Chapter 30 - Collaboration

The Demigod Dark Frogman cursed Qin Shuang successfully, her feeble body spiralling downwards from the sky. However, before she landed, her body flashed once with a golden light, dispelling her status ailments. This was one of the hidden trump cards her family had given her, the Divine Skill Cleanse.

Qin Shuang instantly regained her strength and flapped her wings, quickly flying upwards and aiming a massive ball of lightning towards the dark barrier. Her army of Thunder Sparrows followed suit, launching numerous lightning balls to break the barrier. With the barrier finally down, the Dark Frogmen were once again exposed to the skies.

Qin Shuang was determined to leverage her current advantage to gradually overwhelm the Dark Frogmen, but the Demigod Dark Frogman had another trick up its sleeve, immediately summoning a frog as massive as a mountain, the Mountain Eater. It lashed its kilometer long tongue out and caught her high in the air, swallowing her into its belly.

She unleashed a massive torrent of lightning within the Mountain Eater’s belly, charring its stomach lining black, but it refused to spit her out. It was too massive, and the lightning she released was insufficient to deal any damage to it, quickly diffusing into the Mountain Eater’s giant muscles.

In an attempt to eliminate Qin Shuang, the Mountain Eater began secreting its digestive juices. Letting out shrill cries, her Thunder Sparrows rained down numerous thunderbolts in a desperate attempt to rescue their god, yet their attacks couldn’t get through the Mountain Eater’s tough skin. At the same time, five Heroic Dark Frogmen eradicated hordes of Thunder Sparrows with their dark attribute skills.

The Thunder Sparrows had lost their initiative the moment Qin Shuang was captured. If the situation remained unchanged, every last Thunder Sparrow would inevitably be slaughtered by the Dark Frogmen.

Qin Shuang began to despair, trapped in the stomach of the Mountain Eater.

Am I going to die here? Even though I still have so many trump cards left, they are all useless here. This is a frustrating place to die...

Suddenly a call request from Han Wu popped up on her interface. However, she hesitated to pick it up. Based on the missions he had cleared and how fast he had risen through the rankings, she knew that Han Wu was strong, and it was likely that he was calling to collaborate.

Qin Shuang didn’t reject that idea, but her stubborn pride kept her from revealing to Han Wu how desperate she was. Han Wu, however, didn’t give up and kept calling. Qin Shuang finally accepted the call and was taken aback to see Han Wu as a small Skeleton Lord.

Why is he so small and cute?

She thought to herself.

“Where are you?” Han Wu asked curiously. All he could see was a black and red muscular lining, so he couldn’t tell where she was.

“None of your business.”

Han Wu was used to her snobbish attitude and kept it short. “Would you like to collaborate with me or not?”

𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

“Why should I?”

“If you don’t, in a few minutes, all your Thunder Sparrows will be annihilated.”

And why should you care?

She almost blurted out, but she ultimately remained silent. She had painstakingly nurtured those tens of thousands of Thunder Sparrows, especially the three Heroic Iron Crown Thunder Sparrows. She would lose a lot if they all died here.

Qin Shuang reluctantly agreed. “Fine, but if we win, I want the body of the Demigod Dark Frogman. You can take everything else.”

After all, besides the corpse of the Demigod Dark Frogman, she was rich enough to ignore most of the treasures.

“Fine, but quickly give your orders to your army to come and fetch me.”

Han Wu then showed her a video revealing his current whereabouts, so she could send her army to get him.

The Dark Frogmen lived in the swamps, and though the Thunder Sparrows could fly unimpeded by the terrain, almost a million of Han Wu’s skeletons were stuck in the swamp without much progress so he had no choice but to ask for a collaboration.

Sure, become my slave and I will send my Thunder Sparrows to fetch you,

Qin Shuang almost said, but recognizing her situation, she kept her mouth shut, since she still needed Han Wu to rescue her. She instructed her surviving Thunder Sparrows to retreat and fly towards the skeleton army.

Han Wu ordered a large group of Iron Skeletons to mount the Thunder Sparrows and jump down when they got directly above the Dark Frogmen. Many of the Iron Skeletons shattered to pieces in the process, but it was all part of his strategy. Since advancing his army through the swamp was impossible, he utilized the remains of the shattered Iron Skeletons to build the Osteomancer's bone giant.

Having realized that the skeleton army had joined the battle, the Demigod Dark Frogman gave an order, and millions of Dark Frogmen instantly rushed out from the swamp to attack them. Han Wu, however, currently seated on the back of an Iron Crown Thunder Sparrow and overlooking the battlefield, welcomed their actions.

Beneath him was a large field of bones several meters thick which had completely covered the entire surface of the swamp. It was time for his next move.

Han Wu commanded his Heroic Osteomancer to attack the Dark Frogmen. The Osteomancer swiftly gathered all of the surrounding bone fragments and merged with them, becoming a massive bone giant. Within seconds, the supposedly weak Heroic life form had transformed into one of the strongest Heroic life forms.

Noticing the bone giant, the Demigod Dark Frogman belatedly realized that the skeleton army had a Heroic Osteomancer within their ranks.

The five Heroic Dark Frogmen combined their strengths to use one of their skills to restrict the bone giant. However, none of them noticed two more Heroic life forms on the shoulders of the bone giant: the Heroic Skeleton Reanimator and the Heroic Minotaur, Sarman.

The two jumped down from the bone giant and immediately began wrecking havoc. Sarman, wielding his massive totem, effortlessly crushed a lot of the Dark Frogmen while the Skeleton Reanimator activated Reanimate Skeleton, a skill which was quite similar to Skeleton Summon, but also revived and reassembled defeated skeletons. With the help of the Skeleton Knights, many skeletons tore themselves out from the corpses of the Dark Frogmen.

These newly formed skeletons immediately joined the skeleton army, indiscrimiately attacking the Dark Frogmen. The Thunder Sparrows continued to unleash bolts of lightning from the skies, assisting the skeleton army.

Slowly, the battle tilted in Han Wu’s favor, but the Demigod Dark Frogman would not go down so easily. Realizing that its army was losing ground, it used its Divine Skill once more. “Dark Divine Skill: Nightfall.”

A profound darkness instantly engulfed the entire battlefield, blinding the skeletons and the Thunder Sparrows. However, rather than being impaired by the darkness, the Dark Frogmen found themselves invigorated and enhanced by it. They immediately retaliated, crushing many skeletons, pushing even Sarman and the Skeleton Reanimator back by their assault.

If they didn’t think of something quickly, both Han Wu and Qin Shuang would soon fail to complete the mission!