Reincarnated Golden Emperor

Saito was rather excited as he stared at Brody coming at him. His grip on Nightfall sword tightened as he pulled it out from the sheath.

Brody was flying in front of Saito with Wind Magic. With no trace of emotion on his face, he spoke, "You should not have appeared here. A human truly managed to breach our formation. Looks like master needs to work more on it."

From the start, he didn't ask Saito about who he was and what he was doing here. For him, these sorts of questions were useless since he could guess Saito's motive. To rescue the prince and princess. As for the name, he simply didn't care enough to ask the name.

Without even replying. Saito charged towards him with his Nightfall Sword, not giving him a chance to use any of the Golden Dragon Bloodline skills.

Right now, Brody's physique was frail as compared to Saito's frame. However, Brody didn't look worried when he saw Saito charging at him with the sword.

Even though he felt that this sword was somewhat threatening. He continued to maintain his calm expression before he flew back, dodging the first strike from Saito.

Brody managed to narrowly dodge the first strike of Saito before he rushed towards Saito while throwing a punch on his gut.

Contrary to what he expected. He felt as if his punch had been struck on a hard object which was impossible to shake. He didn't expect that Saito's physique surpassed his own by such a considerable degree.

He understood that to deal with Saito, he would need to use his Bloodline Skills from the start. He flew back and tried to calm his body before he was about to use the Golden Dragon's Divine Strength.

Obviously, Saito noticed his movements and sent a stream of Blood Red Lightning towards him. Brody was interrupted by this stream of lightning as it hit him on his arm.

His eyes widened when he noticed a part of his arm was destroyed along with the small part of the arm bone.

There was a smile under that cloth as he stared at the damage just a thin stream of this Blood Red Lightning had managed to do.

The blood gushed out of the wound and Brody instinctively tried to cover it to prevent the blood from flowing out. At that time, Saito suddenly appeared in front of him and whispered softly, "Dance of the Fire God: Vertical Slash!"

As he slashed down vertically with high speed. His Pitch-Black-colored Nightfall Sword passed through Brody's arm which was trying to cover his other one.

The arm fell to the ground. Brody wasn't too far off as Saito kicked his head and the force caused Brody to also start moving towards the ground at a quick speed.

Brody tried to use the Wind Magic to control his speed of fall. Saito knew that if this guy managed to use the skill of his Bloodline, then the fight would drag on unless he also used a trace of his full power.

He was unwilling to use his real power here. Which was why his body flashed with very darkish red color, and he kicked Brody's back at a heaven-defying speed.

Brody felt as if his spine had just been crushed into pieces. Even if the Clan Head wanted to save him, he needed to pay a huge price to do so.

After his spine was crushed and he couldn't move or control his body. Saito finally started to speak, "Hmm… This should be enough. You are Ranked 5 in the whole clan. Other than the Clan head and Deputy Clan Head, you should be the strongest or second strongest in the clan. I guess you should have contacts with the Deputy Clan Head or the Clan head."

Brody weakly asked him, "Since you know that I am Rank 5… Why do you think I am the strongest or second strongest if we remove the Clan Head and Deputy Clan Head?"

Saito had a cold smirk under his cloth as he thought 'Because I was the one who killed your Rank 3…'

"You don't seem to realize the situation you are in. I simply wanted to send a message to the Clan Head and Deputy Clan Head through you. Tell them to release the Prince and Princess of the Vermillion Kingdom without any harm or else, I will destroy the Illusion Formation and spread your location all around the world. You and your clan should understand the result after that, right?" His eyes were sharp as he said this to Brody.

Even Brody felt a chill as he heard Saito's words. He knew that if the Formation was destroyed, the Demons in the world wouldn't hesitate before attacking them.

The Sea Dragon Clan was quite some distance away from their Sea God Race which was currently fighting a war against Crown Prince Dante and the Dwarf Kingdom.

This was also the reason why he first had Crimson become the king of the Sea Dragons in the Dragon Valley. Even if they don't accept him as their new king within the next few days, there shall be no issue in obeying the order to change their territories. The fact that the food was getting scant, and there was hardly anything healthy or tasty here would be easily able to convince them.

With no chance of escape. Either they could fight or compromise with his condition. He didn't know which one would the Clan Head choose. Both were within his favor. If somehow the Clan head was angered because of Saito's scheme and killed the hostages, Saito could spread their location to Demon Lords and destroy this clan.

He didn't really care much about whether the hostages lived or not. If they died, he could very well return and inform the Emperor that the other party was too crazy and proud to compromise. It wasn't his fault which was indeed the case.

Anyone with half a brain would compromise in such a situation but Saito wasn't so sure about these brutes.

Even the Emperor wouldn't be able to find fault with Saito after that. If they compromised then Saito was planning on letting the prince and princess return to the Vermillion Kingdom before making his move against them.

With a smirk on his face, Saito thought 'Now… what will you choose? Will you compromise or will you fight?'

Saito was rather proud now that he had managed to trap this Sea Dragon Clan in this situation. He could already see what they will do next. His excitement seemed to know no bounds now.

Before flying away, he left the message with Brody, "I will contact you tomorrow. Tell me if your Clan Head or the Deputy Clan Head is willing to let go of the hostages or not."

After saying that, he flew away leaving Brody there lying on the ground with a pathetic look.

Brody couldn't believe that this fight was over as soon as he was about to start fighting seriously. It was like the Opponent knew what he was up to and he was ready for it. A very strange terror started to rise within his heart as he thought about the previous question, he had asked Saito.

'Is… Is it possible…? Is he the one…? The one… who killed the Chaser Brothers!' As soon as this thought emerged within his mind, he understood why he was left alive.

This human had no intentions of having a fight. He simply wanted some high-ranked person to deliver a message for him. He couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva as he imagined the extent of Saito's power.

To deal with a member of the Sea Dragon Clan so quickly and so effortlessly. Just who was this human who had appeared in their territory. Another thing he was shocked as he thought more about it was how did this human even enter the territory without alerting the Deputy Clan Head.

As he remembered the message Saito had told him to give either the Deputy Clan Head or the Clan head. He slowly understood everything…

He realized that there was no time to waste. If Saito grew tired of waiting then he would just spread the information regardless of the consequences. Since he was already within the territory, it wouldn't take a long time for him to find the two of them. He could take them from the midst of chaos with Sea Dragon Clan being none the wiser.

He looked down at the pendant he had worn. It was the pendant handed to all the Top 10 ranked people within the Sea Dragon Clan. If a constant stream of magic energy was sent through it for 3-4 seconds then he would be able to give his position to the Deputy Clan Head as long as he was within the Illusion Formation and request for reinforcements.

He felt quite helpless since he wasn't even able to stand against Saito for 3-4 seconds. Besides, he wasn't even planning to use this pendant from the start.. After all, this was just a one-time charm. Who would use such a precious pendant right from the start?