Chapter 275: Chapter 274: A Complete Victory

The battlefield was a gory scene, littered with severed limbs. Members of the Noble Alliance Army and the Polante Thief Gang lay dead and wounded, their bodies strewn across the ground as blood flowed like a river.

Ronin gasped for breath.

He might have killed ten enemies today, maybe twenty, or even more.

Since arriving in this world, this was the most he had ever slain.

He had killed so many that by the end, he was simply exhausted.

It was a mental exhaustion.

He looked into the distance. The destructive force of the clash between Golden Knights had leveled all the surrounding buildings, and the fight between Toru and Amicus had moved further away.

But now, it wasn’t just Toru, Tarren, Marvin, and Ridder besieging Amicus; the two Vice Leaders who had finished off Kilbat and Lanivisa had also joined the battle.

A six-on-one fight, and Amicus was still holding them all off!

The Thief Gang’s Leader was undeniably strong, but the fact that Toru and the other five wanted to take him alive was giving him an opportunity to fight back.

Amicus held many secrets; capturing him would be a huge boon for Wushan Castle.

Against a top-tier fighter, a live capture was often far more difficult than a kill.

By now, Amicus knew his Thief Gang had been all but annihilated. Perhaps because he also knew he was about to die, the pressure he felt actually lessened.

Instead of thinking of retreat, he fought with growing ferocity.

“Hahaha! Six against one, and I almost killed one of you! You’re all so weak, so very weak!”

Amicus let out a wild laugh. He parried Ridder’s attack with his sword, and with a flash of light from his fist, a surge of Power slammed into Ridder’s chest.

Ridder quickly twisted aside, frowning. ’What’s happening?’ he wondered. ’Why is he getting stronger the longer we fight?’

“Press him together!” Ridder shouted.

At his call, Toru, Philip, and Marvin charged. From four directions, four Knight’s Longswords bore down on Amicus at once.

But in that instant, an astonishing Power erupted from Amicus. His entire suit of Fighting Qi Armor seemed to solidify as his aura surged violently.

“Break!”

With a deep roar, the light around Amicus exploded. The massive shockwave from his erupting Fighting Qi drastically slowed the four Longswords. Then, with a sweep of his own blade, he shattered their combined attack and sent all four men stumbling back!

“That’s the Power of Conquest!”

Toru shouted in shock, “He broke through!”

A Golden Knight had shattered his Falu Wheel and stepped into the Meteor Level.

Under the pressure of the siege, facing the complete annihilation of his men, Amicus had actually achieved a breakthrough.

’Who would ever believe this?’

“Hahaha! So this is the Power of Conquest of the Meteor Level!”

Amicus stared at his hands excitedly.

He could feel that the Power within his body had been amplified. He was on a completely different level than before his breakthrough!

“Kill!”

Amicus’s first target was Toru. He was eager to test his newfound strength on a Golden Knight.

“Watch out!”

Ridder and the others immediately converged on Toru, barely managing to block the attack by combining their strength.

Now, even a casual Combat Skill from Amicus was a move they had to treat with the utmost seriousness.

Thankfully, he had exhausted a great deal of his stamina and Fighting Qi before his breakthrough, leaving him unable to execute his most powerful Combat Skills. Otherwise, they would have been in even greater danger.

Be that as it may, after such a long battle, their own Fighting Qi reserves were hitting rock bottom. They too could only rely on close combat, a contest of pure power and speed.

“Forget about taking him alive,” Toru said gravely.

“If we keep this up, someone’s going to die!”

The others nodded grimly. Tarren was already too grievously wounded to fight. If they kept trying to capture Amicus, it was only a matter of time before one of them got killed.

“Take me alive?”

A smirk touched Amicus’s lips. “You’re all going to die!”

He scanned the battlefield like a monarch surveying his kingdom. “And the first to die… will be you!”

Amicus burst forward. His target wasn’t Toru, Ridder, or Marvin—it was Ronin, who had just paused to observe the battlefield.

“Sir, look out!”

“Ronin, be careful!”

