Strange World Alchemist Chef – Book 2
Chapter 9: Battle Against the Bear Tiger
Translated by Pill Bug
“Wu, Wu Xuan ……” Wu Yuxin looked at Wu Xuan in a daze as she regained her senses.
“Don’t look at me, look at the bear tiger, it’s not dead yet!”
Wu Xuan was gloomy, and his hands slightly numb. This beast’s skin was really thick! That blow just now was done with his full force, but looking at the bear tiger that had already gotten up, it could be seen how tough this beast’s skin was.
Wu Yuxin secretly spat, glaring at the bear tiger. It looked like it was only slightly wounded, and now also completely provoked by him.
Zhao Xi was relieved to see that Wu Yuxin was okay, otherwise if something happened to Wu Yuxin, how was she to answer to the Wu clan? Although, what had just happened was not her fault.
Wu Xuan heard the roar of the surrounding demon beasts and hurriedly said, “If we continue to drag this on, another demon beast will appear.” He looked at Wu Yuxin and said, “What about your illusion art, didn’t it work on them?”
“I, I don’t know…I didn’t use it….”
Wu Yuxin said a sentence that made Wu Xuan almost vomit blood. The situation was critical, and she still left the winning card at the bottom of the deck!?[1]
“Too late, you rush to Miss Zhao, help her deal with the other bear tiger, leave this one to me!” Wu Xuan said to Wu Yuxin: “Believe in yourself, your illusion art is still very strong, you should be able to confuse that bear tiger. If you can confuse it, it will be much easier. Hurry!”
Wu Yuxin opened her mouth to say something, but when she saw Wu Xuan’s serious expression, she could only reply reluctantly, “You take care too…”
At this time Wu Xuan shouted to Zhao Xi’s side: “The bear tiger’s weak points are the abdomen and neck! Focus your attack there, they are more vulnerable!”
The eyes of the bear tiger were also considered weak points, but those targets were too small, and with the speed of the bear tiger being extremely fast, the hit rate was too low. If Wu Yuxin’s illusion art could disorient the bear tiger, then everything would be much easier.
No matter how the ladies were doing now, he was currently about to face a bear tiger by himself. The pressure was quite heavy![2]
“Roar!”
The bear tigers on both sides roared, and Zhao Xi looked curiously at Wu Xuan with anticipation in her eyes.
Slam! The bear tiger facing Wu Xuan slapped the ground with its forelimbs. Along with a blast of air, a deep pit was gouged into the ground from its heavy weight. Under this impulse, its huge body pounced, wind gusting around from its speed!
Wu Xuan’s eyes narrowed somewhat. The bear tiger looked huge, he never thought its speed would be so fast.
Even so, he did not feel the slightest bit of tension. The moment the bear tiger pounced, he gently moved his feet, drifted to the side, and let the bear tiger pounce on empty air. This level of speed, for him, was still dodgeable!
Taking advantage of this gap, Wu Xuan’s eyes flashed brightly, waving his palm and slapped [3] it over.
“Illusion Breaker!”
Pouring out his full strength, he aimed a fierce slap at the waist of the bear tiger. As his palm made contact, a rush of energy instantly flowed into the bear tiger.
Boom! The huge bear body was slapped until it flew away upside down!
With a mournful wail, the bear tiger crashed heavily on the ground, digging another trench on the ground. The bear tiger squirmed and then slowly climbed up, the intense pain making it roar. Looking at the fierce aura in its eyes, this palm slap did not bring fatal injury to it.
Wu Xuan frowned, his hand slightly numb again, inwardly sighing, “This bear tiger’s body is so tough. This is already the second palm, this bear tiger’s skin sure is thick!” In the martial arts he previously attacked with, he included the newly learned Inner Power Fist!
What this technique meant, was pouring the power of the fist into the body, and then bursting it out to deal damage! Under his Illusion Breaker’s essence absorbing ability, his mastery of Inner Power Fist had already reached the peak, but against the bear tiger, it did not seem to have much effect.
All this happened in a split second, Zhao Xi and Wu Yuxin were holding swords while dumbfounded. Not only was Wu Xuan’s strength surprising, his battling experience was also very rich, leading people to question whether or not he had come out to train a long time ago.
Wu Xuan looked at the bear tiger with not a small amount of contempt, “It seems there is no way to subdue it by relying simply on palm arts. Then, let’s attack from the weak points…”
He licked his lips, pulled off the gloves on his hands and took out a shiny small meat cutting knife from his pocket, sneering: “As a chef, knives are never used to kill people. But you are not a person, in my eyes you are only ingredients!”
