Free Web NovelChapter 293: Night of the Qing’s Collapse
Fallen leaves wavered through the midnight’s cold wind of the Bastion City like dead souls.
Dancing shadows scattered on the streets and the mansion’s iron gate walls as a gust of wind flew by the front of the Storm mansion.
Streetlights positioned at the sides of the Bastion City’s highway threw orange pools on the wet ground while insects circled the bulbs.
Meowing sounds echoed at the pedestrian walkway, as two black cats with red eyes chased after each other, fighting.
All the dancing trees at a fifty-kilometer distance away from the Qing’s compound bent sideways as a blinding gold light wavered through the street like sound.
The moment the light reached ten kilometers away from the Qing’s walls, it vanished. Leon walked out of the sparkling smoke of the light, wearing a black war suit.
The black cloth wrapped around his neck like a second skin, while its tip flared behind him like hell wings.
Every step he took caused the warmth of the ground to vanish and get replaced with a black void that swallowed the grasses on the pavement.
Tugged behind his back was the single Hi-no-Kami that had a red cloth wrapped around the hilt and dangling as if wanting to free itself. The drift shield clicked and absorbed every light that flashed toward it.
Leaves hugged his boots while chilled air slammed on his face when he stopped at the front of the giant iron gate with Qing inscribed at its top.
His eyes blazed with black essence when he raised his right arm and placed it at the center of the door. In a blur, the door’s mechanics screamed under an invisible weight and splattered with a loud bang.
The trees in the Qing’s farmland at the east side of the compound, the roofs of the parking lot, and the curtains of the guards’ buildings all shook upward with one heavy puff.
The reinforced walls of the guards’ building creaked as they pushed their doors open and stepped out.
Water-flapping sounds echoed as two guards who were swimming peacefully in the reflective pool turned toward the black figure standing at the other side of the main entrance of the Qing’s compound.
Just as they tried to push themselves out of the pool, a black lightning tore through the midnight sky and slammed into the pool with a nuclear blast sound.
Heated air fogged the top of the pool while a burnt scent flew into the standing soldiers’ lungs.
The moment the fog faded, blue iris eyeballs with their retina veins pulled on them floated upward and gave the pool lenses. Warm blood spread through the pool as roasted, dismantled bodies floated upward.
A silver-eyed guard with the body of a giant straightened himself and walked toward the entrance gate. "Hey. Stop right there!"
His eyebrows raised when the black-clothed figure kept closing the distance. ’Why isn’t he stopping?’
He placed his right arm on the hilt of a dagger resting at his side, then moved forward with anger. "I said stop! This is private property. You cannot stop me."
Just a second of eye contact, and the guard’s eyes widened with shock. He removed his arm from the hilt of the dagger and pulled a radio. "We have a demonic entity at the main entrance."
In a blur, everything in the Qing’s compound froze. Leaves drifting in the air remained static, the waving bloodied pool stopped. The silver-eyed guard’s mouth remained open with the radio pressed on his lips.
The flaring portion of the black cloth around Leon’s neck slapped on the guard’s face when Leon walked past him.
With every section the cloth touched, a clean cut appeared.
The silver-eyed guard growled when everything came back to its normal sequence. Blood-veined lines crawled up in his eyes while his arms trembled holding the radio. ’What is happening to me?’
His fingers began falling off his body the moment he lowered his arm. A dead exhale escaped him when he turned. The cut lines appeared on his face when he saw the black-clothed figure walking toward the second entrance, where the other guards were. "Help..."
His head fell off his body piece by piece, like a puzzle. A loud thud echoed as his entire body crumpled to the ground like an expired sculpture.
Black smoke followed Leon as he shifted his gaze to the shield. Without even touching it, the shield flew from Leon’s side and transformed into its spinning war disc style.
With a single, intense effort, the war disc slammed into the brick gate and splattered into ash.
Heads of guards standing at the other side of the brick wall snapped. They drew their weapons and dashed forward in batches.
With a single blink of Leon’s eyelids, the black spinning war disc dashed toward the guards. Sparks drifted upward like fireworks when two guards holding guns fired at the war disc.
When the first sect got dismantled by the war disc without the black-clothed man’s intervention, two mortal lords with flaming eyes stepped forward.
