Chapter 241: Thousand-Faced Nightmare

Su Zhan felt helpless.He could only take things one step at a time.

The four of them left the Hunting Team office building.

Fierce combat sounds came from all directions.

They saw figures wearing unified black robes.

Their faces were concealed by masks.

They launched ferocious attacks against the student evacuation teams.

These black-robed figures emitted powerful auras, starting from high-risk level at minimum, with swift and ruthless movements and perfect coordination.

Among them were powerful special-risk level existences.

They could often restrain several academy instructors by themselves.

These black-robed Aberrants were surrounded by dense mist.

This mist was part of their power.

With their movements, the mist transformed into various attack forms.

Medium-risk Aberrants could initially use Mist Energy, let alone these elites.

Their mist manipulation was even more bizarre and difficult to defend against.

The Awakened individuals relied on their Life Soul power to fiercely resist the black-robed Aberrants' Mist Energy.

People were getting injured every moment.

Black-robed figures or students fell.

Blood stained the ground red.

Wang Mingyuan, Kong Wu, and Qin Bai formed a small combat group, arduously advancing forward while protecting Su Zhan and nearby students.

They engaged in intense combat with the elite black-robed figures continuously emerging from the mist.

Mist clashed wildly with the glowing lights of various Life Souls.

Qin Bai's expression remained cold and stern, his Eternal Night Aurora Whip Life Soul manifesting behind him.

It had no physical form, appearing as an energy stream shimmering with dark aurora lights, beautiful yet deadly.

With a flick of his wrist, the aurora whip lashed toward a Tide Realm black-robed figure charging from the side mist.

The aurora whip penetrated the opponent's mist defense.

It lightly brushed past.

The black-robed figure's forward charge abruptly stiffened, emitting a panicked grunt.

He lost all tactile sensation of his body, unable to perceive his own movements and balance, staggering and falling like a drunkard, instantly finished off by a nearby teacher.

Wang Mingyuan's spiritual energy moved as he directed, changing instantly.

White spiritual energy instantly condensed into a thick light wall ahead, blocking several incoming arrows.

Then pointing toward another enemy trying to bypass them, the white spiritual energy immediately transformed into several flexible glowing chains, tightly binding and temporarily restraining their movements.

Simultaneously, dividing his attention.

He spread a gentle white glow, enveloping several injured students and stabilizing their wounds.

Su Zhan silently observed among them.

This must be the all-round SSS-grade Life Soul, incredibly comprehensive, seemingly without weaknesses.

Kong Wu's entire body muscles turned bronze-colored, swelling in size, making him resemble a human-shaped beast.

Facing an Abyss Realm black-robed figure charging with a sharp blade, he directly threw a punch.

The punch produced a dull sonic boom.

Fist and blade collided, actually emitting metallic clashing sounds.

The black-robed figure's arm went numb from the shock, revealing terrified expression in his eyes.

Kong Wu pressed his advantage with fierce attacks, fists, feet, elbows, and knees all becoming deadly weapons, each strike powerful and heavy.

Forcing the Abyss Realm black-robed figure to retreat repeatedly, completely unable to break through his defense.

Along the way, black-robed figures continuously attacked from the mist, but were constantly repelled or killed by the three working together.

The academy defense line was under tremendous pressure.

Students retreated arduously toward the shelter under the desperate protection of instructors.

Three vast, ocean-like terrifying auras suddenly rose from deep within the academy.

Su Zhan knew that Vermilion Bird Academy had Ye Hongyu as headmaster and three vice-headmasters.

And the vice-headmasters' strength all reached Ocean Realm!

The three vice-headmasters finally took action.

Their figures appeared high above the battlefield's core area.

Each emitted heart-palpitating Ocean Realm pressure.

This was equivalent to Calamity-level existences among Aberrants.

Behind the first vice-headmaster appeared a giant tree.

An ancient tree phantom with branches and leaves seemingly made of brilliant stars.

As the branches swayed, they scattered countless starlight, purifying the surrounding mist and providing powerful spiritual energy recovery and protection effects for the teachers and students below.

