Chapter 786: Chapter 683: Territory of the Human Race (5000th Grand Chapter)
Sun Yu was a first-generation apprentice from the Extreme Martial Arts Hall, and he had once served in the Intelligence Department, executing many Alien Races lurking within various large Sanctuaries.
He had also taught at the World Tree Academy, a group of students only a few years younger than himself.
He also held a position at the Extreme Martial Arts Hall as an on-staff first-tier instructor.
On Earth, as the Alien Race who hid and fled were being killed one by one, and the Alien Race hadn’t made any significant moves in recent years, work at the Intelligence Department had become much more leisurely.
Sun Yu received a mission to travel to various Human Clan gathering areas in the Mountain and Sea World under the identity of a disciple of the Tao Sect.
The Mountain and Sea World, with his current mid-upper-tier status, he had long been informed.
However, it was his first time traveling to this world.
He had heard that, aside from some remote areas where Humans had established their kingdoms, other humans living in the Mountain and Sea World were of low status.
He arrived within the boundaries of the Cliff Heart Empire and was met with a chaotic world that made him frown.
Throughout East Sun City, aside from the Kingdom Alliance Army, who resembled bandits, there were almost no living humans to be seen, only the broken bodies of humans and very few Beastmen corpses. He saw not a single member of the Scorpion Clan.
Even the ordinary members of the Scorpion Clan with no cultivation talent had been evacuated before the outbreak of war.
As Sun Yu made his way, no bandits who barred his path could withstand his casual palm strike.
Yet he frowned, “Did I arrive too late? Is there no human survivor left in this East Sun City?”
He traveled by the Transmission Array to the Human Clan province. Along the way, he passed through five villages and a small town, the villages had long been deserted, only leaving behind the ruins of houses, while the small town, everyone still alive had been slaughtered.
In the war between the Cliff Heart Empire and the Eight Great Kingdoms, there was no talk of sparing those who surrendered.
This was not only a war between states but also a racial war. Neither the ruling class of the Cliff Heart Empire nor the Eight Great Kingdoms were from the Human Clan—who would care about the life and death of the Human Clan?
As he walked toward the center of East Sun City, suddenly, Sun Yu looked in the direction of eleven o’clock. In his Perception, there, several strong auras were present.
The heavily fortified compound was the last stronghold of the Human Clan within East Sun City.
Wang Hu and another warrior, Yang Hong, were the strongest protectors of this stronghold.
Yang Hong looked at the large hole that had been made, chuckled bitterly, “Maybe, we should have left East Sun City with the others.”
The Human Clan Province was, after all, the heartland. As the Kingdom Alliance Army’s forces approached and the Scorpion Clan people left, some had sensed the danger.
A group of Human Clan decisively left East Sun City and sought refuge deep in the mountains.
But many more people stayed.
Wang Hu glanced sideways at the silent elder and the children who were silently crying with their mouths covered by their mother, “We could leave, but where could they go? From the moment we decided to stay, we were determined, weren’t you too?”
“Besides, only by going deep into the mountains can one avoid the Alliance Army’s forces, but the mountains are full of formidable Mutant Beasts, fraught with danger, not necessarily better off… we had no choice.”
Yang Hong sighed, his gaze becoming determined again as he gripped his spear tightly, “Yes, we aren’t without the strength to fight, but afterwards, we must move. Otherwise, we will attract the attention of important people in the Alliance Army.”
That was the plan, but he didn’t have any confidence in his heart.
He and Wang Hu were both martial artists who had reached Awakening Tier Perfection, and they held mid-level positions in the City Defense Army.
But outside, there were five auras, all at Great Perfection, stronger than them, if not equally strong.
As members of the ‘weaker’ Human Clan, wielding ordinary standard weapons, even one-on-one, he had no confidence, let alone two against five.
Unless it was the Human Clan’s Heavenly Pride.
But as Wang Hu had said, they had no choice.
Wang Hu and Yang Hong charged out, unwilling to keep the battlefield within the courtyard.
With them, about twenty to thirty weary Human Clan Warriors.
Wang Hu, wielding a broadsword, struck at a high-ranking Gecko-man, who was also armed with a large sword. The Gecko-man struck first, his sword coming down swiftly.
Wang Hu retreated five or six steps, his hands numb and trembling uncontrollably.
He looked at his sword, where the blade had collided, a small triangular notch had formed, and a few more strikes would certainly break the blade.
The Gecko-man only slightly moved back half a step to unload the force and appeared at Wang Hu’s left side like a phantom, a bright slash aimed at his neck.
Wang Hu’s face changed, and he held his sword horizontally in front of him; the Gecko-man changed his slashing direction. Latest content published on novèlfire.net
Wang Hu’s sword hadn’t broken yet, but he was already unable to hold on, his hands bleeding, breathing heavily.
Just then, another slash came from an angle he couldn’t defend.
Wang Hu closed his eyes.
It sounded like a blade cutting through flesh, followed by the thud of a heavy fall.
But Wang Hu didn’t feel any pain, compelling him to open his eyes.
The Gecko-man was thrown more than ten meters away, hitting the wall, and his neck was pierced by a knife, blood spurting like water from an opened faucet, and in the blink of an eye, the life in the Gecko-man like a candle in the wind was completely extinguished.
Wang Hu saw a young man approaching from afar.
He had somewhat oddly styled short hair, arms as translucent and lustrous as white jade. Several high-tier Awakening thieves approached, and he casually slapped out layers of palm shadows, walking forward without pausing.