Chapter 235: Slaying Sunflare (III)

Chapter 235: Slaying Sunflare (III)

Seeing as it was Liu Long’s first time posing as a Black Armor, he now knew how to adjust for more appropriate struggles during their next heist.

Both Liu Long and Li Dahu were immensely stressed by the troublesome situation that could’ve developed! The source of this content nov(el)bi((n))

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 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?