Astral Apostle

The flames in Deep Rock City pierced the night.

Some of them realized that something was wrong and hastened their pace.

As they got closer, the sounds of burning, crying, and footsteps in the city became clearer.

When Zhou Jing and the others arrived at the entrance of Deep Rock City, they discovered that the city gate had been broken from the inside out. The incomplete corpses of the guards were everywhere.

Looking through the door, he saw that the houses on both sides of the street were on fire. The heat waves from the flames even reached their faces.

"What's going on? Did the mutated beasts attack the city?" Cole was surprised.

Zhou Jing squatted down to check the corpses of the guards. His eyes suddenly narrowed, "It's a wound caused by a weapon, not an attack by a mutant beast."

"It's actually man-made? Could there be a riot in Deep Rock City?" The captain of the hunter team turned vigilant.

At that moment, there was a flurry of footsteps in the distance from the burning street.

A group of civilians ran over from afar in a sorry state. They were like a temporary group that had gathered to escape from the city.

When they discovered Zhou Jing and the others in front of the city gate, the group of civilians seemed to have seen something terrifying. They panicked and were about to scatter.

Cole and the other hunters immediately went forward and caught a few of the ashen-faced civilians.

"What happened here?"

A few civilians trembled and responded.

"I-I don't know. I just want to escape!"

"So many people are dead. The entire city is in chaos!"

"A group of hunters went crazy and killed everyone they saw. They even lit fires everywhere!"

Zhou Jing also came over. As he listened to his companions interrogate these civilians, he roughly understood the current situation.

At this moment, in Deep Rock City, a group of thugs suspected to be Mutant Beast Hunters was looting the city. They were on a killing spree and set the city on fire.

Number unknown, origin unknown, strength unknown…

"If I'm not wrong, a group of bandits that have undergone the Mutant Blood Enhancement. One of them pretended to be a freelance hunter and entered the city, breaking the city gate from the inside and letting the others enter the city to burn, kill, and plunder." Cole gritted his teeth.

Among the supernatural beings who had undergone the enhancement of the Mutant Blood, there were Mutant Beast Hunters who were noble and dedicated, mercenaries who were pragmatic and sought wealth, and naturally, there were also villains who relied on their strength to commit evil.

Although the threat of mutant beasts was the biggest problem of the Terra Empire, and they were united against the outside world, it could not prevent the villains with power from doing whatever they wanted. There were still bandits, but the frequency was not high, and the scale was not large. It was usually a rare sight.

"I actually bumped into such a thing." Zhou Jing raised his eyebrows and turned to look at Cole, "Has this happened before?"

"At most, they'll just rob the village, this is the first time I've seen them attacking a fortress. They're too arrogant. They don't even care about the Empire… Let's go and stop this group of people."

Everyone asked for directions and drew their weapons in unison. They temporarily abandoned their spoils of war and headed straight for the lord's castle.

If the town still had the ability to resist, the troops would most likely gather in the castle.

As an Imperial Hunter, it was their duty to protect the town. Although it was not a mutated beast attack, since they had encountered such an evil incident, he could not sit back and do nothing.

Zhou Jing did not have any objections. He held his two blades and quickly followed everyone.

...

Meanwhile, in the lord's castle.

Hundreds of guards' bodies were strewn on the ground, and blood stained the castle hall.

The Lord of Deep Rock City leaned against the wall, his face full of panic and fear.

Two Mutant Blood Guards covered in blood stood protectively in front of him. They were panting heavily as they looked at the scene in front of them nervously and desperately. They were the only guards left alive with the Lord.

At this moment, there were more than ten villains around him. They were all Mutant Blood Warriors with different weapons and armor. The only thing they had in common was that they were covered in the blood of the guards. At this moment, they were staring at the Lord with ill intentions.

"W-Who are you guys?"

The Lord of Deep Rock City's voice trembled as he spoke.

Hearing this, a leader walked out from the group of villains. He had rough, messy hair and a fierce face, carrying with him a two-handed scimitar. The man coldly snapped,

"The dead don't need to know so much."

After saying that, the messy-haired man ignored the lord and looked at the two nervous mutated blood guards with admiration in his eyes.

"Brothers, I'll give you a chance to live. Join us."

The two Mutant Blood Guards gripped their weapons, not trusting them at all.

Seeing this, the messy-haired man took two steps forward and continued solemnly,

"Ask your hearts. You've survived the near-death enhancement of your blood and finally obtained extraordinary strength. In the end, you have to listen to the orders of mortals and sacrifice your lives for them. Are you willing to die here?"

"Don't come any closer!" The two Mutant Blood Guards shouted angrily, nervously pointing their weapons at the disheveled man.

The messy-haired man stopped but ignored the enemy's shining blade.

"Why should you listen to the orders of mortals? Why can't the person giving the orders be someone stronger? When this weak mortal instructed you to run around, didn't you fantasize for a moment about smashing his head?"

The two guards only gripped their weapons tighter, their lips pursed in silence.

The messy-haired man suddenly opened his arms and said loudly, "They are afraid of us. They won't give us what you want. They want to tame us and use order to restrain our power. When morality and law ban your desire, you should take it by force!

Nothing in this world should be able to restrain us. All the power and wealth in this world should belong to powerhouses like us. Mortals should be servants… We should be able to do everything we want!"

What kind of insane scripture was this man raving about?!