New Emperor Of Ghouls

"Quiet," Zhong Yi silenced the team. He could hear something approaching their position.

"Everyone up in the trees now and mask your presence as good as you can." As soon as Zhong Yi commended them, his body slowly faded from that spot like an afterimage.

Taking that as their cue to disappear, the soldiers one after the other, jumped into the trees, disappearing into the green sea of leaves.

They didn't have to wait long before a four legged monster appeared in the small clearing where the soldiers were just at. It even had the familiar leather armour pieces stuck on the sharp teeth extending out of its jaws. It looked like a panther-bull hybrid. the upper part of its face was covered in a bone like mask, with two horns protruding out the sides. Its sleek pure black body blended well with the shadows in the forest, making it look like a deadly opponent for the small expedition team.

But none of that mattered. Zhong Yi swept down from the trees like a meteor, smashing down on the monsters back, creating a deep imprint in the grown. Dust flew everywhere from the collision clouding the vision of the soldiers from their majesty.

Being underestimated angered to the extreme him but this. They dared to kill his people under his nose and make him look incapable.

As retaliation, he purposely went for the loud option instead of the silent assassin like method. This would draw out the others hiding in the tree line.

Yan Zhong Yi swiped his hand through the air at lightning speed, creating blades of wind that cleared the dust in an instant and headed towards the trees, cutting them in half.

A wounded howl sounded from under his foot. He looked down to see the monster looking at him with pleading eyes. Begging him to spare him. The intelligence in its eyes wasn't missed by Zhong Yi. Instead his thin lips grew to devilish smirk.

*Puch*

The sound of his kagune piercing the skull was absolutely heavenly, like music to his ears.

"Haha, you have made a major mistake." Zhong Yi's maniacal laugh brought a strangely calming feeling to the soldiers who were watching from the large tree branches.

"You are all hereby sentenced to death!"

The soldier watching had appeared from their hiding spots to stand behind Zhong Yi. Their eyes were slightly dazed but still carried the same clarity from before.

Zhong Yi watched as the darkness was suddenly lit up with hundreds of red eyes full of anger gazing at the small team like they were prey.

Slowly, their instinct was overpowering their rational thoughts. Something about this place was able to rouse the ghouls irrational side, but that wouldn't be a problem

losing control was akin to letting loose, and letting loose to Ghouls were all about commiting mass murder. Once finished, they would just return to their normal state. However, their spirit energy would be critically low from their heavy usage of it.

"Circle formation!!!" Zhong Yi ordered around the soldiers to get into the circle formation. With the ghouls mobility, strength and senses. The formation allowed them to showcase their full strength.

They moved in an instant rearranging themselves to fit into the formation like pieces of a puzzle, leaving a perfectly round circle.

A deep roar resounded out from deeper into the woods. A chain reaction was set off and higher pitched roars accompanied it producing a ghastly symphony of noise.

*RUMBLE*

The ground started to shake like a mini earthquake was happening.

Yan Zhong Yi knew what it mean't. Wu Lin knew. QI Long knew.The entire squad knew and they were quivering from excitement. However, they still held formation.

Like a thunderstorm, the monster hybrids charged out the forest in cl.u.s.ters like rabid beats from all different directions. They were entering a similar state that the soldiers were entering. A state of craziness.

If not for ghouls already knowing what the state is, they could easily counteract it, but they didn't. When they entered that state, they fought at their best and it felt amazing.

'Could this be because of the disaster festival?' Zhong Yi was sure he was onto something and was sure his guess was correct. 'When anyone was driven by their emotions, they are prone to making mistakes.'

Zhong Yi didn't have much time to think about it because of the blackness approaching the soldiers.

He drew his sword and blasted his aura outwards, throwing everyone off including himself. His aura seemed more powerful and destructful than before.

'Is this region empowering me or was the nightmare forest suppressing me?'

Like a chain reaction, the soldiers released their auras as well. The ground shook under their immense combined pressure. Pebbles reduce to dust. Wind furiously swirling.

"This Is amazing!" Shouted Wu Lin, the euphoric expression on his face was mirrored by the rest of the soldiers, even Qi Long.

The monsters charge faltered, they carried on charging though with a reduced momentum.

One of them sped up charging directly for Zhong Yi.

Seeing this, Zhong Yi Disregarded It. He extended his kagune from his back and drove through the beasts neck. Instantly killing it.

[You have received 12 achievement points fror killing a lintho]

The Lintho tsunami followed closely behind slamming into the circle formation.

Zhong Yi had channeled his spirit energy into his iron sword, giving it a sharper edge and sliced through the first Lintho in his sight with ease. Carrying on the momentum, he followed through with the slice, disembodying two more. With his right hand, he grabbed a tail swinging towards him and pulled. The Lintho whose tail was grabbed, flew towards Zhong Yi only to have two purple kagune intercepts its flight path and impale it.

Those three deaths did nothing to deter the rest, instead the sight of their clansmen killed, maddened them strengthening their already weak attacks.

