Chapter 648 - - 516 Duge is an expert at snowball rolling_3

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“Don’t listen to his bewitchment, kill him, I won’t blame any of you,” a noble who had been injured on the ground hysterically shouted, “Kill him, quickly kill him, he’s a demon that seduces the people’s hearts.”

“Heh!” Duge chuckled lightly and looked at him, “You’ve been so seriously injured, you might be disabled for life, are you really willing to let them go?”

At those words, the man was at a loss for words, but quickly regained his composure and said through clenched teeth, “As long as you, this demon, can be killed, I am naturally willing.”

“Insincere words,” Duge snorted, “Those who don’t listen to the wise will suffer in front of them. Whosoever is his protector, if you let him live and he returns, you will be the ones who suffer.”

Before he had finished speaking.

The guard next to the noble drew his sword and, amidst the noble’s horrified gaze, cut off his head with red eyes and a hoarse voice, saying, “Young master, I’ll cooperate with you.”

With someone taking the lead, the rest was easy to handle.

Ding Chang had already rushed to Duge’s side, but as if he didn’t see him, he dashed two steps and stabbed a spectator who had run to the door to death.

The remaining guards and Protectors hesitated for a moment but then followed suit, showing no mercy to the injured nobles laying on the ground close to them.

In the blink of an eye.

The arena became quiet, leaving no survivors except for the guards and Protectors, and the trembling Combatants in the cages.

Noise came from outside.

Clearly, those who had gone to bring reinforcements had returned.

“We can only live by killing everyone,” Duge had already switched to a steel blade and gazed at the arena, rallying a group of assassins he had hastily gathered, raising his arm and calling out, “With the forewarned against the unaware, kill your way out. The more spectators we kill, the more people will help us.”

Ding Chang glared at him fiercely, then walked out without a word.

Duge turned to look at the stunned steward and smiled, “Steward, do you really want to keep to this path of no return?”

As soon as he spoke.

More than a dozen guards glared menacingly at the steward, some already walking towards him.

“Do I have any way out?” the steward glared at Duge fiercely, picked up a steel knife from the ground, and gritted his teeth, “I’ll join you in the killing. I know about the secret rooms and mechanisms of Dragon Willow Villa. With me leading, not one will escape…”

“The wise man adapts to circumstances,” Duge gave him a thumbs up and smiled, “In that case, why not let out the little guys in the cages? Those kids hold a deep grudge against those noble spectators; they would be great helpers for us!”

Evil Demon!

In just a few words, he turned adversity to his advantage—a true Evil Demon indeed…

The steward gave Duge a deep look and took the keys off his waist, tossing them into the cage.

Those kids inside looked gratefully at Duge, lunged for the keys, unlocked the cages, and rushed out one after another, each armed with weapons. They stood guard around Duge, and some children took the keys to unlock the cells and release even more kids.

Clearly.

This group of children had come to see Duge as their savior, their life-saving benefactor.

Duge’s gaze swept over their scar-covered bodies and he said indifferently, “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth; return to others a hundredfold the pain they have inflicted upon you.”

Who says the brutality can’t snowball? Aren’t these children, with hatred in their eyes, the ruthless fiends of the future?

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“Ding Chang, what happened?”

Outside the courtyard walls.

The reinforcements had already encountered Ding Chang and the others, with the leader asking.

“Brother Zhao, the thief has killed all the spectators in the arena and has jumped over the courtyard wall and run away. I suspect he has entered Courtyard D; you must quickly evacuate those nobles,” Ding Chang glanced at the person opposite him and hurried over as he spoke.

The man known as Brother Zhao’s face changed, and he turned to look towards Courtyard D.

But as soon as he turned around, Ding Chang’s knife had already pierced his back.

The people following Ding Chang also launched surprise attacks on their former colleagues.

With the intentional against the unaware.

In the blink of an eye.

The reinforcements all lay down.

“Ding Chang, what are you doing?” the survivors asked in terror.