In truth, Amicus, like the captured Golden Knight Brisot, intended to kill Ronin. That would give this losing battle at least some meaning.

“Fuck!”

Ronin swore. Facing the charging Thief Gang Leader, he drained his body of Fighting Qi and unleashed a Flame Burst Slash.

It was Ridder’s signature skill, one that Ronin had now mastered.

“You deceived everyone! So this is your true strength!”

Amicus was wary of the attack; he had already been wounded by Ridder’s Flame Burst Slash in their earlier exchange.

A sharp Sword Aura cut through the Flame Burst Slash. The violent explosion roared right next to Ronin’s ears, making them ring.

A storm of dust and blood kicked up from the impact, shrouding the area in a murky haze.

“Die!”

Amicus’s figure shot out from the cloud of dust, his Longsword stabbing straight for Ronin’s throat.

Ronin swung his Flowing Flame Sword sideways, parrying the blade’s tip. The immense impact was so great that even the Flowing Flame Sword bent under the strain.

But it was no ordinary weapon, and it did not break.

“Quick reflexes, but it ends now!”

Amicus prepared to deliver the final blow to Ronin, who had been knocked back, but Ridder was already on him. A sharp Sword Aura swept out, only for Amicus to dodge it.

“You want to die, too?”

“Don’t worry, you’re next.”

Amicus’s target didn’t change so easily. Killing anyone else would never be as beneficial as killing a member of the Wushan Family.

But at this moment, the combined attacks of the four Knights halted his advance.

Ronin struggled up from the dust, a sweet, metallic taste rising in his throat as he coughed up a mouthful of blood.

He had no time to worry about it. He immediately cast Wind Binding to disrupt his opponent’s movements.

As Amicus brought his sword down, his arm suddenly stalled—a Wind’s Touch had wrapped around it.

He tried to lift his leg, and another one bound it in place.

“Useless Magic!”

He broke free with sheer power and sent Marvin flying with a kick.

But he was not at his peak, and his speed was still affected. Toru and Ridder attacked from his left and right, aiming to run him through, but he somehow managed to twist his body away at the absolute limit.

He used the momentum to leap into the air and kicked out with both legs, sending the two Knights flying.

“Crimson Flame Fire Snake!”

A massive Giant Python made of Flame materialized before Ronin. It coiled its body nimbly and pounced on Amicus, who had just landed and hadn’t yet regained his footing.

BOOM!

The Fire Attribute Magic seared Amicus’s chest plate glowing red, and the massive force of the blow sent him tumbling for dozens of meters before he skidded to a halt.

He felt a tremor run through his entire body as he coughed up a spray of blood.

“Fifth-level Magic… He’s a Chief Mage?”

Amicus was utterly stunned.

’Eighteen years old… A Silver Knight and a Chief Mage? Are the Seven Gods playing some kind of sick joke?’

He staggered to his feet, trying to launch a counterattack, but just then, Toru and Ridder charged him again.

They no longer had their Knight’s Swords, but they threw their arms around Amicus from both sides, grappling him in a tight hold.

“Ronin, kill him!”

“Sir, now is the time!”

Amicus sensed the danger and frantically erupted with his last reserves of Fighting Qi. He raised his fists and hammered them down on the two men, trying to break their hold.

But Toru and Ridder held on for dear life, refusing to let go.

Just then, Ronin shot forward, aiming his Flowing Flame Sword at Amicus’s chest.

SHLICK!

As Amicus stared with wide, unbelieving eyes, Ronin’s Longsword pierced straight through his body!

“The one who’s dying here is you, Leader of the Thief Gang!” Ronin growled.

“Get off!”

It was unclear where Amicus found the strength—or maybe Ridder and Toru had simply reached their limit—but he broke free and slammed a palm into Ronin’s chest.

Ronin was sent flying, spitting a mouthful of blood as he landed hard, but a palm strike with so little force behind it couldn’t do much real damage.

Amicus, on the other hand, had put too much force into the violent movement. It directly worsened the wound to his heart. He let out a sharp cry of pain and collapsed, lifeless, into a pool of blood.

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