23: Golden Flame Judgment! Wolf Riders Blood-stained Sunset Plains

The west wind carried a faint scent of blood as it swept across the edge of the Sunset Plain.

Su Jin's figure, like an arrow released from a bowstring, sped across the withered yellow grassland. Behind him, fourteen Spirit Pivot Sword Servants followed closely, their steps light yet containing astonishing explosive power, like fourteen azure phantoms flying close to the ground.

Su Jin felt the surging spiritual energy within him, a gift after activating his Lord's Power.

He understood that he could now not only mobilize the power originating from Bai Xiao's Soul Release but had also touched the threshold of Mind Unleashed.

However, he had never truly attempted it before, as it required an enormous amount of spiritual energy, and… he always felt that his Mind Unleashed might be different from Bai Xiao's.

Ahead, the dust cloud on the horizon grew closer and thicker. The dull thud of hooves, like a dense drumbeat, echoed, and the ground seemed to tremble slightly.

Finally, a dark, dense mass of figures appeared at the end of the horizon.

These were hundreds of giant wolves, far stronger than ordinary mount wolves. Their fur was dark, their muscles bulged, their fangs protruded, and they kicked up a strong wind as they ran, their crimson eyes gleaming with bloodlust.

Each giant wolf carried a burly Goblin knight, wielding a spear or a great axe.

These Goblin knights were far more formidable than the Big Goblins in the camp, clad in leather armor and with ferocious war paint on their faces.

The leading Wolf Cavalry was particularly conspicuous.

The giant wolf he rode was almost one and a half times the size of the other mount wolves, with fur as black as ink, and even a small, short horn on its forehead.

The knight himself was so burly he barely looked like a Goblin, covered in heavy armor, with crisscrossing scars on his face that spoke of his ferocity, and he carried a massive battle axe.

“Hmm?” Grunak noticed the fifteen tiny figures ahead. The leader, a Fourth Tier?

The dozen or so behind, Second Tier? Third Tier? Without even decent armor? Did they dare to block Grunak's path with so few people?

Grunak's lips curled into a cruel smile, revealing his yellowed fangs.

He didn't even bother to wonder where these people came from.

In his eyes, they were just another group of idiots who didn't know their place, trying to stop a chariot with a mantis arm!

“Crush them!!” Grunak raised his battle axe, pointed it at Su Jin and his group, and gave the order to charge.

“Awooo—!”

Hundreds of Wolf Cavalry accelerated again, like a surging flood, crashing down with an aura of destruction towards the fifteen tiny figures!

The thunderous roar of wolf claws trampling the earth was deafening, and the dust they kicked up threatened to swallow everything!

Facing this charge that seemed capable of flattening mountains, Su Jin took a deep breath.

He knew he couldn't let these Wolf Cavalry get through, otherwise, even the Spirit Pivot Sword Servants would suffer heavy losses in a direct confrontation.

It was time.

“Time to try out the new skin…” Su Jin muttered to himself. He had always watched Bai Xiao go all out; today, it was his turn!

“Mind Unleashed!”

Accompanying a low shout, a powerful spiritual pressure, no weaker than Bai Xiao's previous Mind Unleashed, suddenly erupted from Su Jin's body!

It was no longer a pale green flowing fire, but a brilliant, molten gold-like radiance!

The golden spiritual pressure, like solidified flames, instantly enveloped Su Jin, rapidly outlining and condensing!

In the blink of an eye, a full-body armor, similar in style to Bai Xiao's azure-blue battle armor but with a magnificent golden hue, covered Su Jin!

This golden battle armor had sleek and ornate lines, each part appearing to be crafted from pure gold, inscribed with complex and profound patterns, and radiating a visible golden aura. The helmet covered his face, leaving only a pair of eyes burning with golden flames.

Unlike Bai Xiao's Mind Unleashed, Su Jin's Mind Unleashed did not visibly spread outwards into a domain. Instead, the immense spiritual pressure, powerful enough to distort the air, converged and compressed inwards in an astonishing manner!

Finally, all the golden light gathered onto the basic sword embryo that materialized in his hand!

The originally unremarkable sword embryo now had a blade rendered in pure gold, with the edges of the blade emitting almost liquid golden flames. The entire sword seemed to have become a holy sword of light, condensed with infinite energy!

“Holy cow… the special effects are even better than I imagined!” Su Jin felt the surging power within him and the golden longsword in his hand that seemed capable of cutting through anything. Even with his calm demeanor, he couldn't help but let out a small exclamation of awe.

This was his unique Mind Unleashed? It seemed quite different from Bai Xiao's and the others'.

Who cares, as long as it's effective!

Just as Su Jin completed his Mind Unleashed, the fourteen Spirit Pivot Sword Servants behind him also moved.

“Soul Release!”

Fourteen low shouts rang out in unison. Pale green spiritual pressure and flowing fire simultaneously burst forth from their bodies, coiling around them, and fourteen sharp-looking swords of their inner world instantly materialized!

