Divine Emperor of Death

Chapter 4621: Clearing Out The Ring

Davis inwardly sighed. At times like this, he wished he had brought Lightsky or Praezen, his subordinates in the Reaper Soul Legion, to let them deal with explaining matters. This was going to be long.

”I saved you all.”

First, he made it clear that he saved them and that they owe him now.

He said that they needed to do something for him in order to be released.

Davis didn’t wait for them to understand everything and continued, saying that they needed to lead a team and hunt.

He then released a thousand supreme geniuses and scared them into submission.

It was a sight to see since someone protested, and he instantly dealt with them with a wave of his hand.

”What?”

That person barely managed to catch a glimpse of two spatial tiles appearing above and below him before they smashed against his body. He was compressed and crushed to death. When the tiles shattered over the impact, what was left made many retreat in horror as they saw bones ground into ashes and flesh turned into meat paste.

Davis blinked. He tried to copy the spatial planes of the Temporal Voidplane Ring, but it ended up partially failing since he was unable to stop it from shattering. However, it had the necessary impact, so he leaned back, pleased and coldly uttered.

”Those who don’t want to listen or want to complain will meet the same fate.”

His voice echoed, causing many to believe that he was indeed the Divine Emperor of Death. They dare not look at him straight, afraid that they might be singled out if they made eye contact.

At the same time, Davis informed that they had been saved by him, but they were his spoils of war.

Davis didn’t hide anything except the Temporal Voidplane Ring’s existence.

It seemed like none of them were aware of it and were taken by surprise. Clearly, Almer Spacewill was also a careful and cautious man who hunted the prey systematically, disallowing them to realize that they had been captured by a replica of an apex treasure.

They probably didn’t even see it coming, taken by darkness before having their thoughts and lives stopped in time.

Davis then gave them a mission: to hunt down the evil people among themselves and gain their right to leave.

Surely, some of them knew each other and the crimes they had suffered.

Under his field of Heart Intent, Davis then watched a bloodbath unfold.

Here, both the innocent and the villains shed their blood as they fought for their lives.

Sometime later, only three hundred and eight supreme geniuses remained, their expressions pale, aghast, yet full of hope as they emerged the victors. The rest were dead, their blood splattered, their heads squashed, their bodies mangled, and their souls- absorbed by Davis.

He inwardly jumped in joy over the soul essences obtained and satisfactorily nodded on the surface as he stood up, looking over the team of four evil supreme geniuses who survived this ordeal.

Davis recognized them as villains because they were known to have crimes posted on their heads in some of their circles, and his Heart Intent discovered that they didn’t feel any regret at all. Moreover, he sensed a great amount of karmic sin from them. They were also powerful, their prowess nine levels higher, so he personally descended to deal with them.

Houdini Terssky and the other two barely saw the Divine Emperor of Death move.

When he returned to the same spot, they managed to catch a glimpse of the black-gold vortex. The next second, they saw the four heads of those men, two in each hand, as he grasped their hair and let their heads hang like trophies before placing them on the table he summoned before him.

Everyone felt their hair stand on the edge of their flesh, unable to comprehend what he did. The team of four supreme geniuses who easily killed anyone who came near them was instantly slain, so it was insane to them.

Davis made himself comfortable on the throne and smiled warmly, no longer having a cold disposition.

”From this moment forth, you are all my accomplices who have chosen to listen to me in order to survive. According to the Heaven’s Warriors, there is no honor left in your souls. But from my perspective, you are all better than them for having hunted down scum who don’t have the right to exist in the same world as you.”

”From me, you have earned the right to leave, but it isn’t over yet. If you so wish, join Houdini Terssky, Filang Bach, and Lanbi Firefall in hunting down many more scums in order to earn plenty of treasures. Each team will have a hundred-person limit, so hunting down these scums would be extremely easy. If you don’t wish to form teams, you can hunt individually as well. I will pay one High-Level Empyrean Grade resource for one evil supreme genius captured. If their prowess is nine or ten levels higher, then I will pay a Peak-Level Empyrean Grade resource. Any further, you need not take action, as you will waste the lives I spared.”

”...”

The supreme geniuses didn’t know what to say to this new mission.

Some were tempted, but others felt like they would not be spared if they continued to stay here. The whole thing was suspicious in their eyes since at one moment, they were in another Shard Region entirely, and in another, they arrived in this unknown Shard Region.

They couldn’t tell heads or tails, but so many things quickly happened, disallowing them from getting some breath and analyzing.

Davis gave them half a minute to consider before he opened his mouth again.

”Now, leave some space. I will bring out the next batch of a thousand supreme geniuses to fight for their lives. Feel free to stay outside and watch, help with the mission, or scram.”

”...”

He waved his hand as though he were extremely busy, causing the supreme geniuses to be stupefied.

Then, even the ones who felt like they needed to live by leaving rushed to accept the new mission by aligning themselves with the three supreme geniuses nominated by the Divine Emperor of Death.

Just like that, with a wave of his hand, Davis brought another thousand supreme geniuses into the fray and, amidst their ignorant gazes, taught them a lesson and made them fight for their lives.

This time, he even protected some innocents from dying.

As long as they didn’t have karmic sin or didn’t trigger his Heart Intent, he didn’t let them die using minute ways to help them while also increasing his ability to use Misdirection. Hence, over five hundred and forty geniuses survived in this endeavor.

He did the same the next time.

As a result, he obtained over one thousand four hundred and ninety-two Level Nine Sovereign Stage souls that were at the Autarch Grade level. More than fifty percent of the three thousand two hundred and fifty-eight geniuses had survived.

Davis felt satisfied with the results.

The battle royale wasn’t even over yet; the ones taking part in the mission brought over six villainous supreme geniuses already, causing Davis to reward the members from the teams who captured them.

He didn’t feel the pinch one bit since he guessed the number of Empyrean Grade resources they obtained had surpassed thirty thousand from all the harvest and loot... mostly loot since they couldn’t be bothered to harvest Empyrean Grade resources unless it was a treasure they wanted or a Supreme Law Treasure.

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