Talented Martial Hero
Chapter 1046 Slaughter

After he massacred a dozen guards, thousands of low-level fiends began to appear behind the terrifying first fiend ancestor.

Although they were of low-level status, the fiends were far from weak. Every individual fiend was more powerful than any of the guards.

"Slaughter," ordered the first fiend ancestor menacingly.

The low-level fiends pounced at the given order. They rushed into battle, bloodlust smeared on their faces.

"Ancestor, shall we collect souls as well?" asked a low-level fiend in a unique language.

The first fiend ancestor glared coldly in reply. The low-level fiend who dared speak twisted from extreme pain and let out an anguished cry before turning into a puddle.

There was no patience for stupid questions for the first fiend ancestor. The other low-level fiends who witnessed this trembled with fear and immediately understood what to do. Human souls were naturally very useful to their ancestor so it was obvious that they needed to be collected.

They simultaneously flew into the air, causing a wave of darkness as they blotted out the sky and the sun. Several panicked screams and cries burst from the city as they were engulfed in the darkness.

"I come with a report!”

A guard burst through the doors of a great hall, staggering to the ground as he trembled from what he needed to inform them about.

"Terrible news! The Deer City has been overrun with fiends. Hundreds of thousands of casualties have been reported.”

"What?"

gasped the four greatest holy warriors. The shock in their voices gave away a sense of panic.

Just moments before, they had gone to patrol the city in the east. It was out of their calculations for the Deer City down south to be attacked.

That was hundreds of thousands of civilians, most of which were some of the greatest minds and warriors of the human race!

Gulping down their mourning, the four greatest holy warriors summoned seventeen Governors and hurried to the Deer City. There was no time for remorse. They had to face the fiends quickly to protect the other cities.

Their arrival was met with desecration. The Deer City was in chaos. The buildings had collapsed, and the air was putrid from rot and blood. The smell of death was all over.

The streets were painted with blood as severed arms and legs were strewn around the city. It was a bloodbath.

The Governor of the Deer City fell to his knees as he cried in anguish.

His wife and children were all residing in the city.

"Ill kill them! I'll kill them all!" he cried.

His eyes were scarlet with pain and rage as he started throwing random attacks into the air. "Where are the fiends?" asked Francis with a downcast look.

"Sir, they seem to have retreated.”

Several strong cultivators who had witnessed the massacre from the sidelines reported that after the fiends had killed everyone in the city, they retreated like a massive tide.

"No! This cannot be!" The faces of the four greatest holy warriors turned pale. The fiends' retreat could only have meant one thing.

"They must've gone off to another city to continue their murderous rampage. We must split up and guard the cities. Once we find any traces of these fiends, we must immediately inform each other,” Francis instructed his companions. Then he flew off alone in one direction.

The other three greatest holy warriors, along with the Governors, returned to their own cities to keep watch for the terrifying wave of fiends.

Back in the Holy City, Darren was isolated in a secret chamber. To ensure Darren could stay focused and successfully create the array they needed, they sealed the chamber with another array to ensure that none could enter.

Darren was trying his best to utilize his talent and observe the patterns of the big and complex array.

He had to admit that the Heavenly Exterminating Array was quite a challenge to understand. It required the mysterious Universe Rule along with hundreds of thousands of forces of heaven and earth. Given even the power of his avatar, it would've been impossible to create such a great array in a short span of time. It would have taken at least ten thousand years or more.

'The witcher ancestor is truly powerful. Could his creating ability be stronger than my avatar's?* Darren marveled in mind.

It had been said that the array was created by both the witcher ancestor and Hiram the Great. This seemed odd to Darren since only rule cultivators or those who practiced something like rules had the ability to create them. This could only mean that the array was mainly created by the witcher ancestor.

It took Darren several hours to use his Spiritual Domain Degree talent to finally observe a pattern in the array. Those hours spent were simply observing, too. If he wanted to actually create it, he'd have to have given it thousands of more hours of his time.

Of course, this was because Darren was a martial artist cultivator. If his rule soul had not been separated, this process would've been much faster.

After studying a dozen of patterns, Darren began to feel a little tired. He rubbed his eyes and tried to shake himself awake. Time was of the essence.

