Great Demon King

Dagassi had relayed Sha-t’o words clearly. The House of Han must surrender every last bit of their secrets to the House of Kiaran within just three days. Otherwise, they will be exterminated.

Emily, Phoebe, Stratholme, Bollands, Sanguis, Gilbert, and other core members of the Han Family gathered to discuss how to respond to the ultimatum. They were all wearing gloomy and grave faces.

By now, it was obvious to Stratholme that the missing House of Han guard must have been abducted by the House of Kiaran. Otherwise, Sha-t’o wouldn’t have known about the existence of those remaining demonic combat formations.

Emily and Stratholme exchanged glances. They both knew that it was no longer necessary to conceal the matter. Stratholme revealed to the party about the disappearance of one of their guards before he solemnly said, “It seems that Sha-t’o must have learned some secrets of our family clan from the guard. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have suddenly demanded us to surrender all our secrets in just three days.”

“I have personally trained every one of our guards and I’m absolutely confident that they wouldn’t say a word,” remarked Bollands confidently after thinking for a moment.

Before they were recruited into the House of Han, the guards had to pass thorough background checks and all sorts of personality tests. They would then be trained and tempered mentally and physically through various methods. These guards would place the interests of the House of Han above their own lives.

And as a matter of fact, the House of Han guard who was abducted spoke not a word despite having been tortured. He had even bit his tongue off. Such was the faithfulness of a House of Han guard.

“Sha-t’o cultivates the energy of death. As a late-stage highgod, his mastery and understanding of the soul would be beyond our imagination.” Fanny who cultivated the energy of death, explained, “I believe in the loyalty of our House of Han guards. But after a person dies, their memory and soul don’t immediately vanish. Given Sha-to’s strength, it wouldn’t be too hard for him to extract some information from his soul.”

The party immediately understood what must have happened after hearing Fanny’s explanation.

“It seems that this is as much time as we could buy. If Sha-t’o learned the secrets of our House of Han from the divine guard’s soul, then he will never ever let us off. No matter what we do, our only way out is death,” said Emily after she sighed in despair. With things having come to this, even the optimistic Emily saw no hope of survival.

“Don’t fire! Let him pass!” shouted Hill as soon as he saw his divine guards raising their weapons. His voice resounded through the entire mansion.

*** At the same time, an extravagant outsider had just entered Witherbone City through one of its city gates.

“Hey! Stop righ-… Nevermind!”

Han Shuo did not bother letting those divine guards check his divine tablet. He just whooshed through the checkpoint in a flash. Those divine guards manning the city gate were about to chase after Han Shuo but they suddenly saw the large amount of black crystal coins scattered on the ground. They pretended they saw no intruder and hastily helped themselves.

After entering Witherbone City, Han Shuo grabbed a random midgod on the street and shoved a sack of black crystal coins into his hands. He hastily asked, “Where is the Kiaran Residence?”

The midgod was disgruntled that Han Shuo had pulled him out of the blue. He was about to start cursing when he felt something hard and heavy in his hands. When he lowered his head and looked, his face turned from frowning to beaming ear to ear. Immediately, he pointed in a direction and happily answered, “Eastward all the way!”

As soon as he finished those words, Han Shuo vanished as though he had just popped out of existence. If it wasn’t for the sack of black crystal coins in his hands, the midgod would have thought that he had been hallucinating because Han Shuo moved so fast that he didn’t even catch him leaving.

*** In the Kiaran Residence.

Taking full advantage of the element of surprise, the House of Han managed to flatten more than half of the structures in Residence in just a short time. Many of the Kiaran Family guards who were cultivating were killed before they could react.

With many of the highgods and divine guards not ready and out of position, the House of Han had been unstoppable. They divided themselves into many small groups taking ring-shaped formations to destroy and kill everything and anything they saw. Those flurried and disarrayed House of Kiaran guards were ruthlessly slaughtered.

In less than fifteen minutes, a hundred or more of the House of Kiaran were butchered. Meanwhile, the House of Han guards had only suffered several injuries.

However, the tide soon turned against them. After the great number of House of Kiaran highgods were assembled, when those divine guards of Hill’s stationed around the Residence began their counterattacks, the House of Han was pushed back.

As the City Lord’s Mansion House was relatively nearby the Kiaran Residence, Sha-t’o, the Kiaran Family patriarch, soon returned to his Residence. The City Lord of Witherbone City also had shown up after Sha-t’o. Upon seeing the two late-stage highgods, every member of the House of Han understood that their end was nigh.