My Apocalypse Territory-Chapter 381 - 368
Chapter 381: 368
A gust of wind swept by, cracking and sinking the ground inch by inch.
The shields in the hands of the group of ten dimmed slightly in their rune patterns, and their dense Qi Blood Power also dropped significantly at this moment.
Tang Yu could observe that many of their arms were trembling slightly. Another hit like that, and the Combined Attack Skill would be broken.
However, the Captain, whose Essence, Qi, and Spirit were united and whose strength was not to be underestimated, was sent flying dozens of meters away. He barely managed to maintain his balance in midair before he landed and stepped back to diffuse the force, leaving pits of varying depths in the solid ground of the training area.
“Not bad, not bad.”
Even though in a real battle, the Captain wouldn’t bluntly collide with a squad united in Qi Blood Power, Combined Attack Skills were born for the use in warfare, especially in the wilderness without city walls. Relying on Combined Attack Skills, a team of a hundred could possibly break through second and third level Demon Tides.
“How many people can combine the highest in this Combined Attack Skill?”
“For this barrier move, up to 50 people can combine, but a squad of ten can achieve more flexible changes,” Luo Zhe paused. “Because the barrier has specially designed rune shields, it’s easier to link the Combined Attack Skill, but other Combined Attack Skills usually only manage ten or fifteen people. Any more than that, and the connected Qi Blood Power will start to scatter.”
After reviewing the barrier, Tang Yu then saw the united slash and Battle Qi Slash, two other Combined Attack Skills, which indeed didn’t perform as impressively as the barrier. The Awakeners were slightly stiff in their coordination.
“The easiest to master and very practical Combined Attack Skill has to be Greta’s charge. As long as there is a proper ‘arrowhead’ to form a sharp triangular formation, even a Combined Attack of several hundred people is not difficult to achieve,” Luo Zhe said with a hint of regret. “Unfortunately, without mounts, the charge Combined Attack Skill is hard to execute. Relying on running to charge, the coordination is even worse than other Combined Attack Skills.”
Tang Yu also felt it was a pity.
Once the charge formation was complete, it was like an unstoppable torrent of steel. Anything standing in front would likely be torn to shreds. freeweɓnovēl.coɱ
But Mutated Beast mounts couldn’t be too weak, and at least for now, domesticated Mutated Elks, Mutated Wildebeests, and Mutate Buffalos, among other low-level Mutated Beasts, weren’t suitable… Besides, in order to tame them, their beastly nature had been worn away, making them fine as beasts of burden for pulling carts, but on the battlefield, chaos would be hard to avoid.
…
After watching approximately half an hour of Combined Attack Skill practical exercises, Tang Yu showed his face, instructed them to practice Combined Attack Skills more, and then floated away.
When passing by the foot of the mountain, he deliberately took a detour to check the growth status of the Crystal Jade Rice. Although everything was going well, there was still some time before it would mature.
Tang Yu was quite eager to taste it.
“Still, let’s go research potions. I feel like I’m not far from becoming an Intermediate Pharmacist.”
Arriving at the city wall, he walked toward the research institute. When he reached the entrance of the institute, he glanced at the open pub and market gates next to it, and his steps suddenly halted.
“Maybe, take a chance?”
After hesitating for a while, he first went to the market, refreshing the merchandise with five hundred Source Crystals each time without doing any synthesis.
After ten refreshes, he stopped in time, holding an ancient potion formula in his hand.
[Cold Ice Potion]: Ingestion can enhance the human body’s Ice series power, also can be used as Ice series material in concocting more Advanced potions.
“A very ordinary potion formula, but it may help Eileen break through to Transcendent,” he thought.
Tucking away the formula, Tang Yu then stepped into the adjacent pub, rubbed his hands together, took a deep breath, and clicked summon a minute later.
Whoosh!
A vast and mystical Summoning Array unfolded before him, hovering about fifty centimeters above the ground.
A green light burst in the center of the Array.
Tang Yu’s brain froze for several seconds… He momentarily couldn’t remember what the green color signified.
