The Devil’s Cage - Chapter 250

Chapter 250

The malicious gazes hidden among the crowd were very unsettling for Kieran .

Still, he pretended he did not sense them and walked in front of the crowd .

He was approximately three meters away from everyone . A safe, yet dangerous distance .

"I think we should add another test to the process . I’ve just heard…"

Before Kieran could finish his words, a loud yell interrupted him .

"NOW!"

Three of the marked down candidates that had been hiding in the crowd made their move together .

Bang! Bang!

Two gunshots were fired in no time, the two bullets aimed at Kieran’s heart and head .

A jumping figure with the force of a mountain swang down a spiked club hard against Kieran, wanting to smash him into a pile of minced meat .

Shocked by the sudden attack, the crowd quickly spread out, moving away from danger .

Everyone was looking around vigilantly .

Only Bill and Cass expressed their shock with words .

"Watch out!" they yelled at Kieran, who was still standing on the spot . The two of them instantly thought that Kieran had lost his mind .

Most of the mercenaries and bounty hunters thought the same as well . Some of them even smiled mockingly, laughing at themselves for being scared by Kieran’s intimidating presence earlier .

To some of them, death was nothing special . All they cared about was that it was not their own death they were witnessing .

Among the crowd, only the redheaded candidate remained calm .

Her eyes were filled with anticipation, wondering what would Kieran do .

The next moment, her eyes filled with astonishment .

So did the other mercenaries and bounty hunters’ eyes . They widened their eyes, their faces filling with an inconceivable expression .

The two bullets that had been aimed directly at Kieran had had no effect against him .

Kieran was still standing where he was, without a single scratch .

The candidates with better eyesight saw the bullets deform in mid-air as if they’d hit something .

Kieran was impenetrable by both swords and bullets?

Everyone present drew in a cold breath in shock . Before they could exhale though, they stopped breathing once more .

The crowd saw a half-moon qi energy wave get fired out from Kieran’s left upper kick .

The energy wave flew up high, aimed at the person who had jumped up, and struck down with the force of a mountain .

The man was instantly slashed in half without any resistance .

Green-colored blood splashed down like an exploding water balloon, but it didn’t land on Kieran .

He had already left his spot and reached the other accomplices, launching a barrage of kicks with his right leg .

The overlaying shadows of Kieran’s leg drowned both his targets instantly .

The repeated hits landed hard, sending both of them flying backwards .

Their bodies were twisted and deformed, their bones breaking as they fell before the entrance of Herbert’s place .

After a slight twitching movement, the two of them lost any signs of life .

"Ahhh!"

The surrounding mercenaries and bounty hunters let out an astounded sound, not just because of Kieran’s formidable strength, but also because of the rotten faces of the other candidates .

Their burned faces shocked anyone who laid eyes on them, sending chills down their spines as the bodies dissolved into a pile of green goo .

"I see!"

Kieran calmly looked at the battlelog notifications .

[Shooting: Lethal Attack, Target inflicts 100 Damage to your HP, Defense Level Authentication, Primus Scale has Powerful Defense, 100 Damage resisted, Target inflicts 0 True Damage to your HP…]

[Shooting: Lethal Attack, Target inflicts 100 Damage to your HP, Defense Level Authentication, Primus Scale has Powerful Defense, 100 Damage resisted, Target inflicts 0 True Damage to your HP…]

[Blade Kick: Lethal Attack, Inflicts 400 Damage to Target HP, (Hand-to-Hand Combat, Combat Kicks (Transcendence) X2) (Transcendence Kicks +1 level granted), Target has Tensile Skin, 350 True Damage to Target HP, Slashed Effect triggered, Target dies…]

[Hundred Violent Kicks: Quick Attack, 300 Total Damage to Target HP, (Transcendence Kicks +1 level granted), 250 True Damage to Target HP, Fracture Effect triggered, Target dies…]

. . .

"The empowerment was not that bad!"

Kieran scanned over the Transcendence Kicks additional level effect and nodded in delight .

Although it was just a +1 buff, based on the damage level calculation, it was able to increase from Strong to Powerful Level .

The true damage might vary depending on the user and their methods, but it was still worthy of a Transcendence skill .

Kieran turned his attention to the pile of green goo and the green glowing spiked club .

After listening to Herbert’s explanation about the Night Race, he had unconsciously anticipated the appearance of such a monster among the candidates .

After all, after Calkin and his wagoner had been replaced by monsters, they had still showed up at Herbert’s place . Although they had seemed to be there to invite Kieran to the scene, Kieran knew how much he was worth . Calkin’s true target had to be Herbert, not him .

How did the Night Race know what had happened at Herbert’s place though?

Calkin was definitely not some tough guy that would spill everything during a simple interrogation .

Plus, it had been too easy for the Night Race monster to replace Calkin and appear before Kieran, whom he had only met once .

Kieran had some answers . He knew why the Night Race had targeted Herbert .

"The Night Race had once roamed the coast of the Neegor Dynasty Lands, but was eliminated later by the Neegor armies!" Herbert had told Kieran .

The Neegor Dynasty had already disappeared in the river of time . It was actually treated as a myth by everyone, yet the existence of the Night Race was proving otherwise .

The Neegor Dynasty had eliminated the Night Race in a big-scale battle .

According to Herbert, the Neegor Dynasty had existed 1,500 years ago . At the time, firearms had not been invented yet, so all they could rely on were sharp weapons .

The monsters had had the upper hand against sharp weapons .

During that battle, they had displayed exceptional strength and speed, and the Tensile Skin on their bodies had been like a natural layer of armor .

Their intuition and intellect level had exceeded Kieran’s expectations .

During his conversation with Herbert, Kieran had been inside the garden of his house .

There had been a garden wall in between, and they had been at least 50 meters away . Even Kieran with his C+ Intuition could barely hear someone talking from that distance, let alone the contents of their conversation .

Under the circumstances, not even a huge army would be useful against such a monster . Before the troops could get near them, the monsters would have already escaped with their extraordinary senses .

The monsters’ strength could also easily overpower a small number of soldiers trying to ambush them .

Therefore, when the Neegor Dynasty had eliminated the Night Race, they had either created a method that had made the Night Race unable to escape, and then suppressed and eliminated them by outnumbering them, or they had created a weapon that could naturally restrain the monsters .

Judging by the movements of the current Night Race, it had to be the latter . Otherwise, the Night Race would have had no reason to target Herbert, the Neegor Dynasty scholar .

According to Kieran’s speculations, that weapon might very well be in Isogu City!

There was also the possibility that the Neegor Dynasty had had one or two out-of-this-world powerful men, who had eliminated the whole Night Race single-handedly .

If that had been the case though, why would the Neegor Dynasty crumble overnight?

Kieran thought about it while he picked up the green spiked club .