Demon King: Hero, don’t run away!
Chapter 395: I’m Just Passing By

Chapter 395: Chapter 395: I’m Just Passing By

Realizing who exactly was coming, the Underground Bounty Hunters couldn’t help but reveal expressions of surprise as if a wonderful life was beckoning to them.

Releasing Iyas’s hair, Lund stood up wielding the Meteor Hammer,

"Actually showing up on your own, my luck today is really good."

As one of the strongest combatants of Xidelatra Slave Auction House, Lund naturally knew that Sunrise Chamber of Commerce was aiding Silver Orchid Commerce in hunting down Yang Yu and Bai Jin.

Catching them would also grant him the opportunity to make requests to his superiors.

"Rather than saying your luck is good, it would be better to say that the luck of the girl you are attacking is good."

A familiar voice rang beside Iyas’s ear, and Iyas could hardly believe her ears, her weary face revealing a bitter smile,

"I said the same thing to that guy...

To think that under such circumstances, I could still hear hallucinations...

Is this really what I truly desire..."

Holding her injured stomach, Iyas curled up in the cold wind, slowly closing her eyes, and eventually lost consciousness.

Fiddling with the Knight Helmet, Lund fixed his gaze on Yang Yu,

"No matter what, since you dared to come here, it also means you’ve prepared to die to save her... This kind of courage deserves praise."

Yang Yu responded with a faint smile, "Don’t misunderstand, we just happened to pass by and saw some vermin bullying a defenseless weak girl, so we intervened."

Before Yang Yu could finish, two Bounty Hunters behind Lund brandished their weapons and charged at him, and Lund, swinging the Meteor Hammer, blasted the two attackers toward a wall at the side.

"Stand back, I’ll handle him myself. Don’t come over and disturb my leisurely mood."

Under Lund’s attack, the two Bounty Hunters were bloodied and screaming in agony, one even lost his breath directly.

The other Bounty Hunters looked at Lund with resentment in their eyes—why should he alone reap all the benefits, while many of our brothers have fallen here?

However, given Lund’s overwhelming strength, even if these Bounty Hunters were dissatisfied in their hearts, they could only watch helplessly in the face of absolute power.

Swinging the Meteor Hammer, Lund walked toward Yang Yu along the icy surface, while Yang Yu stood still, letting the cold air tousle his messy hair, and smirked crookedly.

Without warning, Lund swung the Meteor Hammer at Yang Yu, the spiked spherical body of the hammer whistling through the air; Yang Yu stepped back, allowing the Meteor Hammer to smash into the ice in front of him.

The ice surface instantly cracked open, numerous fractures appearing, as dirty ice chunks flew through the air,

"Interception!"

The Illusion Shield opened in front of him, and taking advantage of the Meteor Hammer smashing into the ice, Yang Yu, facing the flying ice fragments, charged forward; a black shadow flashed behind him, following his Sword Blade like the wind, turning the blade black.

Pulling out the Meteor Hammer stuck in the ice, Lund swept toward Yang Yu.

The ice surface shattered, Lund confident that Yang Yu would be unable to dodge and would definitely be taken down by his strike.

Unexpectedly, Yang Yu had no intention of dodging at all, activating consecutively "Copper Wall Iron Curtain" and "Steel Body" to increase his damage endurance, followed by using "Shield Counter."

Red spurs grew on the Shield, and as soon as Lund’s Meteor Hammer made contact with Yang Yu’s shield, a red electric current traveled up the iron chain of the Meteor Hammer, attacking Lund’s heart, creating a sensation of paralysis.

Enduring the stabbing pain in his heart, Lund rotated his body, a sweep of the Meteor Hammer sending Yang Yu flying.

Yang Yu was sent flying toward the wall of the passage; his feet touched the wall, and using it to leap, he slid along the icy surface and circled behind Lund.

Yang Yu plunged his Sword Blade into the spreading cracks of the icy surface, stopping his slide on the ice, and charged at Lund.

Lund’s attack speed was faster than Yang Yu had imagined.

Originally, Yang Yu wanted to use the smooth icy surface to slide under Lund from below and slash at Lund’s abdomen with his sword.

Unexpectedly, Lund’s speed far exceeded expectations, and Yang Yu had to change his strategy on the fly.

"It really was too much of a performance."

Yang Yu was inwardly astonished.

Had he started with a sprinting charge from the beginning, it was possible that he could have slid under the Meteor Hammer; however, considering the fantastic setting, not making a dramatic entrance would have been a waste, so Yang Yu had made a dashing appearance in the cold wind.

Unfortunately, Iyas had fallen too quickly to see his heroic entrance.

That performance turned out to be for nothing.

It wasn’t Yang Yu’s fault, as he had merely been passing through the sewer; he originally planned to sneak into the auction house through a secret tunnel in the sewer to rescue Iyas.

However, halfway there, he heard the sounds of a noisy fight coming from the sewer.

It was pitch dark in the sewer, and Yang Yu had no idea about Iyas’s condition, so he could only stick to the original plan and let Bai Jin pave the way for his performance.

Little did he know, as soon as he arrived, Iyas had already fallen.

Well, although there were quite a few deviations from the plan, the development proceeded as expected with Iyas appearing in the sewer, which actually decreased the difficulty of the rescue.

Drawing closer to Lund in one breath, Yang Yu’s sword slid across the ice, tracing a thin line.

"Thorny Binding."

Countless thorns grew from the shattered ice, entangling Lund.

Lund’s strength had already surpassed a thousand; Yang Yu’s thorns couldn’t control him for even a second, but the sudden extension of the thorns caught Lund off guard, causing a momentary delay in his attempt to break free.

And that momentary delay was enough for Yang Yu to find an opportunity.

Dodging the Meteor Hammer thrown at him, Yang Yu’s black sword blade slashed horizontally across Lund’s abdomen.

That wasn’t all; Yang Yu adjusted his posture, and his sword blade emanated an orange glow, while a red glow flashed from the handle.

The red light, drawn through Yang Yu’s hand, absorbed his life value and transformed into a continuous stream of energy that infused the sword blade, making the orange light intensively vibrant.

Yang Yu had arrived here a day and a half earlier than Iyas.

During that day and a half, Yang Yu didn’t idle; he took the opportunity to spend a hundred skill points to acquire another powerful attack skill he desired—"Double-sided Slash."

"Double-sided Slash" inflicted 10% of one’s maximum life value as true damage to oneself, multiplying this damage value by 1.5 as physical attack, and adding it to the next slash.

Double-sided Slash, striking both foe and self, hence the name.

Since he primarily added his free attribute points to endurance, even though Yang Yu was only over level 50, his life value had already surpassed the five thousand mark.

In this game world where life values were generally a bit low, a life value of five thousand among peers of the same level was outstanding.

With Yang Yu’s life value, the explosive damage dealt by sacrificing 10% of his life value was comparable to a strike from an opponent with a strength over nine hundred.

As for losing life... for Yang Yu, could that even be considered a debuff?

Shouldn’t this actually be considered a buff?