94: Chapter 94 Flame Fist
But Ge Ying did not stop; she gritted her teeth and pushed with both palms, frantically injecting magic power into the barrier.
Only by tightly sealing the gap in the disc did the temperature inside the pit drop significantly.
The screaming stopped instantly. Everyone gasped for air, sweat pouring out like rain.
Everyone looked at Ge Ying...
In order to maintain the Tier 1 barrier, she had already withdrawn her own protection, relying solely on her physical body to withstand the high heat.
Her skin was scalded bright red, yet she remained expressionless, gritting her teeth to hold on.
"Ge Ying, you..."
A female team member's voice choked, her eyes turning red.
Yao Dong watched this scene.
He felt both helpless and furious, and a trace of intense hatred flashed in his gaze as he looked outside the pit.
Above the pit opening.
After Captain Jin Tu burned a large group of Lizardman to death, the remaining army of nearly two hundred Lizardman dared not stay any longer and turned to flee.
They were like startled rabbits.
Leaping over rocks to escape, they only collided head-on with the barrage of spells from Captain Jin Tu's team members.
The others had already followed Captain Jin Tu's orders to collect the Lizardman corpses, and upon sensing the aura he unleashed, they immediately rushed over, just in time to run into the panicked, fleeing Lizardman.
Everyone hesitated not, and spells rained down.
After the Lizardman scattered and fled.
Captain Jin Tu glanced at the Wave Squad inside the pit, clearly seeing them in a sorry state, scorched by the flames.
Yet, he had no intention of helping.
In his view, driving away the Lizardman was already doing them a great favor.
"Remember to tell your captain that I saved you, and put in a good word for me."
Captain Jin Tu smiled at the pit and leaped away.
"That bastard!"
"He drove away the Lizardman, and we're supposed to be grateful? I'd rather be besieged by Lizardman than suffer this damn heat!"
"No wonder the captain hates him; he's just a jerk!"
The members of the Wave Squad cursed in low voices inside the pit, daring to be angry but not to speak out.
Captain Jin Tu jumped onto a rock.
Watching his team members mop up the Lizardman, he nodded with satisfaction.
The harvest here was enough to double their total earnings for the day.
Not long after, more people arrived.
Two other squads, having also sensed Ge Ying's lightning energy, arrived one after another.
Among the four teams, they were the closest, so they arrived first.
Seeing a large number of Lizardman fleeing.
With the Golden Tree Squad hunting them down frantically, the people from the other two teams immediately joined in, wanting a piece of the action.
"Stop! These Lizardman belong to the Golden Tree Squad; no one else is allowed to hunt them. Hand over the corpses of those you've already killed."
Captain Jin Tu's voice resounded across the sky.
He spoke with high-sounding words.
But the threat in his tone was undisguised.
The other two squads looked displeased.
Even the Wave Squad, suffering in the pit, was speechless to the extreme.
Who grabs wild magic beasts like this?
Some team members were still unwilling to give up, wanting to pick up nearby corpses, but they were immediately sternly stopped by their own Tier 3 Mage.
Captain Jin Tu was someone who claimed to know Chen Ping.
There was no need to offend him over this little bit of profit.
Perhaps in the future, they would need to rely on him to introduce them to Chen Ping.
Just let him have these few Lizardman.
Captain Jin Tu stood on the rock.
With sharp eyes, seeing everyone back down, he nodded with satisfaction.
After another moment, the flames on the transparent disc finally extinguished.
Yao Dong retracted the barrier.
The disc shrank back to its normal size, landed in Yao Dong's palm, and was calmly put away into his storage ring.
Once the barrier was withdrawn, Ge Ying immediately collapsed to the ground, her entire body's skin scalded red, feeling like a piece of red-hot iron to the touch.
"Ge Ying!"
The team members immediately gathered around, their faces full of worry.
"I'm fine, so noisy."
Ge Ying's exhausted voice rang out as she slowly propped herself up to a sitting position.
Everyone gathered around her.
They dared not touch her or make another sound.
Yao Dong breathed a sigh of relief, but when he looked back at that figure on the rock.
His eyes instantly turned cold and biting, with killing intent hidden within.
The Lizardman retreated, but the squad did not immediately climb out of the pit.
After experiencing such prolonged torment.
Their nerves were almost at the breaking point, and they could finally relax and catch their breath.
After recovering for a few minutes in the pit and feeling slightly better, everyone climbed out one after another.
One team member carried an injured teammate on his back, and they jumped onto the rock one by one.
Captain Jin Tu glanced at them and spoke with feigned concern:
"You've finally come out."
"It's a good thing I arrived in time, otherwise you would have been in danger. I don't even dare to imagine how sad Aunt Mi Xue would be if something happened to you."
His tone was worried, but a crafty smile hung at the corners of his mouth.
The members of the Wave Squad felt a wave of nausea and cursed inwardly, but they dared not show it on their faces.
After all, the other party was a Tier 3 Mage.
Ge Ying squinted at Captain Jin Tu, her expression as cold as ice.
Anyone could see that she loathed this person to the extreme.
Yao Dong turned to Captain Jin Tu and nodded slightly.
"Many thanks; we will remember this favor."
His tone was flat.
Even if he was displeased, he still had to go through the motions.
Captain Jin Tu nodded with satisfaction.
"It was just a small matter; I only cast a few spells casually."
Hearing this, everyone almost threw up, but they could only force themselves to endure it and turn their heads to look at the battlefield below.
The Golden Tree Squad was almost finished clearing out the remaining Lizardman.
Only a few were still fleeing.
"We'll wait for the captain here; she should be arriving soon. Afterward, we'll return to Baiyun City."
Yao Dong looked at the team member who still had a scale-thorn stuck in his thigh; his face was as pale as paper, yet he remained conscious.
They had to return for treatment as soon as possible.
But no sooner had Yao Dong finished speaking than the ground suddenly shook violently, as if an earthquake had arrived.
Immediately after, a roar that seemed to shatter the heavens came from far away.
The Wave Squad members: "..."
Everyone looked on in disbelief, turning their heads toward the source of the sound.
In the distance.
A large swarm of Earth-type Gargoyles was approaching frantically.
And behind them, a giant Gargoyle, a full ten meters tall, was walking slowly.
It was shockingly huge.
The ordinary Gargoyles beside it looked like children in front of it.
Yao Dong and the others' eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.
What the hell?!
Was Stone Ghost Gorge messing with them?
They had just narrowly escaped the encirclement of Lizardman, and now another large group of Gargoyles was coming?
Were they really trying to force them to their deaths?!
Not just the Wave Squad, but everyone present stared fixedly at that giant Gargoyle.
Without a doubt...
This is a Mutant-level Magic Beast!
"T-there are so many!"
Someone screamed in terror.
Ge Ying looked at her teammates.
Except for Yao Dong, everyone was ashen-faced.
"I'll be off first, see you later."
Unlike the others.
Captain Jin Tu remained relaxed.
He waved at everyone.
His figure instantly turned into a blur.
The next second, he appeared in front of his own team members.
"As expected, the magic beasts of Stone Ghost Gorge become active once night falls. I just didn't expect them to come so quickly, but that's not a bad thing."
Captain Jin Tu turned to look at the approaching swarm of Gargoyles.
He then looked at the other two expedition teams and announced loudly:
"Since a Mutated Earth-type Gargoyle has appeared, all Tier 3 Mages, come with me to slay it; the others clean up the small ones."
"The Golden Tree Squad will take its corpse and magic core."
"In return, the Golden Tree Squad will owe everyone a favor."