30: Chapter 30 Slaying Hesker! This won't do!

A sword hummed. Clear and resonant, it echoed from beyond the nine heavens.

Hesikeer's vertical pupils constricted sharply!

A silver-white sword beam tore through the air from the far distance!

The sword beam was incredibly fast, so fast that even an existence of Hesikeer's level only had enough time to slightly shift the direction of his dragon claw...

"Splurt—!"

The sword beam pierced through Hesikeer's dragon claw, spraying a mist of golden dragon blood! The dragon blood fell like rain.

Hesikeer let out a roar of fury, abruptly retreating several hundred meters and hovering in mid-air.

In the center of his right claw, a blood hole had appeared, piercing straight through, and dragon blood was dripping continuously from it.

The entire scene fell silent.

Chu Ming widened his eyes, looking toward the direction from which the sword beam had been fired.

Su Xi was also stunned. She turned her head and saw a figure riding a sword, emerging from the darkness.

The person was wearing a black robe identical to Fang Xiu's, and was casually holding a shimmering Han sword in his hand—the Pride of the seven deadly sins.

But what was even more heart-palpitating was the mental pressure radiating from that person. It was like a drawn blade.

Chu Ming didn't know who he was, but he knew that only one person could achieve such a feat. Rank One!

Why would he appear here?

Su Xi also recognized the newcomer, the Blue Star Civilization human who had parachuted into the top five on the combat power ranking and then steadily climbed to number one.

Her lips moved, wanting to say something, but no sound came out.

Lin Wan walked up to the two of them and stopped.

He didn't turn back, just asked indifferently: "What are your names?"

Chu Ming and Su Xi exchanged a glance, seemingly puzzled, and then struggled to open their mouths: "My name is Chu Ming, and she…"

"Su Xi!" Su Xi replied.

Lin Wan nodded, "You know Lu Nuonuo, right? You can settle this debt of gratitude with her!"

After he finished speaking, he looked up at Hesikeer in the sky.

The golden giant dragon hung beneath the purple moon, his bleeding right claw making him look even more ferocious and terrifying.

His vertical pupils stared fixedly at Lin Wan and the colorful longsword in his hand.

"Human, it's you again…"

Hesikeer's voice was low, but his emotions were somewhat tense and fearful.

"Can you let me go?"

Lin Wan didn't answer. He just gently raised the seven deadly sins in his hand.

[seven deadly sins · Pride]

On the sword body, the first colorful ray of light lit up. The dazzling golden light illuminated the entire night sky.

Lin Wan spoke slowly: "I don't want to instant-kill you so quickly!"

"If you don't want to die slowly, you can let me have some fun!"

Hesikeer was so angry he felt faint. So, not only was he going to die, but he also had to entertain this human scum? What did he think he was?

"In your dreams!!"

Hesikeer roared, but the latter half of the roar was already accompanied by the shrill whistle of his dragon tail cutting through the air.

He turned and ran. His speed was extremely fast; almost at the same time he roared, he had already dashed several thousand meters away.

Chu Ming was stunned.

Su Xi was also stunned.

This Dragon King looked tough and unyielding, but he turned out to be a bully who feared the strong and picked on the weak.

But that seemed normal; with over thirty thousand against over ten thousand, that wasn't how you threw your life away.

Hesikeer had lived for hundreds of years and had experienced countless battles, large and small. He understood a most basic truth: only a living powerhouse is a powerhouse; a dead one is just a ghost.

The pressure radiating from Lin Wan left him with no desire to resist at all.

He swore that as long as he could escape alive, he would never enter this damn trial ground again in his life.

Lin Wan didn't pursue. He just stood where he was, watching that golden figure fly further and further away until it shrank into a speck of light at the edge of the purple moon.

"Ants are truly boring."

The king spoke disdainfully, using chuunibyou language.

In that instant, with Lin Wan as the center, all light within a ten-kilometer radius dimmed.

One sword. Two swords. Ten swords. A hundred swords.

Silver, gold, blue, red, purple, cyan, white—lights of seven colors emerged from the void. Each sword's blade rippled with distinct colors and patterns.

They were neatly arranged in the sky like a giant wheel, with each spoke being a sword. Seven hundred and twenty of them in total.

Each one exuded the same aura as the seven blades of Lin Wan's seven deadly sins.

