Great Demon King

GDK 674: Godhunter

“Oi! Oi! What do you think you’re doing?!” Akley was being dragged by his collar, struggling in midair. He seemed to be mortified.

“Those foes of yours have arrived. I’m taking you away from them. If we remain here, we will be discovered!” Han Shuo reasoned.

“So soon? Damn it, they actually chased all the way to Elysium!” Akley cursed. He stopped struggling when he heard that his enemies had come.

Han Shuo’s flying speed increased substantially after Akley calmed himself down. He traveled towards remote regions where an unbroken chain of uninhibited mountains was found. There wasn’t another soul they could run into.

After flying several hundred miles, Han Shuo casually threw Akley onto the top of a barren hill and said, “We should have shaken them off. You continue to rest!”

Akley had not put his recovery on hold while being dragged in the air by Han Shuo. Thanks to the efficacy of the pellet of rejuvenation, the wounds on his body had started to form scabs. Even his face regained a slight bit of a healthy shade of red.

The pellet of rejuvenation was very beneficial for healing injuries. Akley, as a god cultivating in the edict of destruction, possessed a divine body that could soak up the benefits of a pellet of rejuvenation to the fullest. Hence, his condition had vastly improved within a short period of time.

“You be careful as well and make use of this opportunity to regain some energy – keep yourself at your most optimal state. Although this is the first time I’ve come to Elysium, I believe that this world isn’t all that peaceful either. If we were to run into anything unexpected, we would have the best chance of survival if we are at our bests!” Akley suggested to Han Shuo as he sat down of the barren hill.

After a long while, when Han Shuo was still immersed in heartache, the Cauldron Spirit suddenly transmitted, “There are people approaching. Decent strength. Do you wish to flee?”

Han Shuo immediately came to his senses. After casting all the jumbled thoughts off his mind, he instructed, “Dispatch a mystical demon. I will decide after determining the situation!”

“Alright!” The Cauldron Spirit sent a formless, incorporeal mystical demon flying towards the approaching party.

The mystical demons refined by the Cauldron Spirit were made from lowgod or midgod souls. Han Shuo had long experienced the might of the mystical demons and knew that the ones Cauldron Spirit refined were much more valiant than the spirit demons he meticulously refined. The incorporeal mystical demons had practically no life signature when they weren’t attacking. Without extremely mighty strength, it would be nearly impossible to detect the presences of the mystical demons.

A mystical demon rapidly flew towards its destination. Being immaterial, the mystical demon wasn’t affected by gravity and could fly at high speed. The mystical demon took just a few moments to reach its target.

It saw an eerie-looking old woman with gray hair and a body that appeared no different from a dried corpse. She was laughing sinisterly in a low voice while weaving death rays and launching them in all directions.

Ahead of the old woman was a group of five. They looked terrified and were fleeing in five different directions.

The old woman cultivated in the elemental energy of death. She appeared to be a midgod. All five of those fleeing in disarray were lowgods. There were three males and two females. Two of them cultivated in the element of death, another two in the element of darkness, while one more in the edict of destruction.

“Run towards the valley. There is an interplanar transportation facility over there with proper divine guards. As long as we reach the valley, this godhunter will surely retreat!” a woman that cultivated in the element of darkness shouted to the two middle-aged men who cultivated in the element of death.

A godhunter! Han Shuo was shocked. He did not expect to run into a notorious godhunter so soon after he arrived at the Elysium.

A so-called godhunter was a god who would hunt and kill other gods cultivating in the same energy in order to raise their own divine energy.

A god could absorb the divine energy of another god as long as both of them cultivated in the same elemental energy or edictal force. Those who were tired of long and endless cultivation or too lazy to travel to lower-level material planes to gather the power of faith would usually sneak up in some remote countryside to hunt for other gods of weaker strengths cultivating in the same energy and absorb their divine energy to rapidly raise their own.

No matter in any Overgod domains, godhunters were despised and heavily cracked down upon. There would be a department of divine guards specially tasked with hunting the godhunters in each of the twelve dominions. Once caught, they would be killed on the spot without trial! In most circumstances, godhunters did not hunt in cities or towns where powerful gods were present. They would usually choose to strike in sparsely populated regions where divine guards would have difficulty attending to. They preferred to set their hands on weaker gods traveling alone.

These types of existences were willing to take enormous risks to quench their greed and thirst for divine energy. Many of those who were new to Elysium might be finished off by a godhunter before they could truly experience the wonders of this world.

Although there would be divine guards tasked with cracking down on this bunch of lunatics, the divine guards were limited in strength and number. They could never completely put an end to the existence of godhunters.

Before coming to Elysium, Donna had repeatedly stressed and cautioned Han Shuo about the godhunters. She once mentioned that some of those godhunters possessed extremely valiant power. There were even godhunters that were high-level members of some influential family clans. They would remain to be well-regarded by the public as long as they did not get caught.

The greed and thirst for divine energy, in the right circumstances, could turn a normal person into a deranged godhunter. Even one’s closest friend could become the next godhunter if one were severely injured.

While these pieces of information flew through Han Shuo’s brain, before he could carefully ponder about it, his face froze – he discovered that for whatever reason, one of the cultivators of the element of death was fleeing towards him while that eerie and sinister old woman pursued.