A convoy of cars headed toward the royal residence through the main road. A big bus led the convoy.
On top of the bus, there were three men standing, wearing purple-leather armor and a longbow. If one looked carefully, the convoy was protected by a few people dressed similarly to the three men on top of the bus.
Inside the bus, Edgar Lane looked to the front with admiration. Ahead of the convoy, a man in black and white uniform floated in the air with dozens of swords around him.
Yes, the man was standing on top of a sword while sweeping the specters, protecting the convoy in the front. The sword killed all the specters that tried to approach the convoy.
All of sudden, the man motioned the bus to stop.
"Stop!" Edgar Lane ordered the driver to stop the bus. He immediately stood up and turned around.
Seven silver knights also stood up as the door opened.
"Let's go!" Edgar led the knights outside the bus. They were looking for the survivors under SES's assistance.
They had been doing this a few times and the same for the other knights in the other cars. They went out and tried to evacuate the survivors to the royal residence.
An hour, after an hour, Edgar Lane and the other silver knights went back. At the rearmost of the convoy, several cars emerged.
Sun Zhou Yi looked back and saw the signal, a signal told him that the evacuation was over. He then controlled the sword on his feet to move forward, marching toward the royal residence.
He looked at the map on his smartwatch. Based on the map, they were near to the royal residence. The closer to the royal residence, the fewer specters they encountered.
Sun Zhou Yi was confused at first, but the confusion cleared when he arrived at the south entrance of the royal residence. The specters were besieging the royal residence. Many knights guarded the entrance and had a bitter fight against the specters.
Sun Zhou Yi pressed the intercom in his ear, "Enemy is on sight, get ready to battle!"
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In the main castle
Prime Minister Austin was monitoring the fight from the control room. He could see that all four main entrances to the royal residence had been besieged by the specters.
Worries and nervousness could be seen from his face. All this happened because of the evacuation plan.
At first, everything went smoothly, the knights avoided the fight and secured their people to the royal residence. But then, it was the start of this disaster.
The specters followed the knight to the royal residence and the besieged started. More and more specters gathered and the knights were slowly getting pushed back.
"Where's SES!?" Prime Minister Austin asked his assistant.
SES was supposed to be here four hours ago, but they still had not received any report yet from SES.
"There's still no news from them!" The female assistant replied nervously.
Prime Minister Austin was about to smash the table with his hand, but then one of his subordinates rushed over.
"Prime Minister! There's a big convoy approaching from the south entrance!"
"Convoy? What convoy!?" Prime Minister Austine rose from his seat and walked toward the monitoring team.
On the screen of the monitoring team, there was indeed a big convoy. Then his eyes fell to the man who led the convoy.
"Emperor Class Hero - Rank 20, Sun Zhou Yi!" Prime Minister Austin uttered a name. His eyes brightened instantly.
"SES arrived! Tell the knight in charge of the south entrance to get ready to open the south gate! The reinforcement has arrived!"
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In front of the south entrance
"One team stays behind! The rest follow me!"
Sun Zhou Yi then approached the red knight, Edgar Lane.
"Assemble the knights! Your duty is to protect the convoy! We will break the encirclement, get ready to move as soon as the path opens!"
Edgar Lane nodded and began to call the knights.
After that instruction, Sun Zhou Yi went back to his team. His eyes fell to the specters who still had not realized his arrival.
"Let's go!"
Sun Zhou Yi rushed toward the gate, he sheathed out his sword while the Ki Swords went ahead of him. He controlled the Ki Sword accurately.
Whish! Whish! Whish!
The Ki Swords whistled through the air and hit the specters. Fifty Ki Swords in total and all the swords accurately hit the specter's dark core. Just like a storm, the Ki Swords swept the specters on sight.
Guardian Knight Frei, the person in charge of the southern gate noticed the incoming convoy. He also heard from Prime Minister Austin it was SES who led the convoy.
Looking at how Sun Zhou Yi fought against the specters, he was astonished. For the first time, he witnessed the famed Sword God with his own eyes.
He looked at the Ki Swords, each of stab, a specter would fall. Fifty Ki Swords in total, so every second, fifty specters fell.
Aside from the Ki Swords, rain of arrows also fell to the specter formations. The same as the Ki Sword, each of an arrow killed a specter in an instant.
Guardian Knight Frei was dumbstruck in awe. The specters that pushed his knight into a defensive position were being slaughtered as if it was just a mob.
