Monster Paradise Chapter 52-53

As the clock struck midnight, a sea of monsters had gathered out the canyon entrance to Snowy Mountain County. The monster horde now contained over a million monsters and stretched out in an endless field of black.

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It had gotten to the point where there were monsters who started climbing over each to rush into the entrance. A lot of monsters were crushed to death in such a manner, under the foot of an ally. The monsters who did the climbing didn’t fare much better either as they too soon became a stepping stone for the monsters behind them, forming an ever growing tower of monsters.

As a result of these monster towers, Yi Zheng and Yi Yeyu had to join in the fighting as well. If they did not do so, it would only be a matter of time before the monsters climbed over the defensive walls.

Yi Zheng’s thin sword shape-shifted into a three metre long sword as he prepared to attack. He leaped off his boulder and dove into the monster horde below him, killing a bunch of them as he landed.

He began his attack in earnest; with every swing of his giant sword, ten monsters lost their lives.

On the other boulder, Yi Yeyu was continuously feeding Life Crystal Lattices into her cannon while she blasted the monsters below her. While her accuracy wasn’t great, it did not matter. The denseness of the monster horde meant that no matter where she hit, the ground would be littered with a bunch of corpses.

Below the giant boulders, stood the 20 Golden Hunters. After two days of continuous killing, they were exhausted but still standing. As they massacred the monsters around them, they consumed Life Crystal Lattices to replenish their Life Energy.

Unfortunately, no matter how many monsters they killed, the stream of monsters never stopped. It was no wonder that so many monsters breached the first layer, their numbers were endless. The Golden Hunters weren’t able to deal with these monsters as they were busy enough trying to deal with the incoming monsters. They had no choice but to leave them to the Silver Hunters at the second layer.

The second layer consisted of a thousand or so Silver Hunters. They formed the largest group but also faced the largest amount of pressure. The number of monsters that breached the first layer wasn’t small, causing them to be just as busy as the Golden Hunters in front of them.

They were closely packed in order to minimize the amount of leakages. Over 90% of the monsters who breached the first layer were killed here. They knew that the third layer had too little Copper Hunters and weren’t able to handle too many monsters. As such, unless they had no choice, they would try to stop all the monsters.

The third where Lin Huang and his team were posted at, could be considered the most relaxed of the three. The majority of the pressure had been borne by the Golden and Silver Hunters in front of them; the amount that leaked through was merely 10% of total amount.

The frequency at which they encountered an attack was low as well, allowing them to recuperate. By now, they had recovered 50-60% of their stamina.

However, as time passed, the increase in the number of monsters in the canyon began to take its toll on the backlines. Lin Huang’s team began to face an attack every 5-6 minutes.

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However, this did not affect Shirou. He was a veritable killing machine; his killing speed had never changed since the beginning.

His tireless killing had netted him the same number of kills as Lin Huang and the teenagers combined. His ever-changing Blood Wings painted a beautiful but deadly scene across the battlefield. With every change, a monster’s head was severed; a monster’s heart was pierced. His killing rate put Lin Huang’s to shame.

Even so, Lin Huang’s performance wasn’t that bad either. With his black iron blade in hand, he became a super soldier. Under the effect of the Grand Desolation Blade Scripture, nothing could withstand his blade swings.

As he grew during the battle, the number of slashes need to kill a monster fell from five to three and finally to one. As long as it wasn’t a Three-Star BlackIron monster, it didn’t live past the first swing.

With his growing familiarity with the Traceless Snow Steps, he became like a phantom on the battlefield.

This led to Zhou Le and the other teenagers mistaking him for a scion of a noble family. This wouldn’t make sense otherwise. No commoner would be able to afford so many high level techniques and possess such a terrifying strength. Do not forget, they were Three-Star BlackIrons but their performance paled in comparison to Lin Huang.

Lin Huang had long since lost count of how many monsters he slew and how many resulting fragments and rewards he gained. In this situation, he barely had time to breathe or drink. His attention was devoted to the ongoing battle.

Kuro was well aware of the intensity of this battle. He didn’t send out system messages with every kill as it would distract Lin Huang.

On the battlefield, every second and every minute was torturous.

Everyone was praying for the sun to quickly rise and for day to come.

This was because once they made it past sunrise, the human transcendent would arrive. Once he killed the monsters’ transcendent, this battle would finally be over.

Lin Huang mercilessly pushed his body to the limits; unlike the others, he wasn’t even a BlackIron. The difference in their body’s natural limit could not be compensated so easily by mere combat strength.

