Talented Martial Hero novel Chapter 1046

After he massacred a dozen guards, thousands of low-level fiends began to appear behind the terrifying first fiend ancestor.

Although they were of low-level status, the fiends were far from weak. Every individual fiend was more powerful than any of the guards.

"Slaughter," ordered the first fiend ancestor menacingly.

The low-level fiends pounced at the given order. They rushed into battle, bloodlust smeared on their faces.

"Ancestor, shall we collect souls as well?" asked a low-level fiend in a unique language.

The first fiend ancestor glared coldly in reply. The low-level fiend who dared speak twisted from extreme pain and let out an anguished cry before turning into a puddle.

There was no patience for stupid questions for the first fiend ancestor. The other low-level fiends who witnessed this trembled with fear and immediately understood what to do. Human souls were naturally very useful to their ancestor so it was obvious that they needed to be collected.

They simultaneously flew into the air, causing a wave of darkness as they blotted out the sky and the sun. Several panicked screams and cries burst from the city as they were engulfed in the darkness.

"I come with a report!"

A guard burst through the doors of a great hall, staggering to the ground as he trembled from what he needed to inform them about.

"Terrible news! The Deer City has been overrun with fiends. Hundreds of thousands of casualties have been reported."

"What?"

gasped the four greatest holy warriors. The shock in their voices gave away a sense of panic.

Just moments before, they had gone to patrol the city in the east. It was out of their calculations for the Deer City down south to be attacked.

That was hundreds of thousands of civilians, most of which were some of the greatest minds and warriors of the human race!

Gulping down their mourning, the four greatest holy warriors summoned seventeen Governors and hurried to the Deer City. There was no time for remorse. They had to face the fiends quickly to protect the other cities.

Their arrival was met with desecration. The Deer City was in chaos. The buildings had collapsed, and the air was putrid from rot and blood. The smell of death was all over.

The streets were painted with blood as severed arms and legs were strewn around the city. It was a bloodbath.

The Governor of the Deer City fell to his knees as he cried in anguish.

His wife and children were all residing in the city.

"I'll kill them! I'll kill them all!" he cried.

His eyes were scarlet with pain and rage as he started throwing random attacks into the air.

"Where are the fiends?" asked Francis with a downcast look.

"Sir, they seem to have retreated."

Several strong cultivators who had witnessed the massacre from the sidelines reported that after the fiends had killed everyone in the city, they retreated like a massive tide.

"No! This cannot be!" The faces of the four greatest holy warriors turned pale. The fiends' retreat could only have meant one thing.

"They must've gone off to another city to continue their murderous rampage. We must split up and guard the cities. Once we find any traces of these fiends, we must immediately inform each other," Francis instructed his companions. Then he flew off alone in one direction.

The other three greatest holy warriors, along with the Governors, returned to their own cities to keep watch for the terrifying wave of fiends.

Back in the Holy City, Darren was isolated in a secret chamber. To ensure Darren could stay focused and successfully create the array they needed, they sealed the chamber with another array to ensure that none could enter.

Darren was trying his best to utilize his talent and observe the patterns of the big and complex array.

He had to admit that the Heavenly Exterminating Array was quite a challenge to understand. It required the mysterious Universe Rule along with hundreds of thousands of forces of heaven and earth. Given even the power of his avatar, it would've been impossible to create such a great array in a short span of time. It would have taken at least ten thousand years or more.

'The witcher ancestor is truly powerful. Could his creating ability be stronger than my avatar's?' Darren marveled in mind.

It had been said that the array was created by both the witcher ancestor and Hiram the Great. This seemed odd to Darren since only rule cultivators or those who practiced something like rules had the ability to create them. This could only mean that the array was mainly created by the witcher ancestor.

It took Darren several hours to use his Spiritual Domain Degree talent to finally observe a pattern in the array. Those hours spent were simply observing, too. If he wanted to actually create it, he'd have to have given it thousands of more hours of his time.

Of course, this was because Darren was a martial artist cultivator. If his rule soul had not been separated, this process would've been much faster.

After studying a dozen of patterns, Darren began to feel a little tired. He rubbed his eyes and tried to shake himself awake. Time was of the essence.