Chapter 83: If Ye Ze Was the Teammate, Then Everything Was Fine!
After learning more about the situation in the city from Liu Anran, Ye Ze immediately prepared to set out.
The Fiends had already entered the city. There was no time to waste. The sooner he moved, the more people he could save.
“Wait, you’re still going to save people?”
Beside Liu Anran, Luo Yao looked a little nervous and could not help asking.
With Fiends in the city, for rookies like them who were only first-rank Class Users, being able to protect themselves was already good enough, wasn’t it?
Ye Ze smiled, but instead of answering, he asked, “Why is this kid here?”
Though they were the same age, with Luo Yao’s tiny build, calling her a kid did not feel strange in the slightest.
Liu Anran answered helplessly, “She came to hang out with me, but the moment she arrived, Fiends entered the city...”
“What an unlucky kid.”
Ye Ze found it a little amusing and turned to head out, leaving Luo Yao grinding her teeth in anger.
Since Ye Ze had already made up his mind to go, Liu Anran naturally decided to follow.
Still, she held her staff in hand. If danger appeared, she could at least withdraw people in time.
Boom!
The moment they stepped outside, Ye Ze heard the sound of a building collapsing somewhere nearby.
In the true scene revealed by Eye of Insight, the situation before him was anything but optimistic. More than a dozen corpses already lay on the ground, all of them members of the City Defense Forces.
Ye Ze did not want to waste time. He copied Void Killing Eyes, the eye technique fused with Hunter’s Vision, and used it as X-ray vision.
Sweeping his gaze around, he discovered a Fiend disguised as a member of the Investigation Division.
Only then did Ye Ze finally understand: why none of the Investigation Division members who had all returned earlier had been detected as abnormal.
It was because of the illusion... the inspectors had all fallen under it!
And for a Fiend to be capable of casting illusions on all the Demon Suppression Army inspectors in charge of screening...it was probably no ordinary Fiend!
Even so, Ye Ze still chose to strike first.
“Mantis!”
“Wait! That’s a Fiend General!”
Sensing the terrifying aura from that Fiend, Liu Anran was instantly shocked. “I’ll help you!”
“No need.”
“You just stay on defense.”
Ye Ze waved his hand. “Come to think of it, I’ve already killed it once before.”
Looking at that Fiend General, he realized it was actually the Bloodsea Fiend he had seen in the Group Dungeon!
A dungeon was more like a recording. The Bloodsea Fiend he had killed there had only been a projection, not the real thing.
And now, he had run into it again!
Back then it had been level 35. Now, it had already reached level 40.
At that moment, the Bloodsea Fiend, which looked like a humanoid figure made entirely of blood, had already noticed Ye Ze. The corners of its mouth split all the way to its ears as it let out a low chuckle.
“Heh, so you can actually see through it?”
Anyone trapped inside the illusion should have been completely defenseless. They should not even have been able to see it.
Just like the two ordinary Class Users it had killed earlier. At that moment, the blood from those two corpses was gathering into its hand like flowing streams, while the corpses themselves shriveled into dried husks.
Ye Ze sighed and did not waste words.
“Kill it.”
A figure flashed out from the void.
The Bloodsea Fiend was startled for a moment, then shot out five arrows of blood, all of which the mantis dodged with ease.
However, the Bloodsea Fiend moved together with the blood arrows, trying to suppress the mantis immediately afterward. Since its attributes were slightly higher than the mantis’s, it had some confidence.
But after evading the blood arrows, the mantis’s body flickered again and again at astonishing speed.
“Why do I feel like the mantis’s Void Traverse is even faster than before?”
Liu Anran froze slightly.
Before this, she had at least barely been able to compete with the mantis in spatial movement. But now, she suddenly felt the gap widening further and further.
Yet it was not only its spatial movement.
The mantis’s repeated flickers were not for evasion, but to find the right position to instantly kill its opponent.
“Annihilation—!”
A low growl like scraping metal rang out as the upgraded higher-order Legendary skill, Annihilation, was unleashed.
A spatial slash carrying endless destructive power tore forward.
The Bloodsea Fiend used blood as a shield, forming a circular barrier around itself in an attempt to block the attack.
But in the next instant, the slash intensified. Space trembled and twisted ever more violently, and when the strike arrived, a dark-violet sphere of energy nearly made space collapse.
Like the eruption of a supernova, the light of void and finality devoured everything.
The Bloodsea Fiend’s blood shield shattered instantly, and its own body was erased under that power.
The level-40 Fiend General, whose overall attributes had actually been somewhat higher than the mantis’s, was instantly killed by Annihilation’s 4000% damage strike!
There was not even any need to use Void Killing Eyes.
【Killed Bloodsea Fiend, EXP +16000 (+100%)】
【Level: 17 (31475/38600)】
The moment the kill notification appeared, Ye Ze suddenly felt that these Fiends really had come at the perfect time!
At this rate, if he kept hunting like this, his second advancement probably was not far off!
Beside him, Liu Anran’s scalp went numb after watching the entire process...
She clearly remembered that the mantis’s skill had not been this terrifying before!
Now, aside from the slash itself, that attack also carried an area effect of spatial collapse. It was even stronger!
How was anyone supposed to fight that...?
Oh, right. This time Ye Ze was her teammate, so everything was fine!
For some reason, Liu Anran quietly let out a sigh of relief, as though she no longer had to rack her brains over how to deal with Ye Ze.
After the Fiend General died, its corpse became visible to everyone.
For a moment, both Liu Boyan and Luo Yao nearly had their eyes pop out.
What was going on?
He had killed a level-40 Fiend General in such a short time?
Before the two of them could fully process what had happened, countless ordinary people and Class Users who had been trapped in the illusion immediately panicked.
“Squirrel, send out your Shadow Clones and bring everyone to a safe place.”
As much as he could, Ye Ze arranged to save the people of the city.
As for combat, the mantis would continue to be the main attacker.
As for the magic dragon, it was better not to let him make a move in the city.
With his size and the range of his skills, even a casual movement from him would probably pose a greater threat to the city than the Fiends themselves.
The same was true of the fox.
One Heavenfall Thunder, and it would save the Fiends the trouble of destroying things themselves.
Even though he still did not know the Fiends’ objective for the moment, the losses being caused were already far too great.
Ye Ze continued forward along the street, scanning with Void Killing Eyes.
Then, all of a sudden, he saw Xia Qing on her way to work at the War Academy, and his pupils contracted sharply.
“Quick! Bring her over!”
The mantis also possessed Void Killing Eyes and understood Ye Ze’s intent. It immediately traversed to Xia Qing’s side.
The process was not difficult, because the moment Xia Qing saw the mantis appear, she was nearly scared unconscious...
“A monster!!!”
Even after being brought to Ye Ze’s side, her chest was still rising and falling rapidly with her breathing. “Ye Ze?”
Ye Ze did not reply.
The reason he had become so tense just now was because inside the War Academy...he had discovered a Fiend unlike any he had ever seen before!
At that moment, Ye Ze’s brows drew together.
“Be careful!” Liu Anran felt a sense of danger unlike anything she had ever experienced before!
That Fiend seemed to have noticed Ye Ze.
A dense mist suddenly surged up before their eyes, and that Fiend stepped out of it, almost as if it had teleported.
“A low-rank human who can see through my illusion.”
“And you even killed one of my generals...”
The instant that emotionless voice sounded, golden light burst from Ye Ze’s pupils:
【Mirage (lv.60)】
【Type: King-class Fiend】