Chu Ming looked up, his pupils trembling violently.

"What… what is this…?"

Su Xi's lips trembled, unable to speak.

Not far away, Ye Fan's Spirit Word · Divine Tracking flooded his mind with warning messages like a torrent.

[Brother-in-law is exerting power! Brother-in-law is exerting power! Brother-in-law…]

Hesikeer also noticed it. He looked back and saw the sword formation filling the sky. He was completely stunned!

No way… "Spare—"

The words were not finished.

Because Lin Wan spoke softly.

"Unlimited Blade Works · seven deadly sins."

Seven hundred and twenty swords moved simultaneously. They appeared in every direction around Hesikeer in a 360-degree radius in a way that almost violated the laws of physics. Front, back, left, right, up, down. Seven hundred and twenty angles. Seven hundred and twenty fatal trajectories.

Hesikeer didn't even have time to breathe dragon fire before those swords had already pierced his body.

Splurt—splurt—splurt—splurt—splurt— The continuous sound of piercing echoed throughout the night sky.

Golden dragon blood poured down. It only took an instant. After that instant, his body had become a riddled corpse.

Seven hundred and twenty swords disappeared at the same time. Hesikeer's massive body fell from high altitude.

Lin Wan raised his hand, and his mental power, like an invisible giant hand, steadily caught the dozens-of-meters-long dragon corpse and slowly brought it in front of him.

Lin Wan looked at the corpse, his face devoid of any emotional fluctuation. He just said: "Is this what loneliness is?"

Then he turned his head to look at Chu Ming and Su Xi. Chu Ming was still lying at the bottom of the pit, covered in blood. But his gaze toward Lin Wan was slightly strange.

Su Xi managed to sit up, clutching her wound, and looked at Lin Wan with similar curiosity. This Blue Star Civilization human seemed a bit pretentious.

Lin Wan walked over, took out two [Primary Healing Potions] from his storage space, and threw them in front of the two. "Stop the bleeding first."

Chu Ming nodded, then struggled to lift his arm to catch the potion, pulled out the cork, and drank it in one gulp. The effect of the healing potion was fast; the wound on his abdomen began to heal visibly, and the broken bones were slowly resetting.

Su Xi also took the potion, and her complexion regained a bit of color.

"……Thank you." Chu Ming said, his voice hoarse.

"Don't be in such a hurry to thank me." Lin Wan sat casually on a piece of rubble.

"You are Chu Ming, and she is Su Xi, right?"

The two exchanged a glance and nodded simultaneously. Chu Ming's gaze lingered on Lin Wan for a moment, and he finally couldn't help but ask: "What did Lu Nuonuo promise you to make you rush over to save us?"

"Saving you was just incidental. She only gave me a list and told me not to kill you; she didn't tell me to save you!"

"Not killing you is her favor. As for me saving you now, you owe me the interest I want."

Lin Wan naturally didn't mention the shameful matter of him acknowledging a mother, and he wouldn't mention a single word of it.

Chu Ming and Su Xi exchanged a glance, both revealing a wry smile.

"In that case, what interest does our benefactor want?"

"Hmm." Lin Wan just glanced at Su Xi, then at Chu Ming, and asked casually: "You two… what are your talents?"

Chu Ming was silent for two seconds. He had no intention of hiding it, and there was no need to hide it in front of Lin Wan.

"My talent is [Infinite Blood Explosion] SS-rank. It can burn blood essence in a short time to gain a combat power boost and greatly reduce side effects, but how many times I can use it depends on my physical strength."

"I just used it for the fourth time, and my body is nearing its limit."

"SS-rank?" Lin Wan nodded. "And you?"

Su Xi's voice was weak but cold: "[Sword Heart Clarity] S-rank, has extraordinary affinity and control over sword-type weapons… but my combat power is not strong enough, so I couldn't even block one of Hesikeer's claws just now."

"Another sword-related talent!" Lin Wan muttered.

Moreover, this sword-related talent and the blood-explosion physical talent clearly had no limitations, so he estimated that after deciphering it with the system, he wouldn't be able to upgrade it either. But having it was better than not having it.

Thinking of this, he spoke slowly: "My interest is for you two to extend your hands and let me hold them for half an hour!"

Hearing this, Chu Ming and Su Xi widened their eyes and said in unison: "That won't do!"