Chapter 1046 ughter
After he massacred a dozen guards, thousands of low-level fiends began to appear behind the
terrifying first fiend ancestor.
Although they were of low-level status, the fiends were far from weak. Every individual fiend was more
powerful than any of the guards.
"ughter," ordered the first fiend ancestor menacingly.
The low-level fiends pounced at the given order. They rushed into battle, bloodlust smeared on their
faces.
"Ancestor, shall we collect souls as well?" asked a low-level fiend in a uniquenguage.
The first fiend ancestor red coldly in reply. The low-level fiend who dared speak twisted from
extreme pain and let out an anguished cry before turning into a puddle.
There was no patience for stupid questions for the first fiend ancestor. The other low-level fiends who
witnessed this trembled with fear and immediately understood what to do. Human souls were naturally
very useful to their ancestor so it was obvious that they needed to be collected.
They simultaneously flew into the air, causing a wave of darkness as they blotted out the sky and the
sun. Several panicked screams and cries burst from the city as they were engulfed in the darkness.
"Ie with a report!"
A guard burst through the doors of a great hall, staggering to the ground as he trembled from what he
needed to inform them about.
"Terrible news! The Deer City has been overrun with fiends. Hundreds of thousands of casualties have
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been reported."
"What?"
gasped the four greatest holy warriors. The shock in their voices gave away a sense of panic.
Just moments before, they had gone to patrol the city in the east. It was out of their calctions for the
Deer City down south to be attacked.
That was hundreds of thousands of civilians, most of which were some of the greatest minds and
warriors of the human race!
Gulping down their mourning, the four greatest holy warriors summoned seventeen Governors and
hurried to the Deer City. There was no time for remorse. They had to face the fiends quickly to protect
the other cities.
Their arrival was met with desecration. The Deer City was in chaos. The buildings had copsed, and
the air was putrid from rot and blood. The smell of death was all over.
The streets were painted with blood as severed arms and legs were strewn around the city. It was a
bloodbath.
The Governor of the Deer City fell to his knees as he cried in anguish.
His wife and children were all residing in the city.
"I''ll kill them! I''ll kill them all!" he cried.
His eyes were scarlet with pain and rage as he started throwing random attacks into the air.
"Where are the fiends?" asked Francis with a downcast look.
"Sir, they seem to have retreated."
Several strong cultivators who had witnessed the massacre from the sidelines reported that after the
fiends had killed everyone in the city, they retreated like a massive tide.
"No! This cannot be!" The faces of the four greatest holy warriors turned pale. The fiends'' retreat could
only have meant one thing.
"They must''ve gone off to another city to continue their murderous rampage. We must split up and
guard the cities. Once we find any traces of these fiends, we must immediately inform each other,"
Francis instructed hispanions. Then he flew off alone in one direction.
The other three greatest holy warriors, along with the Governors, returned to their own cities to keep
watch for the terrifying wave of fiends.
Back in the Holy City, Darren was isted in a secret chamber. To ensure Darren could stay focused
and sessfully create the array they needed, they sealed the chamber with another array to ensure
that none could enter.
Darren was trying his best to utilize his talent and observe the patterns of the big andplex array.
He had to admit that the Heavenly Exterminating Array was quite a challenge to understand. It required
the mysterious Universe Rule along with hundreds of thousands of forces of heaven and earth. Given
even the power of his avatar, it would''ve been impossible to create such a great array in a short span of
time. It would have taken at least ten thousand years or more.
''The witcher ancestor is truly powerful. Could his creating ability be stronger than my avatar''s?'' Darren
marveled in mind.
It had been said that the array was created by both the witcher ancestor and Hiram the Great. This
seemed odd to Darren since only rule cultivators or those who practiced something like rules had the
ability to create them. This could only mean that the array was mainly created by the witcher ancestor.
It took Darren several hours to use his Spiritual Domain Degree talent to finally observe a pattern in the
array. Those hours spent were simply observing, too. If he wanted to actually create it, he''d have to
have given it thousands of more hours of his time.
Of course, this was because Darren was a martial artist cultivator. If his rule soul had not been
separated, this process would''ve been much faster.
After studying a dozen of patterns, Darren began to feel a little tired. He rubbed his eyes and tried to
shake himself awake. Time was of the essence.
"Phew!"
