Chapter 9: Murder in Anger

  "Found it!!!! The one who killed Marco!!! It's you guys, right?!" A low and gloomy voice rose, the chill in the voice made several people on the scene break out in a cold sweat! The four of them looked over in the direction of the gaze...

  Under the pouring moonlight, Francis stood with his back to the moon, and the four people couldn't see his face. All they could see was a head of golden long hair! Francis slowly walked out of the shadows, and only then did everyone see his face clearly! Golden hair, slender eyebrows, blue eyes under the moonlight, a beautiful face seemed like a dream! What a beauty! Several people thought to themselves.

  Who is this guy? Who is Marko?

  "Who are you? You must have mistaken me for someone else! We don't know that Marko!" The monk's intuition told him that this girl was a bit strange! Today he seemed to be having bad luck, and now he was being bothered by trouble again!

  "Miss? This young lady! Do you know her?" To the old swordsman, a beauty not belonging to his own miss might be someone his miss knows!

  "Kewen uncle? That guy... is a man!" The girl said in a low voice! A woman's intuition is truly terrifying, Francis' demonic cross-dressing face didn't fool her!

  "Is that so!" The old swordsman was also a worldly person, and he was only surprised for a moment. "Miss! That Marko is probably someone from the merchant group! It seems that among the people who died today, there are those he knows! We're in trouble!" The old swordsman thought to himself and said.

  "How is that possible? There's no one like that in the merchant group!" The girl said in a low voice. Someone as tall and eerie-looking as Francis should have been noticeable at a glance!

  "That's what happened after receiving the news and chasing over!" The old swordsman said a possibility!

  "How is that possible! The aura on him! He's clearly only at the third stage!" The girl exclaimed in shock. "How is that possible! Even if he received the news this afternoon, it's impossible for him to catch up with us so quickly!"

  "So I said, there's trouble! After all, it's because of us that things have come to this!" the old swordsman calmly analyzed.

  "Wow! Master! Today's luck is really good! Haha! Another little beauty! I'll let you have the princess, but this one... Hehe! I'll take it!!" The leader said shamelessly, walking towards Francis with a lustful smile. The two opposite him were already crippled, and now another beauty was delivered to his doorstep. On Francis' body, he could sense the aura of a third-tier magician! But three tiers weren't even enough to scratch his itch!

  "Little beauty! I'll take good care of you!" After walking into Francis, the leader carefully sized up Francis "Hehe! The chest is a bit small! Don't move, let me take a look!" The leader stretched out his hand towards Francis.

  The lawman stared motionlessly at Francis, it was clear that the leader had been used as cannon fodder! The girl and the old swordsman tightened their grip on their weapons, exchanged a glance with each other, and prepared to escape.

  The leader's eyes were fixed on his hand just about to touch Francis when a white jade-like hand grasped the leader's wrist! It was Francis' left hand.

  "Little beauty! Can't wait any longer? Haha!" The leader didn't mind his hand being caught at all!

  Idiots! The remaining three people thought at the same time.

  "Marco!" Francis slowly opened his closed eyes "I'll take off your people's heads to sacrifice for you!!" As he said, his left hand exerted a slight force! "Crack!" A crisp sound!

  The leader's eyes widened in disbelief as he stared at Francis. "My hand! You..." Before he could finish, Francis pulled his hand and the leader flew towards him. A heavy punch was thrown straight at his chest, but before it landed, the pressure from Francis' fist made it hard for the leader to breathe. The leader quickly summoned his internal energy: "Steel Earth Defense". This was his strongest defense, even the old swordsman's full-powered strike earlier couldn't break through, only managing to scorch him with heat from the fire element.

  "Bang!!" A solid punch landed on the defense, and in the eyes of the three, a jade-like hand directly shattered the defense, heavily hitting the leader's chest, sinking into his wrist, and the leader's eyes immediately dimmed.

  One hit! Instant kill!!!

  One punch and he's dead! And to think it was just physical strength! How is that possible?! The two who were supposed to escape during Francis and the leader's fight are standing there in a daze.

  The law enforcer also stood still on the spot, and he was also aware of the leader's strength. Although he looked down on warriors as rough men, that was an eighth-level swordsman! Especially that steel-earth defense, which was the strongest defense of a holy-level warrior in the Imperial Capital.

  This place is not suitable for a long stay, escape!!! This was the only thought of the three people. As they spoke, the old swordsman and the girl escaped towards their rear, and the mage also flew into the sky.

  Francis didn't go see the fleeing law master either, because he felt it, Dis had arrived!

  It's all because of you! Francis glared at the two fleeing figures. If it weren't for your fake noble act, deceiving the merchant caravan on the road, Old Marko wouldn't have gotten into trouble! You knew you were being hunted down, yet you lured people from the small town with benefits, using others' lives to buy time for your own escape! You deserve to die!!

  The old swordsman flew swiftly and the girl rotated her own aura to rush forward, that young man was too terrifying, was he a dragon clan? The leader's way of death was unheard of! An eighth-stage earth-type swordsman, defense is the strongest among all eighth stages. In other words, under the holy stage, earth-type swordsmen and mages have the strongest defense! But just like that, the young man's casual punch...

