Chapter 1247: Breaking Through

When the surrounding shield wall was only five meters away from Su Xiao, a dozen long weapons thrust out from the gaps in the tower shields. As the encirclement grew smaller, the soldiers around Su Xiao naturally gathered more densely; he was waiting for exactly this opportunity.

Su Xiao gripped the hilt of Checking Zhan Long Shan, and the long blade left its scabbard.

*Clang. *

A pale blue ring-shaped blade light expanded outward—Ring Break, maximized.

*Swish. * As Ring Break swept past, tower shield after tower shield was severed, and the Necromancer soldiers behind them naturally could not escape unscathed.

The pale blue ring of blade light expanded; wherever it passed, Necromancer soldiers were sliced across the chest. Blood sprayed in a rage, and a pungent, bloody stench filled the air.

With the clashing of armor and the impact of tower shields, all Necromancer soldiers within sixty meters of Su Xiao fell. The wails spread across the battlefield almost instantly, creating a scene like purgatory.

The Necromancer soldiers in the rear could not see what was happening in front, but they heard the bone-chilling screams.

Amidst the blood stood Su Xiao, holding his long blade. A faint green light gathered on his hand holding the blade; this was a large surge of life force absorbed by Checking Zhan Long Shan, capable of rapidly healing his wounds. Since he had no injuries on his body, this pure life force dissipated into the air.

Drops of blood splattered onto Su Xiao's cheek. He scanned his surroundings, lifted his foot to step onto the corpses in front, and actively charged into the tide of people surging toward him.

The sounds of hacking and screaming merged into one. As Su Xiao swung his blade to decapitate one, he kicked out at a Necromancer soldier to his side.

*Crack. * With a crisp sound, Su Xiao's kick shattered a large section of the Necromancer soldier's ribs. The opponent let out a low groan and actually attempted to continue charging at Su Xiao, but unfortunately, their body gradually lost strength as two broken ribs pierced their heart.

*Puchi, puchi, puchi. *

Su Xiao slashed three times in succession, leaving three silver threads hanging in mid-air. A Necromancer soldier froze in place before their body shattered.

Having just killed an enemy, Su Xiao immediately crouched low, and a gleaming halberd blade swept over his head. With his Intuition ability, his back was not a blind spot.

Su Xiao casually grabbed a broad-bladed knife from the ground and threw it toward the rear without even looking.

The broad-bladed knife pierced directly through a Necromancer soldier's throat. The soldier retreated a few steps, released their weapon, and grabbed the knife with both hands. Just as they gripped it, their vision turned pitch black. The last thing they saw was a man holding a long blade, charging through the Necromancer soldiers; wherever he rushed, large swathes of them fell.

A sharp pain came from under his ribs; Su Xiao had been hit by a metal arrow from an unknown source. In the midst of a chaotic army, dreaming of coming out unscathed was just that—a dream.

Pulling out the metal arrow from under his ribs, Su Xiao pierced through a Necromancer soldier's chest and sent the metal arrow in his hand into another soldier's throat.

Su Xiao was fierce now; any soldier who dared to enter within three meters of him would immediately have their throat slashed or heart pierced by his blade. Yet, even so, there were simply too many Necromancer soldiers around.

While killing enemies, Su Xiao was breaking through in one direction—the direction of the Dark Moon Swamp. Based on Su Xiao's observations, decapitating the enemy commander was currently impossible.

The situation at hand was different from a battle between two armies; the Necromancer commander only needed to set up the formation and then let the soldiers surround and kill Su Xiao. He no longer needed to issue other orders.

Therefore, this Necromancer commander had changed into the armor of an ordinary soldier. Trying to find him among more than ten thousand soldiers was less effective than attempting to break out directly.

With the decapitation plan aborted, Su Xiao could only rely on the long blade in his hand and his conviction to kill his way out, carving a bloody path.

Blood splattered and severed limbs flew. Su Xiao had forgotten how many Necromancer soldiers he had killed, nor was he in the mood to count. He determined the direction via the Apostle's Eye and broke through toward it.

*Bang! *

Su Xiao kicked a Necromancer soldier's head to pieces, grabbed the corpse, and threw it forward.

The corpse knocked down a swathe of Necromancer soldiers who had gathered together. Just as they tried to stand up, an impact hit them head-on.

*Boom! *

The explosion echoed across the battlefield. The unique firelight of an Alchemy Bomb surged wildly. The soldiers within the flames wailed incessantly; they instinctively tugged at their armor, but unfortunately, it was not the armor that was burning.

