Battle Royale of the Sinners

Tong killed the nearest spearman and stole the iron spear, after which he made a half-moon sweep, sending incoming soldiers flying.

"Men, break out from this and regroup with our infantries!"

All surviving horsemen turned around and cut a path for their escape while Tong protected their rear.

Jiang Man's archers gathered with the previous group. The number increased to 500, which they finished reloading their crossbows.

"Fire another volley!"

Jiang Man disregarded the allied soldiers and ordered another barrage. Meanwhile, several soldiers blew horns and rang warning bells to warn the troops from the front and call for the reinforcement.

500 Arrows flew to the sky.

Seeing that the arrows came at him again, Tong made a risky decision.

"[Create Food], burning oil!"

Instead of pointing his palm or finger at the ground soldiers, Tong pointed his finger at the arrow rain.

Flash flood of boiling oil gushed out from the void, becoming a water current. The fountain of oil hit the arrows, blocking their momentum and flushed them away. The liquid fell down on earth later as the gravity pulled them down, raining upon Jiang Man's soldiers.

"WAAH!"

"AAAAHH!"

The hot oil burnt the men alive, which freed Tong from the pursuing troops.

Lilith had banned Tong from using this skill directly at living beings, but Tong decided to use it in this situation. He prayed that Lilim did not know about this.

Two seconds later … ten seconds later.

Lilim did not send a warning message, which relieved Tong.

He turned around. The horsemen managed to break through the surrounding enemies, but they were waiting for Tong.

Instead of escaping with his horsemen, Tong bellowed.

"Regroup with the others and slowly press forward with three-line formation! Do not chase after me!"

Finished giving the instruction, Tong leaped over the burning ground using the corpses and the struggling soldiers as the footing. He rushed at the group of archers with crossbows.

Seeing the lone rushing soldier, archers with a loaded arrow aimed at Tong.

*BANG* *BANG*

*BANG* *BANG*

Tong countered them with the gun before they could shoot, which killed fifteen soldiers as Tong emptied his clip. Using the chance that the archers were shocked by the gun, he dove into the formation of archers.

The steel blade in his hand sliced the necks of the surrounding men. Though Tong did not use the lamia step, he slipped through the packed formation.

In his left hand, which had put away his gun in his cloth, grabbed a crossbow from a dead soldier. His eyes locked at the location where Jiang Man was while the crossbow pointed at the same direction.

Forty lock-on crosshairs targeted all parts of Jiang Man's body.

*WHOOSH* *WHOOSH*

Light arrows trekked through the sky, making an arc and chasing after Jiang Man, who was hiding behind a carriage.

Seeing the magic arrows coming after himself, Jiang Man grabbed two nearest soldiers and used them as his shield while he leaned his back against the carriage.

*SEUK*

Thirty-five arrows pierced the meat shields, three hit the carriage behind Jiang Man's back, and two got his shoulder and his right eye.

It was fortunate that the arrow flew down from the high angle, so it did not penetrate into Jiang Man's brain beyond his eye socket.

However, the pain was still there.

"FOOOOOOOK!!"

Jiang Man screamed as he pulled out the arrow from his right eye. Clear liquid dripped down from the eye socket, and red blood followed.

Though angered, Jiang Man pushed the two meat shield corpses away and dashed toward the nearest horse, which was used to drag the carriage behind him.

His sword cut the ropes which bound the horses. He jumped on one of the horses and galloped away without hesitation.

*RUMBLE*

At this moment, the black cloud in the sky had reached its limit. Raindrop poured down onto the land as the cloud could not contain the humidity anymore.

It began with several droplets of water at first, but a downpour followed after a few seconds.

Tong, who had reloaded his gun and was about to chase after Jiang Man, was surprised by the sudden rain. Rainwater got into his eyes, which broke his focus on the battlefield.

'Rain or not, you're a threat!'

Tong exerted his leg strength and his overclocked brain to the fullest. He kicked the ground, ignoring the nearby soldiers and chasing after Jiang Man.

The burst of 2-winged demon's speed was faster than a workhorse. Tong got into the range of 50 meters behind Jiang Man in ten seconds.

However, at 100 meters in front of Tong and Jiang Man, more than five thousand soldiers of Zou Jing main army were running toward them, coming to help the rearguards.

The Glock pistol pointed at Jiang Man's back.

Jiang Man also sensed the terrible killing intent from behind. He tilted his body to the side by instinct.

*BANG*

The bullet missed!

90 Meters until Jiang Man could escape!

Tong changed the target. He aimed his gun at the horse instead.

"Karma, bitch!"

*BANG*

The horse neighed in pain and stumbled down on the ground, rolling and throwing Jiang Man off its back.

Jiang Man, who was sent flying by the horse, slammed on the wet ground and tumbled for a few flips before he could stop rolling.

The reinforcement was 50 meters away.

Tong glanced at the oncoming thousands of soldiers and pointed the muzzle at Jiang Man's head.

*CLICK*

He ran out of ammo!

Tong frowned as he remembered that he had just reloaded his gun and fired two shots. There should have been several bullets left in the magazine.

