The devil watched the rippling shield under the attacks of undeads and felt impatient. He realized that he should just quickly finish it with all of his strength. At the same time, he could feel that there was a guy wearing the necklace with a fragment of his soul inside that house. The man in black suit suddenly smiled and jumped down from the shoulder of Abyss Greed Devil. Then, he gave the order to do the all out attack. Two living Greed Devils and another undead Greed Devil charged towards the house. Two living guys rushed fast and in just several seconds, they were already standing next to the house and attacking the rippling light shield. The undead big guy took slow steps and walked towards the house. Several other monsters and abyss mages followed behind cautiously. These guys were too big and careless so undeads on their way suffered greatly again.
In the house, nearly two hundred men were busy attacking the undeads who were trying to destroy the protective shield with constant attacks. Several men were running around to distribute the molotovs to the defenders. Although firearms were useless against undeads, not everybody gave up using firearms. There were still half of them using firearms to attack skeleton undeads and it was very effective. Several men with strong arms would try hard to throw the opened fuel tanks into undeads crowd and then someone would immediately throw ignited molotov towards the fuel tank before it was covered by undeads. In this way, you could see raging fires in all four directions of the house. Fortunately, the house is a well reinforced brick house. Although defenders near the windows had to bear the unpleasant burning smell and hot temperature, they didn’t have to afraid of being in a burning house which could be a dead-end place for them. Even so, some were afraid of accidents that they destroyed those wooden windows by using hundreds of bullets. If Julia saw that scene, she might have pulled out her double-barrel shotgun to reason with those guys. After all, she spent a lot of fortune to build this house with rare materials. Those wooden windows were made of a rare iron wood or else she could have just inserted some strong iron rods into the walls piercing through window-frames.
In the attic, Ronald quickly noticed two abyss mages who were shooting fireballs to their house. He quickly aimed and shot down one. 20mm bullet burst the head of the target and brought back the fear of it into the mind of another abyss mage. The mage didn’t hesitate and merged into the crowd of undeads and didn’t dare to attack again in fear of being discovered. After advancing to Tier one creature, he was no longer brainless as before. Ronald reloaded the gun with another magazine and searched for dangerous targets. Unfortunately, he couldn’t find another one again.
In the house, long forgotten Thomas sat on the floor while leaning against the wall. He was holding his head tightly in a corner as if he was suffering great pains. It just happened a few seconds ago and he felt that he was losing control over his body slowly. No one noticed him as everyone was so busy. On his neck, a red skull necklace was glowing slightly. Soon, Thomas stood up again as if nothing happened. He checked the pistol which was the only weapon on him and walked towards the staircase. Their team was separated and their guns were also confiscated after they moved to this house. After all, they once tried to attack this place before and they didn’t resist when they were handled properly. But each of them were still equipped with a pistol for self-defense against the monsters.
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Thomas walked down and the new he could feel the great source of energy in the first floor.
In the living room, several old men were helping the three friends in making molotovs. Although they had found a way to use fuel well, a shorting coming emerged. They were about to run out of bottles. However, the army of undeads was also almost gone. There were only several hundreds of them left. The biggest threat to them came from giant monsters. It was even harder for them to attack these giant monsters after they became undeads.
Near the fireplace, three old women were sitting and drinking coffee. They might be the only people in the house who didn’t care about being dead or alive. But they were not so easy going people as each of them had shotgun on their thighs and bullet string hanging on the body. Not far away from them, old Brian was sitting and guarding the table silently with his old friend James. After feeling that his methods were not very effective, he gave the command power to Chester and only wanted to guard the artifact in silent.
When Thomas came in, he quickly noticed the location of huge energy source. It was under the table. The long table clothing touching the floor in all four sides had covered everything under the table air-tight. His arrival was also immediately noticed by careful people. However, Thomas was already to do things. He quickly walked towards the table and didn’t give a chance to others to react. He raised the right hand holding the pistol and shot several shots at old James who saw him and wanted to take the gun on the table. Brian reacted instantly as James, who was talking with him, wanted to do something and got shot. Two shots in the chest and on in the head. Old James fell softly from the chair to the floor.
Thomas fired all the remaining bullets at Brian who turned towards him and wanted to do something. At that time, he was only several feet away from the table. However, everyone in the room had already reacted. Although most of them didn’t know about the artifact, it didn’t stop them to pick their guns fast. But Thomas didn’t care about these, all he cared about was something under the table which got huge energy.
Everything happened in just a few seconds. When everyone reacted, old James was already on the floor and not moving while old Brian was also on the floor and trying hard to move his hand. The sudden intruder Thomas was already near the table which old people put foods and drinks on it.
Thomas kicked the table and at the same time, his right arm was shot. It was Julia who shot him. The old woman was already standing up and angrily reloading her shotgun. Originally, she aimed for the head after hurriedly loading a round. However it was the round without aiming and she was sitting when she shot so she couldn’t take down the sudden attacker in one round. Although it did cause damage to the attacker, Thomas on the other hand had no plan to continue attacking. All he wanted to do was to destroy something which was producing protection shield.
As the table was kicked out, everyone in the room saw the stabbed short sword on the floor. A line on the visible part of blade was glowing as bright as the three gems embedded at the quillon block. The simple moon shape magic circle and several unknown runes around the short sword were also glowing palely. Thomas didn’t care about the wound and laughed as he pulled out the sword, “Found ya.”.
As soon as the short sword as pulled out, the light protective shield covering the house slowly started to dissipate into the air.