Chapter 52 - Lending a Helping Hand to Forcefully Kill a Second Job Transfer

When Lu Hong and his group had gathered at the entrance of the inn, the inn was in utter chaos, with a flood of guests desperately fleeing.

The innkeeper chased after them, demanding payment for their stay, though it was unclear how much he could actually reclaim.

“Brother Tu, what should we do now?” Lock Fan, holding his long sword, asked as he watched the Tuzhui City guard retreating continuously at the corner of the street.

“Let’s evacuate through the right side street.” Lu Hong pointed to the relatively emptier street on the right, taking the lead to flee.

Of course, although there were no troop battles on this road, many city gangs were taking advantage of the chaos to loot and set fires.

“Kill them!” A gang leader with good eyesight immediately spotted a large bag of gold coins hanging from Lu Hong’s waist, his favorite item.

At the order of their boss, the gang members who were robbing stores rushed toward Lu Hong and his group.

“Leave none, quick battle, quick decision!” Lu Hong was not at all worried about the combat capability of his squad, after all, these were just city hoodlums, nowhere near their level of combat strength.

“I can handle them!” Lock Fan charged forward, his long sword bursting into fierce flames, striking down with a slash that erupted multiple bursts of firelight, knocking down all the approaching hoodlums.

“How are they so strong?” The gang leader was stunned and turned to run.

Lu Hong didn’t bother with him and sprinted toward the south gate of Tuzhui City.

Although the city was chaotic, Lu Hong’s group of over fifty didn’t look easy to mess with, so they encountered little obstruction.

“Attack!”

Suddenly, numerous fireballs and ice arrows burst out at the corner, while the pure white power of Holy Light was extremely dazzling in the night sky.

“Brother Tu, those are students from Heavenly Vine Academy,” Lock Fan recognized the group battling on the street corner.

“Let’s give them a hand.” Lu Hong removed the giant sword from his back and led his squad straight into the fray.

The opponents of the Heavenly Vine Academy were a small squad of rebels, who attacked the city.

This squad was small and didn’t even have their captain with them; merely five people managed to completely suppress the over thirty students from Heavenly Vine Academy without a chance for them to fight back.

Looking at the ground, dozens of students had already fallen.

A fiery sword suddenly crashed into a student’s shield from Heavenly Vine Academy.

The immense impact force made the student retreat continuously, and before he could react, another assassin sneaked behind him, and his dagger pierced through the student’s heart.

“Wu Erfu!” The students from Heavenly Vine Academy’s eyes reddened seeing their comrade fall, and they roared while casting skills at the murderous culprits.

“Earth Shield!” The assassins switched to a flame, and an earthen wall emerged from the ground, easily blocking the students’ resentful strike.

Though they were just five, all were of Second Transition profession!

Not quickly killing them would just be toying with them.

“Attack!” Lu Hong leaped into the air, and a Jump Slash came crashing down on a Mage who was chanting a spell.

“Welsh be careful behind!” The assassins realized Lu Hong and the others were coming and urgently warned their companion.

“Just a First-Turn Warrior who can’t break my magic shield,” the Mage scoffed at Lu Hong, thinking that a mere first transition couldn’t break his pre-cast magic shield.

Of course, the next second he regretted it.

No, he didn’t even have a chance to regret.

Lu Hong’s strike was enhanced with an armor-breaking effect and, boosted by the power of his orc bloodline, it far exceeded the strength of a normal first transition skill.

His weapon was also a level eight weapon, extremely sharp and with high magic penetration.

Outranking was not difficult for Lu Hong.

With one slash, a raging aura violently burst.

That previously disdainful Mage was now cleaved into two, his body crashing into the shops on both sides due to the explosive force.

“How is this possible?!” The other four assassins were shocked that a single strike had broken through the magic shield, something even they couldn’t achieve.

“It’s Kains Academy, they’ve come to help us!” the students from Heavenly Vine Academy cheered upon recognizing their rescuers.

“Lock Fan, take some men and tie them up; I’ll go after that assassin first!” Having killed the Mage, Lu Hong immediately switched his target; the assassin was his second priority, as dealing with their stealth was too troublesome and it was better to handle them sooner.

“Got it!” Seeing Lu Hong slay a Second Transition Mage with the force of thunder, everyone’s confidence surged.

Lock Fan led his squad and timely intervened in the battlefield to isolate the three remaining assassins, “Full defense, tie them up!”

Lock Fan wasn’t foolish; how could a group of First Transition professions defeat Second Transition assassins?

So tying them up was enough.

Heavenly Vine Academy also joined in, desperately holding the assassins, buying time for Lu Hong who could defeat a Mage.

“Do you think you can kill me?” The assassin sneered as he saw Lu Hong approaching with his giant sword, “I admit that you killing Welsh means you’re somewhat capable, but he was just careless.”

After speaking, the assassin’s figure gradually faded away, perfectly blending into the night.

Stealth, the most classic skill of the rogue profession, which becomes even harder to detect after the Second Transition.

“Do you think I won’t find you?” Lu Hong stopped and vigilantly scanned his surroundings, ready for a lethal stealth attack from the assassin at any moment.

