Chapter 189: You have no chance (2/2)

A bolt of lightning flashed as the longsword sliced through the air, hitting the two zombie warriors that arrived first and sending electricity through the zombie warriors’ bodies. The slash of the longsword made the two halt abruptly and never move again.

As he deployed the longsword with difficulty and planned on making a move on one of the other zombie warriors, the hate warrior’s club crashed downwards and connected with Johnny’s sword wielding right hand. The sharp sound of a bone breaking rang out and the sword slid to the ground after a wail of pain from Johnny.

Han Shuo had been standing beside Phoebe and the others when he suddenly flashed behind Johnny, deploying the “Demonic Art of Assimilation” with his back to the others. He absorbed Johnny’s wailing soul into the demon infant. When the demon infant had overcome Johnny’s soul, it was as if Han Shuo had been greatly fortified and only then did he bring a punch down on Johnny’s back.

A thud sounded as life drained from Johnny’s eyes. He fell down listlessly, a caved in handprint apparent on his back.

After wiping out Johnny, Han Shuo’s demon infant grew noticeably and began to use the magical yuan to purify Johnny’s soul, turning it into nourishment for the demon infant. As a thunder swordsmage, the strength of Johnny’s soul was noticeably more abundant than that of the Gryphon Legion soldier’s. Han Shuo could clearly feel the demon infant grow and develop as it did so.

“He’s dead.” Emily slowly walked over when she saw that Johnny had died. When she saw Han Shuo stand there without moving and not searching Johnny’s body for valuables as usual, she spoke up to alert him of the fact.

Han Shuo abruptly came to himself as he was thoroughly reflecting over the changes to the demon infant. He continued to operate the “Demonic Art of Assimilation” without change in expression and nodded towards Emily. He pointed at Johnny, “Can you handle this? I need to rest for a bit.”

Han Shuo sat down cross legged after speaking and focused his attention on the changes in the demon infant after it had absorbed Johnny’s soul. The stronger one was, the stronger his soul. The strength from Johnny’s soul seemed to be accelerating the demon infant’s growth.

The demon infant was the foundation of the “true demon” realm. Han Shuo would be able to break through to the next level, the bloodlust realm, only after the demon infant reached a certain level. He would only need the power from souls in this realm. Once the demon infant was strong enough to reach the “bloodlust realm”, it wouldn’t require the energy from the souls anymore and it would be able to be deployed to greater uses.

Just as Han Shuo was quietly training, everyone else huddled together and chattered away. After Belinda had been captured and Johnny was killed, there were no other suspicious characters in the cave. Candice had seen Belinda mysteriously taken out by Han Shuo and didn’t mention anything about compensation. She laughed as she chatted with Phoebe and Emily.

Lawrence and Phoebe finally had time to converse with each other. Caspian was also reunited with Angelica after his long absence and could breathe a sigh of relief. Angelica was pouting that he wouldn’t describe the events of the past two days.

Han Shuo had been meditating with his eyes closed when he suddenly opened them and raised his finger to make a “shushing” noise.

Han Shuo walked cautiously towards the entrance of the cave without saying anything. Everyone watched him place his ear against the entrance of the cave as their relaxed emotions once again grew nervous.

Footsteps slowly grew louder and approached from the distance. The sounds of several people talking traveled into everyone’s ears at this moment.

“The Kerlan Grand Canyon is so vast that there’s no way we can find them after they’ve escaped in here. What’s the point in searching aimlessly like this!” A voice said.

“I know right, but the chief is crazy with anger this time. His two sons have been murdered and someone has been so bold as to attempt to assassinate him within Valen City. They’ve even gotten away with it. The chief has been fighting on the north and south all these years and have seen all sorts of situations, but has never been humiliated like this before. I don’t think he’ll rest before he’s caught these people and killed them!” Another person responded with emotion.

“I’ve heard that so much has happened in Valen City because the chief offended those in the capital. If this really is the case, then the chief is in for a world of trouble and I wonder if we’ll be affected as well.”

“Don’t worry, we were just following orders. Nothing should happen to us as long as we take note of the greater picture. We’re also not the chief’s confidantes, and we should listen to the orders from the king. We’ll just follow orders before any further developments.”

“Come, there’s no place to hide here anyways, let’s try someplace else!”

The group of people passed by the cave in which everyone was hidden in. They didn’t discover anything out of the ordinary, and the sounds of them conversing grew fainter and fainter before vanishing entirely.

Another two groups of people passed by afterwards. Thanks to Emily and Caspian’s actions, the entrance to the cave was well concealed. No one discovered anything out of the ordinary and didn’t spend more time there.

“Alright, it’s been a tiring night, everyone take a rest!” Han Shuo waited for a while and noticed that there were no further movements outside, so he turned and smiled to those inside.

Everyone sighed in relief and nodded, before starting to meditate, or went to sleep by the warm bonfire.

Everyone rested for a day within the cave and spent a full day recovering their strength. Han Shuo mediated for the entire day and fully absorbed Johnny’s soul, recovering his mental strength and magical yuan.

“It’s nighttime now, I think they’ve forgotten after a day of searching. We can leave now!” Han Shuo got up.

Everyone else got to their feet as well and packed their belongings. Emily and Caspian took down the boundary at the door and the group walked out of the cave.