Yet, at that very moment, I sensed several intense surges of power! It felt as though some formidable creatures were drawing near.
Instinctively, I turned my gaze toward the direction from which the auras emanated!
Beneath the gloomy sky, a grey shadow hurtled closer from the horizon!
“What is that!” Mo Hui and Mo Cha both gasped in shock!
“It’s a Thunder Eagle,” Yin Shuang’s face drained of color. “And furthermore, it’s a small, aerial reconnaissance-specialized Thunder Eagle mount.”
“Which nation does it belong to?” Mo Cha asked nervously.
“Whoever it is, it certainly can’t be from our Demon Dragon Empire.” Mo Hui drew his sword, glaring fixedly at the rapidly approaching grey shape! It was crucial to remember that Yan Luo and Xing Ye were not equipped with small Thunder Eagles upon arriving at the Snow Domain Continent!
Consequently, this suddenly appearing Thunder Eagle was highly likely to be from either the Holy Word Church, the Mara Church, or one of the two nations of Cang Yue and Bi Qi.
Of course, no matter which faction it was, it certainly wouldn't be a bad thing for us in our current situation!
“It seems our luck is holding,” I murmured. Carefully feeling the rapidly approaching energy signatures, I could clearly discern that there were two people riding the Thunder Eagle! Though they were still far off, the powerful energy fluctuations made it easy to tell that these two were at least experts at the Thunder Tier, Level One!
Moreover, these two had clearly spotted us, charging directly toward our location!
One must understand that the Thunder Eagle possesses incredibly wide vision, and more so, our Giant Thunder Eagle was lying prone on the ground, utterly unable to escape its sight—no wonder we were discovered!
“Is the Marshal planning to capture them alive?” Mo Hui, though slightly tense, couldn’t suppress his excitement.
“If they are enemies,” I mused, vexed at knowing absolutely nothing about the Snow Domain Continent. Now that someone was delivering themselves right to our doorstep, I naturally welcomed it: “Don’t scare them off.” I subconsciously reined in the aura within my body.
“Hmph, I only fear they won’t take the bait.” Mo Hui and Mo Cha quickly suppressed their energies as well.
“You take care of the welcome,” Yin Shuang swiftly stowed her belongings and ducked behind the body of the Thunder Eagle!
Whoosh! Whoosh! The massive silhouette of the Thunder Eagle swooped down at incredible speed! It halted its dive once it reached an altitude of ten meters or so, settling into a slow, low-altitude circle!
Simultaneously, two blue figures leaped from the back of the Eagle, descending toward the ground!
“I will deal with them,” I stated firmly. “You all focus on protecting the Thunder Eagle.”
“Yes!”
Thump! Rumble!
The two figures slammed onto the ground simultaneously! Then, they began slowly approaching me!
It was evident they were extremely cautious!
They only stopped once they reached a distance of thirty meters away!
They were Thunder Warriors from the Holy Word Church! I could easily distinguish their allegiance just by the insignia stamped on the chest plates of their armor!
“Heavenly Demon Warriors of the Demon Dragon Empire.” The two standing far off seemed surprised, but quickly, their faces contorted into expressions of ecstatic joy!
“It seems our luck is excellent.” The one on the left was noticeably taller and more powerfully built, completely regarding the four of us as mere prey!
One must know that in the Holy Word Church, anyone capable of wearing the Thunder Battle Armor was at least a top-tier master at the Sixth Heaven Gate.
And both I, Mo Hui, Mo Cha, and Yin Shuang were uniformly clad in heavy armor—it was no wonder they looked down on us so much! The gap in strength between a Sixth Heaven Gate Thunder General and a Fifth Heaven Gate Heavy Armor General was an insurmountable chasm!
“Filth from the Holy Word Church! I was originally hoping to snatch something like the Phoenix Heaven Demon Armor!” Mo Hui grumbled.
“Be satisfied with what you get,” Mo Cha retorted irritably!
“It’s better than nothing!” Yin Shuang also acted completely unconcerned, clearly viewing the two Thunder Warriors before her as no different from two corpses!
These three were truly… overflowing with confidence!
“Such arrogance, merely four Heavy Armor Generals.” The tall Thunder Warrior seemed slightly taken aback!
