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One after another, their people fell, while the enemy remained completely unharmed.

Seeing this, a Barbarian Blood Warrior immediately shouted.

"Don't fight it up close! Stay away and attack with bows and spears!"

Barbarians skilled in hunting naturally had plenty of experts with throwing spears and bows, while more barbarians continuously rushed over from the rear.

Soon, several people drew their longbows, nocked bloodstained arrows, and fired at the evil creature.

But the creature's swordsmanship was simply superb. It constantly darted through the ranged attacks, dodging most of them. As for those it could not evade, it blocked them with the Black Umbrella in its hand.

It could only be said that encountering such a highly skilled Sword Art Master was a nightmare for the village.

While evading the arrows, the monster charged toward the barbarians wielding bows.

If it killed the patrolling barbarians and rushed into the village, everything would become dangerous.

Yet even when barbarians tried to step forward and stop it, it was useless. Its masterful swordsmanship allowed the evil creature to easily wound, or even kill, the barbarians.

But just as the evil creature was about to reach the barbarians holding bows, a figure emerged from the side and blocked its path. It was Lu Chen.

Although Lu Chen had been forced back by a single thrust earlier, his heart heavily injured by strange energy, and had even struck himself to cough up a mouthful of blood, his powerful physique allowed him to recover after resting only briefly.

Yet even before the recovered Lu Chen, the creature remained unmoved. Its charging figure did not pause in the slightest.

At the same time, the Black Umbrella in its hand remained ready to open at any moment. It intended to repeat its old trick, obscuring Lu Chen's vision and leaving his brute strength with nowhere to be used.

After all, no matter how great one's strength was, it was useless if one could not hit the target.

In response, Lu Chen, whose face was still somewhat pale, bared his teeth in a vicious grin.

"You move as swiftly as the wind, and your sword strikes are unpredictable. You look more like a Sword Art Master than I do. But assassins like you fear control skills the most!"

As the evil creature rushed toward him, Lu Chen abruptly narrowed his eyes. Then, a powerful pressure suddenly spread out in all directions from him.

Golden-tier Skill—Conqueror's Haki

Under that overbearing pressure, the air fell silent in an instant, followed by the repeated sounds of bodies collapsing around him.

Those were barbarian warriors who could not withstand Lu Chen's imposing aura and fell to the ground. With beginner-level Conqueror's Haki, Lu Chen was still unable to control it.

However, the large number of barbarians collapsing at once showed just how powerful Lu Chen's Conqueror's Haki was.

The evil creature before Lu Chen did not faint outright, but being targeted by his Haki did not leave it unscathed. Its speeding body staggered, and the Black Umbrella slipped weakly from its hand and fell to the ground.

It had been intimidated by Lu Chen's Haki, though only for an instant.

But that instant was enough for Lu Chen.

The longsword he had been holding high came crashing down with all his strength.

At the same time, as he swung down, Lu Chen's body inexplicably expanded by a size, and all the power within him gathered together.

Endless Rage

Fatal Blow

Ever since the battle began, as his clansmen fell, the anger in Lu Chen's heart had been continuously building. When the evil creature charged just now, Lu Chen had raised his sword high to accumulate power for Fatal Blow.

Using Conqueror's Haki to intimidate and control the enemy, then activating Endless Rage and unleashing Fatal Blow—this was Lu Chen's strongest attack.

He dared to guarantee that even a Barbarian Body Warrior could not withstand a single blow from him.

And reality proved Lu Chen's guess.

Under Lu Chen's terrifying strike, the isolated evil creature was smashed into fragments in one blow.

And the destructive power of Lu Chen's strongest attack did not end there.

After crushing the evil creature into dust, the iron sword carried its endless momentum into the ground.

With a thunderous BOOM, Lu Chen instantly smashed a pit three meters across into the ground, while cracks spread five or six meters ahead of him.

In one blow, the evil creature had become fragments, and even the earth had split apart. Such was the power of Endless Rage combined with Fatal Blow.

Seeing the destruction he had caused, Lu Chen smiled in satisfaction.

Behind Lu Chen, the gathered barbarians finally began to regain consciousness.

But when they awoke and saw the pit before Lu Chen, as well as the cracks stretching five or six meters away, their hearts were filled with shock.

"So strong."

"As expected of the genius favored by the Witch Doctor Master."

"Wonderful, the evil creature is dead. The Witch Doctor Master was right—having someone like him protect us will make our village much safer."

"Our ancestors have blessed us. I thought we were dead for sure this time."

Ignoring the others' shock and relief at surviving the disaster, Lu Chen rested the iron sword on his shoulder and looked at the evil creature that had been reduced to dust, a vicious grin on his lips.

"Don't use the same trick on me twice!"

With that, Lu Chen prepared to leave and rest for a while. But just as he turned around, he suddenly remembered something, and a chill abruptly filled his heart.

Likewise, the barbarians watching Lu Chen went from shock and joy to terror, and shouts rang out in front of him.

"A'Chen, watch out, that evil spirit..."

"Watch out..."

The others were shouting, and Lu Chen jolted awake as well.

"The system didn't give a prompt. That evil spirit isn't dead."

Thinking of the evil spirit that had been smashed completely to pieces, then hearing the other barbarians cry out in alarm, Lu Chen truly felt miserable.

"Damn, it's tenacious as hell. I could accept the Human Head Fireball reforming after being scattered—it was an element, after all. But you're a physical entity. How can you recover too? Blood Rebirth? That's way too bugged."

Though he grumbled inwardly, the sudden chill and the barbarian villagers' cries made Lu Chen whirl around.

"I hope this evil spirit needs to gather itself together to revive, just like that Human Head Fireball. That way, I'll still have a little time. Otherwise, this will be troublesome."

With that thought in mind, Lu Chen hoped the evil spirit would have to reassemble itself. That way, before it finished gathering, he could scatter it once more.

But when he turned around, Lu Chen found that the evil spirit's fragments were still lying there intact, showing no signs of recovering.

That left Lu Chen completely bewildered.

"What's going on? That evil spirit hasn't recovered!"

Just as Lu Chen was startled, the barbarians' shouts from ahead finally reached his ears.

"A'Chen, watch your head!"

"Above me?"

Looking up, Lu Chen suddenly discovered that the sky had darkened. No—it was not that the sky had darkened. Something was looming over him, blocking out the sky above his head.

Lu Chen was not stupid. The instant he saw that black object, he understood everything.

"Damn it, I got it wrong. This time, the evil spirit isn't that strange man—it's this Black Umbrella. That strange man was only a puppet controlled by the Black Umbrella."

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