Even Three-Star BlackIrons like Zhou Le were too exhausted to even speak, let alone Lin Huang.

This made his stellar performance that much more eye-catching.

Not only did it garner the respect of Zhou Le, but also of the surrounding Copper Hunters. They knew that Lin Huang had long passed his limits and was only holding on through sheer willpower. Whatever untapped potential he had left was being unearthed by his ferocity.

Lin Huang was naturally aware of his own condition. He did not dare to rest and continued swing his blade around non-stop. He knew that if he stopped, he would mostly likely collapse from sheer exhaustion.

This was why he kept chanting to himself, “I mustn’t stop! I mustn’t stop! A few more hours and it will be sunrise!”

The battle raged as a cacophony of howls and shouts echoed from both sides.

3 am…

Everyone was drained by now but they pushed on with the knowledge that they only needed to hold on for 3 more hours.

Suddenly, an earth-shaking roar echoed in the distant sky.

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This beastial roar came from behind the snowy mountains and swept past the mountains, the hunters, the canyons and even through the grasslands.

Their hearts jumped into their throats as they heard this roar. Even Lin Huang’s heart was beating furiously at this moment. It felt like there was something terrifying staring at them and this left them extremely disconcerted.

However, this roar had the opposite effect on the monsters. Their morale was instantly raised. As they howled in excitement, they renewed their attack on the giant boulders with increased ferocity. They had no regard for their bodies as they slammed against the boulders and even willingly became a part of the monster tower. Their goal, to climb over the rock barrier.

Seeing this, Yi Zheng’s and Yi Yeyu’s brows furrowed. They did not expect such a turn of events in the last three hours of the battle.

Before he could begin to digest this piece of bad news, he heard a sound from the snowy mountains. Turning his head, he spotted a pitch black cloud which covered half the horizon approaching them rapidly. As he focused his gaze, he gasped in surprise.

“Shit, it’s a Yin Crow flock…”

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Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The crows blanketed the western sky of the Snowy Mountains like dark clouds. They were heading towards the direction of the foothold at full speed.

The crows were just as numerous or probably more than what Lin Huang saw the other day when he previously encountered them.

Millions of crows in a flock together looked like a massive horde and it seems like there would be none that would be able to defeat them besides a Transcendent.

Even Yi Zheng who was no.11 on the Division7 Gold Hunter Leaderboard avoided the crows.

It was a nightmare. They could easily occupy a medium foothold if the transcendent was absent.

The hunters who were ready to stand their ground felt despair the moment they noticed the horde of crows.

Millions of monsters were streaming in from the grasslands and innumerable crows were darting in from the back. They did not have enough manpower to protect the foothold after all…

Yi Yeyu looked like she was in doubt on the giant rocks, she regretted that she chose this foothold to be the location for the assessment.

If Yi Zheng was not here, she was ready to die in battle.

However, now that Yi Zheng was here, he would certainly not leave her behind. If she were to stay, she would lose her brother to the monsters. She was in dire straits…

Yi Zheng knew his sister very well. She was competitive and resilient, and though she may be hot tempered at times, she was a kind person.

It was impossible for her to leave 200,000 people behind.

Even if she were to pass by a foothold invaded by monsters, she would choose to fight no matter what.

“Yeyu, use your green wooden door to send the kids away!” Although Yi Zheng knew that Yi Yeyu would not agree to leave, he instructed her anyway.

“I’m not leaving!” Yi Yeyu stared at Yi Zheng.

“Even if you don’t care for yourself, you have to consider this for the sake of our family. Our generation only has the both of us, we can’t die here!” Yi Zheng tried to talk her out of it, “And those young men, especially Lin Huang, do you really want him to perish here? As long as we give him sufficient time, he could develop into a transcendent. We cannot lose him as well!”

After a moment of silence, she shouted at Yi Zheng,”Brother, I’ll pass you the green wooden door. Please bring Lin Huang and the rest with you, I will remain behind!”

“What foolishness are you spouting? You must leave. You’re my sister, listen to me!” Yi Zheng exclaimed loudly.

“We must think about the future of our generation. Since you are gifted with stronger abilities, if you live, our family’s generation would grow stronger. Therefore, it would be better if I stay.” Yi Zheng could not counter argue Yi Yeyu.

The situation turned awkward for them.

The crows were approaching.

Some of the hunters in the lines of defense had lost their will to live; they were just preparing for what might eventually happen. The third line of defense did not have enough manpower as a couple of Silver Hunters on the second defense line were caught off guard. Everyone felt disheartened.

