Chapter 1 Suren's Escape

Suren fled alone, six figures hot on his heels.

But as he neared the extremely dangerous inner ring of the Dawn Ruins, his pursuers began to panic.

Seven second-tiers chasing a single first-tier; not only had one of them been killed, but if they let their target escape, how could they face anyone back home?

The curse space had collapsed, and everyone understood that the "Wailing Banshee" had definitely been killed by Suren. The hair material must have been taken as well.

Had they painstakingly created an opportunity, even stimulating the banshee into a second-stage lord, only to have someone else reap the rewards?

Would the young master of the Oliver family, that one, Oliver, let it go?

As bad luck would have it, their communicator crackled to life with that Danze young master's furious roar: "Damn it! That bastard took the banshee's head! You must kill him and bring back my material!"

An unquestionable command.

The faces of the pursuers turned ugly at those words.

Except for the Steam Party cadre, "Mechanical Tyrannosaurus" Toynbee, the other five were either bodyguards or vassals of the Oliver family. They were high-level combatants the family funded, meaning they had no right to refuse young master Danze's orders.

Hearing the command from the communicator, the second-tiers exchanged glances, their brows furrowed.

"Trickster" Lloyd's face was so gloomy, it could drip water.

Only he knew how "determined" Danze was to get that banshee's hair.

Despite being Danze's puppetry teacher, how could he not know the young master's perverse personality?

The intruder escaping was a minor matter, but if the material was lost, the young master would surely fly into a rage.

Even his teacher's reputation wouldn't be enough to appease him.

The little old man hesitated for only a moment before urgently shouting, "Chase him! That guy has already used the Black Scythe three times; at most, he has one strike left, and the curse backlash will explode immediately. That stealth puppet of his will also certainly die, and then, he'll be no threat... Otherwise, none of us will be able to go back!"

His implication was clear: whoever took that last strike would be out of luck.

"Alright!"

The others exchanged glances and could only bite the bullet and charge forward.

As long as they didn't have the resolve to defect from the Oliver family, the order had to be carried out!

...

"Eh... they're back again?"

Suren frowned.

He had just used the 【Voodoo Doll】to ambush and kill a second-tier class, and those guys had only quieted down for a moment. He didn't expect that feeling of being targeted to return.

Suren looked back at the suddenly accelerating second-tier classes and guessed what was happening: "Did they get a death order from that young master?"

Thinking of this, he felt that things were not good.

Those guys had no way out, and Suren himself had no way out either.

He glanced ahead, and without any hesitation, plunged straight into the deeper parts of the ruins, where the fog was thicker.

That "Gun King" Gage was powerful, but after all, gunslingers weren't good at rushing and chasing people.

In the Dawn Ruins, with their misty atmosphere and complex architecture, as long as the distance was great enough, the threat of the gunslinger would become smaller and smaller.

However, the enemies had obviously guessed this as well.

Those guys seemed to know that if they continued to chase, even if they caught up, their situation would be very dangerous deep in the ruins. At this moment, they were preparing to decide the outcome in one go!

Gunfire rang out again.

"Bang!"

The gunshot was half a beat slower than the bullet.

Even before hearing the sound, Suren clearly felt that he had been hit, and he staggered again.

And coincidentally, he had once again hit a shield: the 【Voodoo Doll】that used "Trickster" Lloyd's blood as a medium.

Almost exactly one second after the doll was blown up, Suren saw the gnome who was controlling the two puppets falter.

Although the other killing intents were getting closer and closer, Suren decided to kill this guy first!

Without any hesitation, he pulled the invisible ghoul, and with a flick of the blade, slashed towards the gnome.

However, this time it wasn't as smooth as before.

When he swung the blade, the second-tiers all used their means, their speed instantly increasing several times, charging up without any regard.

They looked like they were determined to kill Suren in one fell swoop.

...

The Eight-Armed Spider Spears were fast, but that didn't mean that second-tier classes didn't have means of short-range bursts to catch up.

The reason they hadn't used them before was that they all had their own agendas and wanted the other to be the one to trigger the traps.

After all, Suren had the Black Scythe in his hand.

But now, they guessed that Suren's scythe only had one more chance to strike.

And after seeing that Lloyd had been hit, the remaining few breathed a sigh of relief in unison.

Better a dead friend than a dead me.

In the end, it wasn't them who were the unlucky ones.

Since this strike had already been made, the melee classes with movement and charge abilities no longer had any qualms and charged over with all their might.

"Mechanical Tyrannosaurus" Toynbee reacted the fastest.

The modified jet propulsion device had long been filled with enough pressure, and now it was released in one go.

With a "Pfft" sound, white steam poured out like a rocket launchpad.

He was like an accelerating cannonball, crossing hundreds of meters in the blink of an eye.

Even though Suren had repeatedly stopped and changed direction, this guy also depressurized and stopped, and after a few more long-distance bursts of jet propulsion, he caught up to him in the blink of an eye. Then, in the air, a mechanical arm with a grappling hook ejected with a "Ka" sound...

Suren was controlling the invisible ghoul to swing the Black Scythe to kill the gnome in the distance, and he had to try his best to avoid the mechanical grappling hook.

Just because of this dodge, the direction of the Black Scythe's swing was slightly off. It didn't cut the gnome's neck, but only severed his legs with one strike.

And Suren didn't have time to finish the job, because at this time, the killing intent was approaching again.

