Dimensional Keeper: All My Skills Are at Level 100 Chapter 1562 Chased by the Devils!
Previously on Dimensional Keeper: All My Skills Are at Level 100...
"Everyone, run!" Max bellowed right as the devil's corpse burst open and tumbled to the earth.
His order prompted the team to spring into immediate action. Max and Luna charged ahead at the front, the rest trailing right on their heels while hurrying in the path Max directed.
"They killed him!"
An enraged bellow thundered from the rear.
The approaching devils witnessed their fellow drop, fueling their fury rather than causing doubt. Eyes blazing with murderous fury, they charged ahead ceaselessly.
"Chase them. Do not let them escape!"
The sharp order blared out, and the devils ignored the fallen body entirely. Locked solely on Max and his companions, they pursued with unyielding ferocity.
The gap started narrowing rapidly.
With horrifying velocity, the devils advanced, their aura pressing down harder every second. Clearly, they planned to grant no opportunity for getaway.
Max's brow creased upon feeling their chase intensify from behind. Luna's face hardened too as she shot a quick look back, grasping the peril fully.
Though Max and Luna could confront a devil directly, the others lacked such power. Most couldn't endure even one straight clash, and in combat, the frailest would perish first.
This truth burdened them deeply.
Solemn looks etched their faces as they fled onward, maxing their pace while merciless devils hounded them, inching nearer relentlessly.
'This is bad,' Max mused while sprinting, his features growing tauter by the instant.
The peril was plain to him. Catch-up by the devils was inevitable, just a question of when. Solo, he might whirl around to battle or bolt faster to shake them off, yet burdened by the team, both paths were blocked.
His Dimensional Sovereign Body revealed the rear scene in flawless detail. Steadily, the devils ate up ground, their hunt tireless and exact.
"They are getting closer," Max warned, his tone alerting all at once.
His statement darkened every face in the group.
Thick dread enveloped them upon recognizing the desperate straits.
Max exhaled softly while eyeing the team. Fleetingly, an idea surfaced: stashing them all in his dimension would let him flee freely and free them safely later.
Yet he dismissed it fast. Exposing his power to shift people into another dimension posed extreme risk. No way could he let that secret slip.
While hunting alternatives, Luna's voice sliced the strain.
"There is a small hill a few kilometers ahead," she declared steadily. "There is a group stationed there from the Sword God Palace, the Ascension Hall, and the War God Palace. I have already informed them about our situation. If we can reach that hill, they will launch a surprise attack and help us deal with the devils."
Max's gaze intensified.
A hill.
At once, he stretched his Dimensional Sovereign Body's senses ahead, verifying it. Tucked in the landscape forward, human shapes lurked hidden and still. Though clueless on Luna's contact method, this shone as their prime shot to reverse fortunes.
"Everyone! You heard her," Max roared decisively. "Stay close behind us. Once we reach that point, we will be safe."
His shout kindled fresh fire in the team.
Heart-sinking hopelessness yielded to surging resolve. They strained their limits without pause, boosting velocity toward the far-off hill, desperate to arrive prior to total encirclement by devils.
After tense minutes of frenzy, they neared Luna's named hill at last.
"Do you see that narrow canyon beside the hill?" Luna called, gesturing forward with calm urgency. "We only need to enter that canyon and draw the devils inside."
"Wouldn't that trap us as well?" Lucia questioned, knitting her brows while scanning the land.
"No," Luna shot back promptly. "That canyon has already been prepared as a killing ground by the Sword God Palace, the Ascension Hall, and the War God Palace. Once we enter, we will be safe."
Upon hearing those words, Lucia and her companions nodded in agreement, fully trusting Luna's assessment as they pressed on toward the canyon.
Shortly afterward, they arrived at the edge.
The team plunged into the canyon without pausing a beat.
Trailing close behind, the enraged devils charged in relentlessly, consumed by their fury and thirst for blood. They barreled after the group, completely oblivious to the deadly trap lurking inside.
The instant the devils crossed into the canyon, the tide turned abruptly.
Assaults exploded from every angle in a relentless storm.
Blades of light, condensed energy strikes, and secret techniques detonated all at once, slamming into the devils before they had a chance to respond. Even with their inherently tough bodies, the abrupt and unified ambush robbed them of any opportunity to mount a defense.
An ambush of such magnitude proved utterly catastrophic.
Multiple devils dropped dead on the spot, their forms shredded by the merciless onslaught, as the survivors suffered grievous wounds, their actions hampered while they fought to regroup.
Even before they could steady themselves, the decisive strike landed.
Hidden figures burst into view, with experts from the Sword God Palace, Ascension Hall, and War God Palace unleashing a combined assault, eradicating the leftover devils through ruthless precision and sheer dominance.
In the blink of an eye, every last pursuing devil lay annihilated.
A heavy silence enveloped the canyon.
Luna's team let out a shared breath of relief, the intense pressure from the pursuit finally easing away.
Max watched the aftermath in silence, his eyes fixed on the devil corpses littering the ground.
"These people from the three forces are indeed powerful," he reflected inwardly.
At that moment, he fully grasped a crucial reality: the devils met such a swift end solely because their power was capped at the peak of the Law Refinement Realm.
Had they possessed their true cultivation levels, probably exceeding the Law Manifestation Realm, this kind of joint ambush wouldn't have sufficed. The battle's result would have flipped completely.
As this realization took hold, a subtle wave of gratitude washed over Max.
His power to assimilate dimensions and enforce those limitations had silently emerged as the game-changing factor in this dire moment.