Chapter 44

In the territory of the Great Berlin City-State, behind the southern 9527 section of the city wall, outside a simple rock fortress, Xiao Jie tightly gripped the long spear in his hand, his eyes, filled with countless blood vessels, almost popping out of their sockets.

The crude steel spear, about three meters long, had a handle as thick as a goose egg, wrapped in sweat-absorbing linen. After countless owners, the originally white linen had turned blackish-yellow, emitting a faint, pungent odor.

Xiao Jie squatted on the ground, surrounded by death-defying team members who were pale and emaciated. Like Xiao Jie, these team members wore metal collars around their necks, containing powerful crystal bombs. If they were to die in battle, these bombs would explode, turning everything within a three-meter radius around their bodies into ashes.

If Xiao Jie and his team dared to flee the battlefield, their commander would not hesitate to detonate the collars around their necks, blowing them to pieces. As death-defying team members, they could only live longer by fighting to the bitter end.

"Old Jack, you've ruined me!" Xiao Jie stared blankly at the sky, his dry eye sockets devoid of any moisture. For so many days, since Old Jack's tavern was sealed by the security department, Xiao Jie had endured countless tortures, cries, and wails. He had no more tears left.

He watched helplessly as his subordinates, who had fought and survived with him on the streets, were killed like pigs and dogs by the hunters. He watched helplessly as Old Jack, who had been arrested along with him, was torn apart inch by inch into a模糊的血肉！

He hated Old Jack, but he couldn't bring himself to hate him! If it weren't for Old Jack taking in Xiao Jie and his group, Xiao Jie might have starved to death ten years ago! Over the years, Old Jack had provided for Xiao Jie, giving him a stable life.

"Damn old man, even if you were a blood demon worshipper, you should have told me! At least we could have discussed how to be safer and more secretive!" Xiao Jie lowered his head, sobbing silently.

"It shouldn't have come to this, with the tavern door blocked, all evidence found, and no chance to argue!"

His fingers gripped the spear tightly, the tips turning a ghastly white from the force. In his mind, the sharp laughter of Fennys and Bright, who had tortured him, and the agonized screams of his brothers and Old Jack before they died, echoed repeatedly. Bloody scenes flashed before his eyes, and his body trembled violently.

He couldn't forget the sight of Old Jack, with all his limbs broken, tied to a cross, being burned inch by inch by the flames from Fennys' hand until he was a bloody mess. He couldn't forget the scenes of his subordinates, his brothers, being torn apart by the ferocious beasts released by Bright.

"God's forgiveness? Penance?" Xiao Jie clenched his teeth, almost piercing his gums, and blood flowed from his lips, dripping to the ground.

"And that damn little guy, what's his name? That damn vampire! Why did you come to the Great Berlin City-State? If it weren't for you, how could we have been caught?" Xiao Jie's nails cracked with a 'snap,' and blood slowly trickled down his fingers. He seemed to feel no pain, gripping the spear tightly, and the skin on his palms slowly split open.

A loud explosion shook the nearby ground.

In the distance, the screams of the Great Berlin City-State security forces echoed. A powerful blood demon army was outside the city, launching an attack! This was unprecedented. Since the establishment of the Great Berlin City-State, although blood demon spies had continuously infiltrated the city to cause destruction, there had never been a large-scale attack on the city!

The Great Berlin City-State had a population of hundreds of millions, with over 200 million civilians in the main city alone, and millions of regular troops and countless mercenaries. Not to mention the elite strongmen led by the thirteen Grand Magistrates, who could hold their own against the most powerful blood demons!

This city was the forbidden territory of the blood demons!

But today, tens of thousands of blood demons, along with over a million captured civilians and soldiers, had come to the city and launched a fierce attack!

Huge bombs shook the city walls of the Great Berlin City-State violently. If it weren't for the powerful defensive barrier and the countless crystals stored to power the barrier, this section of the wall would have been breached long ago!

Even so, the shockwaves from the bombs still caused countless buildings to collapse, with at least thousands of soldiers dead or injured. The air was filled with cries of pain and groans, and security forces were constantly carrying bloody casualties to the rear fortresses for treatment!

