291 Hunting Game - Part 1

"5 minutes! We will arrive at the Capital City of the Regal Kingdom in 5 minutes!"

"5 minutes! We will arrive at the Capital City of the Regal Kingdom in 5 minutes!"

The co-pilot announced their arrival at the Regal Kingdom's airspace.

Sun Zhou Yi stood up, "Get ready! We will land in the south of the Capital City and sweep our way to the royal residence in the city central royal residence to meet the Chief!"

"Our priority is to save the people as much as possible and escort the people to the royal residence!"

Sun Zhou Yi briefed his team members before he looked at Rasyikh.

"Rasyikh and our friend from the Purple Mountain Tribe! I hope you can prioritize saving the people rather than collecting the dark core!"

He reminded the Purple Mountain Tribe in advance. After working with them over the week, he knew these people were crazy about the dark core. It was understandable because the pay they got was based on the dark core. They were making a living from this and they had thousands of people to support in their tribe. However, today's mission was different, they were in a war not hunting.

"Don't worry, you will get a fixed amount of bounty for each person you save from the specters! The Regal Kingdom is the one who would be paying you this time!"

Sun Zhou Yi brushed off Rasyikh's concern. Yes, their mission changed, from hunting the specters to saving the people. It was a special occasion as their mortal enemy attacked the kingdom.

Rasyikh and the people from Purple Mountain Tribe nodded their heads.

"We arrived at the south of Capital City! We arrived at the south of Capital City!"

Along with the announcement, the gate opened. It was time to drop from the plane.

Ren Anqing and Zhang Zhong Guang looked at Sun Zhou Yi's back. Sun Zhou Yi did not wear any equipment of parachuting but an SES uniform, not even a bag parachute.

"Are you sure, Captain?" Zhang Zhong Guang asked once again. They were 13,000 meters in the air, they would turn into a meat paste if they fell from this height.

However, Sun Zhou Yi smiled at them and tapped their shoulder twice, "I will be waiting below!"

"Go! Go! Go!" Sun Zhou Yi ran toward the gate and jumped off.

Zhang Zhong Guang and Ren Anqing only looked at the opened gate with their eyes wide open. The Captain truly jumped off without a parachute.

Not only the Captain, but Rasyikh also followed after that. The same, he did not wear a parachute. And the other Purple Mountain Tribe's people followed up after that. None of them had a parachute.

After a while, the plane left with eighteen people. These eighteen were Heero's apprentices and they looked at each other with a dumbstruck look on their face.

Scratching his head, Zhang Zhong Guang walked closer to the gate, "I will use a normal way I guess, "

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In the south of Capital City, in front of Elevate Church. A group of knights in silver plate fought against a group of the specter, Undying.

20 silver knights and a red knight fought against 10 Undying. The Undying was taking human form, meaning they were human that turned into Undying.

They physically grew to 3.5 meters tall and their arms and legs were bulging with muscle. The skins turned dark and their eyes were hollow, indicating they were dead before turning into the specter. They did not have their thoughts and moved based on instinct.

Bang!

The red knight shielded himself from the strong fist with his pentagonal shield. After that, he slashed his sword to the fist, cutting through the hand. However, as if all his effort was meaningless, the hand grew back instantly.

The other silver knights also encountered the same problem. Despite cutting the Undying many times, they just would not die and the part that got cut would grow back as if nothing happened.

"Keep up everyone! We only need to hold them until the reinforcement arrives!"

Edgar Lane, the red knight tried to encourage his men. Even though he knew the reinforcement was just a mere encouragement for his men. He knew it would take hours before the reinforcement arrived.

They were at the outermost part of Capital City while the main force was in the city's center. The reinforcement would not arrive until they secured the inner part of the city where most nobles stayed.

Wishing for reinforcement to come was just wishful thinking. Edgar knew that but he must say that so his men would not leave their post. It was a knight's duty to protect the kingdom's people.

Bang!

The Undying smashed the pentagonal shield again. Edgar had lost the count of how many times he had been receiving the hit with his shield. One thing was sure, his left hand had gone weak and numb. Three more hits the maximum hit he could take.

