Chapter 117 Fear of War
"Crack, click, click..."

"This, what is this?"

"how is this possible?"

After a few breaths, the city guards on the Barkley city wall realized that the chill was not just rising from the bottom of their hearts, but even their own bodies could feel the unparalleled chill.

When they lowered their heads, they discovered that their bodies had actually begun to freeze from the feet up.

Moreover, the ice was spreading towards his body at a speed visible to the naked eye!
Not only them, but also the leader of the city guards and even Lord Barkley, began to have ice crystals appearing on their bodies.

"Lord Barkley..."

"Bah..."

Barkley's divine power surged, instantly shattering the ice on his body.

At this moment, a hint of fear flashed in Barkley's eyes.

What kind of existence is this?
Just one sentence could almost freeze my soul and body.

If we really start to fight...

After taking a deep breath, Barkley bowed in the direction of Locke.

"I am Barkley, the mayor of Barkley City. I wonder which gentleman you are here to meet?"

"Are you talking to me?"

A large amount of water elements condensed in front of Barkley, and Locke's figure emerged from this group of water elements and came in front of Barkley.

Locke doesn't think much of Buckley.

Judging from his life breath, Barkley is not some special life form.

In other words, Barkley's strength is just that of an ordinary upper god.

However, from his previous quick reaction and the rapid breaking of Locke's ice, it can be seen that Barkley may have certain spiritual attainments.

Or maybe Barkley is a divine beast, gifted with magical powers.

Since it is a divine beast, even if its physical strength is not as good as that of special life forms, it is still much stronger than ordinary creatures.

Possessing natural talents and supernatural powers, Barkley also proves that he has a powerful killer weapon.

All in all, Barkley has at least the strength of a four-star demon and is indeed capable of serving as the lord of a city.

However, not to mention that Barkley has just touched the level of a four-star demon. Even if Barkley really possesses the strength of a four-star demon, or even a five-star demon, he is still not enough in front of Locke!

"This sir..."

Locke's cold tone made Barkley shudder and his expression suddenly changed.

“No matter what, I am still the mayor of Barkley City, and I am the one who maintains the city’s rules for the Lord God…”

"The Lord of Barkley City?"

"I'm sorry, but you won't be anytime soon."

"Pass it on. I, a five-star demon from the Demon Castle, come to challenge the Lord of Barkley City. I hope Lord Barkley will accept the challenge as soon as possible."

"Of course, if City Lord Barkley wants to delay it to the ten thousand year deadline, that's not impossible."

"However, I hope that Lord Barkley can stay in the city for the rest of his life by then."

"Otherwise, Lord Barkley might have just left the city in the morning, and your godhood would be put up for auction in Bauhinia Castle in the afternoon..."

Threat!

This is a naked threat!

"伱......"

Buckley was furious when he heard this, but he didn't dare to say anything in front of Locke.

"Humph!"

"Okay, I accept your challenge."

"The time for the challenge is set in three days."

"When the time comes, I will be waiting for your arrival at the fighting arena."

His face turned red and white, and after hesitating for a few minutes, Barkley threw down a few words, and with a dark face, he no longer paid attention to Locke and others and flew towards the city lord's mansion.

After looking at the divine barrier outside the city wall, Locke said to the previous city guard leader: "Since it has been confirmed that we are not bandits attacking the city, remove this barrier."

“Waste is not a good habit.”

"Especially when I feel like everything you're wasting now is mine."

"Yes, sir, we will dismantle the magic circle immediately."

The leader of the city guard shuddered and immediately called on other soldiers to lift the magic circle covering the city of Barkley.

As the people who face Locke and Lord Barkley most directly, they all know in their hearts that this time, the position of Lord Barkley is really going to be replaced.

This Lord Locke is obviously much stronger than Lord Barkley.

It’s hard to say, it wouldn’t be surprising if Lord Barkley died in battle on the battlefield three days later.

They are stupid now to offend the future city lord.

After the divine barrier dissipated, Locke nodded to several city guards, then turned into a ball of water element and dissipated.

……

"Lord Locke, are we going into the city now?"

Seeing that Lord Locke had solved the trouble, Xiao Bai flew back to the demon formation and asked Locke.

"Why do we have to enter the city now?" "Didn't you hear that Lord Barkley just said that he would increase our entrance fee a hundred times?"

"But……"

Xiao Bai hesitated for a moment and asked doubtfully, "Master Locke, haven't you already forced the Lord of Barkley to retreat?"

"Indeed, I challenged the Lord of Barkley City and forced him to retreat."

