10 Slaughter (2/2)
”What a nice couple, volunteering to be the next to see the other side.” Both heads exploded in my hands, and two more corpses embraced the cold hard floor.
A cry came from a now panicking Lu Xin.
”Regroup! Hurry!”
Lu Xin wanted to get the situation back under his control, but it was already too late.
[Ding...]
[Ding...]
[Ding...]
[Ding...]
Legs, arms, heads, torsos, I severed them, crushed them and obliterated them. One could no longer see blue on the floor, only red. In less than a minute, twenty had fallen.
”Please have mercy! We didn't do anything, it was Lu Xin! It was all her! I promise!” A group of men near me had fallen to their knees and ground their foreheads into the bloody floor, prostrating themselves.
”Begging for mercy? You think you can buy time?” I looked with disdain at the party that couldn't even retain their dignity in their final moments.
A deafening sonic boom rang out as the man who had just been grovelling no longer existed. The only reminder of his mortal life was the smattering of internal organs that painted the nearby wall. This time, I felt pain. But using my Qi to defend, I turned out fine. I had wanted to teach them a lesson this time, and I'd achieved that goal.
”Monster!”
”Attack him together! He can't survive our combined offence!”
”Right! Attack them together!”
The crowd reached a fever pitch, losing all rationality, their backs against the wall.
”Stop it!” Lu Xin tried desperately to regain control. ”Don't attack him! We must defend!”
But Lu Xin couldn't control anything anymore. Hundreds of attacks streaked towards me. Fire, water, lightning, the show of lights would've dazzled my eyes if their attacks weren't so weak. They gave their all in this last-ditch attempt, but without any coordination, their all wasn't anything in my eyes. I gave a low chuckle as I grabbed some of my nearby opponents and threw them forward, using their bodies to intercept the incoming attacks.
A fireworks show of blood spread out across the battlefield, as bodies exploded from the Qi attacks that hit them, or the force of their own offensive reflecting onto themselves.
The wave of Qi attacks soon dissipated, and the mist of blood finished raining onto the ground. The crowd had dwindled from its initial one-thousand members to no more than twenty. As the chaos died down, those that remained alive saw me standing with my leg up on a pile of bodies, completely unscathed.
”Well, that was satisfying. You aren't going to attack anymore? There are still a few of you...”
Kicking bodies out of my way, step by step I approached the remaining enemies. Just the sound of my footsteps trudging through the slick blood was enough to make the bravest among them fall to their knees.
I saw Chu Xian trembling. Li Qi wore a resolute expression. As for the girls, You Ye had her mouth slightly agape, not noticing herself drooling, and Xiao Wu had tears welling up in her eyes.
”It's time! Time for the rest of you to--” my sentence was interrupted midway by a loud voice resounding through the room.
”Hold it right there.”