The Eternal System
System 29: Assassination
Li Chen who said that to Haishe, immediately ran towards the humans coming. In order to reduce the opponent's visibility to find out, Li Chen ran from the bushes and climbed up the tree. From tree to tree, he jumped up and down and looked at every location he passed from above.
After a while later, Li Chen heard the sound of a group of people discussing. He immediately stopped at one of the tree branches and gazed into the surroundings.
Looking to the left, Li Chen saw many people wearing equipment like a warrior or a cultivator.
“What is they?”
He started to raise his finger and count how many people there were.
“34 people.. as Haishe said. What do they want to do?”
Li Chen tried to approach slowly and heard from the top of the tree about their conversation.
“Argh, this forest is too thick! Boss Zhao, is he here?!”
One of the swordsmen behind who looked like a subordinate was screaming complaining to the man standing in front of them all. His body looked the most gallant and large compared to the others, and carried a sword with a powerful Ki energy that flowed within it.
“Master Haochun said that he was in this forest! Instead of you opening that useless mouth, it is better to open your eyes wide to look for it, you fool!”
The Zhao boss grumbled annoyedly hearing his men complain since coming to that forest.
On the other hand, Li Chen who heard boss Zhao mention the name ‘Haochun’, making it unthinkable for one person. Yes, the one who had that name was only the great master of the Lian family, namely Lian Haochun.
When he realized that, Li Chen immediately leaned against the tree and lowered his head while holding his chin above his fingers.
“(What does he want to do with this bunch of people? 34 people..it is impossible just to pick fruits need to carry such a large arsenal of weapons)”.
When Li Chen was confused in thinking about the reason, he began to expand his mind towards the location that the 34 people had come to, Li Chen opened his eyes wide when he thought of a speculation within his head.
“(Don't say-! Lian Haochun wants to take back the mystical beasts in this forest like Haishe said?!)”
It was too horrible to think of him. In fact, Li Chen could tell just how much Haishe would rampage if he knew of their intentions. Therefore, he felt that Haishe's anger should not come out.
If that happened, then no one would know if his anger would make an impact to Feng city to the point of destroying it.
Li Chen immediately jumped down from the top of the tree and landed right before boss Zhao and also the 33 men standing behind him.
They were all shocked by Li Chen's sudden arrival. Everyone put up their weapons and aimed towards Li Chen vigilantly.
“Bo-boss! In-dia-!”
The men behind him looked daunted and their weapons trembled the same as his body as if frightened at Li Chen's presence. While boss Zhao looked calmer and raised his clenched hand as if giving a signal to remain calm.
“Heeh... it turns out young master Li himself came before us”.
On the other hand, Li Chen who had just landed raised his gaze and stared at everyone standing before him. Without lingering, Li Chen went straight into the topic.
“I warn you one thing, if you guys want to look for trouble with this ranger, then better forget it. Events in the past have been forgiven, as much as possible avoid disputes. For your sake, and for the sake of the people who are in Feng city!”
“Sorry, but we have no intention to stop here! Mr. Haochun has promised us something big by taking your head!”
“I told you not to look for trouble in the forest in-!”
Before he could finish his sentence, Li Chen realized an awkwardness from the Zhao boss's words. He tilted his head with blank eyes like a confused fool.
“Wait-! My head?”
“Yes, your head. Young master Li Chen!”
Boss Zhao whipped out a sword that had such a powerful Ki flow with lips that grinned wide like a sneaky person.
And at that moment Li Chen only realized, that it turned out that the speculation he was thinking was wrong. The original purpose of the 34 people who came was told Lian Haochun to cut off his head in order to avenge.
All of a sudden, the system came right before his eyes with a new notification.
[Emergency mission ]
[Enemy to defeat 34]
[Enemy defeated: 0]
Li Chen lowered both his shoulders and rolled his eyeballs as if complaining of annoyance.
“Hahh... I should have realized this”.
Without waiting for him, boss Zhao unsheathed his sword forward.
“Kill him!”
The order he issued made his entire crew move and swing their attacks towards Li Chen. Swords, spears, fists, or Ki energy released in succession came towards him simultaneously.
However, Li Chen did not look daunted and even the gaze of his eyes turned sharp and serious in an instant. His body moved speeding towards boss Zhao's bottom child.
Sword after sword, fist after fist and all sorts of attacks he dodged and was given a counterattack. With just a single fist that Li Chen had mustered, every person who was hit by his attack instantly slammed backwards and even hit by a tall tree.
Bum bug baakk!
“Arghhh!”
“Ackkh!”
Without mercy, Li Chen attacked them as if there was no tomorrow. Hit until it crashed far away, hit to the ground until his skull rang crack.
Boss Zhao who saw Li Chen able to fight dozens of people at once was irritated and gritted his teeth hard.
“Cih! People are useless! Does all the work have to get me to step in?!”
When boss Zhao was grumbling, Li Chen who was faced by the last 7 people was surrounded from all directions.
“Hyaaahh!!”
The seven men shouted while swinging their weapons to stab and slash Li Chen simultaneously.
However, Li Chen only closed his eyes for a moment already gathering such a powerful amount of natural Ki energy. Li Chen opened his two eyes and instantly let out an explosion of green Ki energy in the surroundings.
TWOAR!!
The explosion wave Ki made the seven people were thrown far away to hit the wall of the tree.
Bruk bruk!
“Acckhh!!”
Li Chen straightened his body and looked around at the 33 subordinates of boss Zhao. Some were lying on the ground, some were on top of trees and some were drowning in bushes.
With the help of the system, Li Chen could see the status of the 33 people was merely a one to four star senior fighter. They had a much lower rate compared to him, making it easy to defeat him.
However, the story differed as he raised his head and stared at that boss Zhao. He was seen grinning with an annoyed feeling implied within.
“That's great.. As expected of young master Li. You can finish off all my men!”
The system had suddenly appeared before him and bestowed the status of Zhao's boss's possession on him.
[Name : Ting Zhao ]
[ Age: 32 years ]
[Cultivation level: Four-star master teacher fighter ]
“(Equivalent to me yes)” Inner Li Chen