The Female CEO's Personal Bodyguard

Balther Weiss held the rear, rapidly pulling back with the entire Demon Race squad, and soon drew close to the trap zone.

By now Balther Weiss had already received a warning from the teammates hiding in the dark; his figure flashed straight through the trap zone without the slightest pause.

Balete and the others followed close behind, charging at full speed into the continuous mountain range.

”Boom!”

As the Artifact Refiners hidden in the shadows simultaneously detonated all the Exploding Talismans that had long been set in place, over a hundred Exploding Talismans went off at once, merging into countless crisscrossing explosive shockwaves.

Earlier, when Balther Weiss saw Carson Flores, he already didn’t want to fight; now with heavy casualties, he thought Carson Flores had retreated out of cowardice, never imagining Carson Flores had been prepared all along and had set an ambush in the rear!

Fortunately, the group chasing the hardest with Balete were precisely the strongest batch of Barbarian Tribe experts; faced with the sudden explosive assault, Golden Light flared abruptly from each of their bodies, and their shields forcibly blocked the blasts.

Although the power of these explosives was immense, Balete and the others had extremely rich battle experience; even while in pursuit, they had never relaxed their defensive power, so despite the tremendous impact and some of the Barbarian Tribe pursuers being injured, the severity of those injuries was very limited.

Balete roared in fury, ”Carson Flores, you don’t even dare fight head‑on, you only dare use petty tricks like this?”

Before Balete’s mocking words were finished, a Formation between heaven and earth activated in an instant.

Violet thunder descended from the sky; in front, a raging gale swept forth, and behind, blazing flames surged to the heavens, instantly shrouding this fastest group of Barbarian Tribe powerhouses within.

Balete was greatly shocked; so aside from the explosives, there was also another Formation with tremendous power—and three of them at that!

”Defend! Break out!”

Balete reacted quickly, hurling his giant axe into the sky. The massive axe radiated Golden Light, dispersing the approaching flames and enveloping several people around him within its glow.

The others scattered throughout the area likewise hurriedly summoned their magical treasures; these people were all terrifyingly strong, and with Defense Treasures appearing one after another, they actually held on!

Carson Flores stood within the Eight Desolation Fire Spirit Formation, watching the quick‑reacting group, secretly amazed in his heart. As expected of the top‑tier experts participating this time—each one’s strength and the might of their magical treasures were not to be underestimated!

Of course, Carson Flores would not let them break out of the Eight Desolation Fire Spirit Formation so easily. From within the sea of flames, a Phoenix cry rang out as a colossal Fire Phoenix, like undergoing Nirvana, rose from the fire, spreading its vast flaming wings as it dove toward the crowd.

Seeing the Fire Phoenix swooping in, Balete’s expression changed drastically.

”Phoenix Fire Spirit, be careful!”

The Phoenix Fire Spirit, wreathed in a sky‑filling blaze of scorching flames, slammed brutally into the crowd’s shield.

Under such searing high‑temperature impact, that Golden Light–shimmering shield shattered with a bang.

At the instant the shield broke, Carson Flores appeared not far from them like a ghost woven of fire. True Solar Fire instantly gathered into a thread of flame, sweeping toward them at extreme speed.

Carson Flores’s True Solar Fire, hidden within the boundless Phoenix Fire, was not eye‑catching, but the terrifying aura it contained still drew Balete’s attention in the very first moment.

Balete’s eyes flew wide open as he bellowed, ”Watch out!”

Even as Balete shouted his warning, the black Jade Pendant before his chest suddenly lit up, turning into a sphere of light that radiated outward, attempting to once again cover everyone around him.

The black Jade Pendant’s light radiated from inside out, while the crimson thread of fire swept in from outside at extreme speed.

The Barbarian Tribe man standing at the very edge—also the one hit hardest by the Phoenix Fire Spirit’s impact—hadn’t even come back to his senses when the fire line had already swept across his neck.

His head directly fell from his neck, but the immense strength of a Great Land Immortal granted him extraordinarily tenacious Life Force. His head had only rolled halfway when it flew back up, rushing toward the toppled torso, trying to reconnect head and body.

Carson Flores’s eyes burned like a Fire God’s as he glanced at that head; the intent of True Solar Fire instantly wrapped it, and the head ignited in an instant.

True Solar Fire was unspeakably domineering. This Barbarian’s head had been severed, his strength sharply diminished in that moment—how could he possibly withstand True Solar Fire?

In the span of a heartbeat, his head was burned through from the inside out by True Solar Fire.

Flames sprayed from all seven orifices of his head; his agonized howl had barely begun before it was abruptly cut off.

A streak of Golden Light, a gold‑colored shadow, fled in panic from the head, and in a flash darted into the shield raised by the black Jade Pendant hanging from Balete’s neck.

Carson Flores did not pursue the kill; at the very moment he ”ignited” this Great Land Immortal’s head with a single glance, he had already reached out across the distance. The tags hanging from the fallen body flew out at once, landing in Carson Flores’s hand.

Killing was not the goal; seizing tags was the goal.

As long as the tags were in hand, no matter whether the owner still lived or was in Primordial Spirit State, they would all be cleared out by the Formation!