Darren, noticing that he was close to dozing off, quickly opened his eyes and took a deep breath.
''The four greatest holy warriors are all hardworking. It takes them countless amount of energy and time
toprehend the great array.''
He decided to rest for a short time to regain his bearings. After which, he returned to studying the array.
Unfortunately, doubt began to creep into him as well. He started to worry that before he could find the
loophole they needed, the first fiend ancestor would arrive to y him.
''If worsees to worse, I wonder if I could even fend off the first fiend ancestor with my current
strength.''
In fact, Darren didn''t know the exact level of where his strengthy at all. He only knew that his current
strength was stronger than any of the four greatest holy warriors.
Given this, the four greatest holy warriors were all six-tribtion senior holy warriors. Darren estimated
that his own strength was perhaps equal to that of a six-tribtion senior holy warrior at the top level.
In theory, a six-tribtion senior holy warrior at the top level could hold his own against a holy emperor.
This meant that he could fight a cultivator who had just entered the level of holy emperor, solely in
terms of strength at least. However, if skills and weapons were part of his calctions then the battle
could not be won.
To battle a holy emperor, one needed to possess the strength of a seven-tribtion senior holy warrior.
For example, Barnes, a mighty seven-tribtion senior holy warrior, was stronger than the Dark
Emperor.
A seven-tribtion senior holy warrior as powerful as Barnes could probably even hold his own against
a strong holy emperor.
Despite this, not everyone who survived seven tribtions was as powerful as Barnes. After all, he was
at a great advantage considering he had the dodecahedral Fake God Character as well.
''The first fiend ancestor''s strength has restored for such a long time. Surely, he''s stronger than an
ordinary holy emperor by now. I fear I won''t be a match for him if the time for battle arrives.''
Darren began to make a logicalparison in his mind. Factually, his strength was still weaker than his
avatar—who''d fought the fiend before. His avatar''s strength was more or less the strength of a strong
holy emperor. It meant his own strength would still lose out to the first fiend ancestor''s power.
''I need to create the array as soon as possible. After itspletion, the four greatest holy warriors
would gain more strength. If we all fight together, there is a greater chance to defeat that first fiend
ancestor.''
Darren decided to shelve his fear and doubts for the meantime, and concentrate on finding the ws in
the array at hand.
Ten dayster, a huge roar woke Darren from his meditation.
The secret chamber rumbled violently.
''This is bad!'' Darren thought to himself. What he had feared had finally arrived. ''It must be the first fiend
ancestor! He must being this way!''
The time he had spent in the chamber was far from enough. Darren hadn''t evenpleted a tenth of
the array.
''I have to go out and have a look, '' he thought nervously.
Darren couldn''t wait to get out of the secret chamber. He swiftly flew off to see what was going on in the
city.
Upon his arrival, Darren''s heart dropped. He couldn''t believe his eyes. The situation was worse than he
had imagined.
The whole sky was covered with dark clouds and the city was utterly destroyed. Piercing screams and
cries could be heard from all around him. The miasma of death hung in the air.
Ten kilometers away from the city, there was what looked like a huge wave of ck creatures.
A few secondster, several hundred humans could be seen flying into the air. At the forefront were the
four greatest holy warriors.
"Kill them! Kill them!"
"Those bastards have ughtered two cities, and we must kill them all! We must avenge all who have
fallen by their filthy hands!"
In the past few days, the four greatest holy warriors and the Governors had vigntly guarded the
cities. The fiends, perhaps anticipating them earlier, seemed to have deliberately avoided them and
only attacked locations where they could not gather quickly.
The fiends quickly destroyed another city and ughtered all its residents—along with the city''s
Governor—and hastily retreated.
At this discovery, the four greatest warriors decided to lead the warriors andy ambush on one of the
cities. They were lucky to run into the fiends just as they were en route to their next victim—the Holy
City.
"Kill!"
Darren did not hesitate and went in for a kill in the blink of an eye.
Fiends exploded into blood and guts as he passed them.
Darren gave the fiends no time to think as he attacked them one by one while showers of blood spurted
in his wake. In mere minutes, he had already killed thousands of fiends.
"Look who it is! I see you''ve finally made an appearance,"
cackled a blood-red figure in the distance. At the sight of Darren, he made a wicked smile as he stood
under the gloom of the gray sky.