Post-Apocalyptic Survival Modpack

Chapter 36: Pity and Sorrow
Eddred slowly raised his right hand and touched the standard knight's greatsword behind his back.

Hundreds of cavalrymen assumed a ready stance, poised to attack.

Wang Ji gestured for Ryder to step back, then took out the potion with his other hand and began drinking it bottle by bottle.

It's still the same four-piece set: Strength, Speed, Health Regeneration, and Fire Resistance.

Adelaide did not stop Wang Ji from drinking; she simply watched him patiently finish his drink.

"I will show you who truly rules this world in an era when sorcerers were considered beneath respectability..."

As Wang Ji stopped drinking the medicine, Adelaide suddenly moved.

The greatsword was suddenly drawn and came hurtling down with a whoosh.

Boom!
Wang Ji had anticipated this move and immediately pulled out his shield to block it. However, even with the shield's block and the knockback resistance of the lower-realm alloy armor, he couldn't help but take a half step back.

The shield has also been broken and is temporarily unusable.

'What outrageous power!'

"Oh?"

Adelaide's lips curled into a smile, revealing interest. Just as she was about to give chase again, a massive cleaver, the size of a door panel, appeared out of thin air in Wang Ji's hand and slammed down without warning.

Adelaide quickly slid back, the cleaver whistling past her hair before slamming into the ground. A cloud of dust was kicked up by the force, and a neat, deep crater appeared in the ground.

The edge of the pit was full of cracks, as if it were about to shatter the earth.

Adelaide exhaled and looked up in astonishment.

No, what kind of strange magic are you using?
Where is your magic?
What about your ability to summon blocks of stone out of thin air?
but…

"interesting!"

Boom!

He leaped high into the air, then irrationally accelerated his descent, his greatsword slashing down with a piercing shriek as it tore through the air, only to strike a cluster of purple particles.

pat.

As the Ender Pearl landed, Wang Ji instantly teleported behind Eldred and delivered a powerful leaping slash that slammed into him—a burst of 45 damage that pierced through the unusual knight's armor. The immense pressure from above forced Eldred to his knees, coughing up blood.

That's a really thick health bar!
Wang Ji's pupils contracted, and he dared not be careless. He immediately followed up with a second strike, swinging the cleaver with all his might.

With a terrifying white arc of light, the immense force blasted Adred away, sending him tumbling into the woods and through the grass until he finally came to a stop after crashing into a small, not-so-thick tree.

The tall figure lay motionless in the darkness.

"it's over?"

Wang Ji, carrying the cleaver, seemed slightly unsatisfied.

Is this the kind of being who ruled the world when magicians were no longer respectable?
That's a bit too much...

and many more.

He suddenly turned his head to look at the woods.

Boom!
A voice came out.

Something was pulsating, like a war drum or muffled thunder.

A pair of scarlet eyes opened in the darkness.

crunch.

The thick tree trunk was crushed by a large hand, and the owner of that hand, Adelaide, stood up and suddenly laughed.

Wang Ji understood.

That strong and powerful sound was the beating of a heart.

wow-

Yellowed leaves scattered everywhere. Adelaide stepped on the ground and suddenly shot out, covering dozens of meters in the blink of an eye, rushing to Wang Ji and swinging her greatsword.

In the rush, Wang Ji only had time to raise his cleaver to meet the greatsword, barely managing to block the immense pressure.

The scene was like an ant wrestling with a beetle, but neither could gain the upper hand.

For the first time, Wang Ji felt somewhat strained.

But it seems we haven't reached the limit yet.

His strength has always been ambiguous; it can be very high or very low.

When facing a weak opponent, it can easily suppress them, but when facing a particularly strong opponent, there is always room for it to swing its hands.

"You didn't understand."

A rough voice came from in front of me.

As Adelaide continued to increase the pressure, she said, "It doesn't matter who dies here, it doesn't matter how many people die, and it doesn't matter you either..."

"The important thing is that you must—obey my rules and follow my orders!"

"Who wants to understand you, you inexplicably delusional old geezer!"

Wang Ji cursed.

Sparks flew as the blade clashed against the sword. Eddred took a step back and launched another attack on Wang Ji.

Wang Ji swung his sword upwards.

There is no defense, no dodging, only offense.

clang!
The clanging of metal made one's brain buzz. The sturdy knight's armor was dented by Mayuling's cleaver, but the lower-realm alloy armor remained completely unchanged. It withstood the sword without even a scratch.

Adred's face twitched, his expression turning ferocious. He pushed forward despite the damage, flexing his muscles to swing his greatsword once more.

A violent force continued to strike, and the greatswords fell like hailstones, swinging faster than the hoe Wang Ji used for farming.

In contrast, Wang Ji, despite his formidable strength and damage, possesses a paltry 0.8 attack speed.

He quickly found himself unable to cope and could only retreat or throw out Ender Pearls to teleport and evade.

Wang Ji did not continue to recklessly fight.

On the surface, he seemed to have the upper hand in that exchange, as if he hadn't been hurt at all, and even Adelaide thought so.

But only he knew that that one strike had taken away a quarter of his health bar.

It hurts so much!

It hurts even more than taking a direct hit from a pillar of fire spell!
Despite the pain, the damage was fully restored in just a few seconds thanks to the life-restoring potion.