“What am I doing, killing,” Ding Chang sneered, waving his hand, “Kill, spare no one.”

After killing the leader, Brother Zhao, he handed the rest over to the Protectors behind him.

Ding Chang, leading a few people, was the first to crash into Courtyard D. Without a word, they barged into the crowd and began slaughtering.

At this time, Duge, along with the general manager, followed suit.

Upon entering the courtyard, Duge raised high the head of the noble son killed by Ding Chang and proclaimed loudly, “Hou Yunfeng, the chief of a prefecture’s second son is dead, Prime Minister Liu’s son-in-law is dead too, and no one from Dragon Willow Villa will escape responsibility. If things go poorly, we’ll all end up buried with them. It’s a revolt, kill everyone to survive, not a single person inside the villa can be spared…”

With the general manager acting as an insider, Duge’s instigation of others became even more adept and targeted.

Hou Yunfeng, who was entangled in a fight with Ding Chang, cursing while they fought, was shocked upon seeing the head in Duge’s hand. “Who are you?”

“Who am I? I’m the one who’s saving your life,” Duge snorted and fiercely hurled the head at him.

Hou Yunfeng reflexively swung his sword to block.

Splat!

The noble head was instantly split in two, with brain matter splattering everywhere, causing the onlookers in the stands to scream loudly.

“Well done, Hou Yunfeng, you actually cut the second son’s head into two pieces, you’re dead for sure,” Duge said slyly, slicing off another person’s head with his sword before turning to the general manager, “Brother Zhang, who is the wealthiest person here?”

The general manager pointed at a corpulent fat man.

The fat man was hurriedly retreating towards the courtyard entrance under the cover of his guards.

Duge glanced in that direction, soared into the air, and pounced directly at him, completely disregarding the sword hacking at him, and despite being stabbed in the abdomen, he managed to decapitate the fat man.

Then.

The steel blade sliced downward, splitting open his chest cavity.

Duge reached in, tore out the beating heart, and in front of all the guards, crushed it with a loud burst.

He let out a bizarre laugh and fell back into the crowd. “Another distinguished guest is dead, Hou Yunfeng, do you want to take the blame?”

Hou Yunfeng, looking at the fat man killed by Duge, stood there dumbstruck, his face filled with despair.

Ding Chang snorted and stopped paying him any mind, instead following Duge and killing the others in the courtyard.

He knew that it was impossible for just a few of them to kill everyone in Dragon Willow Villa; only by getting more people involved did they stand a chance to kill all of the villa’s distinguished guests.

Even if they couldn’t kill everyone, having more people by their side meant they wouldn’t be left helpless in a confrontation.

“Do you want to live, or do you want to die?” Duge, akin to a blood-soaked fiend, suddenly appeared in front of Hou Yunfeng. “If you want to die, come at me. If you don’t want to die, join us in the killing.”

With a mix of brutality and persuasion, after killing a few more influential figures, Duge’s attributes and ranking soared rapidly. His skills were no longer inferior to Ding Chang’s, and even if Hou Yunfeng tried to backstab him, he wouldn’t be hurt.

Suddenly.

A dozen Combatants along with a dozen Protectors rushed in from outside the courtyard, clashing with the onlookers inside. In just a moment, they had killed a large number of people.

“Your master is dead; the law will not hold the masses accountable. If you don’t want to die, join us in killing!” Amidst the melee, Duge continued to exercise his Tirelessly Ruinous skill, not missing any chance to recruit potential allies.

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Courtyard D, Courtyard S, Water courtyard…

With the people he had coerced, Duge made his way through the slaughter, amassing an ever-growing retinue of followers.

But there’s no unbreachable wall, he couldn’t control everyone, and some fish always slipped through the net to spread the word.

By the time Duge reached the Fire courtyard, the entire Dragon Willow Villa was in chaos, with fleeing onlookers and patrons everywhere.

Eventually, the master of Dragon Willow Villa came to his senses, leading a group of men urgently towards the scene, trapping Duge outside the Fire courtyard…

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