Su Yan had always intended to keep Marion alive. The man was highly capable and clearly held a position of high status among these Northern people. On several previous occasions, Su Yan had tried to capture someone to uncover the mastermind behind the scenes, but unfortunately, they had all been dead men walking. Whenever they faced danger, their first instinct was not to flee, but to commit suicide. If he could manage to subdue Marion today, they might finally be able to identify the person pulling the strings and put a permanent end to today's events.
With this thought in mind, his movements grew increasingly cold and aggressive. Marion had been able to manage and deflect the Wind Blade attacks for a while, but as time passed, the speed of Su Yan’s strikes grew faster, and he began to struggle. Facing such a situation, Marion’s expression darkened, and he grew increasingly tense. He had known before that the Su Yan standing before him was a terrifying individual—a veritable god of slaughter—but it was only now, confronting him directly, that he truly grasped the extent of that horror and the crushing sense of powerlessness that came with it. Under these circumstances, he could not spare a single word, forced to devote his entire concentration just to fend off Su Yan’s onslaught.
Su Yan’s eyes were ice-cold, his aura of slaughter fully manifest. Every strike carried a bloodthirsty edge. A powerful, dark presence seemed to envelop his body, projecting an overwhelming pressu…
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