Translator: Yukidaruma Translations Editor: Yukidaruma Translations
They looked down at the small town under their feet. The Gold Mountain Town that had gradually grown dilapidated now appeared even more desolate. There was not even a single person seen on the streets.
The three Demigods slowly landed in the center of the town and looked at this desolate town. Dennis, the Demigod in the lead, said calmly, “There isn’t a single living creature within a range of ten lis. There’s really a problem.”
“Hmph, they are really audacious to dare to harm a town’s commoners, assault government officials, and even attack Conferred Knights.” Another old man at the side frowned as his eyes filled with rage.
This old man had been a faction’s sect master. However, after Fang Xingjian became bent on unifying all the factions across the East Military Execution Order, and with Tyrant leading the East Military Execution Order to sweep through the pugilistic world, the old man had immediately stood up against and eliminated the oppositions in his sect. He then made the smart decision to join the Empire. It turned out that he had made the right choice back then.
Thereafter, Fang Xingjian conquered various countries, killing through the plains and suppressing the various countries. He even stood up against the Church of Universal Truth, with each of them dominating the south and the north in Miracle World respectively. The Empire grew increasingly stronger, the people became wealthier, and the neighboring countries paid tribute to them. Fang Xingjian ‘s reputation rose, and his name as the Sword Overlord soared through the clouds.
It could be said that the current Empire had reached an unprecedented state of prosperity that could not be compared with the past 200 years. Everyone—be it the aristocrats or the commoners—had an unprecedented improvement in their living standards.
Moreover, with the Imperial Capital disseminating Fang Xingjian’s high-technological products, the Empire would only get increasingly prosperous.
Amidst such a great prosperity, the old man had also gotten a tremendous amount of benefits from the Empire’s great developments. His entire clan and faction soared. Right now, he supported Fang Xingjian and the Empire from the bottom of his heart.
It could be said that he had perfectly turned from a faction’s sect master into someone who both benefited from the Empire’s regulations and also vindicated it.
Upon knowing that someone had such great audacity to not only attack the government but also implicate the citizens of an entire town, he was extremely infuriated.
Dennis, who led the tea, waved his hand and said, “Come on, let’s see if there are any leads left behind.”
The three of them circled around the town but still did not make any discoveries. The entire town was extremely quiet, with no signs of chaos at all. Everything was quietly placed where they should be at, as if their owners had only left for a short while.
“The other party must be at least a Demigod expert to be able to instantly kill or capture so many people.” Dennis frowned.
The Demigod old man let out a cold snort and said, “Hmph, it must be those rebel factions creating trouble. These treacherous villains…”
Just then, a cold voice rang out behind him.
“Are you guys… looking for me?”
“Who’s there?!
“Monster!”
“Watch out!”
Boom boom boom! Exploding sounds rang out, and the soaring flames encompassed the entire small town. However, before the small town started to burn, seething air currents surged forth, tearing it up into pieces.
The golden figure stared at the high temperature and flames that were wreaking havoc around him and said slowly, “Debrice, are these considered attacks?”
“Quick, run!”
“Don’t fight him head-on!”
A series of intense sounds of exchanging blows rang out, and densely-packed thunderbolts exploded and slowly disappeared.
Dennis, the Demigod who led the team, was filled with astonishment. His head was covered in blood, and his expression was distorted from great pain.
A golden claw pushed through his chest, grabbing onto his heart.
Dennis’ body kept on wriggling and struggling as if wanting to recover but was unable to do so.
He could only stare at the monster who was covered in a layer of golden stratum corneum and was swinging its thick tail non-stop.
Dennis kept on spurting blood from his mouth, “The East… East Military Execution Order won’t let you off.”
The monster revealed a mocking smile. “It is I who won’t be letting them off.”
At the next moment, under Dennis’ horrified gaze, the monster opened its mouth to an unbelievable extent and swallowed Dennis’ head whole.
Bone-chilling chewing sounds kept on ringing out from the monster’s mouth. As the monster ate, Dennis’ body was still struggling to recover. Even the head that had been swallowed kept on trying to regenerate the brain.
Clearly, this Demigod expert had already reached the realm of being able to regenerate his brain. Right now, although he had been seriously injured and engulfed, he was still struggling non-stop.
However, his struggles only brought more joy to the monster while it had its meal. It kept on chewing the pieces of flesh that kept on wriggling to regenerate. Each time it opened its mouth, Denise’s horrified and distorted face could be seen. The monster laughed and said, “Not bad, Debrice. The humans in this world are very delicious.”
Behind him, a monster who was covered entirely in a layer of purple stratum corneum and also had a tail said respectfully, “It’s good that you’re pleased.”
If Fang Xingjian were here, he would be able to recognize that this purple monster was the warrior from the Evil God Tribe who had appeared in the evil god summoning ritual.
However, it was no longer showing the arrogance and pride it had shown during the summoning ritual. It was acting like a subordinate, standing behind the gold monster.
The Evil God Tribe had an extremely strict hierarchy internally, and even if they only had a difference in one rank, the one in the superior rank would also have absolute authority over the one of the lower rank.
To the Evil God Tribe’s Debrice, this gold monster was a superior existence beyond its reach.
The gold monster swallowed half of Dennis’ body and then said with a slight lisp, “Debrice, you said that you’ve been defeated in this world before? By someone who looks a lot like Li Anping?”
A hint of hatred flashed in Debrice’s eyes. “Yes, that person is called Fang Xingjian. He’s a top-notch expert in this world.. However, he will at most be considered to be at the level of a middle-tier warrior when compared with our Evil God Tribe. However, he has amazing illusory arts and I was deceived by him…”
“Alright, I don’t care about his strength.” As the gold monster licked its lips, its eyes were like that of a snake, cold and shrew. “What I want to know is, he looks a lot like Li Anping?”
Debrice was stunned for a moment before nodding and said, “That’s right.”
The gold monster smiled. “Debrice, do you know what this means?”
Debrice shook its head.
The gold monster waved its tail softly and said slowly, “This means that he is an unrivalled delicacy.”
Smiling, the gold monster instructed, “Alright, continue to set up the blood river. Once we’ve stablized the coordinates here, we’ll go and have a taste of him. I hope that he won’t disappoint me.”
Saying this, hints of maniacal brutality and craziness flashed on its face.
Even Debrice could not help but tremble at its appearance and recalled the various rumors about it.
This existence was considered to be crazy, brutal, and unreasonable even amongst the Evil God Tribe. It even had track records of devouring others within the tribe, and Debrice felt a chill that came from the bottom of its heart just from standing next to this gold monster.
