"What should we do, my dear?"
A blonde woman anxiously asked, dressed in ribbed tribal clothing, tears streaming down her face, her pupils bloodshot with anger.
In front of her was her black-haired husband, his eyes also bloodshot.
"Rosana, run! Kurapika is outside, and our son is still out there."
Rosana shook her head in grief.
"Listen to me, you must run, run as fast as you can, through the woods behind us. I'll hold them off here."
"Oh? Where can you run to?"
A short man abruptly lifted the tent flap, holding a slender rapier in his hand.
Seeing this, the husband forcefully pushed Rosana out.
Pushed outside, Rosana looked at the bloody scene on the ground, listening to the screams rising and falling around her, her heart filled with immense pain.
She gritted her teeth and ran desperately towards the outside.
Inside the tent.
"Stop! I won't let you chase her."
The husband held a stick, saying with a serious expression, the scarlet in his eyes indicating his inner rage.
"Your eyes are already red," the short man sneered a few times, seeming quite pleased.
"What are you laughing at! Does the loss of life make you so happy?!"
The husband roared, then suddenly turned and rushed out through the opened tent flap nearby.
But in a different direction.
He wanted to buy his wife more time to escape.
"Where can you run to?"
The short man, who was still several meters away from him, instantly appeared beside him, letting out a strange laugh, and swung his sword down fiercely.
The husband couldn't dodge in time and instantly fell to the ground, his left leg severed cleanly from the thigh, a large amount of fresh blood gushing out like a spring.
However, he didn't cry out in pain, but instead clenched his teeth tightly, angrily flinging the stick in his hand towards the short man.
The short man easily dodged by sidestepping.
A silver flash appeared, and the husband felt the world spin, his vision inverted, and he actually saw his own headless corpse.
"Run away, Rosana... Kura..."
The short man ignored the body on the ground, skillfully gouged out the pair of red eyes, and then, carrying his sword, chased in the direction Rosana had fled.
After all, the Leader wanted every pair of eyes that met the requirements.
He had just seen the red in that woman's eyes.
A very beautiful scarlet.
The blonde woman dashed out from one direction and happened to see Pairo, who was also running.
But Pairo was too weak, and after only a few steps, he fell directly to the ground.
Looking at this boy, her son's best friend.
Rosana didn't hesitate, immediately picked Pairo up, and ran outwards with all her might.
The Leader, who was following behind as if taking a leisurely stroll, witnessed this scene, his expression still calm.
A breeze blew past, and the short man sped past him.
The Leader looked at the short man's back, stopped, and said coldly, "I want that boy's head."
Having said that, he turned and walked to another place.
"Heh heh," the short man chuckled a few times, apparently having received the order.
Rosana, holding Pairo, ran forward desperately, completely ignoring everything around her at this moment. She had only one thought in her mind: run forward, run for her life!
"Hehehe! Run, run faster! I'm about to catch up to you!"
A sinister voice, like it came from hell, came from behind.
Rosana could only suppress the trembling throughout her body and ran forward without stopping for a moment.
"You're running too slow!"
The short man's voice suddenly appeared above Rosana's head, and then the slender rapier in his hand viciously stabbed down.
"Whoosh!"
A sound of air being torn came from the side.
Immediately after, a heavy punch whistled through the air.
"Get lost! Dwarf!"
All the accumulated anger was in this one punch.
"Bang!"
Accompanied by a booming explosion, the short man in the air barely had time to make any evasive movements.
He never expected that a Nen User was hidden nearby and had launched an attack at this moment.
His face was distorted, he spat out a mouthful of blood, and his entire body flew out like a cannonball, crashing heavily into the woods in the distance.
Several trees were broken by his impact.
Kevin, who had landed, immediately blew his whistle.
Two land birds quickly darted out from the jungle.
Kevin didn't hesitate to lift Rosana and the child in her arms onto the birds' backs.
