National Guardian's Gone and We're Done

Chapter 258 - 257: A Bizarre, Tall and Skinny Figure Appeared Without Warning

The exquisite Magic Staff, painstakingly forged by the most outstanding artisans of the White Elephant Empire,

had already been snapped in the chaotic struggle.

The expensive and luxurious gems, pearls, and various ornaments embedded on the Magic Staff had long since been scattered across the ground.

Even though the Grand State Preceptor was now lying motionless in the pile of people, the crowd had no intention of stopping.

They frantically waved the objects in their hands, relentlessly smashing them down on the Grand State Preceptor, who was surrounded in the middle.

From time to time, droplets of blood would even fly through the air.

These people’s eyes were red with bloodlust. They had abandoned all restraint, as if they had fallen into a state of madness.

Corpses lay strewn about, each one twisted beyond recognition. They had been killed by the powerful force the Grand State Preceptor unleashed in his desperate struggle.

Numerous tools were scattered on the ground. Some rods were beaten to splinters, and some benches were smashed to pieces all over the place.

As the people, gasping for breath, slowly parted to open a path, the miserable state of the Grand State Preceptor lying on the sacrificial altar was finally revealed in full.

His entire body was a ruined mess, like a sack that had been beaten mercilessly, mangled beyond recognition.

Blood obscured his entire body, and many parts were beaten to a pulp. The phrase "ripped open and disemboweled" would be a grimly appropriate description of the Grand State Preceptor’s current state.

"This is human nature... It’s truly terrifying."

Someone couldn’t help but voice this sentiment.

"If I were there, I’m afraid I would have made the same choice as these people. There was no other way; Chu He gave them no other path to take."

Another person said, offering their analysis.

"All you can say is that the Grand State Preceptor got what he deserved. He was a shameless traitor who sold out his own Empire’s king without a second thought."

Yet another person added, spitting on the Grand State Preceptor’s actions.

Several drones equipped with livestreaming devices hovered steadily above the sacrificial altar.

This allowed the viewers in the livestream to see the entire scene with perfect clarity, and they could even zoom in on the details of the Grand State Preceptor’s corpse.

Many viewers with weaker stomachs who had been eating couldn’t help but bend over and vomit upon seeing the bloody and brutal scene, their other hand hastily closing the livestream.

"Lord Chu He, can you spare the rest of us in the White Elephant Empire now? We swear we will never go to the Great Xia Empire’s Border City to cause trouble again."

A man from the White Elephant Empire asked aloud, his voice cautious and his eyes filled with deep supplication.

"’Cause trouble?’ That’s an interesting choice of words," Chu He said with a faint smile.

"Alright, I admit it wasn’t just ’causing trouble.’ We were wrong, but this time, we’ve paid an extremely heavy price."

The man from the White Elephant Empire replied, his voice lacking confidence.

Many among them often mingled with the members of the White Elephant Empire’s Defense Team.

When the Defense Team members went to provoke the Great Xia Empire, drawing the attention of Great Xia’s own Defense Team,

these ordinary citizens would take advantage of the opening to run into the Great Xia Empire’s Border City to burn, kill, and plunder, even kidnapping women.

The reason many families had begun to live comfortably was because they had plundered enough from the Great Xia Empire’s Border City to fill their homes.

"That’s right, Lord Chu He, please spare us! We’ll never go to the Great Xia Empire’s Border City to cause trouble again. No, not cause trouble—we’ll never go to the Great Xia Empire’s Border City to commit crimes again."

The people of the White Elephant Empire cried out one after another.

They had long since thrown away the various killing tools they had just been using.

The bloodstains and broken bones on the sacrificial altar seemed to have nothing to do with them.

The savage brutality they had shown while beating and torturing the Grand State Preceptor to death was completely gone from their faces.

Chu He looked at the slightly sallow faces of the White Elephant people, thinking to himself.

’When things got chaotic in the Great Xia Empire’s Border City, they ran to the Border City to attack the people of Great Xia, abduct innocent young women, and plunder money and valuables. They must have worn the same savage expressions then as they did while brutally killing the Grand State Preceptor just now.’

"Very well, I will spare you," Chu He said with a nod.

Seeing Chu He agree, the people of the White Elephant Empire immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

They bowed and scraped, thanking Chu He profusely.

They thanked Chu He for sparing them, but deep in their hearts, venomous resentment was beginning to fester.

Chu He alone had destroyed their White Elephant Empire, tearing its foundations out by the roots.

What would become of the White Elephant Empire and its people now?

Hadn’t they become a juicy piece of meat on Blue Star, for anyone to carve up as they pleased?

However, they didn’t dare let such hatred show on their faces.

It could only be buried in their hearts, waiting for the day the tables would turn.

"The people of the White Elephant Empire truly have an inherently flawed nature."

Chu He had already perceived all the thoughts of these White Elephant people.

He shook his head, turned, and vanished on the spot.

The moment he left, a rectangular slip of paper spiraled down from the sky.

"What’s that?" a sharp-eyed man from the White Elephant Empire spotted the paper.

"Could it be a precious item Chu He left behind? He didn’t even notice it."

Another person from the White Elephant Empire had already dropped the title "Lord."

The other people from the White Elephant Empire swarmed toward the paper.

In their eyes, anything Chu He carried must be a treasure. They began to fight over it, even pushing, crushing, and trampling many of their own countrymen who fell in the struggle.

Finally, a strong man snatched it. He looked smugly at the other people of the White Elephant Empire.

In his other hand, the strong man was actually holding a gun. No one knew where he had gotten it.

No gunshots had been heard on the sacrificial altar earlier.

Faced with the dark muzzle of the raised gun, the other people of the White Elephant Empire didn’t dare try to take it from him.

The strong man kept the gun raised with one hand, the smile never leaving his face, while he held up the rectangular slip of paper with his other hand, wanting to see what it was.

But his expression changed drastically. His face instantly turned deathly pale, covered in panic.

The other people of the White Elephant Empire were instantly curious. No one knew what the strong man had seen on that rectangular piece of paper to be so terrified.

Or perhaps the strong man was just faking it to deceive them and make them give up any idea of fighting for it.

The answer came swiftly. A long, thin, and bizarre figure appeared without any warning.

It then punched the strong man in the stomach!