Backstabbing...

'Shit, man. That thing is too fast.' Aiden spit out the blood,' shouldn't it be the slowest beast?'

[The beast of Mana may not retain the characteristics of its pre-apocalyptic ancestors.]

'Like I don't know.' Clutching his chest, Aiden sat back up. The beast still stared at Aiden but did not attack him. 'Why haven't you attacked me?'

Aiden wasn't sure why the beast didn't attack him when he was down, but he didn't want to give him another chance.

While he was thinking about it, the eyes of standing human puppets were starting to turn crimson, but it was too late.

[The host has activated innate skill [Light Foot]]

His [Wind Skin] and [Reduce Drag] were still effective, as he charged through the crowd. He moved with swift action, but not toward the beast. He took the path around the crowd to reach the beast, and...

[Skill [Wind Gale] activated. Mana used:15. Remaining Mana: 137]

Aiden charged the beast again, from its blind spot. He also used [Zone] and [Blink] besides [Wind Gale].

Whether Aiden was too fast or for any other reason, the beast could not turn in time. The edge of the [Wind Scythe] was one inch away from the skin of the beast and the crack ...

Aiden could not see it, but he was sure that there was an invisible barrier between his scythe and the beast that had broken his [Wind Scythe]. And a kick from its back leg did a lot of damage to him.

"Kukh ..." Aiden crashed on a few of the hypnotized humans and sprayed blood everywhere, 'How could things be so fast? '

Aiden looked at the beast that took its time to turn towards Aiden, 'If you're so fast, then why don't you just kill me?'

But Aiden was lucky that it wasn't attacking. His body was still inflated due to the excess mana, a few of his ribs were broken, and the internal organs shifted.

The ruby-eyed beast stared at him, and if that wasn't enough, there were a thousand people ready to attack. And Aiden was not even able to stand on his feet.

*Creeeeeee*

The cry of the beast was mighty, but somehow it was different. The next thing Aiden knew, it was going in a different direction. 'Is there anything that attacked it?'

[Captain Lyla had sent you a message.]

'What?' It confused Aiden. Aiden understood the reason when he looked at the beast that was fighting with something. And next thing he knew he was wrapped in this blue mana layer.

"Stay down. Don't move."

"Sara?" he said. Aiden wasn't sure he heard it right, but it was Sara when he saw the person. Her eyes weren't crimson, they were white with a pair of blue pupils.

"Don't worry, I'm not in control of that thing." Even if she said it with a smile, Aiden could see that her hand shook as she cast healing spells on Aiden.

"Don't move. It will be painful. Four of your ribs are broken, your…"

"What the hell are you doing?" Aiden's groan sent a shiver down the spine of Sara. However, she continued to heal as she avoided Aiden's glare.

Aiden grabbed her hand and it startled her. Aiden felt from the look of her face that she would cry at any moment. Yet she spoke in a shaky voice, "Lyla ordered me to do that."

"Oh, Lyla? What's up to now? "Aiden wasn't sure of her intention," If you dare to do something funny, you'll die first.

Hearing the threat of Aiden, Sara nodded vigorously. Aide released her hand and said, 'Let me know of any anomaly caused by her mana.'

[The situation of the host's body couldn't be worse.]

Aiden couldn't help but curse his heart, but he knew it was true. But under the blue veil of Mana, Aiden had a blissful sensation. However, as soon as he turned to the beast, he was astonished.

'How could the three of them keep up with the beast?' Aiden wasn't sure what was going on, it was true that the beast was struggling to fight against Lyla, Enric and another person.

As a result, all the puppet humans ignored him and ran to the beast. But to his surprise, before they could get close to them, they were bombarded with different types of spells.

'The Elijah, the Asher, and ... who are they? 'Aiden did not know the identity of the other two but had little idea of it. 'It looks like they've also escaped his control. Show me the message, ESS.'

[Don't use mana. It can control your body by controlling the circulation of mana inside your body.]

"What is it?" Aiden's sudden outburst frightened Sara. "How could she have known?" Aiden was not sure, and the ESS could not give him an answer. But when Aiden looked at Lyla and the others who were fighting the beast, he thought it might be true.

Although Lyla could use long-distance spells, her strong point was the Flame Combat technique. But now that she's been fighting, she's not using any flame at all.

Yet she's been successful. It wasn't just her, Enric and the other one was doing the same thing, and it was effective. The beast that Aiden could not even touch with [Blink] was now covered with scars.

'But the barrier, huh? 'Aiden was unable to explain the phenomena. He knew very well that his scythe broke into contact with the barrier, but ...

"Anything made of Mana is not going to be able to touch it. Even if the ESS rated it as 3 stars, the mana control is much higher. And there's no mana type. It can control any type of mana, whatever the elements. "Sara spoke as she stood up.

