Chapter 413

Chapter 413: Killing His Subordinate

"Enemy attack!"

"It’s the Shadow King! He actually dares to appear?"

The members of the Tree-Dwelling Tribe quickly sensed the presence of the Shadow King.

After a moment of surprise, regardless of whether they could intercept the Shadow King’s attack or not, they instinctively rushed to stop him.

But in the next second, a stronger Energy Aura surged from the direction of Morris.

Following that, came Morris’s command to stand aside.

They hurriedly interrupted their interception and dodged to the sides.

Tosman was somewhat confused.

Although he didn’t truly believe that the Shadow King would dare to seek death in front of Morris, and even in front of two members of the Tree-Dwelling Tribe who were over ninety, he still had prepared a response in case such a situation arose.

The moment he sensed the Shadow King’s aura, he immediately decided to activate his strongest defensive treasure and fully resist the Shadow King’s fatal strike.

He estimated that he would only sustain minor injuries at most.

He didn’t expect Morris to tell him to move aside.

This completely disrupted his defensive plan.

This lord was just a troublesome teammate.

If he could avoid the attack, he would surely be able to dodge the Shadow King’s strike as well, right?

That was impossible.

A question flashed through his mind: What was this lord thinking with his foolish brain?

In the next instant, he realized.

In this situation, why was he even considering this question?

If unable to dodge, he should first activate all his defensive treasures and methods to their utmost!

This was his only way to survive.

Morris, being the strong one, had full control over his attacks to a masterful degree.

If he saw that Tosman didn’t move aside, he would definitely pull back his attack forcefully.

Even at close range, while he couldn’t completely retract all his attacks, he could certainly pull back a significant portion.

Combined with the Shadow King’s full-powered strike, it would only leave Tosman heavily injured.

Unfortunately, by the time he realized this, it was already too late.

The shadowy spear transformed by the Shadow King pierced into his body first, activating a treasure inside him that could defend automatically.

However, his strongest defensive treasure and his defensive methods had no time to activate at all.

The Shadow King also sensed this and quickly noticed the tree branch forcefully cleaving toward him from Morris.

In an instant,

he did not act foolishly like Morris and Tosman.

Instead, he made the best judgment and change.

He abandoned the idea of continuing deeper into Tosman’s body and took advantage of Tosman’s defensive methods not being fully activated.

He suddenly detonated the small shadow spear that had already entered Tosman’s body.

Boom!

The energy exploded inside Tosman’s body.

Puff!

A small hole blasted open in Tosman’s chest.

He uncontrollably spat out green blood.

His internal organs suffered moderate injury.

This injury was neither too severe nor too minor,

but it was enough to leave Tosman momentarily powerless to activate his defensive treasure and defensive methods.

“Move, move aside…”

Morris panicked.

Seeing Tosman not move aside, he finally realized.

The Shadow Clan was already skilled at assassination, not to mention the Shadow King was fifteen levels higher than Tosman.

Tosman could not possibly avoid the Shadow King’s attack.

How could he have gotten so heated in the moment, burning with anger, thinking of telling Tosman to move aside so he could strike the Shadow King hard?

He hurriedly forced the energy to reverse, retracting his attack.

However, he was still slightly slow.

Even though the power of this strike was pulled back significantly by his reversal, the massive tree branch still struck Tosman.

With his level being three major realms above Tosman,

even if only one or two tenths of the attack remained, it was still too much for Tosman to block without being in a full defensive state.

Boom!

With a loud noise,

the tree branch directly cleaved Tosman in half.

Green blood erupted from Tosman’s severed body like a fountain.

Even his soul did not have time to escape the flesh before it was shattered.

‘Is this how it ends?’

The Shadow King felt a bit confused.

Fortunately, although his actions were reckless, he was currently blessed with incredible luck.

His mind did not falter.

In his confusion, he did not forget to escape quickly.

Morris and the over three hundred members of the Tree-Dwelling Tribe stared blankly at Tosman, who was cut in half and had lost his soul.

Even the few members of the Tree-Dwelling Tribe who still had their wits about them dared not pursue the Shadow King.

He was terrifyingly powerful.

Who knew if pursuing the Shadow King would lead Morris, their leader, to do the same thing he did before, attacking them from both sides and wiping them out?

All the members of the Tree-Dwelling Tribe involuntarily distanced themselves from Morris.

Their gazes towards Morris were filled with deep suspicion and wariness.

“Are you on the side of the Shadow King?”

“How… how could this happen?”

Morris’s face turned ashen.

This star cluster was indeed incompatible with the Tree-Dwelling Tribe.

How had he so foolishly killed Tosman, his greatest ally?

Originally, with Tosman’s strength, even if he couldn’t stop the Shadow King’s assassination, he would have sustained only minor injuries.

The Shadow King’s sudden attack on Tosman was purely an act of self-destruction.

Once his stealth technique was exposed, it would be nearly impossible to escape his pursuit.

Wait!

Morris’s Perception Ability rapidly extended.

Yet he could no longer find the Shadow King’s whereabouts.

Puff…

Green liquid spewed forth from Morris’s body.

“I will not rest until every member of the Shadow Clan is dead!”

Morris roared to the sky,

his mindset completely shattered.

He had killed Tosman.

The Shadow King had once again exposed himself in front of him and escaped successfully.

One mistake after another.

It was driving him nearly mad.

He wanted to go home.

To leave this cursed place.

His heart was filled with resentment, and his hatred surged.

It felt like he had suffered eight lifetimes of bad luck to be sent to this cursed place to carry out a mission.

He received no benefits at all.

Instead, the losses were tremendous.

It wasn’t until more than ten minutes later that Morris began to regain some clarity.

“Find him! Locate the strongest member of humanity. All of you, spread out and search every area within the galaxy according to the location Tosman discovered!”

Morris roared at his subordinates who were distancing themselves from him.

“Yes, sir!”

His subordinates felt a secret joy.

They were not afraid of spreading out.

With their strength realm, only two members of the level ninety Tree-Dwelling Tribe could match the Shadow King.

However, among the same level, the Tree-Dwelling Tribe was stronger than the Shadow Clan.

Moreover, the attack ability of the Shadow Clan was not very strong.

At the very least, even the few members of the Tree-Dwelling Tribe who were only in their level sixty could pair up and confidently withstand the Shadow King’s attack for more than ten minutes.

With that much time, they could cover enough distance to wait for their closest teammates to come and support them.

What they feared most was staying close to Morris.

Who knows if this leader, who had spent too long within this star cluster, had been cursed and would suddenly deal them a fatal strike from behind?

A powerful enemy is not frightening.

What is truly chilling is that a strong companion might give you a fatal strike from the back.

Upon hearing Morris tell them to search separately, they clearly understood they didn’t have to stick with him, and all they wanted to say was that this order was fantastic.

“Go! You can discuss and arrange the specific plans as you wish. I just want results. Notify me as soon as you find him.”

Morris wearily waved his hand.

His subordinates hurriedly left.

Morris planned to join the search as well.

He wanted to go home.

But the mission was not complete, and he had no connections in the foreign affairs department, so the High-ranking Leaders would surely not want to find someone to replace him.

So, he intended to leave this star cluster first.

He would wait outside the star cluster for the results.

He needed to find the strongest member of humanity, obtain Ketes’s Space Stone, and fulfill the contract with the human federation.

By completing the most significant tasks, he could collect all possible benefits.

Then he would apply to hand over the task of suppressing the Shadow King to someone else.

If the foreign affairs department disagreed, he would just hang around outside the star cluster.

After all, he had no desire to come back to this cursed place again.