Star Gate

Chapter 235: Slaying Sunflare (III)

The three struggled increasingly weakly as time went on. Blades of wind crashed into them, sending them reeling to and fro. When they eventually sank to the ground, a layer of earth energy enveloped them!

Li Dahu and his men waited for a while, then crowed silently when the soldiers remained unmoving. They’d succeeded, and without fanfare!

Li Dahu grabbed a cage made of earth energy and swiftly dodged to the side. The other two did the same, whereas Li Hao and his comrades stayed motionless.

Footsteps were upon them again. Everyone prayed for these Black Armors to leave as soon as possible. Li Dahu prayed that they wouldn’t discover anything amiss. Li Hao’s crew prayed for the soldiers to leave quickly. It would be difficult to act otherwise, and impossible once more people were on the scene.

The uniform footsteps drew close as a team of Black Armors swung into view. Li Dahu and his men barely dared to breathe. As the soldiers marched off into the distance, the Yama members were still deathly afraid that the suits of armor would discover some of their brethren had been captured.

Li Dahu exhaled softly when the footsteps traveled away with finality, unable to hide the grin on his face. They’d succeeded! Three sets of black armor... They’d struck it rich!

Even if they turned the sets in to their superiors, this was still a massive mark of merit. One good thing about the bigger organizations was that they normally kept a proper record of deeds and accomplishments. Few would work for them otherwise. Thus, credit usually went where it was due. The only exception was if the achievement was too big for the organization to pay out... That wasn’t impossible either.

Subdued on the ground, Li Hao and his comrades didn’t need to converse before they attacked at the same time! Liu Long deployed the Nine Forged Force at maximum strength—the sound of waves slapped against the air. Even though a Sunflare like Li Dahu was right in front of him for an ambush, he needed to bring his full strength to bear to avoid mistakes from happening.

Li Hao grabbed Stellaris and stabbed his sword at the wind supernatural shorty. He even utilized the sword aura in his attack! Liu Yan wielded a shortsword and slashed it across the fire supernatural’s throat!

The two sides were standing nearly face to face. Li Dahu had even retracted the constraints of earth energy to avoid supernatural ripples from being detected. It was safe to do so as he knew that Black Armors would not return to their previous activity even if they came in contact with the earth now. They would remain inert instead. Of this, they were experienced with.

But he was wrong.

Li Dahu’s reactions were better than typical Sunflares as he used to be a martial master. Though he’d only been a Slayer of Tens, that was still sufficient for him to bring a shield of earth to bear when Liu Long’s fist crashed toward him.

What the heck is going on? Were the Black Armors coming back to life? But that didn’t make any sense. Wait... this is aura enveloping me! This is an ambush!

It was a martial master, one that commanded an aura.

Who??

A Dominator?! Yuan Shuo?

How was that possible? Would Yuan Shuo need to ambush him if the professor wanted to kill him? Who was it?

Li Dahu thought of someone when he sensed the incomparably keen aura of the sword next to him. Li Hao—Yuan Shuo’s student! The young man had used a sword when he fought Sun Moxian.

Li Hao... Silver City...

Liu Long!

The Yama member abruptly realized who was punching him. Liu Long!

Impossible!

Absolutely impossible. Liu Long was part of the Night Watcher delegation, which was behind Yama. How could these two be in front of them?

Bam!

A loud collision rang out. Liu Long and Liu Yan couldn’t focus on minimizing disruption anymore. There would be greater trouble if they didn’t kill their targets as soon as possible. Compared to them, Li Hao had it much easier.

His opponent was just a Darkmoon and he could utilize the aura of the sword. They were in such close quarters that as he wielded Stellaris... one stab immediately ran the other through! When he sliced the small sword across, it sectioned half of his opponent’s body away!

Liu Yan likewise slashed across her opponent’s throat, but he didn’t die. Fire energy erupted and illuminated a small patch of the city. Her second shortsword appeared in her hand and she shoved it into his temple!

Her opponent was eliminated with two strokes, but at the cost of throwing light on the streets and undulations of supernatural ripples! There was also the sound of them fighting... If nothing unexpected happened, then the soldiers that’d just left would soon be by. But Liu Long was yet to finish his fight.

He swung with the mighty layers of the Nine Forged Force and crashed through the shield of earth. Li Hao and Liu Yan could hear the sound of ribs breaking, but Li Dahu was also a ruthless person. Not only did he not dodge when his shield broke, but he thrusted his chest forward to take the heavy blow head-on. The enormous force shattered his organs, but he didn’t care. He needed the immense momentum behind this punch to help him fly out further!

He might not make it if he escaped under his own impetus. Such was the decisiveness of one who used to be a martial master!

Li Dahu knew that these three were his enemies and wanted to kill him. The soldier on the side was ninety-nine percent Liu Yan. Thus, he chose to suffer a more severe injury to help him escape. He wouldn’t die even if all of his organs shattered, but he would absolutely die if caught in a fight with them.

