Chapter 22 - Nothing More Than A Couple of Blades

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Infrared red laser beams were standard equipment for high-end sniper rifles!

Lucy’s alluring smile quickly disappeared, leaving her drenched in a cold sweat. She looked at Heller and asked, “Are they your men?”

Heller replied serenely, “Who else could they belong to, if not me?”

Lucy might seem like a brazen and arrogant bitch, but she was, in truth, a very sly and cunning woman. Even so, her expression couldn’t help but change drastically!

She was the one who had instructed Sebastian to kill Heller today, and after his death, she was also the one who used herself as bait to lure Heller into her villa.

She had only one purpose in mind—stalling for time!

Lucy knew very well that even if she were to successfully seize the Nicholsons’ assets, her emergence in Los Angeles was too short and her foundation in the city too shallow.

Veteran clans boasted deep and solid foundations; they weren’t afraid of blood on their hands. However, this wasn’t the case for her! Once she had too much blood on her hands, people would inevitably seize the opportunity to make an issue of it!

Five years ago, it was the Zoffs who had annihilated the Nicholsons. Lucy hadn’t really killed anyone..

It was the same tonight, too. Lucy was intending to use Hugh to kill Heller and finish him off once and for all.

She had thought her plan fool-proof and believed that she had successfully tricked Heller again, but never would she have ever thought that Heller had actually secretly planted so many snipers out there!

In truth, Lucy didn’t know that relatively speaking, the snipers who had taken the initiative to expose themselves actually weren’t the most terrifying presences there.

North of the Xanders’ manor, the Ten Judges of The Dead stood in the dark with ferocious demon masks on their faces and fluttering blood-red cloaks behind them!

In the surroundings were also countless experts from all walks of life, ready to move!

Once Heller gave the word, they would raze the entire manor to the ground!

Inside the house, Lucy let out a self-mocking laugh. With a complicated look on her face, she looked at Heller and said with a sigh, “To be able to mobilize so many snipers, it seems that Mr. Nicholson has also achieved a lot of amazing feats during the last five years.”

When she finished, Lucy turned to Hugh. She put on a weak and frail act and whined, “Mr. Wilson, Heller looks so powerful. I’m no match for him! It all depends on you now, Mr. Wilson! Can you do it?”

Hugh narrowed his eyes and thought for a moment. Then, he suddenly chuckled and said, “How can a man say he can’t do it? The Wilsons don’t lack guns, either! However, we’ve never had a sniper rifle before.”

“As far as I know, no one in all of L.A.—including even the Seven Great Clans—has a sniper rifle at all. Moreover, you can’t get any on the black market, either!”

“There’s something I’m very curious about right now,”

Hugh looked at Heller and asked tauntingly, “Are those sniper rifles real, Heller? Surely you didn’t take a bunch of toy guns, give them to a group of people, and tell them to hide in the dark and shine the laser beams on us just to scare us?”

Upon hearing what Hugh said, Lucy was taken aback for a moment. Then, she suddenly burst into laughter.

Indeed, sniper rifles were too powerful. It was impossible for even the Seven Great Clans to get their hands on one, let alone ordinary people.

Would Heller be able to get his hands on so many of them?

Hugh let out a sinister laugh and said, “It was impossible for the Nicholsons to own sniper rifles even during their heyday. Heller, you’re nothing but a loser now! I bet your gun is fake!”

“Men!”

“Yes, sir!”

Hugh pointed at Heller and ordered, “Kill him!”

“Yes, sir!”

A bodyguard immediately wanted to pull the trigger.

However, in the instant he moved, a bullet whizzed through the air toward him!

Splurt!

The bullet landed accurately in the center of his forehead and pierced right through!

Then, the bodyguard collapsed to the ground, dead!

Silence…

At the sight of the bloody hole in the bodyguard’s forehead, the whole place fell dead silent and became frighteningly quiet.

Heller looked at Hugh and asked calmly, “So, are my sniper rifles real?”

Hugh’s face was ashen and he didn’t dare utter even a word!

Lucy shrank back, trying her best not to avoid attract Heller’s attention.

“So, who’s next?”

Heller glanced around. Then, he randomly picked a person and declared, “How about you?”

So it was said, so it shall be done!

The next moment, a bullet whizzed toward them and killed the second bodyguard!

Everyone was dumbfounded.

The bodyguards, in particular, began to run everywhere for cover. However, the bullets were like a curse that headed straight toward whoever Heller pointed at!

The risk of death finally triggered the bodyguards’ savagery and they pointed their guns at Heller as they tried to escape.

Unfortunately, before they could even pull the trigger, the sniper rifles had already claimed their lives!

In an instant, the ten gunmen and ten bodyguards that Hugh brought collapsed into pools of blood on the ground and died!

An incredibly pungent smell of blood quickly permeated the place.

Lucy was tense all over, and none of her frivolity, brazen attitude, or smugness remained. She was pale with fright!

As for Hugh, he was even paler than her!

Dead bodies were strewn all over the floor.

A leisurely Heller said, “As proven, my guns are very real indeed!”

Gulp!

Hugh secretly swallowed. He knew very well that he had to find a way to save himself. If not, it was very likely that he would die here!

He took a deep breath and calmed himself down. Then, he said seriously, “Heller, you can’t kill me! This is L.A.! If you kill me, the Seven Great Clans will never let you off. When that happens, you’ll definitely meet with a terrible death!”

An indifferent Heller replied, “The Seven Great Clans may not be able to kill me. There’s one thing I’m certain of, though—you’ll definitely suffer a very tragic death before they can get here!”

Hugh’s heart trembled fiercely!

He was very sure that Heller was already thinking of killing him!

Lucy narrowed her eyes. She suddenly interjected and said, “Even so, you still can’t kill him! Mr. Nicholson, here’s a kind reminder—the Hades Swords have suddenly appeared in L.A. tonight. Sebastian was killed by them! The huge commotion here will definitely attract the Hades Swords’ master’s attention!”

At this point, Lucy paused for a moment before she said cheerfully, “I don’t care how powerful you’ve become after the last five years. You must know that the master of the Hades Swords is an almighty important figure standing at the pinnacle! Mr. Nicholson, have you no regard for even the Hades Swords?”

However, Heller instead asked, “Are you very bothered about the Hades Swords?”

Lucy smiled lightly and answered coquettishly, “Of course! The black Hades Sword claims infinite lives while the white Hades Sword saves innumerable lives! To me, the master of the Hades Swords is a true hero!”

Heller, however, replied indifferently, “But to me, the Hades Swords are nothing more than a couple of blades!”

After he spoke, he lifted his right arm, stuffed the muzzle into Lucy’s fiancé’s mouth, and pulled the trigger!

Bang!

As though a crushed tomato, Hugh’s head was blasted apart!