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Chapter 400 That’s it?

"Has it been found out? Who is the madman who did this?"

Inside the safe house, Howell Hatti, the patriarch of the Hatti family's Abirat, was sitting in front of a communication device, communicating with several close associates.

Upon hearing his words, the men on the split screens fell silent for a moment. Finally, a man dressed in a moon-white robe spoke:

"The only known intelligence is that the other party was attacked by a bomb outside the Skul family's shipyard. Their car was planted with high explosives and even filled with elastic fragments made of parabolic alloy. But if the Skul family had laid an ambush beforehand, there's no reason why their shipyard should have been so easily wiped out. The heads of the other families wouldn't be so crazy either. It's currently speculated that it was done by some unorthodox force."

"Isn't this the same as knowing nothing at all?" Howell frowned, but he also knew that it was already quite good that they had been able to find out this much in just a few hours.

Taking a deep breath, just as he was about to say something, he suddenly heard a piercing vibration, and his expression changed instantly—

"what sound?"

Despite his doubts, Howell, being a frontline worker, didn't investigate further. He immediately whistled, and a giant wolf with gray-black fur appeared beside him. With the touch of his palm, the wolf instantly turned into liquid and enveloped his body.

Unlike Fina's obviously much more stylish look when they're combined, Howell looks no different from his normal self.

Although they are all wild wolf mythical beasts, the characteristics exhibited by wild wolves will vary depending on the way they are raised by their owners. This is true not only for wild wolves, but for almost all mythical beasts.

Ultimately, they are essentially AI + nanomechanicals. Besides their inherent advantages, their performance mainly depends on what data their owner feeds them.

After completing the preparations, Howell turned off the communicator, opened the drawer and took out his usual short sword. The safe house was a very contradictory existence. To keep it a secret, you had to ensure that as few people as possible knew that you were "here". But this also meant that once you entered the safe house and were discovered, it would be difficult to get protection.

In this world, the best safe house is undoubtedly a shelter built with pre-civilization technology. However, this place used to be Lubo's territory, and half a year is not enough time for any family to discover and master the hidden rooms beneath this land.

Shaking his head to clear away the jumbled thoughts in his mind, Howell adopted the demeanor befitting a leader of a large family and prepared for battle for the first time in a long time. Just then, the tremor suddenly intensified, followed by a piercing explosion and the sound of shattering.

"Howell Hati?"

A cold, murderous voice rang out, but Howell's expression remained unchanged. He maintained his elegant demeanor, his gaze fixed on the man standing at the head of the table, his mind immediately recalling the man's information—

“Shupu Red? This wasn’t done by the Hatti family.”

Although the other party's act of coming to his door was a slap in the face, Howell still spoke up and offered an explanation.

In response to the other party's words, Feng Xue simply replied in a calm, almost icy tone:

"how to prove?"

"..." When Howell heard this, he knew that he had no intention of making things peaceful.

Without sound, without strong wind, and without any light effects, the sharp attack erupted in a small space.

With a crisp sound, Feng Xue felt a sharp pain in his arm, but he didn't have time to think about it, because Howell's relentless attacks were already upon him.

"Old fox!"

She stopped paying attention to the false image that even the Qi Observation Technique couldn't detect. If Feng Xue hadn't habitually glanced at her lifespan, she might have actually been stabbed.

This time, he chose to split up with Fina, not out of recklessness, but because he needed to establish sufficient influence in a short period. According to information from Little Wind Chime, a crazy woman riding a tyrannical ship had appeared on the outskirts of the Hillmeri Islands. Although there was no evidence, Feng Xue felt that it was probably Delis.

Head-on combat is not the offensive style that Howling Moon God's chosen people are good at, but Howell chose this storm-like combo at this moment.

In fact, the moment his confident sneak attack was blocked, his first reaction was to run for his life. But the next moment, the force that returned to his hand made him realize to his surprise that the man in front of him was not physically strong.

Moreover, the opponent didn't even have any phantom beasts!
Realizing that this was a skill-based fighter, Howell immediately abandoned his most proficient attack patterns.

However, this does not mean that he is weak at this time. A qualified Phantom Beast user will store a large amount of combat module information in his Phantom Beast AI. Once he encounters a situation where he needs to switch combat styles, he can immediately load it.

Although the combat skills acquired in this way are not as refined as those honed through countless trials, they are sufficient to exert a certain degree of suppression.

"As expected..." Feeling the tingling and numbness in his arm, Feng Xue's lips curled up, and two beams of dark blue light suddenly shot out from the snake eyes on his belt buckle. His body was instantly enveloped in armor made of magic power.

"A snake-like mythical beast?" Howell felt he might have been tricked the moment he saw Feng Xue's body change, but the next moment, the feeling of kneading rice cakes changed instantly.

The abrupt pause interrupted the loading of the combo, and as the AI ​​quickly switched styles, golden-red lightning lit up in Feng Xue's hand.

"Thunder in the Palm!"

The golden-red Five Elements Thunder exploded instantly, and the thunder ball, which used clustering technology, was launched at zero distance. The thunder magic, whose power had been adjusted multiple times, was concentrated by the fairing made of Liu Yunxi's natal magic weapon and sprayed forward in a cone-shaped jet.

The black shadow was flung away by Howell, but was illuminated by lightning the next moment. The Five Thunder Technique tore through the Nightfall Divine Art of the Howling Moon God, and more than 60% of the explosive power still struck Howell.

A strong burning sensation, accompanied by a numbing sensation that nearly short-circuited the nanounits, struck him simultaneously. Howell immediately mobilized his divine favor.

A wolf howl that pierced the sky was so clear and crisp that it seemed as if a ray of moonlight pierced through the ceiling and fell on Howell.

However, Feng Xue's [Observe the Heavenly Longevity] priority was still online, and the movement of Howell's lifespan above his head had already exposed the fact that the other party was just planning to run away.

With a flick of his wrist, the remaining aura of lightning magic coalesced, transforming into a lightning-fire sword which he grasped in his palm. He then made a hand seal with his left hand and shouted—

"Mingbao!"

"This is definitely not the fighting style of the Reid family wolf cubs. Who exactly is this guy?" Howell ran wildly, his mind in a state of confusion, but at the same time, he felt a little regretful.

If I hadn't been intimidated by the opponent's momentum and had gone all out from the start instead of thinking about running away, I might have already won!

But it's no use regretting it now. Fortunately, the injury isn't fatal; with a couple of days of rest, I'll be fine...

"Shh!"

A golden-red lightning bolt flashed past the corner of his eye. Howell, who was running at high speed, felt a sudden numbness, and then everything went completely black. In his mind, only a disdainful sneer remained—

"Excellent promotion, is that all?"

(End of this chapter)