Although Liu Long broke his opponent’s rib cage with the first blow and almost ran the man through, he subconsciously realized Li Dahl’s merciless intent. Thus, he pulled back for a second blow and layered it with a stickier kind of internal force, but his opponent was already flying backward from the first!

The captain’s punch was so heavy that it flung his opponent out a long distance at a high speed. Perhaps the heavily injured Li Dahu might die to the soldiers rushing back to the scene... but what if he didn’t?

Indescribably upset, Liu Long could only watch as his second punch missed and his opponent careen backward, leaving his range of attack. Liu Long regretted his actions so immensely that he wanted to vomit blood!

The ground shuddered at this moment and a massive aura of the earth exploded. The floundering Li Dahu sensed a wall behind him a second before he crashed heavily into it!

Impossible!

He’d made a sweep of the area when they were in hiding. There was nothing behind them, there couldn’t be a wall stopping him...

Li Hao sweated profusely, a condition hidden by his visor. He’d emergency deployed his second aura and vibrated the ground, shaking force outward to form a wall of air.

Liu Long’s second punch arrived at this time and smashed Li Dahu’s head. Li Hao stabbed forward and sank his sword into the latter’s heart. Liu Yan’s twin blades also scythed through the air and slashed across the other’s throat.

Li Dahu’s eyes stared wide open. Even though his face was misshapen from Liu Long’s punch, he still stared fixedly at his killers. He didn’t accept this fate! He was a Sunflare! These Silver City guys had never been worthy of consideration! Whether it was Liu Yan or Liu Long, they were all trash! So what of Sunderer??

It’d taken him just a few short years to become a Darkmoon after he joined Yama, then another two to Sunflare. He was an offensive focused heavy earth Sunflare. But here, he didn’t even have a chance to showcase his true abilities before someone beat him to death in the unknown street of an ancient city.

He wasn’t a Sunflare from those small organizations, he was of the three greats! He was a powerhouse from Yama! He’d defeated the Night Watchers’ veteran Sunflare, the one they called Wind Demon Huang Yun!

He had a glorious future ahead of him, and he died today simply because he’d killed an engineer back in the day...

Li Dahu opened his eyes wide, wanting to see the trio clearly before he died. But they didn’t grant him his last wish. Liu Yan punched once more, smashing their target’s eyeballs to pulp.

“Sorry!” he muttered with annoyance and self-recrimination. He hadn’t eliminated their target with one move and almost let Li Dahu get away... As the captain of the Demon Hunters, this was his first time making such a serious mistake. If it hadn’t been for Li Hao erupting with the aura of the earth at a critical time, what could’ve happened if the Yama member had made good his escape? He might die, but there was always a possible other outcome!

Liu Long realized in this moment that he’d overestimated his Nine Forged Force and underestimated the opponent. Li Dahu was harder to kill than regular Sunflares! As Liu Long had killed Sunflares before, that’d erroneously affected his judgment. Their late target’s defenses had been stronger than some mid Sunflares. That’d been a fatal mistake!

“Hurry!” Li Hao didn’t have time to spare for this. He waved his sword around to shred the corpse!

Liu Yan also swung both blades at the same time to hack chunks out of the body. Liu Long quickly recovered his composure. This wasn’t the moment to discuss their errors. They needed to collect some body pieces and leave with mysterious power. They needed to flee! Footsteps could already be heard!

Black Armors had discovered the abnormalities of this zone!

Liu Yan didn’t wallow in the jubilation of taking vengeance. She didn’t throw her head back with a long howl. Whoever did so at this moment was an idiot. She hadn’t even had the time to throw down a vicious line or two when they killed Li Dahu.

Hacking off chunks, then shoving them into a storage box. The trio abandoned the corpse in the blink of an eye and fled. They vanished on the spot.

A team of Black Armors rushed to the scene a heartbeat later. They sensed the blood and gore in the air and felt the ripples of mysterious power, but a confusing sight greeted their eyes.

Dead!

They paused for a moment before restarting their patrol. Footsteps faded away into the distance.

Other supernaturals approached after a while. The bodies on the ground were almost gone and the blood devoured. There were a few scraps of identifiable clothing left, however. Some frowned at the pieces—a Yama member was among them. Their expression shifted upon taking a closer look!

The organization’s hierarchy was very clearly delineated; this was one of the uniforms reserved for Sunflares. Had a Sunflare died?

It was difficult to determine who, but several Darkmoons and a Sunflare had certainly died here. There were only so many Sunflares sent out to scout. They’d know who died when they reconvened with the main delegation.

“Did Black Armors kill them?”

There couldn’t be anyone else apart from the soldiers. But... this group had sensed the battle from afar. It didn’t feel like the Black Armor style. Not to mention, the soldiers were rather dumb. They couldn’t sense anything so long as the disturbance was kept to a minimum, there was no light, and there was an absence of supernatural ripples.

Were the Yama members idiots? Had they attacked the squad of ten themselves?