The First Order - Chapter 898

Chapter 898: Ren Xiaosu’s new skill combo

Translator: Legge 

The 7th Division managed to evacuate safely. Although thousands of soldiers still died in the battle, the barbarians were unable to continue pursuing them after Old Xu had charged into their formation. They had to go back to eliminate Ren Xiaosu and Old Xu.

When the expeditionary army was forced to give up pursuing the 7th Division, they found it unbelievable that their over 7,000-strong army would get held back by two people.

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Of course, the expeditionary army was still unaware that those two people on the battlefield were actually the same person.

While retreating, P5067 kept looking back at the battlefield until he could no longer see anyone anymore.

His adjutant lamented, “That was probably the most unforgettable sight I’ve seen in my life. He could even pick his ear leisurely while facing a group of the barbarians’ army by himself. It shows how confident he is and feels like he isn’t threatened by the expeditionary army at all. The era of ‘The Rise of Gods’ has really arrived….”

P5067 agreed with what he said. He had never seen anything like this before. That young man was picking his ear in the face of several thousand troops! Moreover, he felt that something like that was totally unprecedented and would never be seen again.

P5067 sighed emotionally and said, “No wonder he’s on par with the Demon Whisperer. Furthermore, the shock he brought has an even greater impact than Li Shentan. After all, his is a direct combat superpower. Let’s hope he can successfully get away after holding off the expeditionary army for half an hour.”

“Someone said that all supernatural beings were going to get ranked. When the time comes, I’d like to see what that young man’s ranking is. If he doesn’t make it to the top three, I’m gonna say that the ranking has no credibility at all!” the adjutant said firmly.

For now, as long as Ren Xiaosu could hold off the barbarians for half an hour, the 1st and 4th Divisions in the south and the 7th Division would successfully reach the defensive line 15 kilometers to the rear and join up with P5092 of the 3rd Division.

But unfortunately for the 5th Division, they would definitely not be able to escape since they did not have Ren Xiaosu’s help. As such, their division commander also made the decision to provide cover and try to buy some time for the other divisions to retreat.

In short, if everything else went smoothly, the 1st, 4th, 7th, and 3rd Divisions could return south of the Great Wall.

However, they still needed to race against time, because the 6th Division that was holding off the expeditionary army’s main forces in the north had likely been completely wiped out by now, and the barbarians in the north would start pursuing southwards again.

At this moment, Ren Xiaosu looked extremely calm as he stood in the crowd of the barbarians’ troops. His confident look left the barbarians feeling uncertain.

However, this was probably the stacked effect brought on by his Ear Picking power. He also thought that if it were his enemy picking their ears when facing him, he would probably feel bewildered as well and wonder if the other party had any other aces up their sleeves…

After all, even Ren Xiaosu himself felt he was being way too arrogant by picking his ear in the middle of a battle.

But there was nothing he could do about it. Ren Xiaosu did not want to do it either, but this was his superpower. If he did not pick his ears here, he would probably have died already.

Therefore, both the expeditionary army and the 7th Division had actually misunderstood him.

While he was pondering, the barbarians around him kept up their attacks with their axes. The barbarians used all of their strength to try to kill Ren Xiaosu right here, right now. But when their axes came within 30 centimeters of Ren Xiaosu, they encountered an invisible resistance.

The barbarians tended to be very forceful when they swung their axes. At this moment, Ren Xiaosu’s Ear Picking reflected all of the forces back and instantly caused a barbarian to lose grip of his axe and dislocate his wrist!

As the expeditionary army always solved their problems through the use of force, they had never encountered such a strange situation like this before.

The barbarians did not really understand much about supernatural beings in the Central Plains. All they had was a rough idea. Right now, the puzzled barbarians only felt that this supernatural being from the Central Plains was way too powerful. They wondered how many other supernatural beings in the Central Plains could face an entire army alone like that?

The crack of the sniper rifle had stopped. This was something Ren Xiaosu had specifically instructed Yang Xiaojin to do. Once the 7th Division managed to get away, she should immediately stop shooting. That was because he would be heavily surrounded at that time. If the expeditionary army’s main forces sent out many of their barbarians to look for the sniper, Yang Xiaojin would be in danger.

Ren Xiaosu looked at the vast number of barbarians around him. If he were to kill them one by one, how long would it take for him to finish killing all of them?

He had already finished firing all of the heavy machine gun rounds, but it was only enough to kill a few hundred barbarians at most. There were still several thousand of them left at this moment.

Although he could continue picking his ears and Old Xu was also very fast at killing enemies, the problem was that the 6th Division in the north was probably wiped out. Very soon, the expeditionary army’s main forces would get here.

At that time, it would not just be thousands of barbarians surrounding him, but tens of thousands.

Just the thought was terrifying!

So Ren Xiaosu had to resort to more lethal means.

The barbarians, who were attacking Ren Xiaosu without any success, suddenly saw this Central Plains person in front of them take out four small cards from nowhere. The red and black patterns on the cards appeared exceptionally vivid.

A barbarian suddenly wondered, ‘Aren’t those playing cards? What’s he holding in his hands? Four threes?‘

In fact, poker was a global game, so almost everyone knew what playing cards looked like.

A moment later, the barbarians surrounding Ren Xiaosu suddenly watched him open a Shadow Door in front of them and was about to throw the “quad threes” in his hands into an unknown place.

But something unexpected happened. Ren Xiaosu was surprised to find that as he was picking his ears, he felt like he was being enveloped by a layer of transparent energy. He could not put his hand through the Shadow-Door, seemingly rejected.

Then the barbarians watched Ren Xiaosu suddenly stop picking his ears in front of them. Then he put his hand through the Shadow Door and threw away the playing cards before quickly picking his ears again.

His actions were so quick it was as though he had been scalded by the ear pick…

Immediately after, Ren Xiaosu repeated the actions countless times as he threw out the bombs one by one into the crowd of the expeditionary army.

If Old Xu and City Crusher were a skill combo, then Ear Picking, Shadow Door, and Explosive Poker would be his new combo.

As the Explosive Poker was Ren Xiaosu’s trump card to make up for his lack of an area-of-effect attack, he would occasionally draw some playing cards when he was bored. He had dreamed of getting the legendary pair of jokers to form the “King Bomb.”¹

For example, if he had 4,086 gratitude tokens, he would use 86 gratitude tokens to buy some Explosive Poker cards when he had nothing to do, leaving a round figure of 4,000 tokens.

He had gained quite a lot of gratitude tokens when traveling with the Trinity Institute. Therefore, he had many Explosive Poker cards in his possession now. But unfortunately, he had not been able to obtain the King Bomb even after drawing several hundred playing cards.

Not only had he not obtained the King Bomb, but the highest card he had gotten in the Explosive Poker deck was only a 10. He did not even get to see any of the face cards.

Some time ago, he had thrown out “quad sevens” while in Stronghold 74, and the cards caused a small mushroom cloud to appear. The explosive range reached up to a 100 meters in diameter. All of the buildings within 50 meters of the epicenter were razed to the ground, so the blast was really quite terrifying.

This time, Ren Xiaosu threw out the “quad threes,” “quad fours,” “quad fives,” and “quad sixes” in his hand first to blow up the barbarians. Instantaneously, explosions went off everywhere among the expeditionary army’s troops. They were not even aware of how the bombs got among them.

Although these bombs were quite powerful, bombs below “quad sevens” could all be substituted with weapons such as grenades and other explosives. Therefore, they were not particularly important.

Chaos descended upon the expeditionary army’s forces. The barbarians tried to avoid the bombs, but no one knew where they would appear at the next moment.