SSS-grade Life Soul, Starry Ancient Tree.

Around the second vice-headmaster circulated nine giant sword phantoms burning with golden flames.

Sword intent soared to the heavens, sharp and unparalleled, following his sword fingers' direction, the golden flame giant swords descended like divine punishment upon enemies.

Wherever they passed, mist evaporated and black-robed figures retreated.

SSS-grade Life Soul, Nine Suns Sky-Burning Sword.

The third vice-headmaster's tall body further expanded, muscles bulging like granite blocks, instantly tearing his instructor robe.

His skin surface covered with dark golden steel needle-like fur, fierce fangs protruding from his mouth, his entire aura becoming like a primordial giant beast.

He released a heaven-shaking roar, directly descending from the sky like a meteor crashing toward the dense black-robed formation on the ground.

SS-grade Life Soul, Mountain-Shaking Giant Ape.

Three Ocean Realm powerhouses acting simultaneously instantly reversed the battlefield situation, greatly reducing pressure on the students.

But how could the Transcendence Society not know about Vermilion Bird Academy's high-level combat power.

"Hmph, three old fellows, finally willing to come out?"

A whisper composed of countless overlapping voices came from the deepest part of the mist.

Immediately after, an aura erupted that was not weaker than the combined pressure of the three vice-headmasters.

A figure slowly stepped out from the thick mist.

He also wore black robes, but the patterns on his robe were more bizarre and complex.

The mist surrounding him was so dense it seemed substantial, constantly twisting and deforming.

Calamity-level Aberrant!

Moreover, judging from the three vice-headmasters' instantly grave expressions, this was clearly an extremely powerful old opponent.

Even with three against one.

The three vice-headmasters didn't dare lower their guard, treating it as facing a great enemy.

Without any unnecessary words.

The highest-level combat instantly erupted.

The Starry Ancient Tree scattered countless starlight attempting to restrain.

The Nine Suns Sky-Burning Sword slashed out golden sword rays tearing through heaven and earth.

The third vice-headmaster transformed into an ancient violent ape demon roared while directly charging toward the opponent, fist smashing hard toward the Calamity-level Aberrant.

The Calamity-level Aberrant's substantial-like mist suddenly expanded, transforming into a giant demonic palm composed of countless painful faces and twisted tentacles.

Blocking out the sky.

Boldly meeting the three vice-headmasters' combined attack.

"BOOM——!!!"

Terrifying energy exploded mid-air like a nuclear blast.

Blinding light instantly devoured everything.

Violent shockwaves forcibly pushed aside the ground mist, even distant buildings shaking intensely.

Ocean Realm versus Calamity-level combat.

Just the residual waves were enough to destroy everything.

Wang Mingyuan tightly pulled Su Zhan, quickly moving along relatively safe routes toward the central shelter.

Along the way, combat aftermath and roars continuously sounded.

Wang Mingyuan still found time to explain the high-altitude battle deciding the academy's fate to Su Zhan using the most concise language:

"These three are all academy vice-headmasters, Vice-Headmaster Yun Chen's Starry Ancient Tree Life Soul excels in large-scale purification, recovery, and barrier defense.

Headmaster Li Yanji's Nine Suns Sky-Burning Sword Array focuses on slaughter, with extremely terrifying attack power.

Headmaster Hong Shan's ancient ape demon possesses powerful physical strength, top-tier combat power that can directly confront Calamity-level existences."

Su Zhan listened with soul-shaking awe, these were legendary academy figures rarely seen ordinarily.

Wang Mingyuan looked toward the Calamity-level Aberrant battling the three vice-headmasters: "And that guy opposite... he has no name, at least we don't know his true name.

He only has one codename in official danger files...

Thousand-Faced Demon Nightmare.

They say he can manipulate people's deepest fears, transform without form, and convert devoured souls into his own mist power, extremely troublesome.

His strength matches Headmaster Ye Hongyu's, the three headmasters must combine forces to barely contend against him."