Chapter 196: External Support

"Pfft!" A wolf claw covered in black fur was chopped off, and fresh red blood spurted out, splashing dozens of meters away. Then, the sword that easily chopped off the wolf's claw as if slicing through butter, once again aimed at the head of the wolf's owner.

"Roar!" The wolf, now missing a claw, unleashed all its potential, a faint layer of blood flames burning on its body... but then dodged the sword strike. It had no choice but to submit; it couldn't withstand the blow head-on.

A fierce wind struck from both sides. The demon-hunting knight, sidestepping, faced a gold-ranked werewolf lunging at him. Ignoring the nearly two-meter-long claw glint on the werewolf's paw, he punched, hitting the werewolf's face.

"Crack!" Accompanied by a scream, several bloodied white wolf teeth flew out. With one punch, the werewolf's mouth was forcibly deformed, spinning and crashing to the ground, stirring up a cloud of dust.

The demon-hunting knight, who nearly incapacitated a werewolf with a single punch, turned to another werewolf charging at him. Seeing his kin's claw strike only spark against the knight's armor, the last werewolf halted, then, dragging the clawless werewolf, distanced themselves from the demon-hunting knight.

Seeing the werewolves cower, a scornful laugh echoed from beneath the demon-hunting knight's helmet, causing the three werewolves to blush and their veins to bulge. However, their anger was somewhat masked by their thick black fur.

"Demon-hunting knight!" The werewolves growled low, feeling a mix of reluctance and humiliation. Just moments ago, six paladins, supported by a group of priests healing them, could barely match them and the vampires. And now, a single human clad in demon-hunting armor had them beaten.

Elegant and noble vampires turned into a swarm of bats under the hooves of Zaruba, the demon-hunting knight's mount, fleeing across the sky. And the werewolves, after just a few punches and slashes from the demon-hunting knight, lost all will to fight, only thinking about how to survive until a higher-ranking werewolf arrived, with no thought of a frontal confrontation.

"Hold on, our lord will arrive soon, and then it'll be the demon-hunting knight's turn to flee."

"Oh, and how long will your lord take to arrive?" Upon hearing the werewolf's hopeful words, the demon-hunting knight's helmet echoed with his metallic voice asking.

"Don't be too arrogant, demon-hunting knight!"

"A mere gold rank, and you want to challenge a soul-ranked lord?"

"Soul-ranked monsters? I've killed not a few." The demon-hunting knight replied flatly.

"Our lord is a third-tier soul rank, possessing fifteen soul rings, unlike the trash Mendoza you killed last night with only two soul rings."

"Oh."

"I've heard that the Dawn Church has spent a considerable sum to protect you, even calling upon a golden dragon."

"But don't think a golden dragon can protect you. There's more than one being who wishes to kill you prematurely. A golden dragon can't shelter you."

With those words, the atmosphere under the night sky changed instantly, a pressure making one want to kneel and tremble appeared.

"Heh, I can't protect? Today, I want to see how many of you dare to cause trouble in Valiant.?"

A tall, curvaceous blonde lady in a fitted robe appeared abruptly in the sky above the manor. Then, with a cold gaze, she looked down at the three disheveled, injured werewolves.

"It's Dawn Watcher Kaslana!" A werewolf, seeing the radiant blonde lady in the night sky, exclaimed. In Ionia, Kaslana, an active golden dragon, was very well-known.

After all, she worshipped the golden dragon mother Artis, who traveled the world "punishing evil and promoting good." As her biggest fan, it was natural for this golden dragon lady to be anything but low-key.

"My name, is not for you to utter!" The blonde lady, holding a staff nearly as tall as her, lightly pointed towards the three werewolves below. Then, a fierce and domineering dragon flame ignited on the werewolves.

"Ah!!!" The werewolves screamed, trying to extinguish the dragon flame on their bodies, but the flames from a soul-ranked golden dragon were not something they could extinguish.

Gold rank and soul rank represented two different life forms. Only a very few special beings could cross this boundary and fight across ranks.

"Golden dragon, not only your metal dragon race exists in Ionia. Just wait, tonight, the demon-hunting knight will definitely bleed here. He can't escape."

"Not grown up yet and so arrogant, demon-hunting knight, death is your only outcome today."

"Kaslana, you're just a golden dragon. You can't protect the demon-hunting knight. You can't imagine the powerful being our werewolf race has found to target you."

"Silence!" The golden dragon lady snorted angrily, stretching her slender finger towards the ground. A terrifying power descended on the three werewolves, and the sound of bones breaking made one's scalp tingle. The three golden-bodied werewolves were forcefully crushed into three balls of flesh by the golden dragon lady through the air, then incinerated by dragon flame into ash, scattering in the air, dead beyond dead.

"You continue to sweep this city!" Kaslana's gaze fell on the similarly radiant demon-hunting knight, "Tonight, in Valiant, with me here, no one can touch you."

"..." The demon-hunting knight, seeing the golden dragon lady instantly take out three werewolves, silently turned and flew towards Zaruba, playing with a group of bats. He was already close to a triple kill when she arrived and took the kills...

But fortunately, there were still four vampires near his mount. First, he would take a quadra kill, then proceed to sweep the city.

"Squeak! Squeak! Squeak..." Seeing the golden dragon lady appear and kill three werewolves, freeing the demon-hunting knight's hands, it seemed they were next.

The four vampire bats, now terrified, squeaked in fear, but the demon-hunting knight's mount firmly restrained them, making escape impossible.

This magical warhorse, previously dismissed by the vampires as irrelevant, possessed the legendary ability to seal space. Though the sealing range was small, it was more than enough to deal with the four minor vampires.

"When will Marquis Andre arrive?"

"Should be soon!"

"Damn it, if he doesn't come soon, we're going to die!"

"Do those marquises really not care about our lives?"

...

"Ha ha, little bats, now you know fear. Where did that arrogance go? Go on, be arrogant!" The flaming golden warhorse neighed triumphantly, its large hooves making the void rattle, crushing one bat after another.

"Wait till Marquis Andre comes, he'll tear you apart." A bat yelled with a mix of fear and anger.

"Tear me apart? The great Zaruba is immortal. A mere vampire marquis wants to touch me? Even a prince wouldn't stand a See my hooves? They've trampled over your vampire princes. Aren't you honored to share the same fate as your great princes?"

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