Chapter 74: The Death of Sagas

Chapter 74: The Death of Sagas



After several intense confrontations, Lu Heng had a good grasp of Sagas' attributes.

Sagas' strength attribute was above 40 points, and his agility was even higher, surpassing 43 points.

Lu Heng's current strength was 35 points, and his agility was 45 points.

In terms of strength, Lu Heng was far inferior to Sagas, but his agility was slightly superior.

Therefore, in a direct confrontation, Lu Heng would always be knocked back by Sagas' attacks.

However, relying on his extremely high agility and micromotion technique, he could still maneuver around Sagas' attacks and counter without losing ground.

A few days ago, when Lu Heng encountered Sagas, his only choice was to flee.

Now, he could sever Sagas' wings with a single sword strike and hold his own in a head-on fight.

The rapid increase in his combat power was evident.

Moreover, this was a battlefield skirmish, not a friendly duel.

Su Muyu joined the fight, and together they surrounded Sagas. She controlled the Skydom Falcon to dive-bomb Sagas.

Originally, Sagas was the ruler of the skies, always dive-bombing his opponents.

But now, the situation had changed. The Skydom Falcon dominated the skies, and with each loud eagle screech, it dive-bombed Sagas.

Under Su Muyu's 4-point psychic power, the Skydom Falcon's dive-bomb attack had 5 times the psychic attribute in attack power, which was 170 attack power.

Even with Sagas' extremely high defense, 170 attack power was enough to pose a threat.

Moreover, the Skydom Falcon targeted vital areas like the eyes and heart, forcing Sagas to defend himself.

While controlling the dive-bomb attack of the reconnaissance eagle, Su Muyu also raised her crossbow, aimed at Sagas' back, and fired a flame-attributed elemental arrow.

The flame arrow struck Sagas' back, igniting a blaze that scorched his skin, infuriating him.

Roar!

Sagas turned around in anger, saw who had shot him, and roared as he charged towards Su Muyu.

Su Muyu, who was shooting from 50 meters away, felt a bit nervous when she saw Sagas rushing towards her. She quickly activated her invisibility and retreated towards the Banser Clan's formation.

Lu Heng saw Sagas pursuing Su Muyu, so he activated the second acceleration of Gale Step and used the Seven-Segment Sword Step's Moon Pursuit Style, striking at Sagas with his sword.

Sagas had originally planned to crush Su Muyu first before dealing with Lu Heng, but halfway through his charge, he realized she had disappeared, and a sharp sword light was approaching from behind, forcing him to turn and block.

The battle between the man and the demon resumed.

Su Muyu ran to a distance of 100 meters, patted her chest, and exhaled in relief.

It was impossible for her to claim she wasn't scared at all when she saw an Overlord Demon charging towards her.

However, her invisibility was highly effective, and Lu Heng was intercepting Sagas, ensuring her safety.

She had been shooting from 50 meters away and was startled once. Feeling that 50 meters wasn't safe enough, she retreated to 100 meters, gathered her elemental arrows, and aimed at Sagas.

Among the five-dimensional attributes, the perception attribute represented the comprehensive perception abilities, including insight, vision, hearing, and intuition.

Metahumans with high perception had superior vision and hearing compared to ordinary people. They were also more sensitive to danger and better at discovering hidden clues and traps.

The First Rank Transformation skill, Sky Eye, further enhanced their vision.

Therefore, Su Muyu's vision far exceeded that of ordinary people, as if she had an eight-times magnification scope. She could also observe through the perspective of the reconnaissance eagle.

When using elemental arrows, she could negate most of the wind resistance and gravity, ensuring high accuracy even at a distance of 100 meters.

Every time Lu Heng used his body technique to create distance, Su Muyu's arrows would precisely strike Sagas.

Sagas repeatedly turned around in anger, but Su Muyu always maintained a distance of over 100 meters.

If he could still fly, this distance would be a simple dive-bomb, but his wings had been severed by Lu Heng, rendering him a flightless vulture.

This put him in a one-sided beating situation.

As the Winged Demon Overlord from the Evil God's world, he was one of the strongest forces on this land.

Wherever he appeared, opposing creatures had only one path: death.

As powerful as he was, he now became a trapped beast, struggling in vain.

He raged, he roared, he fought with all his might, but he couldn't find a way out.

Under the combined assault of Lu Heng and Su Muyu, Sagas' injuries mounted.

Sensing the threat of death, he dared not continue the fight and retreated towards the temple, howling skyward to summon the Winged Demon air force to his rescue.

Seeing the flock of Winged Demons in the sky, Su Muyu immediately switched targets. She controlled the reconnaissance eagle to attack the Winged Demons, rapidly firing flame arrows and taking down several Elite Winged Devils.

Lu Heng unleashed Gale Step to catch up with Sagas, created a shadow clone for a pincer attack, suppressed Sagas, and then swung his sword, unleashing Thunder Strike.

Boom!

The thunderous strike slammed Sagas to the ground.

The raging thunder ravaged his body, each arc mercilessly slicing his flesh and draining his life.

He had once been the most powerful being in this world, instilling the deepest fear in his opponents.

Yet, at this moment, he was utterly helpless, his consecutive battles leaving him severely wounded. He refused to die, but he had no other choice.

He struggled to his feet, raised his spear, and launched a final counterattack at Lu Heng.

