"All of you inside the restaurant, come out quickly and kneel before me!" shouted the man dressed in green standing outside the restaurant.
Hearing the shout, everyone except Julius came out of the restaurant. Almost everyone who came out immediately kneeled before the man dressed all in green. Only Jovin Cortes and Marcos Navarro, along with a pair of teenagers behind them, holding a sword, still stood upright in their place. It seemed that the two of them were unwilling to kneel before the man in green.
"So, you dare to defy me, the leader of the Fire Bear group from the Demon Sect. Brats like you will only meet your end by acting like that. I am still merciful enough to give you a chance to kneel right now." The man dressed in green, who was the leader of the Fire Bear group from the Demon Sect, shouted.
"Who do you think you are to intimidate us? Even your group, which is still at the crocodile level, or your association leader, won't scare us if they come. Instead, we'll turn you into meatballs!" replied the young man next to the girl.
"You scoundrels! Apparently, you're just ignorant kids who don't know the heights of the mountain! Get rid of them, boys!" commanded the man dressed all in green.
About six people dressed in all black immediately leaped forward and attacked the pair of teenagers dressed in all blue. The six lackeys of the demon sect immediately used their swords to eliminate the two. The pair of teenagers were somewhat surprised to find out that their opponents, all six of them, had quite high cultivation levels. The people dressed in all black were on average at the first level of semi-fairy realm.
An uneven battle unfolded in front of the now deserted restaurant as many customers had left. Initially, the battle was evenly matched. It turned out that the abilities possessed by the pair of teenagers were also in the semi-fairy realm, but both of them were at the third level. Thus, as time passed, they appeared to have the upper hand over their opponents.
"Dewdrop Sword Strike!"
The young man yelled as he executed the sword technique he was using. One of the opponents dressed in all black was struck right in the chest. In a short time, the person in all black who was struck by the sword froze. Then, with one follow-up strike, the opponent's frozen body shattered into pieces of ice.
The girl who was the partner of the young man in the battle did the same. One unfortunate victim froze and then shattered into pieces under the attack of the sword wielded by the girl dressed in light blue. The leader of the Fire Bear group from the Demon Sect was also surprised to see his lackeys reduced to two after four of them were killed by sword slashes.
"Scoundrels! Finish them all!"
The man dressed in all green ordered his remaining fourteen lackeys to gang up on the pair of teenagers still facing his two lackeys. Although the fourteen of them were still below their level, being ganged up on like that, the pair began to struggle. They were now heavily pressured by the sword formation technique of the sixteen opponents attacking using a formation technique.
The sword formation technique used by the pair was a combination of defense and offense. Each attacker was followed by two defending forces. So, whenever the opponent was about to launch a counterattack, two others would always attack first, causing the opponent to refrain from continuing their attack.
"The Thousand Demon Sword Technique!" shouted the figure dressed entirely in green, giving instructions to his 16 subordinates.
Instantly, the attack pattern of the sixteen men dressed in all black changed. Eight of them continued their assault, relentlessly pressing on the pair of teenagers. Meanwhile, the other eight behind them initiated attack techniques from above using sealing techniques. Suddenly, the shadows of a thousand demons brandishing swords appeared in the sky.
"Attack!" yelled the leader of the Fire Bear group.
The thousand shadowy demons brandishing swords immediately descended, targeting the young couple. The eight men dressed in all black had already withdrawn a few steps. Now, only the two teenagers remained, ready to face the onslaught of thousands of shadowy demons targeting them.
They also used defensive techniques by combining their swords. Instantly, a shield made of jade stone materialized to block the shadowy demons. Initially, the shield managed to withstand the storm of attacks that came. So, about a hundred shadowy demons vanished upon colliding with the shield.
After enduring for a while, cracks began to appear in the combined shield created by the teenage couple. Some shadows even managed to penetrate the shield through these cracks. The girl dressed in light blue almost got hit by an attack if she hadn't dodged quickly. However, due to the girl's evasion, the combined shield shattered.
The remaining hundreds of demon shadows immediately surged forward to attack them. Like a flood, the shadowy demons swarmed the young couple, forcing them to defend against every incoming attack with their swords. However, the sheer number of attacks continued to overwhelm them.
A slash struck the arm of the girl dressed in light blue. She staggered from the blow. The young man swiftly protected her as the attacks targeted her again. But the onslaught, so numerous, pushed them further into a corner.
"The Nine Thunder God Swords Technique!"
A loud shout came from the direction of the restaurant. Then a figure dashed into the fray. More than half of the demon shadows were struck by lightning emanating from a figure resembling a shadowy sword. Meanwhile, the remaining demon shadows were momentarily pushed back by the shockwave generated by the lightning strike.
"The nine thunder god swords shatter mountains!" shouted the figure, none other than Julius.
Hundreds of lightning strikes targeted the remaining demon shadows. In an instant, all the demon shadows vanished under Julius's assault. All eyes widened in astonishment at the technique Julius used, effortlessly annihilating hundreds of demon shadows in one strike.
"Who are you, kid? Why are you meddling in the affairs of the Demon Sect? Are you tired of living by interfering in our matters?" the man dressed in green shouted at Julius.
In truth, the man dressed in green was also surprised by Julius's ability to obliterate the demon shadows they summoned using the sealing technique earlier. Initially, the man dressed in green was fearful, thinking that the person who came to aid their victims was a top martial artist. But after seeing that it was a teenager, the leader of the group lost his fear of Julius. Especially after learning that the young man's cultivation level was only at the 8th level of the heavenly spirit realm.
"I am the god of death who will finish you all right here," replied Julius coldly, emitting a thick aura of killing intent that anyone who heard it would undoubtedly feel.