
I then looked at Xin and said..
"...but how did you do all that.....have you killed before??"
"nah.... I learned that from video games."
he said as he was now searching something from the dead bodies..
"ah...found it!"
he picked out a strange looking key from one of the dead bodies.
"a key?"
I asked as he then suddenly inserted that key inside the keyhole of the temple behind us.
"there we go!!"
I looked at him and said...
"let me guess....video games?"
"yup!"
and with that, we finally entered the temple without alerting all the monsters inside the area.
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(meanwhile at a certain place)
(Tai Long's POV)
after listening to Xin, I finally found the herbalist of the mountains....he was a really old guy who lived alone inside a small wooden house.
when I asked him for his help...he agreed but...apparantly, his tools were stolen so I needed to help him get those tools back...
*BAM*
"I... I am sorry.... I didn't knew you had such a strong son..."
one of the remaining thief said as all the others were lying down unconscious...
"enough apologies!!! now tell me where are the tools!!"
I said as I lift him upwards by his neck.
"don't lift him up life that..."
the old man said....
'guess he really is a peaceful man..'
but my thoughts were shattered..
"shatter his bones one by one unless he tell us where my precious tools are!!"
'alright, I guess I really shouldn't judge a book by it's cover..'
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(back to the dungeon)
(Xin's POV)
After entering the temple, everything was dark at first, but as we got inside a little more, the brightness increased little by little.
as we were moving forward, both me and Li Lin had few small talks and then a big awkward silence...
as we moved forward, I had the feeling that I'm forgetting something....but what?
"is everything okay Xin?>
both system and Li Lin said, and I replied.
"I don't know.... it's just that, it feels like I'm forgetting something really important and.."
but before I could finish, the ground started shaking...
'ah....right... I forgot about..'
suddenly a giant stone golem came out from the ground...
'this thing...'
the golem had some weird markings on it and was almost three times master Chow's size....
"okay....so Xin? do you know how to defeat this thing... right?"
Li Lin said, but before I could answer, the golem charged towards us in an unexpected speed..
"yeah...RUN!!"
I grabbed Li Lin's hand and we both ran forward.....while the golem still running in our direction....with his heavy footsteps...
"HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO DEFEAT THAT THING!!! "
Li Lin screamed, and I answered.
"WE CAN'T!!! THAT THING ISN'T A MONSTER !! IT'S AN ANCIENT BEING CREATED TO PROTECT THIS TEMPLE!!! "
and worst part was that even Ran and the other girls weren't able to fight it off!! and that's why they also had to keep on running and escaping this stoned MONSTER!!
After running for some time...we noticed that the ground beneath us is cracking a little and something came to our minds...
"are you thinking what I'm thinking??"
"yeah!!"
We both stood at the spot while the sound of heavy footsteps kept getting closer...and finally that monster was visible to us at a distance.
when the golem noticed us, it increased it's speed and started running towards us...
with each thumping sound of it's heavy footsteps, our heart was also racing...
and when it got a little bit close, it raised its hand, preparing to crush us with it's fist....but.
"NOW!!"
before the fist reached us, we both evaded the attack by jumping backwards and the golem hit cracked open the ground and fell...
both of us took a deep sigh of relief...
"we finally managed to defeat that thing..."
Li Lin said...but I burst her bubble by saying..
"don't get too relaxed....that think will come back...so we should also move fast.."
and with that we got a little deeper inside the temple.
-to be continued