novelraw Chapter 268 -268-The Blade Storm Domain Unfolds!
Chapter 268 -268-The Blade Storm Domain Unfolds!
A powerful sense of terror suddenly surged from the depths of the Mind Demon General’s heart.
It was so overwhelming that he could barely breathe.
Danger, danger, danger!!
With his sharp instincts, the Mind Demon General immediately sensed the horrifying power of the [Sword of Stellar Judgement].
He had no doubt that if that sword struck him—or even merely brushed against him—he would die on the spot.
Almost by reflex, the Mind Demon General turned to flee.
But Evelyn merely raised a hand lightly, and the [Sword of Stellar Judgement] shot toward him like a streak of starlight.
In the blink of an eye, that single ray of light became a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand...
The Mind Demon General did not even have a chance to dodge before he was effortlessly riddled with holes.
Evelyn nodded in satisfaction. The death of the Mind Demon General gave her emotions a brief moment of release.
Come to think of it, the trick of splitting the [Sword of Stellar Judgement] into countless blades was something she had secretly learned from Caelan.
"My [Sword of Stellar Judgement] just now... looked a little like Lord Caelan’s [Thousandblade Rend], didn’t it?"
Evelyn snapped her fingers, and the [Sword of Stellar Judgement] dissolved into specks of starlight, vanishing into the air.
With the Mind Demon General slain, the remaining defenders turned pale with fright.
"How is this possible? Our strongest general was killed in a single move?!"
"The human awakener is way too monstrous! Is this even an opponent we can handle?!"
"Why don’t we just surrender? There’s no way we can win this battle!"
"Surrender? How dare you even say that? Don’t forget—your family and mine are both under His Majesty Shaki’s watch! If we die in battle, only we die. But if we surrender, not a single member of our families will survive!"
So the surviving demon race defenders launched yet another desperate counterattack.
Against this remaining pack of trash, Evelyn simply put away the Supreme Staff.
She did not even need to chant anymore. All she did was snap her fingers, and enormous fireballs as massive as hills burst from her fingertips and came crashing down upon the demon race defenders.
At this moment, Evelyn no longer felt any thrill in battle. She was simply harvesting the lives of the demon race defenders with numb efficiency, like a machine.
...
Outside Fallen City, at the altar—
More and more Orefiends, after being afflicted by the "curse," began to resist.
Especially under the protection of the [Divine Mirror Dragonlord], they had gone from passive targets to active attackers.
The massive shield had been shattered by the [Divine Mirror Dragonlord], and the "cursed" Orefiends had already begun launching assaults against the surrounding city walls.
The Orefiends had gained power, and at this moment, their eyes burned with the flames of vengeance.
"How is this a curse? This is clearly the awakening of us Orefiends!"
More and more awakened Orefiends clashed with the spectators on the walls.
Though they possessed little combat skill, they relied on their sheer desperation for revenge and forcibly killed quite a few high-ranking demons.
Some weaker high-ranking demons even dropped to their knees and begged for mercy.
But before the blood-crazed Orefiends, such pleading meant nothing.
The [Divine Mirror Dragonlord] continued rampaging through the altar, while the Orefiends kept battling the high-ranking demons on the walls and the guards stationed at the altar.
Once the Orefiends and the demons became completely entangled in combat, the few launch devices that remained were rendered utterly useless.
Seeing this, Jester Tycoon was so furious his eyes nearly split open.
He had spent three hundred years scheming to earn a single chance to oversee the Fallen Revelry.
And now, that very spectacle was being destroyed by Caelan’s own hand.
"Caelan, stop this at once!!"
"We’re the same kind of people—why are you doing this?!"
"We’re friends, aren’t we?!"
"Is this because of that crazy woman?! If you like, I can give you any woman you want—there’s no need for this, brother!!!"
"Lord Caelan, let’s work together! If you kill these Orefiends, all the Orefiends’ Cores from this event can be yours. How about it?!"
Jester Tycoon shouted himself hoarse, desperately hoping Caelan would stop the destruction and cooperate with them.
Because if the [Divine Mirror Dragonlord] continued its rampage, the damage it would cause would be catastrophic.
Facing Jester Tycoon’s desperate pleas, Caelan’s eyes only gleamed with faint coldness.
"You keep calling me your friend, but don’t think I’m unaware of what you’ve been doing behind my back."
"Jester Tycoon, I advise all of you to surrender. If you keep resisting, death is the only outcome. Surrender now, and I’ll kill you instantly in a gentler way. That way, you won’t feel any pain."
The moment Jester Tycoon heard those words, his face turned incomparably grim.
"Lord Caelan, are you really determined to fight to the bitter end?"
Caelan paused slightly, then smiled and shook his head.
"Only the fish will die. The net won’t break. And besides, I never intended to let any of you go from the very beginning. After all, I don’t need to remind you what you’ve done to the human race, do I?"
After saying that, Caelan had no further interest in speaking with Jester Tycoon.
The truth was that over the years, although the demon race had outwardly established diplomatic ties with humanity, in secret they had long been cozying up to the elves. Worse still, they had launched numerous surprise attacks against the human race on the battlefield, causing devastating casualties.
And this group of high-ranking demons led by Jester Tycoon were the core members behind the plan to wipe out humanity.
So Caelan had long since planned to eliminate them all in one sweep. Before doing so, he had merely allowed them to serve whatever value they still had.
"All right. You can die now."
As Caelan spoke, he lightly snapped his fingers. In an instant, the longsword behind him flew out on its own!
Without needing Caelan’s control, the sword was able to slash by itself.
A single arc of sword light appeared utterly unremarkable.
Yet the moment that sword arc was unleashed, the [Divine Mirror Dragonlord] behind him followed up with [Thousandblade Rend]!
In the blink of an eye, tens of thousands of sword beams surrounded nearly all of the high-ranking demons.
Seeing this, Caelan curled his lips into a faint smile.
He raised his hand and clapped twice.
"Excellent. Now that everyone is here, let’s have a proper talk about compensation inside the [Blade Storm Domain]."
"That is, if you don’t want to die!"
The high-ranking demons present instantly showed looks of panic.
They all turned toward Caelan and asked in terror,
"What do you mean by that?!"