It was normal to carry a small knife on the body, not only to defend oneself, but also to be able to make something simple to eat, and also to cut things easily.
“Roar!”
The bear tiger curled its thick waist and pounced again. Wu Xuan’s mouth curled sinisterly. Lowering his body slightly, he then rushed head-on, actually wanting to fight the bear tiger in close combat!
“Is he crazy!” After Zhao Xi repelled the bear tiger with a move, she subconsciously reminded Wu Xuan: “You can’t fight it head on! The bear tiger’s claws are very fast!”
The fastest attack of the bear tiger was with its claws. The power of the claws was extremely powerful, and its speed was also extremely fast! Close combat with it was deadly unless one was very fast, and only a fool would do that.
“Don’t!” Wu Yuxin shrieked.
Wu Xuan did not seem to listen, instead, he sped up even faster. But just when he was about to clash with the bear tiger, his body shifted to the left, while his right hand holding the knife waved gently, as if the two had brushed past each other without colliding.
The bear tiger was very resourceful this time, bending its body to pounce just as they brushed by. But just as it turned, its neck and belly suddenly split open, blood gushing out in big spurts, spilling a rain of blood under the crowd’s astonished gaze.
“Thump…”
The bear tiger, which was still pouncing mid air, crashed down bonelessly, its body flipping end over end. It was clear that a large gash had opened up on the bear tiger’s belly, and even the neck had more cuts. Its huge body twitched nonstop, blood spilling all over the ground.
Wu Xuan looked down at the knife in his hand, originally a good small knife, now broken. He sighed and said, “It seems that this knife can not withstand too much power, as always this world’s demonic beasts are too hard…”
The two girls at this point were totally dumbfounded, dumbly looking at the twitching bear tiger which collapsed very inexplicably, and had two more gashes on his body!
“Illusion art! Hurry up!” Wu Xuan growled softly, signalling them to hurry up and settle the battle!
With one bear tiger less, their attention was instantly focused. Two flowers flashed in Wu Yuxin’s beautiful eyes as she lightly chanted, “Plum Blossom!”
The extremely strong Ten Thousand Flowers Art quickly enveloped the pouncing bear tiger, which froze for a moment, then actually started to twist and dance in place!
“I… I did it! It worked!”
This wasn’t because the bear tiger was too weak, but because Wu Yuxin was actually strong. Along with that top grade martial art, it was completely beyond the ability of this big dumb bear to resist!
Joy filled Zhao Xi’s heart and she quickly shot out her sword, stabbing out several sword blossoms on the bear tiger according to the weak points pointed out by Wu Xuan’s. The bear tiger was killed on the spot by her terrifying cultivation!
Two bear tigers were killed just like that, and the crisis was solved for the time being.
Gumihou: …
Pill Bug: …
Gumihou: Did I just read –
Pill Bug: Yes
Gumihou: And you just translate-
Pill Bug: Yes
Gumihou: … this line has to be my favourite
The two girls at this point were totally dumbfounded, dumbly looking at the twitching bear tiger which collapsed very inexplicably
Pill Bug: …inexplicably, very inexplicably
Gumihou: How did two perfectly capable girls, the highest level in their field, be reduced to this?
Pill Bug: I’m fine with wish fulfilment, excessive repetitions, dodgy descriptions, excessive powerups, panicking adult figures that should be in charge and MC worship, but this is…
Gumihou: Yeah, incel-like sexism which reduces perfectly capable girls into puddles of ‘dumbfound’ is the last straw.
Pill Bug: Say it
Gumihou: We’re abandoning this
Pill Bug: Yes!
Gumihou: Also, the excessive repetitions is ridiculous
Pill Bug: Yes…
Gumihou: And that, my dear readers, is why we have officially Abandoned This Novel. Incel sexism that diminishes feminine IQ and reduces them into blubbering kyaa~~ ahn~ is a hard NO for us.
Pill Bug: …do I still get paid for this chapter?
Gumihou: …I can pay you 50% for mental injury
Pill Bug: Thank you
Gumihou: If anyone wants to know what ‘excessive repetitions’ we’ve deleted, you can see it under ‘Editing in Progress Sample, Much Ugh’.
Pill Bug TL Notes:
[1] Changed the sentence a bit so the idiom makes sense in English.
[2] Review this sentence later, the bolded part seems to have typo in the original text. 不管她们如何，现在他目前就要面对一头熊虎，感觉大力有些大。
[3] MTL used ‘slap’, I felt like translating it as palm thrust, but since it was not very effective on the bear tiger, I left it as a slap…
Gumihou: lol