In addition to the mechanical arm, following closely behind was an Oliver family bodyguard in a suit.

That guy jumped with all his might, and his trouser legs exploded, turning into exaggerated muscles like frog legs, leaping a hundred meters...

"Bang!"

Just as he was sheathing his blade, the frog-legged bodyguard in the suit also rushed in front of Suren, and crashed straight into his arms.

How fast was a second-tier melee class?

Suren didn't have time to react at all.

His eyes captured the opponent's movements, but his body couldn't react at all. In a critical moment, he could only barely use his spider legs to pull a black puppet in front of his chest to protect himself.

With just this collision, with a "Crack" sound, the puppet was smashed to pieces.

Suren's eyes bulged, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.

Then, with another muffled "Bang" sound, the tremendous force spread out like a collapsing dam from the point of impact.

It was like being hit in the heart by a stampeding rhinoceros, instantly giving him the illusion that his soul was still in place, but his body had already flown out.

A moment later, his soul finally reacted and returned to his body.

Only then did Suren feel the dizziness of the blood flowing backwards towards his limbs.

While flying backwards, just as he felt the existence of his body, suddenly his entire body slammed heavily into a building, smashing through two thick walls in a row before stopping.

Then, another mouthful of dirty blood spurted out, splattering all over the ground.

If there wasn't an alloy plate armor on his chest, this collision might have killed him on the spot.

However, even more uncomfortable than him was another person!

The moment the black puppet was smashed to pieces, more than ten meters away, the mechanical warrior Toynbee, who was about to come over to help, screamed in pain on the spot, almost fainting while clutching his head.

The 【Voodoo Doll】that used this guy's blood as a medium exploded at such a close distance. The pain was unimaginable.

It was also because of this method that Suren wasn't sandwiched between the two and killed on the spot.

...

Suren's internal organs had shifted from the collision, and his entire body felt like it was falling apart, unable to muster any strength.

In this critical situation, he didn't have time to breathe. Suddenly, his eyes sharpened, and the release of emotions filled him with madness.

In the next instant, the painful expression on his face instantly disappeared, and his originally severely injured body seemed to no longer feel any pain.

He braced himself, and the four spider arms showed their sharp spears, standing in front of his chest, while the other four rapidly pulled out several strange puppets to protect him.

After completing this defensive move, Suren's hands made a grasping motion in the void, wanting to grab the Black Scythe in the distance and fight to the death!

But unexpectedly, he instantly felt a different force on the silk thread.

Not scattered pieces of meat, but a complete ghoul.

Suren instantly understood something, and a surprise flashed in his heart: "Eh?"

Even though he controlled the precise power of each strike, he had reached the limit of backlash after four strikes in a short period of time.

Especially the last strike, which was too far away, was equivalent to the previous two strikes.

The curse backlash of the Black Scythe was triggered immediately!

Although there was a shroud wrapping it, Suren himself couldn't see where the wound had appeared on the corpse, but at the moment of swinging the blade just now, he clearly felt the movement of the ghoul "hemorrhaging" through the vibration of the silk thread.

Originally, Suren thought he had to rely on his own flesh to fight with the scythe again, but at this moment...

He was surprised to find that the Abomination Ghoul hadn't died!

...

"The backlash didn't hurt the Abomination Ghoul's vital parts?!"

Suren immediately understood what had happened.

The wound didn't appear above the neck, or in the heart, and any other place wasn't a fatal injury to the Abomination.

Its terrifying recovery ability would heal the wound in a very short time.

This meant... Buff refreshed!

The Abomination Ghoul had survived a round of curse backlash and could strike another four or five times!

Thinking of this, Suren's eyes lit up.

Although he was spitting blood in a mess, a mad smile overflowed from his face.

On the other hand, the frog-legged bodyguard didn't intend to give Suren a chance to live at all. After knocking him into the ruins of the building, he kicked off again and charged over.

The sound of wind breaking "Swoosh swoosh" attacked, and the speed was so fast that people couldn't react.

Because Suren was prepared, this guy looked at the poisonous spear standing in front of his chest and obviously realized the danger.

He didn't dare to hit the sharp spear, but stopped precisely in front of the spider spear, then used the momentum to stand on one leg and perform a spinning leg sweep.

Absolute power crushed him, and his kick directly blew up two strange puppets. Then, the kick, like an iron whip, didn't lose its power at all, and heavily kicked Suren's waist.

"Bang~"

A muffled sound with bone cracking.

Suren suffered another heavy blow, and his entire body was kicked out like a sandbag, collapsing a thick wall.

"Pfft" A stream of dirty blood spurted from his mouth and nose, almost spitting out his heart and lungs.

However, the bodyguard obviously hadn't seen the Runic Strange Puppets. Questioning close contact, while severely injuring Suren, he was also affected by the wailing of the 【Howling Doll】, and his entire person was dazed for a moment.

It was also in this daze that Suren was given a chance to breathe.

He got up and unhesitatingly injected himself with a sobering potion, lest he faint protectively because his body couldn't withstand the severe pain.

While injecting the medicine, the eight spider spears behind him had already controlled the Abomination Ghoul outside the ruins to swing the Black Scythe again!

Suren looked at the bodyguard who was dazed for a moment, grinned, and a mouthful of blood-stained white teeth: "Hehe..."

I'm not dead, it's your turn to die.