Heroes' Prison

Chapter 372 - 364: Soul of Vengeance

At the edge of his vision in the distance, a figure suddenly rushed forward, stepping through the void with a force that swept the grass along the way into the air.

Soon, Huang Yi could see the shadow clearly—it was a Half-beastmen Holy Domain warrior who had mocked him last night.

"We’ve been tricked!" Huang Yi turned and said to the Light Demon in a deep voice. Now, they were locked onto by the Holy Domain warrior and there was no escaping whatsoever!

While he was scheming against others, they were doing the same to him, only before he had always succeeded, but this time he had failed!

However, he felt a tinge of doubt. This place was too far from Dragon City; even for a Holy Domain warrior to come over, it would take a long time, they must have premeditated this.

"Humph, that kid was right after all, you did come here, and you didn’t make me run this way for nothing. This time, I want to see how you escape!" While speaking, the Holy Domain Half-beastman had already arrived in front of Huang Yi and Light Demon, his towering figure standing in the void, with the golden sunrise shining on his golden skin, like a Vajra War God.

At that moment, Huang Yi somewhat realised that the Holy Domain Half-beastman had come here early after hearing others’ speculations, and now he coincidentally ran into them.

"Next, he’ll likely take you hostage to threaten me. But don’t worry, I’ll save you," Huang Yi turned and said to the Light Demon.

The Holy Domain Half-beastman laughed out loud, "Haha! That’s right! I will take him as a hostage to threaten you, but you can’t save him. Exchange him for your real body, this incarnation of yours is worthless!" Having said that, the Holy Domain Half-beastman’s fan-like hand slapped straight down towards Huang Yi!

Against the attack of the Holy Domain Half-beastman, Huang Yi had no ability to resist and was instantly killed.

But this was his incarnation, and dying carried no penalty.

Next, he chose to resurrect and appeared in a city named Lingxiao City—the nearest Respawn Point.

"Big brother, I did my best! I didn’t even get to use my Ultimate Move, the Dark Domain, he caught me first," Light Demon sent a message to Huang Yi at this moment.

There was no helping it, when others couldn’t handle Huang Yi, they resorted to going after the people close to him.

"You’ve suffered! But they won’t hurt you, they’ll just use you to exchange for my real body. Hold on for a bit, I’ll save you. As long as it’s not the Celestial Realm Experts who make a move, I have ways," Huang Yi immediately replied.

"What’s the plan for the rescue? If you exchange me for your real body, then all the things we’ve done before will be meaningless, tantamount to throwing away all our previous efforts. It’s no different from you surrendering directly last night, I don’t want you to exchange me. If it’s really not possible, I’ll just die once; even if I reincarnate, you can still have Brother Lei use the Deep Sea Battleship and come to the continent of my reincarnation to pick me up," replied the Light Demon.

"No need, I’ll try other methods first, and if that’s not working, then there’s one item that can do wonders," Huang Yi replied.

...

Meanwhile, far away outside the territory of Dragon City, a group of Half-beastmen with majestic auras were gathering. There were over eighty people altogether, notably the batch of Holy Domain Half-beastmen warriors that Huang Yi had repelled previously.

Their auras were slightly disordered. In the Holy Domain battle last night, they were ambushed by a hundred Criminals from Heroes’ Prison, each one wounded, with some of the severely injured merely sitting cross-legged on the ground, lacking even the strength to stand.

Behind this group of Holy Domain warriors was a sea of people, too many to see the end of, with the entire field of vision filled with people—they were the 15 million strong from the Wind Kingdom.

Last night, they had dispersed and searched carefully, and finally found this group of Holy Domain Half-beastmen. Each one of them, as if finding their pillar, converged around them.

Ice Wind Water Soul stood closest to the group of Holy Domain warriors, waiting anxiously for something.

"Ding!" Suddenly, a message came through. It was from Lang Ge, who had stayed behind in Wind Kingdom. He couldn’t wait to check it.

The next moment, he showed a smile, his whole being becoming incredibly excited.

Taking a deep breath, he spoke loudly to the entire troop, "Tell everyone the good news! Light Demon has been captured by the Holy Domain Half-beastman! He’s an important person in the Hero Guild, and now we can use him to blackmail Instakill!"

"Ah! That’s great!" The 15 million people suddenly erupted into a thunderous cheer, an overwhelming show of spirit!

And the eighty plus Holy Domain Half-beastmen also received the news, and they too showed a hint of a smile.

"Kid, I didn’t expect you to actually have some skills, to have really predicted they would go there," a Holy Domain Half-beastman turned and glanced at Ice Wind Water Soul, cracking a slight smile. Although they had tracking abilities, they were unable to track Huang Yi and Light Demon who were far outside the territory of the Wind Kingdom. Last night, Ice Wind Water Soul found them, and then he made this prediction, instructing them to dispatch a Holy Domain Warrior to hasten to that location. And now, it indeed paid off.

