Chapter 48 An Unexpected, Deadly Assassination


    As the fears of the tragic, cruel battle began to disappear, a glint of eagerness shone in the eyes of the


    six teammates.


    Naturally, they were excited to obtain the earth spirit fruit!


    Eliminating the two evil apes meant the precious earth spirit fruit would be easy to get.


    "The earth spirit fruit should be about a mile from here, hidden. If the steward gets there ahead of us,


    all our efforts will have been for naught! So, we need to get a move on it and pick some!" reminded


    Austin, looking at the other five bruised and tired people.


    Mindy was applying medicine to William and George''s injuries.


    Ralf took a cyan colored bottle out, tipped it, allowing a pill to spill out, and popped it in his mouth


    before he sat on the ground and crossed his legs. Closing his eyes, he utilized his vital energy to


    hasten the pill''s absorption.


    After that, he skillfully reset his fractured bone which had been broken by the female evil ape.


    Realizing hisrades were hurt seriously, Austin shook his head. He asked," Do you need my help?"


    "No! Thanks anyway!" stated Mindy with a small smile of gratitude at his kind offer.


    Since she, William and George knew each other a long time and wanted to be part of the Beast


    Mountain trials, they had formed the hunting team.


    Some disciples opted to form groups of five, six, while others included over a dozen members.


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    But, Mindy''s team was made up of only three members. What made their team mightier than the ones


    that had twelve members even, was that the base level of their vital energy was powerful.


    Originally, it was the trio whounched the Evil Ape Hunting Team.


    After hearing about it, Ralf, Marvin and Austin joined them.


    William and George nced up at Austin, the gratitude in their eyes silently thanking him. As a salute,


    Austin nodded in return.


    Austin believed that these three were genuinely sincere in how they dealt with him.


    While everyone else was busily tending wounds, Marvin retrieved his jade fan. He strolled casually, as


    if there was no rush.


    "Oh yeah, that''s right! The evil apes should have beast cores. Austin, since you made the greatest


    contribution to killing the apes, it''s only fair for you to take the cores," suggested Marvin out of the blue.


    The rest of the group members nodded in agreement with him.


    Mulling it over, Austin determined, ''Although beast core from a diabolic beast is second grade and not a


    big deal inparison to the earth spirit fruit, they are worth a small fortune.''


    After he''d thought it over and determined he could add a little more funds for his cultivating resources,


    Austin epted Marvin''s offer.


    So, he went over to the evil ape corpses, drew his sword, and stabbed the ape in its bloody head.


    A brilliant sh of light shone where his sword sliced into the beast and out tumbled a crystal beast


    core from its head.


    Just as Austin bent to retrieve the cores, several loud ear-piercing screams filled the quiet air, and


    Mindy shouted loudly," What the hell are you doing, Marvin?


    Startled, Austin jerked his head around to find out what was going on. The sight he saw stunned him.


    The scene before him was grim, as Marvin stood over the lifeless form of George, and Marvin was


    casually retrieving the silver trident he had thrust deeply into George.


    No sooner had Marvin recovered his silver trident before he lunged at Mindy, hacking at her fiercely


    with deadly blows.


    ncing in the direction of the two others on the field, Austin noticed Ralf first. Although he was still


    sitting cross-legged, his frame was slumped forward, and his head touched the ground. Blood oozed


    from a horrible gash in his back.


    Lying facedown on the ground, near where Mindy had been tending her wounds, he saw William, his


    head matted with blood and pieces of brain.


    In a blink of an eye, the three injured people were massacred. It was clear that Marvin was the


    assant.


    "Austin! Help me! He wants to snatch all the earth spirit fruit himself!" Mindy yelled as she gasped and


    tried to evade Marvin''s assault.


    Under Marvin''s full force, Mindy immediately felt inferior. Clothes disheveled, hair sticking on her head,


    and panting, Mindy desperately continued to defend herself.


    As he advanced on Mindy, Marvin saw that the torn clothes clung to her form due to the sweat and


    while she heaved deeply, desperate to fill her lung with air, he saw how her well-shaped figure stood


    out.


    Even with the grime and sweat, Mindy was very attractive.


