Chapter 911: Chapter 39 The First Appearance of the Grim Reaper_5
The black-clad attackers all stood frozen, their powers not very strong, having never practiced advanced combat qi. Under the influence of the Ultimate Evil Hades Sword, their souls were devoured, their lives gradually slipping away. Only those dozens at the periphery, over a hundred meters away from Ah Dai, managed to retain some clarity. With a strange cry, they spurred their horses desperately and fled, the overwhelming Evil Aura may not have claimed their lives, but it had already driven them mad.
At the end of August in the year 994 of the Sacred Calendar, Grim Reaper Ah Dai slaughtered over seven hundred people for the first time using the Evil Aura of the Sword of Hades. Nearly a thousand departed souls absorbed by the Sword of Hades and the Dragon’s Blood. The kind-hearted Ah Dai began his path as the Grim Reaper, and although his nature was benevolent, he inevitably brought slaughter.
At that moment, the tribe members of the Yalan finally regrouped under the leadership of their three chieftains, found horses, and gathered nearly a thousand able-bodied youths wielding hastily acquired weapons, charging frenziedly towards the black-clad crowd. They met head-on with those escaping black-clad attackers. They immediately killed their way in. The black-clad attackers didn’t even know how to dodge, and in a short while, more than half of them had fallen.
Yan Shi and Yan Li were frantic; they knew all too well what it meant to be besieged by thousands. Their strikes were merciless, the majority of the black-clad attackers dying at their hands.
"Clang—" the sound of an ice blade clashing rang out as Yan Shi blocked Yan Li’s battle axe aimed at the last black-clad attacker.
"Big brother, why won’t you let me kill this bastard? I must avenge Ah Dai and the others!"
Yan Shi yanked the black-clad attacker in front of him, saying, "Haven’t you realized that these people have not resisted at all?" He shook the body of the black-clad attacker vigorously, roaring, "Damn it, who the hell are you?"
The black-clad attacker’s gaze was dull, his face filled with terror, muttering, "Don’t, don’t kill me, please, Grim Reaper Sir, I was wrong, I was wrong. Don’t kill me, Grim Reaper Sir." The will of the black-clad attacker, who had been robbed of his will, was filled with images of his comrades turning into mummified corpses under the Sword of Hades.
Yan Shi was stunned for a moment. Grim Reaper? Where did a Grim Reaper come from? Anxious, he threw the black-clad attacker aside, swung his long knife, and shouted, "Brothers of the Yalan tribe, charge with me!" Saying this, he took the lead, charging at the unmoving black-clad attackers. When they got close, the Black Knights did not react at all. After slaying a dozen, they were shocked to find that these people could no longer move. Yan Shi felt something stir within him, remembering the fate of the thieves in the Elf Forest, and cried out loud, "Everyone, stop! These people are already dead." He was right; these soulless people could indeed be considered dead. Not just them; even the horses, standing still and bleeding from their nose and mouth, had lost their lives. At the slightest touch, they would collapse to the ground.
Eventually, Yan Shi and Yan Li found the collapsed Ah Dai and Xuan Yue among the crowd, filled with amazement. They had survived a siege of a thousand without dying, even annihilating most of their enemies—what level of power was required to achieve this? The two of them hurriedly helped Ah Dai and Xuan Yue up. Xuan Yue had also fallen unconscious, being tightly held by Ah Dai in his arms. Yan Shi tried several times but could not separate them. Blood still trickled from the wound on Ah Dai’s back; Yan Shi sealed his blood flow with his qi and handed him over to Yan Li who stood by. Yan Li, possessing extraordinary strength, didn’t find it difficult to carry both of them simultaneously.
The three chieftains of the Yalan tribe had also come near, studying the soulless Black Knights. After discovering that Ah Dai and Xuan Yue were not dead, Yan Shi finally relaxed and approached the chieftains, asking, "Chieftains, do you know where these attackers came from, and why they attacked you at this time?"
