Chapter 920: Death Convict Team (1/2, Requesting Monthly Votes)

In the game.

In the blood-red land created by the Moon Lord Apparition, resembling hell.

Over a hundred elite guards were forming three inner rings and three outer rings, completely surrounding something inside.

These elite guards all wore uniform dark blue armor.

This dark blue armor was darker in color than the ordinary Blue Guard uniforms, and unlike the simple design of regular Blue Guards, those wearing this dark blue armor each bore a special skull emblem on their chest.

Moreover, each one had various scars on their face or body, giving them the mere appearance of battle-hardened veterans.

If any Blue Guard member killed by the Moon Lord Apparition were still alive, they would surely recognize these dark blue armored special Blue Guard units as the legendary… Death Convict Team!

The Death Convict Team, as its name suggests, was a unique unit exclusive to the Blue Guard.

Every single member… was pulled from Tianlao by the Blue Guard—criminals of heinous crimes, feared throughout Qing Guo and even other nations!

The Blue Guard held special authority to manage Tianlao, allowing them to select suitable convicts to join the Blue Guard as their combat assets.

Yet this practice was extremely dangerous; one misstep could lead to these released criminals turning on them.

But if properly managed, this Death Convict Team would become the strongest unit within the Blue Guard—and even among the Four Departments!

Of course, this assumed excluding the Four Elders, those Rain Grade Peak beings who were nearly non-human.

In theory, absorbing death row convicts could infinitely elevate the Blue Guard's combat power.

But in reality, since the Blue Guard's founding, they had only once expanded the Death Convict Team, propelling the Blue Guard to the top of the Four Departments.

That was the time when a major incident occurred within the Blue Guard.

The Death Convict Team's convicts rebelled, causing massive casualties among Blue Guard personnel and Jingcheng civilians alike, and several Rain Grade convicts vanished.

This incident had an extremely negative impact, causing the overgrown Blue Guard to be immediately suppressed by the other three departments, and the Emperor himself ordered the dissolution of the Death Convict Team.

But after the Blue Guard's desperate plea, the Death Convict Team was reinstated a century later—though its size and other aspects were heavily restricted, its strength far from its former peak.

Even so, this Death Convict Team remained the Blue Guard's top combat force outside of Wu Lao, and they could only be deployed to carry out missions during special circumstances.

Today, the situation in Jingcheng was precisely one of those special circumstances, allowing the Blue Guard to directly mobilize this peak-strength yet notoriously uncontrollable unit.

Wu Feifei, a Second-Rank Blue Guard and team captain, now rode a horse at the very front of all Death Convict Team members, like their leader.

But her eyes were locked onto the man ahead—the one whose back rose a black wheel, whose head bore a black ring, and who was entirely shrouded in an overwhelming darkness so thick it nearly obscured his form from sight.

Not just her—all members of the Death Convict Team present were the same!

They all stared in stunned disbelief at the man enveloped in darkness before them.

As if they had just witnessed something unimaginable, every single one had wide eyes, faces filled with utter disbelief.

Because when Wu Feifei and her team arrived, what they saw was…

This man standing in confrontation with the Moon Lord Apparition.

Though far away, Wu Feifei's strength allowed her to instantly recognize the man on the ground—he was none other than the wild man who had caused chaos in the Wen Wu Da Dian and triggered the You Family woman's betrothal cancellation.

Though the wild man had collapsed, a strange curse planted by the Moon Lord Apparition still clung to his back—a black disc hovering like a black moon behind him, from which dozens of black hands extended, swirling in the air around the two, as if divine hands observed a mortal battle.

But Wu Feifei knew this was not mere observation—it was the Moon Lord Apparition's ability!

Though she did not know what terrible consequences the Moon Lord Apparition's curse would bring by parasitizing the wild man, she was already too late.

When she arrived with her team, the wild man had already fallen; her options were extremely limited.

Despite shouting, "Leave that wild man alone!" and drawing the Moon Lord Apparition's attention,

the Moon Lord Apparition still lunged forward.

And seemingly because of her shout, the Moon Lord Apparition grew agitated.

The black hands hovering above suddenly went out of control, violently plunging downward and swallowing both figures whole.

Violent, dense darkness engulfed their forms, darkening Wu Feifei's expression.

Without doubt, the wild man was dead.

Because she had noticed a detail: when the wild man collapsed, his eyes had lost all luster—he had fallen as if unconscious, utterly defenseless and powerless.

Though she did not know his cultivation level, even a Cloud Grade martial artist like herself, in such a state of unconsciousness, facing a supernatural threat at point-blank range, would be beyond saving.

So the wild man was definitely dead!

"What a pity for that little fox of the You Family—just broke off her engagement with the Seventh Prince, and now her wild man's already fallen."

Wu Feifei merely thought this for a moment.

She had no fondness for women with so many scandals and dramas.

She admired only the strong!

Absolute power, not those who lived and died for love every day.

Such people, male or female, could never earn her favor.

Thus, upon Fang Yue's death, Wu Feifei flashed the thought through her mind and immediately made her judgment.

"Death Convict Team, charge! Whoever cuts off the head of that apparition before us—I'll reduce his sentence by ten years!"

Ten-year sentence reduction!!

The moment Wu Feifei announced this, the Death Convict Team erupted in frenzy.

These men, pulled from death row into the Death Convict Team, were not truly free—they were merely laborers, expendable shock troops, forced to die for the Blue Guard.

But in return, they received benefits!

That was… their status changed from death row convict to fixed-term prisoner!

Of course, this fixed-term sentence was still measured in centuries, even hundreds of years.

(End of chapter)