  "Whoosh! Whoosh!" The two girls and the old swordsman stopped in their tracks. Their eyes were filled with fear and despair. In front of them, Francis stood there, as if he had been waiting for them for a long time.

  The law master flew in the air along the original road at high speed! Didn't catch up, it's good, it seems to be chasing those two people? Hope they can hold on for a while! It's too terrifying, that power and speed, is it the dragon clan?! As the law master pondered, a golden light flashed from afar on the ground, what is this?! Is it a demon beast?!

  The golden light stopped on the ground under the feet of the law master, Dis stood on a tree, the golden holy clothes reflected the moonlight, as if the gods in mythology descended to the world. This battle armor is at least a sacred artifact! The law master did not think that Dis's battle armor was just a decorative item! Moreover, Dis himself gave him a feeling of death! This person cannot be an enemy! A thread of fear rose in the law master's heart, and he didn't stay, immediately accelerating to fly over Dis's head!

  "If you run, young master, I'll have a hard time explaining it!" As he spoke, Dis stretched out his right hand and pointed at the mage in the air with his index finger. "Take a rest in the underworld for now! Corpse Energy Underworld Wave!!" A purple-black beam of light shot out from Dis's index finger and hit the mage directly in mid-air! The mage's body stiffened and fell straight down, his soul already sent to the underworld!!! Dis jumped up and caught his body in mid-air. "It's not your time to die yet!"

  "Huff... huff..." The old swordsman and the girl stood still, panting heavily! Escape was impossible now! What to do? Would they die?!

  "Are you not going to attack? Then I'll go myself!" Francis had barely finished speaking when he vanished into thin air.

  "Bang!" The old swordsman couldn't see Francis's movement clearly, but at the critical moment, relying on years of combat experience, he used his long sword to block Francis's punch, and directly flew out! The girl only reacted now, turned around and stabbed towards Francis!

  Francis pointed at the pincers, wanting to pinch off the dagger but failed! This dagger is not an ordinary one! He directly used force to pull out the dagger from the girl's hand!

  "Ah!" The dagger in the girl's hand was suddenly pulled out by a massive force, scraping her palm and making her cry out in pain! The old swordsman who had been knocked flying heard the girl's anguished cry and quickly ran over, his long sword thrusting straight at Francis. Francis didn't flinch, "Thud" - the old swordsman was trampled to the ground by a foot! "Plop" - the old swordsman spat out a mouthful of blood, the owner of the foot wearing a golden-yellow Cancer Saint Cloak, with one arm still pinning the mage's body underneath.

  "Master, I'm late!" Dais said respectfully, kneeling on the ground.

  "Is he dead? Dais!"

  "No, I just sent his soul to the underworld! If you need him, I can summon his soul back directly!"

  "Oh! Is it the Corpse Qi Ming Realm Wave?" Francis's tone was slightly curious.

  "Yes! Sir, shall I recall it now?"

  "No need! Let's just kill him!" Francis said, walking towards the old swordsman and grabbing his neck to lift him up. "I hate you guys who think you're superior to others! For your own benefit, you trample on other people's lives! You deserve to die!!"

  "Spare him! Don't kill him, please!" The girl suddenly knelt down on the ground and begged Francis, "Please listen to me! I have a secret! I'm willing to trade it for our two lives!"

  "Little... sister... how can you kneel down to someone else?! Get up quickly, ah!" The old swordsman was having trouble speaking at this time!

  "I have no interest in your secrets!" Francis said, and with a slight force, the old swordsman's expression immediately became painful!

  "Don't, please listen to me, this is a secret about a treasure! This is the map, it's here!" The girl took off the ring on her hand. "In this space ring, there is a treasure map, which contains the wealth left by the Zhaitian Empire back then! There are countless gold and secrets inside, I'll use it as an exchange, please spare us!" The girl said, unable to hold back tears...

  "Spare you! Who will spare Marco?! My greatest treasure... has been taken away by you!" Francis said with his eyes closed, "A man must take responsibility for what he has done!" With a "crack" sound, he snapped the old swordsman's neck!

  Di squealed and knelt on the ground with a slight frown! Young master is not that kind of person! Is it because he was mentally hurt too much?!

  ...The girl's eyes widened in horror and let out a silent scream!

  "What a lovely face!" Francis stroked the girl's cheek with his hand, placing it on top of her head. "The pain of losing a loved one! Feel it for a moment! It won't be long, you'll see each other again soon!" He said, turning away forcefully.

  The girl fell to the ground, her neck twisted at an unbelievable angle towards the sky. In her eyes, there was a yearning for life, as well as a desire to be free from the heavy burden that had been weighing on her.

  What's wrong with me! Francis looked at his own hands after killing the person! Is this... me!? ...Francis only felt dizzy and fainted!

  My head hurts! Where am I? What happened to me?! Francis sat up, looking at the familiar scene in front of him on his bed. A sharp pain flashed through his mind and he held his head with both hands. The memories before he fainted slowly emerged... Is this... me?! Francis smiled bitterly! What's going on?! The last look of the girl floated before his eyes! Francis shook his head immediately, suppressing the memory! Francis smiled bitterly again, this memory would probably never be forgotten for a lifetime!

  Francis sat silently at the head of the bed...

  "Master! Are you awake?"