Lu Heng blocked the counterattack with his sword and, in the same motion, swung his blade, beheading Sagas and putting an end to his life.

【Kill the Winged Demon Overlord Sagas and absorb 200 Demon Energy.】

【Source Energy level increased to 19, all attributes +2, Agility attribute +0.6.】

Su Muyu also leveled up to 17, gaining an increase in all attributes, and his combat power continued to rise.

After Sagas' death, a crystal core was extracted.

Lu Heng picked up the crystal core, with no time to examine it, he directly stored it in his inventory and headed to meet up with Iron Arm.

The resurrection ritual was still underway in the temple, and it was imperative to launch an attack immediately. Otherwise, once the Dark God Barton was resurrected, all of Lu Heng's efforts would be in vain.

...

With the fall of the Winged Demon Overlord Sagas, the remaining elite Winged Devils lost their will to fight and fled back to the Barton Temple like headless flies.

Iron Arm led the Banser Clan warriors, pushing forward with siege engines, continued to hurl bombs and boulders at the temple.

Boom! Boom! Boom...

The siege engines' attacks forced the demons to retreat into the temple.

The Banser Clan warriors launched an assault on the temple's front gate, clashing with the Horn Demon army guarding the temple.

Lu Heng saw the intense battle at the temple's entrance and turned to Su Muyu, saying, "Notify the other two metahuman teams. Let them join the attack on the temple from the back door."

The Banser Clan warriors attacked the temple's front entrance.

Lu Heng, Lin Zeyu, and Sitigai led the metahuman teams in an assault from the temple's rear entrance.

The Banser Clan's offensive distracted the majority of the demons.

As a result, there were fewer demons guarding the temple's rear entrance, and the metahuman teams launched a charge, breaking through the rear entrance and entering the temple's interior.

The other two metahuman teams, seeing the advantageous battle situation, decisively joined the fight, tipping the scales of victory in favor of the Banser Clan.

After entering the temple, the demons guarding it roared and charged forward, engaging the metahumans in a chaotic battle.

Lu Heng and Su Muyu chose a narrow passageway unguarded by demons, leading them to the second-floor platform of the temple's main hall.

At this moment, the resurrection ritual continued in the main hall.

The Flame Horn Devil Overlord emerged from the soul box, holding the corpse pieces of the Dark God Barton, and placed them into the Blood Feast Chalice filled with Source Essence blood.

These corpse pieces were the Dark God's minions, gathered over a century from various Abyssal worlds.

Among them, the most important piece was the pitch-black heart.

At this moment, the heart had absorbed the blood, emitting waves of evil energy.

As Lu Heng stepped into the main hall, he felt a psychic pressure.

【Received spiritual pollution from an unknown entity, -1 Spirit.】

Lu Heng turned sharply to look at the black heart, the source of the spiritual pollution.

Even before the resurrection, it had already begun to release spiritual pollution.

Once resurrected, no one here would survive.

Lu Heng prepared to jump down from the second-floor platform to stop the ritual.

Just then, someone blocked his path. It was none other than Lei Jin Hao.

Lu Heng saw his appearance without a hint of surprise, for everything was as he had anticipated:

"So, you've chosen to become a traitor, even if it means becoming the Dark God's minion?"

Lei Jin Hao held his head high, his expression defiant, and spoke in a drawn-out voice:

"I will not become anyone's minion. I only obey strength. Gathering great power within myself, one day, no one in this world will be able to control my destiny."

Lu Heng shook his head and smiled, sighing, "It seems every traitor thinks this way, but not a single one has escaped the fate of falling into the abyss."

A cold smile curled Lei Jin Hao's lips as he scorned, "You speak as if you can see through everything, but you're just an ant struggling to become stronger."

He wasn't born into a life of fortune at the finish line. He had fought in underground boxing matches, smuggled for gangs, and fought wild dogs for food. He had crawled his way up from the filthiest gutters to his current position, so he understood what it meant to be an ant.

Everything he had achieved was taken by force, fighting humans and dogs alike. In his eyes, recovery was the pursuit of strength, and he would stop at nothing to gain it.

In his world, everything had to be fought for and seized.

So, when he appeared at Gardenia Beach, he immediately seized the beach and the crystal core.

Because that was his way of survival.

Lu Heng didn't know Lei Jin Hao's past, nor did he want to know. Facing a traitor, a single word of betrayal was enough to encompass all the cause and effect.

"That's right, you've already accepted the Dark God's blessing. No amount of words will change that. Let's settle the grudge between us here."

Lu Heng slowly drew the Aurora Blade from the void.

Lei Jin Hao's arms trembled, revealing a pair of arm guards, and a wolf soul aura rippled around his body as he proudly said:

"Originally, there was no mortal enmity between us, and I didn't have to kill you. It's just unfortunate that you harmed Gong Zhenting's son. There's no other way; you must die."

"Have you already forgotten being forced into Rampage with a single move? Has the backlash from Rampage healed?"

Lu Heng had heard the name Storm Fist King many times before his rebirth, but they had never crossed paths.

Because in Lu Heng's previous life, he only awakened a year after the Abyssal invasion and, though he became a top-tier metahuman, by the time he rose to prominence, Storm Fist King had already achieved fame and become a regional overlord.

At that time, Storm Fist King had already retired from the front lines, rarely appearing in public.

Therefore, the two never crossed paths, and there was no opportunity for a fight.

(End of Chapter)

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