The instant after he fired.
The nobles who had been standing dazed under the effects of Pride and Bewitchment let out piercing screams.
"Murder! Murder!"
So they wailed.
Yet over these past five days, these very people had personally pushed well over a hundred thousand humans into a sea of fire.
Now that it was their turn to be killed, they began screaming in fear like this.
They...
No.
Those things wanted to escape.
Those things wearing human skin dragged their bodies, some heavy, others usually so well maintained, toward the city.
But where could they run?
Eve caught up effortlessly, raised her guns, and fired.
The crimson Lock-on Aura locked perfectly onto those so-called nobles.
One shot each. Not one spared.
They cried aloud in terror, all their usual arrogance and tyranny gone.
"Attack! Attack! What are you standing there for? Kill him!"
A noble raised a whip and lashed an extraordinary being.
That extraordinary being remained motionless, simply raising his head and staring blankly up at Ye Qiyan in the sky.
"A Hero..."
"What are you saying? Kill him! Aah!"
A Tungsten Nail falling from the sky pierced straight through the noble's skull.
The Gravity Compression Cannon crushed the gathered nobles into pulp.
The Terminator Shotgun riddled them with holes.
The Great Compassion Heavy Machine Gun chanted electronic Buddhist verses, the novice monk engraved upon it, with a cigar and sunglasses, grinning with such wild abandon.
The slaughter was underway.
Wherever Eve passed, not a single noble survived.
And her target was that magnificent palace at the very center of the royal capital.
The Flame Gorillas exchanged glances at the sight. They, too, sensed malice in Ye Qiyan that was even stronger and more terrifying than that of monsters like themselves.
As though he were not a human,