Supreme Electromagnetic Tyrant
Chapter 130 - 95: Ranking Rush

Chapter 130: Chapter 95: Ranking Rush

The Dragon Falcon Eagle Bow could shoot arrows at a velocity of 275 meters per second, and with the wind-breaking effect of the silent arrows, the speed could further increase, breaking through 300 meters per second.

Five arrows were released without any sound.

They were like five phantom lightning bolts, silently and incredibly swiftly crossing the sky.

Ji Xinghuo’s first shot wasn’t aimed directly at the fishing bat dragons or Dagon people, but he calculated the lead, aiming ahead of their flight path.

By the time he shot the third arrow, the first had already hit its target.

The trailing fishing bat dragon in the flying patrol team didn’t detect the danger approaching at all, as the silent arrow penetrated its cloaca, piercing into its body.

The skin of the fishing bat dragon was extremely tough, and the Dagon people even crafted light armor for them, rendering normal bows and arrows ineffective. There were not many weak points on their bodies.

Only the eyes and the cloaca.

Both areas were not large, and the chance of hitting them mid-flight was slim, yet, in Ji Xinghuo’s eyes, as long as they were exposed, the hit rate was one hundred percent.

The fishing bat dragon’s eyes instantly widened, it opened its mouth to scream but no sound came out.

Agonizing pain caused it to roll frantically in the air, flinging the Dagon people and Goraks on its back out, then plummeting to the ground.

The Dagon people let out silent cries of alarm, unable to comprehend what was happening.

Then they saw the fishing bat dragons in front of them one by one going berserk, throwing the knights on their backs off, desperately struggling and rolling. Blood gushed from their mouths, and their wings and claws, as if searching for straws to grasp, flailed in the air, but they kept falling unstoppably.

"Enemy attack!"

The Dagon people shouted, but they couldn’t spot the enemy at all.

They themselves were spiraling in the air, unable to control their bodies. Trained as they were, they didn’t panic, each finding the opportunity to regain balance and deploying their parachutes.

Ten Goraks also spread their membranous wings, gliding around the Dagon people, attempting to locate the enemy.

What they didn’t realize was that being in the air made them targets.

Whizz!

Whizz!

Whizz...

A series of sonic booms sounded.

This time it wasn’t the silent arrows, but regular titanium aluminum alloy arrows, fast like lightning. Under the dim starry night, they precisely struck the Beiluo Shimen Clan in the sky.

The last Dagon person to react, having just heard the noise, hadn’t had the chance to respond before his head was pierced through.

The next second it was a second person.

Every second, an arrow flew, taking the life of a Dagon person.

The furthest Dagon person finally noticed the origin of the attacks, pointing at the large tree where Ji Xinghuo had been hiding. But suspended in the air, lacking the ability to fly and hindered by the parachutes on their backs, they were unable to move freely and could do nothing.

In the blink of an eye, five third-rank Dagon people were dead.

The remaining Goraks desperately tried to flee, but they excelled in low altitude flying. Blown about by high winds, they tumbled uncontrollably, struggling to maintain their flying posture, unable to gain speed.

After a round of screams, ten Goraks also became plummeting corpses.

Only then did the fishing bat dragons fall to the ground, their massive bodies crashing into the forest with a dull thud.

Ji Xinghuo jumped down from the treetop and hurried to the crash site.

He ignored the fishing bat dragon’s carcass, now smashed to a pulp, and instead quickly harvested the spoils from the bodies of the Dagon people and Goraks before making his escape.

Less than five minutes after Ji Xinghuo left, two flying patrol teams of fishing bat dragons arrived at the scene, led by a legendary Dagon person of towering stature. Seeing the dead fishing bat dragons and the scalped clan members, rage nearly shot from the legendary warrior’s eyes.

However, it was already dark, making it impossible to find the perpetrator.

"Cut down that tree!"

In his fury, the legendary Dagon person guessed the sequence of the attack and ordered the tree where Ji Xinghuo had been hiding to be chopped down, having no other recourse.

Ten kilometers away.

Ji Xinghuo looked at the Wanxiang Star Pupil interface, noting that the Source Energy gained from hunting the flying patrol team was more than he had anticipated.

Killing the fishing bat dragons also yielded Source Energy, with an average of 3 points each.

The Dagon people and Goraks of the flying patrol team, being third-rank or second-rank, netted him 60 points of Source Energy for wiping out the entire team—twice that of a standard patrol team!

Ji Xinghuo poured all of it into the Rotating Magnetic Field.

[Ability: Rotating Magnetic Field (Second Level 342/1699)]

The range of the magnetic field sensation had already broken through 900 meters, stretching toward the one-kilometer mark. His own strength, speed, explosive power, and self-healing rate, with the progression of the Rotating Magnetic Field, were all comprehensively enhanced, reaching a whole new level.

He was getting stronger every day!

Ji Xinghuo relished this sensation.

However, he wasn’t blinded by it; instead, he stealthily made his way back to the human defensive line to rest for over an hour before continuing his hunt.

The hot season in the Star Realm was drawing to a close, and the starry nights grew longer.

The current starry night lasted over twenty hours, while the dark night was a mere four hours plus.

Next month, as the Star Realm transitioned from "Flame Month" to "Peak Month", the duration of darkness would further diminish until one day it vanished altogether, leaving no night. Then it would rotate into the cold season.

Ji Xinghuo made full use of the prolonged starry night. That evening, he eliminated two more patrol teams, though his efficiency had decreased.

But that was out of caution.

Every patrol team was now on guard, and Ji Xinghuo even discovered stealthy experts hidden within some teams, clearly bait to lure him in.

Before striking, he conducted meticulous reconnaissance.