The knights desperately defended their defensive line. The bitter fight continued under the watchful gaze of people from the church. Many of them were watching and the rest were praying for the knights.

Bang! Bang!

Two consecutive strikes hit the shield. As Edgar predicted, the moment the second strike hit the shield, he could no longer hold the shield. The shield slipped down from his grips and his body was defenseless without the shield.

The Undying took this chance to deliver the third blow to Edgar's head. At this moment, Edgar was completely exhausted, he had no energy to dodge the incoming strike.

Edgar Lane closed his eyes, surrendering his life to the fate that awaited him.

Slugh!

The sound of thick meat getting stabbed rang. With the expected blow did not come and with the voice just now, Edgar Lane opened his eyes.

The expecting fist was a few centimeters away from his face. It completely stopped in the air and he noticed a blue translucent sword pierced the Undying's left shoulder.

The Undying that could not be killed collapsed. It completely stopped moving. Suddenly, black gas came out from where it got pierced. Not long after that, the body was completely dried up, leaving only bone and skin.

Edgar Lane looked up and saw a young man smiled toward him. From the face of the young man, he knew the young man was not the native of the kingdom.

"Are you okay?" Sun Zhou Yi asked the red knight.

He just landed using his Ki sword as his footing. As soon as he reached the land, he saw a group of specters cornering a group of knights hence he came to help.

The red knight, Edgar Lane stared at Sun Zhou Yi's face blankly.

"Hello!? Are you fine? Can you walk?" Sun Zhou Yi waved his hand at the face of the red knight upon not receiving any response.

"Ah yes, I am fine!" Edgar Lane blurted loudly.

"Good! Can you help them? Does the church have any transportation? Can you drive them to the royal residence? We will escort you!" Sun Zhou Yi pointed toward the people inside the church.

The people inside the church peeked their heads out through the window and the door. Their eyes shone brightly at Sun Zhou Yi's arrival.

"Ah, yes!" Edgar Lane nodded his head. He stayed near the church and he knew the church had two buses.

"Good! Get it done fast, we have to depart to the royal residence as soon as possible!" Sun Zhou Yi tapped the red knight's shoulder twice and smiled at the guy.

Edgar Lane acted fast as he ordered his men to organize the people inside the church while taking two silver knights with him to the church back.

"The perimeter is clear! No living humans could be found! It seems those heavy plate people have evacuated the people into this building!"

Not long after Edgar Lane left, Rasyikh hopped down next to Sun Zhou Yi and reported his discoveries. No living human, it meant he found dead people.

"Mnn, " Sun Zhou Yi nodded his head and sent his order, "Expand the search, I will be waiting for the others here!"

The other in his mouth was Zhang Zhong Guang and the others. They jumped off with a parachute, it would take time before they arrived on the land.

Sun Zhou Yi walked out of the churchyard and looked up. He could see a few dots, no, eighteen dots to be more exact were coming down from the sky.

While watching the other team members, Sun Zhou Yi did not realize that there were another two small dots to the east of his squad members.

These two dots were two figures covered in the black cloak, the same cloak with the specters that snuck into the main castle. The two figures floated in the air and they looked at the eighteen SES members.

"They truly came as you predicted!" The black-cloaked figure on the left spoke as he watched the eighteen descending figures.

"The squad was created to hunt us! Of course, they will come at the moment of notice!" The black-cloaked figure on the right responded with his gruff voice.

"Huhu… This is surely an interesting show. I heard the Chief also here, this would be interesting for sure!" The black-cloaked figure on the left spoke in a playful tone. Anticipation could be heard from his voice.

The black-cloaked figure on the right responded in a serious tone, "This is not a show and we can't underestimate them, especially the Chief!"

"Huh, you are no fun! But knowing that the hunter would become the prey… Huhu…" Playful laughter rang from the black-cloaked figure on the left.

"Should we start the Hunting Game and release the hunter!?"

Above the two black-cloaked figures, if one looked carefully, they would see a gigantic shadow beyond the clouds. It hovered above, waiting for the command to hunt.