Great Demon King

The moment that Hill and Sha-t’o appeared, the House of Han’s struggle was basically over.

Both Hill and Sha-to possessed late-stage highgod strength. Other than the two, there were also five highgods of different stages of the Kiaran Family. In addition, the two divine guard Chiefs stationed outside the Kiaran Residence also possessed highgod strength. Thousands of divine guards were also rushing to the Residence from every part of the City. This great disadvantage that the House of Han was in cannot be negated merely with combat formations.

Sha-t’o was fuming when he returned to his Kiaran Residence and saw all the buildings that the House of Han had collapsed and the bodies of those they killed. He was so angered that he wished to skin every member of the House of Han.

Hill had arrived at the Kiaran Residence at the same time with Sha-t’o. He too saw the tremendous losses suffered by the House of Kiaran and that the House of Han guards were gradually retreating and defending themselves in a bizarre combat formation. However, not only did Hill not feel sad for the Kiaran Family’s losses, but he was secretly delighted.

In Witherbone City, the House of Kiaran was the only family clan that could pose a real threat to his position as the City Lord. But as Sha-t’o had always been loyal and devoted to him, Hill couldn’t find any excuse to diminish the House of Kiaran’s strength. He could not be happier to see the Kiaran Residence be covered with fire and blood. It was also a proof of the great team combat strength of the House of Han.

By now, the House of Han had been completely encircled by thousands of divine guards of Witherbone City. Hill was excited to think that the Witherbone City would soon obtain the secret formulas to their miraculous medicines and their extremely deadly demonic combat formations.

“How dare you attack us! You are asking for death!” shouted Sha-t’o. He was giving Bollands, Stratholme, Emily, and the others a death stare. It was as though he wanted to tear their flesh and devour them alive.

“We had enough of your intimidation and bullying!” Emily angrily replied, “You will have us killed no matter what we do. If you won’t let us live, the least we could do is make you bleed!”

“Well, very well then.” Sha-t’o put on a ruthless face, gestured, and commanded, “Kill them all! Show no mercy!”

A large number of divine guards and highgods had surrounded the House of Han. They temporarily ceased fire when Sha-t’o and Hill arrived. But upon hearing Sha-to’s command, they no longer hesitated and charged forward.

“Sha-t’o, ask your men to be careful. Make sure that they do not kill their leaders yet!” said Hill. He was observing the House of Han with admiration and he felt great reverence towards the person who trained those guards.

Hill knew that the moment a person dies, their soul will start vanishing and the memories contained within would disappear along with it. When a soul had completely dissipated into the environment, their memories would also be completely gone. No amount of the divine energy of death could restore it.

The reason Hill wanted to keep those core members of the Han Family alive was so that he could extract as much of their precious memories and secrets as possible.

“Understood,” replied Sha-t’o as he nodded. After seeing the great losses his House of Kiaran suffered to the House of Han, he was consumed by rage and had nearly forgotten their main objective. But he came to his senses after being reminded by Hill.

Sha-t’o first took a deep breath before he roared at the sky. Then, having gathered the attention of his highgods, he made a hand gesture.

As veterans of the House of Kiaran, those highgods immediately understood Sha-to’s wordless command. They became much more selective in their bombardment. Most of the attacks landed on those non-important House of Han guards.

It was those seven highgod experts who had caused the House of Han the greatest casualties. The seven would only attack and kill those guards on the outer perimeter but not harm those core Han Family members who were grouped together.

The Han Family looked at each other and they saw the despair in each others’ eyes. Stratholme and Emily were sharp-witted characters. They could instantly tell what their enemies were planning.

Bollands took a glance at Stratholme and Emily and instantly read their thoughts. He shouted, “Don’t do anything stupid. With the three of us here, there is no need for suicide. They won’t be able to extract any information from your souls even if you are the last one of us to fall.”

Bollands could tell that Stratholme and Emily were planning to kill themselves so that their souls would have dissipated before Sha-t’o and the others could extract anything from their memories.

Emily softly sighed and mumbled to herself, “Goodbye Bryan… I guess I will never see you again… “

It was at this moment that suddenly, as though Emily’s prayer was heard, a world-shaking roar sounded from the horizon. A ferocious aura carrying the desire to annihilate all things suddenly enveloped the whole Witherbone City!