“The two men first, kill them,” the other one was utterly insolent, leering wickedly at Yin Shuang and Mo Cha. “As for the two beautiful ladies, we can properly enjoy ourselves later.”
“…..” Yin Shuang and Mo Cha merely scrutinized them as if they were two idiots.
The two drew their swords and assumed standard combat stances, yet their eyes deliberately, or perhaps unintentionally, kept darting toward Yin Shuang and Mo Cha! They treated me and Mo Hui as mere decorations!
As for me, I had no intention whatsoever of engaging in pointless verbal sparring with them!
It must be known that surprise attack tactics were always my preferred method!
And what I hated most was posturing and showing off before a fight even began! Yet, these two fellows seemed particularly fond of asserting their dominance! What was even more infuriating was that they were behaving so arrogantly right in front of my women!
They were simply asking for a beating!
The battle qi energy concentrated within my body erupted instantly! The aura I had been suppressing was immediately released!
“Ah!” Both of them cried out simultaneously! Their faces changed drastically!
But I certainly wouldn't give them any chance to react!
Invincibility Moment activated abruptly!
Thanks to the energy supplied by the Heavenly Demon Battle Armor, my speed and power had surged by more than five times! Yet, even in this state, I still felt that the speed of my body couldn't keep up with the speed of my thoughts and consciousness—in fact, this sensation was even more intense than when I was in the King’s Forbidden Zone without the Heavenly Demon Battle Armor!
That miraculous state took control of my body once again!
The entire world seemed to solidify in that instant, as if only I could move slowly and laboriously!
Stepping forward! Closing the distance! Drawing the blade! Three simple movements, yet they seemed to drain every ounce of my physical strength and battle qi!
However, what puzzled me was that the two Thunder Warriors made no movement at all!
I could clearly see them looking nervously behind me! They appeared utterly oblivious to the blade I had swung toward them!
Did they not see my action!
Not just them, but even Mo Hui, Mo Cha, and Yin Shuang were staring tensely at the scene, their gazes fixed on the spot where I had just been standing!
What was going on!
I instinctively checked the situation behind me!
Under the effect of the Phantom Demon Eye, I saw a string of blurry figures!
Vague afterimages, flickering in and out of existence! Like countless continuous slow-motion frames in a movie! Clearly replaying every moment of my sprint and the drawing of my blade!
This! This! How was this possible!
Were these blurry afterimages the projections I had created before!
Slice! Before I could react!
I felt a slow, slight resistance through the hilt of the blade in my hand!
Then came a muffled sound—the crisp noise of shattering bone and bursting blood vessels!
I clearly watched as a perfect crescent of sword energy erupted from the dark, sharp edge of the Tyrant’s Blade, slicing through the necks of the two Thunder Warriors without any impedance, leaving behind a trailing smear of scarlet in the air!
Hiss! The previous long, drawn-out cracking sound suddenly became rapid and urgent! The abrupt shift from extreme stillness to sudden high speed, that intense contrast and inertia, almost made me feel like collapsing!
“…” And I, too, was stunned senseless by this bizarre spectacle!
They hadn't reacted at all! They hadn't moved an inch, still maintaining their alert posture with swords half-drawn! Both pairs of murderous eyes were still fixed intently behind me.
They had acted as if they couldn't see me at all! After a long moment, the focus in both pairs of pupils slowly locked onto me.
“Good!! Good!! That was a fast strike.”
“Who exactly are you?”
Those two sentences seemed to exhaust all their remaining strength! Yet they still held the defensive position with their swords across their chests, like two frozen statues.
After a considerable pause, both heads simultaneously rolled onto the ground!
The scene was indescribably sinister and eerie! Even I couldn't help but jump in fright!
“Ah!” An exclamation of disbelief came from Mo Hui behind me.
“It was an instant kill,” Mo Cha was dumbfounded too!
“They’re dead,” Yin Shuang seemed unable to believe her eyes; even her voice had lost some of its usual tone.
After all, what had just happened was utterly bizarre!
But Yin Shuang quickly seemed to remember something and couldn't help but jump up, stamping her foot angrily: “You big idiot, you actually killed them.”
“Huh! Big idiot!” I stood there slack-jawed!
I never expected the usually ladylike Yin Shuang to swear at someone!
“Ma-Marshal,” Mo Hui also looked both amused and frustrated. “We finally ran into two living souls, and you just wiped them out.”
