The Devil’s Cage - Chapter 272

Chapter 272

After the voice was heard, the almost shut study door was pushed open .

"2567!"

Simones was extremely delighted and surprised . As he looked at Kieran, both his hand and smoking pipe started shaking .

Elli, who was standing in the middle of the room, was looking weird, as if she was about to cry out . She eventually just gave him a cold shrug .

"Simones, Elli, it’s been a while! I’ll go deal with the thugs outside first . Can you guys prepare some dinner for me? There was no meal provided on the train . Such inhuman passenger treatment!" Kieran said in a joking tone as he placed his big backpack down and took out his [Infantry Spear] and the box with the [Arrogant Word] .

"Be careful…" Simones warned him .

Elli was quiet, but Kieran could sense that her gaze was locked tightly on him .

Kieran signaled that it was OK and disarmed all the traps around the door, placing the bottle with the dissolving solution beside it .

Then, without further hesitation, he activated the [Reckless Rush] effect of [Wild Soul] .

A heavy, loud growl was heard, and a huge rhino mirage formed behind Kieran and charged forward with an earth-shattering power .

BANG!

The door was rammed open . The thugs that had already arrived at the garden were trampled by the rhino mirage before they could even react to the bursting wood chips coming from the door .

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Blood and flesh splashed in all directions as bones and spines were crushed to bits .

There was no mercy for the thugs in front of Kieran . The mirage was like a truck driving over a watermelon, sending its red, watery flesh all over the place .

A bright bloody trail starting from the front door extended to the garden’s entrance .

Suddenly, darkness covered the entrance, compromising the vision of the remaining thugs that had escaped the mirage . Kieran had disappeared right before their eyes .

Unsure of what had happened, the thugs tried to look around for him . They soon noticed something .

"There!"

A thug turned his head around and saw Kieran, who was still standing at the garden’s entrance .

Instantly, five thugs threw themselves at Kieran, their weapons all aimed at his weak spots .

Seven more thugs widened their distance from him and started softly chanting incantations . However, a second sonorous chanting was suddenly heard from behind them .

"A… I…"

Things were bad for the chanting thugs, whose hearts skipped a beat . They instinctively wanted to dodge the attack coming from behind them, but it was impossible for them to move while they were chanting . Half of them were instantly struck by magic repulsion and fell to the ground due to excessive movement and distraction .

The remaining half did not fall, but they started spitting fresh blood from their mouths . Every single one of them tried to widen their distance from the spell behind them .

Crawling on their knees or staggering forward with their feet, the thugs gave their utmost effort to survive .

"O!"

However, the next moment, a fiery cone-shaped flame with a sulphuric smell engulfed their figures .

"Aaah!"

The thugs’ screams of agony and pain were filled with despair . They sounded unable to believe what was happening . They could not understand how Kieran’s spell could be so much quicker than theirs .

One of the thugs tangling with the flames was shouting non stop as he drew his last breaths .

"Why? WHY?"

The thug pulled out item after item, trying to put out the flames, but the flames burned even hotter instead . After taking two more struggling breaths, the thug became a charred corpse, just like all the others who had been engulfed by the fiery flames .

Thanks to the empowerment of [Fusion Heart, Fiery Sulphur], the [Burning Hand]’s Strong Attack had become even more powerful, despite Kieran performing only half the incantation and gesture required to cast it . Its attack had been boosted up to Powerful .

Powerful flames was not something easy to extinguish, let alone when there was sulphuric poison inside them .

[Sulphuric Poison: Burned targets will undergo a Constitution authentication of -2 compared to the caster . If they fail, they will suffer an extra 20 Poison Damage for 5 seconds . ]

Kieran had already known the outcome before he had cast the spell, so he had spared enough energy to check on his burned targets .

The moment Kieran had cast [Burning Hand], he had already switched to a different target .

The dark red two-handed sword was wielded with the force of a mountain at Kieran’s next target . The thug tried to dodge the sword, but he was pinned down by the strong wind blown at him thanks to the sword’s force .

The thug moved his sword above his head, in hopes of blocking the incoming slash from the [Arrogant Word] and surviving, but the thought itself was a joke .

The seemingly good Magical longsword was instantly dented into an arch . Rendered unable to withstand the force of the [Arrogant Word], it broke into two . The thug wielding the longsword shared the same fate as his weapon . He was also slashed into half .

Kieran quickly moved his wrist around and the vertical [Arrogant Word] was turned sideways, slashing at its next target .

As Kieran’s second target had watched his comrade being split into half, his blood and organs spilling all over, his expression had become ugly . That was before he even saw the dark red sword with the bewitching aura being aimed at him .

The thug dared not even resist the slash . He turned around immediately in an effort to escape .

[Arrogant Word] was shining red . [Arrogance] had been triggered!

The great sword, which already had an unstoppable force, became even quicker, slashing over the thug’s body with a speed that exceeded the thug’s imagination by far .

The escaping thug was slashed into half horizontally, the agonizing pain in combination with his dying breath overwhelming him like a raging wave and eventually drowning him .

The thug’s survival instinct made his body crawl forward using all its strength, seemingly able to escape the grasp of death . The more he crawled forward though, the more his intestines spilled out, accelerating his death before it could escape .

The thug was still crawling forward instinctively, making a great effort .

"He . . Help…" he mumbled, but the rest of his comrades ran away even faster .

They were like panicked rabbits, running away in all directions . After a full 10 minutes of running, the thugs thought they had finally gotten rid of Kieran .

When they thought they were safe, they came to a stop . The moment their feet halted though, Kieran appeared once again .

They started running for their lives once more . The process was repeated over and over again, until the thugs’ lungs started burning from exhaustion .

At the end of this vicious cycle, they were feeling excruciating pain on every inch of their bodies .

They all fell to the ground and stared at Kieran in fear . Kieran was wielding his great sword at them .

When the fallen thugs came back to their senses, they realized they were still in the garden .

It had been an illusion! The thugs suddenly realized they had been deceived, but it was too late .

Their panicked state had made the [Half-Dead Gaze]’s [Dead-Man Gaze] and [Fear Illusion] perform exceptionally well . All the thugs had suffered substantial mental damage .

They could not resist the death the [Arrogant Word] had brought .

The chilling darkness shrouded them entirely .

However, not every single one of the thugs had been affected by the [Dead-Man’s Gaze] effect and fallen victim to the [Fear Illusion] .

One of the nimbler thugs had managed to climb up to the second floor of the house and tried to barge in . He had no intention of facing Kieran anymore . He had decided to target Elli and Simones instead!

If he could lay his hands on either one, he could grasp at a thin ray of survival . He had a plan in mind .

When the nimble thug saw Kieran leaping towards him, he grinned . Everything was going according to his plan . When Kieran reached the second floor, completely exhausted, the nimble thug had already climbed up to the third floor like an ape .

"I can survive this…"

The thought bloomed in the nimble thug’s mind, but before it could flourish, he was slashed in half by the [Arrogant Word] .

The upper body of the thug was spinning in mid-air, his remaining life energy allowing him to see Kieran, who was also on the third floor of the house .

"How…"

As the thought lingered in his dying mind, he fell onto the house entrance, empty of any life energy .

Kieran landed on the ground after him and glanced over the [Modii Boots] . He clenched the [Arrogant Word] with both his fists, swinging it left and right .

The swinging removed all the blood and organs left on the sword’s body, forming a red arch on the ground .

Kieran put away [Arrogant Word] and picked up the [Infantry Spear] from the ground . Then he turned around and saw a sea of green .