Soon, a dozen charred corpses fell to the ground. Su Xiao had already vanished from his original spot. Looking along the bloody path piled with corpses, Su Xiao had killed his way twenty meters out, though this bloody path was quickly filled by soldiers surging from all around.

By all logic, with Su Xiao killing like this within the tide of soldiers, the surrounding Necromancer soldiers should have long since lost their nerve, perhaps even breaking into small-scale routs.

Yet, this situation did not occur. The eyes of the surrounding Necromancer soldiers were bloodshot, looking as if they would not rest until they killed Su Xiao. As for the fall of their comrades, that was dying for the Empire, dying for Lord Qidi.

Qidi's death had clearly stimulated the Necromancer soldiers. Qidi did not represent a single person; it was more like a "totem" of the Necromancer race. Sometimes this "totem" was an ethereal existence, and sometimes it would truly appear. All Qidi lived simply, never leaving the Shelter Tree in their lifetime, and guided them.

Now their "totem" was dead, and through the brain-filling of the Necromancer high command, Qidi's death was inseparable from Su Xiao. By the time it reached the lower-level soldiers, it became that Su Xiao had killed Qidi.

Su Xiao had killed their "living totem," so these soldiers were eager to tear Su Xiao apart; a rout was simply impossible.

Su Xiao broke through toward the front. It appeared as though one blade light killed a swathe of Necromancer soldiers, but these soldiers were not the elite troops of the Necromancer race. If he were surrounded and suppressed by elite troops, whether Su Xiao could break out of the encirclement was an unknown.

Blood splattered and the long blade rang out. Su Xiao had forcefully carved a bloody path out of the Necromancer army, as if possessed by a god of slaughter.

At the edge of the battlefield, a "Necromancer soldier" stood on a high slope, witnessing the scene below. He was the commander of this Necromancer unit.

The Necromancer commander exchanged a few words with the personal guards beside him. He realized that letting Su Xiao continue to charge like this would not work; reinforcements still needed time to arrive. If this continued, Su Xiao really had a possibility of breaking out. He was simply too fierce; the Necromancer soldiers were no longer dying one by one, but falling in swathes.

Therefore, the Necromancer commander decided to send cavalry to block Su Xiao's path of breakthrough and launch a counter-charge against him. Once entangled by cavalry, Su Xiao would not be able to escape so easily.

Just as the Necromancer commander gave the order, a pair of eyes from several hundred meters away looked at him.

In the center of the battlefield, Su Xiao snapped a Necromancer soldier's throat. He had an unexpected gain: finding the commander of this Necromancer unit.

Su Xiao, within the Necromancer tide, slashed several times in succession, large beads of blood splattering around him. While killing several Necromancer soldiers, he leaped into the air.

*Boom. * The ground beneath Su Xiao's feet shattered. He leaped a full dozen meters high; with his physical fitness, this was simple. As for why he didn't leap higher, that would easily make him a sieve for the enemy's long-range soldiers.

The Duke of Silence appeared in Su Xiao's hand. He only had a fleeting moment. The Duke's Domain opened, and the scope extended from the barrel of the Duke of Silence.

While pulling the bolt, Su Xiao brought his head close to the scope, the crosshairs aiming at the distant Necromancer commander.

Su Xiao only had a thirty percent chance of hitting this shot, and he only had one opportunity. If he dared to jump again, the anti-air strikes from the Necromancer unit would be no joke.

Su Xiao's index finger pulled the trigger. The recoil of the Duke of Silence sent him flying backward. The moment before he was sent flying, Su Xiao saw through the scope a mist of blood explode; the Necromancer commander's upper body was directly blasted to pieces.

Shredded flesh splattered, and the few personal guards beside the Necromancer commander stood frozen in place.

When Su Xiao landed, he had already put away the Duke of Silence. His goal now remained only one: to break through to the outside, either killing his way out or dying here.

An hour later, Su Xiao sat on a horse carcass, blood dripping down his hair tips.

Five minutes ago, Su Xiao had successfully broken through, and the subsequent pursuing cavalry unit had also been dealt with by him, yet he could not feel happy.

Although the breakthrough was successful, this was the first time the Necromancer army had discovered Su Xiao's whereabouts. If he couldn't even kill his way out when first surrounded, Su Xiao could consider finding a place with beautiful scenery to bury himself.

The current situation was that the Necromancer race had already constructed a larger encirclement. The time Su Xiao spent breaking through earlier was too long; if he wasn't mistaken, this large area around him had already been surrounded by Necromancer units.

If Su Xiao were surrounded again, it wouldn't be ten thousand Necromancer soldiers, but tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of Necromancer soldiers surrounding and killing him. ===== CHAPTER 1248 =====