"Whoosh!" The black-armored man standing on the rooftop loosed an arrow—it was a real arrow, but it flew as fast as a bullet. One Player was killed on the spot, while the other two were intercepted by the black-armored men chasing after them!
"Polite Bow!"
"The School Bell Rings!"
"Social Distancing!"
"Close Your Eyes When It Gets Dark!"
The two Players used items and Abilities in rapid succession, but only some of them worked. When they came to close quarters, their knives and swords clanged against the black-armored men as if striking metal!
The two Players immediately realized something was wrong, but with more black-armored men arriving, they had no chance to escape. Each was seized by two of them and dragged to the nearest Eye Offering. As the red light intensified and then faded, the two forced to meet its gaze lost their sanity in a very short time.
The two survivors returned to the group. The black-armored men carried off the dead one.
Xu Huo watched the black-armored men leave. The direction they were headed led to what was probably a huge palace, wider and taller than an ordinary building. But with the distance and the thick fog, he could make out only its rough outline.
The parade was heading that way, so it was easy to guess that the place couldn't be anything good.
He tossed the "Desert Windmill" to the ground and slipped into a nearby building as the sandstorm swept through. He kicked through two walls and made his way into the neighboring street, but before he could retrieve the item with the Kite String, rain suddenly began to fall from the sky, and the "Desert Windmill" instantly stopped working!
The black-armored men caught up. Xu Huo knew ordinary Abilities and items had no