Chapter 1088 - A Windfall
Chapter 1088: A Windfall
The result was that the ice mass and the totem armor inside instantly exploded.
The damage value was magnified exponentially compared to normal circumstances.
It was worse than the destruction of a body of flesh and blood. Even worse, Casanova’s totem armor, Lava’s Fury, had also been strengthened by the blue light of the altar, hence it possessed an extremely large storage space.
Casanova did not trust anyone other than himself.
The ancient weapons, armors, and secret medicines that he had looted along the way were all stored in his totem armor.
Following the explosion of the totem armor, the storage space became extremely unstable.
It was to prevent the ancient weapons, armors, and secret medicines from being destroyed in an unknown dimension.
The operating system of Lava’s Fury automatically extracted them and threw them out.
In an instant, Casanova’s body was covered in a brilliant light, and dozens of crystal-clear treasures filled with killing intent exploded.
The loss of these items was even more painful than emptying his own internal organs.
“Ah!” Casanova screamed and fell heavily.
As if his limbs had been broken and his spine had been pulled out, he panted like an ox and collapsed to the ground.
Fortunately, the deafening noise finally aroused the vigilance of his subordinates who were close by.
Seven or eight murderous figures rushed over at lightning speed.
The two temple thieves looked at each other.
Between Casanova’s life and the ancient weapons, armor, as well as secret medicines on the ground, they chose the latter without hesitation.
In front of Casanova, they swept up all the treasures from the ground.
Before the seven or eight elite gladiators arrived, they turned into a red and a white flash of lightning. With a few twists and turns, they disappeared into the pits of the flames, thick smoke, broken walls, and shattered city.
When their subordinates finally arrived, all they saw was Casanova’s grim expression, his face ashen, his eyeballs exploding, and his blood almost bursting his throat.
“Ca… Lord Casanova, this is…”
The subordinates looked at each other in dismay. They stared at the broken pieces of armor on Casanova’s body, as well as the soul-stirring traces of the battle that were left on the scene.
All of them shivered deeply. Who dared to ask further?
Casanova’s pupils became still like a frozen ocean.
He leaned against the lower half of the wall and sat there in a daze for a long time. Only then did the frozen ocean in the depths of his eyes gradually thaw.
Countless streams of blood flowed out like lava from under the ice.
On his retina, there were still the last figures of the two temple thieves.
One of the temple thieves had seized and subdued the Skull Crushers and clashed head-on with him without being at a disadvantage at all. Although he did not know who this was…
The other temple thief was tall and slender. She was wrapped in silver armor, and she possessed the sharpness and ferocity of a cheetah. She could also condense cold waves and ice crystals at will.
Even if he was burned to ashes, Casanova would not be mistaken.
“Ice Storm…”
Casanova gritted his teeth and let out an angry, regretful roar.
Never in his wildest dreams had he imagined that his greed and ambition would lead to such a tragic outcome!
Plus, it was impossible for him to tell his subordinates the truth.
Ice Storm’s secret identity had immeasurable value.
The loss of the temple’s supreme treasure was likely to shake the entire Blood Skull Legion’s morale, making his subordinates doubt his ability and lose their loyalty to him.
Therefore, Casanova could only take a deep breath and endure the heart-wrenching pain in his chest and abdomen. Half of it was filled with frost, and the other half was raging flames. He gritted his teeth and stood up.
He wanted to cry but no tears came out. He squeezed out three words from between his teeth as if nothing had happened. “Go after him!”
Go after what? Go where?
No one knew.
Yet, no one dared to ask, for fear of becoming the victim of Casanova’s raging flames.
His subordinates could only swallow their saliva with difficulty and follow Casanova from behind. Like a group of furious beasts, they chased after the two lightning bolts aimlessly.
Three minutes after they left…
The two bolts of lightning that were supposed to be shooting toward the east.
They actually drilled out from the west not far away from their previous foothold.
The lightning dissipated and revealed Meng Chao and Ice Storm’s figures.
It turned out that they understood the principle of “darkness under the lamp” and had not run far at all.
They had pretended to run away, but in fact, they had taken a detour that was neither too big nor too small, returning to the “heartbreaking place” that Casanova did not want to face again for a short period of time.
The two of them gently touched the left and right sides of their helmets. The position of their temples made the masks appear crystal clear, and their expressions could be seen.
Ice Storm smiled slightly, while Meng Chao whistled.
Casanova Bloodhoof was indeed worthy of being one of the most incisive new experts that the Blood Hoof Clan had produced in the past twenty to thirty years.
In just half a day, he had snatched so many good things from the chaotic battlefield.
Many ancient weapons, armor fragments, and secret medicines that were eternally boiling were all secretly worshipped in the depths of the major temples. They had not seen the light of day for over a hundred years.
