Chapter 434
Chapter 434
“Three years ago, there was a terrorist attack by the Black Devil Society in the Southern Military Region. At that time, I was part of the counter-terrorism team that followed the military Region’s forces to suppress and eliminate the Black Devil Society members. Do you know how many people we deployed that time?” The Wolf Fang Captain asked Blade Edge.
Blade Edge’s curiosity was piqued, and he asked, “How many?”
The Wolf Fang Captain held up one hand, waving it in front of Blade Edge’s face, and said in a deep voice, “Five hundred. Just our counter-terrorism elite team members, all of whom were at least Level 5, numbered over five hundred. And that doesn’t even include the elite armed forces from the Southern Military Region. In that operation, there were over twenty Level 7 Martial Masters leading the charge, including five Level 8 Grandmasters …”
Blade Edge’s pupils contracted slightly.
Such a lineup was truly remarkable.
Just the Level 7 Masters and Level 8 Grandmasters alone totaled twenty-five. How many Level 7 and above martial arts experts were there in all of the Dragon Kingdom? Out of billions of people, there are only a few thousand.
The Southern Military Region, at most, had a few hundred. And most of them were concentrated on the subterranean battlefield; mobilizing almost a tenth of their top combat power for this must have been the largest counter-terrorism operation in the Dragon Kingdom in recent years.
Yet, why hadn’t he heard much about it?
“You haven’t heard about it, have you?”
The Wolf Fang Captain seemed to notice Blade Edge’s confusion and smiled bitterly, “That’s because the details of that counter-terrorism operation were classified by the military. Only international news briefly mentioned it … In that siege, the Southern Military Region lost over three hundred elite fighters. Three Masters fell, and seven were seriously injured, including one Level 8 Grandmaster … The key target we were supposed to eliminate in that operation still managed to escape in the end … So tell me, do you think this news could be made public? It was absolutely considered a disgrace to the military.”
Hiss—
Blade Edge couldn’t suppress the shock in his heart and let out a sharp breath. He was shocked and horrified, almost unable to believe it.
Twenty Martial Masters, five Level 8 Grandmasters, and thousands of troops in a suppression operation.
Yet so many people died, including a top military Grandmaster. And they still didn’t manage to take down the target … Just how terrifying was the target they were after?
“Are the people of the Black Devil Society really that strong?!” Blade Edge was in disbelief.
The Wolf Fang Captain’s expression was somber, as if still immersed in the horror of that battle three years ago.
He was silent for a long time, finally uttering just two words: “They’re Monsters.”
He then seemed to feel that these two words weren’t enough to describe the terror of the enemy and added in a low voice, “The leaders of the Black Devil Society aren’t human. I’m not speaking metaphorically; they’ve truly transcended the realm of normal humans and become monstrous beings, far more powerful than ordinary martial artists …”
Blade Edge didn’t speak.
The Wolf Fang Captain also lost the desire to continue the conversation.
The two of them sat in the helicopter, staring at the setting sun in the distance, their hearts heavy.
Once again, they were on a mission against the Black Devil Society. Last time, there were numerous masters and Grandmasters leading the charge, yet the outcome was so tragic.
This time, it was just a few special forces teams. Who knew how many of them would return alive? The atmosphere in the cabin was suffocating. Soon, the helicopter descended to the target location.
The first thing that caught everyone’s eyes was a small mountain that had been blasted in half.
The two elite team captains exchanged glances, each seeing the gravity in the other’s eyes.
Suddenly, one of the sharp-eyed team members pointed to a spot on a small mountain next to the blasted one and exclaimed, “Captain, there seem to be two bodies over there!”
Blade Edge and Wolf Fang looked in that direction and indeed saw faint traces of corpses and blood at the top of the small mountain.
“Let’s go check it out!”
They decisively gave the order.
As the helicopter approached, they discovered that it wasn’t two bodies but one, though the death was so gruesome that it had been split in half.
The elite teams disembarked from the helicopter, setting up a perimeter around the body while patrolling the area.
Blade Edge and the Wolf Fang Captain approached the corpse.
As soon as they got close, their pupils contracted sharply. What they saw were dark red, almost black blood droplets scattered all over the ground, some as large as a fist, now split in two.
“Blood coagulated into beads! And there’s a blood core … The deceased was an Level 8 Grandmaster!”
Blade Edge’s expression trembled with shock as he suppressed the upheaval in his heart and exclaimed in a low voice.
An Level 8 Grandmaster—how many of them are there in the world? Yet one had died here, and in such a violent manner. If this got out, it would definitely be earth-shattering news across the nation.
“Fortunately, he wasn’t from the Dragon Kingdom …”
Blade Edge drew a cold weapon and prodded the body, not noticing the increasingly strange expression on the Wolf Fang Captain’s face.
“Was this guy even human?”
After inspecting the corpse, Blade Edge couldn’t help but sigh. The two halves of the body were incredibly muscular. The muscles were so well-developed that they didn’t resemble a human’s, and the skin even had something akin to animal scales.
The knife left no mark on the skin.
The bones were several times thicker than normal human bones, with a metallic lead-black sheen, even sporting bone spurs.
Blade Edge knocked on the exposed bones with his cold weapon, producing a metallic clanging sound.
This was something that could only be described as a monster!
“A monstrous Grandmaster! A Grandmaster-level monster!”
Blade Edge recalled what the Wolf Fang Captain had told him about the Black Devil Society and casually remarked, “This guy must be a member of the Black Devil Society … Definitely inhuman …”
Halfway through his sentence, Blade Edge couldn’t help but add, “But the one who killed him is the real inhuman!”
“This Black Devil Society Grandmaster was directly cleaved in half by someone using a sharp weapon. He probably didn’t even have time to react before he died, with not a trace of pain or fear on his face … It’s really hard to believe, that someone could instantly cleave such a monstrous Grandmaster in two … just how powerful must that person be?”
Blade Edge tried to imagine the scene but found that his limited imagination and shallow martial arts knowledge couldn’t conjure it up.
So he gave up.
Blade Edge, full of mixed feelings and sighs, suddenly realized that from the moment they discovered the corpse until now, the Wolf Fang Captain hadn’t said a word.
He turned to look … Only to see the Wolf Fang Captain standing there, staring intently at a certain part of the half-corpse on the ground, seemingly in a daze.
Curious, Blade Edge followed his gaze.
What he saw was a tattoo on the right arm of the corpse.
The tattoo was quite peculiar, depicting a demon wearing a crown, with an androgynous appearance, riding a one-humped camel.
“What’s wrong?” Blade Edge asked.