Wave after wave of artillery fire was almost despair-inducing. Xiao Jie's ears were almost deafened by the massive explosions. He felt a numbness in his body, and the vibrations from the ground made his internal organs almost turn upside down.

He touched the deadly collar around his neck and smiled bitterly.

With the blood demons attacking, they, the death-defying team members who had committed serious crimes, would certainly be the first to be sent to the front lines! These powerful blood demons were not something they could resist! He would certainly be killed, but he was not willing to die!

He still had to take revenge on Fennys and Bright! He had to kill them with his own hands to die in peace!

A sharp whistling sound came, and a middle-aged man in a gold and red court uniform, with blood flames surging around him, suddenly appeared above the southern 9527 section of the city wall. He looked down at the soldiers on the wall, who were scurrying about like ants, and slowly raised his right hand.

"Humans, cry out under the power of the great Prince Farnburg!" Farnburg raised his hand, and the blood demon's secret evil spell, 'Song of Withering,' was unleashed to its full extent. Cracks appeared in the ground in all directions, and large amounts of blackish-red mist surged out. Anything touched by this mist rapidly aged.

In an instant, a century passed, whether it was stones or living beings, they all aged in a split second.

Rocks weathered, buildings collapsed, and the fully armed soldiers let out piercing screams, which quickly became weak. The soldiers aged rapidly, their youth and lives quickly fading.

No, their vitality did not fade; it transformed into a visible red flood, rushing into the sky and continuously merging into Prince Farnburg's body. As this vitality replenished him, Farnburg's appearance became younger, and he quickly transformed from a middle-aged man in his forties or fifties to a man in his early thirties.

"This is retribution! Damn humans!" Farnburg muttered curses: "I was peacefully sleeping in my secret lair! But your greed forced me out of my beloved coffin and captured me here. You brought this upon yourselves!"

"Farnburg has never been a broad-minded person! You will regret it! Ever since you tortured me with branding irons, I swore you would regret it!"

The blackish-red mist rolled, enveloping everything within a kilometer.

Xiao Jie and the other death-defying team members, who were outside the mist, watched in horror and despair. The scenes within the mist were like something from a nightmare. Everything was withering and decaying. The regular troops of the Great Berlin City-State turned into skeletons one by one and then into dust. Their weapons and armor quickly weathered and corroded, disappearing in the blink of an eye.

The tall buildings slowly collapsed and crumbled, completing their life cycle in a few breaths.

Soon, this section of the city wall became a ghostly wasteland. All the regular troops of the security forces, including the commander of the death-defying team, turned to dust. Xiao Jie watched in terror and tension as Farnburg floated in the air. Suddenly, he leaped up and screamed at the top of his lungs.

"Hey! Old man, I'm Xiao Jie from Jack's Tavern! Do you know Old Jack? Have you heard of him? He's one of you! Damn it, he's one of you! I'm one of you too! Get me out of this damn place!"

Farnburg looked down, his cold, merciless gaze sweeping over Xiao Jie's thin body. What Jack's Tavern? What Old Jack? What did these things have to do with him? Raising his right hand high, a ball of blackish-red mist rapidly compressed and spiraled around Farnburg's fist. If he threw this mist down, the death-defying team's fortress where Xiao Jie was would be obliterated.

At that moment, Yin Xuege, flapping his life-bound bat wings and wielding a blood spirit sword, rushed in from outside the city. He had just been under the care of Yin Tianjue and had a brief, intense battle with several skilled hunters from the Great Berlin City-State.

Several hunters were killed, and Yin Xuege sustained minor injuries. However, the intense battle stimulated the absorption of the essence blood of three thousand-year dukes in his body. At this moment, Yin Xuege's blood energy surged, and both his physical strength and blood demon power rapidly increased. He had broken through the count bottleneck and smoothly advanced to the rank of marquis.

He came to Farnburg's side, just as he was about to observe Farnburg's unique techniques, when he heard Xiao Jie's desperate curses.

"Damn it, you vampires! You stinking bats! You can't turn your back on us like this! Old Jack is dead! He died to protect you! He didn't say a word before he died! He didn't say anything! And my brothers, they're all dead!"

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