Gourmet Hunter - Chapter 403 (Patreon)

Chapter 403: Escape to the Grasslands

Not long ago, Miria lamented in her heart, hoping someone would come to eradicate the Sand Thieves, and then that person really appeared.

It was a middle-aged man with a lewd appearance, but that didn’t matter. In Miria's eyes, when that middle-aged man killed Gerrot, no one looked more handsome!

There is a significant difference between Sand Thieves and captives, and Luo could tell the difference.

Blasting the heads of over a hundred Sand Thieves in the field with his domain certainly showcased remarkable efficiency, but the consumption of nen was high. If it weren't for eliminating the potential dangers for these fifty captives, Luo wouldn't have easily activated his domain in this situation.

If the number of Sand Thieves was only five or six hundred, he wouldn't have considered the consumption of nen and would have decisively gone all out.

Precisely because there were too many Sand Thieves, he couldn’t be too reckless in choosing his killing method. Fortunately, the Sand Thieves didn’t have hot weapons; otherwise, in the face of overwhelming numbers, Luo might have been the only one to survive to the end.

Using the lowest cost to achieve the best killing effect was Luo’s thought when he saw the number of Sand Thieves, and Buhara and the others thought the same.

Facing so many enemies, nen could form an "absolute safety" guarantee, but once the nen was exhausted, even an elephant could die from being bitten by ants.

Luo left behind the corpses of over a hundred Sand Thieves, withdrew his nen, and switched from "Ken" to the lowest consumption "Ten," covering himself with a thin layer of nen. He intended to take out "True Master," but then realized that the black cat had been thrown out by him.

Helpless, he could only pick up Gerrot’s sword and plunge into the Sand Thieves, starting a one-sided massacre.

Gerrot’s flying head in mid-air did have some impact on the Sand Thieves but didn’t affect their overall momentum.

If the leader died, they would just pick another strongest person from the group to take the role. It wasn’t a big deal. The main thing now was to kill all the enemies and then seize all the wealth of the Millennial Empire!

With a surge of bloodlust, the Sand Thieves’ attacks with their knives became even more ferocious, putting the remaining people in a precarious situation.

At this time, Salin also joined the battle. She leaped from the rooftop into the center of the encirclement, easing the pressure on her people.

Her intention wasn’t to kill but to protect, so her joining didn’t have much of an impact, but it did improve her people's situation a bit, preventing them from being crushed into dust.

As for Buhara and the others, adhering to the principle of not over-consuming nen, they couldn’t quickly deal with the dozens of nen users surrounding them. Since the battle began, most of the dozen or so dead nen users were the result of Geru.

Thus, among the nen users, only Luo had the energy to kill enemies massively.

Luo’s swordsmanship was derived from the nen left by "True Master," with extremely solid techniques. Adding a small amount of nen, killing Sand Thieves was as easy as chopping vegetables.

It wasn't that the Sand Thieves were weak; it was that Luo was much stronger than them, not just by a few levels.

Such a god of slaughter, after plunging into the crowd, forced the Sand Thieves into a vacuum circle.

Fortunately, the Sand Thieves were ruthless; even when Luo showed terrifying strength, they were not scared off but still charged with bloodshot eyes, earning the reputation of the desert’s biggest scourge.

However, no matter how the Sand Thieves charged one after another, each was just an enemy of one strike for Luo. Regardless of how coordinated their attacks were or how vicious the backstabbing methods were, no one could hit Luo, but were instead killed by one strike.

The corpses lying on the ground increased, blood flowing into rivers, dyeing the ancient city red.

After killing for a while, the surrounding Sand Thieves were still many, giving the impression that they were endless.

Luo noticed that Buhara and the others hadn't been able to deal with the dozens of nen users among the Sand Thieves. He specifically looked at the people protected by Salin and felt that if Salin continued to be cautious in her protection, something unexpected might happen.

Thinking of this, he suddenly changed his mind, heading towards the small battle group where Buhara was. Upon arrival, with a swift move, he killed two nen users of the Sand Thieves who were caught off guard.

With a single encounter, he killed two. Luo no longer cared about the consumption of nen. He turned on his heel and used "Shun." Before the Sand Thieves' nen users could react, he swung his sword again, killing two more.

Such thunderous killing methods indeed terrified the Sand Thieves' nen users.

