Massacre

Two hundred meters out, when they reached the edge of the Zerg Hive's two-hundred-meter range, the massive hive and the brown Creep left them equally stunned on the spot.

"What... what is this?" Roman muttered blankly.

Morgan, the well-read mage, trembled with excitement. He bent down without the slightest disgust, stroking the Creep. He even dipped his fingers into its slime and tasted it. "Heavens! This thing, neither animal nor plant, is packed with immense nutrients. These nutrients could even save someone on the verge of death. This is a new race, one completely absent from the Demon Beast records... If we haul this towering nest back to Morton's main city, the reward from the Magic Guild will be enough for us to squander for ten lifetimes!"

Whoosh! Just as everyone was swept up in excitement, it was the perfect moment for an ambush!

Eighty-six Zerglings burst from underground at once. Of the fifty-odd people remaining, more than twenty were killed in an instant by the sudden attack!

"Damn it! These Demon Beasts can burrow underground! Be careful, everyone! Be careful!" Roman roared in fury and shock. Gripping his broadsword with both hands, he let out a shout, and red flames actually ignited along its edge!

A Zergling lunged to bite him. His broadsword swept out, scattering red sparks. Its blade easily sliced through the Zergling's skin, while the burning flames rapidly congealed the blood pouring from its wound. One Zergling was killed in a single strike!

Morgan was even more powerful. He pressed his red staff directly against the ground, and a ring of fire instantly surrounded him. The blazing flames rose higher than a man, forming a sealed wall of fire around him. Then, with each flick of his staff, a fireball the size of a soccer ball shot toward the Zerglings.

The fireballs were incredibly fast and blisteringly hot. Two Zerglings attacking other warriors were struck by them by accident. They immediately screamed and turned into blazing flames, burning into drifting ash in less than three seconds!

"So this is battle aura and magic?" Having witnessed their strength, Ye Luo finally gained some understanding of this world's power system.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!" Driven by the ** of money, Roman held on. In truth, if he had ordered the team to retreat when they came under attack again while he and Morgan covered the rear, they might have preserved the remaining twenty-odd men. However, Morgan's claims about the Zerg Hive's value had tempted him. That temptation caused the thirty-odd men under his command, who could have escaped, to gradually die miserably beneath the Zerglings' attacks, even as Roman and Morgan desperately slaughtered Zerglings!

"Kill!" His broadsword chopped toward a Zergling. The Zergling sprang sharply to the side with a kick of its legs, but Roman changed his slash into a strike, twisting with the motion. The broadsword smashed fiercely into the Zergling and sent it flying... Just as he was about to continue his attack, he suddenly felt a chilling killing intent almost pierce through his back!

Alarmed, Roman immediately withdrew his broadsword and spun around! Yet behind him, apart from the few remaining warriors and the Zerglings slaughtering them, there was no other creature. Still, Roman could clearly sense that the danger remained!

It felt as though he had been targeted by a venomous snake, making his heart race and his scalp tingle!

Whoosh! A sound like an arrow tearing through the air came from the side, making Roman's heart tighten. It's here!

"Battle Skill, Spiral Slash!" Battle aura surged across Roman's body. The enormous broadsword spun on the spot in his hand as if it were a toy, its massive blade nearly forming a Bladestorm. A black shadow crashed fiercely into the storm from the side, only to be ruthlessly flung away!

In Zergling form, Ye Meng stared fixedly at Roman, while his forelimbs twitched without stop. This so-called battle aura skill was simply too powerful. This was Ye Meng—if it had been an ordinary Zergling, however many charged into that spinning storm would die!

Activating the skill had consumed more than half of Roman's battle aura, so naturally he would not stop easily. Seeing that the black Zergling no longer took the initiative to attack, he swept toward the surrounding Zerglings instead. At that moment, a huge fist smashed viciously into his face. Spiral Slash instantly broke apart. The overwhelmingly heavy punch left Roman dazed, sending his broadsword flying from his hand, nearly striking the mage Morgan...

At his side, Ye Yi revealed himself and was about to take the opportunity to end Roman's life, but Ye Luo stopped him directly! Ye Luo lightly tapped the ground with his toes and arrived before Roman. He grabbed Roman's chin and yanked hard, forcing his mouth open. Then, with a toss of his right hand, a constantly writhing insect the size of a fingernail was stuffed into Roman's throat!

Though Roman was still dizzy, he knew that whatever the other side had fed him was certainly not good. But before he could spit it out, Ye Luo drove a vicious punch into his stomach!

A searing pain tore through his abdomen. Roman's mouth opened wide on its own, and with a gulp, the little insect slipped straight into his stomach!

Morgan in the distance had clearly noticed the commotion. He shouted Roman's name as fireballs rained toward them as though they cost nothing. Ye Meng stood in front of Ye Luo, repeatedly swinging his blades to cut down the fireballs. Still, the sparks produced by the collisions between blade and fireball left Ye Meng's body scorched with burn marks...

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Just as Morgan focused solely on Roman, three Wind Blades shot toward him in succession from behind. The first Wind Blade was directly burned away by the wall of flames. However, the second followed immediately, blasting a hole through the fire wall that had swallowed the first. The third Wind Blade slipped through the opening and viciously tore away a chunk of flesh from Morgan's waist!

Pain shook Morgan's body, disrupting his concentration. The fire wall around him immediately flickered between large and small. Ye Meng and Ye Yi seized the chance to charge forward. Startled, Morgan slammed the staff in his right hand against the ground, and the wall of fire surrounded him once again.

But at that moment, Roman sprang up from the ground like a reanimated corpse and cried out to Morgan for help. "Mage Morgan, save me!"

Morgan immediately wavered. He stretched out his shriveled left hand, as dry as a branch, intending to pull Roman through the fire wall. But Roman raised his head, and two red lights glowed within his eyes!

Roman seized Morgan's left hand with both hands and yanked hard, forcibly dragging Morgan out from within the wall of fire!

"Roman!! You!!" Morgan was terrified beyond measure, unable to understand why Roman had betrayed him. Yet in the next moment, Ye Luo's cold expression appeared before him. When Ye Luo used the same method to stuff a parasitic insect into his mouth, despair filled his heart...

People die for wealth, birds die for food. Now, for that immense fortune, he truly faced death...