Mixed Blessing System

Three hours later…

As mid-day arrived bit by bit, more than three dozen specialists between levels 17 and 18 were already on the outskirts of the Flame Faction, blocking off possible escape points for Lothur.

Some of the City of Darkness specialists were still gathering their strongest men to face Lothur with everything they had, so the other men searching for his head had not yet decided to start the attack.

He was an abomination that would by no means be easy to eliminate. So as people who could die easily, they were preparing as best they could to exterminate him once and for all!

Arno was already standing there watching the situation, together with his men, a little worried.

Some of those men who had arrived there first wanted to attack Lothur immediately and take advantage of his weakness after the previous battle to assassinate him quickly.

But when they got there, they discovered that he had not been exhausted in that battle and was in his peak state. 𝘰𝑣𝘭.𝗇𝓔t

That was very strange, but no one there had time to think much about it. So the first to arrive there suspended their attack to wait for their allies.

Arno was among those men who first arrived there and had waited for the last few hours for the rest of the men who would attack Lothur soon.

Standing next to his men, he explained his plans. “Since everyone is already here, let me be clear. Our goal is to kill the half-breed of human and demon in this place. But we can’t be stupid!

Let these fools here attack first and take the biggest risks. Then, only join the fight to the best of your ability when the damned hybrid is already exhausted!

Our goal is the Diamond-grade Soul Bone, not to save these bastards’ lives!”

With those words from their leader, those people agreed, feeling that their lives would be at less risk and their chances of obtaining that Soul Bone would be greater.

If that happened, maybe their leader could reach the 4th stage, and such a faction would finally completely dominate the City of Darkness!

They had no expectations of escaping this place, so the best they could dream up for themselves was to lead this place!

As these men agreed to Arno’s plan, a few more Transcendents arrived on the area’s outskirts, completing the number of experts the local leaders wanted on their side at the beginning of the attack.

More than these numbers they thought would make no positive difference to them.

The leader of the Wildflower Faction then said. “My group is ready to fight!”

“Mine too!”

“Same for mine!”

Several leaders indicated they were ready until Arno got into position and shouted in Lothur’s direction. “Damned half-breed, surrender peacefully and accept your death. You are surrounded, and you can’t beat all of us!”

Upon hearing that, Lothur opened his eyes, finally putting his meditation aside to prepare for combat.

He knew the odds were against him, but he had several weapons in his favor, and since he was in a place where he couldn’t run, he had no choice but to fight.

He then did not use a cowardly attitude and stood up from his seat, determined to do battle and show these experts his true power.

The young Ritter walked towards the entrance of the Flame Faction alongside his slaves, 5 Nascent Soul Transcendents.

The weaker members of this faction, who were not under the control of the Black Flames, saw this and swallowed their saliva, fearing to be involved in this situation.

Soon, Lothur was standing in front of the headquarters of that faction, seeing the nearly 40 people in the surrounding area giving him ugly looks.

“Tsk! The damned thing looks like us…”

“Despite being an abominable creature, he looks great!”

“The legends are true. These creatures are beautiful to more easily deceive their prey.” A woman commented as she saw Lothur’s handsome face, lamenting that he was something so terrible.

If he weren’t, she would have fun with him…

As whispers spread to the surroundings, Lothur said. “You people… I have nothing against you. Are you really going to choose this path? Those who leave here now, I will forgive you and not hunt you down.”

The people in that place were silent after his words, some hating him even more for his arrogance, others noting how fearless he was in making threats in this situation.

Then the leader of the Wildflower Faction shouted. “Don’t listen to his words. He is clearly an enemy of every living thing in this place! We must kill him, or he will kill us!”

“Yes! The devil will try to deceive you with his tongue, but his intentions are one.

Carnage!”

Lothur narrowed his eyes, but he did not expect these people to back down, so this situation did not surprise him.

Immediately his slaves positioned themselves to fight while he prepared himself.

“For let me warn you one last time. Even in greater numbers, do not think that you are safe. I assure you, at least half of you will die in the next few hours because of this.” He said as the surroundings became darker with the appearance of a dark fog coming from his Mortal Aura skill.

Some of the weaker ones there felt fear after he activated this ability, but they stood firm in their positions.

Then, as one of them ordered the attack to begin, Lothur acted decisively to reduce the opponent’s numbers already at the beginning of the battle.

Laser Vision!

The first thing he did was to activate this secondary ability of his first Soul Bone, causing a laser beam to prepare to be fired from his eyes.

He then teleported behind one of his opponents using the Spatial Belt before that shot wounded his opponent.

But Lothur did not aim at the head nor at the heart of his target.

His intention there was only to incapacitate his opponents so that he could absorb many EVF points later. So his first blow was aimed at the right lung of his enemy.

“Aaaaaaaaagh!”

With that first strike, that level 18 man cried out in pain as he fell with a serious injury that would surely take him out of this battle.

The others noticed Lothur’s antics and felt coldness through their bodies. But they didn’t back down, finally initiating their powerful waves of attacks.

He teleported once more before activating his Golden Finger, hitting yet another opponent in the back, breaking that person’s spine in one strike!

“Aaaaaaaaagghhhhhhh!”

Then, he positioned himself and activated one of his soul techniques!

Omnipotence!

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