He ejected the clip to look at it. Indeed, there was no bullet.

Tong recalled that he almost spent all bullets in one of the clips, but he kept it in his cloth. He must have reloaded the old clip into the gun instead of using a prepared one.

The hands of Tong touched his cloth to get a new clip, which he found nothing. All the prepared clips were inside his luggage on the horseback, which he had left behind when the horse fell.

"Goddammit!"

Tong drew his blade from his back and ran at Jiang Man, hoping to finish this person.

"Die!"

*CLANK*

One of Zou Jing's horsemen reached Tong first. He slashed his halberd at Tong, which was parried by Tong's blade.

Using this chance, Jiang Man crawled away.

The reinforcement had reached them!

The infantries helped Jiang Man and escorted him away as he looked important from the outsider's point of view.

Tong glared at Jiang Man with hatred. He could have used [Time Stop] and kill this person, but he decided to save it as a lifesaving skill in the emergency. He also wanted to pursue, but a dozen horsemen were about to rush him.

Clicking his tongue, Tong vented his anger on the soldiers around him. His blade cut through horses and human alike, killing everything in its path.

As soon as he killed all riders, the corner of his eyes caught sight of someone he was looking for.

Zou Jing!

Behind Tong, his troops got annihilated the rearguards saw their lord in the middle of the enemy reinforcement legion.

"Follow the child of heaven!"

"Follow the young master!"

The slogan "The Han is dead" resounded in the middle of the rainstorm. At the same time, Zou Jing's troops also realized Tong's identity.

"Zhang Tong is isolated. Surround him!"

"Stop the Yellow Turbans!"

"That monster Zhang Tong is in front. Kill him!"

Tong ignored everything and displayed his footwork. He danced into the oncoming pack of soldiers as he sliced all living beings in his path.

Zou Jing noticed the identity of the lone Yellow Turban. His face paled as he hid behind his bodyguards by instinct.

"Zou Jing, you coward. How long are you going to keep hiding!?"

Hearing Tong's voice and his threatening stance, Zou Jing also cried.

"Retreat! Sound the retreat!"

Tong got used to the way that he could slip through the crowd of soldiers. He got into the range of 100 meters in front of Zou Jing, leaving a trail of cut corpses behind.

"[Firearm Creation], give me a bullet!"

A handgun bullet appeared in Tong's hand. Using his left hand, he loaded the shell into a magazine while his right hand still swung his blade or parried from the incoming attacks.

Then, he loaded the magazine with only one bullet into his pistol.

By the time he finished loading, a long-beard tall man in green cloth had rushed at Tong with his horse.

"Brat, you go no further!"

Tong glanced at the rider by reflex. The image of the horseman astonished Tong as he could recognize this person right away.

'Guan Yu! Why is he here!?'

As the overclock mode was still active, he could also see a scruffy wild man and a long-ear man chasing after Guan Yu from behind.

'The three hypocrites! They really appear here this year, and they're together in the same platoon as Zou Jing? The novel version said they should have appeared next year in a different legion.'

Tong gritted his teeth as reality was usually different than his expectation.

'One bullet. Should I use this on one of the three or should I save this for Zou Jing? There's also that annoying strategist in Zou Jing Army.'

Tong regretted the earlier action that he had wasted so many bullets on ordinary soldiers. He could have killed them with his blade, yet he wasted them to save times.

He glanced at the system menu and his quest details. He had many days to complete, but Tong did not want to take the risk of failing his quest.

The punishment for failing the quest was his location exposure, which equaled to a death-sentence had his location was revealed in a system map.

'I want to kill all of you, but Zou Jing is my target!'

Tong dashed further to shorten the distance as he shouted, "[Time Stop]!"

As soon as Tong shouted, Guan Yu saw the isolated Yellow Turban soldier blinked and reappeared further away behind Zou Jing.

But it did not shock him more than what happened afterward as Zou Jing's head was flying in mid-air. The general was killed right under his nose!

"How the hell!?"

"It's that magic again!"

"General!"

"Lord Zou Jing!"

Guan Yu stopped his horse and gazed at Tong in shock. Liu Bei and Zhang Fei were surprised as well.

"This is the rumor sorcery?" Liu Bei muttered as he recalled Lu Zhi's letter contents. Lu Zhi had warned Liu Bei not to become Tong's enemy, but the ambitious disciple did not heed his master's words.

"Yunchang, Yide, don't pursue! Come back!" Shouted Liu Bei.

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei turned to Liu Bei and nodded in understanding. The opponent was a dangerous sorcerer so they should not fight him without preparation.

"Where is little Jiang? Hasn't he said that he wanted to get something from the logistic troops? The rearguards and the logistic troops are defeated. I hope he …" Guan Yu was worried about Jiang Man.

"He'll be fine. For now, we should …"

Before Liu Bei could finish his sentence, Tong bellowed.

"Didn't you lots want a piece of me? Where is your bravery now? Oh right, there was an old saying that only a brave man can become a soldier, but I'm seeing no soldier. Hell, I doubt there were even men in front of me."