"What is this thing?! Scram!"

Nie Ye sensed someone ahead and lunged forward!

"Look out!"

Lu Cang yelled!

But his warning wasn’t as fast as Nie Ye’s attack!

It had already unleashed its slash!

Three ground-rending slashes tore across the earth.

But in the next instant, the Warrior moved even faster, bringing the Great Sword from his shoulder in a sweeping diagonal slash!

BOOM!

A crimson flash of sword light sundered heaven and earth, leaving a diagonal scarlet afterimage hanging in the air!

The furiously charging monster came to an abrupt halt.

Frozen in that instant.

Then, in the next second, its body completely exploded!

It burst into a fine mist of blood and gore.

One strike.

A kill.

As if he had just slain a frail minion.

"It’s all right now."

The Warrior appeared beside Lu Cang as if from nowhere, gently patting his shoulder.

Even with Lu Cang’s current thought speed and enhanced perception,

he hadn’t seen how the man appeared at his side.

’It’s over...’

A gentle breeze rippled the hems of their clothes.

Lu Cang’s robes were tattered and torn, but the Warrior’s clothes were as good as new.

"Is it really over?"

Lu Cang glanced behind him. From the dense Forest, Demons were still emerging in a continuous stream.

However, they were all weak Demons.

They were nothing to fear, but their sheer numbers were a vexing sight.

The Warrior once again gently patted Lu Cang’s shoulder.

"I’m here now. Everything is over."

The next instant.

BANG!

His figure disappeared again.

A swift red light, like a bolt of lightning, was all that could be seen as it shot through the deep Forest!

BOOM!

The red light soared into the sky!

Then, a circle of crimson sword intent rippled out through the Forest!

SPLAT!

All Demons visible to the naked eye instantly exploded into a mist of blood!

The thick, black-red clouds in the sky suddenly shuddered!

A patch of clear sky was forcefully blasted open!

A suffocating aura of gloom also seemed to disperse.

With his extremely high Spirituality, Lu Cang could see the world gradually sharpening, its colors growing more vibrant.

’The Demon tide... it’s gone?’

SWISH!

Then, after him,

a figure cloaked in verdant green landed beside him.

She glanced at Lu Cang, then vanished from his side. In the blink of an eye, she reappeared before the walls of Raine Town!

She gently raised her hand.

The sky instantly turned a vibrant, living green, as crystalline, jade-colored raindrops began to fall to the earth!

Rain of Life

Afterward, she hurried into the city.

SWISH—

Following closely, the man wearing a Mage Hat also arrived at Lu Cang’s side.

Stone walked behind him.

"Sorry... we’re late."

Iz gazed upon the ruins of Raine Town, his expression an unreadable mix of emotions.

He seemed to want to explain something.

But in the end, he kept his mouth shut.

He led Lu Cang back toward Raine Town.

...

The battle was over, and exhaustion almost instantly swept over his body.

He hadn’t even slept at all last night.

He had only drunk a Fatigue-Relief Potion, but in reality, such potions didn’t truly eliminate exhaustion.

They were merely stimulants; after a brief burst of energy, an even deeper wave of fatigue would wash over him.

He passed by the battlefield where he had just fought.

The ground was covered in corpses, the vast majority of them belonging to Demons.

He looked up at Raine Town.

The city walls were shattered into a dozen pieces.

’A lot of people must have died.’

It was all from that monster’s furious slashes. The aftershocks alone had caused such destruction.

Lu Cang still didn’t know the monster’s name, but Iz had been the first to collect the items it dropped upon death.

Lu Cang didn’t mind.

Lu Cang had always trusted Iz’s character.

After returning to the city, Lu Cang saw people hurriedly carrying remains and piling them in the center of the road.

’Is this some kind of mourning Ritual?’

After all, having only recently arrived in this Otherworld, this was the first time Lu Cang had witnessed their funeral rites.

’How do they commemorate the dead here?’

Lu Cang didn’t know.

"Hurry! Are there any others?"

However, Kumironi was also among them, rushing about and giving commands.

She, too, was teleporting about, carrying fragments of bodies and pieces of rubble from who-knows-where to the center of the road.

She seemed to be in a great hurry.

’Does a mourning Ritual need to be so frantic?’

Just as Lu Cang was thinking this,

Kumironi placed another set of remains on the pile.

"Everyone... we’re almost out of Time."

"I can’t delay any longer."

With that, she took out a Magic Wand with a translucent, emerald-green tip and pointed it toward the sky!

"Life! It should be eternal and unyielding!"

"Death is a lawless tyrant! We, the living, shall reverse the cycle of Reincarnation!"

"I act by the creed of life!"

"Sever the Destiny of Death!"

"Life Revival!"

FWOOM—

Lu Cang’s eyes widened.

He couldn’t understand most of the incantation, but those last two words—"Life Revival"—made his head spin.

’Wait... It can’t be, can it?’

A verdant green light descended from the sky!

Countless corpses and fragments rose into the air under the light’s embrace. Blood and flesh began to recombine as pieces of bodies connected, reassembling into whole people.

The mangled, unrecognizable pulp of blood and flesh...

was miraculously restored.

The newly reassembled people actually opened their eyes.