Chapter 882 - Trick is better than Treat (1/2)
A few minutes later, all thirty Scarlet Hunters gathered at the scene of the ”crime”.
”What a sight…” Blood Baron cringed when he saw how it had turned out for Ye Tianshun and the others who betrayed the alliance.
Including Ye Tianshun, there were forty-five Chinese martial artists that were headless. The severed heads were all piled up together next to the bodies they were once part of. Judging from the scene of the incident, it was obvious that none of these dead people had put up a fight before they were killed. It was undoubtedly the work of the Level 5 Metahuman.
”Looks like the Level 5s have been keeping an eye on this war,” said Blood Baron. Even though one of them had come and done something, it was only to kill the betrayers of their own brothers. Indirectly they were involved but not so much that it would tip the balance of the war.
”What's next?”
”Dig a hole and bury them nicely. It is the least we can do. They were our allies for a brief moment,” said Blood Baron.
”Yes, sir,” said the Scarlet Hunter. With a wave of his hand, the man blasted the ground with a powerful deep red beam of energy and created a hole so big that one could say that a meteor had landed there.
All the Scarlet Hunters worked together and buried all the deceased in the hole. With another blast of energy, the hole was covered nicely with rocks and dirt.
”Let's go.” Blood Baron dusted himself off and left the make-shift grave without a tombstone. The grave of betrayers did not deserve to have a tombstone for the crimes they had committed.
That was the end of Ye Tianshun, the once respected and feared Grand Elder of the Soaring Cloud Sect, buried in a land far from his birthplace, along with the others who joined his cause, without anyone mourning them.
Blood Baron and his fellow Scarlet Hunters headed out to track down Jiang Fei and the other surviving martial artists. They did so slowly and quietly since they were scared of the Level 5 Metahuman. They could not be sure if that Level 5 Metahuman was still in Japan aiding the martial artists or had already left them to fend for themselves.
Just when they were slowly walking along the canyon, Blood Baron received a call from Lincoln.
”What's going on there? Why am I receiving news about the appearance of a Level 5 Metahuman?!” Lincoln barked.
”It's Ye Tianshun. They had failed their act and exposed themselves. I saw the aftermath and concluded that a Level 5 Metahuman had come to clean out the rats. Every martial artist that came to our side had been killed,” Blood Baron reported.
”...” Lincoln kept quiet for a while.
”I understand the situation…” Lincoln said, with a heavy heart. ”If any of you betrayed the brotherhood, it would not be strange if Level 5 Mutants were dispatched to kill you.”
”Never, sir! We will never betray the brotherhood! We swore our undying fealty to the brotherhood!” cried Blood Baron, frightened. He did not know that Lincoln had only said that at the spur of the moment.
Even though the Scarlet Hunters were all Pinnacle stage Level 4s, none of them could fight the vice-president of the Mutant Brotherhood, Lincoln. Like what he had said, there were Level 5 Mutants that acted on their own accord. They could simply blink and the entire corp of Scarlet Hunters would be killed.
”Do not do anything just yet. The Level 5 Metahuman might still be within the vicinity. Even though they were not allowed to participate in the war, they might still kill one or two of you in the name of self-defense. Do not try it,” said Lincoln. He had the same thought as Blood Baron.