Mission in Progress

"Enemy attack!"

"Enemy attack!"

A piercing sound instantly echoed throughout the entire Howling Wind Valley bandit stronghold.

"Who dares to attack us?" A loud voice resounded across the entire Howling Wind Valley bandit stronghold.

At this moment, a unit of bandits appeared before the Fiends, and in the center of the bandit force, a burly figure standing a full two meters tall roared, "Who are you people? How dare you attack our Howling Wind Valley bandit group?"

The burly man in green robes, Bell, laughed loudly, "Our mission is to wipe you out. You can only blame yourselves for being too prominent. Enough talk, die!"

Following that, the three Four-Star Fiends waved their hands and engaged the three bandit leaders in battle. The remaining Fiends went about their own tasks, while the prospective Fiends who were taking the assessment all left the area where the three Four-Star Fiends were fighting, searching for ordinary bandits to target.

"Whoosh!" Suddenly, several soul attacks headed toward Hodan. Hodan smiled at the corner of his mouth; he had been worrying about not finding them. With a single soul attack, Hodan knocked those ordinary bandits down.

These ordinary bandits were mostly Mid-Gods, considered the elite among the bandits. However, the gap between a Mid-God and a High-God was too vast, not to mention that Hodan possessed the strength of a Five-Star Fiend.

Hodan walked over and directly collected their bracers and Space Rings, planning to bind them to himself after the mission was completed.

Hodan was currently pondering whether to kill those bandit leaders to raise his Fiend rank, but he decided to observe for a while before acting; after all, he was not yet a Fiend.

Moreover, he was not the one who had applied to raise his Fiend star rating, so there was no need for him to rush to steal kills. That would attract too much enmity, and Hodan would not do so unless necessary. It wouldn't be too late to act if those few Four-Star Fiends truly couldn't win.

Howling Wind Valley was in complete chaos.

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

"Bandit bracer, this one is mine!"

"Get lost, I killed this one, if you want one, go kill it yourself!"

One place in chaos, everywhere in chaos!

Within the range of Hodan's divine sense, he discovered over a dozen teams fleeing frantically. Several hundred people were scattered throughout various areas of the valley. The bandits who had originally hidden in various rooms were shocked to find that although they were hidden secretly, they had nowhere to hide in Hodan's eyes.

These were all wealth; killing and arson bring golden belts, while building bridges and repairing roads leave no corpses.

The battle began in an instant!

"Boom!" "Boom!" The sounds of energy explosions, angry shouts, and slaughter rang out continuously from every area of the tribe.

Hodan harvested the lives of these Mid-Gods as if he were mowing grass, while simultaneously taking their wealth.

The battle in Howling Wind Valley had reached its final moments. The three leaders and the three Four-Star Fiends were still locked in combat, but the three leaders seemed to have a seamless coordination, preventing the three Four-Star Fiends from breaking through their joint efforts.

Hodan, hiding in the distance, smiled. A battle of this level of strength was indeed quite interesting, and he could see that the three Four-Star Fiends were already at a disadvantage. If these people had no other trump cards, then given enough time, the three leaders of Howling Wind Valley would definitely be able to kill them.

The Fiends below were not idiots. Their strength was not a match for the three leaders to begin with, so as soon as they finished their respective tasks, they flew away rapidly. They didn't know those few Four-Star Fiends; they were just on the same mission.

It was truly a case of everyone sweeping the snow from their own doorstep, not caring about the frost on their neighbor's roof.

Those Fiends who completed their tasks flew back to the Metal Lifeform, waiting to return to Silvermoon City to turn in their missions. Naturally, they wouldn't help the three Four-Star Fiends. As long as they returned to the Metal Lifeform, it meant they were safe; with the strength of these bandits, they wouldn't dare to attack the supervisors of the Fiend assessment.

Those who dared to do such a thing would at least have the strength of a Seven-Star Fiend. But if they had the strength of a Seven-Star Fiend, why would they be content with being a bandit? Wouldn't it be better to challenge a city lord and become an upright city lord? They wouldn't have to be sneaky bandits unless they were being controlled by some Asura or Paragon to collect wealth everywhere.

