The Messenger of Death

The lieutenant of the 9th platoon is a buff heavy man, standing at the height of 7ft. He stood up from the log of wood that he was sitting on.

"Who are you?" He asked with a husky voice.

Lex giggled at his question. "The delivery man."

-Twang!

-Whoosh!

Lex let go of the last arrow in his hand. He shot it at the lieutenant.

"Foolish!!" The lieutenant bellowed Lex. He caught the arrow before it could hit his chest.

"Do you think you can hurt me with your mediocre Archery skills?" He broke the arrow in his hand.

Lex faked a shocked expression. "Oh no, you're – you're strong. What have I gotten myself into?" Lex purposely stuttered as he began to take steps backward. Making it seem like he was scared and trying to escape the place.

The soldiers of the 9th platoon held their weapons close and surrounded Lex.

'Just a nascent realm cultivator.' The lieutenant probed into Lex's core.

"You have the uniform of the army on, and you look like a subordinate of mine. But you are not my man, tell me which regiment are you from and I might just make your death a quick one."

The brute lieutenant began to head towards Lex, he was a bit tipsy so his steps were somewhat unsteady.

"Psyche." Lex's scared countenance changed back to his wicked grin.

"Huh?" The lieutenant looked at Lex he was going crazy, wondering why he has grinning.

-Vnn.

Another arrow appeared in front of the lieutenant, aiming for his heart.

-Thud!

The lieutenant caught the arrow immediately with a stunned expression on his face. He stared at the arrow in his hands and looked at Lex once.

'I clearly didn't see him shoot any other arrow, how did another one appear? Does he have someone helping him in the Shadows? I'm not that drunk.' The lieutenant thought to himself.

"How did you- "

-Blech!

The lieutenant wasn't able to complete his sentence, he felt a piercing pain in his throat that started from one side of his neck and extended to the other side.

There was an arrow in his neck now and he didn't know, when or how it happened. The arrow was one of the ones that Lex shot earlier before he revealed himself.

Lex chuckled at his bewildered expression. He licked his lower lips.

-Vnn.

The last arrow appeared from behind the lieutenant and penetrated his heart from behind.

-Blech!

Blood trickled down the sides of his lips as he looked down at his chest…

-Thud!

The lieutenant dropped to the floor and died.

"Captain!!" His men cried.

"Hehehe." Lex cackled at their cries.

"Kill the bastard!!!" One of the soldiers cried out.

"Atta-"

Before the soldier could finish speaking, one of the ends of the bow in Lex's hand was forced into his mouth.

Lex raised the bow a bit and forced the man's jaw open, he placed his hand in the man's mouth and pulled at his lower jaw.

-Tear!!

He popped his lower jaw out and tore the man's face in two.

Blood squirted on his face.

The bow in Lex's hand now had several teeth edged in it.

"Arrgh!!"

Another soldier cried out in anger as he ran towards him. He slashed his sword at him when he was within his range of attack.

Lex quickly docked and dodged the slash. Before he got up, he picked a bottle of alcohol that was lying on the floor.

"I'll kill you!!" The man shouted as he charged at Lex for the second time.

Lex threw the bottle in his hand at the man.

The soldier raised his sword and made an attempt to hit the bottle away from his view. But as soon as his blade was inches away from the bottle, it vanished and reappeared in front of his face.

-Crunch!!

It hit his head and broke. The soldier quickly used his cloth to clean the alcohol on his eyes.

"Watch out!" He heard his comrade warn and soon he opened his eyes. By the time he did that, it was already too late, Lex was right in front of him.

He smacked the side of the soldier's head with the wooden bow in his hand. The force was so strong that the bow broke.

-Squish! Squish!!

Lex used the broken edge of the bow to stab the man's throat then he stabbed his head and left the bow there.

"Don't die now, more… please," Lex whispered as he watched the man he just stabbed fall to the ground.

['Creepy.'] Alex commented.

"How!!?? He's just an early-stage nascent realm cultivator and they were late-stage nascent realm cultivators but he killed them like it was nothing." One of the soldiers pointed out and all the nascent realm cultivators left, began to fear Lex.

"You guys step back and let us disaster realm cultivators take care of this bastard. He was able to catch the captain off guard, he doesn't look like an easy kill too." A mid-stage disaster realm cultivator of the 9th platoon stepped forward and so did the other mid-stage disaster realm cultivators, 15 of them. They lined up in front of Lex.

