Great Demon King

Chapter 334: I really feel ashamed for you, blech!

Since things had already reached this point, Han Shuo could only summon the fire elite zombie, wood elite zombie, earth elite zombie, as well as the little skeleton. Otherwise, he had no chance of opposing the bandits and the Church of Light alone.

As Kosse, surrounded by the six Templars, held up “Revelations” and chanted, ripples of divine light slowly spread out from the artifact and purified the land of death that Han Shuo had created with so much difficulty. Han Shuo no longer remained in the air to continue to chase after Kosse. Instead, he slowly floated backwards.

Han Shuo threw out the Bloodlust Flag with a wave of his hand. The moment it flew out, a dense mist of blood flowed out it. This demonic treasure, that Han Shuo had meticulously refined, didn’t have the aura of death in it. Thus, he was naturally not afraid that the holy light would purify it.

The bandits touched by the mist of blood from the Bloodlust Flag began howling terribly. The Bloodlust Flag could quicken the circulation of blood in their body, causing them to explode and die.

When the blood within their bodies surged, their bodies would explode once it couldn’t handle the speed anymore. Bandits clenched their chest and roared in pain everywhere the mist of blood spread to, but they were unable to change the fact that the blood within their bodies was flowing too quickly. Clear cracks indicated that their bones had actually been broken by the horrific speed of circulation. Then, before they were able to react to that, their snapped bones pierced through their soft skin, causing more blood to surge out, causing the bandits in the mist of blood to explode and die one by one.

During this entire process, Han Shuo waved the skeletal staff in his left hand and had the effort to spare in order to summon out the little skeleton, earth elite zombie, wood elite zombie, and fire elite zombie. Under the cover of the mist of blood from the Bloodlust Flag, the earth elite zombie sank into the ground and snuck silently towards Kosse.

The little skeleton grabbed the wood elite zombie and soared high into the sky, directly landing on the city walls of Brettel City.

Under Han Shuo’s orders, the little skeleton and the wood elite zombie took charge in securing the area above Brettel City. If a bandit rushed up the city wall, the little skeleton and wood elite zombie were responsible for killing them.

The fire lotus sigil on the fire elite zombie’s forehead gradually became more clear. The moment he appeared from the other dimension, pillars of fire immediately shot up into the sky all around him. The fire lotus on his head seemed to burn like a brilliant flame. As it jumped, lotuses made of flames begun to drift out from it.

The fire elite zombie had gradually grasped how to control the fire lotus, which was a supreme treasure of fire. The flaming lotuses that drifted out from the fire lotus were only the size of a fingernail initially. Yet, this clearly wasn’t their true form. The flaming lotuses increased in size as the wind blew, eventually causing each one to become the size of a large bowl.

As the flames on the fire elite zombie burned, more lotuses floated out of the sigil on his forehead, and gradually grew until they were the size of a large bowl, then flew towards the surrounding bandits. Any bandit that even had a spark land on them was instantly incinerated.

This ferocity of this sort of flame was beyond their imagination. Even if they quickly used their pouches of water to dowse it, they were unable extinguish the little sparks. Anything that came into contact with the little sparks, which were the size of fingernails, would burn regardless of what it was. Skin, clothes, even armor and weapons all seemed to aid the flames in burning even more brightly.

In the span of a few breathes, these bandits, that came into contact with some sparks, all howled pitifully and became wreathed in flames. The terrible smell of burnt flesh emanated from their bodies before they were able to completely vent the pain from their bodies being incinerated.

The people on fire turned completely black, the living transformed into the dead. This process was just that short. Under the extremely painful incineration of those strangely beautiful flames, several scores of bandits near the fire elite zombie were transformed into charred cinders.

On the other side, the earth elite zombie, who was deep in the ground, used his ability as the favored child of the earth to rush over to Kosse and the others during the chaos above.

As the red archbishop of the Church of Light, Kosse did still possess some mercy when dealing with heretics. As he saw the bandits ignite and turn into charred pieces of meat, Kosse took a breath from the sacred hymn he was chanting and yelled at the surrounding Templars, “Save them!”

Han Shuo continued to use the Bloodlust Fang to harvest lives on the battlefield whilst keeping his attention on Kosse. When he saw that Kosse slowly approached within his circle of protection from the Templars, Han Shuo immediately gave the earth elite zombie, already in place underneath them, the order to attack.

Intense trembling vibrated through the ground, alongside a dull sound. Earthen spikes then shot up from the ground and pierced towards those from the Church of Light, who were only paying attention in front of them. It caught the Templars and white priests from the Church of Light off guard, instantly killing approximately ten people.

Those earthen spikes accurately penetrated the feet of the Templars that were moving as they rode. When this unprotected part of the foot suddenly came into contact with the sudden tip of the earthen spikes, the attack immediately had an amazing effect. The Templars, with excellent armor, all tumbled down from their warhorses with howls.

The priests in white, who were purifying the souls on the battlefield, were even more the target of Han Shuo’s hatred. Their purification of the deceased souls caused the Demonslayer Edge to be unable to gain more power. It meant that they were indirectly obstructing the Demonslayer Edge’s evolution.

The Demonslayer Edge still did not truly have a soul of its own at this point in time. The Demonslayer Edge would only evolve and gain its own soul once it absorbed enough soul energy from others. Only then would the Demonslayer Edge become a truly, unparallelled tool for murder.

Had Shuo had felt like a fish in water amidst the countless battles that had occurred after he’d arrived at Brettel City. As the Demonslayer Edge absorbed the souls of the deceased, it accelerated its growth. Han Shuo could even feel that the Demonslater Edge was already not far from its final form. He would not let these pesky priests from the Church of Light stop this!

