The ninth knight, Rein, is 24 years old and comes from a wealthy family. His family is the Augustus family, one of the four powerful families of the Dark Parliament. This ancient family can be traced back to the Scottish giants in the 1970s. Like the nobles and gentlemen of the old generation, the Augustus family still insists on pure blood and retains various noble etiquette. This is completely unacceptable to people in the new era, but because of this particularity, although the members of this family cannot be compared with the other three giants in number, they have loyalty and cohesion far superior to other giants. This is also one of the reasons why the Augustus family can stand firm in the dark council full of powerful people.
Another reason is because of the family's strong financial and material resources and the continuous emergence of elites. Rein is one of the elites of the Augustus family. He stepped into the eighth-level field at the age of less than 30. Such aptitude is enough to be described as a genius. What's more, Rein's ability is not just a certain field, but a cross-field ability.
The so-called cross-field ability person means that the abilities in two or even multiple fields are compatible, and they have transformed into abilities that are in the five major fields and do not belong to any field alone. In fact, many ability users are not limited to developing abilities in a single field. Often, ability users will also develop abilities in other fields for auxiliary purposes when they are majoring in the abilities they are good at.
For example, Zero, what he is good at is the ability of shooting and speed, while other abilities play an auxiliary role. Although such ability users also involve multi-field abilities, they cannot fuse various abilities to transform into special abilities. Rein is a real cross-domain ability user. He has been promoted from a fencing master in the combat domain and a wind element ability user in the element domain to the current eighth-level ability user - Hurricane Swordsman.
According to the information Valkyrie has, the various abilities extended from the primary ability of Hurricane Swordsman, such as Wind Blade Cut, Blade Storm, and Hurricane Strike, are all destructive skills. Any one of these skills is definitely above zero's ability. Valkyrie only hopes that he can reach the Shadow City in time before Rein takes a shot at Zero, otherwise, if Zero meets Rein, there is absolutely no chance of winning!
on the road.
Rein watched these armed mobs circling around him at leisure. They tried to scare Rein with roars and weapons, but not only had no effect, but instead made Rein feel like watching a circus performance.
The modified off-road vehicle stopped, but the machine gun in the co-pilot position and the heavy machine gun in the back seat were all aimed in the direction of Rein. If the traveler did any suspicious behavior, the intertwined firepower of the machine gun and the heavy machine gun would definitely be destroyed. The not tall body was torn apart in an instant. At least that's what Iron Bear, sitting in the backseat puffing a cigarette, firmly believes.
Iron Bear is the leader of this group of armed mobs. They specialize in robbing merchants traveling from the Capital of Shadows to Eternal Night City or travelers traveling alone. In the eyes of Tie Xiong, Rein, who was driving a new-age locomotive alone, was undoubtedly a fat sheep. Although Rein held a long sword and didn't look so annoying, Iron Bear didn't think that Rein with a long sword could pose any threat to his side.
The six-barreled heavy machine gun on top of Iron Bear gave him infinite confidence. At least in his past experience, no one could ignore the threat of the heavy machine gun.
"Hey, boy!" Tie Xiong yelled in the car: "Leave all the valuables on you. Besides, seeing how beautiful you are, if you are willing to provide us with some special services, I may consider not killing you. hey-hey!"
On the motorcycle circling around Lain, the other riders also let out unbearable laughter.
"The lines with nothing new are really suitable for you bugs." Rein said softly: "I don't have time to play with you, so I ask you all to die here."
After all, another unnatural breeze blew under Rein's feet.
"Since you want to die, I'll let you go, boys, do it!" Tie Xiong snorted, waved his hand and made a gesture.
Immediately, the knights surrounding Lein screamed strangely and pressed towards the target. One of the knights waved an iron chain, aimed at Rein and threw it. He wanted to tie Rein to restrict his movements. Unexpectedly, the iron chain was thrown out, and the breeze under Rein's feet suddenly became stronger. Without any warning, the cyan wind and mist set off covered Rein's figure in it, and the moment the iron chain was bounced off, it had turned into a tornado storm that soared into the sky!
Iron Bear's cigarette fell on the crotch, and he suddenly realized something and shouted: "No, it's an ability user in the elemental domain. Fire me, fire!"
Amidst the exasperated cry of the leader, the machine guns and heavy guns on the car fired at the same time. But at this time, the knights who had surrounded Rein were all caught up in the tornado because of a sudden incident, and they were spun and thrown high into the sky.
The guns roared, and the metallic torrent of bullets swept into the tornado like a scorching long whip. But there was no scream that Iron Bear imagined. He watched helplessly that after a burst of saturated shots, the tornado not only did not disappear, but tended to move in his direction. Iron Bear's face turned green, and he was about to order the driver to turn around, but the tornado suddenly expanded.
In less than a second, the off-road vehicle was wrapped in a tornado. Both the iron bear and the vehicle were swept up by the whirling wind. He couldn't breathe in the wind, and the strong wind almost forced him to close his eyes. With narrowed eyes, Iron Bear could only vaguely see the center of the tornado, and Rein was still standing with his sword hanging down.
At this moment, the swordsman standing on the ground suddenly looked at him. Tie Xiong suddenly shivered, and the next moment, he saw a strange and terrifying scene.
On Iron Bear's head, the modified off-road vehicle and several of its subordinates were suddenly cut open by something. Both the fractured surface of the car and the wounds of the human body are extremely smooth, as if cut open by a sharp blade, but Tie Xiong can't see anything. All I could see was nothing but blue whirlwinds.
The next moment, he finally knew what was so sharp. It was an inconspicuous cyan wind, it lightly passed over the iron bear's body, but it cut open the iron bear's body with the sharpness comparable to a laser weapon. Tie Xiong clearly saw where the blue wind passed, first the skin was split, followed by the muscle and fat layer, and finally the bones and internal organs were split into two.
And the cyan wind lines like this, they are almost everywhere in the tornado, like a blade, arming this tornado into an efficient meat grinder!
The wind died down.
The tornado dissipated, and Rein didn't move a single step, but countless motorcycle parts and corpses kept falling from the sky. They sprinkled around Rein as if in tacit agreement, but only revealed a circular blank space where Rein stood, marking the location of the eye of the tornado just now.
It seems that Rein's sword has never been mentioned, but who knows that in the instant just now, he has cut hundreds of thousands of swords. And what smashed the armed mob of Iron Bear was one of the skills that Rein transformed after fusing sword skills and wind element abilities, Bladestorm!
Putting the one-handed sword back into the scabbard, Rein couldn't even look at the wreckage on the ground. He seemed to have done a trivial thing. After putting on the cloak and goggles again, Rein started the motorcycle. Amidst the hot smoke sprayed from the exhaust pipe, the reloaded locomotive roared to the front of the road.
At the end of the road, there are faintly visible mountains. Among those mountains, it is the shadow capital!