"Don't die, early. Please don't." Lex whispered time after time and as he did his bloodlust increased exponentially. His killing intent began to make them feel nervous, they began to sweat bit by bit.

An eerie silence filled the air as the tension between the two sides increased.

['Lex, you are creeping me out with what you're chanting.'] Alex stated but Lex was too crazed to hear him at the moment.

"Let's skin the bastard!!" One of them screamed out before 8 of them charged at him at the same time. They all had a lance as their primary weapon.

They thrust the blade of their lance at Lex all at the same time.

"Don't die, don't die… don't." Lex continued to chant as the blades of the lance approached him.

"Hahaha, Die!!" His attitude changed when the blades almost reached him.

He jumped and skillfully dodged the attacks, despite his attempt to dodge he was still scratched by the blades of his opponents.

"Die, die, and die!!" Lex charged at them.

Many of them lost their cool because of Lex's attitude. They have met suicide killers but not a madman. The same 8 people that attacked him the first time attacked again.

"Hehehehe!!" Lex cackled as he jumped over their heads. And landed in their midst.

Seeing that he was within their reach, all the mid-stage disaster realm cultivators attacked him at the same time.

Standing in the middle of 15 people and watching as the blades of their lance tear through the air aiming at him, Lex still had a crazed smile on his face.

"Die." He uttered.

-Vnnn.

Spatial holes opened up and the 15 blades went through them.

-Vnnn!!

Simultaneously, the blades appeared behind his opponents and they penetrated the backs of each and every one of them. Each blade went through the person holding the lance.

It was mass suicide from another point of view. They fell to the ground one by one.

['Lex is overpowered, and scary.'] Al mentioned as quietly as he could

-Crack!!

Every single lance that was still in the spatial hole broke when Lex closed them.

Lex giggled.

"Die!! Die!!" He began to sing as he kicked the dead bodies on the floor.

"Argh!!! Run for your life, he a monster!!!" A nascent realm soldier shouted in fear as he began to scurry away. For an early-stage nascent real cultivator to kill a late-stage and mid-stage disaster realm cultivators, it was something unheard of in the lower plain realm.

They were all terrified of Lex now.

['Lex, it's my turn now. All that's left are nascent realm cultivators, I can take them on.'] Alex said.

Lex turned and faced the 11 people left, they had already started running for their dear lives.

"Die?" Lex cocked his head to the side as he brought out the silver spear from his storage ring.

-Whoosh!!

He disappeared from where he was. With his bloodline ability and weapon Dao, Lex was as strong as a rank-2 disaster realm cultivator.

['Lex!!'] Alex called out but he got no reply from him.

He appeared in front of two nascent realm soldiers that were running in the same direction.

"Don't run away, let's play." Lex's tone was cheerful like he was doing something innocent.

-Bang!

-Squish!

He used the blunt side of the blade to slap the face of the soldier by his left, then stabbed the one by his right in his stomach.

The first one died due to the force of the hit.

"Let's play!!"

Lex sang as he appeared in front of other soldiers that were running away for their lives. Out of the 11 that remained, he had killed 8. 

He appeared in front of his 9th victim and sliced his throat open.

-Whoosh!

He threw the spear at his 10th victim and it flew until it hit the man and nailed him to the ground.

['Lex!!!'] Alex called out furiously this time, but Lex was too absorbed in killing that he didn't hear Alex call him again.

Lex appeared behind his last victim and caught his two hands from behind.

-Crack!!

"Arrghh!!!" The man cried out in agony as his shoulders were dislocated from the way Lex grabbed him.

His scream wasn't enough to satisfy Lex, he proceeded to drag the soldier closer and he used his knee to hit his spine point-blank.

-Crack!!

The man's spine broke. It was so painful that he couldn't afford to make a sound this time. His mouth was left hanging and his eyes rolling.

Lex then broke the man's shoulder, and elbow and forced it closer to his neck. He started to use the broken hand to wrap the man's neck and at the same time strangling his victim.

"Mer-cy… Mer…"

The soldier found it very hard to talk or breathe. The skin, meat, tendons, muscles, and Cloth on his hand started to tear the more Lex pulled. Finally, his hand tore off his shoulder and blood gushed out immediately.

Lex inserted his middle finger into the soldier's ear and forced it in until it hit the man's brain and killed him.

-Thud!!

He let the body drop to the ground.