The bell tolling rang out once again, but this time it was more urgent than the last.
In the town, many residents hid in their homes, peering out fearfully from the corners of their windows.
Every time such bell tolls sounded, it signified the arrival of disaster for them.
"Too late!" The man sent away by the Nether Army turned his head, glanced at Li Chen and the others, and his eyes couldn’t help but show a hint of regret.
He didn’t know who these people were, but he did know that they saved his life. Now that the demons were arriving, it was too late for them to find a place to hide.
Though Li Chen never had any intention of hiding.
Outside the town, a pitch-black shadow appeared.
Within the shadow, figures started to emerge into everyone’s view.
"How interesting," Ning Wangyang remarked, a trace of interest crossing his face as he watched the shadows speeding toward their side of the town.
He had witnessed the strength of these monsters, which were even less formidable than the ones he and Li Chen had met outside Linchuan before.
Although they didn’t have as many people as they did last time, he felt they were sufficiently armed to face monsters of such strength.
The group stood motionless in the center of the street, as if they had been petrified.
"What are these people trying to do?" A resident spied through the window at Li Chen and the others, noting that they showed no sign of fleeing, and his mouth opened in shock.
However, it wasn’t long before they understood what Li Chen and the others intended to do.
In the hands of the Nether Army behind Li Chen, weapons gleaming with cold light simultaneously appeared.
"Looks like they’ve brought quite a force," Li Chen nodded, finally understanding why the man had such a look of terror when he spoke of these monsters.
For ordinary people, this kind of creature, in this number, indeed spelled disaster.
Even for them, facing such a horde of monsters, they couldn’t afford to be careless.
The approaching monsters numbered in the dozens. As for the exact amount, Li Chen hadn’t bothered to count, but he did see creatures different from the Chupacabra they had just slain.
"Horse-headed, dog-bodied, with hoofs and wings..." Li Chen’s face showed a hint of contemplation as he looked at the dozen or so creatures looming in the sky.
If their so-called demons included the legendary Chupacabra, then these beasts must also have been seen by people before.
"This thing... Wait a second!" A gleam of insight suddenly flashed in Li Chen’s eyes.
"Indeed, it’s that thing..." Li Chen suddenly recalled another creature from North American folklore, also frequently sighted by many.
As he watched these creatures, Li Chen grasped the Red Moon tightly in his hand, indifferent whether they were Chupacabra or Jersey Devils. What mattered to him was whether Catherine was still alive.
"Kill them! The ones in the sky, leave to Wangyang and me!" Li Chen turned to address the Nether Army behind him.
The Nether Army remained silent. In that silence, they drew their weapons and, to the shrieking of the Chupacabra, charged forward to meet them in battle.
The dozen or so Jersey Devils in the sky also swooped down toward them.
"This thing does seem to have the look of a demon," Li Chen commented as a Jersey Devil pounced toward him. Instead of dodging, he jumped up to meet it head-on.
On the forelimbs of these Jersey Devils were not only hooves, but also several sharp claws, clearly their means of attack.
Charging toward Li Chen, the creature stomped viciously, its sharp claws slicing through the air with a whistling sound.
Li Chen’s face remained composed as he stretched out his hand, gripping the Jersey Devil’s forelimb before its claws could reach him and yanking it hard.
A strange cry erupted from the mouth of the Jersey Devil, but its body was uncontrollably torn down by Li Chen’s forceful pull.
Without hesitation, Li Chen threw the monster to the ground with a single heave, and instantly, a sound of breaking bones echoed from the creature’s body.
Planting his foot harshly on its horse-like head, Li Chen didn’t even bother to look as he charged toward the other Jersey Devils.
At the same time, the sword light in Ning Wangyang’s hand began to flicker.
Because he had started cultivating True Qi, a faint glow appeared on Ning Wangyang’s sword; in order to enhance his attack, he had actually coated his sword with True Qi.
As the sword light shimmered, Jersey Devils began to fall one after another, cut down by Ning Wangyang.
Meanwhile, ahead of them, some Chupacabras that had unintentionally broken through the Nether Army’s defenses were also sliced down by Ning Wangyang before they could even get close to him.
In Li Chen’s hand, Red Moon burst into a sinister glow, constantly draining the blood of these ’Demons.’
Compared to the creatures rumored to be demons, it was perhaps Red Moon that was the true Demon Weapon.
As the monsters were being killed one by one, and there weren’t many left, they finally began to crumble.
Li Chen clearly saw fear, distinctly human in nature, in the wide black eyes of these creatures as they turned to flee.
"Run?" Li Chen shook his head; he did not have the habit of letting enemies escape at will.
Towards his enemies, Li Chen preferred to be thorough in their annihilation.
"Sssht!" Li Chen stepped directly on a Chupacabra, leaped into the air, and with a flash of red light, the last Jersey Devil was beheaded by his strike.
The Chupacabra that he had stepped on could not endure the terrifying power and was crushed into the ground in a twisted form, lifeless.
When the slaughter ended, silence fell once again.
A silence as still as death.
To the residents here, those creatures were monsters, demons.
However, in the eyes of these creatures, it was Li Chen and his companions who were the real monsters of terror.
Or rather, their Grim Reaper.
At that moment, a door of a nearby house suddenly opened, and a girl walked out.
At the same time, doors of other houses opened one after another, and the residents who had been hiding inside started coming out of their own accord.
"Thank you so much!!"
Seeing the bodies strewn all over the ground, many people first showed shock, but quickly, that shock turned into wild joy as they loudly expressed their gratitude to Li Chen and the others.
The entire town came alive as the residents who had been hiding in their homes emerged.
Cheers of elation resounded throughout the town.