hsntnovel Chapter 138 A Magical World, You're Giving Me an RPG?
Chapter 138 A Magical World, You're Giving Me an RPG?
Ten minutes later.
The Bloodskull tribe's convoy slowly drove into the dried-up riverbed.
The orc warlord rode on the back of an exceptionally tall dire wolf, holding a leather whip inlaid with a magical beast core, impatiently urging the troops on.
"Hurry up! You bunch of two-legged sheep! We must get to the Black Rock Mine before dark!" The warlord's rough voice echoed through the valley.
The students in school uniforms were already exhausted. One of the boys, who was wearing glasses, stumbled and fell heavily to the ground, pulling down the person in front of him as well.
"Useless trash!" A half-orc guard grinned as he stepped forward, raising his spiked club to smash it down.
In that very instant.
boom--!!!
A violent explosion suddenly rang out behind the column.
The bone fragment landmines planted by Chen Qi were detonated with precision.
The violent shockwave, carrying countless sharp bone fragments and iron nails, instantly tore the orc guards to shreds.
Severed limbs and black blood shot into the sky.
The sudden turn of events threw the entire convoy into chaos.
The kodo beast was startled and began to struggle and howl frantically.
"Enemy attack! Protect the cargo!" the orc warlord roared, drawing his heavy battle axe from his waist.
Before the words were finished, a dark red meteor crashed down from the high slope on the side of the riverbed.
Jiang Ming gripped the [Hellfire and Thunder Prison] with both hands and, using the terrifying force of his fall, slammed directly onto a cart loaded with ore.
boom!
The sturdy wooden cart instantly shattered into pieces, scattering blue magical ore all over the ground.
A violent electromagnetic field exploded outwards from Jiang Ming, and the dark blue arcs of electricity instantly charred the bodies of the dozen orc scouts around him, causing them to convulse and fall to the ground.
"court death!"
The warlord's eyes were bloodshot as he urged his dire wolf to pounce on Jiang Ming.
The Lv.22 Orc Overseer, coupled with his heavy battle axe charge, was an extremely terrifying sight.
Jiang Ming stood amidst the ruins, without even trying to hide.
He raised his head, grinned at the charging warlord, and poured all 35 points of strength into his arms, meeting the massive battle axe with a fierce upward slash.
when--!
A deafening metallic explosion echoed through the valley.
The warlord's prized steel battle axe was cleaved in two like a cookie by the epic sharpness and absolute power of the [Fire and Thunder Prison]!
The immense recoil caused the warlord's hand to explode instantly, sending him flying backward off the dire wolf's back and crashing heavily onto the sand behind him.
"Pathetic." Jiang Ming flicked the sparks off his sword and walked step by step toward the warlord.
The Earth students, who had been terrified, were now staring in disbelief through the gaps in the prison van at the man who looked like a demon descending to earth.
"Is that... Superman?" the bespectacled boy muttered to himself.
The warlord struggled to his feet, looking at the half-finished axe handle in his hand, a look of disbelief and fear flashing in his eyes.
But instead of running away, he let out a beastly roar and ripped open a tattered cloth bundle hanging on the dire wolf's saddle.
Jiang Ming stopped and raised an eyebrow slightly.
What fell out of that tattered bundle was neither a magic scroll nor an ancient artifact.
Instead, it is a thick, military-green metal cylinder with a distinct tail fin structure at the rear.
An RPG-7 rocket launcher with obvious modern industrial features!
The warlord skillfully slung the rocket launcher over his shoulder, the dark muzzle locking onto Jiang Ming, a cruel smile spreading across his狰狞 (zhengning - ferocious/hideous) beastly face.
"Times have changed, you human reptiles—" the warlord roared in broken Common Tongue, "Prepare to die!"
Jiang Ming's eyelids twitched as he looked at the bright green iron pipe on the governor's shoulder.
This is a fucking alternate world!
In a place teeming with orcs, trolls, and magical ores, you, an orc warlord riding a giant wolf, pull an RPG-7 out of your crotch?
This art style is ridiculously distorted.
"Go to hell, you two-legged sheep!"
The orc warlord gave Jiang Ming no time to think about his worldview before his large fingers slammed down on the trigger.
laugh--!
A jet of scorching flame shot from the tail of the rocket launcher, and the enormous recoil caused the warg beneath the warlord to howl in agony.
A rocket with a distinctly modern industrial aesthetic, trailing a long plume of white smoke, hurtled straight toward Jiang Ming's face.
The distance was too close, less than thirty meters.
In the past, Jiang Ming would probably have already closed his eyes and waited to die by now.
However, he is now Lv.13, with his strength exceeding 35 points, and his mental strength has been enhanced by [Iron Will].
The moment the rocket left the barrel looked like it was in slow motion to Jiang Ming.
