Infinite Cosmic Cafeteria Chapter 87: A Little Closer

Translator: Stellar Novels Editor: Stellar Novels

While controlling the sand puppet, Setta didn’t stay idle—he charged forward, wielding a war hammer and yelling at the top of his lungs.

However, the Earth Dragon’s body was extremely tough. Even with Setta’s incredible strength boost, using a blunt weapon was unlikely to cause serious damage unless he hit the dragon’s skull directly.

Moreover, there were still plenty of other beasts around, and Setta had to split his focus to fend off their attacks.

In comparison, Bocchi, who had leaped onto the Earth Dragon’s back, had a far better environment for dealing damage.

Setta, weighed down by heavy armor that maximized his defense at the cost of agility, could only stay on the ground.

Fortunately, Senqi’s support arrived quickly. She used 【Explosive Divine Arrow】 to help her brother clear out the smaller beasts nearby.

Ma Lu, on the other hand, had to be cautious about shooting recklessly to avoid accidentally hitting Bocchi or Setta.

He checked the time; the cooldown for 【Super Imitation Show】 was about to refresh, so he decided to leap off the city wall.

Gasps erupted from the crowd behind him as the onlookers’ sense of normalcy was once again shattered.

A 16-meter high wall, and someone dared to jump off? Did he have a death wish?

Ma Lu certainly didn’t have a death wish. His daring stunt was backed not only by his high basic attributes but also by a newly acquired golden blessing called 【Leap of Faith】.

It allowed him to negate fall damage from high places once every 15 minutes.

After landing effortlessly, Ma Lu casually adjusted his hair and charged toward the Earth Dragon.

The crowd was becoming numb to the endless stream of wild maneuvers by the Double Sunflower Hunter Group, feeling like they were watching a sci-fi movie with increasingly bizarre plot twists.

Wei Cha and his team had also started moving, but Ma Lu managed to overtake them halfway.

As he ran, he signaled to Bocchi and Setta, who immediately understood. Bocchi jumped off the Earth Dragon’s back, and Setta picked up a large scythe-horned antelope, hurling it like a cannonball.

The Earth Dragon swatted the antelope into a pulp with one swipe of its claw.

It then turned to pursue Bocchi, the pesky human who had already stabbed several holes in its back.

But by this time, Ma Lu had arrived. As usual, he first cast 【Now You Can Conduct Electricity】 on the Earth Dragon and followed up by activating his electric field!

In the next moment, he transformed into a power plant, a massive arc of electricity as thick as two arms linking Ma Lu directly to the Earth Dragon.

High-voltage currents surged into the Earth Dragon’s enormous body, wreaking havoc on its bones, nerves, blood vessels, and muscles!

For a full 30 seconds!

This was a quadruple damage boost, a super deluxe plus ultra version of the electric field!

Even with the Earth Dragon’s thick hide and tough body, its heart was paralyzed by the electricity, and it collapsed, unable to move.

Ma Lu had no intention of showing mercy.

As soon as the electric field ended, he pulled out his chef’s knife and called for Bocchi and Setta to join him.

The three of them launched a final assault on the downed Earth Dragon!

Bocchi leaped into the air again, gripping her mechanical spear with both hands, and drove it fiercely into the Earth Dragon’s skull!

Setta swung his war hammer, shattering both of the Earth Dragon’s eyes.

Meanwhile, Ma Lu cut open a one-square-meter gash on the Earth Dragon’s chest and plunged his chef’s knife inside, stirring it wildly.

When Wei Cha and the others arrived, they were met with a shocking scene.

The three members of Double Sunflower stood before the massive body of the Earth Dragon, covered in blood, like demons from hell.

Even the battle-hardened Wei Cha was momentarily stunned, let alone the other hunters.

Three people—well, four if you counted the young girl shooting arrows from the wall—had taken down a powerful beast from the death zone.

Such a feat completely defied conventional understanding.

Chi Qi’s face darkened to the point of being almost dripping with water.

He knew that after today, the name Double Sunflower would spread throughout The Giant Screen. No one would be unaware of this small hunter group that had been established just a month ago.

And when that happened, people would undoubtedly wonder why Li’s daughter had left her father’s hunter group.

Chi Qi looked at Bocchi with a venomous glare, secretly tightening his grip on the short blade at his waist.

Bocchi sensed his gaze and looked in Chi Qi’s direction, only to see him stagger and collapse headfirst to the ground.

“Golden-Spotted Leopard, it’s the Golden-Spotted Leopard!” someone shouted in alarm. “Be careful! It’s back again!”

The crowd erupted in chaos.

No one had expected the golden death god, which had been silent for so long, to strike again at this moment.

Wei Cha snorted coldly and immediately unleashed his Sea of Fire, shielding the members of the Blazing Fang Hunter Group.

Hunters from other groups scrambled, hastily activating their psychic abilities, preparing for the worst.

Ma Lu was equally startled. After all the effort to acquire a 5-star ingredient, the last thing he wanted was to be killed at the final moment by the Golden-Spotted Leopard.

Although the Traveler's Bracelet had a built-in ingredient detection function, it scanned only once every 30 seconds within a 20-meter diameter.

At the speed of the Golden-Spotted Leopard, that cooldown period would be enough to kill him twenty times over.

But this wasn’t a problem for him. In the next moment, Ma Lu darted to Bocchi’s side, squeezing in close with a grin while Bocchi looked at him, slightly bewildered.

“Make some space, make some space. Your water rings can fit two people, right?”

Bocchi hesitated for a moment but understood the urgency of the situation and nodded without hesitation.

“They can. Just get a bit closer.”

“Alright.” Ma Lu took another half step forward, nearly pressing against Bocchi. Bocchi took a deep breath and used the Earth Dragon’s blood on the ground to create three water rings, encircling herself and Ma Lu.

Then she realized that her view was now completely blocked by someone’s chest.

Ma Lu, however, was unfazed, peering over Bocchi’s head as he kept a vigilant eye on their surroundings.

Bocchi, feeling a bit awkward, cleared her throat. “Let’s… face a different direction.”

“What?”

“You’re blocking my view.”

“Oh, oh, oh.”

Ma Lu quickly shifted his position, standing back-to-back with Bocchi.

Bocchi hesitated again before saying, “Move a bit closer.”

“Hm? I’ve got some room here.”

“The water rings are just for warning, not protection, so we need to leave as much space on the outside as possible to give us more reaction time.” Bocchi explained reluctantly.

“This size is about my limit. It was meant for one person, but now with two, we need to be very close, standing back-to-back.”

“You sure?”

“Stop wasting time! The Golden-Spotted Leopard is still around!”

“Alright.”

Ma Lu stepped back, pressing his body against Bocchi’s.

Back in school, Bocchi had practiced combat tactics where two people worked as each other’s shields, but never this close, not to the point of almost sticking together.

They were practically pressed against each other now, with the contact at their backs and hips particularly pronounced.

Although Bocchi usually carried herself with a boyish demeanor, she wasn’t actually a boy, and it was hard to ignore the proximity. She had to force herself to focus on anything else.

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