Chapter Fifty-four: Defending Dusk

  "Are you willing to be a coward for the rest of your life, watching your home being destroyed, your wife and children scattered, or are you willing to take up arms and be a hero for just one minute to protect those you love? If you don't save yourselves, no one else can!"

  Lei Ga finished speaking and didn't wait for the villagers' response. He directly picked up his black giant sword and rushed towards the village entrance.

  Mina's mother looked at Rega's lonely figure, and tears flowed out of her eyes. She turned to the villagers with numb expressions and shouted: "He is only fifteen years old! Just an outsider! Don't you big men have even the courage of a boy?"

  The villagers all lowered their heads in shame.

  "Damn it!"

  The night watchman of the cemetery squeezed out from behind the crowd, his originally oily face was exceptionally resolute at this moment. "The woman I liked is dead, I don't have anyone to protect, but I'm a man who can pee two meters away while standing! I'd rather die than be a coward!"

  He suddenly hugged a young girl next to him, kissed her hard and said with great fanfare: "If I can come back alive, I must go to bed with you!"

  The girl was so scared that her face turned pale, and it took her a long time to come back to her senses. She trembled with fear and said: "That...that has to wait until after we get married..."

  "Haha! Worth it!"

  The night watchman of the cemetery burst out laughing and picked up a long spear, chasing after Lei Ga.

  "What's with your bull air! I'm also standing here pissing!"

  Right after that, another young man jumped out and ran to the front of the girl who was still in shock, gave her a forceful kiss on the mouth, "Wait for me to come back, I'll fight him for you!"

  Having said that, he grabbed his weapon and rushed out without looking back.

  "Damn it, when did this bunch of kids from Dusk Village get ahead?"

  "It's just like we can only pee two centimeters."

  "Kill the monster! Defend our wives, defend our children, defend ourselves!"

  "Cheers! Cheers! Cheers!"

  Dozens of throats burst out with roars, which actually overwhelmed the loud howls of the giant beast outside the village. The remaining male villagers could not hold back their heroic spirit, each taking out their weapons and rushing towards the village entrance in a mighty tide.

  Lei Ga rushed to the village entrance at the fastest speed, with a black giant sword in hand, four-stage Dou Qi all over his body, emitting a red glow, like an indestructible flame in the dark night.

  Through the thick night fog, the monster first discovered Leica, letting out a deafening roar, pounding the ground with its big feet, step by step approaching Leica.

  Lei Ga decided to take the initiative, he stared at the monster's tall outline, taking advantage of its unstable footing, and suddenly charged forward. The black giant sword danced repeatedly, each sword chopping towards the monster's legs.

  Generally speaking, the larger an object is, the more important its legs and feet are, because once it loses its balance, it's very hard to get back up.

  Lei Ga's calculated strike was perfect, the black giant sword without any edge or blade chopped straight towards its target, but it was blocked by a steel-like hard shell and rebounded with a clear metallic ringing sound. The intense recoil impact hit his tiger mouth, blood gushed out, and the joints of both arms were almost twisted and deformed, barely able to hold onto the black giant sword.

  Right after that, a cool breeze swept across his head, and a gigantic red pincer came from above, striking down at him.

  Lei Ga let out a cry of surprise, hastily dodging and retreating, but was caught off guard by a heavy punch that landed squarely on his chest. His fourth-stage Dou Qi was completely unable to withstand the blow, sending his body flying backward in a straight line until he crashed to the ground, rolling over a dozen times before finally coming to a stop.

  He hastily used his black giant sword to prop himself up, quickly standing up, but a mouthful of blood spurted out from his mouth.

  Lei furrowed his brow, thinking to himself, "Just now that pincer and hard shell were clearly those of an angry dragon lobster, so why did it suddenly throw a heavy punch? What on earth has Xu Lingtian created!?"

  A massive creature let out a thunderous roar and took heavy steps towards Luffy.

  Lei Ga couldn't help but take a cold breath, the monster in front of him was clearly stitched together from the body of a furious lobster and a human corpse! The huge body was identical to that of a furious lobster, with hard shells covering the left side of its body along with two giant pincers, while the right side was entirely made up of stitched-together human corpses.

  No wonder I was caught off guard just now.

  Those stitched-together test subjects in the underground cave were just preparations for creating this monster. The Lingtong Juejing must be the command center of those stitched corpses, allowing thoroughly dead bodies to move again. The Furious Claw Lobster and Stitched Corpse share a body but are two different monsters with incredible strength; just its footsteps causing intense vibrations and ear-piercing roars already put it on par with a third-rank magical beast, equivalent to a ninth-rank warrior - this is not going to be easy to deal with.

  Thinking of this, Lei Ga couldn't help but let out a bitter laugh. Previously, he had been puzzled as to why Xu Ling Tian wanted him to go kill the Spirit Body Monster and capture the Furious Claw Lobster. Now, everything made sense. This plan was truly flawless; he had become an accomplice in Xu Ling Tian's destruction of Dusk Village. The cunning nature of the Spirit Body Monster was difficult to deal with, not to mention the attacking power of the Furious Claw Lobster. Now that they were combined into one entity, using a fourth-stage creature to fight against a ninth-stage one...the odds of winning were truly...