There was the gold representing S-rank aptitude, the purple for A-rank, and the most common blue for B-rank…
After frowning in thought for a while, he remembered that the green light indicated C-rank aptitude.
Something he hadn’t seen in many years.
Looking back at the center of the Array, the green light had already morphed into a virtual shadow of a human, a man dressed in a somewhat flashy manner, wearing something like a red suit and a tall black top hat.
Tang Yu was momentarily surprised by this attire, different from the usual burly, mysterious, or tattered dress of adventurers. This look was… somewhat comical.
He opened the adventurer’s profile.
[Kara Zamp]
Aptitude: C-level
Strength: Awakened Sixth Layer
Profession: Musketeers
Note: Beast Tamer
Profile: From a Beast Tamer family with a long historical heritage, and…
He furrowed his brows slightly.
Beast Tamer, undoubtedly, was a non-combat profession akin to Equipment Manufacturers and Rune Masters.
What puzzled him was, when he first summoned Kevin, the Manufacturer was marked as a Master and the Rune Master as Advanced, yet in the profile, the Beast Tamer’s level was not specified…
If it were just an ordinary Beast Tamer, it wouldn’t make sense—the profile only marks non-combat professions of Advanced level or above, and they must also be careers of considerable value.
Lorraine always claimed she was a Master-level bartender, but when she was summoned, there was no mention of a bartender profession in her profile.
Without making an immediate decision, Tang Yu contemplated,
“Currently, there aren’t many contract slots left in the tavern, but my fitting degree to the Territory has broken through forty, reaching 50% of the upgrade conditions. It shouldn’t take too long. The class I want most is a Pharmacist, but a Beast Tamer is also a scarce profession in the Territory right now…”
After pondering for a moment, he decided to sign a contract with “Kara Zamp.”
He made the choice in his heart, summoned.
The green silhouette of a human instantly solidified, “Kara Zamp” stepped out from the Summoning Array, and Tang Yu noticed a small white creature scurrying around his feet.
“Respected Lord, Kara Zamp greets you.”
He placed his right hand in front of his stomach and his left hand behind his back, bowing in a gentlemanly manner.
After briefly outlining the current state of the Territory, Tang Yu gained a deeper understanding of “Kara Zamp.”
Kara, in his attire that resembled a circus Beast Tamer, hadn’t been wrong in his guess, indeed likely working in a circus as a part-time Beast Tamer prior to being summoned.
Once he understood the world he came from, he realized it was different from the other followers he had summoned.
Like Eileen, Luo Zhe, Shay, and others, they all came from the same world, one affected by the Black Tide, without daylight, an apocalyptic scene even more dire than Earth.
Most of the summoned followers were from that world.
But not all.
Xing Yue from the Astrologer lineage was from a world not experiencing the apocalypse.
And “Kara Zamp’s” world, after Tang Yu’s understanding, was judged to be different from Xing Yue’s… It had Awakeners, as well as technology, approximately at the level of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Kara had indeed become a true Beast Tamer as the mysterious forces of his world gradually receded.
It was somewhat similar to the script in the Fourth Epoch literature, where the Source Power tides had faded away, ushering in the End of Dharma Era.
The followers came from three different worlds, among them, during the summoning of Nancy, a will of the Black Tide realm had once descended. However, Tang Yu couldn’t discern any pattern or reason.
He could only resolve to continue exploring whenever the opportunity arose.
Then he went straight to the point, “Mr. Kara, follow me to the pasture.”
…
The pasture was not a system structure but an enclosed area of considerable size, inside of which numerous Mutated Beasts were either roaming free or imprisoned.
Upon reaching the pasture, one could see from afar, towering three-meter-tall crystal pillars outside the metal fences, a spectacular sight.
The small white creature that had been scurrying around his feet now showed some unease.
Kara paused, crouched down to pet the little creature, and after a while, asked, “Do those crystal pillars serve to repel Mutated Beasts?”
Tang Yu nodded and stepped forward to lead the way into the pasture.
Kara followed closely behind, with the white creature calming down under his touch. It appeared a bit listless but also followed them into the pasture.
