Barton's death terrified the remaining survivors even more.
They screamed, they ran, they fled from Barton, whom they had seen as their hope.
But these terrified screams did not cause Liens to hesitate in his sword swings.
He continued to slaughter these frantically fleeing people until the appearance of one person stopped his brutal massacre.
Liens horizontally blocked the enemy's slash with his sword.
Although he was immersed in killing, the wind had already brought him information about the enemy.
Retreating a few steps to dissipate the force, Liens turned his gaze to the enemy who had attacked him.
It was a man with a face full of anger; Liens had seen him in an Instance when he was still with the Glenbagen Family.
This was an Extraordinary One belonging to the Glenbagen Family, and an Extraordinary Knight at that.
As for his name, Liens hadn't found it out, but there was no need to know.
Just an ordinary Knight.
Liens had tested his strength; he hadn't even grasped a "Sword Style" and was basically on the same level as Adonis.
For the current Liens, he was simply a bit too weak.
Through his Elemental Vision, Liens saw that the elemental distribution within his body was mostly orange-yellow.
This indicated that the Knight in front of him was likely a Knight with an affinity for the Earth Element.
Earlier, when he was on his way to the Slave Exchange, Liens had also taken the time to look through the notebook Lucrezia had given him.
It recorded the characteristics of the Knight stage—Elemental Traits.
That is, as the dominant element type within the body increases, the Knight's physical body will gradually be transformed by the element, developing corresponding elemental traits.
For example, the Wind Element's swiftness, the Water Element's recovery, the Fire Element's burst, the Earth Element's defense, and so on.
The above are the characteristics of the four major elements; most people who advance to Knight stage have an affinity for one of these four elements.
Besides these, there are also special elements like ice, lightning, light, and darkness, which will not be outlined one by one here.
From this analysis, it can be seen that the Knight in front of him should be relatively skilled in defense.
At the very least, his physical defense capability was stronger than Knights of other elements at the same stage.
"No wonder, when I chopped him before, it was a bit difficult to cut; I thought his physical defense was stronger than Adonis's back then."
"I even thought he had gone further than Adonis in the Knight stage… now it seems it was due to different Elemental Traits."
Liens thought to himself.
Thoughts raced through his mind, but it did not affect Liens as he continued to launch an offensive against the Knight in front of him.
Just as he had said before, he was just an ordinary Knight.
Perhaps Barton had once considered him a lifeline that had yet to arrive, but in reality, even if he had come, he couldn't change the fate of the people here.
After a few moves, Liens found an opening and, like lightning, thrust his sword through the Knight's right shoulder.
The Knight instinctively let out a scream, but instantly suppressed it, and ignoring the wound on his shoulder, he wielded his sword with both hands, swinging a slash at Liens in front of him.
Liens easily dodged the attack and struck again with his sword, delivering a diagonal slash along the Knight's joint.
His right hand was severed, and the pain was so intense that even the Knight's will could not help but let out a scream.
At the same time, due to the severe pain and the loss of his primary sword-wielding right hand, the longsword in his hand also fell to the ground.
The falling longsword clattered on the tiles, making a series of noises.
And this sound, to the Knight, was like the tolling of a death knell.
At this moment, even he couldn't help but reveal a look of despair on his face.
The opponent in front of him was simply too strong…
He even felt that no one in the family, except for the Earl, would be this person's match.
Aside from the initial sword that forced the person back a few steps, he had almost no ability to resist and had been continuously taking hits.
From beginning to now, in a short time, he had accumulated more than a dozen wounds on his body, while he…
Hadn't even scratched the opponent's clothes, let alone caused any damage to the opponent.
So, who exactly was this powerful person in front of him? And why was he targeting the Glenbagen Family?
With these questions, the Knight's eyes closed forever after a silver light flashed before them.
After killing the Glenbagen Family Knight, Liens did not pause, stepping forward and charging, swinging his sword down and horizontally, continuing to kill the remaining people.
However, he was delayed for a bit of time after all.
Liens noticed that a few lucky individuals, taking advantage of the gap while he was fighting the Earth Element-affiliated Knight, had escaped the hall. Thе full sеriеs livеs оn Мy Virtuаl Librаry Еmpirе (М|V|L0ЕМРYR).
The reason there were only a few was because those people made another mistake.
Upon seeing the Knight successfully block Liens, they once again regarded him as their "lifeline," believing that the newcomer was a divine savior who could eliminate Liens.
Therefore, they actually forgot to run and chose to stand still, cheering for the Knight.
And from the perspective of ordinary people, by the time they realized the Knight was unreliable and wanted to flee, it was already too late.
Therefore, Liens did not intend to continue pursuing the few successful escapees.
Compared to those foolish people who stayed, he didn't mind giving a small prize to those few wise individuals.
Of course, the main reason was that Liens was a bit tired, and he wanted to conserve his strength for later escapes.
Hundreds of people, although these people had almost no ability to resist, their constant running around still cost Liens some effort.
Liens wiped his longsword with the relatively clean clothes of a corpse on the ground, then sheathed his sword…
He left the hall, which was covered in corpses, reeked of blood, and where blood had almost dyed the entire floor red.
However, the direction he was heading was not the exit of the Slave Exchange.
Instead, it was the back of the Slave Exchange, and the most important place in the Slave Exchange—the prison where Slaves were held.
Soon, relying on his memories from half a year ago, Liens found the prison.
It was dark here, just like before, and the not-so-small space was only lit by a few oil lamps providing limited light.
Upon entering, Liens immediately saw a few burly thugs trembling and cowering in the corner.
They must have been the guards stationed here, and after hearing the continuous screams from the hall, they dared not leave the prison.
After casually sending those few burly thugs to meet their Master Barton, Liens turned his gaze to the Slaves inside the prison.
Some of them looked at Liens with fear, while others looked at Liens with anticipation.
But no matter what, they all just watched silently, without speaking.
"Today should be your lucky day."
"So… run, escape from here, escape from this cage that holds your freedom."
Liens said with a smile.
Then, he used his longsword to open the cages of a few Slaves, and after watching them free more Slaves, he turned and left.