Degrade from Nobility to a Humble Slave novel Chapter 97

Watching what happened to Tank, knocked his fellow disciples, Zen, Roger and Sun, for a loop. And they felt a massive sense of loss in their hearts.

While the four of them hadn't deliberately sought each other out, they had become a close-knit team in a short time. There was an understanding among them from following and working closely with the Green Haze Group to fight the blade locusts.

But, only a few hours after they formed the team, one of the four was killed on the spot. At this moment, naturally, the mood in their hearts was one of sorrow. They couldn't help mourning for Tank's fate. What if all of them died here today?

As they were feeling sorry for themselves, Martin roared and shot an arrow aiming at the queen blade locust's compound eye as he ran. As the arrow sailed through the air drawing near the queen's eye, she extended her blade-like appendage, batting it from the sky and it clattered harmlessly to the ground.

In an uproar at the arrow, the queen blade locust targeted Martin next, lumbering after him.

"Everyone, just run! I'll distract the queen and lead her away!" yelled Martin, in apparent acceptance of his fate, whether life or death.

Chasing Martin, the queen blade locust was no longer blocking their way, giving others a slim chance of escaping.

However, the situation was still grave, aside from the queen, there was a mass of blade locusts waiting, along with hundreds of blade locust officers.

The soldiers of the Green Haze Group lit their bamboo torches, sending smoke and flame billowing into the air. Whether ordinary blade locusts or the officers, they were repelled by the smoke, fearing it. They scattered in all directions. Finally, a passage cleared ahead of the troops.

"Let's go! We're moving out, Zen!" called Sun. He was ready to leave, but, when he looked back, he saw Zen standing in a daze.

"Zen, if we don't leave now, we'll die here!" urged Roger as he fidgeted, having a strange feeling in his gut.

Zen thought a moment, turning to face Roger and Sun with a look of determination. He said, "Roger, Sun, you are my brothers. You go ahead. I'm going to help Martin! We'll catch you up later once we deal with the blade locust queen." Not waiting for his brothers in arms to argue, Zen started running in the direction Martin disappeared.

"What're you doing? Do you have a death wish? Don't you understand? You will die!" questioned Sun anxiously.

Roger winked but didn't say anything. He was pretty good at reading people. Although Roger had met Zen only two days ago, he already understood Zen's unique character. Once he made up his mind, there was no use trying to sway him.

No matter how fast Martin ran, the queen blade locust ran more quickly, each step bringing her a few feet closer to Martin, and soon she would be on top of Martin.

While the queen locust chased Martin in haphazard directions, Zen easily caught up by cutting a straight path through the woods.

Now he was only a thousand feet away from the queen blade locust!

After Zen began refining at the marrow level, he could hear and see farther away than before. He also acquired a better grasp of distances, thanks to the marrow refining level.

The wind rushed past, whistling in Zen's ears. With his sweaty palms, he clutched the broken flying knife in his hand.

As Zen drew closer, he felt excitement twisting faintly in his gut, but no fear!

Five hundred feet away now!