Then, Kevin's entire body's Nen condensed and was released outwards.
This was Ren, but the shape was irregular, like a long strip of scanning waveform, shooting straight forward for 350 meters.
According to his Nen, an irregular Ren like this should be able to shoot further.
But his Emission系 training was limited, and this was his limit at this stage.
Like a long probing rod, it quickly swept through the area ahead.
After the half-circle scan was completed, Kevin immediately withdrew his Nen.
Through the simple scan, he had confirmed that there were no enemies around, except for the dwarf he had blasted away.
Based on what he had secretly observed along the way, there should be nine enemies if nothing unexpected happened.
"Hurry!"
Kevin shouted.
The four of them sat on two land birds respectively.
"Dad!"
Pairo looked at his father, tears gushing out of his eyes like a burst dam.
"Mom, Mom she..."
Mito held his son tightly, his expression seemingly calm, but his heart was filled with grief.
"I know, I know it all, you're a sensible good child."
In fact, Kevin and Mito were not far away at that time.
When they arrived, they only saw the corpse of Mito's wife and Pairo desperately running into the distance.
Of course, there was also the enemy who looked leisurely and extremely calm – the guy called the Leader.
At that time, Kevin was very worried that Mito would impulsively rush out, but perhaps because the potion had taken effect, Mito was unusually calm.
And Kevin quickly made a decision, determining the target of the rescue.
Naturally, he chose the blonde woman and Pairo in her arms, who were already the furthest from the entire gathering place and were clearly fleeing in a certain direction.
In that direction, there was a mountain path leading outwards, with difficult and complicated terrain, but for the land birds, it was as familiar as the way home.
Clearly, the direction this woman chose to escape was the most correct route.
From there, they could shake off the enemy well.
In the distance.
Everyone who was still engaged in the slaughter couldn't help but be stunned.
They had clearly felt the Nen that Kevin had just unleashed; they had also heard the sudden sound of battle.
"Someone else intervened?"
"Haha, I'll go meet them!"
Wo Jin burst into a wild laugh, rushing out like a cannonball towards Kevin and the others, his hands covered in blood.
Immediately after, two more people also rushed out.
They were the ronin known as Nobunaga and Phinks, who had dark skin and a look of anxiety.
The Leader didn't say much, opened the book in his hand, and his Nen surged.
Then, several Nen spheres shot out from his hand and merged into the bodies of the three people in the distance.
In an instant, the speed of the three people's running suddenly increased, as if they had been injected with powerful energy.
Clearly, this was some kind of Nen Ability.
"Bastard! Damn it!"
In the collapsed woods, a short man with a completely fractured arm and spitting blood angrily struggled to get up.
At this moment, he could barely stand steadily, only managing to support his body with the rapier in his hand.
That sudden sneak attack had caught him completely off guard; before the attack was launched, he hadn't detected the enemy's presence at all.
Moreover, the force of that punch was too heavy, like a giant metal hammer smashing down hard on him, the Nen contained within was as powerful as a cannonball, almost comparable to Wo Jin's full-strength punch.
And he was completely unprepared; even maintaining the most basic Ten, being hit by such a punch had almost rendered him incapable of fighting.
"Hey! Feitan, are you okay!"
Phinks was startled when he saw Feitan's disheveled appearance.
"Go chase, you must catch that damn guy!" Feitan gritted his teeth and roared.
Wo Jin didn't stop at all, instead increasing his speed and rushing forward, laughing heartily as he went.
He firmly believed that there was an opponent ahead who could fight him to his heart's content.
Nobunaga followed closely behind Wo Jin, his face now extremely serious, already in a stance ready to draw his sword at any moment.
Phinks looked at the injured Feitan, originally not wanting to continue the chase, but sensing the others who had already followed behind, he eventually chased after them as well.
And at this moment, Feitan had completely lost the ability to move, and could only watch helplessly as his companions chased after the enemy.