Chapter 414: Hatred (2/2)
Rumble…
The sacred knight stamped his right foot. A large ball of golden light suddenly entered the ground with his foot at its center, suddenly creating a round hole.
Han Shuo totally didn’t foresee that the sacred knight would react so quickly. The Demonslayer Edge had yet to pierce his left foot when the terrifying force that erupted from his right foot arrived. The soft ground suddenly became as heavy as a mountain under the strength of his stamp, becoming so firm that it stopped Han Shuo’s sneak attack while underground.
“Hehe, Marquis Bryan, I knew it was you!” The sacred knight laughed heartily, suddenly piercing his golden pike which was trembling with golden light into the hole under his foot. In a moment, needle-like fighting aura punctured the ground, violently shooting toward Han Shuo at high speed. The strands of golden fighting aura contained divine energy which Han Shuo loathed and were so quick that Han Shuo was unable to dodge, appearing in front of Han Shuo in a flash.
As he cursed in his heart, Han Shuo’s Demonslayer Edge condensed a black screen from demonic yuan energy, resisting the penetration of the strands of fighting aura. His body hurriedly formed a protective shield, forming a second layer of defense against the attack of the golden strands.
The black screen condensed in a hurry broke like an eggshell when encountering the fifty-seventh strand of golden light. The remaining strands of golden light struck Han Shuo like golden lightning. Han Shuo only felt like his body was being pierced continuously by steel needles. His tenacious body was unable to withstand it, suddenly spitting out a mouthful of blood.
As the protective shield dulled, Han Shuo appeared as if he was struck by tens of arrows, his body suddenly having many additional finger sized holes. Even his forehead had three wounds, causing Han Shuo’s handsome face to be ruined and to look extremely terrifying.
“Brat, I knew long ago that you harbor malicious intentions and have been waiting for your sneak attack. Hehe, you are still too inexperienced!” The sacred knight’s laughter could be heard from above. He raised his pike, intending to attack Han Shuo again.
This was the greatest defeat Han Shuo had suffered since he started cultivating. He cursed the ancestors of the sacred knight in his heart, realizing that his plan to mount a sneak attack had been seen through long ago and had instead ended up worse off. He resisted the urge to charge out and go all out against the sacred knight. Han Shuo didn’t wait for the sacred knight’s next wave of attacks, making a prompt decision to return along his original path.
Having trained till his current level, as long as Han Shuo’s consciousness didn’t scatter and the demonic infant wasn’t destroyed, he would still be able to recover no matter the degree of injury to his physical body. Hence, Han Shuo wasn’t worried about his disfigured face. As there were too many opposing experts, Han Shuo knew that forcing his way out was useless. Even though he felt extremely unwilling in his heart, he had no choice but to retreat.
The earth zombie who had just wrecked earth sacred magus Dempus’ ‘Shatter Earth’ spell suddenly felt the boundless wrath and resentment in Han Shuo’s heart. The earth zombie disobeyed Han Shuo’s instructions for the first time and actually stubbornly emerging from within the ground. All of a sudden, thousands of earth spikes rose from the ground.
The ground became like a continuous sea of trees rising indefinitely. When the sacred knight was looking unstable, the naive earth zombie had already disregarded everything and charged toward the sacred knight. As he charged, lumps of earth flew up and adhered to the earth zombie’s body.
In an extremely short time, the earth zombie was covered in numerous clumps of soil, forming a ten-meter tall clay man. His original naive look could no longer be seen, as though he had merged with the earth as he ferociously walked toward the sacred knight who was somewhat in a daze.
“No!” Han Shuo who was deep underground suddenly screamed his lungs out, flying into the sky once again in spite of his body being drenched in blood from his injuries and charging anxiously toward the sacred knight.
However, even before Han Shuo could reach the sacred knight, his golden pike had suddenly shot out a glaring golden light, with the pike stabbing into the middle of the sole of the ten meter tall clay man the earth zombie had transformed into, causing a torrent of energy to suddenly erupt and charge into the earth zombie’s body.
The earth zombie’s body that was formed from soil suddenly shot out gold light after the golden light from the sacred knight entered its body. Soon after, the earth on his body started falling piece by piece. The earth zombie who had returned to its original size was struck by a beam of golden light, suddenly flying backward. A large chunk of his naturally formed armor had sunk in at the chest.
Han Shuo’s eyes turned red. He had never been as angry as he was at this moment. The little skeleton and the other zombies in the other plane all transmitted strong messages of wanting to come to this plane and join strengths with Han Shuo to savagely retaliate against the enemy who dared to harm Han Shuo and the earth zombie.
Han Shuo didn’t lose his rationality, forcefully obstructing the strong desire of the little skeleton and the rest. When he saw the earth zombie actually struggling in an attempt to charge toward that sacred knight once again for revenge once he landed on the ground, Han Shuo choked with emotion as he shouted, “Idiot!”
Soon after, Han Shuo ignored the earth zombie’s stubborn desire, chanting at the fastest speed in his life and forcefully sent this naive earth zombie back to the netherworld.
“Stupid undead creature, truly courting death!” The sacred knight laughed as he looked at Han Shuo, pointing his pike toward Han Shuo and said, “My target this time is you. Your strength is pretty good, no wonder you are able to force Kosse to retreat twice! However, your good luck ends here!”
Han Shuo had never hated someone the way he did now. Until now, Han Shuo’s attitude toward the Church of Light had always been to ignore them, only adopting measures to counterattack. It was only when the earth zombie was injured because of him that Han Shuo was truly determined to oppose the Church of Light till one party is eliminated.
Staring at the sacred knight who had a relaxed expression, Han Shuo breathed violently, ignoring the blood flowing from his wounds. Blood flowed out from the wounds on the bridge of his nose and his left cheek due to his stirred up emotions, causing him to look like a demon that had walked out from the depths of hell.
“I’ll remember you. For every day I live, the Church of Light will never have another day of peace!” Han Shuo unhurriedly declared word by word before turning around and flying toward Karel with the Art of the Demonic Ninth Heavens.
Lancelot Empire’s space sacred magus Sabakas had unknowingly appeared and was currently drawing a teleportation array under Lawrence’s feet. Apart from Sabakas who was concentrating on drawing the magic array, everyone else had their eyes fixed on Han Shuo.
Tears constantly fell from Phoebe’s eyes, but she was forcefully restrained by Karel, preventing her from attempting to fly to Han Shuo’s side.