Chapter 18 The Sword of the Demon King (Part 1)

"It's over!" This was Ulysses' first thought when he saw the blood-red figure. Just now all the elites of the three major mercenaries and the level six mage Rasputin could not defeat this masked man, but now there were only him and Rasputin, and Rasputin had obviously lost his combat power, how would he have any chance of winning?

The masked man slowly walked towards Ulysses. His footstep was like a heavy hammer hitting Ulysses's heart. Was he going to be killed by this killer again! The Book of the Demon King saved him last time, but the same luck would not happen again today.

Suddenly, there was a loud bang in the street.

"Mom and dad are the most annoying! I don't care! I must go to Alice's house tonight. I promised her a week ago. Liss, I'm leaving." A beautiful little girl around the age of twelve suddenly rushed out of a door of the house by the street. She was wearing a small white dress with a big white crystal bow on her head. Her hair was dazzling golden colored. It could be seen at the first glance that she was a little princess from a noble family.

"Miss! Please come back quickly! Milord and Milady have urged you not to go out at night recently. There is a killer out here killing people on the street every night. More than ten nobles have been killed. Until the mercenaries took him out, please do not go out at night." The woman in her twenties yelled and ran out of the door following the little girl. Judging from the tone of her speech, she is probably a maid in a noble family.

The little girl turned around and made a funny face at the woman named Liss, and said with a face of disbelief, "I don't believe what my parents said to you! I have heard such stories a long time ago. I am tired of hearing it."

"No! Miss, this time is real. I've personally accompanied milady to the funeral of a nobleman who was killed by that killer! So please, I'm begging you, please come back!" The woman named Liss almost burst into tears.

"Really?" The little girl slowed down, looking a little hesitant.

"Run! The killer is here!" Ulysses reacted at this time. The two people in front of him were just two weak ordinary people. He couldn't help but shout to them immediately.

"Ah? Killer!" The two people heard Ulysses' shout at the same time, and looked at Ulysses. The man in the mask with a short sword in red blood immediately frightened them to death; they screamed in unison as their faces turned pale.

As if stimulated by the screams of the two people, the masked man immediately regarded them as prey, and as soon as his figure flashed, he rushed towards them.

"Stop!" Ulysses rushed to the masked man frantically. At this time, his training this week had paid off, and he actually caught up with the lightning speed of the masked man. But the difference in strength between the two sides was cruel. The masked man directly knocked Ulysses into the air, slamming him against a wall beside the street.

"Ah!!!" A miserable scream resounded across the street, and the woman named Liss desperately hugged the noble girl and turned her back to the killer. She wanted to use her weak body to protect the little girl who had been stunned! But what she didn't expect was that the killer's knife was very sharp; so much so that it directly pierced her through her body and then pierced into the chest of the little girl in her arms. She was not screaming for her impending death, but for her failure to protect the little girl in her arms.

However, the killer would not pay attention to her screams at all. After the short sword flashed, she was split into fragments, and the little girl in her arms also had a few shocking big cuts in her chest. The blood flowed frantically from those cuts.

Unforgivable, absolutely unforgivable. Ulysses had never hated a person so much. It was not that he hadn't seen people die in front of him. When doing mercenary missions in the past, more than a dozen people were torn to pieces by the magic beast in front of him, not to mention the hundreds of mercenaries the masked man killed when they were trying to besiege him just now. But those who died were all warriors or mages with powerful strength.

As Raging Gale's leader Perth said, as a mercenary, death was a common occurrence, and they didn't need anyone's sympathy. As early as when they chose to become a mercenary, they were already prepared to die. Besides, only between life and death could their power be maximized and they could become stronger. This was also the reason why many strong people chose the profession of mercenary. So Ulysses didn't feel much seeing them die in front of him.

However, these two women were different. They were just weak women without power. They should not be killed by this monster on the streets in the middle of the night. The woman named Liss who was dismembered made Ulysses infinitely blame herself. Only then did he really realize what the message on the reward had meant, that more than a hundred civilians had died at the hands of this killer.

'Strength, I want strength.' Ulysses had never longed for power like this before. If he had the power to stop the killer just now, these two women who should have had a bright future would not have died tragically under the sword of the masked man.

"Aya! Come out!" Now, Ulysses couldn't care about anything, and now there was only one thought in his mind; he wanted to eliminate this killer completely.

A purple light flashed, and Aya appeared in the air.

"Master..." Aya wanted to say something to Ulysses, but Ulysses interrupted her.

"I want strength, any kind of strength! I want the power to defeat this killer."

"Master, you need to calm down. If you want to defeat this guy now, you can only borrow the dark power in the Book of the Demon King. I advise you to retreat first! With me, it is not difficult for you to leave here. Leave the killer to others to deal with." Aya tried to persuade Ulysses.

"No, my mind is very clear! I also know that if I use the dark power in the Book of the Demon King, I will probably not be able to become a priest again. But I can't let this killer go. If I ran away with your help today, I wouldn't have the qualifications to become a respected priest in my life. If I want to be a respected priest, how can I let this killer slaughter innocent people? So, Aya, this is an order. Give me strength, no matter what it is, and what side effects it has." Ulysses said calmly.

"Yes! Master!" Aya reluctantly agreed to Ulysses' request.

"In the name of familiar spirit Aya! The demon sword sleeping in the abyss! Wake up to the covenant! Come! Judgement of Abyss! Come into the hands of my lord!" With Aya's spell, a strange dark red sword appeared in Ulysses's hands.