"Was that teleportation? You're starting to seem like a sorcerer."

Adelaide's tone was almost manic.

His offensive intensified, chasing Wang Ji like a mad rhinoceros, smashing houses and breaking trees along the way, from the plains to the mountains and forests, and then rushing down from the mountains and forests to bombard the ground.

The greatsword he gripped tightly in his hand was made of an unknown material. He used it as a club to smash the ground and as an axe to chop down trees, cutting them in half without even a curled edge.

"Come on!" Adred roared, relentlessly chasing the dark figure that was barely discernible in the night, as if he had inexhaustible strength.

Seeing Wang Ji in a disadvantageous position, Ryder was sweating with tension, his anxiety becoming increasingly palpable.

However, his situation wasn't much better.

He faced hundreds of elite cavalrymen who were watching him intently, but his greatest asset was only the two spell rings on his hands.

One of them is a ring with a minor healing effect that can keep you alive, and the other is the Rising Flame ring used by the mine manager.

The cavalrymen recognized his worth, but due to Ryder's mystery and the unknown nature of the subject, they dared not act rashly.

Ryder, too, was deterred by the strength of the cavalry and dared not leave on his own.

The two sides deterred each other, creating a balance.

But the other side is not so balanced.

Anyone could see that Adelaide was dominating Wang Ji and had a significant advantage.

Therefore, the cavalrymen were not in a hurry at all; on the contrary, they all had a "let's see what happens" mentality.

"A meaningless persistence, a false sense of justice!"

On the mountain, Eddred seized the opportunity and slammed Wang Ji into a rock with a thrust, while also launching a verbal attack.

"Do you think you can protect everything you have now on your own?"

Wang Ji didn't respond immediately, but instead used the terrain to jump up and slash downwards, dealing 1.5 times the critical damage of a jump slash, which collided with Adred and briefly suppressed his momentum.

"Don't worry about it."

Wang Ji said, "You should worry about yourself."

"You stubborn brat!"

With a roar, Eddred mustered all his strength and charged forward once more.

"I want to see how long you can hold on!"

Wang Ji seized the opportunity to take a bite of the fish, then quickly dodged to the side.

The battleground shifted constantly, each collision producing a deafening roar, like thunder, keeping everyone on edge, their eyes glued to the ground for fear of missing a crucial moment.

...

Time passes gradually.

The sky began to brighten.

The night was far from peaceful.

The two fought from dusk till dawn, causing landslides, damage to forests, and altering the terrain of an entire area.

With dark circles under his eyes, Ryder looked to his left at the cavalrymen who were so haggard they had dismounted, and to his right at Wang Ji and Eddred who were still fighting.

The magic rings on my hands have developed a patina from handling them.

"Wow, she's really good at holding on..."

Adelaide, panting, his eyes already somewhat swollen, shouted in a hoarse voice:

"Come on, let's continue!"

Boom!
The cleaver and the greatsword clashed countless times, but this time, Wang Ji seemed much more relaxed.

Previously, due to Edred's rapid and relentless attacks, he had no chance to accumulate the trait of the Mayuling Cleave, which increases damage with each hit.

But that's different now.

By this time, Adelaide had long lost her initial enthusiasm, and both her body and mind had become visibly haggard.

In contrast, consider Wang Ji.

Aside from having fewer food items in his backpack, his condition remained the same as before.

Full of energy, and my health bar is full too.

The equipment and weapons are not very good.

Neither of these items is as durable as he is.

By this point, the Nether Alloy Armor had lost more than half of its durability, and the Magorin Blade had lost more than two thousand durability points, also being mostly depleted.

But it's almost over.

Wang Ji began to confront Eldred head-on, while the damage from his cleaver continued to accumulate and increase.

"Move! Move faster!"

Adelaide urged him on, though it was unclear whether she was speaking to Wang Ji or to herself.

However, his exhausted appearance clearly made it impossible for his words and actions to match.

Boom!
With another clash of weapons, he finally ran out of strength and could no longer withstand the increasingly heavy pressure of the massive cleaver.

The greatsword in his hand was knocked away.

Wang Ji seized the opportunity, took a breath, and swung his cleaver again with great force.

As if sensing death approaching, Adelaide suddenly became exceptionally clear-headed, squeezing out her last bit of energy to react.

But instead of dodging or retaliating, he took the blow head-on, using his tattered armor and sturdy chest to block it.

Wang Ji seemed somewhat surprised.

Clang.

Adelaide fell to the ground.

In his final moments, he turned his head to look at Wang Ji, his eyes filled with genuine pity.

That look made Wang Ji very uncomfortable.

"Someone like you is also shunned by the capital?"

"hehe…"

"Interesting."

Adelaide took a deep breath and said:
"Do you know that most of the so-called upper class in the capital are complete idiots, nothing more... You can never imagine what kind of pig brain would drive you to this situation, or what trivial and ridiculous reason it would be."

"It's truly tragic."

　The pits are almost all dug; it's time to speed things up...

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　　(There have been quite a few problems lately, but it all boils down to not updating enough. I really want to update more every day and get straight to the point to avoid any discrepancies between the book title and the content, but it's the new book period... updating more would disrupt the normal flow, so I can only take it slow for now.)

　　
　
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