Chapter 72: Framed
Leon stared at the figure resting against the tree with a frown; the other party also noticed them, and her eyes immediately locked on Leon as well; both of them stared at each other with cold expressions.
"Yue," Leon mumbled under his breath; the person who had crashed into the tree was none other than his red-haired Senior sister, Yue.
Yue stared at Leon for a moment before glancing at the other people in cloaks. Her eyes landed on the split corpse on the ground, and a light flashed through her pupils as a sinister smirk formed on her face; it seemed that the crash just now didn't hurt her.
Leon's frown deepened, and Yue's smirk gave him a bad feeling. But before he could say or do anything, swooshing sounds sounded from a distance as figures in cloaks shot through the forest and quickly appeared from behind the trees; they were surrounded.
Leon's eyes widened slightly when he saw the new additions of the cloaked figures. Aside from the four level 2 that he was about to kill, more level 2 cloaked figures and another level 3 had chased after Yue to this place.
The cloaked figures exchanged gazes when they saw their people before turning to face Leon and Yue.
"Senior brother, I'll leave these people to you and go help fellow sisters." Yue suddenly shouted at Leon before jumping behind the tree and disappearing into the forest.
Leon "..."
He was stunned and then angry; he glared in the direction that Yue had gone, his eyes almost spitting flames of rage.
Was this woman trying to kill him? Why would she make such a statement as if he was some overpowered martial artist? For fuck sake, there was another level 3 cloaked figure and more than seven at level 2!
But before Leon could deny the status that had suddenly been placed on him, one of the cloaked figures shouted.
"Senior, be careful. This person is really strange and can use a strange blue technique, he killed Senior with a single sword slash!" The figure reported to the only level 3 in the place.
Leon "..."
'Brother, do we have any life grudge against each other? Why do you have to seal off my escape route like this? Now do you think your senior will still chase after that evil lady?'
Leon lamented inwardly, he instantly felt the eyes of everyone on him; no one was really going after Yue.
Yue framing him was already problematic enough, but now with the words of this person…walking away was no longer possible.
"Let's deal with him first then, everyone attack together. He must be an extraordinary person to be that woman's senior brother; she was a pain to deal with, so her Senior brother would naturally be more powerful." The cloaked level 3 said as he pulled out a long bone spear, the rest reacted and immediately went around Leon.
Leon was furious, what nonsense were the people saying? He knew he was extraordinary but that did not mean that he could take on so many people by himself.
All of them suddenly dashed toward him at the same time, multiple weapons stabbed at his body from all directions.
Leon was spooked and immediately jumped into the air with so much force that he reached a height of ten meters, he stepped on a tree branch, but a swooshing sound suddenly flew past him, and the branch he was standing on was chopped off which sent him falling back to the ground.
Immediately after he landed, more than seven attacks were thrown at him. Leon didn't hesitate and used his Qi to launch his own attack.
BOOM!
His attack collided with the attacks from the cloaked figures and caused a small shockwave that pushed everyone back, giving Leon a chance to catch his breath; he wasn't used to such intense battles.
The cloaked figures were pushed back for several meters by the shockwave; they didn't launch attacks at Leon immediately.
"He really has a strange technique, that blue attack was stronger than what a level 3 martial artist should be capable of." The cloaked level three mumbled in a heavy voice while staring at Leon in the distance.
"Everyone, use the combined technique and attack him!"
The cloaked figures suddenly shouted and his companions swiftly moved to do as he had said. Explore new worlds at empire
Leon was so shocked that his soul almost left his body when he heard this. A combined technique? These people can use a combined technique as well?
Leon had seen the might of a combined technique once when those people came to the sect, and Quin Xuxu had fought with them; they were able to face a level 7 expert like Quin Xuxu despite being weaker; that was how terrifying a combined technique was.
"No, no. Wait!" Leon shouted as he immediately turned around and ran with all his strength, but it was of no use as the cloaked figures launched their attacks the next instant.
A five-meter-wide energy ball shot forward at a terrifying speed, crashing through trees and smashing them to bits along the way as it flew toward the fleeing Leon.
BAM!
The attack landed on Leon's back with a strong force, Leon screamed like a pig being slaughtered as he was sent flying dozens of meters into the forest and smashing through trees along the way.
He only came to a stop after hitting the fifth tree and fell inside a three-meter-tall bush around the tree.
Leon stared at the night sky through the gaps of the leaves above him, his mind spinning.
He had stopped screaming after landing on the ground, this was because he realized that he wasn't feeling any pain. Not from the trees he was smashing into or from the attack from the combined technique that had sent him flying.
At this moment, Leon suddenly sighted something shining softly under his robe. He instantly understood why he didn't feel any pain.
The protective amulet that he had gotten from the system!
'I love you, system!' Leon cried in his heart. That attack just now was definitely stronger than the attack of a level 5 expert, so the amulet had protected him; he would have died if that wasn't the case.
"Quick, search for his corpse; we shouldn't have blasted him to pieces."
"Someone like him must have some good stuff on him; find his corpse and take his storage ring."
"Hopefully, he didn't scatter into many pieces; it would be a pain to search separately."
Leon suddenly heard voices, they were gradually approaching.
Leon's eyes immediately narrowed, he had almost forgotten about the people who attacked him while he was rejoicing over the protective amulet.
Leon quietly moved his hands around the place but couldn't find his sword.
"Oh no." He exclaimed in a low voice, he suddenly remembered that he had let go of the sword when he was blasted away.
'What should I do now?' Leon thought to himself worriedly, he didn't dare to move from fear of being found too quickly.
He began to consider using the palm and fist technique of his martial art when he suddenly remembered.
'That glove!'
Leon remembered the glove that he had taken from the corpse of his first kill, he immediately took it out from his storage ring and wore it; his movements produced weak sounds but were still heard regardless.
"Over there, I hear something!"