Updated: 2012-10-19

The ninth knight, Rhine, is 24 years old and comes from a wealthy family. His family is none other than the Augustus family, one of the four giants of the Dark Council. This ancient family can be traced back to the Scottish wealthy family in the 70s of the old century, and like the aristocratic gentlemen of the old generation, the Augustus family still adheres to the pure bloodline and retains the etiquette of various nobles. This is completely undesirable in the eyes of the people of the new era, but it is precisely because of this peculiarity that the members of this family, although they cannot be compared with the other three giants in terms of numbers, have a loyalty and cohesion far superior to the other giants, which is also one of the reasons why the Augustus family can stand tall in the dark council full of strong men.

Another reason is because of the family's strong financial and material resources and the continuous emergence of elites. Rhine was one of the elites of the Augustus family, and he stepped into the eighth-order realm at the age of less than thirty, and such qualifications were enough to be described as a genius. What's more, Rhine's ability is not just a simple field, but a cross-domain ability.

The so-called cross-domain competence is the ability of two or even multiple domains to be compatible, and the ability to metamorphose into one of the five domains, but not belong to any one of the domains. In fact, many abilities are not limited to developing abilities in a single area, and often when they major in their own abilities, they will also develop abilities in other fields as auxiliaries.

Zero, for example, excels in shooting and speed, while other abilities play a supporting role. Although such abilities also involve multi-domain abilities, they are not able to integrate various abilities into special abilities. Rhine is a real cross-domain ability, he has been promoted from a fencing master in the fighting domain and an air elemental ability in the elemental domain to the current eighth-order ability - a hurricane swordsman.

According to Valkyrie's information, various abilities extended from the main ability of the Hurricane Swordsman, such as Wind Blade Cutting, Sword Storm, and Hurricane Strike, are all destructive skills. Any one of these skills is definitely above zero ability. Valkyrie only hopes that he can reach the City of Shadows before Rhine makes a move against Zero, otherwise Zero will have absolutely no chance of winning against Rhine!

on the highway.

Rhine watched the armed mob circling around him for a long time, trying to scare Rhine with roars and weapons, but instead of any effect, Rhine felt like he was watching a circus performance.

The modified SUV stopped, but the machine gun in the passenger seat and the heavy machine gun in the back seat were aimed in the direction of Rhine, and if the traveler did anything suspicious, the intertwined fire of the machine gun and the heavy machine gun would definitely tear apart the not tall body in an instant. At least, Iron Bear, who was sitting in the back seat and muffling down a cigarette, was convinced of that.

Iron Bear is the leader of this armed mob that specializes in robbing caravans from the Shadow City to the Eternal Night, or travelers on their own roads. In the eyes of Iron Bear, Rhine, who drives a new-age locomotive alone, is undoubtedly a fat sheep. Although Rhine didn't look so easy to mess with a long sword, Iron Bear didn't think that Rhine, who was holding a long sword, could pose any kind of threat to his side.

The six-barreled heavy cannon above Iron Bear's head gave him infinite confidence, and at least in his previous experience, no one could ignore the threat of heavy machine guns.

"Hey, boy!" shouted Iron Bear in the car, "leave all your valuables behind." Also, seeing that you are so beautiful, if you are willing to provide us with some special services, I can consider not killing you, hehe!"

On the motorcycle that circled around Rhine, the other riders let out a terrible laugh.

"The lines are nothing new, and they really fit the identity of you bed bugs. Rhine said softly, "I don't have time to play with you, so please all die here." ”

With that, an unnatural breeze blew under Rhine's feet.

"Since you want to die, it's all right, boys, do it!" Iron Bear snorted and waved his hand to make a gesture.

Suddenly, the knights surrounding Rhine screamed and pressed towards their target. One of the knights brandished a wire and aimed at Rhine, who wanted to tie him up to restrain his movements. Unexpectedly, the iron rope was thrown out, and the breeze under Rhine's feet suddenly became stronger. Without any warning, the cyan wind that set off covered Rhine's figure in it, and the moment it bounced off the iron cable, it had already turned into a tornado storm that soared into the sky!

Iron Bear's cigarette fell to his trousers, and he suddenly realized something and yelled, "It's not good, it's the ability of the elemental domain." Fire on me, fire!"

Amid the leader's angry shouts, the car's machine guns and heavy guns opened fire at the same time. At this time, the knights who had surrounded Rhine were all caught in this tornado because of the suddenness of the incident, and spun and threw into the air.

Guns roared, and a torrent of metal like bullets swept into the tornado like a scorching whip. But there was no scream from Iron Bear's imagination, and he watched as the tornado did not disappear after a burst of saturation shots, but instead moved in his direction. Iron Bear's face turned green, and he just wanted to order the driver to turn around, but the tornado suddenly expanded.

In less than a second, the buggy was enveloped in a tornado. The Iron Bear and the vehicle were swept up by the whirlwind that made him unable to breathe, and the wind was so strong that he almost had to close his eyes. Squinting into a slit, Iron Bear could only vaguely see the center of the tornado, and Rhine was still standing with his sword down.

At this moment, the swordsman standing on the ground suddenly looked at him. Iron Bear shuddered suddenly, and the next moment, he saw a strange and terrifying scene.

On Iron Bear's head, the modified SUV and several of its men were suddenly cut open by something. The fracture surface of the car and the wound on the human body were so smooth that it was as if it had been cut open by a sharp blade, but the Iron Bear could not see anything. As far as the eye could see, there was nothing but a cyan whirlwind.

The next moment, he finally knew what was so sharp. It was an inconspicuous cyan current, and it gently swept over the Iron Bear's body, but sliced through the Iron Bear's body with a sharpness comparable to that of a laser weapon. Iron Bear looked clearly at the place where the green wind passed, first the skin was torn, then the muscle and fat layers were torn, and the zuihou was the bone and the internal organs were all split in two.

And cyan wind lines like this, they are almost everywhere in tornadoes, like a blade, arming this tornado into an efficient meat grinder!

The wind stopped.

The tornado cleared, and Rhine didn't move a single foot, but countless locomotive parts and corpse wreckage continued to fall from the sky. They seemed to have a tacit understanding around Rhine, but only a circular blank space was revealed to the place where Rhine was standing, marking the location of the eye of the tornado just now.

Rhine's sword didn't seem to have been raised, but who knew that in the moment just now, he had already slashed out hundreds of thousands of swords. And what smashed the armed mob of Iron Bear was one of the skills that Rhine transformed after fusing sword skills and wind elemental abilities, Sword Storm!

Retracting his one-handed sword from its scabbard, Rhine could not look at the wreckage that was strewn all over the ground. As if he had done something insignificant, after putting on his cloak and goggles again, Rhine started the locomotive. In a puff of hot smoke from the exhaust pipe, the reloaded locomotive roared to the front of the road.

At the end of the road, mountains can be seen. In the midst of those mountains is the location of the City of Shadows!