Slaying the Horse Bandits

At the Bald Man's gesture, a band of horse bandits clad entirely in red, wielding Horse Chopping Sabers and radiating fierce, valiant auras, roared as they charged viciously toward Yang Feng's convoy.

As soon as the Bald Man moved, the horse bandits from the various factions also spurred their horses forward under their respective leaders' orders, charging at Yang Feng.

"Kill him! Whoever takes his head, I'll reward with 3,000 Gold Coins!!"

"Kill him!! Whoever kills him and brings me his head, I'll reward with 1,000 Gold Coins!"

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The Horse Bandit Leaders roared loudly, offering one sky-high bounty after another, stirring the scum and vermin under their command into excited howls.

One Gold Coin could roughly be exchanged for 2,000 Copper Coins. One thousand Gold Coins meant 2 million Copper Coins. Many minor noble Lineages did not even possess 1,000 Gold Coins in liquid funds. Those 1,000 Gold Coins were enough to let the horse bandits retire outright and live out their remaining years in wealth.

Gael and the other young noble men and women watched the horse bandits surge toward them like a tide blotting out the sky. Their bodies trembled, and fear flashed through their eyes.

On the Durando Subcontinent, nobles were basically descendants of Warlocks, and the culture prized martial prowess. Many noble Lineages possessed inherited cultivation methods of Knight-level. Gael and the other young nobles had all received martial training, and quite a few had the strength of Low-level Warriors. Yet when they saw the horse bandits flooding toward them like an overwhelming tide, their hearts were still filled with shock and fear.

Yang Feng said coldly, "Slaughter them all. There's no need to deliberately leave any prisoners!"

A thousand Blade Soldiers wore expressionless faces as they marched forward in neat, uniform steps to meet the horse bandits.

The vast mass of horse bandits quickly crashed fiercely into the thousand attacking Blade Soldiers.

In the next instant, countless limbs flew through the air. Hundreds upon hundreds of horse bandits, horses and riders alike, were cleaved in two by the Mechanical Swordsmen wielding Alloy Battle Blades.

The horse bandits who had already begun their charge could not evade in time. They still surged forward one after another toward the Mechanical Swordsmen, only to be sliced in half by those expressionless machines, like pigs and dogs delivering themselves to the slaughter.

When the horse bandits at the rear saw that hellish scene, they were scared witless and scattered in all directions on horseback.

The thousand Mechanical Swordsmen suddenly exerted force, their engines pushed to maximum output. At speeds surpassing horses, they launched a countercharge at the horse bandits, swinging their Alloy Battle Blades and cutting one horse bandit after another in half.

Gael exclaimed sincerely, "What terrifying Mechanical Puppets! Steel City's Mechanical Puppet Legion truly lives up to its reputation!!"

More than ten thousand horse bandits were actually being hunted down by a mere thousand Mechanical Swordsmen. It was simply unbelievable. Even a Knight-level expert would find it difficult to catch up to a horse bandit riding at full speed. Yet these Mechanical Swordsmen easily pursued the horse bandits and cleaved them in two with a single slash. Such combat strength was downright horrifying.

Miserable screams echoed across the Hunter Fang Wasteland. Every moment, hundreds or thousands of horse bandits were cut in half. Blood dyed this wasteland red.

"Save me!! Save me!!" After the Bald Man, the horse bandit leader with the cultivation of an Earth Knight, cut down several of his own subordinates and escaped the encirclement of the Mechanical Swordsmen on horseback, he suddenly saw 128 Mechanical Swordsmen closing in around him. His soul nearly flew from his body as he screamed desperately.

The 128 Mechanical Swordsmen stared coldly as they pounced directly at the Bald Man.

Twelve Mechanical Swordsmen leaped high into the air, jumping toward the space above the Bald Man.

"I'll fight you to the death!!" The Bald Man let out an enraged roar, instantly drawing out every last ounce of potential from his body. His Horse Chopping Saber flashed thirty times in succession, hacking madly at the bodies of the Mechanical Swordsmen.

Eight Mechanical Swordsmen were cut into more than a dozen pieces in an instant.

At the same time, those dozen-plus Alloy Battle Blades completely sealed off the Bald Man's avenues of escape. They struck his body in an instant, chopping him directly into countless fragments.

Bard watched the scene from afar, his scalp tingling as his heart filled with relief. Hundred-Man Slayer Mark is dead too! These Mechanical Puppets are so powerful!

Hundred-Man Slayer Mark was one of the strongest horse bandits on the Hunter Fang Wasteland, as well as one of the few Earth Knights. His combat strength was second only to Griya's. His most famous battle was the one where he single-handedly killed more than a hundred enemies, earning himself the ferocious title of Hundred-Man Slayer. Yet now, this was one of the strongest horse bandit chiefs, and after killing only a dozen or so Mechanical Swordsmen, he had been dismembered. Bard gained an entirely new understanding of the Mechanical Legion's power.

In truth, the greater the number of the Mechanical Legion, the stronger their combat power became. In a one-on-one fight, the odds between a Mechanical Swordsman and a Knight-level expert were fifty-fifty. But if a hundred Mechanical Swordsmen faced a hundred Knight-level warriors, those hundred Mechanical Swordsmen could utterly crush the hundred Knight-level warriors. That was because the Mechanical Swordsmen coordinated flawlessly, feared no death, possessed formidable defenses, and had few and tiny weak points. They could fight life for life without hesitation. Human Knight-level warriors did not possess such capabilities.

Great masses of horse bandits had their courage shattered by the Mechanical Swordsmen. Without looking back, they spurred their horses and fled this hell-like battlefield.

The remaining horse bandits also realized they had been tricked. They all reined in their horses and hesitated, unable to advance or retreat.

Suddenly, within a patch of grass two hundred meters behind Yang Feng, space twisted slightly. A Black-Robed Man wrapped in a black robe appeared abruptly, pointed at Yang Feng, and fired a Level-1 fireball directly at him.

The Level-1 spell, Fireball Spell, was also immensely powerful. Even a Sky Knight-level expert had only one road to death if directly struck by that Level-1 fireball.

A mortal like Yang Feng would be burned to death in an instant if the fireball so much as touched any part of his body.

At that critical moment, two Level-5 Shield Soldiers standing constantly beside Yang Feng raised the shields in their hands. Light flickered faintly over the shields, and two transparent protective barriers suddenly enveloped the space before Yang Feng.

Boom!!

The Level-1 fireball exploded instantly, blasting ripples across the two transparent protective barriers.

Gael looked at the Black-Robed Man and cried out in terror, "Invisibility Spell! Fireball Spell! That's a Warlock! A formal Warlock!!"

The other young noble men and women also revealed traces of terror in their eyes.

A formal Level-1 Warlock on the Durando Subcontinent, so long as he was not in a place where Warlocks gathered like the Antalya Warlock Academy, was absolutely a great figure capable of dominating an entire region. A Level-1 Warlock could kill mortals like Gael with ease. Without the protection of those two Level-5 Shield Soldiers, that Level-1 fireball alone would already have blown Yang Feng to pieces.