Eerie

The guards before Marquis Ning's residence nervously retreated several steps, forming a wary line as they all drew their weapons at once.

Lin Qi coughed lightly and sauntered out of the carriage, sneering softly. "Your Highness, it seems not many people are listening to you."

After being needled by Lin Qi, and seeing the gleaming weapons in the guards' hands, Ying Qin's eyes instantly turned bloodshot. He howled himself hoarse, "Kill them! Kill every last one of them! Exterminate their nine kinships—exterminate all nine kinships!"

The hundred-odd Imperial Guards in golden armor standing beside the carriage simultaneously seized the heavy crossbows slung across their backs. With a buzzing twang, each crossbow unleashed twelve heavy bolts like a swarm of maddened hornets. Lin Qi's eyelid twitched. Twelve-shot repeating crossbows—this already surpassed the highest standard of military equipment in all the empires of the Western Continent.

The pitiful guards of Marquis Ning's residence had not even understood what was happening before over a thousand heavy bolts sent them flying. Their bodies were torn apart by the terrifying bolts. A faint radiance rippled over the main gates of Marquis Ning's residence, pale silver light flowing across them as the entire gate became as brilliant and eye-catching as if cast from pure silver.

The heavy bolts struck the gates with terrifying booms. Lin Qi's mouth twitched again. The force carried by these bolts was astonishingly powerful, half again as strong as the magical heavy crossbows of the Western Continent. Moreover, every bolt was carved with dense runes. The instant they struck the gates, they exploded one after another, shooting forth dazzling light.

Amid a thunderous CRACK, the gates of Marquis Ning's residence exploded, along with the entire gatehouse, blasted into rubble. Even a section of the surrounding wall over ten meters long on either