C305 – King of the Desert
Posted on November 17, 2018 by AzureOrchid92
At the time the Quicksand Beast shoveled a mouthful, the other slaves had already fled to the oasis. The slaves, who had just started to rush to the oasis, was kicked forward by Ai Shi.
Unexpectedly, even those who attracted the beast to the oasis, Ai Shi still helped. If they were not people belonging to the second young master but on their own, he would have cut them off earlier.
“Prepare!” Ai Shi shouted.
All the guards in the oasis stared nervously at the other side. The Quicksand Beast can be defeated, but with every victory, there would be a heavy price to pay.
On the other side, the Quicksand Beast, which had digested a mouthful of food, looked towards the oasis with its golden eyes, staring at the people who were defending at the edge of the oasis. Even in the hot weather, it made people feel like they were in the ice.
This was a vicious beast, thought the three from the Flaming Horns tribe.
Staring at the oasis, the Quicksand Beast did not immediately come. It also did not pull out the other half of its body out of the sand. Instead, it slowly shook the upper half of its body above the surface, its head still moving slightly, up and down.
This was not a sign of approval nor counting the number of people, but a signal of an attack.
“Be careful!” Ai Shi roared.
Even if they did not know this creature, Shao Xuan could intuitively determine its next step to make a response. Without the slightest hesitation, when the sand beast nodded again, he shouted a reminder to Lei and Tuo, “Retreat!”
Bending his knees, Shao Xuan quickly jumped off the ground. In the position where he had just stood, an arrow made of sand grains shot there and exploded. The rapid splash of sand hitting a human body was like tens of thousands of needles. The slaves who hadn’t had the time to avoid it could not help but cry out loud.
It was the sand that was ejected from the mouth of the Quicksand Beast. The sand it had shoveled earlier caused the explosion-like effect.
Lei and Tuo’s reaction speed did not cause Shao Xuan to worry. Shao Xuan believed in them. As for Su Gu, there was Wu Shi protecting him. They had also retreated, not worrying Shao Xuan.
Together with Lei and Tuo retreating to Su Gu’s side, Shao Xuan asked, “What is the weakness of this beast?”
“Weakness?” Wu Shi did not know. “Generally, when we encountered a Quicksand Beast, we will attack its eyes.”
This was also the method that they often used when they encountered other beasts. As for the weakness of the Quicksand Beast, Wu Shi did not know it. Not only Wu Shi, the other people here also did not know it. Even when they had defeated it before because the big slave owners had high valuation of the animal, as it was the beast King of the Desert, they had not found an absolute weakness to speak of. They could only use greater manpower and quantity to beat it.
Shao Xuan and the other two looked at each other. Even though they felt helpless, they still had to find a way to fight against the Quicksand Beast.
If they couldn’t fight it in a direct confrontation, it was necessary to outsmart the animal. Since they had to outsmart it, of course, they had to know the main weakness of the prey.
Shao Xuan’s group was watching in the sidelines. Anyway, here was not their place, so they were not distressed. Moreover, this was caused by the slave owners and slaves of Luoye City, which was their own matter.
On another side, Ai Shi has taken a few people to battle with the Quicksand Beast attacking the oasis.
An archer tried to shoot its eyes, but it was always avoided by the beast. The arrows bounced off its hard scales and raised horns that were extremely hard, having an astonishing defensive power. A series of arrows shot out, but they did not managed to shoot its eyes. The arrows were thin too. The material was only wood and stone, therefore, it has a limited attack power to cause harm to the sand beast.
Shao Xuan jumped on the roof of a stone house and looked over the ongoing fight.
Many reptiles do not have hard scales on their abdomen, but the Quicksand Beast did not fall into this category. Its slightly shallow belly was also covered with a thick layer of protection.
The long, flat body that was nearly twenty meters tall, though huge, had flexible movements, avoiding the slaves’ attacks. It was also constantly decreasing the slave count. The other half of its body buried in the sand drove further into the ground. With its movements, the sand looked like it was water, waves of sand lifting up.
The slaves kept attacking. Their thick spears flew with a piercing sound, trying to hit the beast’s head, trying to hit its eyes, even trying to hit other places. Even if they kept trying to break the protection of its surface scales, for the Quicksand Beast, the hits were perfunctory
It narrowed its eyes. In the exposed slit under its eyelids, a golden luster flowed out from the gap. Shao Xuan thought that there was a slightly different feel from it, but it was still tricky.
Some of the desert beasts that were still moving around earlier had disappeared, including the black beetles who were always wandering in front of them. They either ran away or dug deep into the sand.
After another attack by the oasis-guarding slaves, the Quicksand Beast did not leave but seemed even more angry.
Today, this beast was really triggered, staring at the people in the oasis and would not let them go. Even if they never moved to attack, it did not intend to leave.
A terrifying whistle, as if a storm was blowing through the narrow crevices, sounded in front of the oasis.
The Quicksand Beast opened its big mouth and shouted aloud. In its neck, there were some folds that was attached, and at this moment, these folds, all spread out with the sound of the Quicksand Beast screaming. It stretched, so that the original color of these folds became a little lighter. The hard scales on those folds exuded a golden luster under the sunlight, like the king billowing his cloak, compelling the eyes. The golden horn on its head was specially compelling. It seemed to break through all obstacles, sharp and fierce.
“It’s so beautiful!” Su Gu sighed next to him.
Hearing Su Gu’s sigh, Shao Xuan had his veins popping out of his forehead. At that time, he also had such feelings. Was his brain turning into that of the desert people or was he losing his mind?
The three people of the Flaming Horns tribe have already been on alert, even if they haven’t encountered this beast before. This was their instinct for so many years of hunting experience. Upon seeing this Quicksand Beast, they had increased their vigilance to the highest. If they encountered such a fierce beast in the mountain forest, they would not fight it, but leave immediately.
Lei and Tuo looked at the situation at the edge of the oasis. They felt that something was wrong. The Quicksand Beast seemed to be mad. Its body had started to take injuries, and some of its skin’s scales were broken due to intensive attacks. Even if it lost more blood, it wouldn’t retreat.
Looking at the slaves who had escaped, the two men couldn’t help but think, “Did those people really took the initiative to make this Quicksand Beast mad? Or was the Quicksand Beast this easy to anger as its nature?”
Shao Xuan did not think of the reason why the beast was acting so crazy. Su Gu said that the Quicksand Beast was known as the beast King of the Desert. It has no absolute weakness, but, Shao Xuan still wanted to observe.
Inside his mind, the totem flame became weak and the egg-shaped shell lit up. In Shao Xuan’s outside vision, the glare of the sun, the sand-colored beast and the land have become dark.
In the eyes of Shao Xuan, the sand beast with a golden sheen now only has a dense layer of scales left wrapped around the outside.
It must be said that the sand beast’s defense was almost invulnerable. Its eyes have shrunk into a slit, leaving the slaves with extremely limited opportunities for attack. Its other parts were hard scales, and even the open neck folds were covered with small, dense scales.
If it were not for the compact and intensive attacks of the slaves, it would have been harder to injure it.