As soon as the Human Emperor Banner came out, I became the Lord of the Old Ones

Chapter 272 Returning Carnage

The Black Dream organization's top sniper felt as if he had found a venomous snake in his crotch.

His entire face was contorted to the extreme.

Like a drowning person falling into the River Styx, with endless vengeful spirits grabbing their ankles, struggling desperately to escape the slash of the "Deep Blade".

However, before he could react, the bone-chilling coldness had already invaded his neck, carotid artery, and cervical vertebrae.

There was a soft "click".

He barely managed to block the "Deep Blade" sniper rifle from breaking in half as he held it horizontally in front of him.

The super sniper's eyes widened, his pupils and movements freezing together.

A black line, thinner than a hair, appeared on his neck.

The black line continued to extend, encircling the neck in half a second, and slowly seeped out bright red blood beads.

Before the blood droplets could even meander down, they were absorbed back into the black lines.

The black line expanded like a greedy insect, and soon turned into a crack overflowing with black mist.

That didn't look like Xu Yan slit the super sniper's throat with a sharp blade.

It was as if Xu Yan had torn apart the entire space between the super sniper's head and chest.

Before the super sniper's head rolled off, Xu Yan spread his five fingers and gently cupped his forehead.

The surging blood flames on the Emperor's Banner erupted from his palm, completely engulfing the guardian spirit that the super sniper was summoning.

—If the two sides were to engage in a life-or-death struggle just a hundred meters apart, even if Xu Yan were to use all his skills to kill his opponent, he would certainly have to pay a heavy price.

If the two sides spot each other within three to five hundred meters, Xu Yan will definitely run away without hesitation, and will not stop to catch his breath for even half a second until he has run at least three to five kilometers.

Unfortunately, this was a close-quarters battle within seven steps, and before the "Deep Blade" was drawn, the opponent was completely unaware of Xu Yan's threat.

Therefore, death became the inevitable fate of this commander of the elite Black Dream squad.

"Bang bang bang bang bang bang!"

The blast the super sniper fired at the rooftop just before he died attracted the attention of two attackers who were farther away from the center of the explosion.

The gunslinger sensed the cold, sinister aura of the "Deep Blade," as well as the surprise and despair of the super sniper before his death.

He was also an experienced combat expert. He made a decisive move and took control of all the suspended firearms, firing wildly not at the rooftop but in the direction where Xu Yan was.

Unfortunately, Xu Yan had already calculated everything precisely before slitting the throat.

The barrage of bullets swept across the area like a metallic storm, but only managed to tear a few vehicles and Xu Yan's afterimage to shreds.

A burly man, over two meters tall, roared and pounced.

His guardian spirit, a giant serpent even thicker than a anaconda, was like a whip studded with iron spikes and sharp blades in the hand of the god of destruction. It seemed to be lashing at Xu Yan's body from seven or eight tricky angles at the same time, but it only twisted and deformed the vehicles on both sides of the road, and even sent them flying high into the air.

Under the cover of the vehicle wreckage flying like petals from a fairy's shower, Xu Yan disappeared without a trace.

The attacker, wielding the weapon, lunged at the super sniper.

But all they found was a headless corpse, its life force suddenly collapsing, its headless cavity withering away in an instant.

The burly man riding the giant snake took a few steps forward and saw a manhole cover standing upright in the middle of the road, spinning continuously.

With a roar, the burly man sent the giant snake soaring into the air and diving into the sewer in an almost vertical position.

The ground beneath the entire street was rumbling, and manhole covers in front of us flew up one after another, followed by thick jets of water.

Unfortunately, despite dozens of jets of water being sprayed out, Xu Yan never appeared. The burly man spat out a mouthful of thick, yellowish-brown phlegm and cursed.

Xu Yan had fled too far, and he could no longer control his guardian spirit to continue the pursuit.

"The Faceless Man is dead."

The firearms expert, equally grim-faced, walked up to him and asked, "Have you caught the killer?"

The burly man shook his head.

A guardian spirit in the form of a giant python emerged from the manhole cover, looking equally murderous yet insatiable.

"We seem to be being watched; this is a trap."

The burly man pondered for a moment and said, "We should inform Lady Snake immediately."

He picked up the wireless communicator.

The gun expert, however, held down his arm.

“If it really is a trap, we shouldn’t have used the wireless communicator to contact Lady Snake, lest someone pinpoint her hiding place.”

The mission has failed.

The most important thing now is to minimize the losses.

After discussing for a while, the two attackers decided to take their two accomplices, who were badly injured from the explosion, and the corpse of their commander, "Faceless," and leave the area first.

However, before they could check on their two accomplices, a desperate scream came from the direction of the black attacker.

The gun expert and the snake-taming strongman exchanged a glance, both seeing the shock and fear in each other's eyes.

Although the members of this elite squad come from different branches, gangs, and merchant groups deep in the wilderness.

However, before taking action, they had already trained for more than half a month and had gained a deep understanding of each other's strengths and personalities.

The black strongman, codenamed "Iron Bones," is not only a tough guy who has practiced asceticism since childhood, enduring physical pain and having his pain receptors almost burned out.

He was also an extreme, radical, and fanatical follower of the "Absolute God Path".

For believers of the Absolute God Path, physical pain is an essential step on the path to ultimate power.

During the two weeks of secret training, whether in sparring with each other or in the inhumane concoctions personally prepared by Lady Snake, no matter how serious the injury or how strong the pain-stimulating agent, the black strongman codenamed "Iron Bone" never uttered even a muffled groan.

Even after being blown to pieces, with his white, broken bones sticking out, he didn't even flinch.

At this moment, what terrifying power is raging within "Iron Bones" that would cause him to let out a hysterical scream in a way that almost betrays his faith?

Before the two could get an answer...

With a whoosh, dozens of fire snakes shot into the sky.

That was another attacker, "Carrie," who was severely injured, with her long hair burning fiercely.

Her guardian spirit is said to be a Gorgon from the First Age.

After enduring endless torment in purgatory, the remnant souls of the past, in addition to their original ferocity and tyranny, have also mastered the ability to freely wield flames.

It was as if she had grown a head of magma that she could control at will.

The two attackers witnessed her swing her red hair, entangle herself with an armored personnel carrier, and in less than half a second, she melted the armor, which was more than half a palm thick, into crisscrossing cracks and tore it into pieces.

(End of this chapter)