Chapter 121: A Frantic Escape
As the roar was heard, the previously quiet Magical Beast Mountain Range became noisy once more. Practically every single magical beast was awoken and their sounds began to cry out in every direction. Every magical beast had made a sound, but not a single one of them would dare go against the tiger.
Hearing the roar of the tiger, Jian Chen's face changed into a severely serious one. "Oh no, this is the roar of the Golden Fur Tiger King!" His voice was unnaturally serious since the Golden Fur Tiger King was a Class 5 Magical Beast. This magical beast was special in the way that if it had reached a threshold, it could transform its body and from that moment on, it would enter a new world. The Class 5 Magical Beast was far different than a class 4 Magical Beast, and with Jian Chen's current strength, taking care of a Class 4 Magical Beast would be hard already, let alone a Class 5 one.
"Not good, it's the roar of the Golden Fur Tiger King! Run, run quickly, everyone scatter or else we'll all die here!" Captain Cross shouted as his voice trembled with fear. Even before he could finish his warning, he had immediately taken off into the forest with the cub of the Golden Fur Tiger King. Even the mercenaries who had been fighting the Flame Mercenaries immediately gave up the fight and immediately followed Cross into the forest.
Suddenly, before Captain Cross could get too far into the forest, Jian Chen sped forward like a speed demon as his Light Wind Sword flashed silver and aimed straight at the man's throat. Even at a dangerous time like this, Jian Chen had no plans of letting him go.
Cross' face changed rapidly as he waved his own sword around. As his sword collided against Jian Chen's, Cross snarled, "Have you gone crazy? The Class 5 Magical Beast Golden Fur Tiger King is coming. If you continue to try to stop me, then you'll lose your chance to escape."
Jian Chen was indifferent to Cross' words, almost as if he hadn't heard Cross speak at all. The Light Wind Sword transformed into a ray of silver light as it traveled toward Cross once more.
Cross raised his sword to defend himself against the lightning-like strikes. With no time to dodge, he was stabbed through the shoulder by Jian Chen who at the same time grabbed at the cub with his left hand.
Cross couldn't help but curse in pain as he continued to retreat with the cub in his hands still. "Everyone come together to block this kid. This cub is far too important for our Zhou Mercenaries to lose!"
Hearing this, each Zhou Mercenary began to hesitate, but no one dared to disobey Cross' orders. Five men charged at Jian Chen with their Saint Weapons in hand in an effort to stall him. Cross had then fled into the surrounding forests while the unwilling mercenaries had stayed behind at first before quickly following Cross into the forest.
Because Great Saints weren't a threat to Jian Chen at all, he had quickly dropped down 5 of them, the group of mercenaries that had followed Cross were quickly dropping like flies.
"Hou!"
The previously faraway roar of the tiger was getting closer as the Golden Fur Tiger King was approaching at rapid speeds. Jian Chen's face grew even more anxious as he looked at Kendall and said, "The Golden Fur Tiger King is approaching this area quickly, it won't take too long before it gets here. Captain Kendall, it's not good to stay here, let's leave quickly."
Kendall looked at the blood soaked members of the Flame mercenaries and the multiple wounds on them. It was a good thing the battle didn't go on for long, otherwise they would had suffered from casualties.
"Everyone hurry up and run away."
Unable to dress up their bloody wounds, everyone quickly began to dash into the forest with great speed, but because of the various wounds they had, their movements weren't all that fast.