Thus, when Kosse and the others approached him, Han Shuo gave the earth elite zombie an order to kill all the white-clothed ones first. The priests in white, that didn’t fight in close quarters naturally didn’t wear armor. Each earth spike that erupted stabbed a priest to death. None of the white priests, aside from Kosse who was well protected by the Templars, were able to escape from Han Shuo’s hand.

“Demon! I must get rid of this demon!” Kosse tightened his grip on “Revelation”, then roared furiously towards Han Shuo as he watched the white priests die.

“You asked for this! I’ve never offended your Church of Light. It is you who has relentlessly pursued me! Heh, any believers of the Church of Light who dares to offend me from now on, I’ll kill each one I see! I don’t believe that I can’t kill all of you,” Han Shuo yelled down coldly as he looked at the trembling Kosse as he floated proudly in the air.

“Shoot him down! Axes, spears, polearms, hurry!” Fass roared with a pained heart as he watched his subordinate being consumed by the sea of flames.

The remaining two bandit ballistae turned towards the fire elite zombie in the center of the sea of flames. Various sharp weapons also flew towards the fire elite zombie at the same time. The lotus armor on the fire elite zombie rang out multiple times as he manipulated the fire lotuses with complete abandon.

All sorts of arrows, blades, and swords that were shot at him were incinerated by the scorching flames before they even landed on the fire zombie. When they finally landed on him, not only were the impacts much weaker, it also became very difficult to use the penetrating ability of the sharpness of the missile due to the metal being melted. Adding on to the fact that the fire elite zombie naturally reconstructed its body after taking damaged, and its reconstructed body was quite tough, he did not take much damage.

However, even though the elite zombies of the five elements were nurtured in the five absolute elemental locations, the power in their bodies was not endless. Just as nothing possessed eternal power. After twenty to thirty lotus flames floated out of the fire elite zombie’s forehead, he also displayed his tired state and sent a signal to Han Shuo.

Han Shuo could clearly sense the fire elite zombie’s thoughts. The fire elite zombie was not yet mature and so would naturally feel tired after releasing so much power at once. Sparks flew everywhere the twenty to thirty lotus flames went, while the bandits, that were grazed by even a tiny spark, were burned to death.

Approximately three hundred burnt black corpses were forever fossilized on the ground. This had been caused by the fire elite zombie alone, who had not yet learned to fully control the power of the fire lotuses. Once the fire elite zombie matured enough to the point that it could control the fire lotus more adeptly, his deadliness would become infinitely more terrifying.

Furthermore, when the elite zombies of the five elements were born, each one of them would possess their own natural way of cultivating. That meant that the elite zombies of the five elements were at their weakest when they first emerged. Once they slowly ascended using their cultivation method, their strengths would gradually increase over time, and they would be able to use their natural talents and abilities with far more familiarity.

Han Shuo did not doubt that when the elite zombies of the fire elements evolved to the final stage, they would have the miraculous power of destroying the world. Furthermore, they would be able to form a formation as well. Since the water elite zombie was also being nurtured at the moment, Han Shuo would easily be able to practice setting up the formation once he created the most elusive metal elite zombie.

Having used up all of his energy in one go, the fire elite zombie was beginning to show signs of exhaustion. He disappeared amidst the raging flames in the other dimension with a wave of the skeletal staff in Han Shuo’s hand.

When the fire elite zombie disappeared, the fire lotuses gradually dispersed into the air after taking the lives of fifty more bandits due to losing their energy source.

The tragically screaming, crying, and dodging bandits all breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the life-reaping lotuses dissipate. They secretly cursed and criticized the boss in their hearts. What was “not too dangerous” here? The previously defenseless Brettel City had suddenly become a terrifying demon castle. Anything amazing or weird—this place had them all.

At this point, more than half of the six thousand Greenfire Bandits led by Fass had died in battle. Thirty-two hundred of them had died an explicable death, and roughly a thousand of those belonged to the elite troops.

Fass wanted to cry, but had no tears when he saw the corpses littering the ground. Brettel City was like a demon city that had exposed its fangs. It was a tireless killing machine constantly displaying its violence and brutality.

The elite bandits, who’d painstakingly climbed the Brettel City wall, were assaulted by the two strange undead creatures. They fell down one by one, breathing their last in mid-air while tumbling down.

That was to the credit of the little skeleton and wood elite zombie.

Fass had initially thought that the Red Archbishop would easily break through Brettel City’s defenses when the bane of necromancers – the Church of Light – appeared. Now that Fass saw the little skeleton and wood elite zombie easily slaughter the bandits after they mounted the city wall with great difficulty, while the former two capered beneath the holy light. Fass cursed eighteen generations of Kosse’s ancestors in his heart.

What natural nightmare of necromancers? What envoy of the Light on the Profound Continent? Complete bullshit!

The Red Archbishop and divine artifact “Revelation” combined can’t even purify a puny skeleton and a few zombies? You’ll be the death of us!

Fass cursed inwardly nonstop. He saw bandits spontaneously explode when enveloped by the drifting bloody mist emitting from the Bloodlust Flag. Then, he saw men and horses of Kosse’s team from the Church of Light unable to protect their own. Fass tried to think of a countermeasure in a hurry.

At this point, Fass had also figured that Brettel City was relying mostly on Han Shuo’s support alone. Too many brothers had died or retreated in dejection. If word of this spread, the fame of the Greenfire Bandits would fall into a bottomless abyss.

End of Part 1 of the chapter