What Bad Luck

The sudden change left the lobby manager confronting Xu Yue and everyone else in the hall somewhat bewildered.

Only on the hotel’s top floor did a burly man, who had been tangled up in battle with several seductive beauties, suddenly change expression. He swiftly rushed out of the room and floated above the city.

It was gone—the restrictions of the real-world space were gone!

Before his eyes, everything still looked no different from the real world, yet every living thing had vanished, leaving behind nothing but an empty shell. The sky was blood-red, filled with lightning and thunder, as though they had completely entered an independent space.

As the leader of the Mermaid mercenary group, he had painstakingly built the group up step by step. Despite its relatively unimpressive ranking, it had become one of the most sought-after mercenary groups in all of France!

Whether it was the first- or second-ranked legions, or bankers and major financial conglomerates, they all liked hiring him for jobs that could not see the light of day!

The reputation he had accumulated over the years, combined with the balance between the various major powers, had also allowed him to avoid the risk of being silenced.

Bloody Counterattack!

Since becoming the leader of Mermaid, he had gone through it three times due to their offending policies. Each time, they had thoroughly enraged the other side—either torturing the children of a legion leader or interrogating their lovers.

Yet without exception, he had won all three times.

Thanks to his connections with large legions, he had always been able to find reinforcements. Those three Bloody Counterattacks had directly caused two legions to disband completely, while another vanished after suffering devastating losses.

But this time was completely different.

He had not received the slightest warning beforehand, yet he had suddenly entered a Bloody Counterattack. What was going on?

It was not just him. Every member of the Mermaid legion, wherever they had been, now appeared in this space.

Some veterans had experienced this before and quickly calmed down, though they found it strange that their leader had not given them any advance notice this time.

In the hotel lobby, the manager watched as Xu Yue slowly lowered his hand. His lips trembled as he pointed at Xu Yue, unable to find the words to describe it.

Only a legion leader could initiate something like this!

The other party was actually the leader of some legion?

Could he be the president of that Penguin Merchant Guild?!

Wasn’t that a guild headquartered in China? Why had its president come here?

And…

He had initiated Bloody Counterattack all by himself!

Boom!

The hotel walls collapsed completely, and the whole world shattered as they entered a desolate wasteland.

As the initiator, Xu Yue casually stood atop a massive boulder, looking down at the figures continually appearing below.

His clothes and hair rustled in the yellow sand.

Then he noticed the uniquely dressed figure at the front of the group.

The man wore a Shinigami Shihakusho and held a strange Zanpakuto composed of several torture instruments.

The leader of Mermaid stared fixedly at Xu Yue as well, baring his gleaming white teeth.

"Very good! One man! You came alone to my territory to declare war on me?! It seems Mermaid’s rank of twenty-third has given you the illusion that we are weak!"

As his voice fell, a terrifying Spiritual Pressure erupted from his body. The rubble and grains of sand around him slowly rose into the air under that pressure, which seemed to freeze the very air.

The entire atmosphere congealed and warped.

Mermaid was not a mercenary group that relied on numbers. Altogether, they had only around two hundred members, but their quality was exceptional. They did not train newcomers themselves; instead, they directly selected from among experienced Reincarnators!

Moreover, aside from Mermaid’s current leader, a hunched old man with both hands tucked into his sleeves and a head disproportionately large for his body walked out from another direction, displaying an aura no weaker than the first man’s.

Mermaid’s former leader.

These two were also the only two big shots in the legion. Given the number of Reincarnators in France, a Reincarnator legion ranked outside the top twenty possessing two big shots was absolutely the cream of the crop among mid-sized legions.

Combined with the ordinary Reincarnators nearby, who were all of excellent quality, they held an utterly overwhelming advantage.

"Two of them? That really is somewhat stronger than I expected."

Xu Yue glanced at the Shinigami Shihakusho-clad man standing in the air, then swept his gaze toward the hunched old man in the other direction before asking in some confusion, "This is France, right? Why are both your abilities Japanese-style? The chances of entering those two Mission Spaces should be lower here."

Xu Yue had also looked into the Mission Spaces on the European side. The most likely ones were A Song of Ice and Fire, Marvel, Azeroth, Diablo, and the like. Naruto and Bleach were also available, but their chances were lower than in the Huaxia Zone.

He had not expected the target he chose to happen to possess related abilities. What a coincidence.

One Bleach user and one Nura Clan user. Among the others, though, there were quite a few classes like paladins.

"Hmph. You dared to barge in here alone. I don’t know whether I should admire your courage or pity your ignorance!"

Mermaid’s leader looked coldly at Xu Yue, his face expressionless.

Since the other party dared to make such a move, he was probably strong enough to have entered their level.

But unfortunately, he had the former leader’s help in addition to his own!

And even someone with captain-level strength would have only one path—death—if surrounded by his elite members.

Because he did not know the other party’s capabilities and was wary of some unique secret technique, Mermaid’s leader had no intention of attacking first. He planned to have his subordinates probe out Xu Yue’s abilities.

"You had the courage to provoke us, so naturally I had to come pay you a visit."

Xu Yue’s voice remained gentle, but it only drew a sneer from the other side.

"So what if we provoked you! Your weakness is your original sin!"

At his command, the legion members who had long been unable to hold themselves back charged at Xu Yue with bloodthirsty expressions.

"This is much better than the training space."

Watching the enemies rush toward him and feeling their speed and strength, Xu Yue could not help but reveal a slightly strange smile.

The bones throughout his body seemed to crack and grind.

Then, he would start by trying taijutsu!

Boom!

He dropped heavily from the massive boulder to the ground.

The air around his feet exploded, throwing up a sky full of sand as Xu Yue charged directly into the crowd like a wolf among sheep.

His first strike kicked an exorcist directly into a bloody mist!

He caught the claw of a giant werewolf with one hand, then casually tore it in half.

Then his fist punched straight through a paladin’s shield and slammed into his face, blasting off his entire helmeted head and leaving behind a headless corpse.

The way he effortlessly killed three leading Elite Reincarnators in an instant filled Mermaid’s leader with shock. Even he could not do it as smoothly as Xu Yue had!

So the other party specialized in taijutsu? And he was this strong!

No wonder he had the courage to issue such a challenge!

He truly was a formidable enemy…

But!

I have already seen through your traits!

What bad luck!

I completely counter you!

Two updates finished! That’s all for today…

The weather is getting colder, so everyone remember to put on more clothes…