Apocalypse Gachapon Chapter 1896: Wins and losses
Previously on Apocalypse Gachapon...
Ye Zhongming's triumph triggered a series of consequences.
The pair of mature Shuoxing fighters started to feel a bit uneasy.
Would every one of them manage to handle five aides raised by their own group? The response ought to be affirmative. Yet, could they eliminate five foes in so little time? Even through a surprise assault!
The outcome remained uncertain. They figured they might take down several, but wiping out every single one...
They lacked assurance.
At this point, an individual had pulled it off. Did that suggest his power exceeded theirs?
With a figure nearby who outmatched them... or was at least on par, how could these already encircled fighters avoid feeling alarmed?
Following a short hesitation, they resumed their joint battle.
For the moment, they were overcomplicating matters a touch.
Ye Zhongming had truly slain five opponents, yet his condition wasn't ideal at all.
By himself, he had endured the strongest water chains unleashed by He, donned advanced armor, and the evolved Earth Spirit had further coated him with its unique Black Earth Armor.
In essence, it was these three defensive layers that gave him the boldness to end the fight in such a manner.
Nevertheless, Ye Zhongming felt far from comfortable.
Be it the strike to his rear, the thrust into his side, or the desperate final strikes from the two foes on the brink of death, each one sent jolts through Ye Zhongming's frame. Outwardly, no marks appeared, but inside, the damage was substantial.
Without He's support nearby and the aid of superior remedies, even in victory, Ye Zhongming couldn't have joined the fray again anytime soon.
Naturally, the success owed much to He and Qiuqiu. To be precise, this win stemmed from the combined efforts of three elite beings.
Once he swallowed the medicine, Ye Zhongming sensed his body mending swiftly, while the Earth Spirit's fresh skill—Earth's Nurture—kicked in too.
Though the gathered energy remained limited for now, Ye Zhongming detected his wounds easing, proving just how potent this skill truly was.
Still, the Cloud Peak King found himself yearning for Teacher Park. Had she been present, a handful of her techniques would have restored him to action right away, he reckoned.
This thought caused Ye Zhongming to briefly lose focus amid the chaos of battle. He wondered about the state of affairs back on Earth with those folks.
Ah!
A cry echoed from nearby. Ye Zhongming looked and spotted a Tianqi Star fighter slain, while the Evil Armor group suffered just one Novice's loss.
This shift pushed the balance into steep decline, moving from equilibrium to desperate guarding.
The spark of optimism from those five straight kills vanished entirely after this, worsening the crisis even further.
The Cloud Peak King scanned the other fronts. The area that concerned him most—White Robe's position—fared surprisingly well. The Silver Order Leader kept battling, and things didn't look too grim there.
What infuriated Ye Zhongming the most was the Luther group's front. Starting with three versus two, it should have been the simplest spot to punch through first in principle. However... they held no edge; they merely held a deadlock.
The Evil Armor Star team, three on three, had already dropped one, and here you had three against two, locked in a tie?
Evidently, they weren't giving it their all.
Meanwhile, Ji Ruiguang and Helsky's front genuinely astonished Ye Zhongming.
They had the two Shuoxing fighters pinned down completely. Helsky and Ji Ruiguang unleashed their hidden aces without restraint. The fighting prowess these two Earth natives displayed earned the Cloud Peak King's fresh admiration.
Without doubt, they ranked among the elite. In pivotal times, they held nothing back.
Both Helsky and Ji Ruiguang understood they must stall to let Ye Zhongming regain his strength.
For whatever reason, they placed unwavering faith in Ye Zhongming, their Earth counterpart. This came naturally to Ji Ruiguang; after all, from the apocalypse's start, this man's feats had repeatedly humbled them as seasoned operatives.
In the early years, they could still match him evenly, but afterward, he dominated utterly. Without his journey to the stars, over half the nation might now fall under Cloud Peak's sway.
It couldn't be helped; the man boasted two nine-star evolutions, and soon, with war beasts included, that count could hit five. How could anyone counter that?
All present reeled from Ye Zhongming's streak of five kills; Ji Ruiguang felt only mild surprise.
As for Helsky's all-out push, it aimed to offset the Luther group's half-hearted showing.
He sensed that feats the universe's myriad races deemed impossible could fall to this man, likely no older than thirty. He might become a mighty ally down the line. Before he could stand tall alone, aligning early promised greater rewards.
Helsky ruled as a king in Europe, his word absolute. Yet on this Novice stage, that arrogance and self-assurance shattered against far superior forces. Amid such strain, his Earth peer Ye Zhongming led the charge undeterred, as if barriers meant nothing. This might swiftly won Helsky over.
He conceded that disparities existed among individuals.
Only his clansmen's feeble display irked him. Even here, they dragged their feet; they were outright liabilities.
For the first time, Helsky considered abandoning the Luther Clan.
Maybe joining Boss Ye and the Star-Eye Clan offered a solid path.
With the Novices pouring everything in, the two fighters started faltering.
Their power wasn't insufficient, but these Novices fought with wild abandon. Skills or gear reserved for dire threats flew out freely. Even a mighty tiger dreads a swarm of wolves.
Just as Ye Zhongming felt recovered enough to rejoin soon, the Shuoxing fighter under Helsky's assault took a critical hit to the shoulder blade from his blade, crippling one arm. This sparked the foe's swift downfall and demise, with Jie Kui claiming the kill.
The other Shuoxing fighter's spirit shattered the instant his ally fell. He unleashed a frenzied, all-out assault, forsaking defense. Though he felled one of Ji Ruiguang's Novice underlings, he got hacked apart by a barrage of blades in moments.
The back line, thought to hold firm longest, crumbled first. Two mature fighters and five Novices lay dead. White Robe's group lost just one and had another badly hurt.
When had these Novices grown so fearsome?
Yet the sudden morale boost faded in two seconds flat.
On the Tianqi Star front, already slipping, another fighter perished. The survivor, sensing doom, uttered no farewell to his groomed aides, simply tossed a shielding item to gain space, then bolted past Ye Zhongming and company into the thick woods, vanishing and abandoning his dazed Novices to face the mostly unscathed Evil Armor Star force!