With one strike, it had killed an Intermediate Level Military Mage who had survived countless brushes with death. The other nine were shocked, but that didn't mean they'd be scared off.
At the same time, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's roar had sent the Sky Eagle into a panic, and it plunged straight down from the low sky.
"Take up the three-three formation!" The leading Military Mage immediately scrambled to his feet and shouted the order to the other eight.
They formed three groups of three, then arranged themselves in a triangular formation.
The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger circled above them, its blood-red eyes gleaming with interest and a hint of disdain.
An ant might be an ant, but did it really think it could shake a tree?
"Let's attack together!" Lan Yu said, turning to Zhao Manyan and the others.
There was no choice now. Zhao Manyan and the others began drawing their Star Maps.
"Violent Wave!" "Wind Disk!" "Fierce Fist!" ...
Before long, everyone had finished drawing the Intermediate Level Star Maps for the Elements they were best at.
Surging water, howling winds, and raging flames erupted in a volley of elemental magic, unleashing a violent magical storm.
"Defend!"
The nine executioners each brought out their own means of defense: defensive equipment, Water Protection, Light Protection-Holy Shield...
"Go!" At Lan Yu's command, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, circling above the nine, unleashed its lightning ability.
Rumble—
A sharp crack, like thunder in a clear sky, rang across the land. Thick bolts of lightning appeared out of nowhere, then plunged straight down.
The lightning mercilessly tore through the air and slammed into their defenses, turning the whole area into a field of thunder in an instant.
"Don't stop attacking! Keep up the magical bombardment and blast those bastards to hell!" Song Xia threw out another Fierce Fist.
"Violent Wave!" Zhao Manyan went all out, too. Either they died, or he did.
Mu Nujiao drove her Wind Disk into the defenses the nine had put up, striking them again and again.
Crack—
As time passed, the nine finally buckled under the relentless assault.
They had a Great War General-level Summoned Beast in the sky and Intermediate Mages raining magic down on them from the ground. They were lucky to have held out as long as they had.
At last, the defensive formation completely collapsed under the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's spatial power, and the nine were devoured by the Elemental Storm.
"We won!" Zhao Manyan breathed a sigh of relief.
Song Xia began to laugh, then kept laughing until she started to cry.
No one noticed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger darting into the Elemental Storm like a phantom. It snatched away several relatively intact corpses. Now it could finally taste what mages were like.
One bite, and the flavor was pretty good.
Of course, it only ate mages who had shown murderous intent toward its owner. Normally, it fed on its owner's magic energy or hunted Demon Beasts in the wild.
"Old Lan, what do we do now?" Zhao Manyan asked.
"What else? We head for Kangning City's Safe Zone as fast as we can," Lan Yu said.
The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger flew back and landed behind Lan Yu.
It looked like it still wanted more. A fight like that didn't even seem to count as a warm-up for it.
"You go ahead. I'll check things out."
Lan Yu then climbed onto the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's back.
"Big brother, are you serious? We barely escaped, and you're thinking of going back?" Zhao Manyan couldn't make sense of Lan Yu's decision.
"I'm just going to take a look. If I get the chance, taking out those executioners would be great, too," Lan Yu said. "Besides, I've got it with me. I don't need to worry about getting away."
Looking at the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, majestic and handsome, the others didn't know what to say.
Zhao Manyan opened his mouth, but all the words he had to say turned into a sigh. "All right, then."
Lan Yu nodded. "Be careful on the way. If anything urgent happens, send a signal and wait for me."
If he weren't after the Blood Li Zi, Lan Yu wouldn't have turned back.
The Evil Saint King could do, too, but Lan Yu preferred the Darkness King.
After all, the Darkness King was one of the top dogs of the Dark Plane. In Lan Yu's eyes, that made him an excellent choice.
If that didn't work, he could always get a godhood from Douluo Continent and become a god.
Knowing Lan Yu had made up his mind, the others could only urge him to be careful.
After parting ways with the others, Lan Yu rode the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and found Shen Mingxiao and Luo Song fleeing for their lives.
"Y-you... What do you want?"
"I'm a kind-hearted man. I didn't want you to have to run so hard, so I'm sending you to your deaths!"
Meanwhile, inside Jinlin Desolate City.
"There!"
A Military Mage pointed between two buildings and shouted.
In an instant, several Military Mages who controlled the Wind Element raced between the two unfinished buildings.
When they tried to reach the unfinished building Mo Fan had leapt to by crossing the ground, they suddenly found a mud pit, black vapor rising from it.
The way was blocked!
"Don't let him get away!" Jiang Yi snapped.
Two Earth Element Mages hurried up. One of them used Earth Wave to clear the mud blocking their way.
Meanwhile, Mo Fan rode the Swift Star Wolf, leaping between buildings in a residential area.
"Grr!"
Suddenly, the Swift Star Wolf gave a low growl and began to crouch.
"Why are you crouching?" Mo Fan asked, feeling himself sink lower.
"Awoo!" The Swift Star Wolf cried again, telling the idiot Mo Fan that it wasn't crouching. The building beneath them was rapidly sinking.
Mo Fan glanced around and saw that they were already a whole story lower than the surrounding buildings. After all, the buildings in this area were all the same height.
"Run!" Mo Fan hurriedly shouted.
The Swift Star Wolf didn't need him to say it. It knew they had to get out of there.
Mo Fan took the chance to glance back at their pursuers and saw that the Military Mages were moving fast, too.
They didn't need to use the buildings to get around. They had Earth Element Mages clearing the way ahead of them.
Huh? Where was that devil?
After running for a while, Mo Fan finally realized that Lu Nian, the devil who had been chasing him along with the others, had vanished at some point.
Damn it, where had he gone?!
But at that very moment, the Lu Nian Mo Fan couldn't stop thinking about was facing off against Lan Yu.
"To kill several of my subordinates in one blow, your Summoned Beast really is extraordinary!" Lu Nian stared at Lan Yu with his sharp eyes.
"Are those your last words?" Lan Yu stood on the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's back, looking down at him like a king.
"Don't get too carried away!" Lu Nian flew into a rage, a flash of brown light passing through his eyes.
The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger sensed the petrifying force coming toward it. It beat its wings and easily pulled away, leaving Lu Nian's petrification attack to hit nothing—not even a hair.
"Looks like you, Great Military General Lu Nian, aren't much after all..." Lan Yu kept hurling insults at Lu Nian. He had no other reason for doing it; he just wanted to enjoy mouthing off.
"Trash, loser, scum... You can't do anything. You couldn't even protect your only brother. No wonder your dad shouldn't have enjoyed that one little thrust..."
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