After successful hunts, he would immediately switch locations, never hunting in the same area twice. The defense line stretching two thousand kilometers long and two to three hundred kilometers wide made finding a single person as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack.

Ji Xinghuo wasn’t only targeting patrol teams.

While searching for prey, if he chanced upon a small lookout post or an isolated enemy bounty hunter, he would also take them down opportunely.

Among these solitary targets were also traps, disguised by legendary warriors.

However, its true form was revealed within the magnetic field.

Ji Xinghuo sensed something was amiss and immediately retreated, never taking on targets with such intense magnetic fields.

A few times, he realized he was being tracked and decisively retreated back to the human defensive lines.

By dawn, Ji Xinghuo had returned to Midpoint Fortress.

Because the range of his hunt was somewhat large and far, he missed the first opening of the city gates when he returned and waited half an hour to enter the city. When he reached the bounty hall, there weren’t many bounty hunters left, just over a dozen collecting their rewards.

The bounty hunters looked at Ji Xinghuo as he entered, their gazes landing on him.

"I said he wouldn’t die so easily," one bounty hunter said in a low voice to his teammate.

Expressions on the faces of others were also somewhat unusual.

Ji Xinghuo guessed at a glance that probably many bounty hunters, seeing that he didn’t return on time today, thought something had happened to him.

"You go first."

The bounty hunter queuing up gave up his spot.

"Thanks," Ji Xinghuo said, stepping up to the counter and pulling a black bag out of his backpack.

The staff member took the bag, sensing it was even heavier than yesterday. When poured out, there were over a hundred bloody trophies, forming a small mountain on the counter.

The bounty hunters were all stunned.

"Mr. Ji, your total bounty this time is 4.17 million, with 156 points," the staff member calculated quickly and said respectfully.

"Okay," Ji Xinghuo nodded.

Soon, over four million in cash was handed to him, and holding the thick stacks of money, he once again marveled at how easy it was to make money.

The bounty hunters present were envious but dared not harbor any ill intentions. A man who could hunt down over a hundred Beiluo Shimen Clan mutants every day was not one for them to mess with. Such strength should be enough to get on the Ladder rankings, almost on par with Jing Ji and Red Demon Alex.

Ji Xinghuo packed away the money but did not immediately leave the bounty hall.

A staff member, sensing the moment, came over with a ladder and climbed up to the points board, wiping off the last dozen lines and rewriting them.

"Rank 35, Ji Xinghuo, 288 points."

He made it on the list!

Ji Xinghuo looked at his own name at the top and felt quite pleased.

Although it was only 35th place, and merely the Midpoint Fortress’s monthly scorecard, it was a list nonetheless, proving his strength in just two days.

And his ranking was bound to continue to rise swiftly.

Pleased, Ji Xinghuo nodded and finally left the bounty hall.

After sleeping for a few hours at a random inn, eating and drinking his fill, and feeding a few roasted chickens to Qing Hong, he left the city once more, embarking on another hunting journey.

In the following days, Ji Xinghuo started to climb the ranks.

Even though the efficiency of his hunts was reduced due to the increased vigilance of the Beiluo Shimen Clan, he was still able to consistently contribute a batch of trophies every day.

Sometimes over a hundred, sometimes just sixty or seventy.

The bounty he received never fell below two million.

His points also steadily increased.

Ji Xinghuo’s ranking on the monthly leaderboard climbed daily, 28th place, 23rd place, 14th place... within five days, he rose to the third rank, only behind Jing Ji and Red Demon Alex.

But this ranking didn’t last long.

Only a few days later, Ji Xinghuo’s points exceeded both of theirs and he came to the first place!

News of Ji Xinghuo’s name spread throughout Midpoint Fortress, with bounty hunters and military personnel aware that a fierce new character had arrived, hunting Beiluo Shimen Clan mutants daily.

The generals of the various countries at the fortress had also heard of him.

Dawn.

As usual, Ji Xinghuo returned to Midpoint Fortress, and while waiting for the gates to open, he received reverent looks from the surrounding bounty hunters.

Just like the day he had arrived, the way bounty hunters looked at "Red Demon" Alex, wherever he went, he would become the center of attention.

In the beginning when he first made a name for himself, some would come up to chat.

Now, what other bounty hunters saw in their eyes was more fear and other emotions, and they dared not approach him as before.

Ji Xinghuo had become accustomed to it.

After entering the city, he went to the bounty hall to hand over the trophies. Today’s haul was not much, only over eighty, so the bounty and points were a bit less than usual. Now, hunting had become increasingly difficult for him. Almost always on the lookout when out, traps were everywhere.

Ji Xinghuo himself was unharmed, always able to avoid them, but other bounty hunters suffered the consequences.

This was also why bounty hunters distanced themselves from him.

Quite a few bounty hunters had died because of this. Unable to find him, the enemies took their anger out on them, and many bounty hunters dared not venture out.

There was no guilt in Ji Xinghuo’s heart.

After collecting the bounty, he lingered in the bounty hall as usual. The most conspicuous place on the points board read: Rank 1, Ji Xinghuo, 1245 points.

Rank 2, Jing Ji, 890 points.

Rank 3, Alex, 876 points.

This was yesterday’s points ranking; today’s update hadn’t come in yet. Including the points he’d just earned, Ji Xinghuo’s lead over the next two would widen even more.

After leaving the bounty hall, Ji Xinghuo was recognized by many on the street, all casting sideways glances.

Back in his room at the inn, Ji Xinghuo opened the interface.

[Ability: Rotating Magnetic Field (Second Level 1658/1699)]

[Spiritual Origin Ability: 72]

Ji Xinghuo had invested all the Spiritual Origin Ability he had gained these days into the Rotating Magnetic Field. Now, his most important core ability was finally about to level up!