Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 1964: Chapter 998: The Final Journey (End)

Jiacuo exploded with his last bit of strength, grabbed the bony wrists with both hands, and shoved the opponent straight into the ranks of the Dead Legion.

He wanted to look back and see whether Qin Yiyi had turned her head to look at him, but he no longer had the strength.

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At this moment, Chen Zhuoqu was holding the very front of the defensive line. She lowered her head and looked at the transparent thread on her wrist—that was the Puppeteer Qing Chen had left on Ginkgo Mountain.

Before heading for the West Continent, Qing Chen had said that every Knight would receive a Taboo as a gift. What he gave Chen Zhuoqu was this Puppeteer, simply because she was the one among the active Knights most likely to bring its power to the extreme.

After getting the Puppeteer, Chen Zhuoqu had never used it. After all, those beast-soldiers had no names; she simply couldn’t control them.

But she suddenly thought: since the Puppeteer needs corpses as sacrifice, then in essence this whole Dead Legion in front of her is made up of corpses—could the Puppeteer sacrifice them all?

Chen Zhuoqu tried flicking out the Puppeteer like a fishing line, and saw one beast-soldier of the Dead Legion suddenly dissolve into drifting smoke!

She cried out in delighted surprise: “It worked!”

The Dead Legion was fiendishly hard to deal with. If you wanted to remove their combat power, you had to break their hands and feet; even a Demi God Knight had to spend quite some effort to take them down.

Now that she had the Puppeteer, Chen Zhuoqu finally had a way to reap the Dead Legion!

The next moment, this Demi God Knight actually charged into the Dead Legion, infusing the Puppeteer with Knight Aura so that it stood rigid and swept horizontally across the battlefield.

The Puppeteer had changed hosts and returned to its original state.

However, the sacrificial targets on this battlefield all had an average strength of at least A-Class.

The Puppeteer neighed in a frenzy; in just a dozen breaths it regrew five or six branches, and in a mere ten minutes it became a complete form with 18 branches existing at the same time!

Patch after patch of the Dead Legion was brutally harvested and sacrificed by Chen Zhuoqu; this Puppeteer was practically the nemesis of the Dead Legion.

Yet reality was cruel. Chen Zhuoqu’s Knight Aura had already been exhausted on the A3 front line; she simply didn’t have enough left to keep pouring it into the Puppeteer.

Once she ran out of Knight Aura, the transparent threads would droop limply to the ground, and the kill zone would instantly shrink.

Chen Zhuoqu hesitated for a moment, then returned to the formation before her Knight Aura was completely used up.

She found a Parent Association Member and said quietly, “I need someone now to go into the battlefield with me, pulling on the Puppeteer. Are you willing? It’s very dangerous.”

That Parent Association Member patted his chest with a grin. “I’m willing!”

After a brief discussion, she tied the other end of the Puppeteer to his wrist and charged back into the battlefield.

But the Parent Association Member was already spent. After following her to reap more than a hundred beast-soldiers of the Dead Legion, he was taken down by a beast’s sneak attack.

Chen Zhuoqu withdrew and pondered. To raise the harvest efficiency, she chose to use the Puppeteer to forcibly squeeze out the last bit of potential from the Parent Association Members—only that way could the reaping last longer.

She shouted loudly, “I need 18 people to tell me your names and become my Puppets, but… you will die.”

She was going to control 18 Puppets to harvest the battlefield. That way, the transparent thread between every two people could be pulled taut, like a combine harvester.

However, these Puppets didn’t have her Demigod strength. Charging into the Dead Legion meant certain death.

The next second, a Parent Association Member asked, “We don’t care whether we die. We care about what you can use us to do.”

Chen Zhuoqu was silent for a moment, then said, “I can guarantee that for each Puppet, you’ll take at least two hundred beast-soldiers with you!”

An injured Parent Association Member said, “I’m wounded, I’ll go first. Ma Youjin!”

Another injured one said, “One of my arms is broken anyway, just treat it as waste recycling. Chen Bokang!”

“Zhang Chao!”

“Li Longfei!”

“Song Zhe!”

“Count me in, Li You!”

“Brothers, help us take a look at the New World!”

Looking at these volunteers, all of them wounded, Chen Zhuoqu only felt her nose sting. She turned her head aside, turned them all into Puppets, then spun around and charged back into the Dead Legion.

In the past, Qing Chen had always controlled enemies as Puppets; now, it was the Parent Association Members who were volunteering to become Puppets.

For a while, Chen Zhuoqu led eighteen Puppets in a wild slaughter, one person holding one-fifth of the entire line!

She strained to split her mind eighteen ways, trying to make those controlled wounded die a little slower. Nineteen of them formed a massive Sword Array within the Dead Legion.

But the Dead Legion was ferocious. Some of them avoided the edge of the Puppeteer and went straight for the Puppets’ throats.

Puppet after Puppet fell. After reaping several thousand from the Dead Legion, Chen Zhuoqu once more retreated to the line. Before she could open her mouth, hundreds more wounded, supporting one another, came to her without wasting a single word: “Lang Hao!”

“Lin Zifan!”

“Gao Linxiang!”

“Chang Ping!”

“Let’s go, brothers, help us take a look at the New World!”

With red-rimmed eyes, Chen Zhuoqu took the Puppets and hacked her way back into the Dead Legion. In the past she had always been solitary—so solitary that even when she was grinding points on Whale Island she did it alone, and when she challenged the sheer cliff she did it alone.

Eating alone, attending class alone; cattle and sheep move in herds, but the tiger walks alone.

She had always thought she was a strong one who didn’t need teammates, but only at this moment did she understand why Qing Chen wanted to build the Parents’ Meeting, why he wanted more people to become Knights!

Because this world needs more people to save it!

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The Giant Race held the other side of the defensive line like tanks, covering the Parent Association Members as they threaded through the gaps to deal with the Dead Legion.