"Thanks for the compliment!" Ice Wind Water Soul nodded with a smile. However, in his eyes, there was a barely perceptible trace of something unusual.

In fact, this decision was not his own. Last night, after hearing that Huang Yi had repelled a hundred Holy Domain Half-beastmen, he was somewhat at a loss. But then he received a message from a person named Zhuge Liang.

In that message, Zhuge Liang confidently guessed that Huang Yi would likely attack his Wind Kingdom stronghold, advising him to disperse the main forces, search for those Holy Domain Half-beastmen immediately, and convince them to head to the territory of the Wind Kingdom to capture Huang Yi.

Ice Wind Water Soul took Zhuge Liang’s words very seriously. The elders of the Hall of Famous Generals all adopted the names of historical figures, such as the guild leader Lv Bu and Zhuge Liang, as well as others like Zhao Zilong, Huang Zhong, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei. These individuals are all influential members of the Hall of Famous Generals. Ice Wind Water Soul has always cooperated with them, following their instructions.

Indeed, Ice Wind Water Soul himself had also speculated that Huang Yi might attack his stronghold, which is why he ordered the Wind Kingdom to be heavily guarded. But he didn’t have the same boldness as Zhuge Liang to have the Holy Domain Half-beastmen go and capture someone personally. After all, it was only a guess. If the Holy Domain Half-beastmen went there and Huang Yi was not actually there, causing them to make the trip in vain, he would be finished.

But now, his worries no longer existed. Although the Holy Domain Half-beastmen didn’t capture Huang Yi, they captured an important figure of the Hero Guild, Light Demon—which was already quite a valuable catch.

Now, all he had to do was to wait for the drama to unfold!

...

Back in the Tower of Pantheons, Huang Yi’s true body was tirelessly level grinding. He estimated that it would be just a few more hours before the Holy Domain Half-beastmen would return with Light Demon. It would then be time for him to make a choice.

One after another, monsters perished before him as he killed them absentmindedly, immersed in endless combat while pondering all the possible scenarios that might arise soon.

The upcoming battle could very well determine the fate of those eighty-plus Holy Domain Half-beastmen as well as his own.

The few hours now felt like those precious moments of calm before stepping onto the battlefield, each second of peace hard to come by.

Huang Yi checked the Guild Contribution Points. Thanks to a day’s desperate construction at the port, the contribution value had accumulated to a significant amount, allowing for another expansion of the territory.

Currently, no other guild could keep up with his frenzied construction. No one would have thought that in just two days, he could expand the territory again.

...

Gradually, time ticked by second by second.

The sun slowly rose into the sky and then gradually inclined towards the west. The warm morning sun turned into a lonely sunset, casting the entire Dragon City in a light like a city covered in the dust of history. Another day was about to pass.

Just then, as Huang Yi was fervidly killing monsters, he received a message—surprisingly, it was from Aomiao, the intelligence officer under Little Riddler’s command. The message was short, just one sentence—

"Instakill brother, our scouts have found that they’re about to arrive!"

Upon reading the message, Huang Yi took a deep breath and immediately left the Tower of Pantheons.

An unavoidable confrontation was up next.

Huang Yi gathered the hundred Hero Criminals guarding Dragon City and led them towards the location of the eighty-plus Holy Domain Half-beastmen.

A massive procession of Guardians followed behind Huang Yi, a motley crew of criminal heroes with various odd shapes and varying abilities, shaking the earth and kicking up clouds of dust that blocked out the sun.

"This time, I’m going to take down ten!" declared the Boxing King, one of the lead Guardians, swinging his massive fists, at level 195.

"Then let’s have a contest to see who can kill more!" A bewitching woman wreathed in dark mist spoke. This woman, known as Soul of Vengeance, had a high level of 194. When the group of Holy Domain Half-beastmen attempted to flee last night, she deployed a special skill called "Shape Shifting" that swapped back one of the escaping Holy Domain Half-beastmen, who ultimately fell to Huang Yi.

"Don’t get so excited so soon; if they hide outside the territory, we can’t exert our strength unless we expand our territory like last time," the Sand King said languidly, glancing at Huang Yi ahead and asked, "Instakill, can you expand the territory this time?"

"I can! When the time comes, follow my orders," Huang Yi nodded and turned to Soul of Vengeance, saying, "Soul of Vengeance, they’ve captured an important member of our guild, Light Demon, and your Shape Shifting skill could be effective. As soon as I expand the territory, before they can react, you must immediately use Shape Shifting with Light Demon to rescue him."