Chapter 340: ughter - Part 1


    In a dark room, a young man and a middle-aged man watched the opening ceremony of the Fighter Anteriority through their smartwatches.


    Both had something inmon, they only had one arm attached to the body. The pair was the mastermind behind the Regal Kingdom''s attack.


    The ceremony had reached the closing speech by Leon Kline.


    In the middle of watching the ceremony, the door opened. But the two did not pay attention to who entered the room. They had theirs locked on the smartwatch.


    "Are you sure you don''t want to use my creation?" A rough and chilling voice questioned the pair.


    "No!" The middle-aged man replied in a firm tone without looking toward the voice.


    The young man showed a more aggressive stance. He slowly raised his head and looked toward the voice with his bloodshot eyes, "No! This is a reminder for me! It will remind to not forget to rip that man''s hand apart. After that, I am going to rip his wives and daughter''s hand one by one, right in front of him! I will let him taste of despair!"


    The young man''s voice filled with malice. His tone was also sinister and bone-chilling. Despite his human appearance, he gave a vibe of an angered beast.


    "Tsk, who''s the unlucky fellow angered these two madmen?" The dwarf shook his head in pity. Of course, that man was Heero, he just did not know the culprit was their main target of this operation.


    Yes, the one who just entered the room was a dwarf. But he was looked different from the normal dwarf, it was a Corrupted Dwarf. That was how the people in Dramonia called them.


    The dwarf had dark skin, almost charred ck. There were two small horns protruded upward on his forehead. Such a change was caused by the Dark Ki. They called Corrupted Dwarf because they lived in an area with a thick Dark Ki hence caused some mutation on their appearance.


    Just now, the corrupted dwarf was offering an artificial hand to these two. But he was rejected firmly by the two madmen.


    Let''s start the Festival!


    As those words transmitted from the smartwatch, the pair immediately stood.


    "It''s time to hunt!" The young man grinned evilly as he closed the smartwatch. Then, the pair headed out of the darkroom together. They did not nce at the corrupted dwarf.


    *** ***


    "It''s started!" In one of the tallest buildings in the core region, Butcher Wang spectated everything from the start.


    He saw ckish energy ballooned up from the outer city wall. It was not very fast and it ended up covering the whole city. After the outermost wall, another ckish energy ballooned up from the wall that separated the Commerce Region and the Outer City region. It kept happening until the ckish energy also covered the outer region.


    Threeyers of ckish energy covered the core region in one minute. Such a phenomenon would cause mass panic.


    Butcher Wang raised his wrist and talked, "It''s started guys, focus on evacuating the people over killing the specters! Let''s teach them a lesson!"


    "Roger!"


    Many voices replied Butcher Wang through the smartwatch. It was the voice of the SES squad''s voices.


    *** ***


    On top of the outer city, Roman looked toward the direction of the core region.


    "You ruined my n and it''s my time to ruin your life!"


    He was Rodin, the man who impersonated as Rodin and snuck into the White Household.


    "Heh, don''t underestimate him or you may regret it," The same middle-aged man who apanied Roman in Star City reminded.


    "First of all, we catch him off guard. Secondly, look at these threeyer barriers, his me would not reach us. Third, Reaper, Shadow Bane, and Nightmare are working together this time. We are using our full force, do you think he can slip?" Roman questioned the middle-aged man with a grin.


    *** ***


    Star Cityyout was following Sun City''s. The difference was that Star City was twicerger than Sun City.


    In the outer city, a group was standing in front of an old house. The group was wearing all ck with SES golden badge on their left chests.


    On top of the old building, another group wore purple leather armor with a longbow on their back. The building was one of many SES''s posts in the outer.


    "That''s the order, let''s start the operation!" Ren Anqing turned around and said. He looked up and informed the purple mountain people in Dramonia Language as well.


    He was an old member of SES and also Heero''s apprentice. He was a Squad Captain now, getting promoted after he finished the Revaluation Test.


    At Ren Anqing''s words, the group spread out in order.


    Ren Anqing also did not stay behind, he headed toward a direction. He was heading toward an orphanage.


    As he arrived at the orphanage, he saw many kids loitering around in front of the building. They were pointing their finger toward the darkened sky, causing amotion.


    Ren Anqing scanned the crowd, looking for the head of the orphanage. Soon, he spotted a white-haireddy came out of the building.


    "There you are" He muttered as he rushed to the olddy.


    "This W-what is this? What happened?" The olddy''s panicked voice resounded as her face paled.


    "This is an attack! The specters attacked the city," Ren Anqing appeared next to the olddy and whispered in a low voice, making sure the surrounding people did not hear his words. He did not want to cause panic to the kids.


