Please Deal the Fatal Blow! [C103]

Having chosen the right target, Shu Himo grinned, now the only thing left is to kill all the other 8 bandits.

Suddenly, three bandits swiftly appeared in front Shu Himo and slashed at him with their swords, however, Shu Himo vanished abruptly from their view.

Using a stacked [Hopper_x3] to jump backward Shu Himo easily dodged the attacks, and, raising the scythe he used once again a stacked [Hopper_x4], vanishing and reappearing in front of them, slashing horizontally with it.

*Spff*

Coupled with the sound of three bandits being split in half, the hearts of the remaining ones were frozen in desperation.

As there were only five bandits remaining, Shu Himo did not stop and used another stacked [Hopper_x4], dashing toward another group of three, however, something startled him.

The bandit boss was actually protecting the other bandits, standing in front of them with his sword pointing at Shu Himo!

Startled, Shu Himo immediately stopped and used another stacked [Hopper_x4], dashing toward the other two bandits.

The bandit boss, witnessing the weird reaction Shu Himo had was confounded, 'Why are you running from me?' He thought.

A moment later, the other two bandits were also dead, split in half, however Shu Himo stopped moving, falling in thought, 'How am I supposed to kill the last three?'

In his sight, there were only three bandits and the bandit boss... however, the bandit boss was in front of them, protecting them from Shu Himo! Since he needed the bandit boss alive, he had to find a way to kill the three bandits behind him without killing the bandit boss!

Knowing that a normal tactic would not work, Shu Himo took out six formation rods and the Essence Qi Clock. Looking around, he began inserting the formation rods in the ground, uncaring about the bandits.

Meanwhile, the bandits were dumbfounded, why is he planting formation rods right now?!

Not paying attention to the expressions of the bandits, Shu Himo terminated placing five formation rods and went in the middle of the formation, standing up while staring at the bandits.

Having a bad feeling, the three bandits began running away, while the expression of the bandit boss turned grim.

Shu Himo then held in his right hand the last formation rod and took a stance, posing as if he was in the olympiads trying to throw a javelin. Aiming toward the three running bandits, he then threw it, while at the same time activated the formation.

*Frrr*

Suddenly, from the five formation rods in the ground a small lightning appeared, which reached the flying formation rod.

Seeing the formation rod flying toward the three bandits, Shu Himo smirked, "Take this, my transporting explosion formation!"

*Tud*

Abruptly, the three bandits noticed that the formation rod impaled in the ground close to them, and suddenly started to emit flashes of lightning around itself. Terrified by it, the bandits tried to escape, however barely a moment later, the ground around the formation rod suddenly exploded.

*BOOM!*

Blinding everyone, the only thing that could be seen was the red flame from the explosion that seemed able to swallow everything in the area, which terrorized even the bandit boss, who could not stop his body from trembling.

Feeling the strength the explosion Shu Himo nodded happily, 'This is the third application of the exploding formation, the transporting explosion formation!'

After a couple seconds, the cloud from the explosion gradually subsided, revealing the disappearance of the ground for more than fifty meters in radius. The bandits seemed to have vanished in the nothingness, as most likely, only their ashes remained.

The bandit boss seeing the results felt terrified, and knowing that he could not run decided to give up, closing his eyes in hopelessness. While as a bandit he committed many atrocities, he hoped to at least have a painless death. How ironic that he, a Nascent Soul expert, would get killed by a kid in the 3rd string of Dantian Formation realm, he thought.

Waiting with his eyes closed for a couple of seconds, the fatal blow did not come... he was perplexed, but he decided to wait a couple of seconds, after all, dying not seeing the hit would make it less scary.

After more five seconds he still did not receive a fatal blow, but instead felt a palm on his torso. Startled, he abruptly opened his eyes to see what was happening, however before he could see anything, he felt a compelling force directly crushing his torso, which sent him flying, "WHAT?"

He was dumbstruck, why was he being hit like that? What about the fatal blow?

Suddenly, Shu Himo vanished abruptly from his spot and reached once again at the bandit boss' torso, using again a stacked [Hopper_x3], sending him flying.

While that strength was not enough to damage him, it still hurt! The bandit boss was enraged, "What are you trying to do?"

As an answer to his question, Shu Himo simply dashed again toward him with a stacked [Hopper_x4] and threw him once again by using another [Hopper_x3], as if uncaring of what the bandit boss want.

The bandit boss being enraged tried to resist, however he found out that no matter what he does, Shu Himo was too fast for him to defend himself! Each time that he was about to regain control over his own body, Shu Himo reappeared again thrusting him away!

"Wha-" *Boom*

"Bas-" *Boom*

"Sto-" *Boom*

"You..." The bandit boss was in disbelief, he accepted his death but Shu Himo continued to make him flying over and over without killing him! Wasn't he just playing with him?

Two minutes later, the expression of Shu Himo turned into a bright smile, he finally reached the other two! Seems like the plan was working!

Smirking, he then proceeded running and surpassed both Aura Azusa and Phylia, however, what he did not expect would be to see suddenly a red flame flying past him, exploding on top of the bandit boss!

*Boom!*

With an expression filled in disbelief, he turned around to look at Aura Azusa, only to see the latter smiling, "Did you thought I would let you cheat?"

Speechless, Shu Himo quickly took the storage ring of the now dead bandit boss and continued running, he truly felt cheated this time.