Strike first to gain the upper hand; strike later and suffer disaster. Seeing the people around him about to close in, Huo Hai naturally would not let them surround him. Fixing his eyes on the mercenary guild president's direction, Huo Hai charged straight at him.
Soldiers clad in heavy armor were extremely formidable on the battlefield, but when facing an expert, they were truly lacking. The Sunset Sword flashed in Huo Hai's hand and instantly stabbed into a gap at a soldier's neck. "Rip..." With a piercing screech, the Sunset Sword pierced the metal within the man's neck before finally punching through his throat.
"Damn it, my combat strength has dropped this much." Huo Hai frowned. Without being able to project spiritual energy, he could not unleash sword light, much less use his own spells. That left him able to rely only on the sharpness of the Sunset Sword.
Killing one or two soldiers, or even ten or a hundred, was still easy enough, but even if Huo Hai worked himself to death, he could not kill a hundred thousand soldiers. Huo Hai did not know whether there really were a hundred thousand soldiers here, but the soldiers before him truly stretched in a sea of people and a mountain of bodies.
No, he could not keep this up. He had to find a way to escape as soon as possible. With a thought, the Star Gu beside him accelerated, turning into a streak of light in an instant and stabbing toward a soldier's eye. A metal mesh covered the eye, but under the Star Gu's attack, it was directly pierced through. With a scream, a hole appeared in the man's head.
The next moment, the Star Gu flew out through the hole. Rather than rejoicing, Huo Hai frowned even