Hero of Darkness
chapter-221

At one of the secluded corners of the city where only open fields for agricultural land and mills for harvesting the produce were situated, a mage donned in black robes walked at a steady pace.

[You better have it ready. Or I'm killing you all instead.] spoke Loki in his mind.

Winds howled as the midnight darkness had encapsulated this entire area. Only the tall crops and bushes were noticeable if one looked closely.

Loki was walking on a paved soil road leisurely.

But at this very moment, there were 20 assassins and archers tailing him from just a kilometer away to stay undetected by the peak grandmaster mage.

If not for the fellow subordinates given to him by Kahn, he would've failed to detect these people and mistakenly lead them to their mansion.

But since the owner was learning from his little mistake, so were the generals. Ronin had already told this strategy to all the other generals and Omega so they don't get mixed up in unnecessary trouble or reveal their identities to the enemy.

In his case, what Ceril liked the most was killing people and experimenting with their bodies to create more undead. And he wasn't in the mood of changing his obsession for the sake of being cautious.

Besides, sending these people to tail him also meant that Odin was snooping his nose where he shouldn't have. And that part angered him the most, so there was a need to send a warning.

When he reached the center of this open settlement, his figure suddenly disappeared from the spot.

Tap! Tap! Step! Step!

2 minutes later, numbers of black shadows appeared from various directions and gathered at the place where the mage previously stood.

Some appeared out of the shadows of the mills while some from the open fields of crops and finally broke the silence.

"Where is he? I can't sense him at all." spoke a demonkin assassin.

"No idea. We too saw him disappear right here just a few minutes ago. He's a mage, not an assassin or archer like us to disappear into thin air even if he were to be a grandmaster individual." said another one of the assassins in a rustic tone.

At this exact moment, dozens of black shadows revealed themselves in 500 meters radius, encircling this group and activated the artifacts they were holding.

Shing!

Suddenly, a dark dome appeared right above their heads and covered the 500 meter surrounding area in a matter of seconds, completely covering and isolating this group from the outside.

"Welcome to my hell!"

A ghastly and eerie voice landed on the ears of all these pursuers who were now trapped inside this dark barrier.

Just a hundred meters away from this group of assassins and archers, Loki revealed his figure and dozens of red archaic magical formations appeared on the ground around these people.

Crack! Crack!

The ground started cracking around the group and boney hands pushed themselves out of the soil.

Hundreds of noises of the ground cracking resounded as skeletons varying from humans to demihumans burst open the field and rose as if an army of creatures from hell was erupting in front of them.

From every single hole, dozens of skeletons in varying sizes jumped outwards and started encircling this group of guests.

All the members of the opposition were rooted on the spot, taken aback by fear and disbelief as they saw nearly 300 skeletons soldiers and walking zombies with burning red eyes staring at them.

"Since you've taken so much of your time in pursuing me… allow me to show my appreciation towards your hard work." said Loki as he chuckled in a sinister tone.

The next moment, he summoned a huge throne, made completely out of white bones and skulls of who knows how many creatures.

Loki sat comfortably as he looked at his army of undead that he had cultivated so far in the past 10 days. Although the number was only three hundred, every single one of these summons was at least a beginner rank creature.

This was an overkill to be exact. But what he wanted wasn't just to toy with these people.. But to show how it felt being in the presence of the grim reaper.

"Entertain our guests." he commanded and the soldiers started walking towards the group of fighters.

Thud! Thud!

The giant 5 meter tall undead monsters he created recently walked towards the group that was now surrounded and had taken a defensive stance.

Each of them showing immense fear on their face but still mustering the courage to fight against these undead. All their curses and warnings towards the army surrounding them landed on deaf ears.

This is what exactly Loki wanted. To crush their spirit first and then give them a glimpse of absolute despair.

"Now, come to me… I shall enlighten you about true aspects of life and death." said Loki in a sadistic voice.

"Arrh!!"

Screamed one of the female assassins whose leg was grabbed by a skeleton's hand that appeared from the ground right below her.

"No! Please let us go. We were only following orders." pleaded a snakekin.

"Spare us! We promise we won't dare to come in your way ever again!" said a human archer.

"Argh! My hand!" screamed one of the pursuers as an undead jumped at him and chew off his flesh on the forearm

Some of the new tall master rank monsters also attacked and incapacitated the enemies while the small undeads chew out entrails and skin these people alive.

Ceril was watching and enjoying the show, laughing maniacally as he ordered the soldiers to be more creative.

Their screams fill the dome as Loki sat on the throne, his maniacal laughs giving even more sinister touch to the scene.

The expression on his face turned ecstatic as he watched these people getting scared shitless, fighting for their lives and getting swarmed with the sheer numbers of undead soldiers who tore their limbs and ripped out their flesh one by one.

To their begs for mercy after getting outnumbered completely, Loki only replied in a stern and ruthless voice.

"Tonight… Let there be Carnage."

[[Author : Sorry for not being able to write or update any chapters recently. My life has been very hectic and full of things I had to handle. Job interviews, projects and internship stuff have been taking all of my attention so I didn't get much time to be in a proper mindset and write new chapters. The way things are going, I won't be able to update much in December but I'll definitely upload 3 chapters per day starting January. So I hope you guys can forgive me just this time and I appreciate many still supporting the novel despite the lack of updates this month.]]