"You think you are strong?" Angelo, the third strongest of all Qing’s guards and a lord of the Cobalt sect, stepped forward.
He caught the spinning war disc with one arm, while the other remained planted at his waist. "Using a toy like this against me? Huh!"
The blacked metal of the war disc creaked when he squeezed it. He glanced at Pepson, the lord of the Zenith clan, then smiled. "You don’t need to waste your time watching."
Angelo shifted his gaze back to the black-clothed being, then hurled the crumped war disc forward. "He’ll die under my first punch."
The gravel beneath his feet rose up when he dashed forward like a flash of light and aimed a kick at the black-clothed being’s chest.
’What does he think he’s doing?’ Leon sighed and watched him get closer. Just as the guard reached an inch from him, Leon shifted himself slightly to the left.
Angelo’s icy eyes widened with shock when he saw himself missing to hit a being for the first time with his hidden ghost leg stance, which he had used to defeat many Overlords. ’What? HOW?!’
Leon grabbed the guard’s chest and slammed him straight into the black marble cemented ground. SLAM!
A mixture of air and water escaped from Angelo’s mouth and nose when his body caved inward and created a crater in the unbreakable floor.
When Leon loosened his grip on Angelo and shifted his gaze toward Pepson, Angelo closed his eyes and activated his Yuan Yin Explosion technique. "Whoever beats me would have to die, rather than living in glory."
Leon hissed and shook his head. He turned toward Angelo and held his hands. "Let me help you."
Black flames gushed out of Leon and seeped into Angelo’s skin and caused his veins to blacken.
The ground beneath their boots trembled as Angelo’s body began to bloat. All the black veins hardened while his eyes bulged out.
The moment he blasted, all other low-tier guards standing at a ten-kilometer distance vanished, without even turning into ash.
The long brick wall and the iron walls all dissipated into motes and flew into the sky.
All the thousands of vehicles the Qing owned bent down and turned into liquid metal when the soul detonation wave reached them.
The glass windows and glass walls of the Qing’s main mansions crumpled and rained on the ground.
Debris dripped from the walls of the underground tunnels while Kira and her siblings and her mother moved from one point to the other, headed by Darian.
Hu Qing stood at the gate of the underground bunker and smiled when Kira turned. "Dad..."
"Don’t worry about me, Kira," Hu Qing said in a calm voice and walked forward. He cupped Kira’s face in his palms then kissed her forehead. "Inform the other members of our family. And you and your siblings will be under good care and protection."
Kira’s eyes welled up as she looked straight into Hu Qing’s eyes. "But..."
"Just do as I have said, Kira." Hu Qing loosened his grip from her cheeks and pushed her forward. "Now go!"
Kira kept on looking back while following the direction her mother and siblings had taken under Darian’s guidance.
The moment she vanished into the pitch darkness, Hu Qing closed his eyes and exhaled sharply.
Andrew Storm’s face flashed in Hu Qing’s head and caused him to crack his eyes open when he heard a loud groan blast from outside the bunker.
"He will always kill without asking anything, just like his father." He climbed up and stood in the collapsed mansion.
A smile tore on his face when he shifted his gaze to Andrew Storm’s large portrait and caught a glimpse of the sparkling black war suit hidden in the wall. "It’s been a while I took on my post as the Eclipse Sect Overlord for Thule." freёwebnovel.com
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Outside the collapsed mansion, dust swirled around Leon as he caught Pepson’s wrist midair.
The black poisoned dagger slipped from his numb fingers when Leon shattered the bones in them.
He collapsed to his knees while tears trailed thin lines down his roasted face. "Let go of me, please."
Gold sparks flashed in Leon’s blackened eyes when he saw the genuine plea in the guard’s eyes. His fingers loosened their grip when the gold sparks flashed in his eyes a second time and set Pepson free.
Just as Pepson stood up and set out into running, the Hi-no-Kami flew from Leon’s back and chopped his head with one clean swipe. fгeewёbnoѵel.cσm
The headless body continued to run while the head rolled on the ground. When the headless body collapsed on its knees, the black glow blazed in Leon’s eyes and flashed out the gold.
