Jack moved quickly.
After several consecutive enhancements, his body had long since surpassed the scope of a Level 5 Apprentice.
Now, facing these men in black, he no longer needed to cautiously probe them as before. He darted through the dim woods at high speed, like an evil spirit that could choose someone and devour them at any moment.
Every flash of his blade brought down another man in black.
At first, they were still roaring and firing, trying to use their numbers to surround Jack.
But bullet after bullet was knocked aside by his short blade. Before their gun muzzles could even be aimed again, Jack had already charged into the crowd and begun a slaughter.
Seeing Jack's terrifying combat strength, their formation quickly collapsed.
Some retreated, some turned and fled, while others cried out in terror, "Monster!"
But such actions were meaningless in Jack's eyes. While searching around tonight, he had already come across many students' temporary camps. Looking at the corpses inside, Jack felt no psychological burden at all about slaughtering the men in black before him.
The man in black who had tried to escape had barely rushed out a few steps before Jack caught up behind him.
The blade swept across the back of his neck. His head flew high into the air, while his headless body ran forward several more steps on inertia before finally pitching to the ground.
In merely a few minutes, the surroundings fell silent again.
Jack did not continue pursuing the fish that had slipped through the net and fled far away. Instead, he quickly found cover nearby and cleared out a small patch of ground. Skillfully carving a charging symbol, he placed all the Energy Stones he had collected along the way into it.
As the magic array activated,