Hodan also watched the battle of the three Four-Star Fiends with his own eyes, without the slightest intention of intervening.

Finally, the three Four-Star Fiends gritted their teeth. Two of them joined forces to block a combined attack from the three bandits. However, this also caused the two to be severely injured; blood sprayed from their mouths and noses, and their figures retreated violently. At this moment, the man in black robes had also prepared his own attack.

"Well done! Absolute Zero!"

The man in black robes plucked the string and released an arrow. An arrow of absolute freezing, condensed from water-elemental laws, streaked across the sky and shot straight at one of the leaders. He was clearly an expert in cultivating the Laws of Water.

The arrow was silent and soundless. Wherever it passed, the absolute zero temperature, which was enough to freeze everything, seemed to make everything in the space completely still, with only time flowing slowly.

It seemed they wanted to kill one person first and then join forces to kill the other two leaders. But the three leaders had worked together for many years, and their tacit understanding was not just for show.

No matter how high the man in black's archery skills were, or how accurate the arrow of zero was, by the time the arrow reached halfway, the other two leaders had reacted. They rushed over to rescue him. Although their moves were hasty, the combined attack of the three caused the arrow of zero to become transparent, and the cold air that was enough to freeze everything gradually disappeared as the arrow became transparent.

Seeing that the situation was hopeless, taking advantage of the moment the three leaders were hastily blocking the arrow of zero, the man in black turned into a stream of light and shot toward Silvermoon City. He also brought the two injured Four-Star Fiends with him; it seemed their relationship was quite good, as he didn't forget to take them when retreating.

This also meant that their mission had failed, but they could clearly distinguish which was more important: the mission failure or their own lives.

"You destroyed our camp and still want to leave? Damn it, kill them for me!" the three bandit leaders shouted loudly.

The Fiend assessment personnel had previously killed quite a few bandits while taking advantage of the chaos during their sneak attack.

However, the Howling Wind Valley bandit group had over a thousand Mid-Gods. Even if Hodan had killed a few hundred, there were still about seven hundred Mid-Gods left. Once those seven hundred-plus Mid-Gods emerged, led by their leaders, it formed a one-sided slaughter.

Looking at the Fiend side, the Four-Star Fiends had all fled, and no one could resist the three leaders, so they were scattered and killed by the bandits. Those Fiends and prospective Fiends saw that the situation was not right and fled for their lives. Of those who came to participate in the Fiend assessment, apart from those who had completed their tasks and left during the initial sneak attack, very few of those remaining were able to escape.

"Eh, there's actually one left here. Kill him to vent our anger."

When the bandits were chasing the remaining Fiends, the three leaders had returned to the camp. They left the rest of the pursuit to their subordinates; otherwise, if they had to do everything themselves, what were their subordinates for? And so, the three leaders discovered Hodan, who had remained in the valley.

Hodan was stunned. He hadn't even prepared to make a move on them, yet these guys were actually more arrogant than him? Standing in the air, he looked at the three leaders and smiled: "Do you think I have the same strength as those pieces of trash from before?"

The former Hodan had also been trembling and cautious, fearing that one wrong step would turn him into dust. But his strength had given Hodan confidence. With his current strength, Hodan was already qualified to ignore the arrogance of these bandits.

The disdain in the eyes of the three leaders grew even stronger. Although their individual strength was at the Four-Star Fiend level, their coordination was comparable to that of a strong person among average Five-Star Fiends; they indeed had the capital to be proud. Hodan didn't have any research on battle formations, but for battle formations, Hodan only knew one method of breaking them: using absolute strength. No matter what kind of battle formation it was, he would just destroy them all.

Although most of the bandits had gone to chase the assessment candidates, there were still quite a few bandits left behind. To prevent these ordinary bandits from interfering with Hodan, Hodan directly used a large-scale soul shock to knock these bandits unconscious.

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