Chapter 266 Red Moon
"Lord Burrager!"
With screams of surprise, the top leaders of the Rosas family were in chaos.
No one expected that Burlag, the fifth-level mage who was the strongest fighter on their side, would suddenly fall to the ground and die from the backlash of the spell.
Fear finally showed on Prince Harper's face.
From the beginning to the end, these high-level combat forces were his greatest reliance for saving his life. Now that the only fifth-level warrior in the team was dead, he looked at the "murderer" who was walking towards him step by step, and the blood on his face gradually faded.
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Guy was like a blood-soaked lion, and it was becoming increasingly difficult for him to move forward as he charged into the battlefield.
After all, his physical strength has not yet recovered, and his combat power is greatly limited.
When fighting against enemies, he can rely on his unparalleled sword skills to break their magic and temporarily avoid being at a disadvantage; but when it comes to rushing forward, dodging, and so on, he is a little stretched.
If he wanted to charge forward and dodge, he would definitely need a very high muscle burst, which Guy couldn't do with his atrophied muscles. He could only bear the concentrated fire of thousands of people and walk towards Harper and his men step by step.
What's more, although the "curse" just now failed to kill him, it also injured him seriously.
The high-level extraordinary people of the Rosas family were not stupid. They knew that this was the best opportunity to surround and kill him. They found the right opportunity to launch a sneak attack, stabbed him twice with a dagger...
But every high-level enemy that takes action will have no way back and will eventually become a dead soul under the sword.
Both sides fought with injuries exchanged, and the battle was extremely brutal.
But if there are no other accidents, the final outcome is almost predictable.
This is an enclosed underground palace with no escape.
Even if Guy could kill several high-ranking officials of Prince Harper, he could not kill all the 10,000 elite knights of the Rosas family. In the end, both sides would suffer losses, and Guy would definitely be the one to die.
However, there is another guy secretly watching.
This was the accident.
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Not far away, Ryan was keeping an eye on the battlefield on Guy's side while quietly moving in another direction.
He didn't need to worry about Guy for the time being. A strong man like that would at least not be in danger of his life until his fighting spirit was exhausted.
And since Naretta could open the bronze door, Ryan knew that this was the key to breaking the deadlock.
The Rosas family naturally knew her role, and they specially arranged an elite team to guard her. But because of her cursed bloodline, ordinary people did not dare to approach her. So the ones guarding her were all disciples of the [Curse Master] Burrag.
There are two third-level white-robed mages, and seven or eight low-level mages.
At this moment, Naretta was tied to the rune chains with a dazed look on her face.
Judging from her lifeless eyes, she must have been given some kind of "soul-loving potion" or something like that, and she is in a daze.
Ryan, wearing a set of knightly clothes that he had taken from the corpse before, quietly approached.
Because Guy attracted most of the firepower, his infiltration was relatively smooth.
After Burlag's death, the Rosas family camp was in chaos. But even so, the guards of Naretta belonged to the "logistics department" and were not far from Prince Harper and his party. Such a sneaky fighter was still discovered.
A white-robed wizard spotted Ryan sneaking up on him and shouted, "Stop! Which regiment are you from? Why are you sneaking here instead of going to kill the assassins?"
The guy thought Ryan was a deserter, afraid of death, and wanted to hide behind .
Hearing this, Ryan showed a half-smile in his eyes.
When he was shouted at, he knew he was exposed. Without any hope of survival, he raised his hand and punched forward.
Before the man finished speaking, there was a loud bang in the air, and only a shadow was left on the spot.
However, because there was already a lot of gunfire in the underground palace, not many people noticed this unusual sound.
But the third-level white-robed wizard immediately became alert, and the magic shield covering his body instantly solidified by three points.
In the blink of an eye, a malicious face appeared half a meter away.
There was nothing fancy about it, and it wasn't any advanced boxing technique. It was just a straight punch that hit the magic shield.
When the aftereffect of the [Cannon Fist] was unleashed, the force was like an explosion, and the magic shield of this third-level mage only held out for a moment before it disintegrated bit by bit.
If a cloth-armored mage lets a fighter of the same level get close to him, the outcome is almost always death.
What's more, Ryan's combat power far exceeds that of his peers.
There was a series of "crackling" sounds of bones breaking. After the magic shield was broken, the dumbfounded white-robed wizard was punched in the chest with a bloody hole, and he died.
In one encounter, Ryan killed one person instantly.
At this time, those instant-cast "Fire Bomb Spell", "Flying Thunder Spell", "Wind Blade Spell"... more than a dozen low-level spells also hit him with a crackling sound.
But it doesn't hurt.
He is not like Guy whose movements are restricted by his muscles. Ryan's muscles are at their peak and he won't give those guys any chance to chant high-level spells.
[Divine Movement] allowed him to change positions in the crowd quickly like a shuttle, making it impossible for the group of low-level mages to catch him.
Every punch and kick resulted in either death or disability.
But in the blink of an eye, more than a dozen people guarding Naretta were killed or injured.