    The olddy was startled by Ren Anqing''s voice. she turned around and met with Ren Anqing.


    "You are the young man from the other day!?" The olddy eximed in surprise.


    "Yes, I am," Ren Anqing nodded and smiled at the olddy.


    That was right, SES had made their move earlier. They were trying to evacuate the people earlier, but some people did not believe them such as the head of this orphanage.


    Ren Anqing had persuaded the olddy two times but the olddy stubbornly refused to listen.


    "Then what you said back then was true?" The olddy had an unbelievable expression on her face.


    "Yes, I am a Hero and also Specter Extermination Squad of the Hero League Star City branch," Ren Anqing showed his identification card as a Hero to the olddy.


    "We have predicted the specters'' movement and we predicted they would attack the city at this time!" It was proven true with the ckish barrier in the sky.


    "I wish your cooperation and follow me to the safe house we have prepared," Ren Anqing bowed his head politely to the olddy.


    "And If I refuse?" To Ren Anqing''s surprise, the olddy was stubbornly resisted. At such a time, she still did not trust him.


    "Then I am sorry, for the kids'' sake, we will use force to evacuate all these kids with us. If you don''t want to follow, it''s okay too but I will bring the kids with me!" Ren Anqing gave a firm response.


    At this time, he did not have time to argue with the stubborn olddy. He had to prioritize the kids'' safety before the battle broke up.


    "Alright then, bring us with you to the safe house!" In the end, the olddy relented and nodded at his time.


    "Kids! Follow this big brother, we are going to move to a safer ce!" The olddy shouted while pointing her finger at Ren Anqing.


    Ren Anqing had prepared the vehicle for the evacuation. As soon as the olddy, he immediately brought them to the vehicle. They went back to the original base, the old building.


    When the olddy arrived, she looked at Ren Anqing suspiciously, "Are you sure this is the safe ce?"


    She began doubting Ren Anqing again. Even though she did not have full information regarding the specters, she had heard that the specter could disguise themselves into a human. She was afraid Ren Anqing was a specter in disguise.


    Ren Anqing smiled gently at the olddy, "Follow me, you will know once you inside,"


    He opened the old steel door. There was some weird noise when the door opened.


    After some hesitation, the olddy followed Ren Anqing. At this point, if Ren Anqing was truly a specter in disguise, they were doomed already.


    She had no other option but to trust Ren Anqing. She and the kids followed to the old building.


    Inside was a hallway, ten meters hallway. Yes, ten meters hallway with no path but a steel wall.


    The olddy started to panic on the inside as she saw two men in the same outfit as Ren Anqing. She thought she and the kids were about getting ughtered by them.


    "Open the path!" Ren Anqing spoke up.


    The two men in guard nodded their heads. They turned around and pulled the lever behind them.


    The olddy did not the lever as she was panicking. When she saw the two men pulled the lever, the olddy was stared as the ground vibrated. To her surprise, the steel wall was lifted and showed her a path.


    Behind the steel wall, she saw dozens of people wore white clothes.


    Ren Anqing turned around and smiles at the olddy, "You can follow them, my duty is to escort you here! They will guide you to the underground city,"


    Yes, an underground city was built to amodate the refuge. SES had prepared everything for this battle, they were ready to face the specters in full force.


    The same thing happened in the other ces, SES Squad escorted the people to the underground city.


    *** ***


    "Yahoy! The hunt has started, let''s start the bloodbath, my friend!" Roman jumped off the hundred meters wall as he directed his spears to the city.


    The middle-aged man who apanied him also followed. Not only these two men, but countless beastmen also appeared on the top of the wall all of sudden.


    The beastmen was a half-human and a half-beast. Thousands of them jumped off the wall at the same time as Roman and hispanion.


    Boom! Boom! Boom!


    Theynded on the building and instantly crushed many houses below the wall.


    "Hahaha! Charge! Let''s start the second Blood Festival!!"


    Groarrhhh!!!


    The beastmen also roared in excitement. Afternding on a house, they jumped off to another house. The roar resounded through the outer city region.


    "Kukuku" Roman also let out sinisterughter as he charged toward another house.


    "Huh!?" Theughter stopped as Roman noticed something off. There was no one in the house, no single life could be found in this house.


    The beforehand house also had no one inside. He heard no scream, the people scream that he liked so much, he did not hear that.


    In confusion, he charged to another house. It was still the same, empty. He charged to house and another but he still found nothing. It was as the city was emptied.


    The same thing happened at the other ces. The beastmen who started to run amuck also bewildered as they could not find a single prey. It was as if the city was void of people.