Stuck in a Chinese novel - Chapter 379

Chapter 379: Arcadia (Bonus)
Chapter 379

Wei Jun arrived before the army but didn’t stop. The Yang Qi around him melted everything into scorched nothingness, and that included the soldiers in the invading army.

Wei Jun killed several hundred soldiers just like that before that phase of his ended. He came face to face with a knight who had a longsword in his hands and was charging at him, charged with green-colored power around him.

‘Aura.’ Wei Jun inwardly said as two daggers appeared in his hands. The knight charging at him was weaker than the knight he had fought a few days ago, but the power of aura emitting from him was purer and denser even if it was lower in level.

Still, for Wei Jun, it wasn’t much of a problem. The knight yelled and brought his sword down at Wei Jun, whose charge wasn’t impeded in the least. Wei Jun’s dagger collided with the sword that was coming down at him, and in an instant, the shockwave emitted from their collision pushed those around them away.

But the most striking outcome of that collision was the shattering of the knight’s sword and his hand becoming charred by the golden flame that emitted from Wei Jun upon their collision. Wei Jun didn’t hold back an ounce and slashed his dagger again.

The golden ethereal slash that emitted from his slash cleaved the knight in half, but not only that, the slash did the same to some of the poor individuals behind the knight as well.

Yet, even after that, Wei Jun’s charge remained relentless.

[Qi discharge]

[QP -100]

A wave of golden fire emitted from him, turning everyone and everything around him into charred charcoal.

“Ahhh!!!”

“Huaaahhh!!!”

Soldiers shrieked and screamed as they burned in the fire they had never felt before. Even the heat of a magic spell wasn’t this hot yet this fire felt like not only burning their bodies but their very souls as well.

Wei Jun continued his charge as those around him burned and departed from that world. Wei Jun quickly arrived before the command center but didn’t slow down in the least. The invading army panicked and attacked Wei Jun.

A group of knights equivalent to six and seven-star aura knights. There were twelve of them, and Wei Jun found that battle a challenge. Their aura was purer and denser than the aura knight he had faced a few days ago.

In terms of strength, these guys were a level higher due to their aura quality. Still, Wei Jun created some Qi spears from the [Qi construct] and shot them at the six-star knights while he engaged with the only three seven-star knights.

Wei Jun blocked the slashes of two knights with his dagger at once and kicked the last knight, flipping in the air as he swirled and kicked the two of them as well while jumping at the third one he had kicked first and putting the maximum amount of Qi in his dagger, he didn’t slash it but like a spear, he penetrated the sword of the knight, shattering the sword with little difficulty.

The shockwave produced by that strike was enough to push both of them away but Wei Jun was prepared and after letting out another wave of Qi through [Qi discharge], he stopped the attacks of the two knights charging at him and remained focused on the knight who was still recovering from the shockwave of his sword shattering.

Wei Jun arrived before him, before he could even recover, and again with a penetrating force, he aimed the dagger at the knight’s heart. The knight panicked and tried to protect himself with his hands in front of him, but the force of the strike was enough to penetrate through the knight’s arms and his chest.

Killing him on the spot, Wei Jun felt the usual increment in his Death Qi.

With a chilling smile on his face, he knelt down and avoided the sword strike from one of the six-star knights while the rest were in tow. Wei Jun emitted a wave of Qi once again, and while the six-star knight was defending against that, he penetrated his armor with his dagger, killing another knight on the spot.

[Warning]

[QP below 10%]

In a short span of less than five minutes, Wei Jun had killed a great number of soldiers and three aura knights. The duration of his skills hadn’t even ended yet half of the battle was already over. Of course, he was out of Qi as well. Well, almost out, but it was close nonetheless.

“Shall we pick up the pace then?” Wei Jun said as dark strands began to emit from him instead of the usual yellow, and suddenly, a black flame burst forth from his being.

More intense than the golden flame before, the black flame disintegrated everything it touched in its path. Even the stronger knights suffered and yelled in pain, while the weaker ones weren’t even fortunate enough to scream in pain. The back flame devoured their lives in an instant, not even granting them the feeling of pain. One could say it was mercy because those who did feel the pain from the black flame…

Well, they didn’t want to live anymore.

In that already heartless scene, the originator of those black flames, with an even darker smile on his face, stepped forward to cull the lives of those before him.

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“What… is that?” The commander on the walls, a four-star aura knight, muttered as he saw a figure walk towards them. The man was wearing strange clothes, but his gait was like that of a noble. His visage wasn’t any less than that of a royal or even better.

The man walking towards them on black flames, two daggers in his hands as he looked at them with an expression so cold that even ice would freeze at that gaze.

Soldiers fell on their backs as the figure approached them step by step. The army of the invasion, the army that was toying with them just a while ago, was annihilated in the course of just five minutes, or a little over that.

But the army that was enough to even trouble the capital of the kingdom was wiped out in that short span of time. That was enough to tell the commander of the city that there was no shelter from that individual walking towards them. “Open the gates.” The commander simply said, but the knights standing next to him were too scared to even move. He couldn’t blame them, he was the same as them. Still, he picked up his courage and yelled at those who were beneath the walls, safe from the image of the person walking in their direction, “Open the gates.”

The soldiers at the gate acknowledged the command and immediately opened the gates. The giant gates of the city slowly rose upwards, and just before the man making his way to their city arrived, they had fully opened, not interrupting his steps in the least.

The commander wanted to go down and greet the outsider. It didn’t matter to him that the power of the demon god was emitting from him. If that individual wanted, he might just wipe out the entire city and move forward.

Wei Jun arrived at the center of the city, with the commander of the army following behind him a little away, making sure no one disturbed him. Wei Jun ignored him and focused on the number of notifications in his view.

[Quest complete]

[You have leveled up by 5]

[Chain side quest: ‘Leave Behind’ has been created]

[Leave Behind]

[Rank: Undetermined]

[Description: For those who depart on a journey, assistance from those who have already completed that journey can be very helpful

Be the one to leave something behind for those yet to come on this journey]

[Task: Leave something behind at the temple of purity]

[Reward: Unknown]

[The scale of the reward depends on the item left behind]

[Punishment: None]

While Wei Jun was ecstatic about getting some levels, he was all the more confused by the following quest. Still, he deemed it to be unnecessary to argue with the system and made his way to the temple he could see in the middle of the city.

Well, almost the middle since the temple stood next to a castle-type mansion in the middle of the city as if it was equal to it.

When the commander saw the unknown man making his way to the center of the city, he assumed it was to meet the lord of the city, so he immediately had a commune over to the city lord’s mansion.

He didn’t want the arrogant lord to make a mistake of offending the man who had taken an entire army out in such a short span that even break wouldn’t be baked properly.

However, contrary to what he thought, the unknown man was never heading in the direction of the city lord’s mansion. And that would in turn, be the downfall of the lord.