Ryan's fighting style is completely opposite to Guy's.
One breaks all laws with skills, the other breaks all laws with force.
When Guy kills people, he saves every bit of his strength and tries to kill as many as possible; but Ryan has a lot of strength and doesn't have to worry about consumption in a short period of time. He can just raise his hand and punch or kick with great power that no one at the same level can stop, which is extremely violent and aesthetically pleasing.
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This action caused a huge noise, which naturally attracted the attention .
"Oh no, it's that assassin from before!"
"Damn it, protect His Highness!"
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Although Prince Harper and his companions knew that an assassin had kidnapped Young Master George, no one had ever seen Ryan committing a crime. Thinking that no matter how powerful he was, he was only a third-level extraordinary after all, the high-level guards did not take him too seriously.
But now, looking at each of them, their expressions are extremely interesting.
A third-level mage was killed with just one punch?
And his ghostly displacement speed is comparable to that of a fourth-tier fully agile assassin. After killing someone, he wants to leave and who can stop him?
Seeing this terrifying combat power, they immediately understood that no one below the fourth level of transcendent could stop this guy.
However, except for Prince Harper's personal guards, the other four-level transcendents were all besieging and killing Guy, and they could not spare more high-level combat forces to besiege and kill this tricky guy who suddenly appeared.
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No one would have thought that Ryan would go to rescue Naretta, nor did they know that he and Guy knew each other.
The guards of the Rosas family looked at Ryan who suddenly jumped up. They didn't guess that he was going to rescue people. They thought he was going for Prince Harper, so they quickly closed the defense circle.
The battlefield commander also immediately made the decision to have the senior officials evacuate the underground palace.
"Your Highness, this place is dangerous, please evacuate the underground palace immediately!"
All the commands were given by shouting, and Ryan was very close, so he could hear it clearly.
At the first moment, Prince Harper and the other senior executives quickly evacuated to the door of the first floor of the underground palace.
As long as the top leaders are not in the underground palace, the knights can let go and fight the enemy. Now it seems that the development of the ruins is a trivial matter, and whether the top leaders can survive is the most urgent task.
Without an expert to snipe him, Ryan felt the pressure instantly disappear.
He killed almost all the people who were guarding Naretta , and when the senior officials fled, no one cared about her anymore.
Ryan picked up the little girl, who weighed only fifty or sixty pounds, and ran towards the bronze gate.
By settling her down, those guys will lose the "key" to open the bronze door, and today's situation will be unbeatable.
The people of the Rosas family were not stupid either. When they saw Ryan saving people, although they didn't understand what he was going to do, they had to stop the enemy from doing what he was going to do.
"Stop him! Attack indiscriminately, kill them all!"
He was hit by random bullets and crossbow arrows along the way. Although the threat was not great, the number was too large and Ryan felt that his fighting spirit was greatly consumed.
Looking at the several "Hundred Man Regiment" pursuers behind him, Ryan showed a hint of sarcasm in his eyes.
He is not Guy. He cannot defeat your legion formation. Can't I just run away?
Ryan casually took out a few [Goblin Grenades], pulled the safety pin and threw them over.
“Boom”, “Boom”, “Boom”…
This bomb was not a big threat to the heavy armored battle formation, but it made a lot of noise. There was a series of violent noises like a landslide, and the sand and gravel in the underground palace kept falling due to the violent vibration, and it seemed that it was about to collapse.
The group of a hundred people also stood there in a daze.
It was the first time for everyone to see a "bomb" of such power, and no one dared to chase it.
Ryan rescued the people easily, brought Naretta into the bronze door, and threw her to Gannics who was watching the battle behind the door.
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Less than a quarter of an hour after the battle began, the hall was already littered with corpses.
Not only the Knights of the Rosas Family, but more than half of the two thousand civilian scavengers were killed or injured. The intense poison was reaping their lives in large numbers.
Ryan's original plan was to rescue Naretta, then close the bronze door and let the people of the Rosas family stare outside in vain, because no one could open the door anyway.
Now the situation is clear, it seems impossible for Guy to kill Prince Harper. He may be able to do it in his peak state, but now, with the Knights' protection, he can't stop the high-ranking officials from escaping.
At this time, the senior executives led by Prince Harper were almost at the entrance of the maze and were about to escape.
But no one would have thought that Guy would once again teach everyone a lesson: what does it mean to be the best swordsman in the world!
Not only is his swordsmanship the best in the world, but even his "sword energy" is incredible.
The next moment, he swung out a sword that left everyone baffled.
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In fact, when Ryan was saving people before, he saw Guy "accumulating energy".
Everyone guessed that this guy was "holding back a big move."
But no one had ever thought that he would come up with a sword move that refreshed everyone's cognition.
Guy's purpose has always been clear, to kill the culprit, Prince Harper.
Not to mention that the two sides were only one or two kilometers apart, whether the sword energy could reach them was one thing; secondly, no matter what kind of slash, it would be impossible to get past the heavily armored guard corps and hurt Prince Harper who was surrounded by heavy protection.
