That kind of god of slaughter who buried 400,000 people alive,

who’d dare touch him?!

"Hmph, he’s not even worthy of one hair on our Tenka Fubu Oda Demon King!"

Chestnut medal muttered.

Everyone here was a God Hunter, none of them were hard of hearing. When they heard that, they were stunned at first.

Then they all burst out laughing!

How thick is your skin to brag like that?

"Hey, hey, can you stop embarrassing us?"

Mikami Eri’s face was full of black lines: "Even if you resurrected Oda, he wouldn’t dare say that himself!"

"God Lin, what do we do now?"

Dudek asked politely.

In fact, his subtext wasn’t asking what Lin Baici planned, but pushing him—time for you to make a move.

Inside God’s ruins, there was an unwritten rule: whoever cleans up the rule pollution gets the Taboo things.

This was the Qin Palace Divine Ruins. By custom, any one of the People from Jiuzhou had the right to act first.

Of course, facing terrifying rule pollution, going first wasn’t necessarily an advantage; you might just be cannon fodder.

"That old fox."

Mikami Eri cursed in her heart.

Dudek was really sly, forcing Lin Baici to do it.

Even a Dragon Level cared about face. If Lin Baici didn’t take the lead on his own turf, that would be too humiliating and hurt his prestige badly. But if he did move, what then?

This was the Qin Palace after all—there’d definitely be Gods later on. Cleansing one or two waves of rule pollution now was just wasting Strength, with no real benefit.

Only the ones who left God’s ruins alive with the spoils in hand were the true winners.

"Godfather, any brilliant ideas?"

Lin Baici shot back.

"This is Jiuzhou. It’d be inappropriate for me to overstep my bounds."

Dudek was an old fox; he kicked the topic right back. No way was he letting Lin Baici use his words as an excuse.

"Lord Lin, whatever you decide, we’ll back you!"

Mikami Eri stated her position.

There was one thing she couldn’t say aloud—that everything below Dragon Level was small fry that would die in the end. Even Chestnut medal, Xia Hongyao and the others might not make it out.

So there was no need to care what others thought. Just do it!

"On battlefields in Jiuzhou, when two armies face off, there’s a supreme honor called ’beheading the general and seizing the banner’!"

Lin Baici looked around at everyone: "Since we’re here and we’ve seen this command flag, win or lose, we obviously have to take it first!"

The safer move, actually, was to skirt around this great banner and keep going. But Lin Baici wanted to chop it down.

"Who among you wants this honor?"

Facing Lin Baici’s question, everyone looked left and right, but no one dared step forward.

What if they got polluted?

As for what Lin Baici just said, they all took it as him talking big.

Anyway, not touching these things was safest.

"Then I’ll do it. You all keep watch on the surroundings!"

Lin Baici didn’t know how dangerous this job was, so he was going to do it himself. But when he held the Bronze Sword and walked up to the banner, the Eater God commented.

[Those who behead the general and seize the banner will not be polluted.]

Lin Baici’s brows lifted. He immediately asked, ’Can two or three people chop the flag together?’

The Eater God didn’t answer, and even felt like spitting in Lin Baici’s face—could you be any more greedy?

Lin Baici pondered—should he let Hua Yue Yu do it? Or Xia Hongyao?

Ponytail Girl wanted face, so this was a great chance to shine. But if Hua Yue Yu did it, she’d be safe afterward.

Then he thought of Kim Myungjin. He couldn’t favor one over the other, right? Besides, he was definitely going to protect Small Fish; whether she chopped the flag or not didn’t matter much.

Everyone saw Lin Baici walk up to the flagpole and suddenly stop moving, and they started muttering.

"What’s going on? Chickening out?"

"You kidding me? That’s the Haijing god of forest, Jiuzhou’s youngest Dragon Wing!"

"Did he spot something again?"

They whispered among themselves.

"Red Medicine, you’re the commander. You chop it!"

Lin Baici called out.

"Got it!"

Xia Hongyao walked over, gripped the Black Blade Dagger, and chopped at the flagpole.

Swish!

A slanted cut appeared. Xia Hongyao followed up with a kick, and the great banner toppled toward the ground.

"Damn, so reckless? Not even a bit of buildup?"