Although it was only the basic Soul Release state, far from Su Jin's current golden radiance, the fourteen individuals' auras were connected, their spiritual energy resonating, forming a stable and resilient overall aura, like a solid rock, forcefully resisting the invisible pressure of the Wolf Cavalry's charge!

“What is this?!”

Grunak, charging at the very front, his pupils suddenly constricted!

The golden light erupting from the leading human and the terrifying aura that suddenly soared to a level that made him feel a chill, for the first time, made his head, filled with slaughter, register a signal called “danger”!

That was absolutely not some Fourth Tier! This power… could already threaten him, and he was a Sixth Tier!

And those guys behind, he had thought they were just cannon fodder, but in the blink of an eye, their aura had also become so sharp?

These humans… something was wrong with them!

But at this moment, the charge had already begun. Hundreds of Wolf Cavalry were already less than a hundred meters from Su Jin and the others!

“Ram him to death!!” Grunak suppressed the surprise in his heart, letting out an even more frantic roar. He refused to believe that even if the opponent was a steel plate, his hundreds of Wolf Cavalry couldn't smash him to pieces!

Su Jin's golden eyes were unruffled. He watched the flood of Wolf Cavalry, like a tsunami, rush towards him, and slowly raised the longsword in his hand, burning with golden flames.

He could clearly feel the spiritual energy fluctuations of the fourteen Sword Servants behind him, like fourteen streams, creating a subtle resonance with his own “golden lake.”

An instinctive idea formed in his mind.

“Soul Cry Slash!”

Su Jin issued a concise command, not to himself, but to the fourteen Sword Servants behind him.

“Yes!”

The fourteen Spirit Pivot Sword Servants did not hesitate. Almost simultaneously, they unleashed all the spiritual energy from their Soul Release state, unleashing their strongest attack forward!

“Whoosh whoosh whoosh—!”

Fourteen solidified pale green crescent-shaped shockwaves shot out from their swords, with a sharp whooshing sound, towards the Wolf Cavalry!

However, just as these shockwaves left their bodies, Su Jin moved!

He suddenly thrust forward the longsword in his hand, compressed with immense golden energy!

Om—!

An invisible gravitational field generated with Su Jin's golden longsword as its core. The fourteen pale green Soul Cry Slashes, which were about to scatter, seemed to be guided by something, strangely changing their trajectories in mid-air, converging towards Su Jin's sword tip like rivers flowing into the sea!

Chii chii chii!

The pale green energy and the golden flames, upon first contact, did not repel or explode. Instead, they began to merge and transform in a miraculous way!

The power of the fourteen Soul Cry Slashes was completely absorbed, guided, and amplified by Su Jin's golden longsword, which had compressed the power of his Mind Unleashed domain!

In an instant, the golden longsword in Su Jin's hand glowed intensely. The golden flames emanating from the blade almost solidified, instantly expanding to over ten meters in length, forming a massive golden blade of light that spanned the path of the Wolf Cavalry's charge!

This blade of light not only contained Su Jin's immense Mind Unleashed energy but also integrated the full power of the fourteen Spirit Pivot Sword Servants' Soul Release state!

The destructive aura it emitted made Grunak, who was charging at the very front, feel all the hairs on his body stand on end. A shadow of death instantly enveloped his heart!

“No—!!!” Grunak let out a roar of terror and despair, desperately trying to rein in the giant wolf beneath him, but it was all too late.

Su Jin's eyes were cold. He swung the sword horizontally at the unstoppable flood of Wolf Cavalry!

“Fusion Skill: Golden Dawn Judgment!”

There was no earth-shattering explosion.

The giant golden blade of light, like cutting through cheese, swept across silently.

Time, it seemed, stood still at this moment.

The charging giant wolves and the knights on their backs, along with their weapons and armor, were instantly disintegrated and vaporized upon contact with the golden blade of light, leaving not a single trace of flesh or blood, as if they had never existed.

Where the blade of light swept across the ground, it left a deep, smooth, charred mark, its edges still radiating scorching heat.

When the golden light slowly dissipated, all that remained of the once formidable Wolf Cavalry charge formation was a massive, horrifying, fan-shaped gap!

The once imposing Wolf Cavalry, along with their mounts, had completely vanished from this world.

And at the edge of that destroyed area, Grunak's figure appeared. Relying on his powerful Sixth Tier strength and a desperate last-second roll, he managed not to be directly vaporized, but he could only twitch and struggle on the ground, barely clinging to life.

Just one strike! Only one strike! It annihilated his elite Wolf Cavalry!

What kind of monster was this?! What the hell kind of monster was this?!

Grunak looked at the figure holding the golden longsword, enveloped in golden armor, suspended in mid-air like a deity, and the fourteen cold-eyed “attendants” behind him, holding pale green light swords. All that remained in his heart was endless fear and absurdity.

He finally understood why the world book had given a warning.

This was not some “interesting change”; this was clearly a… disaster that had descended upon this land!