“I don’t think you can.” The assassin’s voice suddenly sounded close to Lu Hong’s ear, and his sharp dagger fiercely stabbed toward his heart.

“Ha!” Though it was a split second, Lu Hong’s nerves were on edge and he immediately activated his Intimidation Skill as the assassin spoke.

He was gambling, gambling on whether the assassin was using a skill or not.

If this was merely a strike made with physical strength, the intimidation skill would be pointless, but if the assassin utilized a skill during the ambush, then he would win.

“How…?” The assassin’s dagger had touched Lu Hong’s skin, but at that moment, the intimidation skill caused him to feel dizzy, and his magic power immediately fell silent.

“Kill!” Lu Hong seized the opportunity and swung back with a heavy punch to the assassin’s face, knowing the dizzying effect of intimidation would hardly last a second on someone with a second transition profession, and so he followed up with another heavy punch.

The assassin had just regained the activity of his magic power when, before he could react, Lu Hong’s heavy punch thrust the magic power back into dormancy.

The duration of the silence from the heavy punch was longer than that of intimidation.

Now, Lu Hong could safely use his skill.

“You…” Seeing the giant sword slashing across, the assassin quickly retreated.

“Sand Explosion!”

With a bang, although the assassin dodged the blade, the storm of fighting spirit still heavily struck his body.

A scream was heard as the assassin was flung ten meters away, his chest a muddled mess of blood and flesh.

“I’ll kill you!” As the silence period ended, the assassin roared and once again escaped into the darkness.

Facing the vanishing assassin again, Lu Hong focused his mind and suddenly slashed forward with his sword.

“How…

possible?” Blood slowly dripped down from the blade of the giant sword, the Assassin collapsed powerlessly, no longer breathing.

“It was a guess,” Lu Hong smiled, his enhanced sense of smell from his orc bloodline advancement having detected the faint scent of blood that revealed the assassin’s location.

“Trisa!” The remaining assassins, entangled by the students, were certainly not happy as they saw another companion fall.

“Get out of my way!” The magic fighter, first to explode with anger, detonated his blazing sword, pushing Lock Fan and others aside and almost entirely scorching them as they landed heavily on the ground.

“Keep him restrained!” Lock Fan, in acute pain, screamed as he and the Dagger Team circled back to surround the enemy.

“Step aside, I’ll handle him!” Lu Hong bellowed as he rushed toward the magic fighter.

“Die!” The second-transition magic wielder focused more deeply on elemental skills.

In the hands of the magic wielder, the sword’s flames were far more formidable than Lock Fan’s skills, the surrounding air crackling with searing heat.

Seeing Lu Hong charging forward, the magic wielder danced his sword, firing multiple fire snakes.

Lu Hong, spotting the visible skills, quickly dodged, avoiding all the fire snakes.

Seeing Lu Hong perfectly avoid his attack, the magic wielder switched his fire to lightning: “Thundering Kill!”

As the sword struck the ground, the city street cracked around the magic wielder, the force of the thunder spreading perfectly throughout every inch within ten meters of him.

And Lu Hong, who was only five meters away from the magic wielder, was directly within the attack’s range!

Suddenly, lightning converged toward Lu Hong from all directions.

“This time I’ll see how you dodge!” the magic wielder roared.

“Since I can’t dodge, I’ll just break through it!”

Under a heavy infusion of fighting spirit, Lu Hong’s giant sword emitted a dark glow.

He stepped forward and slashed at the onrushing lightning, tearing through the net of electricity before him.

But the thunder from behind still lashed onto Lu Hong’s back, making him spit out a mouthful of blood.

“You’re going to die now.” Seeing that Lu Hong had been hit and surely paralyzed, the magic wielder lunged forward with a step.

Cling clang clang!

“How…

possible?” After an intense clash, the magic wielder stared dumbly at the giant sword piercing his chest: “You…

you’re supposed to be…

paralyzed?!”

“Sorry, I just have a better constitution.” Lu Hong kicked the magic wielder away, the pierced heart leaving him no chance of survival.

“Bastard!” Before Lu Hong could react, a gigantic shield fiercely rammed into him from behind.

“Duck!” Hearing the cries of alarm from Lock Fan and the others, Lu Hong hastily turned, only to be smashed into the building behind him.

“You killed three of my teammates; today, I’m definitely going to kill you!” The knight, breaking through the students’ siege, followed Lu Hong into the shattered shop.

“It’s our fault for being weak.” Over twenty students knocked aside by the knight lay on the ground, in such pain that they couldn’t get up.

“Don’t play dead; we can’t hold on anymore!” The last assassin pursued by a large group of Heavenly Vine Academy students showed signs of breaking through, while the bodies of dozens of his companions lay around, never to rise again in this life.

The pursuers, a second-transition profession of hunters, abandoned their animal companions and absorbed their power, continuously strengthening themselves, each a superb killing machine.

Every time the Heavenly Vine Academy students resisted an attack from the pursuers, they were blown several meters away, only to endure the severe pain and fill the gaps once again.

Lock Fan and others, just knocked aside by the knight, could hardly muster any strength, but still gritted their teeth and crawled towards the pursuer.