Chapter 521: Surprise attack! Cai’er’s crisis (II)
Among them, the Demonic Birds and Dual-Headed Demon Vultures formed their aerial forces, the Demonic Wolves led the Dual Bladed Demons on the front, and the Blazing Demons and Demonic Eye Soldiers formed the rear.
On the other side was a mix of assassins, warriors and knights, with the knights and warriors standing in the front and the assassins putting all their strength on killing or injuring the enemies.
But through the course of the long Holy War, a large amount of mages and priests died at the enemies’ hands, and the remaining soldiers were having an extremely difficult time resisting the demons. In particular, the attacks from the Demonic Eye Soldiers and Blazing Demons inflicted extreme wounds to the soldiers. Therefore, many times the Assassin Temple had to organize suicide squads to deal with them. But the demon gods commanding the other side were no easy people either, and had made their preparations on how to respond long ago, forming a specialized unit formed of various powerhouses to target these suicide squads.
Just like in the Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass, the powerhouses of the ninth step of both sides wouldn’t rashly join the battle. They were mainly restraining each other and serving as mutual deterrents, but in such a murderous Holy War, this was extremely prejudicial to the side of the Exorcist Mountain Pass which was already close to collapse.
However, the Demon God Emperor gave the demon armies the order for a prolonged war to exhaust the accumulated human forces, and to avoid by all cost to invade the territory of the Alliance rashly. This was because he didn’t wish for the human world to be thoroughly destroyed. But this evidently didn’t stop their destruction of the forts and damage to the human armies. Compared to their own troops, the demons visibly preferred having the much cleaner humans as food.
Sheng Yue nodded to Cai’er, “Pay attention to your own safety.”
“Yeah.” Cai’er replied that way, and her figure flickered, shifting from the area high in the Exorcist Mountain Pass to the battlefield below.
After such a long time passed, she had adapted herself to this place since long ago, and adapted to a lot of matters after her loss of memories.
A pitch-black ray streaked across the sky, and carried along a freezing atmosphere, causing the nearby temperature to drop greatly.
The black-clad Cai’er had her purple hair fluttering. The immense Sickle of the God of Death appeared soundlessly in her hand, and a dense, dark colored light burst forth from within it. It unleashed an immense black colored blade projection as her figure appeared from nowhere.
The Dual Bladed Demons that were frantically climbing on the walls of the Exorcist Mountain Pass were cut as if they were wheat, and every enemy that entered into contact with that black colored blade edge were instantly reduced to pieces. Her intense murderous spirit extended, as large areas of lower ranked demons were directly cut up by her Sickle of the God of Death.
Cai’er’s awakening as a god’s chosen one differed greatly from Long Haochen’s. The latter’s was as the Scion of Light, and provided a general boost, including the blessing of the Goddess of Light. As for his affinity with the light element, it was raised to a whole new level. But Cai’er wasn’t the same. After awakening as a god’s chosen one, her greatest gain was the transformation of the Dagger of Samsara in her hand into the Scythe of the God of Death.
Since childhood, she had been united with the Dagger of Samsara, going through a lot of pain and torment. This way did she gradually become one with the divine tool, a process which could be said to encompass Cai’er’s whole training process. Therefore, the degree of her union with the Dagger of Samsara surpassed the one between Long Haochen and his few divine tools by far.
In terms of personal boosts, Cai’er’s awakening was not comparable with Long Haochen’s, but in the aspect of the divine power bestowed, Long Haochen’s awakening was the one falling far behind.
On the doors of the city, which were bright red with blood, the purple haired Cai’er swept everything around her as she appeared. After losing her memories she didn’t give out the same feeling of total coldness compared to before, but instead, at every use of the Sickle of the Goddess of Death she seemed to have that temperament back in her.
The killing intent materialized outside Cai’er’s body rushed forth, causing both the powerhouses from both the demon and allied sides to step back unconsciously. With Cai’er in the center, an empty area was created with a diameter of ten meters.
She was expressionless, an absolute beauty whose eyes were filled with unlimited murderous spirit.
For a while after she returned to the Exorcist Mountain Pass, Cai’er was actually extremely reluctant at the idea of causing slaughters. After all, after her loss of memories, she had the mindset of a young girl. How could it be so easy to make her accept the idea of causing slaughters? Even with the influence of the Sickle of the God of Death, she was, deep inside, really against that idea.
Therefore, Sheng Yue specifically made her stay in the camps for the wounded for a long time, to assign her some simple work as an aid after her daily cultivation.
There, Cai’er saw far too many atrocities that she would never be able to forget. The first time she came, she saw a soldier that lost both his legs and one arm, and pierced his own heart with a dagger wielded by his last remaining arm. The suicide note he left was delivered personally by Cai’er to Sheng Yue.
