Heroes' Prison

Chapter 938 - 886: 12 Soldiers of Annihilation

"You can’t kill me!"

At this moment, a panicked voice suddenly rang out from the high sky.

Huang Yi looked up, only to see outside the Heavenly Curtain Barrier, Dao Feng was pursuing a man in black and continuously attacking him, wielding two war blades that shone with golden light.

The man in black in front kept fleeing, dodging while shouting loudly.

This man in black was none other than the previously arrogant Aries. His former swagger had completely disappeared. Facing ordinary super-first class masters, he might have had the capital to be arrogant, but in the presence of Dao Feng at this moment, he was defeated to the point of only having the power to dodge, becoming a little lamb awaiting slaughter, just like his alias.

"Puff!" Dao Feng seized upon a mistake made by Aries, slashing him with a blade, resulting in the sound of blood and flesh being cut. Blood spurted from Aries’s body, and his figure flew backward like a kite with a broken string.

"Dao Feng, you can’t kill me. The power backing me is far beyond what you can contend with. If you kill me, it will invite disaster, and even your Hero’s Continent will have to accompany me to the grave!" Aries steadied himself again, took a deep breath, and warned with a loud but inwardly timid voice.

Dao Feng’s gaze was like a blade, continuing to charge at Aries with the two golden war blades without any intention of stopping.

Despair finally flashed in Aries’s eyes; he simply gave up the futile struggle and said in a trembling voice, "Dao Feng, even when facing enemies before, you would spare a life, why won’t you give me a chance today?"

Dao Feng rushed in front of Aries, placed the war blade on his throat, and shouted, "Those enemies before only harmed me personally. But you invaders hurt my compatriots, trample our land, kill our brothers. For you invaders, I wish I could dismember you into pieces!"

With that said, Dao Feng’s muscles tensed, and he chopped off Aries’s head!

The sun was almost completely set; the air was filled with auspicious light, radiant with sunset’s glory, infinitely beautiful.

Aries’s head, with the skeleton mask, fell through the twilight. The blood spurting from his neck dyed the countless red clouds a deeper red, particularly tragic.

This powerful Soldier of Annihilation, thus fell a tragic death in front of countless people, over Sun Island.

When he went on the expedition, he probably never imagined he would meet such an end. He was personally trained by the King of Annihilation, a Soldier of Annihilation with over 250 levels of Senior Heavenly Domain power, expected to be an invincible presence on this battlefield.

Yet he hadn’t even finished one battle, and was already tragically killed on the spot!

Soldiers of Annihilation are made from the corpses of Demon Clan masters, decreasing their level by 10 each time they die, with no chance of recovery. The solution is for the King of Annihilation to use more advanced corpse materials to create a new body. But the King of Annihilation is busy, how could he have time to make a new body for Aries?

This death of Aries can be said to be a permanent loss of strength, unable to return to peak status.

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Meanwhile, in the space where The Seven Archdemons resided.

An endless expanse of wilderness, with only some withered grasses, no large animals in sight, desolate as the cold wind blew, making clumps of the little grass sway with the wind. In the central area of this wilderness, stood a particularly massive Ring Mountain rising eerily into the sky, with a vast palace complex built in its sunken center.

These palaces were all constructed with black boulders, ancient and rough, carrying a majestic primordial aura, like giant beasts crouching on the dark earth.

This place was the Demon Palace of one of The Seven Archdemons—The King of Annihilation. The King of Annihilation was a bloodthirsty Demon King with a strong desire for destruction. Whenever he invaded the Second World, he left a wasteland of destruction behind, without any intact buildings. However, his Demon Palace was built without restraint, palace following palace, and each had its particular purpose.

Inside one of these palaces, there were twelve tall plaques arranged according to some constellation, appearing like twelve tombstones in the darkness, emanating a solemn and harsh atmosphere.

Each plaque bore the name of a constellation, and a number. The twelve plaques were vaguely divided into three groups, four plaques per group.

