Blue Phoenix Chapter 71 – Attack in the Tunnels

Moving within the dark tunnels, it did not take long before the party encountered demon beasts. Sometimes they would stumble upon the territory belonging to some beast hordes, while other times it would be a wayward demon beast who stumbled upon them.

The way they dealt with these demon beasts was simple. Hui Yue ordered all his friends to stay back, and he told all guards to fight them.

He did this for multiple reasons. However, the main reason was for the sake of tempering the guards. These guards had never killed anything before, not a human, let alone a demon beast. Everything they learned was from training within the caves and, therefore, their abilities were all suited to training rather than real-life fighting.

As one day took another within the dark tunnels, the guards started to reek of blood. Their previous naïve thoughts about the tunnels changed and now they understood just how much hard work was needed actually to move through the unlit parts of the tunnels.

Had they chosen the lit parts, then it would obviously have been possible for the party to make it through the tunnel system much swifter. But by staying in the dark area everyone, even the young master and his two servants came to understand just how serious the world was. The strong survived while the weak did not.

While it was the guards who killed the demon beasts and they were also the ones splitting the demonic beast cores between themselves, everything else went to Hui Yue as he was the one providing them all with warm food once a day and as much dried meat as they could want.

By the time they entered the tunnels, their group had consisted of twelve guards and six mercenaries along with one noble young master and his two servants. By the time they were halfway through the tunnels, those guards had become full-fledged mercenaries. They no longer hesitated to deal the final blow and no longer felt nauseous at the sight of blood.

“I don’t think he followed us here,” Xu Piao said as he looked at the guards who were cleaning their weapons

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