The content of this note was:
Niuniu, Doudou, papa loves the two of you. However, I cannot accompany you anymore. The abominable demons are attempting to invade our homeland, so papa is defending our Alliance with his own life, alongside his comrades. The Alliance is everyone’s home, an honorable place for papa to die. But papa really hates to part with the two of you, and deeply wishes to see your mother and the two of you! Papa really wants to return to those times, letting the two of you sit on my legs, as I embrace you, giving kisses on your little cheeks, and feel your snivel flow on papa’s face. Papa is thinking of you, but cannot last any longer. I wish I could hear mama’s voice… Papa’s compensation payment should help to support you as you grow up. You have to remember that papa’s death was for the sake of the Alliance’s fight, humanity’s fight. Papa hopes he can become your hope. If one day, the Alliance needs you, papa hopes you could pick up weapons and stand courageously in front of the enemies on the Exorcist Mountain Pass.
— Your father that loves you forever.
After she finished reading the note, Cai’er remained lifeless for half an hour. After that, all the fear that was in her eyes and heart disappeared. In the camps for the wounded, she didn’t fear getting dirty or tired, and did her best to help the wounded. This lasted for a period of three months.
Three months later, Sheng Yue went looking for Cai’er with a copy of that suicide note in his hand. He told Cai’er that the compensation payment was sent along with the original suicide note.
That instant, Cai’er threw herself at her great-grandfather’s arms, unable to hold her tears.
Sheng Yue only told her calmly that the ordinary soldiers were all defending the human territory with their blood and life, willing to pay the cost of their life to defend their families, and chose to kill themselves rather than becoming a burden for the Alliance. As the Saint Daughter of Samsara, an incomparably gifted person, could she only stay in these camps for the wounded?
To kill an enemy means that there is one less enemy to attack their side, which means there will be less wounded and deceased. She should instead use her strength in the battlefield. As long as the demons are here, the tragedies won’t be over.
As Cai’er stood at the head of the Exorcist Mountain Pass, the fear filling her heart was completely transformed into hatred and disgust, and the murderous spirit in the Sickle of the God of Death descended once again.
As the thunderous black figure rushed out, a large amount of low-ranked demons were smashed to pieces.
Cai’er was just like a black phantom, appearing wherever the enemies are the most dense and the situation the most dangerous. Everywhere she passed, the Sickle of the God of Death swept everything before her. Who knew how many demons died in her hands.
Clang. The Sickle of the God of Death was swept horizontally, appearing the same as a dark-golden electric light. Cai’er’s body then finally came to a stop, focusing her eyes on a powerful Birdy Demon letting out a dark golden luster.
This Golden Birdy reached at least the seventh step in cultivation. Pointing his sharp spear at Cai’er, he was totally surrounded by light. Flapping the wings on his back, he hoveredclose to the Exorcist Mountain Pass.
An ice-cold chilliness flashed through Cai’er’s eyes, and the next instant, she disappeared.
The terrifying killing intent caused the surroundings to darken, and that Dark Golden Birdy Demon almost immediately thrust its spear at his back.
Ding!
Bam-dam.
This dark golden spear quite close to the power of a human Legendary Weapon. But against the pitch-black blade’s edge, it was sliced like tofu, and the pitch-black scythe made its way into his shoulder, cutting the whole body in two. Only then did Cai’er’s figure reappear.
Besides being at the seventh step as well, the Birdy Demon was no threat in her eyes. Her offensive power was enormous, to the extent that Long Haochen was no match while still at the seventh step, let alone those demons.
The instant right after she beheaded this Birdy Demon, she felt suddenly an ineffable sense of danger, and turned her posture towards the demon camp’s direction.
At least hundreds of light rays suddenly condensed from that direction, shooting straight at Cai’er’s direction. These light rays covered an enormous scope, to the extent that even with Cai’er’s speed, she couldn’t make it in time to dodge.
Not only that, but outside from these light rays also came many immense fireballs falling like a torrent.
Quite obviously, that Birdy Demon was just a bait. After being baited out from the Exorcist Mountain Pass’ scope, she suffered a surprise attack, coming from the union between Demonic Eye Soldiers and Blazing Devils. There were at least two hundred which attacked right after Cai’er appeared.
Cai’er had already been rampaging quite a few times in the area of Exorcist City already, and everytime she appeared, the demons suffered immense damage. The count of powerhouses of the sixth step or above that died in her hands was already close to a hundred, including three that were at the eighth step. Such a damage attracted the demons’ attention a long time ago, and at the same time, gave her great military glory.
In front of these aggregated darkness elemental attacks, Cai’er didn’t show the slightest panic. Assuming a cowering position, she was immediately surrounded by a hazy black fog.
The Sickle of the God of Death was raised high above her head, and made a sudden hacking motion.