"It should be called mana manipulation, rather than mana control." She was still afraid of Aiden. "It wasn't directly controlling the mana in the air, it was manipulating the mana inside the human body."

She looked at Aiden with fearful eyes. There was a mission in her interface to apprehend or kill him, but she didn't dare. Even though Lyla was the strongest of them, Sara was most afraid of Aiden.

On top of that, when she broke out of control of the beast, the ESS informed them that it was Aiden who had rescued them. 'How ?' That was the question that no one could answer, but they knew that ESS would never lie.

"How do you know?"

Aiden's question made her shudder. She looked at the beast as she said, "We watched the beast when you fought a moment ago."

"You were very fast, but you would stop as soon as you entered its range. Like a fly in a spider web, you'd get stuck in the middle of the air. Even if you were slowly attacked by the beast, you didn't do anything. Upon observation, ESS derived the reason."

"The beast was slow?" Aiden couldn't dare to believe her words, 'It was so fast. No, no…' When Aiden realised it, it was too late, 'That is why it was moving so slowly… Mana control?'

[The beast is proficient in mana control and mind control.]

'Didn't you say that the beast had 'high speed'?' Only if the ESS was a human being, he would have beaten it.

[The assessment of any beast is based on the experience of the host. The host considered the beast to be fast, so the system...]

"Shut up," cried Aiden. Sara took a few steps back in fear. Aiden stood up, "Have you got a blade? Or some other weapon?"

Sara kept staring at him with fearful eyes, not knowing how to respond. Looking at Aiden, who smiled at her, she was more afraid.

"What is it? Don't you want me to help them? "Aiden frowned," What are you scared of? Do you think I'm going to kill you? Have you ever done anything wrong?"

Sara was quick to shake her head as she pulled the dagger out. "This is all I've got."

Before she could finish her words, Aiden snatched the dagger from her hands, "It's too small. But it's better than nothing." Aiden crouched, "Go and hide."

[Skill [Wind Gale] activated. Mana used:15. Remaining Mana: 119]

[Skill [Wind Gale] activated. Mana used:15. Remaining Mana: 104]

…

…

Aiden could not help cursing his heart as Aiden continued to use [Wind Gale]. He wanted to use the mana harvested from the heart of the mana beast to fight the B-grade beast ...

'Who knew that I was going to be beaten so miserably because of the mana? At the top of that ... 'the aftershocks of harvesting mana well beyond his comfort level and the side-effect of [Zone] made it harder for him to move.

[Skill [Wind Gale] activated. Mana used:15. Remaining Mana: 14]

The last one he used to run to the beast. With multiple [Wind Burst] Aiden ran to the beast. But without [Wind Gale] it was almost impossible for Aiden to avoid a flood of crimson-eyed humans.

With 33 stat points in his strength, the human being was no match for him. But rather than strength, he used his agility as much as possible to avoid humans.

To his surprise, when he reached near the beast, he was already severely wounded. But the situation of the other three was also not good. Lyla and Enric were the only ones to be able to attack.

And the third person was unconscious on the ground. Whether it was a human being or a beast, Aiden had no idea. And it wasn't just him, there were many people on the ground in the same situation. Aiden could confirm the reason on a closer look.

"What are you looking at here? "Lyla cried and stopped for a moment to take a lung full of air before she cried out again," Quick, attack it from behind."

Her shout didn't just attract Aiden's attention. The beast looked at Aiden as it was attacked. Only then did Aiden realize how slow it was.

Aiden had no problem avoiding the sharp claw of the beast, but there were too many humans.

No matter who it was, anyone who came close to him was blown away. It was hectic at first, but Aiden soon found the easy way around it.

He rode the tide instead of going through the crowd. No matter whose shoulder or head it was, Aiden did not hesitate to step on it. But as soon as he recovered his balance, he attacked under the limb of the beast.

*Creeeeee*

He was on his back even before the beast could find him. It wasn't that he was too fast, but that he was successful because the other two were distracting its attention.

And from there on, he didn't have a problem taking it down. It had almost zero physical ability, to begin with. If one could ignore its control of mana, mind control, and hypnosis, it would be worse than a C-grade beast.

Even if it can control thousands of people, it had no intention to let them get on its back. The result is therefore inevitable. Still, it took more than half an hour of hard work to get the giant sloth down.

'You're just a big sloth without mana.' Standing on the back of the fallen beast, Aiden laughed in his heart.

*Boom*

Aiden felt something big hit him with a giant sledgehammer as he was thrown away.

Even if Sara had healed him, it was only first aid. His ribs were still broken, his internal organs still throbbing, the fatigue of [Zone] and the pain of the inflated mana channel, making it difficult for him to control his consciousness.

[Vice Captain Elijah attacked with the [Wind Missile].]

[As the host was found guilty of murder, the host is asked not to resist the arrest.]

That was the last thing Aiden had ever heard of. He had lost consciousness even before he could curse in his heart.