Chapter 102 - Death Walk Pt5 (1/2)
Close to a thousand people fainted and needed to be carried out.
Hao Xuan threw away the body of the woman and picked up the man who had just lost his head and drank him dry.
There were only four left after that, two of which had basically lost their minds and were not a threat.
”Monster? How rude, I am a completely normal human, just like you,” Hao Xuan said as he threw away the mans body. He was entirely covered in blood. All of his wounds were healed and his body looked as good as new, if not better.
His muscles moved on their own and vibrated for a bit before calming down.
”Brother, something's wrong, should we not put an end to this?” Sixth looked towards Third and asked telepathically.
Third shook his head, ”I just got the order, we are not to make a move unless his life is in danger. Stand by.”
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A few mins earlier when Hao Xuan had ripped off the Ram's head, a conversation took place at the colosseum's control room.
To prepare for any unforeseen situations, there was a 10-second delay on all the live broadcasts. So if something bad happened, they could cut off the broadcast before it went on air.
There were about half a dozen military personnel sitting in the control room, two of which were at the General level.
One of them was the silent guard that stood outside Great General Li's residence, and the other was General Yue Fei.
Hao Xuan had just done the deed when one of the men turned around and asked, ”Sir, should we cut the feed?”
General Yue Fei was about to answer but before he could, the silent guard sitting next to him spoke up.
”No need. The General is watching and he says its fine. Keep going.”
”Yes sir.”
Yue Fei frowned but stayed quiet after hearing the great generals name. A few more minutes passed and the human warriors came out onto the field. Hao Xuan did the same to them as the others.
Everyone in the control room was a genuine veteran but some of them still had to excuse themselves, while the rest were 'uncomfortable' to say the least looking at the screens.
”Is this not enough? Something has obviously gone wrong with the boy, he needs help,” Yue Fei finally said when the guard didn't even blink an eye.
”Nothing is wrong. The boy is fine. It's his physique that's causing the abnormal behavior. He will have it under control sooner or later,” the guard replied nonchalantly with his eyes closed.
”His physique? You people knew about this and did nothing?” Yue Fei asked angrily, getting riled up.
”Of course we knew. Not a thing happens in this kingdom that the Red Legion is not aware of,” for the first time since the start of the Death Walk, the guard showed some emotion and smiled.
”This will destroy the Legion's reputation. No one will trust you if you let this pass. He is basically a monster at this point,” Yue Fei shouted and stood up.
The guard didn't get angry and only waved his hand and a barrier appeared around them. No one else would be able to hear their conversation.
He smirked, ”Destroy our reputation?”
And then suddenly his expression turned solemn as he opened his eyes.
”We are the shield that shall not break,”
”We are the sword that shall not bend,”
”We shall kill until the Heavens fall and the Earth rends.”
”Kill me, and my brother shall take my place,”
”Rise and Rise again we shall like a Phoenix from the ashes until the Lambs become Lions and the Rule of Darkness is no more.”
”For we, are the Red Legion!”
He enunciated each and every single word clearly, and then finally looked up to meet Yue Fei's gaze.
”You seem to have forgotten what the Great general's reputation was, and so has the world. But its time you remembered that a Demon sleeps here.” He then looked at the screen, at Hao Xuan's image.
”He will usher in a new era for us. The others are too kind but he won't have any problems doing the things we have in store,” he said with a smile that sent a cold chill down Yue Fei's back.
He was sweating like a pig. That's right, he had indeed forgotten.
The Demon of Mei! For blood flowed like rivers and corpses piled up till the high heavens when he took to the fields. Even his enemies turned tail and ran when they heard the Four-eyed demon was coming.
Out of the six Great Generals, only he was the one to fill his enemies with dread by his name alone.
”W-What do you want to do to him?” he asked after regaining his composure.
”Do to him? Nothing. He is perfect as is. If everything works out as expected, he will be the new Demon of Mei!” the guard snapped his fingers and the barrier disappeared, indicating the end of their 'talk'.
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Hao Xuan looked at the other four. Two of them picked up their weapons and faced him, but their legs were trembling. The other two were as good as dead.
”P-Please, I have a pregnant wife waiting for me, I only took this job cause they said it was easy money. We have no beef with each other, please just let us go,” said one of them with a stutter. He was bald and had a small beard. He was holding his longsword in front of him, trying to act brave but the weapon was shaking so much that it gave the opposite feeling.
”So? You chose this. You chose to come here, why is it my responsibility to show mercy? It's a fight to the death and you want me to let you go? Why?” Hao Xuan tilted his head to the side with a confused look.
”We're humans! We are the same species! Show some compassion, be a little empathetic. I give up, you win, just-just let me go!” he couldn't hold the sword up and dropped it. It fell to the ground waking up the others around him.
”Yes! Yes, please, we give up, please let us go!” they also started begging and crying.
”Please, my daughter is waiting for me, please let me go!” the last woman begged while falling to her knees.