Geru saw Luo recklessly pursuing killing efficiency, feeling Luo was somewhat irrational. After all, there were too many Sand Thieves, and only by using nen reasonably could they prolong their endurance.

Thinking from Geru's perspective was indeed correct, but if they always acted conservatively, their group of ordinary people who didn’t understand nen would be like a small boat in a storm, potentially capsizing at any moment.

Luo didn’t care about the potential pages that could be added; he couldn’t watch Salin get implicated. Therefore, despite the consumption of nen, he had to kill the nen users among the Sand Thieves with thunderous momentum, so Buhara and the others could free up their hands and quickly reduce the number of Sand Thieves.

Luo made this choice himself but didn't plan to demand Geru and the others to do the same. After several bursts of nen, within a few seconds, he killed more than ten nen users.

It was a matter of seconds, not minutes.

“How did he grow so fast!”

Seeing Luo killing the Sand Thieves’ nen users with such thunderous momentum, Geru was shocked.

Her reaction was the lowest-level mistake in combat. Fortunately, Luo attracted the attention of those nen users, so she didn’t pay the price for this mistake.

With Luo as a strong ally, within a minute, the dozens of nen users were all killed, giving Buhara and the others a sense of serious inadequacy.

“Kill.”

After dealing with the troublesome nen users, Luo only said one word to Buhara, then plunged into the Sand Thieves like a tiger among sheep, felling people with every swing.

With a few nen users starting a one-sided massacre mode, the situation finally changed a bit.

In the eyes of the Sand Thieves, their large numbers should have been able to engulf the fewer than a hundred enemies. But when they found it was always their side losing people while the other side remained unscathed, a sense of disparity formed, slowly accumulating and waiting to explode.

Initially, there were three thousand people, now dropping below two thousand, continuously reducing at a rapid pace.

“They can’t be hurt, can’t be killed!”

This was the thought that the Sand Thieves and the nen users had after fighting for a long time.

Indeed, that was the ruthless reality, and the actual gap between nen users and ordinary people, especially in the absence of hot weapons.

The Sand Thieves couldn’t see the consumption level of Luo’s nen, so the illusion created was full of deterrence.

Even if they could cause a wound, it would give them the confidence to continue.

Unfortunately, the expected scenario did not happen.

Therefore, when the Sand Thieves lost more than half, their morale completely collapsed, and they directly fled.

Mainly, that middle-aged man with a bulbous nose was too terrifying. Not only was he impervious to blades and bullets, but he could also lightly cut people in half with a seemingly effortless swing of his sword.

Coming from the west and retreating towards the west.

Leaving behind a field full of corpses, the Sand Thieves fled towards the grasslands.

Among the survivors were Geru and William, who couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief. If the Sand Thieves hadn’t fled, they might not have been able to hold on to the end. Thinking of this, they subconsciously looked at Luo, covered in blood.

In the many wars buried in the long river of desert history, there were stories of a warrior fighting against thousands. But those were legends. It was unexpected to witness it with their own eyes in their lifetime.

The archer man was one of the survivors. He looked at Luo with full reverence. Initially, because Luo was a newcomer, he had displayed a rather arrogant attitude. But now, witnessing Luo’s strength, he felt that not provoking Luo was the best decision he ever made.

The Sand Thieves fled, and naturally, the people on the scene wouldn’t actively chase them, except for Luo…

“Luo, don’t chase.” Seeing Luo’s action to chase, Salin quickly stopped him.

“No worries, I just want to see the strength of these ants.” Luo gave Salin a reassuring look and then chased after the Sand Thieves.

Ali, Yaya, and the three members of the Eagle Squad who survived were all watching Salin shout Luo’s name. They immediately realized that Tom wasn’t Luo’s real name.

They looked at the departing Luo with complicated expressions.

The fleeing Sand Thieves were like sheep driven by Luo, escaping from the capital, crossing the rocky plain, and stepping onto the grasslands.

Luo stopped on the plain, silently watching the Sand Thieves stepping onto the grasslands.

Suddenly, a drastic change occurred.

The verdant grassland erupted with streams of red fountains, spraying two to three meters into the sky, and then heavily falling onto the Sand Th

ieves.

It wasn’t a fountain but a swarm of ants!

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