Chapter 324: Hanging By A Thread!


    And the fists collided!


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    A blinding light!


    All the residents of the ind saw the blinding light at the southern tip of thendmass. It was too powerful to look at as many a toasted their eyes by ncing at it.


    When the city dwellers saw the light fading away, the next second, the buildings were rampaged by a brief period of violent shockwaves that threatened to weaken the very foundation of the ind!


    And that was just the beginning.


    The ind began to tremble and the intensity increased gradually. At a point when the ind was sure to fall apart, the tremors stopped.


    What was disclosed after the rampage was a beautiful city greatly reduced to dust!


    Thend had cracked and lives were lost. The loss of material elements was inferior to the ount of the deaths that day.


    When the ind was curtailed to the status of a continuously raped woman, there was one being standing at the southern end of the ind.


    "Fool! We, the Tubians, are always greater beings."


    Under the orc''s feet was Lee Shen''s bloodied chest with the drumming heart inside.


    "You, you think so?"


    Grinding his blood-red teeth, Lee Shen had a smirk on his face that confused the orc for a moment. But when the orc reevaluated the situation, the Tubian dismissed his expression as a useless bluff.


    Well, Tubian''s analysis was not wed or clouded. It was just that Lee was barely alive by a thread.


    With both arms forcefully torn apart from the elbow, Lee was lying on his back, in a puddle of his own blood. The blood that he frequently coughed out clouded his sight.


    It was with a shock that Lee realised that he no longer has both legs. When a sting arose from his waist, his face went pale with the revtion.


    But what smeared despair in his mind was the fact that he had lost connection with the System Space, again.


    The orc looked around in confusion for a few minutes. And then it looked at Lee with a smug.


    "I saw your beasts escaping a few moments ago. But I give you my word, we will find them and you will hear their screams of agony."


    When the orc conveyed that he saw the spatial tear, Lee Shen''s heart became unsettling. The System Space was his ultimate resort for hiding and his only ce to call home.


    With the subspace unavable, Lee was unable to establish a line ofmunication with his friends. But when he uttered ''status'', the panel that appeared disyed a steady decrease in the Essence reserve.


    In front of his eyes, the millions became thousands and the hundreds became tens. The depletion went on until the system was stripped off of thest drop of Essence.


    <strong>/=+=+=+=+=</strong>


    <strong>PERSONAL INFO:</strong>


    <strong>Name: Lee Shen</strong>


    <strong>Essence: 0</strong>


    <strong></strong>


    <strong>Days psed: 36</strong>


    <strong>Time: 12 Midday</strong>


    <strong></strong>


    <strong>ATTRIBUTES:</strong>


    <strong>Health: 336</strong>


    <strong>Power: 24</strong>


    <strong>Dexterity: 2</strong>


    <strong>Intelligence: 120</strong>


    <strong></strong>


    <strong>PROGRESS:</strong>


    <strong>Cultivation: Peak Soul Manifestation</strong>


    <strong>Qi: 0</strong>


    <strong>Mastery: Lord Level Mastery</strong>


    <strong>Mana: 0</strong>


    <strong>=+=+=+=+=/</strong>


    The orc grabbed Lee Shen by his tattered outfit''s cor and lifted. Like a lightweight ragdoll, the Tubian raised Lee into the air and stared into his eyes.


    "You are really infamous. Yava will surely be happy with me."


    Again, the name ''Yava'' was heard. This was a term he was familiar with when he killed the parasite Tubian he encountered at the Troll event.


    From the memories since then, Lee Shen was enlightened by the magnanimous power of the first Tubian ever to have walked on Utopia.


    "Wh-, who is this Yava?"


    Since blood was filling his throat from the internal wounds, he had to struggle to speak while pressing down the pain.


    Hearing this, the orc began tough. Hisughter was untamed and vicious. The voice of the cold-hearted monster resonated throughout the air and instilled fear and shade of death in the hearts of many.


    "You will know soon."


    Saying this, the orc leapt high into the sky. Like aet zooming past the at night, his speed was beyond the scope of a naked eye.


    As he rose further upward, Lee Shen was feeling more and more suffocating. The orc sensed this and twisted his body and kicked the air which propelled him forward with supernatural speed.


    A few secondster, Lee fell unconscious.


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    (A.N. The story is about to have some new developments. Stay tuned.)


    An uncertain amount has passed.


    "Ugh...where-?"


    Lee had barely opened his eyes when a pain embraced him wholeheartedly. The sensation urged him to wince and twist but Lee found himself impossible to move an inch.


    The bleeding had stopped and the wounds continuously transmitted a sensation ofcking. With both forelimbs torn apart, Lee looked around while biting down the pain.


    What he saw made him open his eyes wide and about flee the body!


    Inside the room made of stone, blocks were the stench of death and blood. Under the dull lighting of the wall-mounted torches, Lee Shen saw a blood-curdling sight.


    In front of his eyes were countless chains hanging from the ceiling. On every strand of the chain was two or three people hanging motionless. Regardless of race and gender, these unfortunate males and female elves, dwarves, humans, demons, goblins and beastfolks were kept alive to harvest Essence from them.


    Maybe it was theck of blood that made Lee pale as death. But this sight made his blood stiffen with unspeakable fear. Lee could tell that he was not able to feel his heart thumping for a few seconds.


    Lee Shen''s remaining body, his armless upper torso, was ced leaning its back onto a wall. He suspected that it might be the orc that did so, but he also had reasons to believe that it might not be him.


    The reasons, it''s obvious.


    Like a roughly handled upper part of the mannequin, Lee Shen stood erect on his from away waist. The sensation that presented him with bone-chilling pain was keeping him alive.


    Looking around, he saw no one. The dull torches were the only means of illumination and Lee Shen felt that the room has unending width and length.