In ten minutes, the specters that blocked the path to the gate were cleared. Sun Zhou Yi's group met with the knight in charge of the defense.
Guardian Knight Frei snapped out of his daze and yelled, "Open the gate! Open the gate!"
Under SES's assistance, the convoy safely entered the royal residence.
Sun Zhou Yi was merely standing next to the road, but countless specters killed under his Ki Swords. It was befitting his title given by the Star City's citizens, Sword God. That title was not an old wives' tale, he was truly a Sword God.
The battle continued and it took SES an hour, an hour to kill all specters that besieged the southern gate.
The thousands of specters that cornered the knight were wiped out in an hour by SES. Guardian Knight Frei was dumbfounded as he watched everything, from the start to the end.
Upon noticing SES was about to enter the royal residence, Guardian Knight Frei immediately went down. He had to greet them personally.
Sun Zhou Yi led SES to enter the royal residence. When he passed the gate, he was greeted by a golden-armored knight.
'Gold plate armor, he's Guardian Knight!'
Unlike Heero, Sun Zhou Yi was aware of the knight's hierarchy.
Sun Zhou Yi bowed his head slightly toward the old man in golden armor, "Thanks for opening the gate for us, "
"No, it should be us who are thankful for your assistance. Without your assistance, we would suffer big casualties to kill all the specters!" Guardian Knight Frei flattered at Sun Zhou Yi's polite attitude.
"It's our job to kill them," Sun Zhou Yi smiled at the old man kindly.
"My name is Sun Zhou Yi, Squad Captain of SES, pleased to meet you!"
Guardian Knight Frei immediately reached Sun Zhou Yi's hand, "Frei Rodden of the Rodden Family, pleased to meet you too, Captain Sun Zhou Yi, "
As soon as they introduced themselves, Prime Minister Austin rushed out from the crowd and called out, "Hero Zhou Yi! Hero Zhou Yi!"
His loud voice attracted the surroundings, especially the people saved by Sun Zhou Yi, including Edgar Lane.
From afar, Edgar Lane looked at Sun Zhou Yi with reverence. When he heard Prime Minister Austin's voice, Edgar Lane's expression brightened.
"So he is a Hero…" Edgar Lane muttered under his breath, "Hero Zhou Yi…"
Edgar Lane took off his wrist guard. Below the wrist guard was his smartwatch. He opened the smartwatch and immediately typed "Hero Zhou Yi".
"I am Prime Minister Austin…" Under his heavy breathing, Prime Minister Austin offered his hand.
"Sun Zhou Yi, SES Captain!" Sun Zhou Yi reached the old man's hand, "I was instructed to meet you, Prime Minister Austin!"
"Ah, yes…" Prime Minister Austin paused. All of sudden, the surroundings darkened.
Prime Minister Austin subconsciously looked up. His legs immediately went weak and fell with his butt. His eyes widened in terror as he looked up at the sky.
A gigantic blackbird hovered right on top of him, about over a thousand meters long and its wingspan reached two thousand meters. This was the first time Prime Minister Austin saw such a big bird with his eyes directly.
Even Guardian Knight Frei trembled at the sight of the gargantuan in size bird.
Not only that, the same bird but smaller in size also hovered around the gigantic bird. It is much smaller than the gigantic bird, but it was five times the size of a human's size.
Worries flashed on his face, he was not afraid of the gigantic bird but concerned with the kingdom's citizens.
"Abyss Raven!" Rasyikh blurted out, "But if it's this size, it must be Emperor Level, Level 7 Beast!"
"Abyss Raven?" This was Sun Zhou Yi's first time hearing such a beast species.
"Yes! We often call them Specter's pets because they only feed human flesh! My ancestors once fought against a tribe of Abyss Raven once!" Rasyikh nodded.
"Correct but also incorrect!" Suddenly a voice resounded.
Hearing the familiar voice, Sun Zhou Yi turned toward the voice and saw his Master. His face brightened and called out excitedly, "Master!"
"Mnn, " Heero nodded at Sun Zhou Yi before turning toward Rasyikh, "That's indeed the same Abyss Raven your ancestors fought in the past, but they are no longer a beast! They are a specter!"
"Ah!" Rasyikh was alarmed when he heard that. Even Emperor Level Beast was turned into a specter, he just could not imagine the being that turned it into a specter.
Heero then turned toward his first disciple and smiled, "Do you want to fight it? The current you have a chance to win against that creature,"