  "Hey, young noble! We're here!"

  With a loud shout from the night watchman of the cemetery, dozens of long spears tore through the night sky and flew towards the stitched monster.

  The stitched monster let out a shrill cry, stopped its advancing footsteps, raised its hard pincers and parried the incoming long spears one by one.

  Lei Ga took the opportunity to quickly gather with the villagers, he roughly swept his eyes and found that more than 50 villagers had arrived, the scale was already close to a guild team. The men of Dusk Village were indeed unique, but unfortunately, most people had only grand ambitions but no actual combat experience, and only a few people possessed aura cultivation, and it was only first-order at best.

  But anyway, having other helpers appear will increase the chances of defeating the Stitched Monster a bit - but only by a bit.

  "Holy light! What in the world is this thing?!" The villager with a double chin widened his eyes, his gaze filled with astonishment.

  "The monster created by Xulintian is meant for revenge against you." Leiga wiped away the bloodstain at the corner of his mouth and replied calmly.

  "Take revenge on us? When Yelisha ate the corpses of our relatives, we didn't burn them alive, that's already being too kind! How dare he take revenge on us now?" A middle-aged man with almost no hair shouted indignantly.

  "Alright, let's defend Dusk Village first and then complain later."

  Although what Xulintian did was unforgivable, Leijia still found it hard to accept when he heard someone insulting him and Yelisha. In fact, he respected Xulintian not only because of his professionalism as an alchemist but also because Xulintian was a man who went crazy purely for love. Madness should be punished, but love should be praised.

  Lei Ga quickly changed the subject, pointing at the stitched monster and saying: "The monster we're up against is extremely powerful. To be honest, its strength has already reached a level close to that of a 9th-tier human warrior, while my own strength is only at the 4th tier. Let alone your weapons being unable to pierce its shell, even I am not capable of doing so."

  As soon as this was said, the villagers who were originally full of morale immediately shrunk their necks like eggplants that had been beaten, and not a word was spoken.

  "I'm not hiding the danger of this monster from you, I want to prepare your minds, don't blindly sacrifice, after all, behind you is your own home."

  Seeing the villagers' morale recover, Laga continued: "I've already fought against this stitched monster's shell part before. Its weakness should be its eyes, but it's too high and we can't attack from above. So the focus should be on the stitched corpse part on its right side. That part will be very cunning, but its attacking power shouldn't be strong. My plan is for me to go to the front and attract its attention, while you all attack its right side together. Do you understand?"

  "I understand."

  The villagers replied with different expressions. Some of them were skeptical about Laga's "noble status", after all, a noble young master wearing cheap clothes and helping unfamiliar villagers deal with the Sewing Monster was somewhat fantastical, so their tone was a bit hesitant.

  There are also some people who despise Lega's age, and it makes them somewhat uncomfortable to take orders from a fifteen-year-old kid, so they answer with a slightly arrogant tone.

  Another group of people are the village's night watchmen, these men are tall and sturdy, with professional equipment, their momentum is also different from other villagers. The few who possess aura are among them, they have experienced some battles, quickly realizing that Reiga is calm, rational, and has a team commander demeanor, so their tone of response is the most serious.

  Lei Ga nodded to them, he didn't expect everyone to be convinced of his identity as a stranger, but as long as the core strength of these villagers could execute his orders, others were irrelevant.

  "Alright, let's split up and act separately, with probing as the main goal, and pay attention to safety."

  Lei Ga finished speaking, and immediately jumped forward, facing the stitched monster head-on. The villagers, led by the night watchman, also moved quietly to the right side according to plan.

  The stitched horror let out a screech and its two massive claws came crashing down on Leliana.

  Lei Ga was already familiar with the attack pattern of the angry pincer lobster, so despite the difference in strength between the fourth-stage Dou Qi and the stitched monster, he could still barely maintain the initiative. The black giant sword in his hand occasionally swung a knife on the pincers, but he didn't use Dou Qi again, and simply provoked the stitched monster's anger.

  He was just feigning an attack, covering for a real one.

  "For the dusk!"

  With a shout from the Nightwatch, more than 50 villagers rushed towards the stitched monster like a tide, attacking the corpse parts of the stitched monster with their long spears and sharp knives in a disorderly manner.

  The stitched corpse was suddenly cut out with a blood mark, but no fresh blood flowed out. The abdomen on the right side suddenly opened a long and narrow big mouth, and immediately sucked in the nearest villager.

  The villager let out a muffled scream, his legs still desperately struggling at the mouth.

  In an instant, the giant mouth of the stitched creature swallowed the villager whole, and then let out a loud and long belch. The stench was overwhelming, even Rega on the other side couldn't help but wrinkle his nose.

  The villagers were all frightened out of their wits and completely forgot to attack, standing stupidly in place.

  The stitched monster's belly began to convulse and squirm, emitting a strange "gagging" sound from its large mouth.

  "Run!"

  Lei Ga parried the pincer's fierce attack while loudly shouting to the villagers: "Quickly run and dodge its mouth! It's going to spit poison!"