He didn't hide.
"Gravity spell, maximum power," Jiang Ming silently chanted in his mind.
hum!
Centered on Jiang Ming, the air within a five-meter radius in front of him suddenly sank.
The gravity in this area was instantly increased tenfold!
The moment the rocket hurtled into the gravitational field, its originally straight flight trajectory underwent an extremely dramatic deflection.
The bullet felt as if it had been slammed down by an invisible giant hand, and it crashed headfirst into the ground.
Boom! ...
A deafening explosion rang out less than three meters in front of Jiang Ming.
The violent shockwave, mixed with debris and scorching yellow sand, formed a small mushroom cloud that instantly engulfed Jiang Ming's figure.
"Hahaha! You idiot! You didn't even know how to dodge!"
The orc warlord threw away the empty launcher in his hand and burst into unrestrained laughter.
He had personally witnessed the power of this thing. Let alone a human wearing tattered metal armor, even a fully grown armored rhinoceros would be severely injured if hit by one.
The remaining orc guards around them also raised their weapons and cheered.
The students in the prison van looked ashen-faced.
The boy with glasses closed his eyes in despair; the glimmer of hope that had just been ignited was completely extinguished by the rocket.
However, the warlord's laughter had not yet subsided.
call--!
A sudden gust of wind whipped up, forcefully tearing apart the billowing smoke.
A dark red bolt of lightning shot out from the smoke and dust!
Jiang Ming strode out of the bomb crater.
His wolf bone composite breastplate had several white marks on its surface from shrapnel, and his face was covered in black ash, but he was completely unharmed.
"Have you laughed enough?"
Jiang Ming's voice wasn't loud, but it was particularly jarring in the quiet valley.
The warlord's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets, and he made a strange "clucking" sound in his throat, as if he had seen a ghost.
He kicked the wolf in the belly and tried to turn around and run away.
late.
The ground beneath Jiang Ming's feet shattered with a deafening roar, and he launched himself forward like a cannonball.
The distance of a dozen meters was covered in an instant.
He gripped the [Hellfire and Thunder Prison] tightly with both hands, lightning crackling on the dark red blade, and eerie blue arcs of electricity coiling around the sword like snakes.
"Overload!"
Jiang Ming roared, and the giant sword, carrying the power to split mountains and shatter rocks, slashed down fiercely.
Click!
There was no hindrance whatsoever.
The edge of the epic greatsword sliced through the warlord's hastily raised left arm, then cleaved his thick chest, and finally cut the Lv.18 dire wolf beneath him in two!
Fresh blood mixed with internal organs sprayed all over the ground.
The sword energy, intertwined with lightning and fire, plowed a scorched trench more than ten meters long in the ground. Its remaining power was undiminished, shattering an empty flatbed cart behind it into pieces.
The entire room fell silent.
The remaining seven or eight orc guards watched as the warlord was split in two, and their weapons clattered to the ground.
The next second, they scrambled and stumbled as they fled frantically toward either end of the valley, wishing their parents had two more legs.
Da da da da!
Suddenly, a burst of gunfire erupted from the high slope.
Chen Qi led his special operations team out, their automatic rifles spitting fire as they picked off the orcs who had exposed their backs one by one.
"Cease fire! Leave one alive!" Chen Qi shouted.
But the special operations team members were clearly not yet used to the pace of this interdimensional war. By the time they released the trigger, there were no more orcs standing in the valley.
Jiang Ming planted the greatsword in the ground, wiped the blood off his face, and turned to walk towards the prison carts.
The Earth students and alien natives in the prison van huddled in a corner, their eyes filled with awe and fear as they looked at Jiang Ming.
The scene of Jiang Ming splitting a man and a wolf in two with a single sword strike was incredibly impactful for these high school students who hadn't yet experienced the harsh realities of life.
Jiang Ming walked to the last prison van and glanced at the students in blue and white school uniforms.
Four men and two women. They were all emaciated, with chapped lips and covered in whip marks.
The bespectacled boy swallowed hard, mustered his courage, and leaned forward, gripping the thick iron bars with both hands. His voice trembled as he asked, "Are you... are you a soldier? Has the country come to rescue us?"
Jiang Ming ignored him, drew his greatsword, and slashed at the iron lock.
when!
The steel lock head broke instantly.
"Get out of the car." Jiang Ming sheathed his sword, his tone indifferent.
Several students scrambled out of the prison van, their legs trembling, and collapsed onto the ground.
The two girls couldn't help but sob quietly.
"Stop crying! Hold it in!" Jiang Ming frowned and raised his voice a few decibels.
The inhuman oppressive feeling brought by the "Iron Will" was released instantly.
The students trembled with fear, forcing back their tears and barely daring to breathe.