The last four plaques were Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, with numbers reading—257, 255, 253, 256 respectively.

"Crack!" Suddenly, the Aries plaque split open with a rift, like a wound, strikingly conspicuous. The number on the Aries plaque—257, suddenly changed to 247.

These plaques were the Plaques of Life for the twelve Soldiers of Annihilation, and the numbers were their levels. Regardless of distance or location, each time they died, the respective plaque got a rift, and the number decreased by 10.

The appearance of such a phenomenon on Aries’s plaque indicated he had died once, losing 10 levels.

At that moment, two clouds of black smoke swirled above the Pisces and Capricorn plaques. The smoke thickened, gradually forming into two shadows, finally solidifying into two men dressed in black, wearing skeleton masks.

These two were the Soldiers of Annihilation, Pisces and Capricorn, their plaques bore numbers of 270, noticeably higher than the numbers on Aries and the other three plaques.

After appearing, they both turned to stare at the rift on Aries’s plaque.

"Someone actually killed Aries, could it be an NPC master from the Central Continent? Apart from the Central Continent, no one could kill Aries; even super-first class masters can’t," Pisces said, frowning.

"Wait until Aries resurrects, and ask him directly?" Capricorn folded his arms, calmly watching Aries’s plaque.

"No matter who it is, anyone who dares to kill Aries is destined for death if they oppose our Demon Clan! Aries and the others are merely the weakest batch of our Soldiers of Annihilation, and being able to kill Aries doesn’t mean they’re our match," Pisces said, a trace of viciousness flashing in his eyes.

After a while, Aries’s plaque suddenly emitted a cloud of black smoke, gradually forming a corporeal shadow, the Aries who had been killed by Dao Feng above Sun Island.

Still dressed in black, wearing a skeleton mask, his eyes were wide open, filled with burning anger as he roared, "Damn it! So damn it!"

"Who killed you?" Pisces asked bluntly.

Gritting his teeth, Aries said, "It was that bastard Dao Feng. I’m going to kill him back to Level 1!"

"Dao Feng?" Pisces was slightly taken aback, "How could Dao Feng have killed you? You should have been evenly matched!"

"The Dao Feng now is not the Dao Feng you imagine..." Suppressing his anger, Aries recounted the events over Sun Island verbatim.

"Sword Emperor and Sword Emperor have become so powerful, even you aren’t their match!" Capricorn expressed disbelief.

Pisces patted Aries on the shoulder, comforting, "Don’t worry! We’ll avenge you right away!"

Aries shook his head, coldly saying, "This time, the twelve of us Soldiers of Annihilation will go, and I’ll invite Fallen General as well. Killing Dao Feng alone won’t quench my anger, I want to annihilate the whole Hero’s Continent, let them know the cost of killing me!"

Capricorn stroked his chin, pondered, "Very well! We’ll make the time for the twelve Soldiers of Annihilation to take a trip, but Fallen General probably can’t join us."

"Why?" Aries asked gruffly.

"Fallen General has just received a reward from the King of the Fallen, and has advanced from the high-level Heavenly Domain to level 290 top-level Heavenly Domain. He is currently assimilating his newly acquired strength, which takes time. Actually, even without him, we twelve Soldiers of Annihilation are enough to destroy the entire Hero’s Continent. No, even just ’Unbeaten’ alone is enough to destroy the whole Hero’s Continent."

"Indeed, with ’Unbeaten’s’ strength, even looking at the Central Continent, only some Racial Holy Land patriarchs can be his match," Pisces nodded slightly, smiling lightly.

"Then let’s go!" Aries said, impatiently leaving the palace.

Pisces and Capricorn exchanged a glance and also leisurely followed out.

The hall returned to tranquility, with the twelve plaques still standing in the darkness.

Among them, one plaque stood clearly taller, with the words—Lion on it, and below were three numbers—280.