"Phew!"

Darren, noticing that he was close to dozing off, quickly opened his eyes and took a deep breath. 'The four greatest holy warriors are all hardworking. It takes them countless amount of energy and time to comprehend the great array.’

He decided to rest for a short time to regain his bearings. After which, he returned to studying the array. Unfortunately, doubt began to creep into him as well. He started to worry that before he could find the loophole they needed, the first fiend ancestor would arrive to slay him.

'If worse comes to worse, I wonder if I could even fend off the first fiend ancestor with my current strength.’

In fact, Darren didn't know the exact level of where his strength lay at all. He only knew that his current strength was stronger than any of the four greatest holy warriors.

Given this, the four greatest holy warriors were all six-tribulation senior holy warriors. Darren estimated that his own strength was perhaps equal to that of a six-tribulation senior holy warrior at the top level.

In theory, a six-tribulation senior holy warrior at the top level could hold his own against a holy emperor. This meant that he could fight a cultivator who had just entered the level of holy emperor, solely in terms of strength at least. However, if skills and weapons were part of his calculations then the battle could not be won.

To battle a holy emperor, one needed to possess the strength of a seven-tribulation senior holy warrior. For example, Barnes, a mighty seven-tribulation senior holy warrior, was stronger than the Dark Emperor.

A seven-tribulation senior holy warrior as powerful as Barnes could probably even hold his own against a strong holy emperor.

Despite this, not everyone who survived seven tribulations was as powerful as Barnes. After all, he was at a great advantage considering he had the dodecahedral Fake God Character as well.

'The first fiend ancestor's strength has restored for such a long time. Surely, he's stronger than an ordinary holy emperor by now. I fear I won't be a match for him if the time for battle arrives." Darren began to make a logical comparison in his mind. Factually, his strength was still weaker than his avatar—who'd fought the fiend before. His avatar's strength was more or less the strength of a strong holy emperor. It meant his own strength would still lose out to the first fiend ancestor's power.

'I need to create the array as soon as possible. After its completion, the four greatest holy warriors would gain more strength. If we all fight together, there is a greater chance to defeat that first fiend ancestor.

Darren decided to shelve his fear and doubts for the meantime, and concentrate on finding the flaws in the array at hand.

Ten days later, a huge roar woke Darren from his meditation.

The secret chamber rumbled violently.

“This is bad!" Darren thought to himself. What he had feared had finally arrived. 'It must be the first fiend ancestor! He must be coming this way!"

The time he had spent in the chamber was far from enough. Darren hadn't even completed a tenth of the array.

'I have to go out and have a look, * he thought nervously.

Darren couldn't wait to get out of the secret chamber. He swiftly flew off to see what was going on in the city.

Upon his arrival, Darren's heart dropped. He couldn't believe his eyes. The situation was worse than he had imagined.

The whole sky was covered with dark clouds and the city was utterly destroyed. Piercing screams and cries could be heard from all around him. The miasma of death hung in the air.

Ten kilometers away from the city, there was what looked like a huge wave of black creatures.

A few seconds later, several hundred humans could be seen flying into the air. At the forefront were the four greatest holy warriors.

"Kill them! Kill them!"

"Those bastards have slaughtered two cities, and we must kill them all! We must avenge all who have fallen by their filthy hands!"

In the past few days, the four greatest holy warriors and the Governors had vigilantly guarded the cities. The fiends, perhaps anticipating them earlier, seemed to have deliberately avoided them and only attacked locations where they could not gather quickly.

The fiends quickly destroyed another city and slaughtered all its residents—along with the city's Governor—and hastily retreated.

At this discovery, the four greatest warriors decided to lead the warriors and lay ambush on one of the cities. They were lucky to run into the fiends just as they were en route to their next victim—the Holy City.

Kill

Darren did not hesitate and went in for a kill in the blink of an eye.

Fiends exploded into blood and guts as he passed them.

Darren gave the fiends no time to think as he attacked them one by one while showers of blood spurted in his wake. In mere minutes, he had already killed thousands of fiends.

"Look who it is! I see you've finally made an appearance,”

cackled a blood-red figure in the distance. At the sight of Darren, he made a wicked smile as he stood under the gloom of the gray sky.

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