"My name is Jiang Ming." Jiang Ming looked down at them. "I'm not here to rescue you; I've just taken a liking to this shipment. Now, I'll give you two choices."
He held up two fingers.
"First, get out of here. This wasteland is teeming with wolves and orcs. Good luck."
"Second, stay here and work for me. Load all the scattered ore back onto the cart, then drag away the dead horse and rehitch the cart. If you do a good job, you'll be fed; if you don't, I'll throw you to the wolves."
The students looked at each other, completely bewildered.
This script is wrong!
When people from the same hometown meet, shouldn't they exchange warm greetings and have tears in their eyes?
The students looked at each other, completely bewildered.
This script is wrong!
When people from the same hometown meet, shouldn't they exchange warm greetings and have tears in their eyes?
Why are they conscripting people right off the bat?
"We...we choose second place!" The bespectacled boy reacted the fastest, quickly raising his hand to declare, "My name is Lin Yu, I'm a second-year science student at No. 3 High School! We can do anything!"
The other students also seemed to realize something and nodded vigorously.
"Very good." Jiang Ming turned to Chen Qi, who was running over. "Chen Qi, take some men and cordon off the area. Marlowe, get over here and get to work!"
Marlowe, who had been watching the show from the high slope, scrambled down the slope and stared at the corpses and scattered ore, his eyes shining.
"Mr. Jiang! We've struck it rich! We've struck it rich!" Marlowe pounced on a pile of blue ore, picked up a piece, and frantically wiped it with his sleeve. "This is high-purity 'Deep Blue Star Iron'! The core material for forging advanced magical weapons! This whole cartload, if taken to the black market in Ash Fortress, will fetch at least 100,000 gold coins!"
Jiang Ming didn't have much of a concept of gold coins; he was more interested in what these materials could be used to synthesize.
"Stop talking nonsense and go check the supplies." Jiang Ming kicked the old man, then turned and walked towards the warlord's body that had been split in two.
This is the main event of the day.
The level 22 orc warlord is sure to drop some good loot.
Jiang Ming crouched down, enduring the pungent smell of blood, and began to search the corpse.
[Obtained: Bloodskull Tribe Warlord's Mark *1]
[Obtained: Broken Magic Core *2]
[Obtained: Rough Animal Hide Map *1]
Besides these usual drops, Jiang Ming's gaze fell on the discarded RPG launcher not far away.
He walked over and picked up the military green iron pipe.
[A damaged RPG launcher (a product of modern industry)]
[Status: Launch tube severely deformed; firing mechanism damaged.]
[Note: This modern weapon, brought to this world by some unlucky soul, has been brutally used by orcs and is now nothing more than scrap metal.]
Jiang Ming weighed the contents in his hand, and a bold idea popped into his head.
His current crafting panel has always lacked ranged heavy firepower.
Although there are area-of-effect weapons like the [Bone Fragment Mine], they are passively triggered and not very flexible.
If we could make use of this discarded pipe...
"synthesis."
Jiang Ming silently recited the command and brought up the synthesis panel.
He placed the [Broken RPG Launcher] into the main slot, then took out two [Broken Magic Cores] from the corpse he had just looted from his storage card, and finally added a [Steel Leg Bone of a Cracktooth Wolf] as an auxiliary material to stabilize the structure.
[A synthesizable material has been detected; formula development is underway...]
[The formula derivation was successful, but some instability exists. Should we continue?]
"Continue," Jiang Ming said without hesitation.
[Consumes 30 points of mental energy.]
A blinding blue light shone in Jiang Ming's hand, and the surrounding air was distorted by the violent energy fluctuations.
Chen Qi and Ma Luo were both drawn to the commotion and turned to look.
The light dissipated.
The tattered, military-green iron pipe had disappeared, replaced by an extremely exaggerated weapon.
The launch tube transformed into a pale, bony structure, its surface covered with dark blue magical patterns.
A magic energy core, shimmering with a faint light, is embedded in the handle.
As Jiang Ming gripped the brand-new weapon, the attribute panel immediately popped up on his retina.
【White Bone Magic Rocket Launcher (Blue - Rare)】
[Type: Heavy Long-Range Weapon]
[Attribute: Attack Power +45 (Area Magic Damage)]
【Feature 1: Magic Energy Condensation (Consumes the user's mental energy or magic energy crystals to condense a high-explosive magic energy bullet inside the cannon barrel. Each shot requires 3 seconds of charging.)】
[Characteristic 2: Bone Shard Splash (The explosion includes armor-piercing bone fragments that cause secondary physical tearing to targets within a ten-meter radius).]
[Note: A crude combination of technology and magic. Although it looks like a heretical sacrificial implement, it's incredibly effective at blasting people. Warning: Continuous firing may cause the barrel to overheat and explode.]