Hunter of Mysterious Creature-Chapter 380 - 34: Chang’an?

For the heavy cavalry, if they lose speed during the charge, the outcome is undoubtedly fatal.

The Mysterious Armor Brave Cavalry is no exception.

Countless monstrous creatures fearlessly pounced on the Mysterious Armor Brave Cavalry, using their bodies to forcibly halt the horses' momentum—many Mysterious Armor Brave Cavalry had seven or eight creatures impaled on their lances like skewers, while the battering rams affixed to their horses' chests were covered with chunks of flesh, innards, and intestines. However, if their speed slowed even slightly, numerous creatures would immediately jump onto the horses and cavalry, attacking with teeth and claws while desperately trying to drag the riders down.

The standard armor of the Mysterious Armor Brave Cavalry had buckles connecting the groin and leg armor to the saddle, making it generally difficult to drag someone off the horse... Yet the brute strength of these creatures was astonishing. Many cavalrymen had their bodies torn asunder—their legs still hanging on both sides of the saddle, while their torsos were ripped off, scattering blood and flesh across the entire battlefield.

Ye Jiu's breathing grew heavy.

A hard-to-describe urge for slaughter began to germinate and spread in his heart.

Suddenly, a creature with four arms, twisted features, and festering skin leaped high, its barbed claws hooking onto a protrusion on Ye Jiu's "Slaughter" shoulder plate, hanging its whole body at his side. The next second, another hand reached for Ye Jiu's face, and its claws, sharp as daggers, thrust directly at the visor's viewing slits.

"Get away!"

Ye Jiu growled lowly, thrusting Frost Cutting backward into the monster's chest, freezing it into an ice sculpture with a blast of chilling air.

Then Ye Jiu swung Frost Cutting, shattering the ice statue on the ground into pieces, leaving only a pale hand still hanging on his Slaughter shoulder plate.

The Mysterious Armor Brave Cavalry ahead of Ye Jiu were almost entirely depleted, the surviving cavalrymen forced to dismount and fight on foot after losing their speed... However, it seemed that the armor of the Mysterious Armor Brave Cavalry was not enchanted like "Slaughter," or at least it did not have the performance comparable to powered armor.

In foot combat, the over hundred-pound armor on these cavalrymen did not provide them with superhuman mobility; instead, it became a burden. They could only keep swinging their weapons to cut down the advancing creatures, one by one—until they collapsed from exhaustion or were overwhelmed by the relentless creatures.

Ye Jiu didn't know if it was luck or something else, but his warhorse remained in a state of high-speed charge, cutting down many monstrous creatures with the battering rams and hooks hanging on its armor, requiring barely any effort from him.

He and his horse had been painted in a motley spectrum—the blood of these creatures came in many colors, with green and red-black being most common, and some creatures' blood even burned like gasoline. Ye Jiu watched in person as a Mysterious Armor Brave Cavalry member, touched by such blood, gradually turned into a man on fire during the charge, ultimately crashing into the densest part of the creature horde.

"Why are there so many creatures... Where on earth did these creatures come from?" Ye Jiu's mind was filled with questions.

He was curious not only about the origin of these creatures but also why these battles didn't make it into the records of the Golden Age of Tang; and future archaeologists have never discovered any such ancient battlefield.

Regardless of the outcome of this battle, from a broader perspective, the war between the Great Tang Empire and these creatures was ultimately a victory for the Great Tang Empire.

If it weren't, the Great Tang Empire's reign should have ended during Emperor Zhen Guan's era.

But why did the historians of the Great Tang Empire not document the war between the Mysterious Armor Brave Cavalry and these creatures?

Given Emperor Zhen Guan's love for grandiosity, there was no reason not to have recorded such a significant chapter in history.

In a moment of distraction, Ye Jiu realized he had charged over a steep hill, piercing through the entire formation of creatures—if what surged like a tide of creatures could even be called a formation.

Ye Jiu looked back, but not a single Mysterious Armor Brave Cavalry had followed—the thousands of Mysterious Armor Brave Cavalry were completely surrounded by the creatures, struggling to break the siege but unable to.

They were like a floating black island in an ocean of creatures, yet the island's area was continuously shrinking.

The numerical disparity was alarmingly vast. Ye Jiu roughly estimated that there were over a hundred thousand creatures on this battlefield, and they feared no death—not only that, compared to ordinary human infantry, although they lacked unified command and formations, their superior individual strength and various powers drastically boosted their combined might far beyond that of a hundred-thousand-strong army.

If the Mysterious Armor Brave Cavalry faced a hundred-thousand-strong human army, they might likely break through the enemy ranks, or even penetrate back and forth several times... But facing these creatures, defeat was merely a matter of time.

All the creatures surged forward, encircling the few remaining hundreds of Mysterious Armor Brave Cavalry, yet none noticed the solitary escapee, Ye Jiu—as if they couldn't see him at all.