Chapter 498: Star King (II) (2/2)

In the distance, ten figures were chasing after Long Haochen at lightning speed. As they approached, the sky became dimmer and dimmer.

A knight riding a Starlight Unicorn out on his own? Could there be a better opportunity for them? After hearing this news, they immediately rushed forwards at their fastest speed.

The powerhouse leading the group had the features of a Fiend Clan powerhouse. He had two horns on his head, a ferocious looking face, was over three meters tall, and an immense pair of wings was flapping on his back, accelerating his flight. In his right hand was a blood colored sword covered in black flames, and his body was surrounded with a smell of darkness. That was a Fiend Commander.

On his back were a group of Fiend clansmen, only they were not as powerful as that one, reaching about the seventh step in strength.

No mistake, this was a team of Demon Hunter Removers, fully constituted of Fiend clansmen.

As the area outside of the Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass was under the supervision of the Death Demon God Saminaga, he naturally brought his direct subordinates along, forming an army of Fiends; though encountering a team of Demon Hunter Removers formed of only one race was still a pretty rare occurrence. This squad before Haochen’s eyes was formed pretty recently, intended to deal with the situation at the Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass.

Just as Yang Haohan said, the demons couldn’t possibly encircle the Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass completely. They clearly didn’t have enough powerhouses for that: if they tried, their forces would undoubtedly be scattered extremely thin, and would hardly avoid the fate of being disposed of one at a time by the Knight Temple.

Therefore, the Death Demon God Saminaga went for the strategy of placing the sides of the mountain under surveillance, so that if a large group of human reinforcements came in a rush, they would be able to deploy some soldiers to intercept and ambush them.

Only, Saminaga didn’t expect that the resources accumulated in the Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass would be so rich. This Holy War had already gone on for more than a year and a half, yet the Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass seemed just as invulnerable as before.

So for now, these Demon Hunter Removers were specialized to combat the scouts of the Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass. Even if they appeared not to have need of supplies, the Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass would nevertheless need to communicate with the Temple Alliance. For that sake, they were bound to dispatch scouts. And as a measure against them, the demons arranged some Demon Hunter Removers, acting as small teams that were specialized at disposing of the enemy scouts, and had been successful at this task several times already.

A team of Demon Hunter Removers constituted entirely of Fiends. In terms of synergy, maybe they wouldn’t be as effective as an ordinary team formed of various races, but they were able to move faster and react even more effectively, as well as listening to the direct orders from the Death Demon God Saminaga.

“Star King, accelerate.” At the time this group of Fiends appeared in Long Haochen’s field of view, he immediately gave Star King the order to accelerate.

A thin golden fog appeared more clearly as Star King kept accelerating, and was already faintly visible. But if one didn’t pay attention, he would basically not notice it, in addition to that, as Star King was flying, he led a golden six-pointed-star to envelop him, keeping Long Haochen’s Storing Power concealed.

Finding out about Long Haochen’s acceleration, the Fiend Commander had an evil grin on his face. Abruptly flapping the wings on his back, he unleashed some black light, shooting out like black flames and pushing him to accelerate at full force, without consideration for the consumption of his spiritual energy. As he took the initiative to chase after Long Haochen, a gap created itself between the other Fiends and him, which were naturally falling behind gradually.

Long Haochen’s eyes slowly opened, his eye’s current expression appearing as limpid as when he just woke up from his long state of deep meditation. But this time, it carried a chill that wasn’t present at that time.

Star King’s flying speed was growing faster and faster, indistinctly carrying an illusory feel. Even with Long Haochen on his back, his flying speed was not at all inferior to the Fiend Commander’s flat-out acceleration. Both sides maintained the same distance as they approached the Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass.

Finding out that his acceleration was insufficient, that Fiend Commander immediately became anxious. As he unleashed a punch with his empty left hand, it abruptly burst out with a dark red light, producing an intense explosion in the air. Its propelling power caused his speed to rise once again.

This method of accelerating came with a considerable consumption of spiritual energy and couldn’t be used for too long. Yet it had the benefitthat it would enable him to raise his speed beyond his limits.

Although this Fiend Commander didn’t know about Long Haochen’s cultivation, he seemed to be sure that this was at least a knight at the seventh step from the looks of the Starlight Unicorn King. Killing such a knight would be a considerably great contribution, to say nothing about the Starlight Unicorn. What the demons liked the most was food, and although they loathed light attribute the most, their favorite food was magical beasts of the light element. That meat was especially tender from their point of view.

Long Haochen’s legs slightly sped up as he sat backwards, and Star King immediately understood his intention. Quietly reducing the frequency at which he batted his wings, he inclined to the side, and drew a magnificent arc in a high spot in midair.

This was a large arc that was traced as the Fiend Commander following him kept nearing closer and closer, but it didn’t change the fact that the Fiends of the seventh step were still lagging behind.

Swish. Star King’s wings let out an air severing sound, and his figure turned around in the midst of this arc, heading straight at that Fiend Commander.