517 Eradicate Seven Branches Part 2

The sound of a trumpet stopped the battle for a second before the city lord made his appearance.

Alex had predicted that he would come sooner, but it would seem he overestimated him. According to Anna's report, the city lord was having a good relationship with their leader. By attacking the blue-haired woman, it would surely make the city lord furious.

Unfortunately, fury alone was not enough for him to help her.

"You Bastard! What have you done?!" The city lord roared, looking down on them.

Alex checked his and the others' cultivations. The city lord himself was a 7-Star Martial Emperor. It was also the reason why only the elder at 6-Star Martial Emperor came to this place. They should not disrupt the city's order by sending a more powerful elder. Another possibility would be enticing the City Lord to become one of their elders. This way, the Joyful Union Sect would receive a powerful elder without cultivating him.

There were several cases where both fell in love, but it was a rare case. For Joyful Union Sect, they saw all these people were like a blood bag in a vampire's eye. Their purpose was only for cultivation and tools.

And the current city lord was just a tool for the leader by looking at that Pink Energy inside his body.

"Stina." Alex waved his hands, opening the barrier for Stina, Kyle, and Sherry.

"Yes." Stina and the others nodded, coming out of the barrier before Alex closed it again. She knew if the city lord attacked the barrier continuously, Alex's power would not be enough to maintain the barrier.

"Who are you?! Do you know what you have done?" The city lord screamed in anger.

"They dare to make us their enemies. Even the Joyful Union Sect could not withstand our anger." Stina snorted. "If you decide to attack us, then don't blame me for being impolite."

"You are only an 8-Star Martial Emperor. There are many people above you inside the sect. And most importantly, your group has injured my woman. Prepare to die!" The city lord took out his sword, shouting. "Half of you will protect the civilians while half of you will follow me and fight them. We are going to help the people from Joyful Union Brothel."

"Ooh!"

"Haiz, a stubborn one." Stina shook her head, disappointed. She created a pair of wings from fire, taking the most comfortable form for fighting. The fire gushed out from her body, creating a ball of flame above her head. The intense heat made the town's people escape as they could not withstand the heat. Only Martial Lords or above could withstand this kind of power.

"You…"

At the same time, Sherry and Kyle made a pair of fire phoenix wings, shooting them toward the soldiers. Since they were outnumbered, it would be better if they delivered the first blow.

"Boom Boom!"

"!!!" The city lord gritted his teeth, swinging his sword downward. "Greater Slash."

A sword wave flew out of his sword, flying toward the giant fireball in order to destroy it.

Stina clapped her hand and controlled the fireball. It slowly turned into five living fire snakes. She raised her hand and made the snakes charge at him.

"Fire Snakes!"

"!!!" Noticing that his first attack was missed, he charged at one of the snakes.

"Greater Slash."

He used the Sword Wave from point-blank range, slicing one of the snakes. Unfortunately, Stina's real target was the soldiers. Three snakes were enough to keep him busy while she killed the soldiers one by one.

Of course, she still followed Alex's plan to stop the city lord. The soldiers were just baits to lure the attention of the city lord. She wanted to see whether the city lord loved that woman more or the soldiers more.

"You Bastard!" And it would seem he still had his rationality by how he could rage when she killed the soldiers.

"Sherry, Kyle, do kill them in moderation," She said.

They did not know what she meant but still nodded. The purpose of this was buying time, not killing the soldiers and Stina precisely knew what it meant. Anya had told her about Karma and such, but she didn't really understand whether this action would affect Karma or not. The only thing she could do was to kill in moderation unless she was one hundred percent sure they were enemies.

Looking at the expression of civilians, Sherry and Kyle, or even the city lord, the fire started covering her hand, forming two claws. "If you want to help the people inside, you can only go through me."

The city lord gritted his teeth as he raised his hand. "Soldiers! Follow me!"

…

With the situation outside handled perfectly by Stina, Alex only needed to worry about time. They had come inside this place for thirty minutes, and from his prediction, he would need another thirty minutes to kill them.

"Swallowing Slash."

Alex turned around, noticing an attack that came to his way.

"No, you won't." Jeanne also appeared right in front of him, destroying the sword attack. "Master, this woman is tenacious despite having those injuries. I might need to take a bit longer."

He looked at the other situation, counting the enemies before turning back to Jeanne. "If they finish first, no Jean for a month."

"..." Jeanne was stupefied, wondering if her ears were playing a trick on her. "Master?"

Alex ignored her and disappeared, observing the whole situation from a better place.

"Wait! Swallowing Slash." The leader struck Alex's shadow but was too late. Before she could move, Jeanne appeared in front of her, full of anger. She glared at her. "You bitch. You are going to die within a minute."

"Lightning Cannon." Seven lightning spheres appeared, hovering around her body. The spheres shone brightly, shooting seven lightning strikes simultaneously.

"!!!" She leaped back to avoid the lightning strikes, but Jeanne appeared again, slashing downwards.

