As soon as he had demanded it, Stan unleashed his demi-immortal energy. That caused a dust storm to instantly kick up around the area. Of course, nearly all the energy surged at Ricky and the others like a deadly serpent once it left Stan's body.
Soar could not sit back under those circumstances. A surge of red energy burst out of his long and slim body and charged at Stan's energy serpent. Once the two forces met, the red one turned into a giant shield that stopped the blast and devoured Stan's violent attack.
"Kristen, Tyson, take every one with you and get to safety! We will cover you!" Ricky called out.
Hearing his words, Kristen did not try to argue. She gathered the other members of the Manor Gang and distanced themselves from the battle ground at once. She knew that there was literally nothing they could do to help in this kind of fight. They could only watch and wish Ricky and Soar the best of luck.
Surely, many members of the Manor Gang were worried about Soar being up there though. What if Soar ran away in the chaos?.
"It seems to me that you are unwilling to pay the ransom to get your son and the other Arhat Palace men back," Ricky responded to Stan's request coldly. Standing on the city wall, he looked at the leader of the Arhat Palace defiantly.
"Look at yourself. You are nothing more than a third grade of Bone Reinforcement warrior. I wonder what you can really do without that demi-immortal beast. This is the Chaotic Region, so how dare you challenge me like this?" Stan was further enraged by what Ricky said.
"You bastard!" he continued to curse at Soar, "I could forget everything that has happened today if you went back to your dirty mountain. Or else, I will turn you into an ordinary animal if I don't kill you by accident for what you've done!"
"Ha ha ha, I beg your pardon? You are merely a human! What harm do you think you can do to me?" Soar answered in disdain. Stan was talking to Soar rudely, but he didn't take it to heart. He was not afraid of the man at all.
Now all the people present knew who the legendarily strong warrior from the Manor Gang was. It was not a human being, but a kind of demi-immortal snake creature.
That fact surprised them all a lot.
They knew that Ricky was strong and powerful, but they never expected that a demi-immortal beast would ever be willing to answer to his orders. What kind of person could tame a high level beast like that? Wasn't it evident enough that Ricky was no ordinary person?
The more they thought it over, the more they admired and envied Ricky. .
"You are right. I am a human being, so I have to remind you that this is my place and not yours!" Stan replied dryly, hatred filling his eyes.
"And you," he turned back to Ricky and said, "you are also a human, yet you are fooling around and killing your own kind with the help of a beast! You will be damned to hell for that!"
Stan was apparently an old fox. He was trying to paint Ricky as an enemy of mankind in just a few words to turn others against him.
"Ha ha! I'm so disappointed!" Ricky simply laughed out loud at Stan's desperate words.
"I had thought that the leader of the Arhat Palace was at worst a villain who called himself a hero, but it seems that you are even worse than that. You are merely a hypocrite who likes to act uppity and use fancy words to try and manipulate people," Ricky sniffed. "Now I understand, someone like you obviously loves money more than your son or your men."
There was a metallic ringing sound that cut across the battlefield suddenly.
Ricky drew his Iron Destroyer quickly, and made a thrust for Nathan, who was pretending to have lost consciousness earlier.
The sly and cowardly young man, when sensed that Ricky was pointing his sword at him, hurried to his feet and cried out to Stan, saying, "Help! Father, help me!"
"Stop, you evil creature! How dare you!" Stan shouted at Ricky as he saw what he was doing, nearly jumping to his feet. As he bellowed, he gathered the fierce blood-black spiritual energy around his body and formed a huge palm. The palm moved swiftly like a dark cloud. It flew at Ricky and tried to get hold of him.
All men, good or bad, rarely treated their own children badly. So, even though Stan was a vicious man, he would not stand by while someone was trying to kill his own son.
Unfortunately, his full force strike was blocked and destroyed by a fireball from Soar. Hot waves were sent out by the collision, so Stan raised his hand to fend off the shock waves that came at him.
He didn't see how it had happened, but when he looked back, a red gash had appeared on Nathan's neck. There was shock and fear on his face as the boy fell to the ground and stopped breathing.
Truth be told, Ricky took Nathan hostage, not for the money, but to lure Stan to the Manor Gang's castle. Now that Stan was standing in front of them, Nathan was of no use to him anymore. So, he thought that he might as well kill him and save all the trouble.
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