Chapter 340: Slaughter - 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 in common, 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 black. 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 glance 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 blackish 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 blackish energy ballooned up from the wall that separated the Commerce Region and the Outer City region. It kept happening until the blackish energy also covered the outer region.

Three layers of blackish 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 plan 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 accompanied Roman in Star City reminded.

"First of all, we catch him off guard. Secondly, look at these three-layer barriers, his flame 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 City layout was following Sun City's. The difference was that Star City was twice larger than Sun City.

In the outer city, a group was standing in front of an old house. The group was wearing all black 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 a commotion.

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

"There you are…" He muttered as he rushed to the old lady.

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

"This is an attack! The specters attacked the city," Ren Anqing appeared next to the old lady 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 old lady 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 old lady exclaimed in surprise.

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

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 old lady two times but the old lady stubbornly refused to listen.

"Then what you said back then was true?" The old lady 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 old lady.

"We have predicted the specters' movement and we predicted they would attack the city at this time!" It was proven true with the blackish 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 old lady.

"And If I refuse?" To Ren Anqing's surprise, the old lady 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 old lady. 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 old lady relented and nodded at his time.

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

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

When the old lady arrived, she looked at Ren Anqing suspiciously, "Are you sure this is the safe place?"

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 old lady, "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 old lady 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 old lady 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 slaughtered 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 old lady did not the lever as she was panicking. When she saw the two men pulled the lever, the old lady 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 old lady, "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 accommodate 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 places, 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 accompanied 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 his companion.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

They landed 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. After landing on a house, they jumped off to another house. The roar resounded through the outer city region.

"Kukuku…" Roman also let out sinister laughter as he charged toward another house.

"Huh!?" The laughter 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 places. 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.