Chapter 299: Sequence 6 Defeats Sequence 5
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The "Guardian" looked at Hobert in front of him again, who was still unscathed. What was most annoying was that he had never seen such a useful "Distortion" before, which was successful every time. The "Sword of Dawn" in his hand seemed to never be able to touch Hobert.
Not only that, Hobert had been using "Distortion" to influence Sequence 8, which had turned into a monster. The monster had been dealing with the "Weapon Master", making the two of them fight separately.
After a little consideration, the "Guardian" shouted, "Withdraw!"
As he said this, he stabbed out with his sword, taking the opportunity to distance himself from Hobert. Then, he strode over, picked up the "Conspirer", and was about to leave.
How could Hobert let him succeed? "Madness!"
The "Guardian" grabbed the "Conspirer" and held him in front as a shield. "Madness" hit "Conspirer".
The "Weapon Master" on the side also fired a shot, causing the monster to retreat. He took the opportunity to disengage from the battle and ran away, ignoring the others.
On the battlefield over there, a barrier emitting the light of dawn appeared in front of the "Spirit Guide" and Sequence 7, helping them escape the battle as well.
Hobert chased after them, flashing in front of the "Guardian", wanting to kill the "Conspirer", who was being used as a shield, with one strike. However, just as the knife was about to fall, a layer of "Dawn Barrier" appeared in front of the "Conspirer" again.
Hobert was a little helpless. This was the Guardian's "Dawn Barrier". Even a demigod-level frontal attack would find it difficult to break through this barrier.
Under the cover of the "Guardian", the "Spirit Guide" even conveniently picked up the Beyonder characteristic of the Sequence 8 that Hobert had killed at the beginning.
Each time the "Teleportation Statue" in Austin's hand "teleported", it would be blocked by the "Dawn Barrier", making it impossible to keep the enemy.
So, the group could only watch as the "Guardian" covered his teammates and left.
The "Guardian"'s choice was correct. Ever since the eight of them were artificially divided into two battlefields by Hobert, the battle on Hobert's side had a great advantage for them. After all, Hobert was suppressed by the "Guardian" and had almost no power to fight back.
However, the other battlefield was disadvantageous for the "Guardian" and the others. It was already a two-on-four situation, and they had no advantage in terms of numbers or sequence.
They still had the opportunity to retreat calmly. If they waited a little longer, the "Spirit Guide" and Sequence 7 on the other side would not be able to hold on and would be killed one after another. Then, it would be their group besieging a Sequence 5 and a Sequence 7.
The key was that the "Guardian" was not confident in quickly killing Hobert, otherwise the battlefield battle could continue for a while.
Originally, Hobert wanted to use the reusable "Blink" to kill one of the opponent's Sequence 7s, but after thinking about it, he gave up.
The "Guardian" and his teammates had almost left the range of the "Order Tree", and The Guardian's Light of Dawn was about to recover. Hobert thought it would be a little risky to chase after them alone.
In the blink of an eye, only a monster from the oil painting and the out-of-control Sequence 8 monster were left on the battlefield.
Hobert raised his knife and killed the out-of-control monster first, then walked towards the monster with sharp claws, knife in hand.
It seemed to have the memory of the previous monster, remembering being killed by Hobert not long ago. Seeing Hobert, the monster, who had been baring its fangs and claws, turned around and prepared to drill back into the oil painting.
Hobert sprinted forward and killed the opponent with another strike.
Austin and the others didn't know if they were experiencing a rebirth or if they couldn't believe the current result. They all stood there staring blankly at the weeds that had been ignited by the "Conspirer".
It wasn't until Hobert gave Roy a healing spell that everyone came back to their senses.
Roy noticed that his wound was healing rapidly. After thanking Hobert, he said, "Virgil is still in the grassland over there, but, but he may not make it."
"Take me over to see," Hobert said, "As long as he's not dead, there's a chance to save him."
Austin also reacted: "Everyone follow, we can't separate before returning to Backlund."
If that "Guardian" and the others wanted to turn back and ambush them, they would definitely attack the straggling companions.
While going to save people, Roy talked about what happened on the ground.
Earlier, when Hobert killed the Human-Skin Shadow in the tomb, the camp was attacked by the "Spirit Guide" who had just escaped. Roy first gave a warning to the companions in the tomb, preparing to defend the camp and wait to join Austin and the others.
However, the enemy's attack was too fierce, and Roy and Virgil, who were injured, managed to escape.
They ran for a distance and found that the enemy did not chase after them at all, as if they had no intention of pursuing them.
They had been here for more than a week before, and Roy was familiar with the surrounding terrain. He rested for a while in a hidden grass beach.
Later, Roy saw the "Light of Dawn" emitted from the camp. He carefully sneaked back and happened to meet Austin jumping out of the cave, so he immediately joined the battle.
Returning to the grass beach, Virgil was already dead, and his Beyonder characteristics had already been extracted.
Everyone was silent in front of the corpse for more than half a minute, as if mourning, and as if lamenting the fate of mercenaries.
Finally, Austin put away Virgil's Beyonder characteristics, and the other team members carried Virgil's body back to the camp.
Hobert said to Roy and the others: "To prevent accidents, Austin and I will stay in the camp, you guys hurry up and transport the things in the tomb."
Because of Hobert's performance in the battle just now, they were very convinced of Hobert's words and immediately jumped down to move things.
Hobert found a dark gray stone emitting a strong stench around the out-of-control Sequence 8.
This was the monster's Beyonder characteristic. To be precise, this should be a sealed artifact, because the Sequence 8 had lost control. Although it still had the appearance of an Beyonder characteristic, it could no longer be used as a normal Beyonder characteristic.
Austin took the Beyonder characteristic of the Sequence 8 killed by Pete and handed it to Hobert: "This is your trophy. Even now, I still feel like the experience just now was a dream.
"Storm above, we actually drove away a Sequence 5 and his subordinates!"
Hobert was not polite and put away the Beyonder characteristic: "If it was a head-on confrontation, we would definitely have no chance. The "Teleportation Statue"'s surprise attack gave us a huge advantage.
"It was also in the surprise attack that we laid the groundwork for the enemy's Sequence 6 to lose combat power."
If the enemy had always maintained a lineup of one Sequence 5 and two Sequence 6s, then this battle would have been difficult to win.
Austin smiled: "Anyway, this is enough for me to brag about for the rest of my life."
As he said this, he put the bodies of the two subordinates together, then went to the tent to get a shovel, preparing to dig a hole on the spot to bury the bodies of his companions.
When he opened the tent, he found: "Oh, it's Lena, Lena's body!"
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