Chapter 327 - 186: Rose of Shedding Skin
Chapter 327: Chapter 186: Rose of Shedding Skin
A severed arm.
Lu Cang could faintly sense that it was Chum’s arm.
Acceleration!
Lu Cang didn’t wait for Lu Luwei, instead rocketing toward Kumironi at his top speed!
A Perception Range of thirty thousand kilometers.
Even after spotting Kumironi, it was hard to reach her in a short amount of time.
Even going all out, the flight took him nearly a minute and a half.
His instantaneous bursts could reach a thousand kilometers per second.
But for sustained flight, Lu Cang couldn’t maintain that peak burst speed indefinitely.
Lu Cang landed!
"Kumironi!"
Kumironi turned her head. "Lu Cang?"
She didn’t waste words, immediately saying, "They took Chum’s body."
"Chi Cheng is pursuing them now."
"Help me preserve this arm... It will increase her chances of being resurrected."
Lu Cang nodded. "Okay."
Lu Cang touched the arm.
He perceived something immediately.
Chum had been dead for over four hours.
This arm had been hacked off a complete corpse...
SWISH!
[Death Magic: Complete Ice Seal (Tier Three)]
Lu Cang completely froze the arm and stored it in a Storage Ring from the Cold Church.
Lu Cang handed the Storage Ring to Kumironi.
"Can she still be resurrected?"
"If we had the complete body... She’s also a believer of Sophia, so the conditions for resurrection are slightly more lenient. Plus, the contributions she accumulated in the Life Church can be used to offset the cost of resurrection."
"The optimal window for resurrection is within six hours of death."
Lu Cang recalled that the Life Church itself offered resurrection as a reward that could be redeemed... but the cost was astronomical.
But as a high-ranking member of the Life Church, Chum might actually have a chance to be resurrected.
Lu Cang gazed into the distance.
When he had touched the arm just now, he had also received information about the corpse.
[Lost One: Chum]
[Direction—Sunset Forest]
’Chum, you left your arm here.’
Lu Cang looked in the indicated direction.
Lu Luwei hadn’t arrived yet, but her Perception was linked with Lu Cang’s.
"Lu Luwei, look in that direction for me. Can you see anything?"
After asking, Lu Cang turned to Kumironi.
"Kumironi, which way did Chi Cheng go?"
Kumironi looked in the opposite direction...
’He went in the completely wrong direction!’
Lu Cang’s gaze swept over the battlefield. He didn’t really blame Chi Cheng for going the wrong way...
The battlefield here had been staged to mislead anyone in pursuit toward the other direction.
Chi Cheng was skilled in combat, and Lu Cang had even heard his combat intelligence was high, but when it came to everyday smarts, he was a bit... well, it was hard to say.
He might not have been able to see through the scene fabricated by the enemy.
Moreover...
Lu Luwei’s Perception couldn’t pick up any trace of Chi Cheng either.
’I wonder how far he’s chased them.’
’The enemy’s strength...’
Lu Cang didn’t immediately set off in pursuit. Chum had already been dead for four hours; she probably wouldn’t mind waiting a few more seconds.
First, Lu Cang had to assess the enemy’s strength.
Lu Cang touched the different bloodstains on the ground.
Information about different individuals appeared in his mind.
A Level 5 Assassin, a Level 5 Skin Taker, a Level 5 Assassin, a Level 5 Hunter, a Level 4 Observer, a Level 4 Array Master...
’So many people.’
Not just from the Human Race, but Beastmen too...
An incredibly brutal battle had broken out here.
They were all Level 5; not a single one was Level 6.
But a Hunter’s combat style is destined to be extremely potent in an ambush. This was a well-prepared trap.
Chum and... her two other Level 5 colleagues had all been ambushed.
"Kumironi, if you need to go back to resurrect Chum, you should go ahead."
"I’ll leave a message for Brother Chi Cheng and have him come find us."
"I’ve roughly deduced their trail. I’ll go after them first."
Lu Cang rose from his crouch and flicked the blood from his hand.
His gaze fixed on the distance.
WHOOSH—
Grooves instantly appeared on the ground, forming a message.
「↑↑↑」
「Chi Cheng, you went the wrong way! The enemy is over there!!」
After instantly carving out the message, Lu Cang quickly gave chase in the indicated direction!
"Lu Cang, I see them!"
"There are a few figures in the Forest! They should be Level 5 and Level 4!"
With the aid of Lu Luwei’s Perception,
Lu Cang locked onto their positions with even greater precision.
"I can attack now. Should I make a move?"
Lu Luwei was now within 11,000 kilometers, her absolute maximum attack range.
Her optimal attack range was 3,000 kilometers.
Within that range, she could use all of her Bow Skills.
But at her maximum range, she could only use certain Bow Skills with exceptionally long reach.
"No, that’s not necessary."
Lu Cang continued his high-speed pursuit.
In Lu Luwei’s Perception, Lu Cang was like a comet streaking across the sky.
Lu Cang had only met Chum a few times.
If not for his connection to Kumironi, Lu Cang wouldn’t have planned on saving her at all.
’But she’s Kumironi’s friend, after all.’
Following the information from the blood trail,
’These people should be about twenty thousand kilometers away from me...’
’They’re running fast.’
’They must have been fleeing for their lives without stopping ever since they killed Chum.’
A Warrior with a scar-covered face and two swords on his back laughed out loud as he sprinted. "Haha..."
"We finally took care of that thorn in our side from the Life Church!"
"Without her interference, our future operations shouldn’t face any more obstacles."
"Still, I never expected a Hunter like you to help us."
A wolf-faced Beastman carrying a Longbow on his back said coldly, "When it comes to dividing the spoils from the ruins, I get thirty percent."