Thanks to Casanova, these supreme treasures had all fallen into Meng Chao and Ice Storm’s hands.
With this windfall, Meng Chao and Ice Storm finally did not have to worry about the cultivation resources they needed on the way from Black-corner City to Red-gold City and the issue of addressing the situation once they arrived at Red-gold City.
These supreme treasures that the Blood Hoof Clan had treasured for over a thousand years were all priceless chips.
Now, the biggest issues were how to move all these ancient precious treasures out of Black-corner City, how to choose between them in order to leave behind the most valuable precious treasures, and how to deal with those that could not be taken away.
After thinking for a long time, the two felt that they should not be the Pixiu[1] that could only enter and not leave.
More or less, they should leave a few family heirlooms for the Blood Hoof Clan.
Of course, which one to leave, how to leave it, who to leave it to, this was a mystery.
Right now, there were dozens of elite warriors from different clans in Black-corner City. In addition to the temple thieves, they were all crazily searching for and snatching treasures that contained the terrifying totem power.
If Meng Chao and Ice Storm could thread the needle, it would be best if they came from seven or eight clans. It would be best if they came from the enemy clans, Black-corner City, and the local areas. The Blood Hoof warriors who had new and old grudges with each other were already gathered together. Then, they would add a few thieves from the temple.
Finally, they would place a few ancient weapons, armor, and secret medicines where their eyes could reach.
What would happen next would be very exciting and chaotic.
The more chaotic the situation in Black-corner City was, the more advantageous it would be for the ordinary rat people and the two of them to escape.
Therefore, the matter was decided easily and happily.
However, there was another point that Ice Storm did not particularly understand.
“When we pincer attacked from the front and back just now, we clearly had the opportunity to kill Casanova. Why did you want me to preserve my strength and show mercy?”
Ice Storm frowned slightly and asked somewhat discontentedly, “You should know that in the Blood Skull Arena’s dungeon, Casanova did not show any mercy to me.
“If you hadn’t shown up in time, he would have disassembled every bone in my body and ground it into powder before burning it into ashes to discover my secret!
“Don’t tell me that you think that we can turn enemies into friends with such a guy?”
“Of course not.”
Meng Chao decisively dispelled Ice Storm’s doubts.
The way Casanova Bloodhoof treated him was secondary.
However, ever since Casanova’s recruitment team destroyed Bright Shell Village that had saved Meng Chao’s life, killed most of the villagers, and captured the remaining villagers, including the children, to be mercilessly exploited in Black-corner City…
Casanova had been a dead man.
In Meng Chao’s eyes, the current Casanova was just a walking corpse waiting for him to harvest at the most suitable time.
“I’m not against killing Casanova, but not now, and certainly not here.”
Meng Chao explained to Ice Storm, “Right now, we are the players with the least chips and the smallest cards on this card table.
“If a small player wants to have the last laugh, one of the prerequisites is that the more big players on the card table, the better.
“Only by taking advantage of the conflicts between the big players can the small players have a slim chance of survival.
“If there is only one big player versus one small player left on the poker table, then the chances of the latter winning the game will be infinitely close to zero.”
Ice Storm seemed to understand what Meng Chao meant.
She thought for a moment and then asked, “However, judging from Casanova’s piercing gaze, he should have recognized me.”
“Isn’t that better?”
Meng Chao smiled and said, “Casanova recognized you, but he shouldn’t have been able to guess how you escaped, let alone know your connection with the temple thieves, right?
“Based on common sense, the temple thieves should have saved you when they attacked Blood Skull Temple…
“Or, you were already in cahoots with the temple thieves and were the spy whom they planted in the Blood Skull Arena.
“Even if you weren’t, after being rescued by the temple thieves, you have no other choice but to stand with these guys, right?”
Ice Storm was stunned for a moment, and she nodded slowly.
Indeed, no one had expected that a monster-level player like Meng Chao would descend from the sky and get involved in this complicated game.
If Ice Storm had been in Casanova’s shoes, she would have thought that she, as a mixed-blood, had no choice but to fall into the hands of the temple thieves.
“Therefore, the new and old grudges, together with your secrets, have become the most powerful driving force for Casanova to be furious. He will never give up on hunting down the temple thieves.”
Meng Chao said, “Casanova is backed by the entire Blood Hoof Clan. Their perseverance will definitely bring great trouble to the temple thieves and the ones who released them.
“In the next ten days to half a month, we will be traveling with the temple thieves.
“During this journey, the trouble of the temple thieves will be our chance
[1] A Chinese mythical animal that brings luck and wards off evil, having head of a dragon and lion’s body, often with hoofs, wings and tail.