"Bam!" The force from Jeanne was enough to blow toward the wall. She raised her hands, shooting another round of lightning strikes.

"Kh!" The power behind these lightning strikes was no joke. Even Alex's Flame of Extinction might lose to this attack. Unfortunately, this skill also needed a huge amount of energy, making it hard for her to use it continuously. She also needed to worry about using too much Spiritual Energy as they would strike another base after this.

"Die." Jeanne raised the power output.

Meanwhile,

Alex was watching the battle between the city lord and Stina.

"Flawless Fire Ascension." Three streams of fire came out of her hands, charging toward the city lord.

"Multiple Sword Breaker." The city lord was also not a pushover. Each strike was precise and powerful, destroying each stream perfectly.

"..." Looking at this, Alex thought another thing. 'Stina should not have a weapon as she usually used her fire on every occasion. What if Stina had a weapon, maybe like a mage in the previous world, would she become stronger?'

Alex had this question in his mind for a while. Her fire was indeed powerful, but if she combined it with a weapon, and not any other weapon but the scepter of a Fire God. He recalled that the phoenix was scared of that scepter because the fire essence of that scepter was powerful and could suppress every phoenix.

If that was the case, the wielder should also feel the suppression. At that time, Alex had a theory. What if the scepter needed to be activated first before it could be used?

This thought kept recalling inside his mind, thinking about giving the scepter to Stina. The Fire God should know that the scepter would be useless to him as his Pure Fire had the same ferocity. He also could not use it as there was no way Alex would bring those six races to another world.

'What if…' Alex opened his eyes wide, coming to a realization. 'What if he gave the scepter because he knew there would be at least someone who would accompany me to the other world? He left the scepter to let me decide whether this person is worth it or not? By giving this scepter, although it won't reach my Pure Fire Level, it should be enough to reach the level of normal Pure Fire.'

"!!!" The realization shocked him. He looked at Stina, pondering for a moment. He had trusted Stina enough to invite her inside the group, letting her see the system. And if she wanted, she actually could use the Fire God Scepter as he stored it inside his Inventory, not his Space Ring.

He sighed before making a little smile. He took out the scepter from his Inventory. The overbearing pressure coming from the scepter immediately suppressed all fire users in the area. Alex used his Pure Fire to mild the pressure, so it would not release that kind of pressure and let others know about the scepter's power.

The barrier was opened with a wave of his hand and a scepter flew out.

Stina could only smile, thanking Alex secretly for the trust. She stretched her hand, grabbing the scepter and channeling her Spiritual Energy inside.

The energy within her body and the scepter clashed together before slowly overpowering her. She decided to take this energy inside of her, giving it a chance to lay root inside her body.

The surge of energy forced her flame to gush out of her body. She raised her hand, sending another three streams of fire.

"Multiple Sword Breaker." The city lord only snorted, breaking these three again.

Unexpectedly, when he struck at the first one, it exploded, blowing his sword away. He took out another sword and leaped back before striking at the two fire streams with great difficulty.

"Kh… What is that?" He glanced at the scepter, feeling the numbness on his hand.

Stina's flame was now a Pseudo Pure Fire. Although it was a bit inferior to a Pure Fire, she could utilize the fire essence of the ancestor, giving the same ability as Alex. And that last strike contained empowerment. Although she could not utilize a Pure Fire that could cure poison and any other else yet, this was enough to turn the situation around.

She clenched the scepter, creating another giant ball. This time, it shot a laser instead of creating five snakes.

"Fire Blast."

"Soldiers, be careful!" The city lord shouted, moving toward the laser. He blocked the laser with his puny sword, getting pushed back by the sheer power.

"City Lord!" The soldiers felt anguish when they saw the city lord took this attack for them. They bit their lips and rose from the ground, helping him in pushing this attack back.

"We are going to help you."

"That's right. We should defeat all these guys together."

"Push back!" They shouted in unison, making Stina appear to be the bad guy.

"Directed it to the sky."

"Ooh!" They pushed the attack to the sky.

The scene was very moving as the city lord used and soldiers protected the civilians from other attacks.

"City Lord!"

"Ooh!"

"Let's help them and defeat these people."

Lone cultivators, who were scared earlier, slowly rose to the sky, looking at Stina with killing intent.

Unfortunately, they were too late because a man's voice echoed inside their ears. "If you are going to stand in our way, we will not spare any of you."

They turned around to see Alex and the others appearing beside Stina. The city lord opened his mouth in shock, looking at the fallen blue-haired woman.

"Luna!" He roared to the sky, holding the woman he loved. Little did he know that she had been using him all along.

Alex looked at the scene and sent a thought transmission to everyone. "This is going to be another cliche where he avenges his woman. We should go before they realize it."

They nodded and left the city. Some of them managed to react, but because they were unsure whether to fight them or not, they decided to wait for the city lord to decide.

Of course, the city lord ordered a pursuit, but Alex and the others had long gone with the Teleportation Array.