“I-I didn’t mean to,” I stammered after a long pause. “How was I supposed to know he would just stand there foolishly waiting to be cut? I didn’t even have time to pull back.”
“…..” Mo Cha stared hard at me, examining me as if I were an incorrigibly foolish simpleton.
“It’s not that they were foolish!” Mo Hui said, defeated. “It’s that the Marshal’s speed was too fast; they didn’t have time to react at all. How could you expect them to dodge or block?”
“Monster!” Yin Shuang snapped. “We know you’re strong, but you don’t have to be this ridiculously exaggerated.”
“……” I didn't know what to say either!
It seemed I needed to be more cautious when using this Invincibility Moment technique in the future; instantly killing people every time was too frightening, I thought privately.
Whether we liked it or not, the fact remained that two potential sources of information were eliminated!
Helplessly, we could only take things one step at a time!
As for the Thunder Eagle circling overhead, it hadn't left, nor did it show any intention of landing! It seemed to be awaiting orders from its master!
“Quickly!” Yin Shuang urged, looking anxiously at the circling Eagle. “Hurry and find the Magic Thunder Eagle Horn, call that Eagle down first.”
Mo Hui acted quickly and soon picked up a horn the size of a fist from the ground—this horn had originally been hanging on the chest of that large Thunder Warrior!
Then, gathering his breath…
“Woo-woo!” A deep, lingering sound from the horn suddenly rang out! The Eagle circled slowly and descended to the ground!
“With this thing, our future movements will be much more convenient!” Mo Hui cheered happily.
“Let’s clean up quickly and get out of here!” Yin Shuang instructed.
“En.” Mo Hui and Mo Cha both nodded rapidly!
These two weren't slow; they quickly stripped the two sets of Thunder Battle Armor off the fallen warriors.
“Ha! A huge haul,” Mo Hui exclaimed. “We’ve only just arrived and already seized two sets of Thunder Battle Armor—a good omen.”
“…..” Yin Shuang shot me an annoyed glance before beginning to rummage through the captured spoils!
Mo Hui and I, however, were already impatient and eagerly tried on the captured Thunder Battle Armor!
It must be said, the difference between Thunder Battle Armor and Heavenly Demon Battle Armor was significant! The most obvious feeling was that the battle qi energy surge was a full twofold increase compared to wearing the Heavenly Demon Armor.
This feeling was almost intoxicatingly joyful!
“Found it.” Just as Mo Hui and I were excitedly feeling the power surging through us, Yin Shuang and Mo Cha made a major discovery.
Mo Hui and I quickly crowded over! We saw Yin Shuang closely examining a large map that was spread out!
“What map is this?” I asked curiously.
“If I’m not mistaken, this should be a map of the Snow Domain Continent,” Yin Shuang analyzed. “It also has many special markings on it, which must be information they previously scouted. If we can decipher what these markings mean, we can understand the geographical environment of the Snow Domain Continent.”
“We hit the jackpot!” I was overjoyed.
“The circle represents a safe zone, the circle with a cross represents a military supply base, and this triangle should denote a forest area. We are currently located at the absolute south of the Snow Domain Continent. Based on this, we should head east; there’s a large forest there where the Giant Thunder Eagle can hide.” When it came to military strategy, deployment, and information analysis, Yin Shuang was truly a master-level expert.
Seeing her look so confident, what choice did I have but to agree wholeheartedly!
After tidying up, the four of us boarded the Eagle cockpit once more!
However, this time, Yin Shuang and I were piloting the Giant Thunder Eagle, while Mo Hui and Mo Cha flew the small Thunder Eagle together, heading east!
One day later, we finally found the enormous cedar forest marked on the map!
This place was perfect for hiding the Eagle! Thus, we finally had a suitable base of operations!
We then began discussing the next phase of our action plan.
The first step, naturally, was to establish contact with the Demon Dragon side. However, spatial magic in this region was extremely unstable, rendering long-distance communication entirely unusable.
Because of this, we couldn't contact the Demon Dragon side, nor could we connect with Yan Luo and the others via long-distance sound transmission! Helplessly, we had to give up!
What remained was the task of locating Yan Luo and the others, as well as the location of the Heroes’ Land.
However, we had absolutely no leads on either matter!
After discussion, we decided to resort to the most primitive method: flying the Eagles around to search!