"I feel like Commander Xia really trusts Lin Baici!"

"No shit, it’s more than trust. God Lin’s that handsome, Commander Xia’s that stacked—if I say there’s nothing going on between them, you believe it?"

"I don’t!"

Xia Hongyao’s absolute obedience to Lin Baici shocked everyone.

Lin Baici’s original intention was to highlight Xia Hongyao’s position as commander. But in other people’s eyes, it looked like he was ordering her around like a dog he kept.

Bang!

The moment the great banner hit the grass, a buzzing sound suddenly rang out from deep within the white mist, like something vibrating. Right after came the sharp hiss of air being split.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

"Careful, ambush!"

Lin Baici had barely finished shouting when a swarm of arrows like locusts shot out from the white mist, flying toward them.

"Fuck!"

"Knew it, there’s pollution!"

"Do we charge them?"

Curses and shouts erupted at once. Everyone was desperately trying to save themselves—some activated Divine Grace, some used their weapons to block.

No one ran far, because Lin Baici was here and they were afraid of getting lost in the white mist.

Lin Baici swung his sword, rapidly batting away the arrows.

Clang, clang, clang!

The arrows collided with a dense clatter, like an iron rain coming down.

Buzz!

Another low, deep vibration.

This time everyone understood. It was the sound of bowstrings twanging, and because it was a full volley from a formation of archers, the sound was that loud.

"God Lin, we gotta rush them!"

The guy with the eye patch shouted. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

"Charge with me!"

Lin Baici yelled and took the lead.

"Charge what? With that kind of arrow rain, there’s definitely a ton of archers ahead, and if there are archers, there’ll be infantry too!"

"Fall back into the forest first, then think of a plan!"

"This white mist is such a pain, can’t see shit."

Most of them didn’t want to charge.

Lin Baici’s current ad hoc team was made up of a bunch of wild God Hunters, some Jiuzhou Security Bureau staff, and Dudek’s choir.

The wild Hunters were the largest group, and they were chattering the loudest.

"Shut up. Anyone who doesn’t want to charge, get the hell out!"

Lin Baici roared, "Anyone keeps whining, I’ll cut his head off!"

Lin Baici snapped, and no one dared complain anymore. Since no one took the lead in retreating, they could only follow him in the charge.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

Wave after wave of arrow rain came pouring down.

For unarmored regular soldiers, this density would be devastating, but Lin Baici’s group were all God Hunters, with sharp eyes and quick hands.

Aside from a few unlucky bastards who got nicked, most managed to block the arrows.

Since no one had died yet, their hearts, which had just jumped into their throats, sank back down a bit.

Right then, a golden Golden Eagle Feather Arrow tore through the mist like a shooting star, streaking straight for Gu Qingqiu.

Whoosh!

"Watch out!"

Lin Baici drove off his right foot and slammed into her.

Bang!

He knocked Gu Qingqiu aside, and the golden arrow skimmed past his scalp.

The God Hunter behind them didn’t have Lin Baici’s reaction speed and got his head pierced straight through.

Blood sprayed as his corpse, driven by inertia, flipped backward and crashed to the ground.

Hiss!

One shot, one kill?

Everyone sucked in a cold breath!

The team’s mood instantly turned heavy.

Whoosh!

The second golden arrow came again.

Another unlucky guy got skewered.

"God Lin, think of something quick!"

Everyone panicked.

Every time that golden arrow appeared, someone died—how were they supposed to play this?

The only thing they could think of was to speed up the charge, close the distance with that archer, and hurry up and hack him to death.

Otherwise, at this rate, they’d all get picked off one by one!

Those who had just been shouting about retreating to the forest were scared stiff now. Thank god Lin Baici hadn’t listened—otherwise they’d be even farther from that Divine Shooter now.

The third arrow came again, this time aimed at Lin Baici.

Lin Baici didn’t use Teleportation to dodge. He exhaled, raised his voice, and slashed straight at it!

Get lost!

Swish!

Clang!

Blade met arrow, bursting into dazzling sparks.

A tremendous force numbed Lin Baici’s arm, but he still managed to knock the arrow away.

He’d barely run a few steps when another arrow shot out of the mist, streaking straight for his face.