Soon, the remaining defenses collapsed.

Lin Huang and the rest were surrounded. Without the lines of defense in front of them, the ten young men were completely besieged by monsters.

“Don’t panic guys. Let’s form a line, do not let the monsters break through!” Lin Huang yelled to the young men.

After cooperating with Lin Huang, Zhou Le and the rest trusted Lin Huang more than anyone else. Lin Huang had not let them down.

They quickly formed a defensive line even though they knew that it was very unlikely that they could survive the moment the crows arrived.

However, under Lin Huang’s leadership, they persevered. Lin Huang’s heart was racing from the intense attacks.

His body was much frailer compared to the rest and thus, any attack from the monsters could severely injure him or even kill him.

The situation was vastly different now as they previously had a line of defense to shield their vanguard, significantly limiting the number of monsters which passed through to them.

Now, however, there were monsters everywhere and they were besieged on all sides.

He finally experienced the saying, ‘dancing on the head of a pin’ which meant that if he loses focus or gets distracted by something else, he could die at any given moment.

“Warning! You are now in an extremely dangerous environment. Your death rate would be 100% within half an hour. Would you like to execute emergency measures?!”

A warning was sent to Lin Huang’s ears, it was the first time in a long while since he had heard Xiao Hei’s voice.

“Yes! What kind of solutions do you have?!” Lin Huang asked immediately.

“Browsing cards that could solve the situation… There are no cards that could help you right now…”

Lin Huang was troubled but moments later, Xiao Hei spoke again…

“Based on the current situation, the most suitable card would be the Small Destruction Card.”

“You have three Monster Cards, nine Function Cards, 3657 iron-level Monster Card pieces… If you were to dissolve all the complete cards and piece them together, you would obtain 22557 Normal Card pieces. To redeem your first Small Destruction Card, you would need one million Normal Card pieces. The card pieces you have are insufficient to redeem a Small Destruction Card…”

“Wait, why do I only have nine Function Cards? Bai’s kills aside, I have done at least 500 cross-ranking kills these two days; shouldn’t I receive cross-ranking cards?!”

“When you’re stuck on a level, the maximum cross-ranking kill reward you can obtain will be capped at 10 times. You will not get any rewards for cross-ranking kills after that.”

Lin Huang did not know there was such an arrangement.

He thought with Bai’s help, it was not difficult for him to do cross-ranking kills where he could collect a massive amount of reward cards.

It seemed like Xiao Hei noticed that people would take advantage of the situation and therefore limited this method to gain reward cards.

“So, are there any other solutions for me?” Lin Huang asked for an alternative.

“You were given some protection when you were setting up your Goldfinger. You can only utilize the protection once. When you activate the protection, you will receive a card to solve the crisis you are encountering at that moment. Would you like to activate your one and only protection?”

“Yes!” Lin Huang decided without thinking twice. He did not have the time to consider the repercussions as well as other alternatives seeing as there were none. If he did not utilize the protection right now, he might never be able to use it again.

“Protection has been activated… Integrating with your situation, you are given a Small Destruction Card!”

“Congratulations, you have received a Small Destruction Card!”

“Detecting solution – Small Destruction Card! Are you sure you want to use this card?”

“How can this card solve this crisis? What are its functions?” Lin Huang did not have the time to look at the card in his body.

“Small Destruction Card: It could annihilate every creature below transcendent. The maximum coverage would be 10,000 square kilometers.”

“I would like to use this card to destroy all creatures besides humans and Bai.” Lin Huang instructed.

“Creatures have been targeted, please choose your coverage.”

A map appeared on Lin Huang’s mind and he had to choose his targets. The map revealed that the monsters were scattered everywhere. Lin Huang tagged all the monsters on the map, “I have decided.”

“Coverage selection completed. Please confirm the Small Destruction Card’s activation.”

“Yes, kill them all!” Lin Huang nodded his head firmly.

In the next second, a grain-sized lighted spot appeared on Lin Huang’s forehead.

The spot looked like a miniature sun at three o’clock. It then tore away from his forehead and floated into the sky, shining on the land.

Everyone was shocked.

Soon, a white glow dispersed from the light spot, creating a wave in the air.

All the monsters except for Bai were carbonized due to the high temperature. They turned into dust and disappeared into the air. It was like snow meeting the scorching sun.

The glow then dispersed far away.

“Is that magic?!” Yi Yeyu stood on the giant rocks and saw what Lin Huang did, she was stunned.

In a heartbeat, all the monsters were no more. As soon as the glow began to fade away, everyone cheered.