But even though this was impossible, Guy still drew his sword.
At this moment, a crescent "red moon" has appeared on the blade of the long sword in his hand, and its edge is intimidating.
He swung his sword and slashed it horizontally, and the "red moon" flew out of the blade as fast as lightning.
"Protect His Royal Highness!"
The guards of the Rosas family had also noticed this scene a long time ago, and they quickly used their bodies to block the straight line where the sword energy was about to pass.
As we all know, although the sword energy from a distance is powerful, its trajectory can be predicted in advance.
The sword energy must be on the straight line that the sword blade cuts.
At the moment the sword was swung, at least hundreds of heavily armored knights blocked the distance between Guy and Harper.
In everyone's opinion, the sword energy had already lost its power, not to mention the distance it reached; even if it was chopped close to the face, it would definitely not hurt Prince Harper.
Even the current number one swordsman in the world, Carlo Gracie, one of the "Top Ten Legends" [Frost Moon Swordsman], his strongest sword attack could only break 100 armors!
But at this moment, a strange scene appeared...
The "Red Moon" sword energy slashed out, but it did not directly slash at the heavily armored knight who was blocking in front of it. Instead, it drew an arc trajectory in the air like a "boomerang".
Seeing this bizarre scene, Ryan cursed in his heart: "Fuck, sword energy can turn?"
This feeling is like seeing a bullet turn a corner, which subverts the normal person's cognition.
Not only him, but everyone present had a frozen expression.
Apparently, their brains hadn’t yet registered what they had seen.
But reality did not give them much time to react, and the strange scene continued...
How fast is the sword energy?
The "Red Moon" seemed to be guided by an invisible aura, leaving an arc in people's vision, avoiding the hundreds of heavily armored knights. Before anyone could react, a flash of light and shadow easily cut off several heads.
A human fountain suddenly appeared, and several heads fell to the ground with a "gurgle".
One of them was the green-haired Prince Harper, with an incredible expression on his face.
After the head fell, Guy's sword finally cut it off completely.
He held a sword in one hand and looked indifferently at the thousands of enemies in front of him with the other hand. That numb expression never changed.
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Sword energy that can turn?
Prince Harper is dead?
The people of the Rosas family were stunned. The most important person on their side was actually killed?
A moment later, the shock on the knights' faces turned into horror.
The cold-bloodedness of the feudal autocracy is no joke.
All the privileges they have are granted by the lord.
Harper was killed in front of them, and the guards had an unshirkable responsibility. This meant that even if these knight guards returned alive, they would be severely punished and their entire clans would be implicated.
If it were the two empires with deep roots, Theed and Omar, when the prince died, the guards would definitely fight to the death and kill the murderer at the first moment.
But the "Glorious Kingdom" has only been established for less than a year, and these noble knights and guards are a mixed bag, with the majority being wasteland hunters and thieves.
And because of the Moon Beauty Maritis, the people around Prince Harper are mostly the former members of the "Nine-Headed Phantom Thieves" brought by Viscount Yuke.
Let this group of thieves who still have the nature of bandits fight to the death for their lord?
Overthinking.
The moment they saw Harper's life or death, the thieves thought of the punishment they were about to face and instantly lost their will to fight.
They are all people who live on the edge of a knife. Do you want them to be buried with a noble lord for the so-called loyalty?
Wouldn’t it be nice to continue being their phantom thief?
At that moment, the phantom thieves looked at each other and understood each other, and they all shrank to the edge of the battlefield and fled towards the entrance of the maze.
The appearance of the first deserter is like the first crack before a dam collapses, which can no longer be restored in an instant.
"Damn it! Anyone who dares to escape will be shot on the spot by the supervision team!"
"Don't retreat, continue to surround and kill..."
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No matter how loudly the commander shouted, he was unable to stop the thieves from escaping.
In an instant, the defeat was overwhelming.
The top members of the Rosas family only then discovered that their so-called loyal and huge group of aristocratic knights were so vulnerable.
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The Phantom Thief Knights lost their will to fight, and no one was willing to die anymore. They surrounded and killed Guy, who was like a god of death and whose whole body was boiling with blood.
The top leaders of the Rosas family also saw that the situation was not good and swarmed into the maze.
Seeing this, Guy didn't chase after him.
Soon, in the huge hall, apart from the thousands of corpses, there were only a few hundred people alive.
Of the more than two thousand civilian scavengers, less than five hundred were still alive, and the rest were mostly poisoned to death by that [Poison Hand] Gizela.
There must be a trap outside the maze. We will definitely not be able to get out if we go back the same way.
But Ryan didn't care.
After all, there is another exit behind the bronze gate.
He led Guy and the surviving civilian hunters into the third floor of the ruins.
But unexpectedly, strange things happened one after another.
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"Mr. Ryan, I don't know what happened. In the blink of an eye, she...she became like this..."
Gannix was at a loss as to what had just happened.
Not far away, a black cat the size of a cheetah was locked on the rune chain that originally tied Naretta!
