Chapter 472: Chapter 100 Four Elements Formation_5
At the same moment the heavenly thunder struck, Ah Dai used his last Instant Teleportation, appearing like a bolt of lightning next to Xuan Yue. He protected her in his arms, and swiftly uttered four words to her.
"Boom————" A tremendous sound echoed out. The merchant caravan stationed three hundred meters away from the forest, and everyone turned their eyes towards the forest.
The forest illuminated. An intense white light swallowed up the entire forest in an instant. The massive wave of force radiated outward, reaching the merchant camp 300 meters away in just a short time. The majority of the newly put in place tents were blown away. This included the mercenaries of the Skeleton Mercenary Group, most of who were swept away by the force. Fortunately, the goods in the chests were heavy, trembling back and forth in the shockwave. The Heavy Cavalry Infantry displayed their advantage as their sheer weight made them the only troops not blown away.
The violent airflow gradually calmed down after about a minute. The workers in the merchant caravan, who had no basis in martial arts, were injured quite a bit. When the shockwave occurred, Mulat was resting in his carriage. The carriage was heavily built, and it only swayed without falling over. The swaying of the carriage, coupled with the neighing of his horses, woke Mulat. He got up in confusion. The violent shaking of the carriage shocked him. As the leader of the caravan, he feared for any mishaps. He quickly jumped out of the cart.
Once he got out of the carriage, he was stunned by the sight in front of him. The tents were strewn all about, strewn everywhere. The members of the Skeleton Mercenary Group were just getting up from the ground, everyone looked dazed, not knowing what had happened. The people from the merchant team all had dirt smeared faces. Many workers were moaning from the falls they had taken. The only relief for Mulat was that the chests with the goods were still in place and had not been blown away.
Mulat grabbed a worker from the merchant caravan, and anxiously asked, "What happened?"
The worker, with lingering fear, pointed into the distance, saying, "Over there, a sudden gust of wind came out of nowhere."
Mulat looked in the direction the worker was pointing and couldn’t help but suck in a breath of cold air. The place where the accident occurred was the forest where Ah Dai and Xuan Yue, along with the four members of the Skeleton Mercenary Group, had been. The once vast hectares of forest were gone. Dust was flying, and what was left after the smoke was a vast expanse of scorched earth. The forest looked as though it had been burnt by fire from the sky. There was no vegetation left it was desolate. Mulat had a chilling thought; had those guys caused this? Humans had leveled a forest, which was simply beyond belief.
"Quickly, let’s go and see what’s happened." Without waiting for his command, several deputy heads of the Skeleton Mercenary Group had come to their senses. They first stabilized the troops of the mercenary group, helping the people from the merchant group re-establish their tents. Then, under the leadership of Zong Yue, several deputies from different groups in the Mercenary Corps sprinted to the incident site. Getting closer, they could clearly see that the formerly green forest had disappeared. What was left were scorched broken trees and shrubs. Because of the thunderstorm, a vast forest had been reduced to ashes, and smoky exhaust was constantly floating in the air.
Zong Yue called out, "The Head! The Deputy Heads! Where are you?" The empty forest was as quiet as a grave, with no response at all. The few looked around anxiously. The forest was full of ashes. A step would sink you to your shins. The gentle breeze blew, covering the deputy heads with dust and ash. At this moment their own appearance was not a concern, the Skeleton Mercenary Group couldn’t be without heads. Without them leading, the other members, even with their considerable ability, would be like a plate of loose sand, unable to bring out their full potential.