    Marvin involuntarily licked his lips and gulped, swallowing his saliva.


    Then, he smiledsciviously, and in a husky tone he said," If I had the chance to meet you again, I''d


    choose to meet you in my bed. Such a shame…"


    Out of the corner of his eye, he glimpsed Austin rushing at him, and Marvin pulled all the vital energy


    from within, drawing a powerful energy force.


    The faint aura of his vital energy was visible to the naked eye, and Austin could see it was wrapped


    around the silver trident that Marvin clutched.


    All at once, the silver trident transformed into a silver dragon and baring its teeth and ws, it pounced


    at Mindy.


    Just before the silver dragon fell on Mindy, the vital energy blew towards Mindy with such force that her


    clothes were whipped up, and hair blown into a wild mess which made her look wanton and sexy.


    Marvin struck with his full force.


    As Mindy felt the great power of silver trident bearing down on her, she knew it would be impossible to


    repel his powerful attack with her strength alone.


    She sighed deeply while in her heart she contemted the situation, ''Maybe, this was the wrong time


    to have established a team to y the evil apes.


    Greedy Marvin, has decided to rob the rest of us of the rewards. What a jerk!'' Mindy red furiously at


    Marvin as she thought.


    While she glowered, she waved her hand, and a brocade handkerchief with seven brightly glowing


    colors appeared, and she infused it with her vital energy, before giving it a gentle shake.


    A dazzling sh of white light shot from the brocade handkerchief, and instantly shrouded Mindy.


    Afterward, it formed itself into a flexible cover made up of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and


    colorful violet lights circting.


    It circled like countless, small rainbows, all intertwined, giving it a rather beautiful mesmerizing appeal.


    Simultaneously, Marvin''s silver trident struck the colorful cover enveloping Mindy, but, it was ineffective,


    and bounced off like it had collided with a rubber wall.


    The shield of seven lights curved inwards, and sprang back, causing Marvin to stumble back a few


    steps.


    "She was using a secret weapon!" seethed Marvin under his breath.


    Obviously, it hadn''t crossed Marvin''s mind that Mindy would have such a powerful secret weapon to be


    able to defend against attacks, and he believed Mindy would be dead after he struck her once with his


    full force.


    He spected that because of the power of the secret weapon, it would take a lot more energy to kill


    Mindy.


    It was apparent that even with a secret weapon, he didn''t think much of Mindy''s might.


    As soon as he turned, Marvin saw Austin.


    Seeing how fast and nimbly Austin moved, Marvin decided to kill him first.


    "Run Austin! He''s too strong for you!" warned Mindy anxiously. During the hunting expedition, she had


    good feeling about Austin.


    Austin was slightly surprised as Mindy pulled secret, defensive weapon out.


    ''What''s going on? Suddenly, everyone has secret weapons? When did they be all the rage?''


    wondered Austin.


    Looking into Marvin''s murderous eyes, a small grin formed on Austin''s lips.


    "You be so greedy at the thought of riches that forget righteousness, and ughter the disciples


    from the same sect. Aren''t you afraid that the sect will hunt you down?" demanded Austin angrily.


    Marvin''s actions disgusted Austin.


    "Ha-ha-ha! Hunted by my sect?"


    questioned Marvinughing in an exaggerated and delirious manner, like someone had told a hrious


    joke.


    "Boy, are you that naive? Do you genuinely believe that anyone from the sect would bother to


    investigate deaths during the Beast Mountain trials?


    Where there are masses gathered, there are deaths. In fact, the sect epted this as part of the trials


    a long time ago!" said Marvin mockingly.


    What he said was true. Almost half of the disciples participating in the trials every year perished at the


    hands of their peers.


    Killing others to rob them of their winnings was a frequent urrence, while the sect hunting the


    murderers down never happened.


    It seemed the sects just epted this as how things were.


    "Hey, it''s impressive how skillfully you escaped before. But, I don''t think you will be able to get away


    this time!"


    As Marvin spoke, he slipped into a position that blocked the valley''s entrance.


    Austin knew his ability to move wasn''t bad, but his base level of vital energy was rather too low


    <ppared to Marvin''s.