"But Xiaobai, the current mayor of Barkley is here. Since he said that, if we want to enter Barkley City, we must abide by the rules he set."

"This is the right granted by the Lord God to a city lord."

"but……"

Having said that, Locke glanced at the demons behind him and smiled.

"What are we?"

"We are the most elite 'demons' among the countless gods. In Yanfeng City, we have the privilege of not having to queue and pay the entrance fee."

"We must naturally have such privileges in other cities!"

"Everyone, do you want to enter the city now by paying a hundred times the entrance fee, or do you want to wait three days and enter the city in a grand and open manner without queuing and paying the entrance fee?"

"Hahaha, Lord Locke, do we even need to choose?"

"We are the demons of the Demon Castle!"

"That's right, Lord Locke. It's only three days. We can wait!"

After Locke finished speaking, the demons suddenly became excited.

Yes, they are the elite among the god-level strongmen, and the strongest "demons" among the strongmen of the same level.

How could one be willing to pay a hundred times the entrance fee to enter the city in such a miserable way?

"Very good, demon, that's the kind of spirit you should have."

"Then I order you to set up camp right here. Three days later, we will enter the city openly!"

"Yes, Lord Locke!"

……

There is nothing new under the sun.

Three days later, the news that a strong man was going to challenge the Lord of Barkley City quickly spread throughout Barkley City.

Along with this, there was also news of the brief confrontation between the strong man and Lord Barkley in front of the city wall.

Some people, out of curiosity, came out of the city to see what kind of powerful people had entered Barkley City.

However, when they saw the two hundred middle-level gods and five hundred lower-level gods, they all returned to the city quietly and did not dare to inquire any further.

In this day and age, even the city guards of Barkley City probably don’t have so many middle-level gods.

The person who came here is not kind!

Could a force that could send two hundred middle-level gods and five hundred lower-level gods to a small city to expand its influence be a simple force?
Maybe, in three days, the forces in Barkley City will begin to reshuffle.

As everyone was feeling anxious, three days passed in a flash.

On the third day, Locke came to the fighting arena early in the morning, folded his arms and closed his eyes to rest.

Locke didn't take a mere four-star demon-level upper god seriously, even if he was a divine beast with innate magical powers.

Unless, this Barkley is the super beast, the God-Eating Rat.

But unfortunately, it was not until more than a thousand evolutions later that the protagonist of the Panlong Universe was born, and there were only two God-eating rats in the world, Beirut and Beibei.

Similarly, all the big and small forces in the city of Barkley are paying close attention to this challenge from the city lord.

Before Locke arrived, the spectator seats around the fighting stage were already densely packed with people.

However, to everyone's disappointment, until the challenge time arrived, Lord Barkley did not appear on the fighting stage.

"Well, could it be that Lord Barkley is running away because he is afraid of the battle?"

At this time, a middle-level god said something like this, which immediately caused an uproar in the viewing platform.

In the Panlong Universe, any living being that reaches the holy realm gains endless life because they are contaminated by the mysterious aura of the laws.

In such a situation, the god-level strongmen, especially the upper-level god-level strongmen who stand at the pinnacle of the god-level, care most about their own reputation and face.

If a higher god has a bad reputation, even the Holy Land will look down on him.

As the lord of Barkley City who had ruled for hundreds of thousands of years, Barkley agreed to the challenge of others but fled without fighting. He would definitely be despised.

Not only that, if Barkley really escaped, Barkley's followers would also be ridiculed.

After all, these followers had a problem with their vision because they failed to see Barkley's true nature.

Amid the noise, some people began to rush towards the City Lord's Mansion.

Soon, news came from outside the City Lord's Mansion.

It is said that in order to fight Locke, Lord Barkley made instructions last night that he would go out to practice more powerful moves.

If he didn't come back by then, it would prove that there was something wrong with the techniques he practiced, and his life or death was unpredictable, so he let the people from the City Lord's Mansion admit defeat on his behalf.

As soon as this news came out, the gods who were watching the battle were shocked.

You said that Lord Barkley was afraid of the fight and fled, but he said he was going to practice dangerous moves.

But if you say that City Lord Barkley is not afraid of fighting, then why did he go out to practice not a few years or decades ago, or even four or five days ago, but yesterday when the battle was about to begin?
For a moment, all the people who received this news felt as if they had been fed a lump of food and didn't know whether to swallow it or spit it out.

"The challenge time has come. Lord Barkley is absent. According to the rules of the fighting arena, Lord Locke has won the battle!"

(End of this chapter)