Chapter 306: Break Even (1/2)

Chapter 306: Break Even

Translator: TYZEditor: TYZ/KLKL

Even though Ai Hui had put in so many years of his savings, he did not show the slightest bit of heartache or reluctance. With a cold and indifferent look on his face, he did not retreat and continued attacking. With a swing of the Dragonspine in his hand, a crescent moon-shaped sword glint shot out and hit the chest of a swaying Sha Guard.

That Sha Guard was spliced in half and he collapsed onto the ground. After he twitched for a few seconds, the Sha Guard became a pile of sand.

Ai Hui understood the physiology of sand puppets very well. The main weakness of a sand puppet lay in its sand core. Once the sand core was broken, the sand puppet would die. If one could not destroy a sand puppet’s sand core, the sand puppet would have an abnormally tenacious survivability.

The next instant, Ai Hui appeared on the other end of the training hall like a ghost. Following which, he executed the [Heavenly Thrust] and shot out a star-like energy beam at another Sha Guard’s chest.

Plop!

A spurt of blood shot out from that Sha Guard’s chest.

This time around, the Sha Guard who was attacked was an earth elementalist. The glow in his eyes disappeared and every last bit of vitality in his body was gone. Then, he collapsed onto the ground, facing upward.

Why would Ai Hui waste the opportunities created by using so many artifact remnants? He knew the arrangement of the courtyard by heart. In the midst of the chaotic streaks of radiance, he nimbly darted to and fro across the courtyard, striking down the Sha Guards one by one.

One moment he was in front of the battalion of the Sha Guards, the next moment he was at the back of the battalion, appearing everywhere at almost the same time.

His swordsmanship was extremely ruthless. Every strike he executed would definitely slay one Sha Guard. In a blink of an eye, Ai Hui had killed six Sha Guards and two of them were earth elementalists.

The intensity of the battle had caused all the observers to raise their eyebrows in shock.

Wang Han’s successive attacks were unwavering and ruthless, which sent a cold shiver down everyone’s spine. No one had expected the battle that they previously thought was one-sided to reach such extremity.

Without much effort, the initial 132-man battalion of Sha Guards had been reduced to eighteen Sha Guards. More than half of these eighteen Sha Guards were severely injured.

Luckily, I never made an enemy of Wang Han. This was what a lot of people were thinking at this moment.

If they were the ones who attacked the Swordsman Training Hall, they would not do any better than the Sha Guards. Even if the Sha Family could take down the Swordsman Training Hall at the end of the day, they would have suffered a huge loss by then. Right now, the Sha Family had already lost. This was a battle whereboth sides had suffered greatly.

Wang Han should be proud of himself for pushing the Sha Family to the brink.

However, everyone could tell that the artifact remnants was Wang Han’s last trump card. Wang Han had used more than ten artifact remnants in one go. Such lavishness had stupefied everyone, including the Fu family.

When everyone thought of Wang Han’s nickname, King of Anglers, they then realized that the gains he made for the past few years had far exceeded their expectations. Furthermore, with the addition of the numerous See You Laters, Wang Han’s expenditure in this battle was indeed outrageous.

Upon seeing amount of resources he had invested in this battle, even the members of those prestigious families were trembling in fear, feeling heartache for Wang Han.

However, Wang Han’s performance had ended.

When Sha Wuduan saw the remaining sparse Sha Guards, he felt devastated. From this battle, he knew that the Sha Family had fallen. Even if he could kill Wang Han, he still could not save the Sha Family from its imminent fate.

He felt grieved and despair. Before he came here, he was brimming with confidence that he could save the Sha Family from its imminent crisis, help it to establish a foothold in Peace City and pave the path for its restoration.

However, right now, the last hope for Sha Family had withered in his hands.

Despair, self-blame, and guilt had completely destroyed his rationality. In his heart, there were only anger, hatred, insanity, and mindlessness. His bloodshot eyes were staring firmly at the deft figure.

He must kill this bastard!

Sha Wuduan gave a secret command and the remaining eighteen Sha Guards suddenly spread their arms and held each other’s hands.

Dazzling yellow light lit up beneath their feet. The ground began to fissure and countless cobweb-like cracks started to spread outward.

”Sir!”

”No….”

The few earth elementalists’ faces turned deathly pale and they cried out in alarm. However, no matter how much they cursed or begged, they could not move as the yellow sand from the ground slowly crept up their bodies.

The scattered sand in the training hall started to flow towards the Sha Guards like water. The sand within the sand pits, which were prepared for Su Qingye to train in, flowed out and flew towards the Sha Guards in an endless stream.

Not a speckle of sand was left in the huge sand pits.

In a bizarre fashion, the yellow sand wiggled up the Sha Guards’ bodies and began to pile up.

Within seconds, the eighteen Sha Guards had been drowned by the yellow sand, forming a twenty meters tall sand mountain in courtyard. The weird thing was the sand mountain was wiggling non-stop, looking as if there was something rolling within it, making one’s blood ran cold.

”Devouring the soldiers to build a Sand Sentinel, Sha Wuduan is insane!” the Fu family’s eldest daughter’s face turned pale.

Not only her, but everyone that was witnessing this scene had their faces turned deathly pale.

”Devouring the soldiers to build a Sand Sentinel” was a technique that was commonly used on sand puppets. It involved making the sand puppets devour each other to form a more powerful Sand Sentinel. A Sand Sentinel was more than ten times stronger than a Sha Guard. It was extremely huge in size and was considered a large-scale combat sand puppet. And because of its terrifying destructive power, the Elders Guild banned the use of Sand Sentinels. Without permission from the Elder Guilds, no one was allowed to build a Sand Sentinel under any circumstances.

As such, wasn’t Sha Wuduan insane for building a Sand Sentinel in the glare of the public?

Even though the Elders Guild was not as powerful as it was in the past, the Sha Family was still finished for violating the Elders Guild’s ban.

Furthermore, there were a few Sha Guards who were not sand puppets but earth elementalists being devoured as well. A monster like this had never existed before. A lot of people widened their eyes to take a clearer look as they were afraid of missing out on any details. Especially for those earth elementalists, this unprecedented scene had provided them a lot of information on Sand Sentinels.

Every time the sand mountain wiggled, a terrifying aura would be released and it spread throughout the area.

The onlookers’ facial expression changed drastically as if they themselves were in a perilous situation. The energy undulations from the sand mountain were becoming increasingly stronger and its imposingness was rising continuously. An endless stream of elemental energy was drained from the ground by the sand mountain.