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

Chapter 274 Black Rift
The dwarf let out a startling roar that was completely out of proportion to his size.

Only now did I realize that I had fallen into a trap from the very beginning.

Hidden in the mist, the attackers, more terrifying than death itself, concealed a sealing card beneath the commander's mutilated body after killing him.

While he was focused on the black heavy armor and the abyssal lizard in front of him, the card detonated like a time bomb, delivering a fatal blow from the flank.

The dwarf felt his blood boiling.

The blood vessels seemed to be entangled and manipulated by the invading red threads, transforming into ravenous worms that rampaged and devoured the body.

He was in so much pain that his whole body convulsed and he spat out blood. He had lost the strength and courage to fight back or even to escape.

The black swordsman riding the Abyss Lizard began to accelerate.

The fishy smell, seemingly emanating from the depths of the River Styx, grew stronger and stronger, piercing his nostrils like a cold, sharp cone.

The dwarf mustered his last bit of life force and drove the three-headed, two-tailed giant snake forward to barely hold it off.

The black-clad swordsman swung his bladeless greatsword through the air, slashing out a visible black crack.

It was as if a hole had been torn open in the entire space.

Inside lies an endless abyss teeming with evil forces, possessing an irresistible allure.

The dwarf's guardian spirit wasn't even "sucked in," but rather seemed to be controlled by gravity, "falling" into the black rift.

Even the three-headed, two-tailed giant serpent could not stop the devouring force that seemed to come from hell.

All the hexagonal scales on its body stood up, and its three heads struggled frantically, trying to escape the black rift.

Two deformed, swollen tails pounded the street with a "rustling" sound, turning seven or eight already twisted and deformed vehicles into piles of scrap metal, and leaving deep scratches on the road.

But all this struggle could not stop the crimson flames spewing from the black rift, like thousands of demonic claws deeply embedded in its body, devouring it inch by inch.

In the blink of an eye, the dwarf's guardian spirit was completely devoured.

His blood, drawn by the "blood moon meteor," seemed to awaken a will to pursue freedom, gushing uncontrollably from his body until the very end.

When the last tail of the guardian spirit was licked and enveloped by the crimson flames and dragged into the depths of the black rift.

The dwarf, pale from blood loss, collapsed to the ground, trembling.

His gaze gradually froze, and he exhaled his last breath, filled with fear.

Xu Yan walked out slowly from the flames, thick smoke, and fog.

He meticulously examined the two new corpses—even though one had been severed in half, its internal organs spilling out onto the ground, and the other was gushing blood in an amount disproportionate to the dwarf's size, forming a huge pool of blood—he tirelessly finished them off, ensuring they were dead beyond any doubt.

Xu Yan snapped the dwarf's cervical vertebrae and shattered his brain through his skull, letting out a slight sigh of relief.

Looking around, the area was still shrouded in the ever-evaporating and spreading mithril mist, resulting in extremely low visibility.

All the drivers and pedestrians on the road had already fled to safety when the first explosion occurred.

Even if someone in the surrounding buildings were observing through glass, it would be unlikely that they could see what was happening here through the fog.

Even if they actually saw them, it wouldn't matter much; the existence of the "Undertaker" wasn't a secret to begin with. The reason they were willing to take the risk of killing these four was simply because the opportunity was too good, and their guardian spirits were too plump and tempting.

"The real game is about to begin."

"If you want to contend with a high-ranking commander of the Black Dream Organization like 'Snake Princess,' you'll only face certain death if you don't do everything in your power to improve your strength before the game even begins and keep evolving your Guardian Spirit!"

With that in mind, Xu Yan gathered the remains of the five attackers together.

They then approached the burning wreckage of the vehicles, ignoring the intense heat, and gathered them up one by one, tossing them onto the pile of corpses.

As the burning debris piled up, it gradually formed a metal tomb.

Even if the high temperature of over a thousand degrees Celsius cannot completely burn the remains to ashes, it can at least burn away any traces on the remains that might lead to Xu Yan or the "funeral director".

Several other vehicles had their fuel tanks intact and still full.

Xu Yan also simply and brutally tore off the fuel tanks one by one and threw them into the increasingly fierce flames.

Having accomplished all this, he clapped his hands and turned to head towards the Golden Iris Entertainment Center.

"Boom! Boom boom boom!"

Under the continuous high temperature, the fuel tank turned into incendiary bombs, completely casting the remains of the five elite members of the Black Dream organization into the metal tomb.

ten minutes later.

Xu Yan appeared outside the Golden Iris Entertainment Center.

It's calm here.

However, Long Jianhuan and his teammates were nowhere to be seen.

Just as Xu Yan was pondering which direction to continue pursuing, the wireless communicator vibrated again.

Long Jianhuan brought good news.

They caught the real Jean-Jacques!
"Xu Yan, your guess was right, this guy really did want to escape!"

Long Jianhuan's voice was very excited, "He didn't bring anyone with him. He drove a small, dilapidated van himself. If it weren't for the fact that the van's shabby appearance didn't match the loud engine noise, and if you hadn't warned him beforehand, he might have really gotten away with it!"

"We tracked him all the way to a warehouse near the east of the city—a 'safe house' he had prepared for himself. Inside was a modified six-wheeled off-road vehicle, already filled with fuel and loaded with valuables, including the same top-quality crystal coins as Sheikh Kratt that we had been searching for!"

"This guy is too cunning and too vigilant."

"If we are five minutes late, no, just three minutes late, he can slip away and use his powerful off-road capabilities to make a big detour through the wilderness and escape to any place. After that, catching him will be harder than climbing to heaven."

"Unfortunately, his suspicion and vigilance helped us a lot."

"He didn't trust anyone, so he didn't bring a single bodyguard; he was confident that his tricks could fool everyone. When we stormed into his safe house, he was still lying under the car doing a final check. When we pulled him out, he was still dumbfounded, as if struck by lightning."

"Xu Yan, where are you now? What's the situation with the Black Dream organization's attackers?"

(End of this chapter)