The ease of the fight slightly irritated Yan Zhong Yi whilst the blood excited him, and he wasn't the only one.

Wu Lin beside him was raising hell. Not caring for his energy expenditure. He swung at everything in his path with everything. From how compact the Linthos were, every attack was effective.

Each soldier carried the same ferociousness as Wu Lin, if not stronger like Qi Long. That man was a monster personified. Pieces of flesh hanging from his mouth, and he continued to bite the neck of a lintho unlucky enough to position himself like it did, other attacks landed on his body, but he disregarded them. As a result, his armor was destroyed leaving his toned body in full view and coated in blood.

Not willing to be outdone, Zhong Yi jumped into the Lintho horde causing the soldiers to tighten their formation and absolutely wrecked havoc.

His kagune acted as wh.i.p.s, lashing at the monsters in his immediate vicinity. Each whip strike would carry a fierce momentum turning each monster hit, into mush and deformed the ground underneath him..

Zhong Yi had long discarded his sword and resorted to hand to hand combat. It strangely felt restricting even with the sword proficiency skill. It was like he wasn't using his full potential with a sword or spear. But when he used his fists, the feeling of his hands impacting flesh invigorated him.

He carved his way through the monsters leaving the soldiers to fend for themselves.

Zhong Yi was confident in their ability to take care of themselves. He slowly advanced towards the direction of where the deep commanding roar originated from.

Soon, Zhong Yi was enveloped by the darkness of the forest, disappearing from the soldier's view.

"Captain, we have to protect his Majesty," advised Wu Lin as he ripped another Lintho apart.

Spitting out the blood in his mouth, he refused. "We would only be a nuisance to his majesty, we can help him by killing all the monsters here"

Wu Lin still wasn't convinced. What if his majesty is fighting the leader and constantly has smaller ones disturbing him. "What about the ones that followed his majesty, he could be in danger with all the attention he drew to himself"

Qi Long understood that as well. When Zhong Yi carved his way through, a large amount of those monsters followed him. While they might not be able to hurt him individually. Grouped up, they could chip away at his strength until he has no strength left

The thought scared him. "Clean up!!"

Instantly, All the soldiers smiles turned sinister. Qi Long's order was code for go crazy.

Instantly, their kagunes went haywire. With their body as the centre, their kagune swung in every direction possible except behind them .

The picturesque image of carnage and mayhem would've sparked the inner demon of any Ghoul

that saw it.

Blood and body parts flew everywhere. The ghouls lucky enough to get blood on their faces, licked it off with relish as their energy recovered a miniscule bit. .

They all thought in unison of one thing.

'This blood, tastes amazing'.

With a new goal in mind, they struck with twice the power. At this point, the surroundings had been deformed badly from the all out attacks coming from both sides.

"Wu Lin, go ahead and provide support for his majesty. We will catch up with you. Please be careful, his majesty has his eye on you so showcase your full potential! This is an order." Qi Long had serious look in his eyes.

He knew that Wu Lin had great potential and would automatically humble himself, giving others the opportunity to take credit. If not for his eye for talent, Wu Lin would remain an insignificant figure for a while longer. His potential would shine through anyway.

"Go now, We will open a path for you!" Qi Long didn't even have to tell the others, they had already joined him to make a spear like formation with Wu Lin in the middle.

They bulldozed their way through the wave of Lintho's to reach the edge of the clearing and held back the Linthos. Surrounded by the ones in the clearing and the ones still coming out of the forest.

"Wu Lin take to the trees and use your f.u.c.k.i.n.g senses for once."

Wu Lin looked back at the soldiers wishing him luck before turning his head, and disappearing into the sea of green leaves.

"Captain, They took Brother Shi from us, so we should take every life of their race for repentance" remarked a soldier as he tore of the arm of a Lintho with his teeth.

"FOR BROTHER SHI!!" shouted Qi Long as he circulated the spirit energy within his body, a faint golden sheet covered his pale skin making it look like his body was on fire.

The soldiers repeated the process making the entire team look like they were covered in fire. It wasn't only for appearance' sake. It was a skill they picked up from the blood of a demon horse, and acted as defence in place of their ruined leather armour "FOR BROTHER SHI!!"

Any resemblance of organization deteriorated as their blood eyes shone with a golden colour. It was like they turned into beasts themselves.

Getting onto their hands and feet with their kagune out, they made a terrifying sight especially with the flames covering their bodies.

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Wu Lin who was running through the forest following the path of corpses and could still hear the wails of the monsters behind him.

He stopped jumping from tree to tree, landing on a large branch. Wu Lin wiped the tears mixed with blood off his face revealing his eyes burning with anger "Brother Shi, we will make them regret taking the life of a Sacred Ghoul!!"

Even after killing all the monsters that he did, it wasn't enough for any of the ghouls.

Wu Lin took off with twice the power breaking the branches, his foot came in contact with. 'It will never be enough'